Sierra Club Bill List 2024

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1	Bill #	Rank	Sponsor	Topic	Summary	Status
2	HB1	Monitor	J. Petrie +3	Budget	Appropriate General Fund moneys from the Budget Reserve Trust Fund Account to, among others: $75,000,000 in fiscal year 2024-2025 and $75,000,000 in fiscal year 2025-2026 and to Kentucky Infrastructure Authority for drinking water and wastewater infrastructure grants; Kentucky Public Pensions Authority to be applied to the unfunded liability of the State Police Retirement Systems and the Kentucky Employees Retirement System Nonhazardous pension funds; Teachers' Retirement System to be applied to the unfunded actuarially accrued liability; Transportation Cabinet to improve public riverports, railroad improvement projects, and General Aviation airports. SCS1 adds funding for parks projects, infrastructure projects, housing, health care, tourism and conference centers, economic development, lab equipment for law enforcement, highway projects, retirement and pensions.	Passed both Chambers with Free Conference Committee Report. Delivered to Governor 3/28. Line item vetoes 4/9
3	HB4	Oppose	Osborne +1	Const. Amendment	Proposes to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky that allows the General Assembly to determine the date a regular session shall end by law unless another date is agreed upon by three-fifths of the membership of each House. Also allows for, in addition to regular sessions, for the General Assembly to convene by Joint Proclamation of the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House, no more than two additional sessions for no more than twelve total legislative days annually. A similar constitutional amendment was put on the ballot two years ago, but it failed to get the required popular vote to amend the constitution.	To Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergov. Affairs. Given 2 readings and returned (H) 3/12
4	HB5	Oppose	J. Bauman +48	Civil Rights	Republicans' alleged "Safer Kentucky Act." Creates a "three strikes" law for violent offenders requiring a life sentence without probation or parole for non-capital felonies, and death sentence or life without probation and parole for capital felonies. Enhances or provides longer sentences for several crimes, including the distribution of fentanyl that causes death, car jacking, criminal mischief, murder of first responders. Allows for firearms used in a homicide to be destroyed after purchase. Prevents appropriations from the general fund, any restricted fund, the road fund, or any federal funds to be expended for any initiatives to provide permanent housing to homeless individuals if those initiatives lack behavioral and rehabilitative requirements. Criminalizes street camping, but allows cities to create a designated space for camping to take place. Prohibits charitable bail organization from posting bail in excess of $5,000. From the ACLU-KY- "Criminalization penalties don’t make us safe. We need to invest in mental health, substance abuse disorder, affordable housing, transportation and education; all of those make us a safer place."	Passed House 74-22 with HCS1 and HFA27 (H). Passed Senate 27-9 with SCS1. House concurred in SCS1 passed 75-23 with SCS1 (S). Delivered to Governor 3/28. VETOED 4/9
5	HB6	Monitor	J. Petrie +5	Budget	Republican state/executive branch budget. Among the provisions, the bill provides $6 million less in maintenance and upgrade funds for State Parks than was proposed in the Governor’s budget. The Senate Sub includes more funding for nature preserves and, for the first time, a one time appropriation of $1 milllion dollars each year ($2M total) from the gerneal fund to the Kentucky Heritage Land Conservation Fund. Also includes Cabinet funding for PFAS personnel and operating costs, Merchant Plant monitoring and enforcement, acid mine abatement projects, matching funds for the federal Grid Resilience Grant Program, Home Energy Rebate Program, PSC financial analysists. The Senate Substitute also calls for a study to recommend the priority ranking and funding mechanisms for rehabilitating public and private high hazard dams.	Passed House 77-19 with HCS1. Passed Senate 37-1 with SCS1. House refused to concur in SCS1. Senate refused to recede from SCS1. Finally passed 72-26 with Free Conference Committee Report (FCCR1) and Delivered to Governor 3/28. Line item Vetoes 4/9
6	HB7	Monitor	J. Bray +3	Transport. Autonomous Vehicles	Same as last year's Autonomous Vehicle bill that was vetoed, [Veto message here: https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/23rs/hb135/veto.pdf] except for this bill decreases liability insurance limits from $5 million to $1 million. Establishes a regulatory framework for the operation of fully autonomous vehicles on public highways. Would allow crashes with these vehicles to become products liability claims against the manufacturers instead of negligence claims against the driver. See also HR36. HCS1: Allows a person to operate a motor vehicle equipped with an automated driving system when its necessary to take the vehicle over. Provides that any fully autonomous vehicle for which the declared gross weight is more than 62,000 pounds shall be required to have an appropriately credentialed human driver in the vehicle to monitor the automated driving system and intervene if necessary.[HFA 1 and 2 would add more requirements for having a human driver on board. HFA 3 would prohibit school districts from using fully autonomous vehicles to transport students.]	Delivered to Governor 3/28, VETOED 4/5
7	HB8	Monitor	J. Petrie +5	Revenue Bill	Among many revenue measures, the bill eliminates the annual fee recently imposed on hybrid vehicles. However it does not address the recently-enacted $.03/kwh excise tax on public electric vehicle chargers	Passed House 73-11 with HCS1 and HCA1 . Senate passed 36-1, with SCS1, SFA1 (S), sent to conference committees. Finally passed with Free Conference Committee (FCC1) and Delivered to Governor 3/28. Line item Vetoes 3/9
8	HB9	Oppose	J. Decker +17	Anti-Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI)	Prevents a postsecondary institution from using DEI to influence or manipulate the student body; provide scholarships; provide preferential treatment to vendors or contracts; student housing (except separation of biological sex); permit need-based housing; expend any resources on a DEI office, DEI officer, provide DEI training, establish DEI initiatives, or promote DEI concepts; require students to enroll in DEI courses; disseminate or profit from any DEI research or work product. Exceptions include, among others, guest speakers, library materials, student newspapers, mental health services, and investigation of criminal acts.	To Education (H) 1/25. Floor amendments 1,2,3 filed 2/14.
9	HB14	Support	J. Dixon	Local Tax	Proposes to amend Section 181 of the Constitution of Kentucky to permit the General Assembly to authorize a county, city, town, or municipal corporation to assess and collect local taxes and fees that are not otherwise in conflict with the Constitution. Could potentially be applied to local needs such as parks.	Now in Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergov. Affairs (H), given 2 readings and returned 3/12
10	HB16	Monitor	F. Rabourn +3	Agriculture	Moves the Milk Safety Branch from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to the Kentucky Department of Agriculture.	Committee on Committees (H) 1/2
11	HB27	Support	D. Fister	Soil Conservation	Adds specificity to the definition of "special purpose governmental entity" to include soil and water conservation services. Exempts a soil and water conservation district and watershed conservancies from having to perform annual audits unless they expend or receive over $750,000 annually, but they would still have to perform an audit every four years. HFA1: Increases the audit threshold to one million dollars. SCS1: Exempts alternative transportation fuels from competative bids and directs the use of Kentucky-grown products for alternative fuels.	Passed 95-0 with HFA1(H). To Senate Rules as a Consent bill with SCS1. (S). Floor amendment (1) filed to SCS . Passed 33-0. Now in House Rules 3/27
12	HB29	Oppose	D. Lewis +2	Transport.	Allows a local government to issue permits for racing events on state-maintained highways subject to approval by the Transportation Cabinet. KCC would like to see a requirement for environmental and animal collision assessments conducted before each race by the Transportation Cabinet personnel, with race organizers responsible for producing a mitigation plan at least six months before event.	Delivered to the Governor 3/28. Signed by the Governor 4/5.
13	HB37	Oppose	K. King	Greenhouse Gas Reduction	Requires that a greenhouse gas emissions reduction agreement (carbon credit agreements) be recorded in the County Clerk's office for it to be binding on subsequent purchasers or creditors. KCC Comment: This should be handled in the courts, rather than be dependent on the County Clerk.	Committee on Committees (H) 1/2
14	HB40	Support	B. McCool	Water and Wastewater	Requires the board of certification for water treatment and distribution system operators and wastewater system operators to submit recommendations to the Energy and Environment Cabinet for the establishment of a voluntary certification program for supervisors of certified operators in charge of water treatment plants, distribution systems, and wastewater systems, as well as recommendations for the establishment of a program or strategy for recruiting applicants to work in the operation of these systems who are not currently participating in apprenticeships or certification programs administered by the cabinet. HCS1 Delete original provisions. Creates a combined Kentucky Board of Certification of Water and Wastewater System Operators. Requires that the board, in conjunction with the Drinking Water Advisory Workgroup and the Clean Water Advisory Workgroup, make recommendations for the establishment of a voluntary certification program for supervisors of certified operators of water or sewage treatment plants systems, including suggestions for the establishment of a voluntary shared services certification program for supervisors or certified operators of combined water or sewage treatment plants or system and suggestions for recruiting applicants.	Passed 92-0 with Committee Substitute (1) (H). Now in Senate State & Local Gov., given two readings and returned (S) 3/26
15	HB44	Oppose	J. Hodgson +7	Voter Registration	Requires that circuit clerks prepare a list of all persons who were excused from jury duty for not being a United States citizen every month, and submit that list to report the person or persons to the office of the Attorney General, the United States Attorney, and the State Board of Elections. Requires the Secretary of State and State Board of Elections to issue a status report regarding voter registration records cleanup and maintenance each year. Requires that people only be contacted about their voter registrations by mail and that anomalies and discrepancies be reported via a publicly available web link. Requires the Cabinet for Health and Family Services provide a lifetime copy of the Kentucky death records to the State Board of Elections each year. Requires the State Board of Elections remove from voter registration records the name of a person who has been excused from jury duty for not being a United States citizen. HCS1 Retain original provisions, still requires a list of all persons who were excused from jury duty for not being a United States citizen. SCS1 removes ranked-choice voting.	Delivered to Governor 3/28. VETOED 4/5
16	HB70	Strong Support	N. Kulkarni +3	Soil Conservation	Establishes a healthy soils program in the Department for Natural Resources, Division of Conservation.	Committee on Committees (H) 1/2
17	HB74	Strong Support	N. Kulkarni +4	Agriculture	Establishes the Kentucky Urban Farming Youth Initiative pilot program for 6- to 18-year-olds to promote farming to youth in urban counties in at least one urban University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service office.	Committee on Committees (H) 1/2
18	HB78	Support	B. Wesley	Agriculture	Allows for the donation of game meat to or from a correctional facility located within Kentucky for the purposes of consumption by inmates housed at the correctional facility.	Committee on Committees (H) 1/2
19	HB85	Oppose	B. Wesley +1	Coal Mining	Decreases the number of emergency medical or mine emergency technicians required to be on shift from two to one, if the number of employees on the shift is 10 or less. HCS1: Retain original provisions, except establish tiers for the number of emergency medical or mine emergency technicians required to be on-site based on the number of miners working on the shift; amend KRS 351.010 to add definitions for "emergency medical technician" and "mine emergency technician".	Passed House 75-18 with Committee Substitute 1. Now in Senate Nat. Resources 3/14 (S)
20	HB91	Support	R. Roberts	Metal Recycling	Requires the Energy and Environment Cabinet to pass regulations to implement a program to control explosions and combustion events at metal recycling facilities. Requires notice of violations of noise standards from a metal recycling facility be sent to both the recycling facility and the local governing body. See also HB197.	Committee on Committees (H) 1/3
21	HB93	Strong Support	M. Dossett +6	Agriculture	Establishes the Kentucky Healthy Farm and Food Innovation Board and fund. Would establish the Healthy Farm and Food Innovation Fund as a special fund in the state treasury to make annual grants to qualified Kentucky nonprofit organizations for the purpose of increasing the purchasing power of Kentucky residents with limited access to fresh fruits and vegetables. [The Ky. Food Action Network has provided a one-pager on this bill which we have linked HERE].	Committee on Committees (H) 1/3
22	HB94	Monitor	M. Lockett +2	Constitutional Amendment	Proposes to amend Section 42 of the Constitution of Kentucky to eliminate the existing dates by which the General Assembly must adjourn in any regular session, but still requires only 30 legislative days in odd number years and 60 legislative days in even numbered years, but no session shall extend beyond December 31.	Committee on Committees (H) 1/3
23	HB102	Monitor	S. Doan +3	Planning and Zoning	Requires local governments to prioritize housing within applicable zones by easing minimum square footage requirements and aesthetic design requirements. Promotes the developmemnt of multifamily housing, accessory dwelling units, tiny homes, and manufactured housing. Also eases minimum parking requirements and standards for home occupations, and requires that zoning laws have a substantial connection to protection of public safety, health, and usage of property. KCC supports the intention of the bill to provide for the development of more affordable, attainable, missing middle housing throughout Kentucky but is currently reviewing for broader impacts on special conservation zoning districts and the potential incorporation of Low Impact Development requirements for environmentally sensitive areas, and to ensure that local governments provide the infrastructure and resources needed for dense residential development within their planning units, especially when located in rural areas.	To Local Government (H) 1/9
24	HB106	Oppose	S. Maddox +6	Hunting/ Fishing	Removes the requirement that resident landowners must own five or more acres of farmland in order to be exempt from sport hunting license requirements when hunting on their own lands. Allow any person fishing on private property with the permission of the landowner to do so without procuring a sport fishing license. [impacts the income for hunting and fishing resources in the state. See also HB140, HB217, SB5]	Committee on Committees (H) 1/3
25	HB110	Monitor	D. Graham +15	Transport.	Democrats' Transportation budget.	Committee on Committees (H) 1/3
26	HB114	Monitor	D. Graham +15	Appropriat.	Democrats' executive budget.	Committee on Committees (H) 1/3
27	HB116	Strong Support	N. Kulkarni +3	PFAS	Establishes a PFAS Working Group to research the effect that exposure to PFAS has on health outcomes in the Commonwealth. Establishes a reporting requirement for manufacturers that intentionally include PFAS in products manufactured for sale or distribution in the Commonwealth and for PFAS releases in the Commonwealth by manufacturers that intentionally include PFAS in manufactured products. [see also SB159 also dealing with PFAS testing and SJR149 asking for the Energy and Environment Cabinet to establish best practices to entities that discharge into Kentucky waterways].	To Health Services (H) 3/6
28	HB121	Oppose	P. Flannery	Off-Highway Vehicles (OHVs)	Allows the registration of an OHV as a motor vehicle, requires proof of insurance and the payment of all registration and clerk fees. Allows the Transportation Cabinet or local government to prohibit OHV operation on roadways under its jurisdiction. Allows OHVs registered as motor vehicles to operate on roadways of the Commonwealth.	Committee on Committees (H) 1/3
29	HB130	Support	S. McPherson +6	Soil and Water	Establishes the procedure for the discontinuance of watershed conservancy district boards. Allows any soil and water conservation district or fiscal court where the watershed conservancy district lies to initiate the discontinuance if the watershed conservancy board fails to meet over the course of one year or longer or fails to adopt and fund a budget.	Delivered to Governor 3/28. Signed by the Governor 4/4
30	HB135	Monitor	J. Bauman	Waste	Provides that no county or waste management district shall compel the production or submission of confidential business information from a private solid waste management service company. HCS1: Retain original provisions, except provides that "confidential business information" relates to privately contracted solid waste management services that are not provided pursuant to a franchise agreement.	Passed House 73-18 with HCS1 (H). Passed Senate 31-5 (S). Delivered to the Governor 3/28. Signed by the Governor 4/9.
31	HB136	Oppose	J. Bauman +3	Environment. audits	Provides that a facility subject to the requirements of KRS Chapter 77 (Air Pollution Control Districts) that performs an environmental audit according to the requirements of KRS 224.1-040 shall be entitled to all of the benefits, privileges, and protections, including voluntary audit confidentiality afforded by that section as other similar facilities are afforded under the jurisdiction of the DAQ. KCC has concerns that the proposed language conflicts with other provisions in KRS Chapter 77, and that facilities are already supposed to investigate their facilities and certify that their facilities are in compliance with the Clean Air Act on an annual basis. Regulators should encourage and incentivize voluntary reporting, but only for issues that the facilities are not already required to report. We appreciate the work of our friends at KRC on the bill. HFA1: An amendment to the bill that would still allow the APCD to issue penalties against violators even with self-disclosure if there’s a “pattern of violations” over five years.	Passed House (H) 80-12 with HFA 1. Passed Senate 30-5. Delivered to the Governor 3/28. VETOED 4/8
32	HB140	Oppose	M. Hart +3	Fishing	Removes the requirement that resident owners of farmlands must own five or more acres of land in order to be exempt from sport hunting and sport fishing license requirements when hunting or fishing on their own farmlands. See also HB106, HB217, SB5.	Committee on Committees (H) 1/4
33	HB141	Oppose	M. Hart +21	Fluoride	Allows the governing bodies of water systems subject to regulation by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to decide whether they participate in water fluoridation programs.	To State Gov. (H). Reported Favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar, Second reading, to Rules, Recommitted to A&R (H) 3/27
34	HB151	Support	C. Aull +6	Voting/ Elections	Extends voting hours from 6 p.m. to 7 p.m.	Committee on Committees (H) 1/4
35	HB153	Monitor	C. Aull +4	Voting/ Elections	Sets forth the agreement among the states to elect the president by national popular vote; establish Article I to allow any state and D.C. to be a member of the agreement; establish Article II to provide that member states shall conduct a statewide popular vote for election of President and Vice President; establish Article III to specify the manner of appointing presidential electors in member states; establish Article IV to provide that the compact shall take effect when states cumulatively possessing a majority of the electoral votes enact the agreement and allow a state to withdraw from the agreement.	Committee on Committees (H) 1/4
36	HB154	Support	B. Chester Burton +8	Health and Safety	Increases civil penalties for employers who have violated any provisions related to occupational health and safety. Requires the secretary for the Education and Labor Cabinet to annually adjust the maximum civil penalties beginning in 2024 by the percentage increase, if any, in the United State Average Consumer Price Index.	Committee on Committees (H) 1/4
37	HB161	Oppose	J. Branscum +10	Elections	Establishes that a candidate who has filed nomination papers on or before January 5, 2024, and whose precinct name or number has changed since November 8, 2023, due to reapportionment and precinct establishment shall not be disqualified based solely on precinct name or number designation.	Signed by the Governor 1/18
38	HB180	Strong Support	L. Willner, +12	Utilities	Makes it more difficult for utilities to disconnect service during extreme winter and summer temperatures, or following the receipt of a certificate of need from a physician, physician's assistant, community-based service program, or faith-based service program certifying that disconnection of service would threaten the health and safety of the customer or the occupants of customer's residence. Requires a hardship reconnection order for persons at risk who have had service terminated by the utility after meeting specific repayment requirements, and requires the Public Service Commission to issue an order setting forth any applicable rules and procedures.	Committee on Committees (H) 1/8
39	HB189	Support	C. Aull +12	Agriculture	See also SB 40. Establishes the Kentucky Proud School Match Program. Directs the Department of Education to reimburse an eligible school district $0.33 for every meal reimbursed by the community eligibility provision at the paid rate. Requires a school district that receives a reimbursement to develop and implement a Kentucky Proud school plan to identify and purchase available Kentucky-grown agricultural products and to optimize food usage. [The Ky. Food Action Network has a one-pager on this bill, and we have linked it HERE.]	Committee on Committees (H) 1/8
40	HB197	Support	R. Roberts +5	Recycling	Requires a notice of violation by a recycling facility be sent to the local governing body where the facility is located. See also HB91.	Committee on Committees (H) to Nat. Resources & Energy 3/1
41	HB209	Strong Support	Tackett Laferty +1	Black Lung	Amend KRS 342.125 to remove the requirement that an affected employee previously diagnosed with occupational pneumoconiosis resulting from exposure to coal dust must have an additional two years of employment in the Commonwealth wherein the employee was continuously exposed to the hazards of the disease in order to reopen a claim.	Committee on Committees (H) 1/9
42	HB210	Strong Support	Tackett Laferty +4	Black Lung	Amend KRS 342.315 to eliminate the requirement that physicians contracting with the commissioner of the Department of Workers' Claims to perform evaluations in occupational disease claims be "B" readers who are licensed in Kentucky and are board-certified pulmonary specialists; amend KRS 342.316 to allow the commissioner to select a physician or medical facility for referral in occupational disease claims and eliminate the requirement that such physicians be "B" readers who are licensed in Kentucky and are board-certified pulmonary specialists; amend KRS 342.794 to delete the definition of "board-certified pulmonary specialist" and eliminate the requirement that physicians on the list of qualified "B" readers maintained by the commissioner include only those licensed in Kentucky and board-certified pulmonary specialists.	Committee on Committees (H) 1/9
43	HB217	Oppose	D. Hale +29	Fish and Wildlife	Removes the requirement that resident owners of farmlands must own five or more acres of land in order to be exempt from sport hunting and sport fishing license requirements when hunting or fishing on their own farmlands. See also HB106, HB140, SB5.	Passed House 93-0. To Senate Nat. Resources & Energy (S) 1/25
44	HB226	Monitor	S. Bratcher	Fish and Wildlife	Exempts any current member of the Armed Forces of the United States from paying the nonresident fee for hunting and fishing licenses.	Committee on Committees (H) 1/10
45	HB229	Oppose	E. Callaway +5	Food Safety	The Kentucky Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act. Requires products that are known to be or could act as gene therapy to be labeled with the words "Potential Gene Therapy Product" or "Gene Therapy Product." Requires entities in the state that produces, sells, or distributes a product in this state with the capacity to infect an individual with a disease or to expose an individual with genetically modified material to provide information upon request on how individuals may be exposed. And requires informed consent before any entity makes available a product in this state that would act as a medical intervention, vaccine, drug, or genetic modification. This is an anti-vaccine bill, and will have broad implications to the state, including the use of livestock vaccines.	Committee on Committees (H) 1/10
46	HB242	Support	S. Maddox +3	Agriculture	Allows certain USDA-exempted poultry processors to sell to end consumers on a farm, at a farmers market, or at a roadside stand.	Committee on Committees (H) 1/11
47	HB256	Support	M. Pollock	Disasters, Climate Change	Establishes the Strengthen Kentucky Homes Program to provide financial grants to real property owners, building contractors, and nonprofit organizations to assist and promote the mitigation of insurable dwellings to resist losses due to catastrophic wind and hail events in accordance with FORTIFIED construction standards published by the Insurance Institute for Business and Home Safety. Requires property insurance companies to provide a premium discount or rate reduction for properties that have received a qualifying certificate of compliance.	Delivered to Governor 3/28. Signed by the Governor 4/5
48	HB260	Monitor	D. Osborne	LRC Budget	LRC Director's recommended Legislative Branch Budget.	Committee on Committees (H) 1/16
49	HB261	Monitor	D. Osborne	Judicial Budget	The Chief Justice's recommended Judicial Branch Budget.	Committee on Committees (H) 1/16
50	HB262	Monitor	J. Petrie +3	2022-2024 Biennial Budget Amendment	Amends the 2022-2024 State/Executive Branch biennial budget to implement a $50,000,000 cap for disaster or emergency aid funds under the Military Affairs budget unit in fiscal year 2023-2024. Also caps the necessary government expense under the Adult Correctional Institutions budget unit in fiscal year 2023-2024. House Committee Sub 1: Retain, delete, and add to original provisions; amend the 2022-2024 State/Executive Branch biennial budget to implement a cap for disaster or emergency aid funds under the Military Affairs budget unit in fiscal year 2023-2024 and for the necessary government expense under the Adult Correctional Institutions budget unit in fiscal year 2023-2024; APPROPRIATION;EMERGENCY https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/HB262/HCS1.pdf	3rd reading, passed 80-15 with HCS 1. Now Approp. & Revenue. Given two readings and return to A&R (S) 3/8.
51	HB263	Monitor	J. Petrie +3	Legislative Budget	The Republican Legislative Branch Budget. House Committee Sub 1: The Legislative Branch Budget: Retain and add to original provisions; detail Part I, Operating Budget; detail Part II, General Provisions; detail Part III, Budget Reduction or Surplus Expenditure Plan;APPROPRIATION. Link: https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/HB263/HCS1.pdf	Passed House 90-2 (H) with HCS1. Passed Senate 37-1 with SCS1. Sent to conference committees. Passed Senate 33-3 and House 90-6 with Free Conf. Committee Report 1 (FCCR1). Delivered to Governor 3/28. Line item vetoes 4/9
52	HB264	Monitor	J. Petrie +3	Judicial Budget	The Republican Judicial Branch Budget. House Committee Sub 1: The Retain, delete, and add to original provisions; detail Part I, Operating Budget; detail Part II, Capital Projects Budget; detail Part III, General Provisions; detail Part IV, Budget Reduction or Surplus Expenditure Plan;APPROPRIATION. Link: https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/HB264/HCS1.pdf	Passed 92-0 (H) with HCS1. Passed Senate 36-1 (S). House refused to concur in SCS1. Conference committees established. Passed Senate 36-1 and House 93-0 with Free Conference Committee Report 1 (FCCR1). Delivered to Governor 3/28. Signed by the Governor 4/9
53	HB265	Monitor	J. Petrie	Transportation	The Transportation Cabinet Budget.	Passed House 95-0 with HCS1 (H) Passed Senate 38-0 with SCS1. House refused to concur, conference committees established, passed Senate 37-0 and House 90-6 with Free Conference Committee report 1 (FCCR1). Delivered to Governor 3/28. Line item vetoes 4/9.
54	HB266	Monitor	J. Petrie	Highways	2024-2026 Biennial Highway Construction Plan.	3/5 Passed House 95-0 with HCS1 (H). Passed Senate 38-0 (S). House refused to concur in SCS1. Conference committees established, finally passed the Senate 37-0 and House 90-6 with Free Conference Committee Report 1 (FCCR1). Deivered to Governor 3/28. Signed by the Governor 4/9
55	HB283	Support	A. Camuel +2	Mining	Requires any owner, operator, lessee, or licensee of a coal mine holding a license that has been doing business in the Commonwealth for fewer than five consecutive years to submit a certification from the commissioner of the Department of Workplace Standards that the licensee is compliant with or exempt from the performance bonding requirements. Performance bonding helps to ensure that mine workers and employees will still get paid if the mine closes. Also requires the department to revoke any license if the department receives notification that the licensee is neither compliant nor exempt from the performance bonding requirements. Requires the commissioner of the Department of Workplace Standards to notify the Department for Natural Resources of any employer engaged in the severance, preparation, or transportation of minerals that is not compliant with the performance bonding requirements. All penalties collected for violations to be paid to employees injured by the employer's failure to post the performance bond.	Committee on Committees (H) 1/17
56	HB302	Strong Support	J. Raymond +1	Constitut. Amendment	Proposes to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to establish a right of the people to have a healthy environment, including a right to clean air, pure water, and ecologically healthy habitats; declare that the Commonwealth's natural resources, among them its air, water, flora, fauna, climate, and public lands, are the common property of all people, including generations yet to come; establish that as trustee of the environment and its natural resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all people.	Committee on Committees (H) 1/18
57	HB303	Monitor	D. Graham +8	Highway Construction	Governor's recommended 2024-2026 Biennial Highway Construction Plan.	Committee on Committees (H) Floor amendment filed 1/23.
58	HB305	Monitor	J. Calloway	Building Codes	Expressly considers a deviation from the Uniform State Building Code that produces a specific, measurable, and imminent danger to any occupant, or results in quantifiable instability of the built structure, as a violation of that Code.	Committee on Committees (H) 1/18
59	HB314	Monitor	W. Lawrence	Community Develop.	Establishes the community restoration tax credit beginning on or after January 1, 2025, but before January 1, 2029. The tax credit is for financial institutions making loans to a community development financial institution. The credit is capped at annually at $20 million.	Committee on Committees (H) 1/19
60	HB315	Monitor	N. Tate +17	Vegetation Management	Requires railroad companies to destroy or remove obstructive vegetation upon and within the geographical bounds of its right-of-way at each intersection with a public road or highway for a distance of three hundred (300) feet from the edge of each side of the public road or highway. Requires the Transportation Cabinet to destroy or remove obstructive vegetation when a railroad company fails to do so. [KCC believes 300 ft. buffer distance is a concern due to impact to remnant native plants and endangered species and urge these agencies to work with Nature Preserves].	Committee on Committees (H) 1/19
61	HB323	Support	D. Frazier +14	Toxics	Permits the Kentucky Fire Commission to establish a reimbursement program for cancer screenings for firefighters.	Passed House 85-0 (H), Passed Senate 38-0 (S). Delivered to the Governor 3/28. Signed by the Governor 4/9.
62	HB326	Monitor	J. Blanton +6	Economic Development	Kentucky Buy America Act. Requires state and local contracts to contain a provision that any iron, steel, aluminum, or manufactured goods used in all state and local projects be manufactured in the United States unless a waiver is granted. [KCC Note: The US will have a shortage of domestic primary Aluminum, necessary for Electric Vehicle production, and we must urge the industry to move to more sustainable production methods and compliance. See Article]	Committee on Committees (H) 1/22
63	HB336	Support	J. Raymond +2	Ballot Initiatives, Elections	Proposes amendment to the Ky. Constitution of Kentucky to allow for citizen ballot intiatives (referendum).	Committee on Committees (H) 1/22
64	HB338	Monitor	K. Bratcher	Cell Tower Siting, Birds	Requires planning commissions to notify a cell tower owner after receiving 12 complaints of a public nuisance located at a cellular antenna tower. The Planning Commission must then hold a public meeting, require owners of a cellular antenna to attend the public meeting, and take all necessary actions to address the public nuisance. It includes "infestation of animals or birds." [KCC believes this is unnecessary. Counties can already hold people accountable for public nuisance].	Committee on Committees (H) 1/22
65	HB341	Oppose	M. Meredith +36	Voting Rights	Proposes to amend the Constitution of Kentucky to prohibit persons who are not citizens of the United States from being allowed to vote in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Federal law already prevents non-citizens from voting in federal elections, but does not outlaw state or local elections. Several municipalities in Maryland, California, and Vermont allow non-citizens to vote in local elections. Alabama, Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Louisiana, North Dakota, and Ohio have passed laws to prevent non-citizens from voting in local elections.	(H) Passed House 81-15. Now in Senate State & Loc. Gov. (S) 2/9
66	HB342	Support	J. Bray	Agriculture	Allows certain USDA-exempted poultry processors to sell to end consumers on a farm, at a farmers market, or at a roadside stand.	Committee on Committees (H) 1/23
67	HB355	Support	A. Gentry +12	Occupational Safety	Repeals KRS 338.062, which states that neither the Kentucky Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board nor the secretary shall adopt or promulgate any occupational safety and health administrative regulation that is more stringent than the corresponding federal provision enforced by the United States Department of Labor under the Occupational Safety and Health Act of 1970.	Committee on Committees (H) 1/24
68	HB371	Support	W. Williams + 3	Mine Subsidence	Deletes the $300,000 cap on insurance, and requires the administrator to establish the maximum total insured value reinsured per structure. Increases the coverage amount for living expenses from $25,000 to $50,000. HCS1: Retain original provisions. Requires the commissioner to approve a regulation to establish a process and timeframe for notifying insurers of the maximum total insured value. SCS1: Increase the amount to be reinsured per structure from $300,000 to $500,000; establish requirements for when amounts determined by the administrator are implemented; delete requirement for the insurance commissioner to establish a timeframe for notice to insurers in administrative regulation.	Delivered to Governor 3/28. Signed by the Governor 4/4.
69	HB374	Oppose	C. Massaroni +6	Voting	Removes a credit or debit card as a secondary form of identification to confirm a voter's identity.	Committee on Committees (H) 1/24
70	HB388	Oppose	J. Nemes +6	Local Government	Decreases the required signatures required to initiate annexation or incorporation process. Requires non-partisan Louisville metro council and mayoral elections. SCS1, SFA1, and SFA2 - Same as original, except increases percentage of required signatures from 66 to 75 percent for incorporation and annexation. Adds provisions regarding police officer dsicplinary hearings. Prohibits Louisville from ammending its land development code until April 15, 2025 for residential uses that allow the density increases and allowable units per acre increases, which would put on hold Louisville's current attempts to change its code to allow for more affordable, attainable, and missing middle housing in residential zoning. SFA2 imposes some delays in the implementation of the bill, but the delay does not include the sections relate to afffordable housing changes to Louisville's land development code.	Passed House 70-20 with HCS1. Passed Senate 25-11 with SCS1 and SFA1 and 2. House concurred with SCS1 and SFA1 and 2. Delivered to the Governor 3/28. VETOED 4/8
71	HB394	Support	L. Burke + 7	Voting Districts	Proposes to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to establish a Citizens Redistricting Commission consisting of independent citizens as a permanent commission of the legislative branch. The commission will consist of thirteen commissioners and will adopt a redistricting plan for State Senatorial Districts, State Representative Districts, and Congressional Districts. The Secretary of State will randomly select the commissioners by selection pools, in a manner using statistical weighting methods to ensure that each pool, as closely as possible, mirrors the geographic and demographic makeup of the Commonwealth.	Committee on Committees (H) 1/29
72	HB395	Support	L. Burke + 7	Voting Districts	Create new sections of KRS Chapter 5 to implement the Citizens Redistricting Commission constitutional amendment.	Committee on Committees (H) 1/29
73	HB398	Strong Support	T. Huff +7	Transportation	Amends KRS 138.477 to exclude from the electric vehicle power tax any electric vehicle power dealer with a charging station having a charging capacity of less than 50 kilowatts; retroactive and emergency. KCC has worked with the sponsor and ally groups on this amendment. This will make it easier for small businesses, local government facilities, parks, and churches to install level 2 EV chargers, providing much needed economic development for Kentucky communities.	Now in Approp. & Rev. (H) 2/6
74	HB418	Support	M. Pollock +4	Agriculture	Decreases the minimum number of acres to qualify as an agricultural district from 250 acres to 50 acres. Adds cities within one mile of the ag. district to the list of entities to be notified of the proposal, approval, and withdrawal of property from an ag. district. Allows a district board of supervisors to consider dissolution of an ag. district if an owner's withdrawal of property results in the remaining land no longer qualifying as ag.land.	Passed House 95-0 (H). Passed Senate 36-0 (S). Delivered to the Governor 3/28. Signed by the Governor 4/9.
75	HB423	Strong Support	J. Raymond	Nature Based Child Care	Creates outdoor nature-based child care centers, which provides early learning services to the enrolled children in an outdoor natural space approved by the department for not less than four (4) hours per day or fifty percent (50%) of the daily program hours, whichever is less, and teaches a nature-based curriculum to enrolled children. Allows for these centers to participate in state monetary incentives and in the quality rating system by public-funded child-care centers.	Committee on Committees (H) 1/30
76	HB427	Monitor	F. Rabourn +1	Sanitation, Water	Prohibits a sanitation district from imposing any fee, tax, surcharge, or other charge for the provision of service to a property unless: (1) the property is connected to a sanitary sewer owned or maintained by the sanitation district or there is an infrastructure plan approved by the Energy and Environment Cabinet that states that the property is to be connected to the sanitary sewer system; (2) the property discharges to a facility in the district sanitary sewer system that is located no more than one mile from the property boundary closest to the facility, constructed for the treatment of storm water and sanitary sewerage, and owned or used by the district for the treatment of storm water and provision of sanitary sewer services within two years; (3) storm water runoff from the property is controlled by a facility in the district's sanitary sewer system; or (4) the party paying for the fee has agreed in writing to do so.	Committee on Committees (H) 1/30
77	HB437	Oppose	W. Thomas	Occupational Safety	Prohibits the Kentucky Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board or the secretary from enforcing any occupational safety and health administrative regulation that is more stringent than the corresponding federal provision. The statute currently states that the Board/secretary cannot adopt or promulgate a regulation that is more stringent than federal regulation, this adds enforce to that prohibition.	To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (H) 3/1
78	HB443	Monitor	S. Rudy +14	Land Use	Requires that local laws dealing with subdivision plats and development plans are to be set out by objective standards and applied ministerially. However, discretion is allowed when (a) An applicant seeks a deviation from the established objective standards or the approving authority determines, based on substantial evidence, that a strict ministerial application of the established objective standards would pose a specific threat to public health, safety, or welfare in the affected area.	Delivered to Governor 3/28. Signed by the Governor 4/4.
79	HB445	Strong Oppose	T. Smith +7	Energy	Adds additional hurdles ot retire coal-fired power plants to SB 4 from last session. Prohibits the Public Service Commission from approving the retirement of a fossil fuel-fired electric generating unit unless the commission finds that the utility has no undepreciated investment in the unit (meaning that the unit's value must be fully depreciated) and that the costs to operate the unit are greater than the revenue that it generates.	Committee on Committees (H) 2/1
80	HB452	Oppose	S. Sharp	Anti-ESG (Environment, Social, Governance)	Prohibits financial institutions from discriminating in the provision of financial services by utilizing a social credit score that evaluate: a person's exercise of religion or speech that is protected from government interference; failure or refusal to adopt any targets or disclosures related to greenhouse gas emissions beyond what is required by federal or state law; conduct any type of racial, diversity, or gender audit or disclosure; provide any form of quota, preference, or benefit based, on race, diversity, or gender; or facilitate or assist employees in obtaining abortions or gender reassignment service. Cannot utilize social credit scores that evaluate participation in any lawful business associations or business activities, including business activities with an entity that engages in: the exploration, production, utilization, transportation, sale, or manufacturing of fossil fuel sources or fossil fuel-based energy; or manufacturing, distribution, wholesale, supply, or retail of firearms, firearms accessories, or ammunition. A violation of this law shall be deemed to be an unfair, false, misleading or deceptive act or practice in the conduct of trade or commerce in violation of Kentucky law and can be enforced by the Attorney General.	Committee on Committees (H) 2/1
81	HB472	Support	Freeland	Properties, Land Use	Allows for the appointment of a receiver for a planned community when it fails to maintain the infrastructure, common area, storm water detention or retention area, or other facility that it is legally obligated to maintain. Allows a city to recover funds expended to repair, renovate, maintain, or otherwise bring violations up to code. HCS1: Retain original provisions, except amend KRS 381.786 to state that property owners' associations are not subject to the provisions of KRS 381.785 to 381.801	Passed 95-0 with HCS1 (H). Passed Senate 38-0 with SCS1. House concurred in SCS1. Delivered to the Governor 3/28, Signed by the Governor 4/9
82	HB474	Oppose	S. Sharp	Anti-ESG	Requires investment advisers to disclose and obtain written consent for the incorporation of ESG into discretionary investment decisions to buy or sell a security or commodity, recommendations or solicitations for the purchase or sale of a security or commodity, and the selection or recommendation of a third-party manager or subadviser.	02/06/24: to Committee on Committees (H)
83	HB478	Oppose	J. Dixon +2	Waste	Allows an off-site construction or demolition waste disposal permittee to request an increase in the size of the permitted area to no more than two acres total if the applicant is compliant with the permit requirements for the currently permitted area and complies with all permit requirements for the newly permitted area. These landfills are poorly regulated, and the expansion of these landfills will have negative impacts to the environment.	Passed House 75-19 (H), Passed Senate 32-6 (S). Delivered to Governor 3/25. Filed without Governor's signature with the Secretary of State
84	HB479	Support	C. Massaroni +1	Public Safety	Allows a fire protection district and emergency services district board to assess a fee against the premises for the costs of maintaining necessary fire protection measures. Establishes a process for distilled spirits aging facilities to reimburse nearby property owners for cleaning expenses relating to whiskey fungus. Imposes fines on distilled spirits licensees who disregard the reimbursement process. Creates a distilled spirits environmental fund and requires the payment of all cleaning expense reimbursements from moneys in the distilled spirits environmental fund. Requires distilled spirits barrel aging facilities to pay to the Department of Revenue a $0.25 environmental fee on each barrel stored each year and for those fees to be placed into the fund.	02/13/24: to Approp. & Rev.(H)
85	HB486	Support	Grossberg	Elections	Prohibits candidates, slates of candidates, committees, contributing organizations, or anyone on their behalf from making an expenditure to an intermediary, including subcontractors, for the purpose of making a payment to another person. Requires that expenditures be made directly to the provider of goods or personal services.	02/07/24: to Committee on Committees (H)
86	HB487	Support	Grossberg	Elections	Establishes a registration process and fee for campaign consultants. Sets penalties for failure to register.	02/07/24: to Committee on Committees (H)
87	HB501	Oppose	M. Dossett	Governor's Powers	Requires Senate confirmation for all appointments or reappointments made by the Governor to many boards, commissions, committees, and councils.	02/09/24: to Committee on Committees (H)
88	HB506	Monitor	S. Rawlings +5	Geoengineering	Prohibits geoengineering, defined as the intentional manipulation of the environment, through an atmospheric polluting activity, to effect changes to the earth's atmosphere or surface, including but not limited to the practices of weather modification, aerosol injection, and cloud seeding. Knowingly engaging in a geoengineering activity is a Class D felony and carries a civil penalty of not less than five hundred thousand dollars ($500,000). Each day that a person knowingly engages in a geoengineering activity shall constitute a separate offense. [See also SB139]	02/09/24: to Committee on Committees (H)
89	HB507	Support	A. Camuel +9	Labor	Deletes language restricting rights of public employees to organize, associate collectively, or strike. Allows urban-county governments, consolidated governments, and public employers to make an agreement with a labor organization to require membership in the organization as a condition of employment.	02/09/24: to Committee on Committees (H)
90	HB508	Support	A. Camuel +14	Wages	Establishes a prevailing wage law for all public works projects.	02/09/24: to Committee on Committees (H)
91	HB509	Strong Oppose	J. Hodgson +2	Open Records	Requires a public agency to furnish an officer, employee, board member, or commission member with an agency email account. Amends the definition of "public record" to exclude scheduling matters, communications of a purely personal nature unrelated to any governmental function, memoranda, emails, or text messages in which opinions are expressed or policies formulated or recommended, information or documents stored or retained on a device or email account that is the personal property of a current or former employee, officer, board member, or commission member. Currently, preliminary drafts, discussions, or recommendations regarding official actions are subject to disclosure once a final action is taken. This bill would prevent those documents from being disclosed once final action occurs. The bill would also not require government officials to provide communications from personal emails or phones even when they involve government business.HCS1: Retain original provisions, except maintain the current definition of "public record." Provides that a public agency that complies with this act shall only be required to provide or search for electronic information or documents that are stored or contained in a device that is the property of the public agency or from an agency-furnished or agency-designated email account,	Passed House 61-31 with Committee Substitute (1) and Floor Amendment (1). Now in Senate State & Loc. Gov., given two reading and returned (S)/ Floor amendments filed 3/27
92	HB524	Support	J. Blanton +1	Climate Change, Econ. Dev.	Appropriates $50 million in fiscal year 2024-2025 to the Rural Jobs Development Fund. Allows the Cabinet for Economic Development to begin accepting applications from entities seeking approval as a growth fund - small busineses that were affected by 2021 storms in Western Kentucky and the 2022 floods in Eastern Kentucky. Allows no more than $50 million of grants to be awarded as state matching capital for investments in growth businesses.	To Approp. & Revenue (H) 2/21
93	HB531	Strong Support	S. Doan +1	Transportation	Excludes hybrid vehicles and hybrid motorcycles from the ownership fee paid annually when registering an electric or hybrid vehicle. (A $60 per year fee began to be imposed on hybrid vehicles and motorcycles on January 1, 2024. The same fee is not imposed on ICE vehicles that can attain similar gas mileage).	To Approp. & Revenue (H) 2/21
94	HB545	Monitor	R. Rorax	Elections	Requires a runoff election if no candidate receives more than 50 percent of the total votes cast and the candidates receiving the two highest number of votes are of separate political parties. Requires that the candidate receiving the highest number of votes shall be elected to fill the vacancy when no candidate receives more than 50 percent of the total votes cast and the candidates receiving the two highest number of votes are of the same political party. The runoff election must be held 45 days after the special election.	02/14/24: to Committee on Committees (H)
95	HB552	Monitor	J. Calloway +2	Land use, Siting	Prohibits the siting of cellular towers capable of fifth generation mobile communication service within 1,640 feet of any residentially zoned area. Establishes a registry for wireless radiation exposure. Requires cellular antenna tower owners to register annually with the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and the cabinet to establish a registry of cellular antenna tower owners.	02/13/24: to Committee on Committees (H)
96	HB563	Oppose	J. Bray +5	Water, Wastewater	Administers the $150 million allocated to water and wastewater infrastructure improvements in HB 1. Establishes the Kentucky Water and Wastewater Assistance for Troubled or Economically Restrained Systems Program or "Kentucky WWATERS Program" to be adminstered in partnership between the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority and the Kentucky Rural Water Association (KRWA). This is a revolving fund that provides very low-interest loans (.5% lower than loans using federal moneys for water and wastewater infrastructure projects) to distressed water and wastewater systems based on a screening process adminstered by the Kentucky Rural Water Association. Incentivizes companies to acquire systems that need to correct state or federal deficiencies. KCC was concerned that a non-governmental body (KRWA) is going to administer these funds, while at the same time administering its own loan program to loan funds to these same water districts. These funds should be administered through a government agency without the same conflicts. While the bill sub now has the administration under the Ky. Infrastructure Authority to address some of these conflicts, concerns were raised by our allies at Appalacian Citizens Law Center on the capacity for that agency to administer the program.	Passed House 93-0 Passed Senate 37-0 (S). Delivered to Governor 3/28. Line item Vetoes 4/9.
97	HB566	Support	K. Herron +15	Voting Rights, Civil Rights	Proposes to amend the Kentucky Constitution to automatically restore the voting rights of persons convicted of certain felonies upon completion of their imprisonment, probation, or parole and automatically restore their civil rights (holding public office, serving on a jury) five years after completion of their imprisonment, probation, or parole.	To Elections, Const. Amend. & Intergov. Affairs 2/28 (H)
98	HB575	Oppose	R. Heath +19	Land Use	Prohibits a nonresident alien, foreign business, foreign agent, trustee, or fiduciary associated with the government of any country listed in 22 C.F.R. sec. 126.1 (see adjacent cell for the country list) from the purchase, lease, or acquisition of agricultural land in Kentucky. Exempts foreign ownership or leasing of up to 350 acres for research purposes. Also establishes the Kentucky Foreign Investment Review Board to review applications for appeal for those on the prohibited countries list wishing to purchase, lease, or acquire agricultural land. HCS1: exempt any licensed attorney, title insurance company, underwriter, or agent, or other third party involved in a real property transaction from being held civilly or criminally liable for a person or entity providing a fraudulent or incorrect affidavit; designate the order of payment of the proceeds of a sale of agricultural land through foreclosure; exempt a subsequent title holder from civil or criminal liability or foreclosure. HFA1: Deletes the original provisions, prohibits a nonresident alien, foreign business, foreign agent, trustee, or fiduciary who is legally bound or has a legal relationship with the government of any proscribed country referenced in 22 C.F.R. sec. 126.1 from purchasing agricultural land, prohibit those who purchased agricultural land prior to the effective date of this Act from the purchase, lease, or acquisition of any additional agricultural land, allow an existing foreign business from a prohibited country to purchase adjacent land for expansion of the business, exempt up to 350 acres of agricultural land for agricultural research, require that a copy of the report required under the provisions of the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act be filed with the Department of Agriculture, require the Department of Agriculture to report evidence of noncompliance to the Office of the Attorney General, require the Office of the Attorney General to investigate the evidence, allow the Office of the Attorney General to enforce provisions.	Passed 83-14 with HCS1 and HFA1 (H). Passed Senate 38-0 with SCS1. To Rules 3/28
99	HB580	Monitor	Decker	Elections	Amends many provisions related to elections, voting, and voting process including, among others: allowing the Secretary of State to enter into agreements on behalf of the State Board of Elections to further voter list maintenance practices, requiring that a voter confirm his or her residence has changed either through a letter submitted to the State Board of Elections or a form provided by the State Board of Elections on its website, increasing the fee for registration of voters from 25 cents to one dollar, requiring that the county board of elections shall establish the voting place for each precinct not later than January 15 of each year, allowing any person prevented from voting in person at the polls on election day and from casting a no-excuse in-person absentee ballot because of absence from the county of his or her residence to cast an excused in-person absentee ballot, and prohibiting any candidate who is disqualified in a primary from running for the same office in the regular election.	Passed House 89-0 with Committee Substitute (1), Floor Amendment (4) and Floor Amendment (2-title) (H). Reported favorably in Senate State & Loc. Gov. with SCS1, SFA1 filed to committee sub. (S) 3/27. Posted for passage for concurrence 3/28
100	HB581	Oppose	Upchurch +20	Fuel and Charging Stations	Prevents local governments from adopting zoning regulations that treat fossil fueling stations different from EV charging stations. Bill needs improvement, as an EV charging station, under the current definition, can include any typical 120 V outlet that the public can access.	Passed House 78-14 (H). Passed Senate 31-7 (S). Delivered to Governor 3/22.