Summaries of Senate Bills Sponsored by Denise Harper Angel

2007 Kentucky General Assembly

SB 5/LM (BR 148) - E. Scorsone, W. Blevins Jr, D. Boswell, J. Carroll, P. Clark, D. Harper Angel, D. Mongiardo, G. Neal, J. Pendleton, J. Rhoads, D. Ridley, T. Shaughnessy

     AN ACT relating to the minimum wage.
     Amend KRS 337.275 to increase the state minimum wage to $5.85 an hour on the effective date of this Act, to $6.55 an hour effective July 1, 2008, and to $7.25 an hour effective July 1, 2009; and increase to the federal minimum wage rate if that rate exceeds the state minimum wage rate.

SB 11 (BR 252) - D. Harper Angel

     AN ACT relating to the designation of the Louisville Orchestra as the official state orchestra.
     Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to designate the Louisville Orchestra as the official state orchestra

SB 15 (BR 408) - G. Neal, D. Harper Angel, J. Pendleton

     AN ACT proposing an amendment to Sections 145 and 150 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to the restoration of civil rights for felons.
     Propose an amendment to Section 145 of the Kentucky Constitution, pertaining to persons entitled to vote, to require automatic restoration of civil rights, under specified circumstances, for persons convicted of felonies by distinguishing the requirements therefor based upon the length and completion of prison sentence; propose an amendment to Section 150 of the Kentucky Constitution, pertaining to disqualification and exclusion from office, to require automatic removal of the disability of certain felons to serve in public office, under specified circumstances, by distinguishing the requirements therefor based upon the length and completion of prison sentence.

SB 23 (BR 226) - D. Harper Angel

     AN ACT relating to assistance dogs.
     Amend KRS 258.500 to prohibit the denial of emergency medical treatment to assistance dogs because of their handler's inability to pay prior to treatment; amend KRS 258.991 to establish penalties for persons that deny emergency medical treatment to assistance dogs because of their handler's inability to pay prior to treatment.

SB 24 (BR 267) - D. Harper Angel, D. Boswell, J. Pendleton, J. Rhoads

     AN ACT relating to tax credits for ethanol producers.
     Create nonrefundable tax credit for producers of ethanol, up to a cap of $1,500,000 per year

SB 25/LM (BR 405) - D. Harper Angel, J. Pendleton

     AN ACT relating to nutrition.
     Create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to create the Kentucky Farmers Market Nutrition Program within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services for the purpose of enhancing nutrition; require the program to provide fresh, locally gown produce to low-income seniors and recipients of the federal Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for women, infants, and children; require collaboration with the Kentucky Department of Agriculture, the United States Department of Agriculture Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program, the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture Cooperative Extension, local Area Agencies on Aging, and other private and public entities to identify funding sources; establish services, develop marketing strategies, and establish strategies to introduce fresh, locally grown fruits and vegetables into school nutrition programs; establish the Kentucky Farmers Market Nutrition Program fund; provide for implementation of services and marketing upon securing of adequate funding.

SB 33 (BR 469) - D. Harper Angel, D. Boswell, J. Pendleton, J. Rhoads

     AN ACT relating to renewable-fuel vehicles and biofuels.
     Create a new section of KRS Chapter 152 to establish a Biofuels Transportation Grant Program; create a new section of KRS Chapter 45A to adopt a state government agency purchase preference for biofuel-capable vehicles; require specified goals for percentages of biofuel-capable vehicles and biofuel purchases; establish and administer a biofuel vehicle credit banking and selling program; designate a biofuel resource officer; require reports of data on biofuel-capable vehicles in state vehicle fleets; amend KRS 176.055 to require inclusion of business logos of biofuel sellers on state parkway and Interstate highway signs.

SB 43/LM (BR 351) - D. Boswell, D. Harper Angel

     AN ACT relating to human trafficking.
     Amend KRS 194A.030 to establish Division of Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, and Human Trafficking Services within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to set out the basic operating parameters of the Division of Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, and Human Trafficking Services; create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to allow the Division of Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, and Human Trafficking Services to provide documentation to victims and to coordinate the provision of certain rights, benefits, and services to victims; create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to allow the Division of Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, and Human Trafficking Services to assist in certain immigration matters and to prohibit state and local officers from seeking deportation of victims; create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to establish a consultative task force within the Division of Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, and Human Trafficking Services to examine and develop policies relating to the provision of services to victims of human trafficking; create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to require the Division of Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, and Human Trafficking Services to develop statistical data relating to human trafficking; create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to require the Division of Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, and Human Trafficking Services to offer training to participants in the criminal justice system; create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to require the Division of Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, and Human Trafficking Services to develop a public awareness campaign relating to human trafficking and its negative effects; create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to allow the Division of Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, and Human Trafficking Services to dispense grants; create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to establish a policy for the Division of Child Abuse, Domestic Violence, and Human Trafficking Services and the state to seek out various community groups and entities in developing policies and programs relative to the prevention of human trafficking; amend KRS 346.050 to specify that victims of human trafficking may apply for crime victim compensation regardless of the absence of a police report; create a new section of KRS Chapter 413 to provide a 10 year statute of limitations for civil suits brought by victims of human trafficking; amend KRS 338.021 to apply the state's occupational safety laws to all persons regardless of a person's right to work within the United States; create a new section of KRS Chapter 422 to create an evidentiary privilege for human trafficking victim counselors; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to establish a policy of non-incarceration for victims of human trafficking; create a new section of KRS Chapter 454 to make a human trafficker civilly liable to the person's victims; create a new section of KRS Chapter 455 to specify plea provisions in human trafficking cases; create a new section of KRS Chapter 455 to specify the elements of restitution a victim of human trafficking may seek; create a new section of KRS Chapter 500 to provide for forfeiture of human trafficking related to property and proceeds; create a new section of KRS Chapter 501 to limit the availability of certain defenses in human trafficking situations; amend KRS 501.090 expand the availability of the defense of duress to human trafficking victims; create a new section of KRS Chapter 502 to specify business enterprise liability in human trafficking prosecutions; amend KRS 506.120 to include the new offense of exploitation of persons with the criminal syndication statute; amend and create various new sections of KRS Chapter 529 to create new offenses relating to exploitation of persons to criminalize forced labor or services; create a new section of KRS Chapter 529 to create the offense of identity document extortion.

SB 65 (BR 499) - R. Jones II, W. Blevins Jr, D. Boswell, T. Buford, J. Carroll, D. Harper Angel, R. Palmer II, J. Pendleton, J. Rhoads, D. Ridley, D. Roeding, R. Stivers II, E. Tori, J. Turner

     AN ACT relating to sex offender registration.
     Amend KRS 17.500 to include e-mail, instant message, chat, and other Internet communications identities in the list a registrant information required to be provided by a sex offender to the sex offender registration system.

SB 88/LM/CI (BR 1328) - R. Stivers II, D. Harper Angel, R. Jones II, J. Pendleton, J. Rhoads, D. Roeding

     AN ACT relating to drugs.
     Amend KRS 218A.010 relating to controlled substances definitions to define "good faith prior examination" and "telehealth"; amend KRS 218A.140 relating to controlled substances offenses to add obtaining or attempting to obtain a prescription for a controlled substance without a valid practitioner-patient relationship and to add knowingly assisting a person in obtaining or attempting to obtain a prescription in violation of the chapter; amend KRS 218A.1402 to broaden the language of the offense to include criminal conspiracy to violate any section in the chapter; amend KRS 218A.1404 relating to controlled substance penalties for situations where no other specific penalty is provided to raise all offenses to a Class D felony for the first offense and a Class C felony for each subsequent offense; amend KRS 218A.1446 relating to pseudoephedrine recordkeeping to change language from "license" to "permit"; amend KRS 218A.202 relating to the KASPER program to increase the second and subsequent offense penalty for failure to transmit data to the cabinet a Class D felony and to change offense from "knowingly" to "intentionally"; increase the penalty for unauthorized disclosure of KASPER data for a second and subsequent offense to a Class C felony and to change offense from "knowingly" to "intentionally"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to create the crime of criminal possession of a medical record with intent for the purposes of obtaining a controlled substance as a Class D felony for the first offense and a Class C felony for subsequent offenses; create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to create the crime of theft of a medical record as a Class D felony for first offense and a Class C felony for subsequent offenses; create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to create the crime of criminal falsification of a medical record as a Class D felony for the first offense and a Class C felony for each subsequent offense; amend KRS 315.010 relating to definitions for the pharmacy laws to add definitions for "good faith prior examination," "medical history," "medical record," and "practitioner-patient relationship," and add additional legend abbreviations to the definition of "prescription drug"; amend KRS 315.035 relating to the application of the Verified Internet Pharmacy Practice Site to permit the Board of Pharmacy to designate substantially similar programs as approved; amend KRS 315.0531 relating to out-of-state pharmacies which do business in Kentucky to require use of Verified Internet Pharmacy Practice Site seal other approved seal; require return address on packages sent to Kentucky; permit Board of Pharmacy to waive registration requirements for businesses with limited transactions; amend KRS 315.320 relating to filling of prescriptions and licensing matters to delete penalty for a pharmacist or permitted pharmacy or agent thereof which inadvertently lets a license or permit lapse for less than 30 days; specify that unless a more specific penalty applies in KRS Chapter 315 that anyone who uses the Internet to communicate or facilitate the sale of controlled substances has violated KRS Chapter 218A; amend KRS 218A.435 relating to asset forfeiture to add forfeited coin or currency and change distribution formula for assets to 75% to law enforcement agency or agencies seizing the property; 20% to Commonwealth's or county attorney prosecuting the case; 5% to the Justice Cabinet for asset forfeiture training and payments to state and local agencies for programs relative to drug abuse prevention, treatment, education, and similar purposes; amend KRS 218A.1446 relating to recordkeeping by pharmacies distributing ephedrine, pseudoephedrine, and phenylpropanolamine to require electronic recordkeeping and electronic reporting to the state if state funding for the system becomes available; permit exemptions upon showing of additional cost to the pharmacy.

SB 88 - AMENDMENTS

SCS/LM/CI - Retain original provisions; amend KRS 218A.010 relating to controlled substances definitions to reference persons authorized by state or federal law in definition of "practitioner"; amend of KRS 218A.1402 relating to conspiracy to commit a controlled substance offense to clarify that the penalty is the same as that for the underlying offense; create a new section relating taking medical records to name the offense "theft of a medical record"; make technical correction; amend of KRS 315.035 relating to internet pharmacy requirements to apply the requirement that a pharmacy must do more than 25 percent of its business via the internet for the Verified Internet Pharmacy Practice Site seal program to apply; amend of KRS 218A.435 relating to asset forfeiture to change the formula to 80 to seizing law enforcement agency, 15 to the office of the prosecutor prosecuting the case or to the Attorney General if the Attorney General prosecuted the case; make technical correction relating to proceeds from vehicle sale by a law enforcement agency.

HCS/LM/CI - Retain most original provisions except modify asset forfeiture distribution formula; amend 218A.202 to prohibit disclosure of information pursuant to discovery requests or as evidence in civil action unless otherwise authorized; repeal 218A.435 - Asset forfeiture trust fund.

SB 104 (BR 284) - J. Denton, W. Blevins Jr, P. Clark, D. Harper Angel, G. Neal, J. Pendleton, J. Rhoads, D. Roeding

     AN ACT relating to mental illness.
     Amend KRS 210.365 to define crisis intervention team training for law enforcement officials based on a national model of best practices for intervention with persons who may have a mental illness, substance abuse disorder, mental retardation, developmental disability,or dual diagnosis; require the Department for Mental Health and Mental Retardation Services to develop the training curriculum in collaboration; specify curriculum topics and trainers; require the department to submit the curriculum and non-law enforcement trainers to the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council for approval and permit Council to waive instructor requirements for non-law enforcement trainers; require Council to notify of availability of training and permit other approved training entities to use curriculum as specified; require submission of a law enforcement instructor training course; require trained officers and agencies to report outcomes of encounters with persons with mental illness, substance abuse disorders, mental retardation, developmental disability, or dual diagnoses and require department to aggregate reports and submit to Justice Cabinet, Cabinet for Health and Family Services, Criminal Justice Council, and Interim Joint Committee on Health and Welfare; permit use of public or private funds if available and permit department to use a sole source contract to implement training and requirements.

SB 121/LM (BR 1139) - J. Denton, D. Boswell, D. Harper Angel

     AN ACT creating a crime victim address protection program within the Department of State.
     Create various new sections in KRS Chapter 14 to establish a crime victim address protection program for victims of domestic violence and abuse, stalking, and felony sexual offenses which would allow crime victims to use an address provided by the Secretary of State in lieu of the

person's actual physical address for the purpose of receiving mail and to allow crime victims to access government services based upon their actual address but utilizing the program's address on government records and documents, including the right to vote.

SB 157/CI (BR 1887) - J. Denton, D. Harper Angel

     AN ACT relating to criminal nonsupport.
     Amend KRS 530.050 relating to criminal nonsupport to remove the provision that a spouse be indigent before support is owed and to include an ex-spouse within the coverage of the statute.

SB 203 (BR 1691) - J. Turner, J. Denton, P. Clark, D. Harper Angel, R. Jones II, D. Mongiardo, G. Neal, D. Seum, T. Shaughnessy

     AN ACT relating to workers' compensation self-insurance and declaring an emergency.
     Amend KRS 342.340 relating to workers' compensation self-insurance, to exempt public sector self-insured employers from the requirement to post security, indemnity or bond to secure workers' compensation liabilities if the public employer has authority to raise taxes or tuition, issue bonds, raise fees, or has other authority to generate funds; EMERGENCY.

SB 219 (BR 1961) - D. Harper Angel

     AN ACT relating to individuals with disabilities.
     Create a new sections of KRS 194A to include legislative findings to support the implementation of a Medicaid Buy-In program for individuals with disabilities; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to implement program.

SJR 6 (BR 435) - D. Harper Angel

     Direct the Kentucky Office on Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders and the Alzheimer's Disease and Related Disorders Advisory Council within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to assess the impact of Alzheimer's disease on Kentuckians, to examine the existing services and resources addressing the needs of persons with Alzheimer's, and to develop a strategy to mobilize a state response to meet those needs; require the council to submit a report of its findings and recommendations to the Kentucky General Assembly and the Governor no later than January, 2008.

SJR 16 (BR 842) - G. Neal, T. Shaughnessy, P. Clark, D. Harper Angel

     Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate all of Interstate 65 in Jefferson County, from the Kentucky/Indiana state line to the Jefferson County/Bullitt County line, as the "Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Memorial Highway," and to erect signs at the appropriate intervals.