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Kentucky Senate moves dozens of items: fiscal reporting, agriculture, welding safety, motor-vehicle rules and film tax credits pass
Summary
On a busy floor day the Kentucky Senate concurred with House changes and gave final passage to several bills — including measures on fiscal reporting, agriculture (emergency), welding safety, motor-vehicle operation and film industry tax credits — and adopted a joint resolution on physician shortages; most measures passed unanimously or by large margins.
The Kentucky Senate on the floor took final action on a slate of bills and committee substitutes, recording unanimous or near-unanimous support for a series of measures that the chamber’s floor manager, the senator from Taylor, brought up under concurrence orders.
Highlights of measures adopted: - Senate Bill 133 (fiscal reporting of local entities): The Senate concurred with House floor amendment 3 and on a roll call recorded 37 yays, no nays; SB 133 as amended was finally passed. - Senate Bill 214 (Department of Agriculture; emergency declaration): The Senate concurred with a House floor amendment and adopted the bill as amended by a 37–0 vote; a title amendment was also concurred with. - Senate Bill 98 (welding safety): The Senate concurred with House floor amendment 4 and passed SB 98 as amended by roll call, 37–0. - Senate Bill 66 (operation of a motor vehicle): The Senate concurred with a House committee substitute and passed the bill as amended by roll call, 36–0. - Senate Bill 324 (film industry tax credit): The Senate concurred with House committee substitute 1 and a title amendment, and passed SB 324 as amended by roll call, 37–0. - Senate Joint Resolution 116 (physician shortages): The Senate concurred with committee and floor amendments and adopted SJR 116 directing the University of Kentucky, University of Louisville and Eastern Kentucky University to coordinate on actionable solutions to physician shortages and to work with stakeholders; recorded vote was 37–0.
The clerk also read and the Senate adopted extensive consent orders confirming numerous appointments and reappointments across state boards and commissions (education professional standards, university boards of regents, Kentucky Housing Corporation, lottery corporation and others). The chamber also adopted a resolution honoring Jay Hartz for 27 years of service to the Legislative Research Commission.
The clerk reported a delivery to the governor at 5:08 p.m. for Senate Bill 261. The enrollment committee reported multiple bills ready for signature and the chair prepared to sign a sequence of passed bills.
Several actions were handled on unanimous or voice votes and were presented by Senator from Taylor. Where roll-call tallies were recorded, they are noted above.
