Proposed Kentucky Firearm Legislation HB337
Legislation Overview
Title: AN ACT relating to local regulatory actions.
Subject: County Clerks: Courts: Firearms and Weapons: Labor and Industry: Landlord and Tenant: Local Government: Property: Public Works: Sheriffs: Wages and Hours: Consolidated Local Governments: Unified Local Governments: Cities: Cities, First Class: Cities, Home Rule Class: Contracts: Counties: Counties, Urban: Charter County Government: Local Mandate
Description: Create a new section of KRS Chapter 82 to define "city," "project labor agreement," and "public construction project"; permit a city to establish a mandatory preference for awarding public construction project contracts to unions through a negotiated project labor agreement; permit cities to negotiate wages that are higher than the state or federal minimum wage as a condition of the project labor agreement; create a new section in KRS Chapter 337 to define "city," "prevailing wage," "prevailing wage rate," and "public works project"; permit a city to enact prevailing wage ordinances; amend KRS 65.016 to grant local governments the authority to adopt and enforce ordinances that require employers in their jurisdiction to provide leave to employees and set a higher minimum wage than state and federal rates; amend KRS 65.870 to remove state preemption of local firearms regulations and allow local governments to enact ordinances regulating firearms; amend KRS 237.115 to conform; amend KRS 383.210 and 383.215, relating to forcible entry and detainer, to allow a local government to set an alternative time period from the date of the service of the warrant and the date of the hearing to more than the minimum of three days; require the local government to notify the sheriff, the court of jurisdiction, and the administrative office of the courts of that action; and amend KRS 65.1591 to conform.
Session: 2024 Regular Session
Last Action: to Committee on Committees (H)
Last Action Date: January 22, 2024
Sponsors
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4 sponsors: Josie Raymond (D); Chad Aull (D); Rachel Roarx (D); Sarah Stalker (D);
Percentage of House Of Representatives sponsoring bill: 4% (4 of 100)
History
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| House | Jan 22, 2024 | introduced in House |
| House | Jan 22, 2024 | to Committee on Committees (H) |
Texts
| Type | Date | State Link | Text |
| Introduced | not available | state link | bill text |
Amendments
| Title | Description | Date | State Link | Text | Adopted |
| There are no amendments to this bill at this time | |||||
Votes - Click on description to view vote roll call
There have not been any votes on this bill
Link: link to state bill page
