Proposed Kentucky Firearm Legislation SB133
Legislation Overview
Title: AN ACT relating to the emergency powers of the Governor.
Subject: Disasters: Elections and Voting: Governor: Public Officers and Employees: Secretary of State: State Agencies: Public Health
Description: Amend KRS 39A.010 to remove potential, threatened, or impending occurrences from enumerated emergency management system items; amend KRS 39A.020 to define "executive action" to include all orders and guidelines, including industry-specific or agency specific guidelines related to a declared emergency; amend KRS 39A.030 to remove hazards from list of enumerated items that the emergency management program is responsible; amend KRS 39A.050 to limit the powers of the Division of Emergency Management; amend KRS Chapter 39A.070 to prohibit the director of the Division of Emergency Management from promulgating administrative regulations or from issuing orders and directives, but allow the director to issues standards, rules, procedures, guidance, or recommended practices; allow the director to request increased readiness activities, implementation of local emergency operations plans, or the mobilization or deployment of trained forces of state or local government; allow the director to make recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly; amend KRS 39A.090 to limit the effect of any promulgated administrative regulation issued by the Governor related to an emergency or disaster that restricts in-person meeting or imposes mandatory quarantine or isolation requirements to 30 days; amend KRS 39A.100 to remove certain emergency powers from the Governor; repeal KRS 39A.190 and 118.027.
Session: 2024 Regular Session
Last Action: to State & Local Government (S)
Last Action Date: February 7, 2024
Sponsors
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2 sponsors: Adrienne Southworth (R); Lindsey Tichenor (R);
Percentage of Senate sponsoring bill: 5% (2 of 38)
History
| Chamber | Date | Action |
| Senate | Feb 7, 2024 | to State & Local Government (S) |
| Senate | Jan 25, 2024 | introduced in Senate |
| Senate | Jan 25, 2024 | to Committee on Committees (S) |
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
