HB 130 KY

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Create a new section of KRS 262.700 to 262.795 to establish the procedure for the discontinuance of watershed conservancy district boards; allow 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; provide for public notice requirements; allow for a public hearing to be requested; require a vote on the discontinuance to be held by the body proposing the discontinuance within 30 days of the public hearing, or if no public hearing is requested, within 30 days of the expiration of the time period in which the public hearing could be requested; require that if the proposing body votes in favor of discontinuance, then all soil and water conservation districts and fiscal courts where any portion of the watershed conservancy district lies shall hold discontinuance votes within 30 days; provide that if all voting entities vote in favor of discontinuance or fail to vote, then the watershed conservancy district board shall be discontinued; provide that if the watershed conservancy district board is discontinued, then the watershed conservancy district shall remain intact and the landowners within the district shall continue to pay the watershed conservancy district tax to the soil and water conservation district or districts in which the watershed conservancy district lies; require the soil and water conservation district board or boards where the discontinued watershed conservancy district lies to assume all of the rights and responsibilities of the watershed conservancy district board; allow a discontinued watershed conservancy district board to be reestablished; amend KRS 147A.029 to allow soil and water conservation districts and watershed conservancy districts to use funds appropriated for the Local Match Participation Program for flood-related projects with federal government agencies, including the United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service; amend KRS 262.240 to provide immunity to a supervisor serving on a soil and water conservation board; amend KRS 262.740 to provide immunity to a director serving on a watershed conservancy district board; amend KRS 262.742 to require that when a vacancy occurs on a watershed conservation district board, the board of the soil and water conservation district wherein the watershed conservancy district lies shall give public notice of the vacancy; amend KRS 262.760 to provide that if a watershed conservancy district fails to prepare and fund a budget within the first quarter of the year, the soil and water conservation district board or boards where the watershed conservancy district lies may prepare and fund a budget for the watershed conservancy district; amend KRS 262.793 to allow soil and water conservation board or boards who inherit funds and taxing authority from a discontinued watershed conservancy district board to make periodic adjustments to the revenues they collect and to spend the funds collected on the same works of improvement that are within the watershed conservancy district, even if they are outside of the soil and water conservation district collecting the revenue; repeal KRS 262.791 relating to district discontinuance; EMERGENCY.

• S. McPherson Republican · primary
• R. Heath · primary
• D. Fister Republican · primary
• D. Frazier Gordon Republican · primary
• D. Hale Republican · primary

1. Jan 3, 2024 introduced in House · lower
2. Jan 3, 2024 to Committee on Committees (H) · lower
3. Jan 12, 2024 to Agriculture (H) · lower
4. Jan 31, 2024 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar · lower
5. Feb 1, 2024 2nd reading, to Rules · lower
6. Feb 2, 2024 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, February 05, 2024 · lower
7. Feb 7, 2024 3rd reading, passed 95-0 · lower
8. Feb 8, 2024 received in Senate · upper
9. Feb 8, 2024 to Committee on Committees (S) · upper
10. Feb 23, 2024 to Agriculture (S) · upper
11. Mar 5, 2024 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar · lower
12. Mar 6, 2024 2nd reading, to Rules as a consent bill · lower
13. Mar 8, 2024 posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Monday, March 11, 2024 · lower
14. Mar 11, 2024 passed over and retained in the Consent Orders of the Day · lower
15. Mar 12, 2024 passed over and retained in the Consent Orders of the Day · lower
16. Mar 13, 2024 passed over and retained in the Consent Orders of the Day · lower
17. Mar 14, 2024 passed over and retained in the Consent Orders of the Day · lower
18. Mar 15, 2024 passed over and retained in the Consent Orders of the Day · lower
19. Mar 21, 2024 passed over and retained in the Consent Orders of the Day · lower
20. Mar 22, 2024 passed over and retained in the Consent Orders of the Day · lower
21. Mar 25, 2024 passed over and retained in the Consent Orders of the Day · lower
22. Mar 26, 2024 passed over and retained in the Consent Orders of the Day · lower
23. Mar 27, 2024 3rd reading, passed 36-1 · lower
24. Mar 27, 2024 received in House · lower
25. Mar 27, 2024 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House · lower
26. Mar 27, 2024 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate · upper
27. Mar 27, 2024 delivered to Governor · lower
28. Apr 4, 2024 signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 77) · lower

The published texts of this bill as it moves through the legislature. Each links to the official document on the state legislature site. Data from OpenStates.

• Acts Chapter 77 · PDF
• Current/Final · PDF
• Introduced · PDF