AN ACT relating to use of Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement funds, making appropriations therefor, and declaring an emergency.
     Create various sections of KRS Chapter 211 to establish the Kentucky youth tobacco control fund; allocate twenty million dollars per year to the fund from the tobacco settlement agreement fund for the life of Master Settlement Agreement funding; require moneys in the Kentucky tobacco control fund to be used to provide funding for the Kentucky Youth Tobacco Control Foundations and its programs, and for enhanced enforcement efforts for youth smoking prevention and policing contraband cigarette sales by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control; establish the Kentucky Youth Tobacco Control Foundation to develop and implement a statewide tobacco prevention and control program for youth and pregnant women; establish the 19 member foundation board to include members that have interest and competence in youth smoking prevention; require the board to appoint an executive director; require the foundation to receive 95% of the money in the Kentucky youth tobacco control fund beginning each year for the life of the fund; require the foundation to develop a comprehensive statewide tobacco prevention and control program to reduce tobacco use by Kentucky youth and pregnant women; require the development of a four-year plan that establishes objectives; require the foundation to provide grants to programs that promote public awareness of the need to prevent tobacco use by youth and pregnant women, expand access to tobacco use prevention services to youth and pregnant women, publish educational materials, and provide media programming dedicated to preventing and eliminating tobacco use by youth and pregnant women; require the foundation to report annually to the Governor and the General Assembly; allow programs to be eligible for grants that include school-based education programs, community programs, media campaigns, cessation programs, enforcement programs, and evaluation programs as they relate to prevention of tobacco use by youth and pregnant women; require 5% of the funds in the Kentucky youth tobacco control fund to be used for enhanced enforcement efforts for youth tobacco use prevention and policing contraband cigarette sales efforts by the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control; appropriate twenty million dollars per year from the tobacco settlement agreement fund to the Kentucky youth tobacco control fund; EMERGENCY

     Feb 25-introduced in Senate
     Feb 29-to Appropriations and Revenue (S)