HB 455/LM (BR 1560) - J. Glenn
AN ACT relating to railroad companies and making an appropriation therefor.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 277 governing the sanitation of railroad mobile camps; define terms "mobile camp, "maintenance-of-way employee," "permanent assembly point," and "health department"; require at least one heated room at all terminals and headquarters operated by railroad companies; set specific requirements of heated rooms; set specific requirements for mobile camps and permanent assembly points; require railroad companies housing maintenance-of-way employees on the effective date of this act to notify the health department within 30 days of the camp's existence and request and permit inspection by a health department designee; require any railroad company establishing a new mobile camp to notify the health department of the existence of the camp and request and permit inspection prior to occupation; amend KRS 211.180 to give the Cabinet for Health and Family Services authority to regulate the sanitation of mobile camps, permanent assembly points, and railroad terminal headquarters rooms required under the provisions of this act; permit the secretary to establish inspection fees of mobile camps, permanent assembly points, and railroad terminal and headquarters rooms required under the provisions of this act.
Feb 4-introduced in House
Feb 6-to Transportation (H)
