| Last Action | 03/21/18: to Appropriations & Revenue (S) |
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| Title | AN ACT relating to fire protection and making an appropriation therefor. |
| Bill Documents |
Current/Final
Introduced |
| Fiscal Impact Statements |
Local Mandate
Additional Fiscal Impact Statements Exist |
| Bill Request Number | 159 |
| Sponsors | R. Rothenburger, M. Hart, B. Reed |
| Summary of Original Version | Amend KRS 75.015 to allow a fire district to charge up to $0.15 per $100 of assessed valuation of property in its district when the fire district is a result of a merger of 2 or more districts on or after the effective date of the Act if no emergency ambulance service is operated within the district, and up to $0.25 when one is; amend KRS 95A.520 to make the section relating to payments made to merging volunteer fire departments apply to fire departments merging prior to the effective date of the Act; create a new section of KRS Chapter 95A to create a new payment protocol for volunteer fire departments merging on or after the effective date of the Act; amend KRS 95A.540 to provide for the creation of new volunteer fire departments out of a merged volunteer fire department applicable to volunteer fire departments having merged prior to the effective date of the Act; create a new section of KRS Chapter 95A to provide for the creation of new volunteer fire departments out of a merged volunteer fire department applicable to volunteer fire departments merging after the effective date of the Act; APPROPRIATION. |
| Index Headings of Original Version |
Local Mandate - Fire districts, merger, maximum tax rate Cities - Fire departments, volunteer, merger, volunteer fire department aid, payments to Cities - Fire districts, merger, maximum tax rate Counties - Fire departments, volunteer, merger, volunteer fire department aid, payments to Counties - Fire districts, merger, maximum tax rate Fire Prevention - Fire departments, volunteer, merger, volunteer fire department aid, payments to Fire Prevention - Fire districts, merger, maximum tax rate Firefighters and Fire Departments - Fire departments, volunteer, merger, volunteer fire department aid, payments to Firefighters and Fire Departments - Fire districts, merger, maximum tax rate Local Government - Fire departments, volunteer, merger, volunteer fire department aid, payments to Local Government - Fire districts, merger, maximum tax rate Public Safety - Fire departments, volunteer, merger, volunteer fire department aid, payments to Public Safety - Fire districts, merger, maximum tax rate Special Districts - Fire departments, volunteer, merger, volunteer fire department aid, payments to Special Districts - Fire districts, merger, maximum tax rate Special Purpose Governmental Entities - Fire departments, volunteer, merger, volunteer fire department aid, payments to Special Purpose Governmental Entities - Fire districts, merger, maximum tax rate State Agencies - Commission on Fire Protection Personnel Standards and Education, volunteer fire department aid Taxation - Fire districts, merger, maximum tax rate Taxation, Property - Fire districts, merger, maximum tax rate Appropriations - Fire departments, volunteer, payments to |
| Jump to Proposed Amendments |
House Committee Substitute 1 with Fiscal Impact Statements House Committee Amendment 1 House Floor Amendment 1 |
| Votes | Vote History |
| 01/02/18 |
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| 01/04/18 |
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| 03/12/18 |
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| 03/19/18 |
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| 03/20/18 |
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| 03/21/18 |
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| Amendment | House Committee Substitute 1 |
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| Fiscal Impact Statement | Local Mandate to House Committee Substitute 1 |
| Summary | Retain original provisions of the bill, but add new sections of KRS Chapter 75 to provide for an alternative governance model of a fire district that may be created by permission of fiscal courts that would allow for four of the seven members of the board of trustees to be citizen members of the board, elected by the citizens, rather than only two, and one member appointment by the county judge/executive or executive head of a merged government rather than three members; remove the tax cap from the taxes that the district board may set, but subject those rates to the compensating tax rates and recall provisions in KRS Chapter 132; provide that when converting over to the alternative board and tax structure that the tax rates in place at the time of conversion shall be the initial rates upon conversion; amend KRS 132.023 to conform to changes. |
| Index Headings |
Boards and Commissions - Fire districts, alternative tax structure Counties - Fire districts, board of trustees, alternative constituency Counties - Fire districts, alternative tax structure Firefighters and Fire Departments - Fire districts, board of trustees, alternative constituency Firefighters and Fire Departments - Fire districts, alternative tax structure Local Government - Fire districts, board of trustees, alternative constituency Local Government - Fire districts, alternative tax structure Taxation - Fire districts, alternative tax structure Taxation, Property - Fire districts, alternative tax structure Local Mandate - Fire districts, alternative tax structure |
| Amendment | House Committee Amendment 1 |
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| Sponsor | R. Rothenburger |
| Summary | Make title amendment. |
| Index Headings | Title Amendments - HB 95 |
| Amendment | House Floor Amendment 1 |
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| Sponsor | J. Miller |
| Summary | Amend Sections 5, 6, and 7 to require the election and appointment of fire district trustees to occur on the date and times of the regular election in November; synchronize the terms of the existing and future board members to accommodate the change; require that a sign informing voters be placed in precincts containing all or a portion of the fire district of the trustee election; specify contents and visibility standards of the sign; make the location of the sign subject to the State Board of Elections regulation; apply the prohibitions established by KRS 117.235, 119.185, and 119.255 to the posting and contents of the sign. |
| Index Headings |
Counties - Fire districts, trustees, elections, time and signage requirements appurtenant thereto Firefighters and Fire Departments - Fire district trustees, elections, time and signage requirements appurtenant thereto Local Government - Fire districts, trustees, elections, time and signage requirements appurtenant thereto Notices - Fire districts, trustees, elections, signage requirements appurtenant thereto State Agencies - State Board of Elections, regulatory authority over fire district trustee election signage |
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