AN ACT related to mining.
     Amend KRS 351.125 to allow the Department of Mines and Minerals to use their mine emergency technician program for first-aid training; amend KRS 351.194 to reduce from thirty days to twenty days the time required for notice of allegations of a violation against a person involved in the mining of coal; allow ninety days instead of thirty days for the board to issue its determination; amend KRS 352.010 to allow safety lamps to be approved by the Mine Safety and Health Administration; change the definition of high voltage to include one thousand volts; change the definition of medium voltage to include up to nine hundred ninety-nine volts instead of one thousand volts; amend KRS 352.230 to reduce from ninety days to forty-five days the time required as mining experience to have charge of electric face equipment; amend various other sections of KRS Chapters 351 and 352 to make technical corrections.

     Feb 17-introduced in Senate
     Feb 18-to Agriculture and Natural Resources (S)
     Mar 5-reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar
     Mar 6-2nd reading, to Rules
     Mar 9-posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for March 11, 1998
     Mar 11-3rd reading, passed 38-0
     Mar 12-received in House
     Mar 13-to Natural Resources and Environment (H)
     Mar 16-posted in committee
     Mar 24-reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
     Mar 25-2nd reading, to Rules; posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for March 26, 1998
     Mar 27-3rd reading, passed 94-0
     Mar 30-received in Senate; enrolled, signed by each presiding officer, delivered to Governor
     Apr 9-signed by Governor