House Committee on Agriculture #
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Membership; legislative calendar; and meeting agendas and minutes available on website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“Matters pertaining to crops, livestock, poultry and their marketing; disease control and warehousing; tobacco; stockyards; agricultural cooperatives and marketing associations; agriculture weights and measures; veterinarians; the State Fair; county fairs” (committee website).
House Committee on Banking & Insurance #
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Membership; legislative calendar; and meeting agendas and minutes available on website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“Matters pertaining to banking; banks and trust companies; consumer loan companies; building and loan associations; credit unions; investment companies; industrial loan corporations; securities; the Blue Sky Law; mortgage guaranty insurance; assessment and cooperative insurance; fraternal benefit societies; hospital service corporations; burial associations; medical and dental service corporations; life, accident, indemnity and other forms of insurance; stock and mutual insurance companies; banking and insurance aspects of the Uniform Commercial Code; interest and usury; pawnbrokers; private credit; consumer credit; sale of checks; installment sales contracts; legal investments; principal and income” (committee website).
House Committee on Economic Development & Workforce Investment #
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Membership; legislative calendar; and meeting agendas and minutes available on website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“Matters pertaining to commerce, industry, and economic and industrial development; the workforce and the workplace; economic development planning, international trade and investment; investment companies and industrial loan corporations as they relate to economic and industrial development; recruitment of business and industry; small business matters relative to economic and industrial development; financing of business and industrial development; business regulatory matters, including the Uniform Commercial Code, relative to economic and industrial development; worker training; technology development and application; chambers of commerce; convention centers and publicly owned exhibition and parking facilities; arts and arts exhibition facilities; state, interstate, and national parks and historic sites; travel promotion and advertising; wages and hours; garnishments; safety and health of employees; child labor; employment agencies; apprenticeship; unemployment compensation; workers’ compensation; consumer protection; industrial weights and measures” (committee website).
House Committee on Elections, Constitutional Amendments, & Intergovernmental Affairs #
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Membership; legislative calendar; and meeting agendas and minutes available on website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“Matters pertaining to the proposing of constitutional amendments and the calling of a constitutional convention; ratification of amendments to the United States Constitution; the election of officers to state, local and school board positions; election commissioners, officers and precincts; qualifications, registration and purging of voters; regular elections; primary elections; presidential and congressional elections; special elections to fill vacancies; contest of elections; corrupt practices and election financing; election offenses and prosecutions; voting machines; absentee ballots; intergovernmental cooperation; state-federal relations; interstate compacts” (committee website).
House Committee on Families & Children #
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Membership; legislative calendar; and meeting agendas and minutes available on website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“Matters pertaining to child welfare; adoptions; assistance to children; children’s homes; commitment and care of children and families; child protective services; adult protective services; state guardianship; caregiver support services; child support programs; support of dependents; family preservation programs; social service programs; child care; senior citizens and aging; disabilities; rape crisis centers; domestic violence shelters; sexual assault programs; public assistance programs such as TANF, CCAP, SNAP, LIHEAP, and WIC” (committee website).
House Committee on Health Services #
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Membership; legislative calendar; and meeting agendas and minutes available on website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“Matters pertaining to health care and health care delivery; human development; health outcomes; disabled persons; mental health; health, medical, and dental scholarships; public health; local health departments; vital statistics; communicable diseases; epidemiology; certificate of need; hospitals, health clinics, and long-term care facilities; substance abuse; maternal and child health; foods, drugs, and poisons; hotel, restaurants, and trailer park regulations; sanitation plants; sanitation districts; suicide prevention; physicians, osteopaths, and podiatrists; chiropractors; dentists and dental specialists; nurses; pharmacists; embalmers and funeral directors; clinical psychologists; optometrists and ophthalmic dispensers; physical therapists; Medicaid” (committee website).
House Committee on Judiciary #
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Membership; legislative calendar; and meeting agendas and minutes available on website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“Matters pertaining to contracts; the Uniform Commercial Code; debtor-creditor relations; ownership and conveyance of property; private corporations and associations; competency proceedings; administration of trusts and estates of persons under disability; descent, wills and administration of decedents’ estates; domestic relations; support of dependents; statutory actions and limitations; eminent domain; arbitration; declaratory judgments; witnesses; evidence; legal notices; construction of statutes; civil procedure; the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals, circuit courts and district courts; family courts; jurisdiction, rules, terms, judges, commissioners, selections, districts, qualifications, compensation and retirement; clerks of courts; juries, attorneys; receivers; court reporters; habeas corpus; crimes and punishments; criminal procedure; probation and parole; correctional facilities; civil rights; and juvenile matters” (committee website).
House Committee on Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations #
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Membership; legislative calendar; and meeting agendas and minutes available on website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“Matters pertaining to professional licensing not assigned specifically to another committee; racing; prize fighting and wrestling; places of entertainment; alcoholic beverage control; private corporations; cooperative corporations and marketing associations; religious, charitable and educational societies; nonprofit corporations; professional service corporations; cemeteries; barbers and cosmetologists; professional engineers and land surveyors; architects; real estate brokers and agents; public accountants; detection of deception examiners; auctioneers; business schools; warehouses; partnerships; trade practices; review of administrative regulations” (committee website).
House Committee on Local Government #
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Membership; legislative calendar; and meeting agendas and minutes available on website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“Matters pertaining to the officers, organization, government and financing of city and county governments; city and county imposed taxes and licenses; special purpose assessment and taxing districts within a city; city revenue bond projects; city indebtedness; incorporation and classification of cities; forms of city government; charter county, urban-county, and consolidated local governments generally; county and special district debt; city and county finances and revenue; the imposition of duties and costs on cities and counties; special districts not assigned to another committee; the powers, duties and composition of fiscal court; compensation of city and county officers and employees; local government civil service systems and local government retirement systems; planning and zoning; interlocal cooperation and consolidation of local government services; county roads; public road districts; city streets and sidewalks; housing; manufactured housing; urban renewal and redevelopment; water districts; acquisition of waterworks and water districts by cities; financing of municipal improvements; urban service districts; fire protection districts; police departments, fire departments and local public safety agencies; issuance of bonds for county and special district projects; sewers; metropolitan sewer and sanitation districts; local air pollution control districts; city and county libraries; library districts; annexation of territory; public works; parks and playgrounds” (committee website).
House Committee on Natural Resources & Energy #
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Membership; legislative calendar; and meeting agendas and minutes available on website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“Matters pertaining to forestry; mining; soil and water conservation; flood control and water usage; drainage and irrigation; geology and water resources; waterways and dams; oil, gas and salt water wells; state and national parks; drainage districts; water pollution; air pollution; management of waste; protection of the environment; Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet; privately owned public utilities; rates, permits and certifications of convenience and necessity; water district rates; utilities in cities; public utility cooperatives; electric and gas utilities and cooperatives; oil and gas transmission companies; municipal utilities and water works; energy and fuel development; energy waste disposal; the Public Service Commission; solar and other renewable energy; hydroelectric and thermonuclear energy; gasohol and other alternative fuels” (committee website).
House Committee on Postsecondary Education #
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Membership; legislative calendar; and meeting agendas and minutes available on website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“Matters pertaining to higher education; universities and colleges; community colleges; regional education; postsecondary education property and buildings” (committee website).
House Committee on Primary and Secondary Education #
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Membership; legislative calendar; and meeting agendas and minutes available on website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“Matters pertaining to public primary and secondary education; the State Board of Education; the State Department of Education; the powers and duties of local boards of education; conduct of schools; attendance; state support of education; the operation of school districts; teachers’ qualifications and tenure; the school curriculum; teachers’ retirement; school employees; pupil transportation; school property and buildings; vocational education and rehabilitation; educational television” (committee website).
House Committee on Small Business & Information Technology #
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Membership; legislative calendar; and meeting agendas and minutes available on website.
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“Development and support of small businesses; job creation and job-training programs; federal, state and local regulations that impact small businesses and their employees; all other matters not specifically assigned to another committee relating to administrative, regulatory or operating issues which, because of their smaller size, uniquely impact small business; information technology planning; statewide standards related to information technology; broadband Internet; Internet service providers” (committee website).
House Committee on State Government #
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Membership; legislative calendar; and meeting agendas and minutes available on website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“Matters pertaining to the sovereignty and jurisdiction of the Commonwealth; the General Assembly, its committees, officers and service agencies; redistricting; the Governor; the Lieutenant Governor; administrative organization; administrative regulations; administrative agencies; Department of Law; constitutional offices; state personnel; state retirement systems; public property and public printing; public officers, their terms, appointments, fees, compensation, removal, oaths and bonds; public information; disaster and emergency services; state and regional planning; libraries; archives and records; public corporations; Commonwealth’s attorneys; circuit clerks” (committee website).
House Committee on Tourism & Outdoor Recreation #
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Membership; legislative calendar; and meeting agendas and minutes available on website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“Matters relating to tourism and travel promotion and development; state, interstate, and national parks and historic sites; fish and wildlife; small business matters relative to tourism development; hotels and motels generally; hotel and restaurant regulations; billboards; advertising related to tourism development; entertainment establishments; campgrounds; the Tourism Cabinet; hunting and fishing; boating; horseback riding; hiking; bird watching; rock climbing; recreational use of all-terrain vehicles; mountain biking; cycling; kayaking; recreational land use” (committee website).
House Committee on Transportation #
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Membership; legislative calendar; and meeting agendas and minutes available on website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“Matters relating to airports and aviation; boats and boating; licensing of motor vehicles; operators and trailers; financial responsibility law; nonresident motorists; motor vehicle sales; railroad rates, service and operating regulations; motor carriers; matters pertaining to the construction and maintenance of the state highway system; the Transportation Cabinet; state aid for local roads and streets; the state police; the Federal Highway Safety Law; turnpike authority; state and federal highways; limited access facilities; use of road bond monies; automobile recyclers; highway beautification; bridges, tunnels and ferries; traffic regulations; vehicle equipment and storage; driver training schools” (committee website).
House Committee on Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection #
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Membership; legislative calendar; and meeting agendas and minutes available on website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“Military affairs and civil defense; national guard; veterans; retention of military bases; veterans’ rights, benefits, and education; veterans’ nursing homes; military memorials and cemeteries; fire prevention and protection; foods, drugs, and poisons; pure foods and drugs; trailer park regulations; hotel and restaurant regulations as they pertain to public health; sanitation plants; garbage and refuse disposal” (committee website).
Senate Committee on Agriculture #
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Membership; legislative calendar; and meeting agendas and minutes available on website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“Matters pertaining to crop, livestock, poultry, aquaculture, and their marketing, disease control and warehousing; stockyards; agricultural cooperatives and marketing associations; regulation of amusement rides; pesticide application and regulation; agriculture and commercial weights and measures; national food distribution programs; motor fuel quality; grain regulation and the trade of grains and commodities; ethanol and cellulosic fuels; veterinarians; the State Fair; county fairs; agriculture loan and grant programs; agritourism; farm safety and education; the Tobacco Master Settlement Agreement; the Department of Agriculture; and the Kentucky Office of Agricultural Policy” (committee website).
Senate Committee on Banking & Insurance #
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Membership; legislative calendar; and meeting agendas and minutes available on website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“Matters pertaining to banking; banks and trust companies; building and loan associations; credit unions; investment companies; industrial loan corporations; securities; the Blue Sky Law; mortgage guaranty insurance; assessment and cooperative insurance; fraternal benefit societies; hospital service corporations; burial associations; medical and dental service corporations; life, accident, indemnity and other forms of insurance; stock and mutual insurance companies; banking and insurance aspects of the Uniform Commercial Code; interest and usury; pawnbrokers; private credit; consumer credit; sale of checks; installment sales contracts; legal investments; principal and income” (committee website).
Senate Committee on Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor #
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Membership; legislative calendar; and meeting agendas and minutes available on website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“Matters pertaining to commerce, industry, economic and industrial development, the workforce and the workplace, and tourism not specifically assigned to another committee; economic development planning, international trade and investment; investment companies and industrial loan corporations as they relate to economic and industrial development; recruitment of business and industry; small business matters relative to economic and industrial development; financing of business and industrial development; business regulatory matters, including the Uniform Commercial Code, relative to economic and industrial development; worker training; technology development and application; chambers of commerce; convention centers and publicly owned exhibition and parking facilities; arts and arts exhibition facilities; state, interstate, and national parks and historic sites; travel promotion and advertising; labor unions; collective bargaining; liquefied petroleum gas and other flammable liquids; hotels; electricians; plumbers and plumbing; wages and hours; garnishments; safety and health of employees; child labor; employment agencies; apprenticeship; unemployment compensation; workers’ compensation; consumer protection; industrial weights and measures” (committee website).
Senate Committee on Education #
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Membership; legislative calendar; and meeting agendas and minutes available on website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“Matters pertaining to public primary, secondary and higher education; the State Board of Education; the State Department of Education; the powers and duties of local boards of education; conduct of schools; attendance; state support of education; the operation of school districts, teachers’ qualifications and tenure; school curriculum; teachers’ retirement; school employees; pupil transportation; school property and buildings; vocational education and rehabilitation; state universities and colleges; community colleges; regional education; educational television” (committee website).
Senate Committee on Families & Children #
Website #
Membership; legislative calendar; and meeting agendas and minutes available on website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“Matters pertaining to child welfare; adoptions; assistance to children; children’s homes; commitment and care of children and families; child protective services; adult protective services; state guardianship; caregiver support services; child support programs; support of dependents; family preservation programs; social service programs; child care; senior citizens and aging; disabilities; rape crisis centers; domestic violence shelters; sexual assault programs; public assistance programs such as TANF, CCAP, SNAP, LIHEAP, and WIC” (committee website).
Senate Committee on Health Services #
Website #
Membership; legislative calendar; and meeting agendas and minutes available on website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“Matters pertaining to health care and health care delivery; human development; health outcomes; disabled persons; mental health; health, medical, and dental scholarships; public health; local health departments; vital statistics; communicable diseases; epidemiology; certificate of need; hospitals, health clinics and long-term care facilities; substance abuse; maternal and child health; foods, drugs and poisons; hotel, restaurants, and trailer park regulations; sanitation plants; sanitation districts; suicide prevention; physicians, osteopaths, and podiatrists; chiropractors; dentist and dental specialists; nurses; pharmacists; embalmers and funeral directors; clinical psychologists; optometrists; ophthalmic dispensers; physical therapists; Medicaid” (committee website).
Senate Committee on Judiciary #
Website #
Membership; legislative calendar; and meeting agendas and minutes available on website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“Matters pertaining to contracts; the Uniform Commercial Code; debtor-creditor relations; ownership and conveyance of property; private corporations and associations; competency proceedings; administration of trusts and estates of persons under disability; descent, wills and administration of decedents’ estates; domestic relations; support of dependents; statutory actions and limitations; eminent domain; arbitration; declaratory judgments; witnesses; evidence; legal notices; construction of statutes; civil procedure; the Supreme Court, the Court of Appeals, circuit courts and district courts; family courts; jurisdiction, rules, terms, judges, commissioners, selections, districts, qualifications, compensation and retirement; clerks of courts; juries; attorneys; receivers; court reporters; habeas corpus; crimes and punishments; criminal procedure; probation and parole; correctional facilities; civil rights; and juvenile matters” (committee website).
Senate Committee on Licensing & Occupations #
Website #
Membership; legislative calendar; and meeting agendas and minutes available on website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“Matters pertaining to professional licensing not assigned specifically to another committee; racing; prizefighting and wrestling; places of entertainment; alcoholic beverage control; private corporations; cooperative corporations and marketing associations; religious, charitable and educational societies; nonprofit corporations; professional service corporations; cemeteries; barbers and cosmetologists; professional engineers and land surveyors; architects; real estate brokers and agents; public accountants; detection of deception examiners; auctioneers; business schools; warehouses and warehousemen; partnerships; trade practices” (committee website).
Senate Committee on Natural Resources & Energy #
Website #
Membership; legislative calendar; and meeting agendas and minutes available on website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“Matters pertaining to forestry; mining; fish and wildlife resources; soil and water conservation; flood control and water usage, drainage, and irrigation; geology and water resources; waterways and dams; oil, gas, and salt water wells, water pollution; noise pollution; air pollution; protection of the environment; management of waste; the Natural Resources and Environmental Protection Cabinet; privately owned public utilities; rates, permits, and certifications of convenience and necessity; water district rates; utilities in cities; public utility cooperatives; electric and gas utilities and cooperatives; oil and gas transmission companies; telephone companies and cooperatives; municipal utilities and water works; energy and fuel development; energy waste disposal; the Public Service Commission; solar and other renewable energy; hydroelectric and thermonuclear energy; and gasohol and other alternative fuels” (committee website).
Senate Committee on State & Local Government #
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Membership; legislative calendar; and meeting agendas and minutes available on website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“Matters pertaining to the sovereignty and jurisdiction of the Commonwealth; the General Assembly, its committees, officers and service agencies; redistricting; the Governor; the Lieutenant Governor; intergovernmental cooperation; relations with the federal government; administrative organization; administrative regulations; administrative agencies; Department of Law; constitutional offices; state personnel; state retirement systems; public property and public printing; public officers, their terms, appointments, fees, compensation, removal, oaths and bonds; public information; state and regional planning; libraries, including library districts, city and county libraries, and county law libraries; archives and records; public corporations; Commonwealth’s attorneys; circuit clerks; the proposing of constitutional amendments and the calling of a constitutional convention; ratification of amendments to the United States Constitution; the election of officers to state, local and school board positions; election commissioners, officers and precincts; qualifications, registration and purgation of voters; conduct of regular and primary elections; presidential and congressional elections; special elections to fill vacancies; contest of elections; corrupt practices and election financing; election offenses and prosecutions; voting machines; absent ballots; the officers, organization, government, and financing of county and city governments; urban-county governments generally; county and city imposed taxes and licenses; special purpose assessment and taxing districts within a city; financing of local government improvements; issuance of bonds for county, city, and special district projects; local government indebtedness generally; compensation of county and city officers and employees; the imposition of duties and costs on local governments; interlocal government cooperation and consolidation of services; local government employees civil service and retirement; powers, duties, and composition of fiscal courts and municipal legislative bodies; the offices of county judge/executive, magistrate, county attorney, sheriff, constable, jailer, coroner, surveyor, and county clerk; forms of local government; incorporation and classification of cities; housing projects; urban renewal and redevelopment; planning and zoning; annexation of territory; public works; parks and playgrounds; police and fire departments and their retirement systems; county roads; city streets and sidewalks; local government utilities and waterworks; acquisition of waterworks and water districts by local governments; sewers; metropolitan sewer and sanitation districts; public road districts; water districts; fire protection districts; drainage districts and local flood control and water usage; local air pollution control districts; urban service districts; and special districts not assigned to another committee” (committee website).
Senate Committee on Transportation #
Website #
Membership; legislative calendar; and meeting agendas and minutes available on website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“Matters relating to airports and aviation; boats and boating; licensing of motor vehicles; operators and trailers; financial responsibility law; nonresident motorists; motor vehicle sales; railroad rates, service and operating regulations; motor carriers; matters pertaining to the construction and maintenance of the state highway system; the Transportation Cabinet; state aid for local roads and streets; the state police; the Federal Highway Safety Law; turnpike authority; state and federal highways; limited access facilities; use of road bond monies; bill boards; automobile recyclers; highway beautification; bridges, tunnels and ferries; traffic regulations; vehicle equipment and storage; driver training schools” (committee website).
Senate Committee on Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection #
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Membership; legislative calendar; and meeting agendas and minutes available on website.
Purpose/Jurisdiction #
“Matters relating to veterans, including veterans’ rights, benefits and education; veterans’ nursing homes; military affairs and civil defense; national guard; retention of military bases; safety of citizens and security of public buildings and property; military memorials and cemeteries” (committee website).
