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Legislation Tracking -- 2008 Regular Session (selective)
- Senate Bill 7: creates new laws granting authority over transportation infrastructure
- Senate Bill 15: ... "to include all animals in abandonment or neglect cases and increase penalty for injuring or killing of any animal"
- Senate Bill 54: "provide for a limited sand and gravel permit for extraction operations of under one acre conducted by the property owner.
- Senate Bill 58: to classify torture of dogs or cats as a Class D felony.
- Senate Bill 69: "half the rate imposed on waste delivered from the generator to an incinerator for energy recovery; reduce from twenty percent to five percent the amount required to be remitted by the Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet to the Center for Pollution Prevention."
- House Bill 42: "to forfeit ownership of animals involved in cruelty and torture cases, and prohibit ownership and possession of animals of the same species for two years"
- House Bill 71: "to add a lifetime combination hunting and fishing license available to Kentucky residents over the age of 65."
- House Bill 83: relating to water districts
- House Bill 92: "to redefine 'renewable energy facility' ... [and to] lower the minimum capital investment for certain renewable energy facilities."
- House Bill 93: "to redefine 'carbon capture ready' to include the compression of carbon dioxide."
- House Bill 98: relating to agroterrorism
- House Bill 100: relating to solid waste
- House Bill 106: to require reports of transactions related to the transfer of metals
- House Bill 124: regarding licensure of landscape architects
- House Bill 144: "to establish residential density requirements for residential developments having access to roads meeting certain criteria in the county."
- House Bill 145: to make the torture of a dog or cat a Class D felony
- House Bill 149: regarding residential energy incentives
- House Bill 153: relating to low-income heating energy assistance
- House Bill 164: relating to surface mining
- House Bill 206: "to allow cities and counties to adopt land use management regulations concerning nuisance abatement issue for commercial development in excess of 15 acres."
- House Bill 214: regarding alternative fuel source tax incentives
- House Bill 215: regarding $15 million in matching funds for the Kentucky Wetland and Stream Mitigation Fund
- House Bill 216: relating to the purchase of agricultural conservation easements
- House Bill 231: regarding lead poison prevention
- House Bill 233: changes requirements for labeling plastic containers
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