AN ACT relating to appropriations and revenue measures providing financing and conditions for the operations, maintenance, support, and functioning of the government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and its various officers, cabinets, departments, boards, commissions, institutions, subdivisions, agencies, and other state-supported activities.  LRC, HB 406 summary and bill

On January 29, the bill was introduced into the House with the Governor's proposed budget. Many boards and commissions were mentioned. At this point, $35,000 was proposed to be transferred from the KY Board of Auctioneers' Operating Account to the State's General Fund. On March 12, after the House members amended the bill, the Bill was passed by the House. The amended bill included an additional $312,200 to be transferred to the General Fund from the KY Board of Auctioneers' Recovery Fund Account.
The Bill was received in the Senate on March 13. As explained on LRC's website (http://www.lrc.ky.gov/budget/enacting.htm) "The Senate ordinarily determines its budget plan action as substitutes or amendments to the House-passed bills. Since 1980, the Executive Branch budget bill has always been resolved in free conference committee."
Apr 2-Free Conference Committee report filed in House and Senate; Free Conference Committee report adopted in Senate; Bill passed 35-3; received in House; Free Conference Committee report adopted in House; Bill passed 74-21; enrolled, signed by each presiding officer; delivered to Governor. This final version is transferring $35,000 from the operating account this fiscal year and $312,200 from the Recovery fund next fiscal year.

As an agency of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, the primary purpose of the Kentucky Board of Auctioneers is to protect the public. This is accomplished through the examination, licensing, and regulation of auctioneers and auction house operators. Compliance with the Kentucky Revised Statutes, Chapter 330, and the Kentucky Administrative Regulations promulgated by this Board is necessary in order to achieve this goal. The Kentucky Board of Auctioneers is a self-sustaining agency of the Commonwealth. KBA receives no monies from the state's General Fund. The Kentucky Board of Auctioneers is a fiscally responsible agency with revenues only generated by application and renewal fees from our licensees and interest earned on the Recovery Fund balance.

Link to 'KBA Publications' for Directory.

A list of contractors certified by the Environmental and Public Protection Cabinet to cleanup methamphetamine labs is now available from the cabinet’s Division of Waste Management. Certification of contractors who decontaminate meth labs located on “inhabitable properties,” excluding hotels, is a new requirement under a law passed by the 2007 General Assembly. The list and other information about the new law including a guidance document and cleanup standard, is available online at www.waste.ky.gov/branches/sf/Meth.htm or by contacting Kim Leingang in the division’s Superfund Branch at 502-564-6716, ext. 236, or  Kim.Leingang@ky.gov.  If you find what you suspect is a meth lab, do not move, touch or smell any container or its contents. Contact law enforcement. The KSP hotline is 1-800-222-5555. Extensive information on recognizing meth labs, how to protect yourself and who to call is online at the University of Kentucky’s Health Education through Extension Leadership site:  www.ca.uky.edu/heel/Land/index.htm

To provide a quality schedule of speakers and topics, the Kentucky Board of Auctioneers has contracted with the National Auctioneers Association for Continuing Education programs in Kentucky. Link to 'Continuing Education'.

"Landowners who hold title to soil, grass and trees on the surface also own the layer of limestone and clay beneath, the KY Court of Appeals ruled. The issue arose from a Western KY dispute over who owned limestone and clay deposits on 200 acres of land in Livingston County. Both a local company that owned the surface and a group of heirs who owned the subterranean minerals claimed ownership. Kentucky, like most states, recognizes the legal right for landowners to sever rights to one or more minerals beneath the surface. Appeals court judges ... ruled that limestone and clay are not minerals, regardless of their value, and that they belong to the person who owns the surface land."