KRS 11.175: Each cabinet to designate small business ombudsman -- Contact

information -- Annual report to Commission on Small Business Innovation

and Advocacy.

(1) Each cabinet secretary on the Governor's Executive Cabinet, established pursuant to

KRS 11. 065, shall designate a small business ombudsman from among their

respective existing cabinet employees.

(2) The small business ombudsman shall:

(a) Respond to inquiries from small businesses on administrative regulations and

other regulatory matters; and

(b) Provide information regarding the procedure for submitting comments on

administrative regulations as provided by KRS 13A.270(1).

(3) Each cabinet shall provide contact information for the cabinet's small business

ombudsman on the cabinet's Web site, inc luding the ombudsman's name, telephone

number, mailing address, and e-mail address.

(4) No later than December 1 of each year, each small business ombudsman shall

submit a report to the Commission on Small Business Innovation and Advocacy,

established purs uant to KRS 11.200, summarizing the number and nature of

inquiries that the ombudsman has received from small businesses during the

previous twelve (12) months.