Get to Know Daniel Elliott
Daniel Elliott has called Forkland, Kentucky, home since 1993. Raised in a Christian household, Daniel points to his upbringing as the foundation that has guided his life choices.
Daniel Elliott became an attorney in 2011 after passing the Kentucky Bar Exam and is in private practice in Danville, Kentucky. His law degree was earned from the University of Louisville School of Law. Prior to his successful law career, Daniel graduated from Boyle County High School and graduated magna cum laude from Bellarmine University with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science. He interned in the United States Senate in Washington, DC, by serving U.S. Senator Jim Bunning of Kentucky during college and he clerked for the Commonwealth Attorney’s office in law school.
As a lawyer, Daniel Elliott represents children, parents, and individuals without a voice and with nowhere else to turn. His practice areas have include: Criminal Defense, Domestic Relations, Estates, General Practice, Personal Injury, Workers’ Compensation, Administrative Law, and Social Security Disability.
In 2016, Daniel Elliott was nominated to run for a vacancy in the House of Representatives District 54. Since his election, Representative Elliott has fought to stand up for the working families of Boyle and Casey Counties. Daniel’s commonsense style of leadership has served our local families well, and he has made good on his promises to work towards a more efficient, responsive, transparent, and accountable state government.
Daniel is a member of the Central Kentucky Caucus, Kentucky Sportsmen’s Caucus, and
Pro-Life Caucus. He is also a member of the following House Session Standing Committees:
- Economic Development & Workforce Investment (Vice Chair)
- BR Sub. on Justice, Public Safety, & Judiciary (Liaison Member)
- Health and Family Services (Member)
- Natural Resources & Energy (Member)
- Judiciary (H) (Member)
Daniel Elliott attends Bradfordsville United Methodist Church, and has volunteered for many years in the Forkland Festival, in Forkland where he lives.
Legislative Record
Representative Elliott has sponsored and helped pass historic legislation for our Commonwealth. He is a true workhorse, accomplishing real results for our local families.
2020 Session: Sponsored Legislation that Passed into Law
House Bill 8 – Signed into law. An act relating to ground ambulance service providers and creating the ambulance service assessment revenue fund.
House Bill 12 – Signed into law. An act to cap the cost sharing requirements for prescription insulin.
House Bill 135 – Signed into law. An act to require the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure to promulgate administrative regulations relating the prescribing of controlled substances by physician assistants; to establish continuing education requirements for those who are authorized to prescribe controlled substances; and to permit the board to take action against the license of a physician’s assistant for certain offenses, such as for engaging in dishonorable, unethical, or unprofessional conduct.
House Bill 167 – Signed into law. An act to specify the rights of a foster parent related to involuntary termination of parental rights cases.
House Bill 307 – Signed into law. An act relating to a statutory exemption for surviving spouses.
House Bill 319 – Signed into law. An act relating to historical preservation of Revolutionary War battlefields, Civil War battlefields, and Underground Railroad sites, and allow the Kentucky Heritage Council to provide grants from the moneys deposited in the fund to private nonprofit organizations for the purchase of sites.
House Bill 362 – Signed into law. An act relating to broadband deployment: to include moneys received as revenues of the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority, clarify that broadband deployment fund would be used to provide assistance to construct infrastructure for deployment of broadband service to underserved and unserved areas of the Commonwealth, and that the moneys are appropriated for those purposes.
2019 Session: Sponsored Legislation that Passed into Law
House Bill 2 – Signed into law. An act to establish a custodial, permanency, and service option assistance program for relative and fictive kin caregivers.
House Bill 61 – Signed into law. An act relating to Kentucky educational excellence scholarships, allowing KEES funds to be used for qualified workforce training programs.
House Bill 84 – Signed into law. An act relating to caller identification: to prohibit telephone solicitations which misrepresent the name or telephone number in caller identification services, to increase the fines for second offenses, and to add criminal fines and the payment of restitution for violations.
House Bill 148 – Signed into law. An act relating to abortion: to provide that if the United States Supreme Court reverses Roe v. Wade, or an amendment is adopted to the United State Constitution restoring state authority to prohibit abortion, no person shall knowingly administer to, prescribe for, procure for, or sell to any pregnant woman any medicine, drug, or other substance with the specific intent of causing or abetting the termination of the life of an unborn human being and no person shall use or employ any instrument or procedure upon a pregnant woman with the specific intent of causing or abetting the termination of the life of an unborn human being.
House Bill 197 – Signed into law. An act to update the definition of industrial hemp.
House Bill 274 – Signed into law. An act to give powers to conservation officers.
House Bill 479 – Signed into law. An act to create the guardianship trust fund in the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.
2018 Session: Sponsored Legislation that Passed into Law
House Bill 191 – Signed into law. An act establishing safeguards and limitations on the use of online technology for assessing the eye and generating prescriptions for glasses and contact lenses. Kentucky consumers still have the freedom to choose where they purchase contacts or glasses, but this bill will ensure that patients have the same consumer protections as if they were seen for an in-person exam
House Bill 207 – Signed into law. An act which allows attorneys to carry their smartphones into a jail or prison, to access the criminal file and do legal research in real time.
House Bill 213 – Signed into law. An act relating to data-sharing of prescription drug monitoring information.
House Bill 68 – Signed into law. An act requiring the Department of Criminal Justice Training to provide a confidential law enforcement professional development and wellness program.
House Bill 263 – Signed into law. An act which allows anyone to be a home-based processor (baker), not just farmers, and expands where these foods can be sold.
House Bill 454 – Signed into law. This law will prohibit a particularly gruesome type of abortion procedure, known as D & E, after 11 weeks. This procedure was targeted due to the inhumane dismemberment that takes place. It will be remembered as one of the strongest pro-life measures that has ever passed in Kentucky history.
House Bill 497 – Signed into law. A measure to include physician assistants in the definition of “qualified mental health professional.”
House Bill 8 – Signed into law. A measure to provide better protections for partially disabled or disabled adult, particularly in regards to who is granted guardianship and removing custody when necessary.
House Bill 93 – Signed into law. An act relating to prevention of exploitation in brokerage-financial accounts.
2017 Session: Sponsored Legislation that Passed into Law
House Bill 180 – Signed into law. Repeal and reenact KRS 199.011 to include definition of fictive kin, and to establish that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services may approve fictive kin as a placement for a child.
House Bill 227 – Signed into law. An act relating to physical therapists and updating criteria for licensure.
House Bill 239 – An act relating to the Kentucky Board of Optometric Examiners.
House Bill 333 – An act related to controlled substances, defining fentanyl and to expand the authority of the Office of Drug Control Policy.
House Bill 395 – Signed into law. AN ACT relating to the reorganization of the Finance and Administration Cabinet.
2016 Session: Sponsored Legislation that Passed into Law:
House Bill 183 – Signed into law. An act to provide for a disabled veteran-owned business certification program.
House Bill 529 – Signed into law. Establish the 11-member Kentucky Water Resources Board.