Corrections And Correctional Facilities, State
Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Advisory Council for Medical Assistance. [HB-53]
Amend KRS 205.540 to add one representative of a recognized consumer advocacy group representing persons reentering society following incarceration to the Advisory Council for Medical Assistance; amend KRS 205.590 to amend the membership of the Technical Advisory Committee on Consumer Rights and Client Needs, amend the membership of the Technical Advisory Committee on Behavioral Health, and to create a Technical Advisory Committee on Persons Returning to Society from Incarceration to act in an advisory capacity to the Advisory Council for Medical
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 11) on 03/08/2021
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A RESOLUTION urging adoption of racial and ethnic community criminal justice and public safety impact statements. [SR-263]
Urge the adoption of legislation requiring racial and ethnic community criminal justice and public safety impact statements for certain legislation and administrative regulations.
Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
Introduced In Senate on 03/28/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the regulation of cannabis and making an appropriation therefor. [SB-80]
Establish and create new sections of KRS Chapter 245 to define terms, allow for possession, growth, use, processing, purchasing, transfer, and consumption of cannabis; establish limits for transfer; allow for purchasing and manufacture of cannabis accessories; authorize activities and operation of retail stores, consumption establishments, cultivation facilities, cannabis testing facilities, and product manufacturing facilities; establish possession limits; prohibit smoking cannabis in public and establish a fine for violation; prohibit operation
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Sponsored by: Sen. Dan Seum
To Health & Welfare (s) on 01/10/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to corrections. [SB-62]
Amend KRS 196.731 to specify that calculations and reports on pilot project expenditures and savings are to be quarterly; amend KRS 196.732 torequire deposits and payments to be made within 45 days after the receipt of quarterly reports; amend KRS 196.736 to require reports include quarterly calculations; amend KRS 532.100 to grant accredited jail facilities priority in the receipt of state prisoners subject to jail detention.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jimmy Higdon
To Judiciary (s) on 01/10/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to racial and ethnic community criminal justice and public safety impact statements. [SB-45]
Create new sections of KRS Chapters 6 and 15A to make legislative findings and require racial and ethnic community criminal justice and public safety impact statements for certain legislation and administrative regulations.
Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
Introduced In Senate on 01/08/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to drones. [SB-157]
Amend KRS 511.100 to protect correctional institutions from trespass; amend KRS 520.010 to include drones in definition of dangerous contraband.
Sponsored by: Sen. Whitney Westerfield
Signed By Governor (ky Acts Ch. 061) on 03/25/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to criminal damage to rental property. [SB-136]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 512 to specify that a tenant who, having no right to do so or any reasonable ground to believe that he or she has such right, intentionally or wantonly defaces, destroys, or damages residential rental property is to be charged with violating KRS 512.020, 512.030, or 512.040 as appropriate.
Sponsored by: Sen. C.B. Embry
Taken From Judiciary (s) on 02/13/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to information used in redistricting. [HB-6]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 196 to require the Kentucky Department of Corrections to create and maintain a database of information on incarcerated persons, including last known address, and to report that information to the Legislative Research Commission following the decennial census; amend KRS 7.550 to require the Legislative Research Commission to receive prisoner population data, including last known address, from the Department of Corrections and to request the same information from federal facilities, and to allocate prisoners to
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Sponsored by: Rep. Reginald Meeks
To Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (h) on 01/10/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to providing free feminine hygiene products for women inmates. [HB-344]
Amend KRS 197.020 to require the Department of Corrections to promulgate administrative regulations to provide free feminine hygiene products to prisoners.
Sponsored by: Rep. Attica Scott
To Judiciary (h) on 02/14/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sentencing credits. [HB-299]
Amend KRS 197.010 and 197.045 to allow sentencing credits for life skills programs and promising practices.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (ky Acts Ch. 116) on 03/26/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the establishment of the External Detainee Fatality Review Panel. [HB-264]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 441 to establish the External Detainee Fatality Review Panel to conduct comprehensive reviews of all fatalities of individuals detained in county or regional jails, any facility operated by the Department of Corrections, the Department of Juvenile Justice, or an entity under contract with either department.
Sponsored by: Rep. Susan Westrom
To Judiciary (h) on 02/07/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to parole violators. [HB-189]
Amend KRS 439.3106 to create a supervision continuation sanction to be applied by the Parole Board at final revocation hearings; provide for the return a sanctioned individual to a jail, prison, halfway house, or inpatient treatment facility without revoking parole for up to nine months; provide for reinstatement of the sanctioned individual to prior parole supervision conditions upon completion of the sanction, or return of the individual to the parole board for revocation if the sanction is not successfully completed.
Sponsored by: Rep. John Blanton
Signed By Governor (ky Acts Ch. 137) on 03/26/2019
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Advisory Council for Medical Assistance. [HB-421]
Amend KRS 205.540 to add one representative of a recognized consumer advocacy group representing persons reentering society following incarceration to the Advisory Council for Medical Assistance; amend KRS 205.590 to create a Technical Advisory Committee on Persons Returning to Society from Incarceration to act in an advisory capacity to the Advisory Council for Medical Assistance.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Taken From Health & Welfare (s) on 04/01/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to performance-based incentives for jails and making an appropriation therefor. [SB-128]
Amend KRS 197.045 on felony sentence credits to award funds to local jails which offer programming that results in credit for state inmates; create a new section of KRS Chapter 441 to allow local jails to classify state inmates who have not been classified by the Department of Corrections within 30 days of the date of conviction; amend KRS 532.100 to increase the state inmate per diem paid to local jails offering approved evidence-based programming; create a new section of KRS Chapter 441 to create a negotiated contract option for jails meeting
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jimmy Higdon
To Judiciary (s) on 02/03/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to appropriations measures providing funding and establishing 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. [HB-352]
The State/Executive Branch Budget: Detail Part I, Operating Budget; appropriate to General Government: 2019-2020: $21,535,000, 2020-2021: $1,793,871,500, 2021-2022: $1,813,688,900; appropriate to the Economic Development Cabinet: 2020-2021: $33,195,900, 2021-2022: $36,055,300; appropriate to the Department of Education: 2020-2021: $5,183,508,800, 2021-2022: $5,228,565,200; appropriate to the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet: 2020-2021: $615,595,100, 2021-2022: $617,246,200; appropriate to the Energy and Environment Cabinet: 2019-2020:
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Sponsored by: Rep. William Reed
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 92) on 04/15/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public safety personnel. [SB-111]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 72 to require the coroner to deliver the remains of police officers, firefighters, and emergency medical services personnel, as defined in KRS 61.315, killed in the line of duty to the family or other responsible entities in a casket or other similar vessel covered in an American flag; specify that the county is responsible for any costs associated with obtaining the flag and the casket or similar vessel, but that the county has no obligation to purchase the flag or the casket for the actual burial, cremation,
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Sponsored by: Sen. Danny Carroll
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 124) on 04/24/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to racial and ethnic community criminal justice and public safety impact statements. [SB-97]
Create new sections of KRS Chapters 6 and 15A to make legislative findings and require racial and ethnic community criminal justice and public safety impact statements for certain legislation and administrative regulations.
Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (s) on 01/21/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to solitary confinement of juveniles. [HB-147]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 15A to limit use of solitary confinement for juveniles and require reporting of data on its use.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/07/2020