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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to maximum security penitentiaries. [HB-418]
Amend KRS 197.065 to provide that any person convicted of KRS 507.020 or 507.030, where the victim of the offense is a clearly identifiable peace officer, shall be directly transferred to and housed in a maximum security penitentiary.
Sponsored by: Rep. Angie Hatton
To Judiciary (h) on 02/20/2019
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AN ACT relating to strangulation. [HB-400]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 508 to create the new crimes of strangulation in the first degree as a Class C felony, and strangulation in the second degree as a Class D felony; amend KRS 403.720 to include strangulation in the definition of "domestic violence and abuse"; amend KRS 456.010 to include strangulation in the definition of "dating violence and abuse"; amend KRS 15.334, 15.440, 15.718, 21A.170, 30A.015, 194A.540, 194A.545, and 194A.550 to mandate training on screening and forensic evidence collection in strangulation cases.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joni Jenkins
To Judiciary (h) on 02/19/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to extreme risk protection orders. [HB-376]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to allow persons to petition in District Court for one-year extreme risk protection orders when the petitioner believes a respondent poses a significant danger of causing serious physical injury to themselves or others through owning, purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm or ammunition; establish procedures under which a temporary ex parte protective order could be issued; establish procedures for the filing, review, hearing, and possible extension of the petition; prescribe issuance and service procedures
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Sponsored by: Rep. Joni Jenkins
To Judiciary (h) on 02/15/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to an animal abuse registry. [HB-37]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 17 to establish the animal abuse offender registry; require the Kentucky State Police to maintain a registry of offenders who commit an animal abuse offense; establish the animal abuse offender registry fund; amend KRS 525.130 to increase the penalty for cruelty to animals in the second degree to a Class D felony for a second or subsequent offense; establish a short title of "Arrow's Law"; APPROPRIATION.
Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
To Judiciary (h) on 01/10/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to assault in the third degree. [HB-353]
Amend KRS 508.025 to add firefighters to the subsection criminalizing intentionally causing person to come into contact with bodily fluids.
Sponsored by: Rep. Charles Wheatley
To Judiciary (h) on 02/14/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to off-highway vehicles and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-334]
Amend KRS 186.010 to define "off-highway vehicles" or "OHV"; consider an OHV to be a motor vehicle for registration purposes; amend KRS 186.050 to establish a $25 annual registration fee for OHVs and a $30 fee for nonresident OHV registration; allow the clerk to retain $5 for OHV registration; create new sections of KRS Chapter 189 to allow for the operation of OHVs on a public roadway that is not a fully controlled access highway; establish requirements; require the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; establish exemptions;
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Sponsored by: Rep. William Reed
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/14/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to carrying concealed weapons. [HB-327]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to allow concealed deadly weapons to be carried by persons age 21 and over without a license in the same locations where concealed carry license holders may carry them; amend KRS 527.020 and 237.115 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Hart
Posted In Committee on 02/15/2019
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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 sexual exploitation of minors. [HB-298]
Amend KRS 531.335 to raise the penalty for possession or viewing of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor under the age of 12 years to a Class C felony; amend KRS 531.340 to raise the penalty for the distribution of matter portraying a sexual performance of a minor under the age of 12 years to a Class C felony for the first offense and a Class B for each subsequent offense.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Posted For Passage In The Regular Orders Of The Day For Monday, February 25, 2019 on 02/22/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to marijuana possession. [HB-265]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to make the penalty for possession of a personal use quantity of marijuana a prepayable non-criminal fine; amend KRS 218A.010 to define "personal use quantity of marijuana" and "marijuana accessory"; amend KRS 218A.1422 regarding marijuana possession to conform; amend KRS 218A.500 regarding drug paraphernalia to exempt personal use marijuana accessories; amend KRS 218A.1421 on marijuana trafficking to exempt personal use quantities; amend KRS 431.450 to include violations for possession of personal use quantities
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Sponsored by: Rep. Charles Booker
To Judiciary (h) on 02/07/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to amusement rides and attractions. [HB-257]
Create a new section of KRS 247.232 to 247.236 to set forth conduct guidelines for patrons of amusement rides and attractions; establish a penalty for trespassing after refusing to leave the premises following a conduct violation; require amusement ride and attraction operators to display the penalties for violations of this section.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Meredith
Signed By Governor (ky Acts Ch. 041) on 03/21/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to domestic violence. [HB-25]
Amend KRS 525.135 to prohibit pretrial diversion for a person charged with torture of a dog or cat, to make torture of a dog or cat a Class D felony, and to prohibit any form of early release for those who torture a dog or cat as a way to threaten, intimidate, coerce, harass, or terrorize a family member or member of a dating relationship; amend KRS 533.250 to prohibit the pretrial diversion program from being used for someone charged with torture of a dog or cat.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Judiciary (h) on 01/10/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to strangulation. [HB-242]
Create a new section of Chapter 508 to establish the crime of strangulation.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joni Jenkins
To Judiciary (h) on 02/07/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to administrative parole. [HB-234]
Create a new section of KRS 439.250 to 439.560 to establish an administrative parole process that allows inmates serving a sentence for a Class C or D felony offense that is not a violent or sexual offense to be released at the parole eligibility date without a hearing if the inmate does not commit a serious disciplinary violation, unless the victim or Commonwealth’s attorney requests a hearing; amend KRS 439.340 and 439.3406 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Charles Booker
To Judiciary (h) on 02/06/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to community supervision. [HB-235]
Amend KRS 439.250 to define "technical violation" and "absconding"; amend KRS 439.553, relating to community supervision conditions for those on probation, to require graduated sanctions for technical violations and absconding; amend KRS 439.3107 to require the Department of Corrections to adopt a system of graduated sanctions for probationers for technical violations and absconding; amend KRS 439.3108 to require graduated sanctions for probationers for the first absconding violation unless the parole officer determines the individual has committed
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Sponsored by: Rep. Charles Booker
To Judiciary (h) on 02/06/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to administrative release. [HB-233]
Create a new section of KRS 439.250 to 439.560 to establish an administrative release process that allows inmates serving a sentence for a Class C or D felony offense that is not a violent or sexual offense to be released at the parole eligibility date without a hearing if the inmate does not commit a serious disciplinary violation, unless the victim or Commonwealth’s attorney requests a hearing; amend KRS 439.340 and 439.3406 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Charles Booker
To Judiciary (h) on 02/06/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Retirement Systems board of trustees. [HB-230]
Amend KRS 61.645 to require the Kentucky Retirement Systems (KRS) to follow the state Model Procurement Code when contracting for investment management services; provide that, in addition to removal upon a conviction of a felony or violation of the Executive Branch Ethics Code, a KRS board member shall also be removed for a violation of fiduciary duties or conflict of interest; provide that a KRS board member shall not be considered as acting in good faith if he or she fails to disclose a conflict of interest; grant the Attorney General concurrent
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Sponsored by: Rep. Joe Graviss
To State Government (h) on 02/06/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to community supervision. [HB-232]
Amend KRS 439.250 to provide definitions for "technical violation" and "absconding"; amend KRS 439.3107 to require the Department of Corrections to adopt a system of graduated sanctions for parolees and those on postincarceration supervision for technical violations and absconding; amend KRS 439.3108 to require graduated sanctions for parolees and those on postincarceration supervision for the first absconding violation unless the parole officer determines the individual has committed new criminal activity during the absconding period or the individual
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Sponsored by: Rep. Charles Booker
To Judiciary (h) on 02/06/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to deceptive lawsuit advertising and solicitation practices. [HB-225]
Creates new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to regulate advertising for legal services.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Posted In Committee on 02/12/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to oil and gas. [HB-199]
Amend KRS 353.510 to add definitions for "control person," "eligible well," and "orphan well"; amend KRS 353.562 to change the name of the Kentucky abandoned storage tank reclamation fund to the Kentucky abandoned storage tank and orphan well reclamation fund; set forth the purposes of the fund and allowable expenditures from the fund; authorize the Energy and Environment Cabinet to contract with private parties for remediation or reclamation projects; amend KRS 353.563 to authorize the Energy and Environment Cabinet to take the same actions to
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jim Gooch
Signed By Governor (ky Acts Ch. 021) on 03/18/2019