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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the expansion of gaming and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-190]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 154A to state the findings of the General Assembly; amend KRS 154A.010 to define, "authorizing location," "casino," "county," "county legislative body," "department," "full casino gaming," "gaming licensee," "gross gaming revenue," "handle," "licensee," "limited casino gaming," and "principal"; amend KRS 154A.030 to expand the Lottery Corporation board membership and duties; amend KRS 154A.040 to include casino licensees; amend 154A.063 to remove prohibition against casino gaming; create new sections of KRS Chapter
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Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/06/2019
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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 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to wagering and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-175]
Establish KRS Chapter 239 and create new sections to define “adjusted gross revenue,” “beginner,” “cabinet,” “commission,” “confidential information,” “entry fee,” “fantasy contest,” “fantasy contest operator, or operator,” “fantasy contest participant, or participant,” “highly experienced player,” “immediate family,” “location percentage,” “person,” “principal stockholder,” “registered fantasy contest operator,” “script,” “secretary,” and “wager”; establish requirements for registration as a fantasy contest operator; require the cabinet to promulgate
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Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
Floor Amendment (1) Filed To Committee Substitute on 03/05/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to assault on a service animal. [HB-157]
Amend KRS 525.200 to include assistance animals in the definition of "service animals" that are covered by assault on a service animal in the first degree.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ruth Palumbo
To Judiciary (h) on 02/05/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to insurance fraud. [HB-151]
Amend KRS 304.47-020 to establish a range of criminal penalties resulting from conviction of insurance fraud; amend KRS 304.47-050 to require certain Kentucky health professional boards to report suspected insurance fraud to the Department of Insurance's Division of Insurance Fraud Investigation and to require the boards to provide information requested by the insurance commissioner; amend KRS 189.635 to require the Department of Kentucky State Police to redact vehicle accident reports provided to news-gathering organizations; provide an exception
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Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph Fischer
Signed By Governor (ky Acts Ch. 143) on 03/26/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to hate crimes. [HB-145]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 525 to create the offense of a hate crime; amend KRS 532.031, relating to when a judge may determine at sentencing whether an offense was committed as a result of a hate crime, to include the hate crime offense.
Sponsored by: Rep. Reginald Meeks
To Judiciary (h) on 02/05/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to abuse of a corpse. [HB-143]
Amend KRS 525.120 to provide that in all cases the penalty for abuse of a corpse is a Class D felony.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Elliott
To Judiciary (h) on 01/11/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to medicinal marijuana and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-136]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 218A to define terms; to exempt the medicinal marijuana program from existing provisions in Kentucky law to the contrary; to require the Department for Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Control to implement and regulate the medicinal marijuana program in Kentucky; to establish the Division of Medicinal Marijuana within the Department of Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Control; to establish restrictions on the possession of and cultivation for personal use of medicinal marijuana by qualifying patients, visiting patients,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/12/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to violent offenders. [HB-132]
Amend KRS 439.3401 to provide that any person convicted of manslaughter in the second degree, reckless homicide, or criminal attempt to commit murder of clearly identifiable emergency medical services personnel shall serve at least 85 percent of the sentence before probation or parole.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Meredith
Signed By Governor (ky Acts Ch. 136) on 03/26/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to hate crimes. [HB-129]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 525 to create the offense of a hate crime; amend KRS 439.3401 to include hate crimes; amend KRS 49.320 to conform; repeal KRS 532.031; exempt the provisions of the Act from KRS 6.945(1).
Sponsored by: Rep. Reginald Meeks
To Judiciary (h) on 01/10/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the fiduciary duties of the trustees and investment managers for the state-administered retirement systems. [HB-126]
Amend KRS 21.540, 61.650, and 161.430 to require the state-administered retirement systems to follow the state Model Procurement Code when contracting for investment management services; amend KRS 61.645 to grant the Attorney General concurrent jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute violations of the ethical and fiduciary duties of trustees and investment managers for the Kentucky Retirement Systems; amend KRS 161.250 to grant the Attorney General concurrent jurisdiction to investigate and prosecute violations of the ethical and fiduciary duties
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Sponsored by: Rep. Russ Meyer
To State Government (h) on 01/10/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to road safety. [HB-117]
Amend KRS 512.070 to include, as criminal littering, permitting unsafe amounts of mowed grass to remain on a highway.
Sponsored by: Rep. Chad McCoy
To Transportation (h) on 01/10/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the abolition of the death penalty. [HB-115]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to abolish the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without parole for inmates presently sentenced to death; amend KRS 532.030, relating to authorized dispositions for felony offenses, to remove the death penalty; amend KRS 533.010, relating to probation, to prohibit probation for a person sentenced to life without parole or life without parole for 25 years; amend KRS 640.040, relating to penalties for juveniles convicted of felony offenses, to prohibit life imprisonment without benefit of parole
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Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
To Judiciary (h) on 01/10/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to violent offenders. [HB-109]
Amend KRS 439.3401, relating to parole eligibility for violent offenders, to classify any person convicted of the following offenses as a "violent offender": criminal attempt to commit murder, criminal attempt to commit fetal homicide, criminal attempt to commit arson, burglary in the first degree, kidnapping, and arson in the second degree.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph Fischer
Posted In Committee on 02/08/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to child abuse and declaring an emergency. [HB-103]
Amend KRS 620.030, relating to the requirement to report child abuse, to delete the clergy-penitent exemption and make any person who intentionally fails to report guilty of a Class D felony; amend KRS 620.050, relating to the reporting of child abuse, to delete the clergy-penitent exemption; provide for severability; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Lynn Bechler
To Judiciary (h) on 01/10/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the sexual endangerment of a child and declaring an emergency. [HB-104]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 510 to make the sexual endangerment of a child a Class D felony; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Lynn Bechler
To Judiciary (h) on 01/10/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to child abuse and declaring an emergency. [HB-101]
Amend KRS 500.050 to remove the five-year statute of limitations for misdemeanor sex offenses against minors and allow prosecution to be commenced at any time; amend KRS 413.249 to remove the ten-year statute of limitations for civil actions arising from childhood sexual assault or abuse and allow a suit to be commenced at any time; amend KRS 620.030, relating to the requirement to report child abuse, to delete the clergy-penitent exemption and make any person who intentionally fails to report guilty of a Class D felony; amend KRS 620.050, relating
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
To Judiciary (h) on 01/10/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sex offenses against minors and declaring an emergency. [HB-102]
Amend KRS 500.050 to remove the five-year statute of limitations for misdemeanor sex offenses against minors and allow prosecution to be commenced at any time; amend KRS 413.249 to remove the ten-year statute of limitations for civil actions arising from childhood sexual assault or abuse and allow a suit to be commenced at any time; provide for severability; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Lynn Bechler
To Judiciary (h) on 01/10/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to abortion and declaring an emergency. [HB-100]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to require a person who intends to perform an abortion to determine whether the unborn human individual has a detectable fetal heartbeat; prohibit a person from performing an abortion before determining whether the unborn human individual has a detectable fetal heartbeat; prohibit a person from performing an abortion without informed consent when there is a detectable fetal heartbeat; prohibit a person from performing an abortion after the detection of a fetal heartbeat; provide exceptions for medical emergencies;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Tim Moore
To Health And Family Services (h) on 01/10/2019
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to human trafficking. [SB-242]
Amend KRS 439.3401 to include as violent offenders individuals convicted of promoting human trafficking; specify that individuals convicted of human trafficking or promoting human trafficking shall not be released on probation or parole until 85 percent of the sentence has been served.
Sponsored by: Sen. Morgan McGarvey
To Judiciary (s) on 03/04/2020