Corrections Impact
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sentencing by juries. [SB-235]
Amend KRS 532.055 to allow a jury to recommend that a Class D felony be designated and sentenced as a Class A misdemeanor if the jury finds that a felony conviction would be unduly harsh; amend KRS 532.080 to allow a jury to decide whether a person found to be a persistent felony offender should be sentenced to an increased term of imprisonment, rather than imposing automatic increases in sentencing.
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AN ACT relating to violation of a protective order. [HB-595]
Amend KRS 403.763 to make subsequent violations of a protective order a Class D felony.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to persistent felony offenders. [HB-563]
Amend KRS 532.080 to specify that a jury may elect not to enhance punishment for a persistent felony offender.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school safety. [HB-623]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require that an individual on school district property provide government-issued photo identification if requested by a school employee, school resource officer, or law enforcement officer; provide that the individual may be required to leave the property if they refuse or are unable to comply; amend KRS 511.070, relating to criminal trespass in the second degree, to make trespassing in a school building or upon school premises to which notice against trespass is given a Class A misdemeanor; amend KRS 511.080,
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to voting. [HB-568]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 117 to establish provisional voting when a person's eligibility to vote cannot be confirmed; establish procedures for provisional voting; amend KRS 117.375, 118.015, 118A.100, 119.005 and 120.005 to provide new definitions and conform existing definitions; amend KRS 117.995 to include matters relating to provisional voting; amend various other sections to conform.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to possession of a controlled substance. [HB-586]
Amend KRS 218A.010 to add definitions of "trace amount" and "residue"; amend KRS 218A.1415, 218A.1416, and 218A.1417 to lower penalty for possession of a controlled substance when the substance is in a trace amount or is residue.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments. [HB-552]
Amend KRS 533.050 to require the court to considered all sanctions, including graduated sanctions adopted by the Department of Corrections for violations of the conditions of community supervision, before revoking a sentence of probation or conditional discharge; amend KRS 439.553 to conform.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the conduct of local elected officials. [HB-626]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 117 to prohibit certain conduct of local elected officials; amend KRS 117.995 to provide a Class A misdemeanor criminal charge against those local elected officials who engage in the prohibited conduct.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments. [HB-525]
Amend KRS 439.250 to define "technical violation"; amend KRS 439.315 to provide that failure without good cause to pay an installment pursuant to a release agreement is a technical violation; specify that willful nonpayment of fees is a technical violation and grounds for revocation; amend KRS 439.341 to require preliminary hearings for supervised individuals who have been detained for a technical violation to be conducted within 15 days of detainment; require a show cause hearing to be held to extend the period of detainment beyond the 15 days;
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments. [HB-524]
Amend KRS 439.315 to require fees to be waived for individuals placed on administrative supervision; require fees to be suspended for the first six months of a person’s term of community supervision following release from custody, unless the releasing authority determines the individual has an ability to pay; clarify that nonpayment of fees must be willful in order to be grounds for revocation.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sexual abuse. [SB-218]
Amend KRS 510.120 to provide that a person is guilty of sexual abuse in the second degree when, being a transportation network company driver or a taxicab driver he or she subjects a person who is at least 18 years old and who has hired him or her to provide transportation, to sexual contact.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to parentage and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-480]
Establish KRS Chapter 408 to adopt the Uniform Parentage Act (2017); amend various KRS sections to conform; repeal KRS 199.503 and KRS Chapter 406.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to deceptive lawsuit advertising and solicitation practices. [HB-481]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to regulate advertising for legal services.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to deceptive lawsuit advertising and solicitation practices. [SB-178]
Creates new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to regulate advertising for legal services.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the dissemination of personally identifying information. [SB-182]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 525 to create a Class A misdemeanor for disseminating personally identifying information on the Internet about a minor; establish increased criminal penalties for injury and levels of monetary loss; create a civil cause of action arising from violations; and limit the liability of service providers.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments. [HB-424]
Amend KRS 194A.990, 205.8463, 238.995, 341.990, 434.650, 434.655, 434.690, 514.030, 514.040, 514.050, 514.060, 514.070, 514.080, 514.090, and 514.110 to increase the felony threshold for theft and fraud offenses to $1,000, create a Class B misdemeanor level for theft and fraud offenses of $1,000 or less, and allow for aggregation of offenses that occur within 180 days to determine the appropriate charge.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments. [SB-161]
Amend KRS 510.010 to define "registrant" and "adult intermediary"; amend KRS 510.155 to include communications with adult intermediaries for minors and enhance punishment if the minor or perceived minor is under 12 years old, the offender is a registered sex offender, or a person travels into the Commonwealth for the purpose of procuring or promoting the use of a minor.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments. [HB-410]
Amend KRS 431.066, relating to pretrial release and bail options, to define "administratively released," "danger to others," and "financial condition of release"; require pretrial services to provide a defendant's juvenile court history when the defendant is 23 or under; require pretrial services, if requested by the court, to provide the defendant's juvenile court history when the defendant is over 23; specify that a court may impose a financial condition of release if the court finds by a preponderance of the evidence that the defendant constitutes
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to mental illness. [SB-154]
Amend KRS 532.130, 532.135, and 532.140 to add a diagnosis of serious mental illness to the disabilities which prevent execution for persons convicted of capital offenses.
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to hate crimes. [SB-151]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to provide an enhanced term of imprisonment for any defendant convicted of certain crimes when he or she intentionally selected the person because of that person's actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, mental or physical disability, gender identity or expression, or sexual orientation; amend KRS 15.334 and 17.1523 to conform; repeal KRS 49.320 and 532.031; restrictions of KRS 6.945(1) shall not apply to Sections 1 to 4 of this Act.