Crimes And Punishments
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Rules of Evidence. [HB-652]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Create a new section of the Kentucky Rules of Evidence to make criminal charges, convictions, pleas of guilty, or pardons arising from the events of January 6, 2021, in the District of Columbia inadmissible in any civil or criminal proceeding.
Sponsored by: Rep. Josh Calloway
To Judiciary (h) on 02/26/2025
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AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments. [HB-620]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Amend KRS 501.060 to insert gender-neutral language.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nancy J. Tate
To Judiciary (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to licensed and certified professions. [HB-689]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 335B to create the offense of holding oneself out to be a member of a licensed or certified profession and set a penalty.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Grossberg
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to bench warrants. [SB-236]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 455 to limit the duration of bench warrants for failure to appear on a misdemeanor or violation.
Sponsored by: Sen. Brandon D. Smith
2nd Reading, To Rules on 02/28/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to children. [HB-621]
[Children and Youth ]
[Education ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Create new section of KRS Chapter 635 to establish penalties for children who violate KRS 508.075, 508.078, or 508.080; amend KRS 159.170 to prohibit transfer of a student to an at-home private school while certain proceedings are pending.
Sponsored by: Rep. Walker Wood Thomas
Floor Amendment (1) Filed To Committee Substitute on 03/06/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to crisis aversion and rights retention orders. [SB-235]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Crime ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Establish KRS Chapter 202D and create new sections thereof relating to crisis aversion and rights retention orders; provide limitations on interpretation of the Act; define terms; allow law enforcement officers to petition a court to issue orders when a respondent presents an immediate and present danger of causing serious physical injury to themselves or others through purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm; establish procedures for the filing, review, hearing, service of process, termination, or renewal of the petition and orders; provide
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Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To Judiciary (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to interrogation of children. [SB-264]
[Children and Youth ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 610 to define terms; prohibit a child from being interrogated using deceptive methods; create a new rule of evidence to limit the admissibility of statements made in the interrogation of a child in violation of statute.
Sponsored by: Sen. Keturah Herron
To Judiciary (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments. [HB-676]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Amend KRS 504.120 to insert gender-neutral language.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel B. Elliott
To Judiciary (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to driving under the influence of marijuana. [SB-230]
[Cannabis ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Amend KRS 189A.010 to create a per se limit for a blood level of tetrahydrocannabinol signifying intoxication; amend various sections of the KRS to conform.
Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To Judiciary (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments. [HB-677]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Amend KRS 501.080 to make a technical correction and insert gender-neutral language.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel B. Elliott
To Judiciary (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to campaign finance. [SB-206]
[Elections ]
[Finance ]
[Voting Rights ]
Amend KRS 121.015, relating to campaign finance, to define terms; create new sections of KRS Chapter 121 to establish reporting and record retention requirements for political issues committees and persons making independent expenditures; prohibit political issues committees from knowingly and willfully soliciting or accepting contributions from prohibited sources; establish certification requirements for treasurers of political issues committees and donors making contributions and independent expenditures; define activity that creates a presumption
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Sponsored by: Sen. Steve Rawlings
To State & Local Government (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to wrongful conviction compensation. [SB-262]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Funding ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a cause of action for a person who was wrongfully convicted of a felony in the Commonwealth; specify amounts of damages that may be awarded to claimants; establish the wrongful conviction compensation fund.
Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald A. Neal
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments. [HB-678]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Amend KRS 502.060 to insert gender-neutral language.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel B. Elliott
To Judiciary (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to grand jury service. [HB-623]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 29A to provide that a person present at any part of a grand jury proceeding shall not knowingly record the proceeding or disclose any information they gather while present during a proceeding; amend KRS 29A.990 to establish the penalty for knowingly recording or disclosing information gathered at a grand jury proceeding as a Class A misdemeanor unless the defendant is a public servant as defined in KRS 519.010, in which case it is a Class D felony; amend KRS 500.050 to provide that a misdemeanor violation of knowingly
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Sponsored by: Rep. Candy D. Massaroni
To Judiciary (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to parentage fraud. [SB-239]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 530 to establish the crime of parentage fraud as a Class B misdemeanor.
Sponsored by: Sen. Donald Douglas
To Judiciary (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to voting rights. [SB-225]
[Voting Rights ]
[Elections ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
Propose to amend Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky to automatically restore the voting rights of persons convicted of certain felonies upon completion of their imprisonment, probation, or parole and automatically restore their civil rights five years after completion of their imprisonment, probation, or parole; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
Sponsored by: Sen. Keturah Herron
To State & Local Government (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to election districts and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-628]
[Elections ]
[Voting Rights ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Ethics ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 5 to establish the Advisory Redistricting Commission, which shall be composed of members appointed by the General Assembly and members of the public at large; define terms; establish commissioner pay, conditions, powers, and duties; provide that commissioners' terms correlate with obligations of each census cycle; establish the conditions, powers, and duties of the commission; require the commission to draft redistricting plans for legislative and congressional districts, with parameters prescribed; establish standards
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Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Donworth
To Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to health care. [HB-688]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Education ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Disabilities ]
[Crime ]
Amend KRS 314.041, relating to registered nurse licensure, and KRS 314.051, relating to licensed practical nurse licensure, to permit rather than require the board to issue credentials; amend KRS 314.042 to require physicians collaborating with an advanced practice registered nurse to have an active and unrestricted license in Kentucky; amend KRS 314.109 to reduce the time from 90 to 30 days for a person under the jurisdiction of the board to notify the board of a conviction of certain misdemeanors or felonies; amend KRS 209.032, relating to employees
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Poore Moser
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to elections. [HB-684]
[Elections ]
[Education ]
[Voting Rights ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
Amend KRS 117.045 to allow a lesser number of precinct officers when the State Board of Elections has approved a county board of elections' precinct consolidation plan; amend KRS 117.065 to require the county board of elections to notify local boards of education of its intent to use school buildings as voting places by December 1 of each year; require the county board of elections to specify which school buildings will be used; amend KRS 117.066 to conform; allow a county board of elections to request an amendment to its previously submitted precinct
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jennifer Henson Decker
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 125) on 03/28/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to educational cooperatives. [HB-584]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 160.290 to provide that an interlocal cooperative board is an extension school district and all statutes and administrative regulations that apply to school districts extend to interlocal cooperative boards; amend KRS 156.070 to provide that the Kentucky Board of Education has the management and control of interlocal cooperative boards and that the board shall manage interlocal cooperative boards in the same manner and method as the board manages school districts; amend KRS 156.010 to provide that the commissioner of education is responsible
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Sponsored by: Rep. James A. Tipton
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/25/2025