Jails And Jailers
Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to pregnant inmates. [HB-285]
Amend KRS 196.173 to allow an inmate who is known to be pregnant or who has given birth in the last six weeks access to reasonable accommodations for the provision of available certified professional midwifery services or doula services.
Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
Introduced In House on 02/02/2021
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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-192]
The State/Executive Branch Budget: Detail Part I, Operating Budget; appropriate to General Government: 2020-2021: $2,232,159,200, 2021-2022: $1,799,151,900; appropriate to the Economic Development Cabinet: 2020-2021: $30,692,000, 2021-2022: $32,698,000; appropriate to the Department of Education: 2020-2021: $5,087,565,600, 2021-2022: $5,236,333,800; appropriate to the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet: 2020-2021: $224,230,300, 2021-2022: $226,419,100; appropriate to the Energy and Environment Cabinet: 2020-2021: $301,178,900, 2021-2022:
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie
Line Item Vetoes #2, #5, #6, And #9 Not Overridden on 03/30/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT proposing an amendment to the Constitution of Kentucky relating to the recall of elected officials. [HB-82]
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to provide for the recall of all elected officials, except judges, by the voters; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
Sponsored by: Rep. James Tipton
Introduced In House on 01/05/2021
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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 jails. [SB-245]
Amend KRS 441.127 to allow jails to give service credits to any county inmate in a county jail.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Mills
To Judiciary (s) on 02/19/2019
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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 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 fees that are established for services provided by elected officials. [HB-367]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 64 to define "elected official"; establish that a statutory fee amount for services performed by elected officials or their offices be considered the maximum fee amount; allow the elected official to charge a lower fee amount when the maximum fee amount is not necessary for funding purposes; require a schedule of current fee rates to be posted and records of historical fee rates when the elected official charges a lower fee amount.
Sponsored by: Rep. Chad McCoy
Recommitted To Local Government (h) on 03/09/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prisoners and declaring an emergency. [HB-361]
Amend KRS 441.520, relating to the transfer of prisoners, to require an agreement between an originating and receiving jail before ordering the transfer of a prisoner; specify that if a transfer is ordered before receiving an agreement, the receiving jail shall not be required to house the prisoner nor shall the receiving jail's jailer be subject to contempt; outline what a receiving jail may charge for housing a transferred prisoner; require a sheriff to transport the transferred prisoner; require a Circuit Judge to review his or her transfer order
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Meredith
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 109) on 04/24/2020
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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 duties of elected officials. [HB-342]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 67 to require that all elected county officers develop and maintain a records retention policy and an inventory policy for the elected office; establish a penalty for failure to comply.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nancy Tate
Posted In Committee on 01/31/2020
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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 welfare. [HB-1]
Create various new sections of KRS 205 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to utilize a single electronic benefit transfer card for each beneficiary; to prohibit beneficiaries from withdrawing cash using an electronic benefit transfer card; to prohibit the use of cash assistance benefits to purchase certain items or make purchases at certain establishments; to establish that an individual who traffics in electronic benefit transfer cards may be deemed ineligible for public assistance benefits; to restrict the use of Supplemental
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Returned To Health & Welfare (s) on 03/18/2020
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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 health care for inmates. [SB-108]
Amend KRS 441.053, relating to jail health care operations, to remove the prohibition that an entity that provides medical, dental, psychological, or pharmacy services to the Department of Corrections and local jails cannot also provide claims management or plan evaluation services.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stan Humphries
To Judiciary (s) on 01/29/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to police pursuit policies and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-298]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to provide definitions, require each law enforcement agency in the state to establish and enforce policies governing of a vehicle pursuit after January 1, 2021; provide the criteria for decision-making to initiate and terminate a pursuit; allow the adoption model policy, subject to certain criteria and require transmission of adopted policy to Justice Cabinet; provide for penalties for failure to transmit; require written certification that each member of the agency has received a copy of the policy and instruction
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Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 97) on 04/24/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to deputy jailers. [HB-299]
Amend KRS 71.060 to allow jailers to appoint deputy jailers who are nonresidents of the Commonwealth.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sal Santoro
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 106) on 04/24/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to jailer canteen accounts. [HB-258]
Amend KRS 67.0802 to require any compensation resulting from the disposal of property purchased using canteen funds, be returned to the canteen account from which the property was acquired.
Sponsored by: Rep. Melinda Prunty
Recommitted To Local Government (h) on 02/03/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to criminal damage to rental property. [SB-11]
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
Vetoed on 04/24/2020