Peace Officers And Law Enforcement
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to animal control officers. [SB-140]
Create a new section of KRS 258.095 to 258.500 to require the Department of Agriculture to provide continuing education on criminal and law enforcement procedures and investigatory practices to animal control officers; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2021.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mike Wilson
To Agriculture (s) on 02/06/2020
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AN ACT relating to missing persons. [HB-360]
Amend KRS 39F.180 to require that any agency searching for a lost or missing person contact appropriate agencies within four hours of receiving the report and utilize existing resources, including but not limited to electronic highway signs, the Amber Alert system, law enforcement communication systems, electronic media, local, regional, and statewide media providers, and the Integrated Public Alert and Warning System, if authorized and under conditions permitted by the federal government.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Elliott
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (s) on 02/26/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to supplemental payments to police officers. [HB-343]
Amend KRS 15.420 to include members of joint task forces who do not currently receive an annual supplement.
Sponsored by: Rep. Thomas Burch
Recommitted To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 03/17/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to law enforcement seizure and forfeiture of money and other property, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-322]
Amend KRS 218A.440 to require all law enforcement agencies to electronically submit asset seizure-and-forfeiture reporting forms with the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, declaring whether or not the agency seized or forfeited money or property pursuant to KRS 218A.415; require the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet to notify any law enforcement agency that did not file, to allow the agency an additional 30 days to file, and if the agency still does not file, refer the agency to the Attorney General for civil action; provide a $500 late filing
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jerry Miller
Floor Amendments (3) And (4-title) Filed on 03/19/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the regulation of cannabis and making an appropriation therefor. [SB-105]
Create various new sections of KRS Chapter 245 to define terms; to allow for possession, growth, use, processing, purchasing, transfer, and consumption of cannabis; to establish limits for transfer; to allow for purchasing and manufacture of cannabis accessories; to authorize activities and operation of retail stores, consumption establishments, cultivation facilities, cannabis testing facilities, and product manufacturing facilities; to establish possession limits; to prohibit smoking cannabis in public and to establish a fine for violation; to
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Sponsored by: Sen. Perry Clark
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 01/24/2020
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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 female genital mutilation. [HB-285]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 508 to define "female genital mutilation" and create the Class B felony of female genital mutilation; create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to require the Department for Public Health in the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to develop, produce, and disseminate educational materials related to female genital mutilation; amend KRS 15.334 to require law enforcement training on female genital mutilation; amend KRS 311.595 to require a conviction of female genital mutilation to result in mandatory revocation
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
Posting Withdrawn on 02/24/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to detention by peace officers. [SB-89]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to allow a peace officer to stop a person to demand identification when the officer has a reasonable suspicion that the person is involved in criminal activity, and to detain a person who fails to identify himself or herself for up to 2 hours.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Meredith
To Judiciary (s) on 01/16/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the investigation of traffic accidents. [HB-253]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to require local law enforcement agencies having jurisdiction to investigate all traffic accidents involving a fatality that occur on state-maintained highways; specify that if a local law enforcement agency does not have an accident reconstruction unit or similar expertise, the Kentucky State Police shall perform the investigation; amend KRS 16.065 to conform; cite as the John Carter Knight Act of 2020.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Elliott
To Transportation (s) on 03/02/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to peace officer hours of work. [HB-257]
Amend KRS 337.285 to allow peace officers in cities of the home rule class to be scheduled for 80 hours or less in a work period of 14 consecutive days under specified conditions; amend KRS 95.495 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joni Jenkins
3rd Reading, Passed 69-15 on 03/19/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to law enforcement seizure of money or property. [HB-250]
Amend KRS 218A.440 to require all law enforcement agencies to file asset seizure reporting forms with the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, declaring whether or not the agency seized money or property pursuant to KRS 218A.415; require the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet to notify any law enforcement agency that did not file, to allow the agency an additional 30 days to file, and if the agency still does not file, to refer the agency to the Attorney General for civil action; require the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet to provide an annual report
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Sponsored by: Rep. Reginald Meeks
To Judiciary (h) on 01/15/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school safety and declaring an emergency. [SB-8]
amend KRS 158.441 to clarify the definition of "school resource officer"; amend KRS 158.4412 to allow the superintendent to specify any individual to serve as the district's school safety coordinator; amend KRS 158.4414 to clarify which facilities are required to have school resource officers and to require that school resource officers are armed with a firearm; amend KRS 158.4416 to specify that the goal is to have at least one school counselor per public school and to have at least one school counselor or school-based mental health services provider
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Sponsored by: Sen. Damon Thayer
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 5) on 02/21/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council. [HB-240]
Amend KRS 15.315, relating to the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council, to add the president of the Kentucky chapter of the Association of Public Safety Communications Officials and the president of the Kentucky chapter of the National Emergency Number Association to the membership of the council; amend KRS 15.320 to establish quorum of the reconstituted council to 14 members.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Hart
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (s) on 02/24/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Alzheimer's and dementia training. [HB-228]
Amend KRS 15.334 to encourage the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet to provide peace officers with training on Alzheimer's disease and related disorders; create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to encourage hospitals to provide staff and management with training on Alzheimer's disease and related disorders; amend KRS 311.601 to encourage physicians to participate in training on Alzheimer's disease and related disorders; amend KRS 311A.120 to encourage emergency medical technicians, advanced emergency medical technicians, emergency medical responders,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
Posted In Committee on 01/21/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
A JOINT RESOLUTION designating a portion of Kentucky Route 869 in Metcalfe County in honor and memory of Sheriff Ricky Brooks. [HJR-25]
Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of Kentucky Route 869 in Metcalfe County in honor and memory of Sheriff Ricky Monroe Brooks; erect the appropriate signage.
Sponsored by: Rep. Bart Rowland
To Transportation (h) on 01/13/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to 911 services and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-229]
Amend KRS 65.7631, relating to amounts distributed to public safety answering points (PSAPs) for the purposes of answering, routing, and properly disposing of CMRS 911 calls, to remove the qualifier "CMRS."
Sponsored by: Rep. John Blanton
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 40) on 03/27/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to marijuana possession. [HB-221]
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 431.450 to include violations for possession of personal use quantities of marijuana in the uniform citation form; amend KRS 500.080 to exclude
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mary Marzian
To Judiciary (h) on 01/10/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
A JOINT RESOLUTION designating a portion of Interstate 64 in Jefferson County in honor and loving memory of Louisville Metro Police Detective Deidre Irene Mengedoht. [HJR-24]
Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of Interstate 64 in Jefferson County in honor and memory of Louisville Metro Police Detective Deidre Irene Mengedoht; erect the appropriate signage.
Sponsored by: Rep. Charles Booker
To Transportation (h) on 01/10/2020
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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