Peace Officers And Law Enforcement
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to tourism. [HB-733]
Amend KRS 148.056 to add gender-neutral language.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
Introduced In House on 02/26/2024
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AN ACT relating to hate crimes. [SB-293]
Repeal and reenact KRS 532.031 to define "gender identity or expression"; list the actions that qualify as hate crimes; list the actual or perceived characteristics a person must have in order to qualify as a victim of a hate crime; outline penalties for a person guilty of a hate crime; set forth criteria for seeking an enhanced sentence; amend KRS 15.334 and to add characteristics of a victim to be considered when determining the cause of a crime; add requirement that officers receive training on hate crimes; create a new section of KRS Chapter
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Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
To Judiciary (s) on 02/28/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments. [HB-725]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 526 to establish a framework for law enforcement wiretaps compliant with federal Title III requirements (18 U.S.C. sec. 2510 et. seq.); repeal and reenact, amend, and repeal various KRS sections to conform; repeal KRS 526.060, which establishes the crime of divulging illegally obtained information; repeal KRS 526.070, which establishes exceptions to the crime of eavesdropping.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Nemes
Introduced In House on 02/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to telecommunicators. [HB-782]
Creates a new section within KRS 15.530 to 15.590 to create the Public Safety Telecommunicator Work Group to develop a new delivery format for the public safety telecommunicator academy and to add training provisions for part-time telecommunicators hired before and after July 1, 2026; amends KRS 15.530 to define “public safety telecommunicator” and “public safety telecommunicator academy,” and to remove the “CJIS” and “non-CJIS” designations; amends KRS 15.540 to allow an agency seeking to hire a telecommunicator 120 days to certify the eligibility
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Sponsored by: Rep. Scott Lewis
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 108) on 04/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to hate crimes. [HB-755]
Repeal and reenact KRS 532.031 to define "gender identity or expression"; list the actions that qualify as hate crimes; list the actual or perceived characteristics a person must have in order to qualify as a victim of a hate crime; outline penalties for a person guilty of a hate crime; set forth criteria for seeking an enhanced sentence; amend KRS 15.334 and to add characteristics of a victim to be considered when determining the cause of a crime; add requirement that officers receive training on hate crimes; create a new section of KRS Chapter
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Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Grossberg
Introduced In House on 02/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to peace officers. [HB-717]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to impose a duty on peace officers to intervene to prevent or stop another officer from using physical force that will cause unlawful serious physical injury, death, or deprivation of civil rights; impose a duty to provide or obtain emergency medical assistance; require reporting of intervention; provide administrative and legal protections; amend KRS 15.330 to require the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council to prescribe minimum standards for use of force by officer, an officer's duty to intervene, and reporting
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Sponsored by: Rep. Nima Kulkarni
Introduced In House on 02/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to peace officers. [HB-774]
Amend KRS 67C.329 to make technical corrections.
Sponsored by: Rep. Susan Tyler Witten
Introduced In House on 02/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to student safety. [SB-2]
Amends KRS 156.095 to require schools to provide suicide prevention awareness twice a year and an opportunity for any student who missed the suicide prevention awareness lesson to receive the lesson at a later time, and to make conforming changes; amends KRS 156.501 to remove existing cost-sharing provisions for the registered nurse required to be employed by the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE); creates a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms, to establish a framework for employment of Kentucky guardians in schools, to specify qualifications
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Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise
Became Law Without Governor's Signature (acts Ch. 165) on 04/10/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky IAN Alert System. [HB-682]
Amend KRS 16.010 to define "missing child;" create a new section of KRS 16.010 to 16.199 to require the Department of Kentucky State Police to create and operate the Kentucky IAN Alert System to provide public notification through the use of media providers and highway signs when a child is missing and may be in physical danger.
Sponsored by: Rep. Pamela Stevenson
Introduced In House on 02/22/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to interference with a legislative proceeding. [HB-626]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 519 to define terms; create the crime of interference with a legislative proceeding in the first degree; create the crime of interference with a legislative proceeding in the second degree; amend KRS 431.015 to require a peace officer to make an arrest for a violation of interference with a legislative proceeding in the first or second degree.
Sponsored by: Rep. John Blanton
To Judiciary (s) on 03/14/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
A JOINT RESOLUTION designating the Deputy Sheriff Caleb Conley Memorial Highway in Scott County. [HJR-93]
Designate the Deputy Sheriff Caleb Conley Memorial Highway in Scott County.
Sponsored by: Rep. Phillip Pratt
Introduced In House on 02/20/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the forensic processing of firearms. [SB-209]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to require law enforcement agencies to transmit information to national law enforcement databases about firearms collected during criminal investigations.
Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Berg
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (s) on 02/16/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to cold cases. [HB-551]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to allow law enforcement agencies to contract with retired peace officers to assist with homicide cold cases.
Sponsored by: Rep. John Blanton
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 63) on 04/04/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to destruction of firearms. [HB-520]
Amend KRS 500.090 to allow consolidated local governments to destroy firearms abandoned, confiscated, or forfeited under the Kentucky Penal Code.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 02/13/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to optional retirement benefits for hazardous duty employees participating in the County Employees Retirement System's hybrid cash balance plans. [SB-196]
Create a new section of KRS 78.510 to 78.852 to create an elective alternative benefit program that employers participating in the County Employees Retirement System (CERS) may adopt for employees in hazardous positions with a membership date after January 1, 2014, in the hybrid cash balance plan (Tier 3 benefits); provide that, if an employer participating in CERS makes a one-time election to provide an alternative benefit program, those eligible employees in hazardous positions may elect, in lieu of Tier 3 benefits, to participate in the alternative
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Sponsored by: Sen. Christian McDaniel
To State & Local Government (s) on 03/22/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to firearms. [SB-190]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to define terms; establish requirements for individuals to voluntarily request inclusion on a list that prohibits the purchase or possession of firearms for specified periods and to voluntarily commit their firearms to law enforcement for safe storage or permanent surrender; provide processes for individuals to be removed from the list upon request and to have a surrendered firearm returned; establish confidentiality requirements and the exclusion of list and surrender records from the Open Records Act; establish
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Sponsored by: Sen. Julie Adams
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (s) on 02/16/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council. [HB-482]
Amend KRS 15.315 to add the chief of police of the Owensboro Police Department and the director of the Northern Kentucky Police and Sheriff's Training Center to the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 56) on 04/04/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the prevention of physical harm. [HB-460]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to define terms; establish requirements for individuals in crisis to voluntarily request inclusion on a list that prohibits the purchase or possession of firearms for specified periods and to voluntarily commit their firearms to law enforcement for safe storage or permanent surrender; provide processes for individuals to be removed from the list upon request and to have a surrendered firearm returned; establish confidentiality requirements and the exclusion of list and surrender records from the Open Records
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Fleming
Introduced In House on 02/02/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to vehicle accident reports. [SB-162]
Amends KRS 189.635 to define “law enforcement agency” and “department,” to allow law enforcement agencies to retain copies of accident reports filed with the Kentucky State Police, to allow law enforcement agencies access to vehicle accident reports and to contract with third parties to provide the reports to other entities that are eligible to receive them under the statute, and to specify that vehicle accident reports held by law enforcement agencies are exempt from the provisions of KRS 61.870 to 61.884, the Open Records Act, but are subject
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Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Mills
Signed By Governor (acts Ch.23) on 03/29/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to counties and declaring an emergency. [HB-456]
Amends KRS 337.285 to add sheriff’s offices and county police forces to the local government agencies eligible for an exception to overtime compensation, and to list statutory authority for other entities that work with law enforcement departments regarding working hours; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Samara Heavrin
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 86) on 04/05/2024