Peace Officers And Law Enforcement
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION calling upon Governor Andy Beshear to support Texas Governor Greg Abbott in securing the Texas border. [SR-123]
Call upon Governor Andy Beshear to support Texas Governor Greg Abbott in securing the Texas border.
Sponsored by: Sen. Damon Thayer
Adopted By Voice Vote on 02/06/2024
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A RESOLUTION urging Governor Andy Beshear to support Governor Greg Abbott in securing the Texas border. [SR-116]
Urge Governor Andy Beshear to support Texas Governor Greg Abbott in securing the Texas border.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Mills
To State & Local Government (s) on 02/01/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION recognizing and honoring the life-saving actions of Corporal Ben Webb. [SR-113]
Recognize and honor the life-saving actions of Corporal Ben Webb.
Sponsored by: Sen. Brandon Storm
Adopted By Voice Vote on 02/16/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION urging Governor Andy Beshear to express support for Governor Greg Abbott and the State of Texas in their efforts to secure the border. [HR-57]
Urge Governor Andy Beshear to express support for Governor Greg Abbott and the State of Texas in their efforts to secure the border.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Reported Favorably, 1st Reading, To Calendar on 01/30/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION calling upon Governor Andy Beshear to support Texas Governor Greg Abbott in securing the Texas border. [SCR-111]
Call upon Governor Andy Beshear to support Texas Governor Greg Abbott in securing the Texas border.
Sponsored by: Sen. Damon Thayer
To State & Local Government (s) on 02/01/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to crisis aversion and rights retention orders. [SB-13]
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. Denise Harper Angel
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (s) on 03/01/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to law enforcement telecommunicators. [HB-359]
Amend KRS 15.420 to define terms; amend KRS 15.440 and 15.460 to include law enforcement telecommunicators as participants in the Kentucky Law Enforcement Foundation Program ( KLEFP) fund and to make their fund benefits the same as police officers; amend KRS 337.100 to protect law enforcement telecommunicators from workplace retaliation in connection to taking leave under certain circumstances; amend various sections of KRS Chapters 15, 67A, 70, 95, and 164 to conform; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2024.
Sponsored by: Rep. Billy Wesley
Introduced In House on 01/24/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation for first responders. [HB-363]
Amend KRS 342.0011 to allow "injury" to include psychological injuries for police officers, firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, front-line staff members, or members of the National Guard; create a new section of KRS Chapter 342 to establish when psychological injuries are valid workers' compensation claims when not a direct result of a physical injury physical injury.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rachel Roberts
Introduced In House on 01/24/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to police officer mental health. [HB-329]
Amend KRS 15.440, relating to eligibility for Law Enforcement Foundation Program funds to require law enforcement agencies to have a written policy related to police officer mental health programs that allows officers to receive additional leave time to attend mental health treatment, require supervisors to receive specialized training on supporting officers with mental health needs, provide workplace protections for officers who receive mental health treatment, and allows officers to receive reimbursement for the cost of mental health treatment
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Sponsored by: Rep. Derek Lewis
Introduced In House on 01/22/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to animal care. [SB-119]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 525 to define terms; require peace officers and animal control officers to serve notice of seizure of an animal subjected to cruelty; create procedure for seizing agencies to petition a court to order payment of animal care costs by owner; establish penalties; amend KRS 258.215 to require owners to be responsible for cost of care of an impounded animal.
Sponsored by: Sen. Julie Adams
To Agriculture (s) on 01/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to firearms. [HB-331]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to define terms; allow law enforcement officers to petition a court to issue an extreme risk protection order when a respondent poses a 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, termination, or renewal of the petition and orders; provide court processes and evidentiary standards; allow entry of the orders into law enforcement systems; prescribe issuance and service procedures
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 01/22/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to federal law enforcement officers as peace officers in this state and declaring an emergency. [SB-115]
Amend KRS 61.365 to remove the authority of delineated federal law enforcement officers to act as peace officers in this state; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adrienne Southworth
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (s) on 02/07/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to deoxyribonucleic acid. [HB-286]
Amend KRS 17.169 to include local law enforcement as persons authorized to collect DNA samples; define "rapid DNA instruments"; amend KRS 17.170 to provide for the collection of DNA samples at arrest or initial appearance from all persons charged with a felony offense; allow for collection of a second DNA sample by approved local governments to be processed via rapid DNA instruments; amend KRS 17.175 to provide that a person may request expungement of the record of his or her DNA in certain enumerated circumstances; amend KRS 64.060 to establish
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Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Flannery
To Judiciary (h) on 03/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to reinstatement of police and fire department employees. [HB-248]
Amends KRS 95.440 to remove the requirement that a person shall be eligible for reinstatement to a police or fire department only within one year following separation from employment.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ruth Palumbo
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 101) on 04/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to insurance for loss of income and declaring an emergency. [HB-179]
Amends KRS 304.3-110 to authorize life and health insurers to transact disability income and paid family leave insurance, and to make technical corrections; creates new sections of Subtitle 5 of KRS Chapter 304 to define “disability income insurance” and “paid family leave insurance” and to specify how each is to be classified and filed; amends KRS 304.9-030 to include paid family leave insurance in life and health lines of authority; establishes Subtitle 53 of KRS Chapter 304 and creates new sections thereof to regulate paid family leave insurance,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 99) on 04/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to health services. [SB-71]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 31 to define “alternative sentencing worker,” “qualified treatment program,” and “treatment program,” to allow a court to issue an order for pretrial release pending an assessment for a mental health or substance use disorder and to allow the prosecution to object, to require that a needs assessment be conducted within 48 hours and to establish who may conduct the assessment, to require that a treatment plan be developed by a qualified health professional who is employed by a treatment program, to allow a court
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jimmy Higdon
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 68) on 04/04/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to interrogation of children. [HB-157]
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: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/04/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to retirement benefits for state and county employees in hazardous positions. [HB-143]
Create a new section of KRS 16.505 to 16.652 to change the retirement benefits for members participating in the State Police Retirement System (SPRS) or in a hazardous position in either the Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS) or County Employees Retirement System (CERS) who are hired after January 1, 2014, but before January 1, 2025, so that, in lieu of continued participation in the hybrid cash balance plan (Tier 3 benefits), these members receive the benefits provided to members in a hazardous position who began participating immediately
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/04/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to products that contain nicotine. [HB-142]
Repeals, reenacts, and amends KRS 438.345 as a new section of KRS Chapter 158; requires local boards of education to adopt policies that penalize students for possessing alternative nicotine products, tobacco products, or vapor products and lists penalties; requires school districts to report annually to the Kentucky Department of Education; requires the department to report to the Legislative Research Commission the number of nicotine-related behavior incidents in schools and the number requiring medical intervention; requires schools to provide
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Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Elliott
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 149) on 04/09/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to hunter education. [SB-60]
Amend KRS 150.170 to prohibit the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife from imposing a hunter education requirement for a person to obtain a hunting or fishing license or permit.
Sponsored by: Sen. Gary Boswell
To Natural Resources & Energy (s) on 01/04/2024