Kentucky House Bill 374 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: Passed on March 27 2017 - 100% progression
Action: 2017-03-27 - signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 135)
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #3) [PDF]

Amend KRS 17.165 to define "criminal offense against a victim who is a minor"; require that all employers of applicants for initial employment in positions involving supervisory or disciplinary power over minors request conviction information from the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet or the Administrative Office of the Courts; prohibit hiring of such applicants if they were convicted of a violent crime, sex crime, or criminal offense against a minor victim, or have been found by a court to have abused or neglected a child; amend KRS 199.011 to add the definition for "rap back system"; amend KRS 199.462 to allow the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to register members of certified adoptive or foster homes into the rap back system; create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to define "child care staff member"; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to require child care staff members to submit to background checks; permit the cabinet to charge a fee for the check and require that the fee charged to the cabinet is no greater than the actual cost of the check; require the promulgation of administrative regulations; amend KRS 199.896 to require directors and employees of child-care centers with supervisory or disciplinary power over minors or in direct contact with minors to submit to background checks; amend KRS 199.8982 to require family child-care providers to submit to background checks; amend KRS 17.990 to conform; EMERGENCY.

AN ACT relating to federally mandated background checks and declaring an emergency.

Rep. Robert Benvenuti [R]

Rep. Wesley Morgan [R]

Rep. Melinda Prunty [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-03-27	House	signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 135)
2017-03-15	House	delivered to Governor
2017-03-15	House	enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
2017-03-15	House	enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
2017-03-15	House	Bill passed 93-0
2017-03-15	House	House concurred in Senate floor amendment (1)
2017-03-15	House	posted for passage for concurrence in Senate floor amendment (1)
2017-03-14	House	to Rules (H)
2017-03-14	House	received in House
2017-03-08	Senate	3rd reading, passed 37-0 with floor amendment (1)
2017-03-07	Senate	floor amendment (1) filed
2017-03-07	Senate	taken from the Consent Orders of the Day, placed in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 8, 2017
2017-03-06	Senate	posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 7, 2017
2017-03-03	Senate	2nd reading, to Rules
2017-03-02	Senate	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar
2017-02-28	Senate	to Judiciary (S)
2017-02-28	Senate	received in Senate
2017-02-27	House	3rd reading, passed 91-0 with Committee Substitute
2017-02-27	House	taken from the Consent Orders of the Day, placed in the Regular Orders of the Day
2017-02-24	House	posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Monday, February 27, 2017
2017-02-24	House	2nd reading, to Rules
2017-02-23	House	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar with Committee Substitute
2017-02-22	House	posted in committee
2017-02-21	House	reassigned to Health and Family Services (H)
2017-02-15	House	to Judiciary (H)
2017-02-14	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/17RS/HB374.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/HB374/bill.pdf
Amendment	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/HB374/HCS1.pdf
Amendment	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/HB374/SFA1.pdf
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/17RS/HB374/vote_history.pdf