Kentucky House Bill 402 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 4-1)
Status: Introduced on February 15 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-03-06 - posted in committee
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [PDF]

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to define "criminal offense against a minor," "sex crime," "violent offender," and "youth camp"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to specify the application of Sections 1 to 4 of this Act; create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to prohibit youth camps from employing, contracting, or utilizing as a volunteer a person who committed a sex crime, is a violent offender, or has abused or neglected a child, and to require criminal background checks; create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to delineate punishments for employing a prohibited individual; create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to allow a parent or guardian to request a background check of child abuse and neglect records; amend KRS 160.380 to require superintendents to run a name-based background check of child abuse and neglect records for employees.

AN ACT relating to background checks.

Rep. Regina Huff [R]	Rep. Addia Wuchner [R]	Rep. Wesley Morgan [R]	Rep. Melinda Prunty [R]
Rep. John Sims [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-03-06	House	posted in committee
2017-02-16	House	to Judiciary (H)
2017-02-15	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/17RS/HB402.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/HB402/bill.pdf
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/17RS/HB402/LM.pdf