Kentucky House Bill 446 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: Passed on March 26 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-03-26 - signed by Governor (KY Acts ch. 132)
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

Amend KRS 620.140 to require a list to be provided to the cabinet by a biological or legal parent of potential persons to be considered as a relative or fictive kin placement; amend KRS 620.290 to add new requirements for local citizen foster care review boards to consider when making recommendations and remove requirements related to case reviews of when a foster child is moved more than three times; amend KRS 620.320 to change the duties of the State Citizen Foster Care Review Board; amend KRS 620.360 to establish that foster parent certification shall be effective for a minimum of three years; amend KRS 625.060 to establish that a foster parent shall be a party in an action for involuntary termination of parental rights; amend 625.090 to establish a new consideration by a court in cases of involuntary termination of parental rights that if a child is found to have been diagnosed with neonatal abstinence syndrome at the time of birth and the child's birth mother has had a child previously diagnosed with neonatal abstinence syndrome at the time of birth; establish a new consideration by a court in termination of parental rights cases that if a child has been removed from the biological or legal parents more than 2 times by the cabinet or a court.

AN ACT relating to child welfare.

Rep. David Meade [R]

Rep. Joni Jenkins [D]

Rep. Melinda Prunty [R]

2019-03-13 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading RSN# 968 (Y: 37 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2019-03-04 - House - House: Third Reading RCS# 223 (Y: 99 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-03-26	House	signed by Governor (KY Acts ch. 132)
2019-03-14	House	delivered to Governor
2019-03-14	House	enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
2019-03-14	House	enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
2019-03-13	House	received in House
2019-03-13	Senate	3rd reading, passed 37-0
2019-03-13	Senate	posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 13, 2019
2019-03-12	Senate	reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules as a consent bill
2019-03-06	Senate	to Health & Welfare (S)
2019-03-06	Senate	returned to Committee on Committees (S)
2019-03-06	Senate	1st reading
2019-03-06	Senate	taken from Committee on Committees (S)
2019-03-05	Senate	received in Senate
2019-03-04	House	3rd reading, passed 99-0 with Committee Substitute (1)
2019-03-01	House	posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Monday, March 4, 2019
2019-02-28	House	reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1) as consent bill
2019-02-26	House	posted in committee
2019-02-25	House	returned to Health and Family Services (H)
2019-02-25	House	1st reading
2019-02-25	House	taken from Health and Family Services (H)
2019-02-20	House	to Health and Family Services (H)
2019-02-19	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/19RS/hb446.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/19RS/hb446/orig_bill.pdf
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/19RS/hb446/bill.pdf
Amendment	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/19RS/HB446/HCS1.pdf
Roll Call	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/19RS/hb446/vote_history.pdf