Kentucky House Bill 520 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Introduced on February 11 2021 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2021-02-23 - to Judiciary (H)
Pending: House Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Create a new section of KRS 61.870 to 61.884 exempting personally identifiable information of judges, prosecutors, and law enforcement officers from the Open Records Act; create a new section of KRS Chapter 525 to create a new offense of disseminating personally identifiable information of a law enforcement official; make the offense of disseminating personally identifiable information of a law enforcement official a Class A misdemeanor, unless disseminated recklessly, in which case it is a Class B misdemeanor; create a punishment of any dissemination of personally identifiable information performed intentionally or with the reason to believe the dissemination would result in serious physical injury to a law enforcement official or immediate family member as a Class C felony, or if the dissemination results in death of a law enforcement official or immediate family member a Class A felony; create a punishment if the resulting property damage is more than $500 but less than $10,000 as a Class D felony, more than $10,000 but less than $1,000,000 a class C felony, $1,000,000 or more a Class B felony; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to permit qualified persons to file a civil action for dissemination of personally identifiable information of a law enforcement official or immediate family member; cite as the Fred Capps Act; EMERGENCY.

AN ACT relating to private information of public officials and declaring an emergency.

Rep. John Blanton [R]

Rep. Ed Massey [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2021-02-23	House	to Judiciary (H)
2021-02-11	House	to Committee on Committees (H)
2021-02-11	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21RS/hb520.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/21RS/hb520/orig_bill.pdf
Supplement	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/21RS/hb520/LM.pdf
Supplement	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/21RS/hb520/CI.pdf