Kentucky Senate Bill 8 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Strong Partisan Bill (Republican 11-1)
Status: Passed on February 21 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-02-21 - signed by Governor (Acts ch. 5)
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

amend KRS 158.441 to clarify the definition of "school resource officer"; amend KRS 158.4412 to allow the superintendent to specify any individual to serve as the district's school safety coordinator; amend KRS 158.4414 to clarify which facilities are required to have school resource officers and to require that school resource officers are armed with a firearm; amend KRS 158.4416 to specify that the goal is to have at least one school counselor per public school and to have at least one school counselor or school-based mental health services provider for every 250 students; amend KRS 61.902 to specify that the commission of a special law enforcement officer employed as a school resource officer shall be for four years; amend KRS 156.095 to specify that the Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice Training is to prepare an active shooter training video in consultation with the Department of Education; amend KRS 158.162 to include exceptions to locked classroom doors; amend KRS 508.078 to clarify when a person is guilty of terroristic threatening; amend KRS 16.128, 1.315, 70.062, and 95.970 to conform.

AN ACT relating to school safety and declaring an emergency.

Sen. George Wise [R]	Sen. Tom Buford [R]	Sen. Ralph Alvarado [R]	Sen. Danny Carroll [R]
Sen. C.B. Embry [R]	Sen. David Givens [R]	Sen. Stan Humphries [R]	Sen. Robert Mills [R]
Sen. Damon Thayer [R]	Sen. Johnny Turner [D]	Sen. Steve West [R]	Sen. Mike Wilson [R]

2020-02-07 - House - House: Third Reading RCS# 86 (Y: 78 N: 8 NV: 0 Abs: 12) [PASS]
2020-02-07 - House - House: Adopt HFA 3 RCS# 85 (Y: 28 N: 57 NV: 0 Abs: 13) [FAIL]
2020-02-07 - House - House: Adopt HFA 2 RCS# 84 (Y: 26 N: 60 NV: 0 Abs: 12) [FAIL]
2020-01-27 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading RSN# 1165 (Y: 34 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-02-21	Senate	signed by Governor (Acts ch. 5)
2020-02-10	Senate	delivered to Governor
2020-02-10	Senate	enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
2020-02-10	Senate	enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
2020-02-10	Senate	received in Senate
2020-02-07	House	passed 78-8
2020-02-07	House	floor amendments (2) and (3) defeated
2020-02-07	House	3rd reading
2020-02-05	House	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 6, 2020
2020-02-05	House	2nd reading, to Rules
2020-02-04	House	floor amendments (1), (2) and (3) filed
2020-02-04	House	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
2020-01-30	House	posted in committee
2020-01-29	House	to Education (H)
2020-01-27	House	received in House
2020-01-27	Senate	passed 34-1
2020-01-27	Senate	floor amendment (1) defeated
2020-01-27	Senate	3rd reading
2020-01-24	Senate	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, January, 27, 2020
2020-01-23	Senate	floor amendment (1) filed
2020-01-23	Senate	reported favorably, to Rules
2020-01-16	Senate	returned to Education (S)
2020-01-16	Senate	2nd reading
2020-01-16	Senate	taken from Education (S)
2020-01-15	Senate	to Education (S)
2020-01-15	Senate	returned to Committee on Committees (S)
2020-01-15	Senate	1st reading
2020-01-15	Senate	taken from Committee on Committees (S)
2020-01-13	Senate	introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/20RS/sb8.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/20RS/sb8/orig_bill.pdf
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/20RS/sb8/bill.pdf
Roll Call	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/20RS/sb8/vote_history.pdf