| KY | SB118 | Pass | Amends KRS 529.110 to allow notice of trespass to be given through the placement of identifying purple paint marks on property.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 197) |
| KY | HB5 | Pass | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 532 to define "violent felony" and enhance sentencing for a person convicted of a third violent felony; prohibit probation, parole, or other form of release for a person who commits a crime using a weapon that is st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 174) |
| KY | SB20 | Pass | Amends KRS 635.020 to provide that a child 15 years of age or older who is charged with a Class A, B, or C felony involving the use of a firearm shall be transferred to Circuit Court to be tried as an adult, to provide that the Commonwealth’s attor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 160) |
| KY | HB142 | Pass | Repeals, reenacts, and amends KRS 438.345 as a new section of KRS Chapter 158; requires local boards of education to adopt policies that penalize students for possessing alternative nicotine products, tobacco products, or vapor products and lists pen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 149) |
| KY | HB385 | Pass | Amends KRS 311.631, relating to living wills and advance directives, to include an adult friend as an individual authorized to make health care decisions on behalf of a patient who lacks decisional capacity; amends KRS 504.060 to define “examiner...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 138) |
| KY | HB619 | Pass | Amend KRS 532.110 to allow the aggregate of consecutive indeterminate terms to exceed the longest extended term authorized by KRS 532.080 where a person convicted of a felony is convicted of or enters a guilty plea to an additional felony committed w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 127) |
| KY | HB278 | Pass | Amends KRS 15A.190 to require that the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet include crimes involving childhood sexual assault or abuse on the JC-3 form; amends KRS 160.380 to provide that a superintendent shall not employ any person who has been convict...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 106) |
| KY | SB11 | Pass | Amends KRS 610.345 to require notice to schools prior to filing of a public offense petition against a child in certain cases; and amends KRS 158.488 and 158.153 to conform.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 51) |
| KY | HB258 | Pass | Amends KRS 525.135 to define “serious physical injury or infirmity” and to redefine “torture,” to provide that torture of a dog or cat is a Class D felony in every instance and that each act may constitute a separate offense, and to provide w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 81) |
| KY | HB3 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to permit the Attorney General to establish a working group to study and discuss human trafficking in the Commonwealth; amends KRS 15.706 to include forced labor in reporting data on human trafficking from the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 61) |
| KY | SB202 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 439.340 to allow the Parole Board to order participation in a specific violence reduction program as a condition of parole; amend KRS 533.030 to allow a court to require participation in a specific violence reduction program as a condition ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB739 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 338 to define terms; provide that an employer may petition the court for an order of protection after incidents of workplace violence; establish procedures for petitioning the court, service of process, hearings, an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB153 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 29A.080 to allow an individual age 70 or older to elect to be permanently excused from jury service; require this option to be prominently displayed at the top of the juror qualification form; require a prospective juror age 70 or older to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB626 | Engross
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 519 to define terms; create the crime of interference with a legislative proceeding in the first degree; create the crime of interference with a legislative proceeding in the second degree; amend KRS 431.015 to requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB569 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to establish an automatic expungement process for specific eligible misdemeanor and felony convictions; allow the Commonwealth's and county attorney to object and halt the automatic expungement of certain offen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB254 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 18A.115 to exclude attorneys in the Department of Public Advocacy from classified service; amend KRS 31.010 to delete references to legal representation for persons with disabilities and make technical corrections; provide that the Departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB347 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 533.270 to define terms; amend KRS 533.274 to remove a misdemeanor as a disqualifying offense; require an assessment of a homeless defendant for a behavioral health disorder and establish preference for participation in the program if an el...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
To Senate Rules Committee |
| KY | HB286 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 17.169 to include local law enforcement as persons authorized to collect DNA samples; define "rapid DNA instruments"; amend KRS 17.170 to provide for the collection of DNA samples at arrest or initial appearance from all persons charged wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB95 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 514.060, relating to theft of services, to include the conduct of a person holding the property of another under a rental agreement longer than the period agreed upon and depriving the owner of its use for future rentals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | SB352 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 432.280 to remove the provision permitting a court or judge to proceed against a person by indictment for libel or slander relating to judicial conduct in court.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | SB354 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 610.070 to require open hearings in all juvenile cases; amend KRS 620.050 to remove immunity for persons acting in good faith and upon reasonable cause in relation to reports of child dependency, neglect, and abuse and participation in judi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | SB48 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 514.030 to increase the theft aggregate timeframe from 90 days to one year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB262 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to prohibit the unlawful storage of a firearm; establish elements of the crime for recklessly allowing access to an unsecured firearm by a minor; establish the crime as a Class A misdemeanor unless a physical i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
| KY | HB725 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 526 to establish a framework for law enforcement wiretaps compliant with federal Title III requirements (18 U.S.C. sec. 2510 et. seq.); repeal and reenact, amend, and repeal various KRS sections to conform; repeal K...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB718 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 431.066 to limit the use of money bail to certain high-risk defendants and create a preventive detention process for defendants of select risk levels and charge types; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to establish a preventive detent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB243 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 525.125 to define "animal fight"; provide that a person is guilty of cruelty to animals in the first degree when he or she knowingly causes an animal to engage in an animal fight, participates in the organization or operation of an animal f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB660 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 532.100 to provide that a Class C or D felon may serve his or her term of imprisonment in a local jail in which the fiscal court of the county has agree to house state prisoners, under certain circumstances.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB625 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 510.040 to enhance the penalty for rape in the first degree to a Class A felony; amend KRS 510.070 to enhance the penalty for sodomy in the first degree to a Class A felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB218 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to establish an automatic expungement process for specific eligible misdemeanor and felony convictions; allow the Commonwealth's and county attorney to object and halt the automatic expungement of certain offen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | SB187 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to define "modified weapon"; provide that a licensed dealer may not deliver a modified weapon until seven days have elapsed from the date of the purchase application; create new sections of KRS Chapter 527 to p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
| KY | HB548 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeal KRS 510.100, relating to sodomy in the fourth degree; amend KRS 194A.380 and 532.031 to conform.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB69 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 431.520 to prohibit individuals who are subject to a protective order under KRS Chapter 403 or 456 from being released on the surety of, or deposit paid by, a person protected by the protective order.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB460 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to define terms; establish requirements for individuals in crisis to voluntarily request inclusion on a list that prohibits the purchase or possession of firearms for specified periods and to voluntarily commit ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB152 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to abolish the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without parole for inmates presently sentenced to death; amend KRS 532.030 to remove the death penalty; amend KRS 640.040 to prohibit life impr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
| KY | HB457 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to define "assault weapon," "large capacity ammunition feeding device," and "seller of ammunition"; require background checks for private firearms sales; require reporting to law enforcement of firearm and ammun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB431 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 529.160 to allow a conviction to be vacated when a person's participation in the offense is determined to be the result of being a victim of human trafficking; RETROACTIVE.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB144 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to abolish the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without parole for inmates presently sentenced to death; amend KRS 532.030 to remove the death penalty; amend KRS 640.040 to prohibit life impr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
| KY | HB435 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 218A.133 to provide that a person who seeks or renders aid to someone experiencing a possible drug overdose or is the person experiencing a possible drug overdose cannot be arrested on a warrant or be subject to revocation of his or her con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB132 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 508.060 to provide an enhanced penalty for discharging a firearm in the commission of an offense constituting wanton endangerment in the first degree; amend KRS 439.3401 to add a Class C felony violation of KRS 508.060 to the definition of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | SB119 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 525 to define terms; require peace officers and animal control officers to serve notice of seizure of an animal subjected to cruelty; create procedure for seizing agencies to petition a court to order payment of ani...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-26
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
| KY | HB176 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 29A.170 to increase juror pay to $25 per day and remove payment specified for reimbursement of expenses; amend KRS 32.011 to conform; repeal KRS 32.070, which provides for reimbursement of expenses to jurors.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-25
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB373 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to prohibit unlawful storage of a firearm; establish elements of the crime as recklessly allowing access to an unsecured firearm by a minor; establish the crime as a Class B misdemeanor unless a physical injury...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB298 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 189A.010 to create enhanced penalties for a person under the age of 21 who operates a motor vehicle with an alcohol concentration of 0.02 or more; amend KRS 189A.070 to create enhanced periods of license suspenion for a person under the age...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB269 | Fail | Amend KRS 530.020 to define terms; provide that a person is guilty of incest when the person engages in sexual contact with a person to whom he or she knows to have a familial relationship with; remove first cousin from the list of familial relations...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
WITHDRAWN |
| KY | HB289 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 530.020 to define terms; provide that a person is guilty of incest when the person engages in sexual contact with a person to whom he or she knows to have a familial relationship with; provide that incest by sexual contact is a Class D felo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB282 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapters 508, 509, 510, 520, and 525 to provide that any person convicted of an offense under those chapters, who was armed with a firearm during the commission of the offense and in furtherance of the offense, shall be sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB270 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 510 to provide that it is unlawful to travel into the Commonwealth with the intent to engage in specified sexual offenses; provide that a person shall not be convicted of this offense and specified inchoate offense...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB85 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 532.080 to provide that a jury may fix an enhanced term of imprisonment when they find a defendant to be a persistent felony offender; provide that persistent felony offender in the first degree and second degree only applies to offenders w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | SB87 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeal KRS 532.055, relating to verdicts and sentencing by juries in felony cases; amend KRS 421.500 to conform.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | SB86 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 439.3401 to change requirements for parole or credit on sentences for violent offenders; create a new section of KRS Chapter 197 to establish a specialized treatment program for violent offenders.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
