| KY | SB11 | Veto | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 512 to specify that a tenant who, having no right to do so or any reasonable ground to believe that he or she has such right, intentionally or wantonly defaces, destroys, or damages residential rental property is t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-24
Vetoed |
| KY | SB9 | Veto | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to prohibit a person from denying or depriving a born-alive infant of nourishment with the intent to cause or allow the death of the infant; prohibit a person from denying or depriving a born-alive infant of med...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-24
Vetoed |
| KY | HB361 | Pass | Amend KRS 441.520, relating to the transfer of prisoners, to require an agreement between an originating and receiving jail before ordering the transfer of a prisoner; specify that if a transfer is ordered before receiving an agreement, the receiving...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-24
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 109) |
| KY | HB424 | Engross | Amend KRS 194A.990, 205.8463, 238.995, 341.990, 434.650, 434.655, 434.690, 514.030, 514.040, 514.050, 514.060, 514.070, 514.080, 514.090, and 514.110 to increase the felony threshold for theft and fraud offenses to $1,000, create a Class B misdemeano...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-15
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | SB2 | Pass | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 117 to allow a voter to cast a provisional ballot if the voter is unable to produce proof of identification, by executing a provisional voter's affidavit furnished by the State Board of Elections; describe the votin...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-14
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts ch. 89) |
| KY | SB75 | Engross | Amend KRS 186.010 to define "off-highway vehicles" or "OHV"; consider an OHV to be a motor vehicle for registration purposes; amend KRS 186.050 to establish an annual registration fee for resident OHVs and a $30 fee for nonresident OHV registration; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-04-01
To House Transportation Committee |
| KY | HB284 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS 439.250 to 439.560 to establish probation program credits; amend KRS 439.250 to conform.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-27
signed by Governor (Acts ch. 44) |
| KY | HB47 | Engross | Amend KRS 500.050 to remove the five-year statute of limitations for misdemeanor sex offenses against minors and allow prosecution to be commenced at any time; amend KRS 413.249 to remove the ten-year statute of limitations for civil actions arising ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB216 | Engross | Amend KRS 403.720 to include violence against an animal used as coercive conduct in the definition of "domestic violence and abuse"; amend KRS 403.740 to allow a judge to award possession of a domestic animal to the petitioner; amend KRS 456.010 to i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-26
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB586 | Engross | Amend KRS 218A.010 to add definitions of "trace amount" and "residue"; amend KRS 218A.1415, 218A.1416, and 218A.1417 to lower penalty for possession of a controlled substance when the substance is in a trace amount or is residue.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB552 | Engross | Amend KRS 533.050 to require the court to considered all sanctions, including graduated sanctions adopted by the Department of Corrections for violations of the conditions of community supervision, before revoking a sentence of probation or condition...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-19
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB65 | Engross | Amend KRS 518.090 to make assault of a sports official a Class D felony; create a new section of KRS Chapter 518 to establish the offense of intimidation of a sports official as a Class A misdemeanor; state that the restrictions of KRS 6.945(1) do no...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB137 | Intro | Establish KRS Chapter 239 and create new sections to define “adjusted gross revenue,” “beginner,” “cabinet, “confidential information,” “entry fee,” “fantasy contest,” “fantasy contest operator," “fantasy contest participant...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
To House Licensing, Occupations, & Admin Regs Committee |
| KY | HB204 | Pass | Amend KRS 17.545 to prohibit sex offender registrants from living within 1,000 feet of a publicly leased playground and from being on the grounds of a publicly leased playground.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
signed by Governor (Acts ch. 23) |
| KY | SB135 | Intro | Amend KRS 510.010 to define "sexual contact."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB370 | Intro | Create a new section of KRS 311.710 to 311.830 to require within 24 hours after a spontaneous miscarriage or abortion, a hospital or abortion provider to inform the parents about their right to determine the final disposition of the fetal remains; pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB154 | Intro | Amend KRS 532.130, 532.135, and 532.140 to add a diagnosis of serious mental illness to the disabilities which prevent execution for persons convicted of capital offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | SB218 | Engross | Amend KRS 510.120 to provide that a person is guilty of sexual abuse in the second degree when, being a transportation network company driver or a taxicab driver he or she subjects a person who is at least 18 years old and who has hired him or her to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB44 | Pass | Amend KRS 511.100 to change the definition of "key infrastructure assets" to specify that natural gas or petroleum pipelines are the type of pipelines covered in the definition and include other types of infrastructure assets; amend KRS 512.020 to in...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-16
signed by Governor (Acts ch. 12) |
| KY | SB161 | Engross | Amend KRS 510.010 to define "registrant" and "adult intermediary"; amend KRS 510.155 to include communications with adult intermediaries for minors and enhance punishment if the minor or perceived minor is under 12 years old, the offender is a regist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | SB178 | Engross | Creates new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to regulate advertising for legal services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB563 | Intro | Amend KRS 532.080 to specify that a jury may elect not to enhance punishment for a persistent felony offender.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
posting withdrawn |
| KY | HB623 | Intro | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require that an individual on school district property provide government-issued photo identification if requested by a school employee, school resource officer, or law enforcement officer; provide that the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-12
posting withdrawn |
| KY | HB15 | Intro | Amend KRS 512.070 to include, as criminal littering, permitting unsafe amounts of mowed grass to remain on a highway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-06
posting withdrawn |
| KY | HB237 | Intro | Amend KRS 532.130, 532.135, and 532.140 to add a diagnosis of serious mental illness to the disabilities which prevent execution for persons convicted of capital offenses.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-06
posting withdrawn |
| KY | SB182 | Engross | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 525 to create a Class A misdemeanor for disseminating personally identifying information on the Internet about a minor; establish increased criminal penalties for injury and levels of monetary loss; create a civil ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB410 | Intro | Amend KRS 431.066, relating to pretrial release and bail options, to define "administratively released," "danger to others," and "financial condition of release"; require pretrial services to provide a defendant's juvenile court history when the defe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-06
posting withdrawn |
| KY | SB242 | Intro | Amend KRS 439.3401 to include as violent offenders individuals convicted of promoting human trafficking; specify that individuals convicted of human trafficking or promoting human trafficking shall not be released on probation or parole until 85 perc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | SB235 | Intro | Amend KRS 532.055 to allow a jury to recommend that a Class D felony be designated and sentenced as a Class A misdemeanor if the jury finds that a felony conviction would be unduly harsh; amend KRS 532.080 to allow a jury to decide whether a person f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB595 | Intro | Amend KRS 403.763 to make subsequent violations of a protective order a Class D felony.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB568 | Intro | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 117 to establish provisional voting when a person's eligibility to vote cannot be confirmed; establish procedures for provisional voting; amend KRS 117.375, 118.015, 118A.100, 119.005 and 120.005 to provide new defi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
To House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| KY | HB626 | Intro | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 117 to prohibit certain conduct of local elected officials; amend KRS 117.995 to provide a Class A misdemeanor criminal charge against those local elected officials who engage in the prohibited conduct.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-04
To House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| KY | HB136 | Engross | Create various new sections of KRS Chapter 218A to define terms; to exempt the medicinal marijuana program from existing provisions in Kentucky law to the contrary; to require the Department for Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Control to implement an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB524 | Intro | Amend KRS 439.315 to require fees to be waived for individuals placed on administrative supervision; require fees to be suspended for the first six months of a person’s term of community supervision following release from custody, unless the releas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB525 | Intro | Amend KRS 439.250 to define "technical violation"; amend KRS 439.315 to provide that failure without good cause to pay an installment pursuant to a release agreement is a technical violation; specify that willful nonpayment of fees is a technical vio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-03-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB480 | Intro | Establish KRS Chapter 408 to adopt the Uniform Parentage Act (2017); amend various KRS sections to conform; repeal KRS 199.503 and KRS Chapter 406.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB481 | Intro | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to regulate advertising for legal services.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB161 | Intro | Amend KRS 514.030 to raise the threshold level of property value for a Class D felony for theft by unlawful taking or disposition from $500 to $1,500.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
posting withdrawn |
| KY | HB189 | Intro | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 510 to make the sexual endangerment of a child a Class D felony; EMERGENCY.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
posting withdrawn |
| KY | HB183 | Intro | Amend KRS 17.500 to add a felony offense of KRS 529.100 or 529.110 involving commercial sexual activity to the definition of "sex crime"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 183 to require airports to post the hotline number of the National Human Tra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
posting withdrawn |
| KY | HB275 | Intro | Amend KRS 531.335 to raise the penalty for possession or viewing of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor under the age of 12 years to a Class C felony; amend KRS 531.340 to raise the penalty for the distribution of matter portraying a se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-24
posting withdrawn |
| KY | SB151 | Intro | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to provide an enhanced term of imprisonment for any defendant convicted of certain crimes when he or she intentionally selected the person because of that person's actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, na...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-10
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | SB139 | Intro | Amend KRS 530.050 to raise the amount qualifying for flagrant nonsupport from $1,000 to $10,000 and raise the time period of flagrant nonsupport from 6 months to 12 months; specify lower the service time for a person jailed for nonsupport on a second...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | SB142 | Intro | Amend KRS 525.130 to change mental state to knowing or reckless; delete domestic animal killed by poisoning; add requirements of legal food processing, customary veterinary practices performed by a licensed veterinarian, horse racing not governed by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-06
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
| KY | SB128 | Intro | Amend KRS 197.045 on felony sentence credits to award funds to local jails which offer programming that results in credit for state inmates; create a new section of KRS Chapter 441 to allow local jails to classify state inmates who have not been clas...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-02-03
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | SB107 | Intro | Create various new sections of KRS Chapter 218A to define terms; to exempt the medicinal marijuana program from existing provisions in Kentucky law to the contrary; to require the Department for Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Control to implement an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | SB105 | Intro | Create various new sections of KRS Chapter 245 to define terms; to allow for possession, growth, use, processing, purchasing, transfer, and consumption of cannabis; to establish limits for transfer; to allow for purchasing and manufacture of cannabis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-24
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB97 | Intro | Create new sections of KRS Chapters 6 and 15A to make legislative findings and require racial and ethnic community criminal justice and public safety impact statements for certain legislation and administrative regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-21
To Senate Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations Committee |
| KY | HB259 | Intro | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to make it a crime to unlawfully store a firearm; establish elements of the crime for recklessly allowing access to an unsecured firearm by a minor; establish the crime as a Class B misdemeanor unless a physica...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB268 | Intro | Amend KRS 381.230 to establish a simplified method for elderly or vulnerable adults to petition for an order to prevent or restrain other persons from trespassing onto the petitioner's residence; create a new section of KRS Chapter 209 to clarify abu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2020-01-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
