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Also tagged in: Children and Minors, Communications, Consumer Affairs, Courts, Circuit, Crimes and Punishments, Domestic Relations, Local Mandate, Parental Rights, Parental Rights, Peace Officers and Law Enforcement, Police, City and County, Police, State, State Agencies
Latest Action: 10/03/2008 - To: Interim Joint Committee on Judiciary Bill Text
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 605, relating to juvenile proceedings, to require social service workers, child protective services workers, peace officers, and others interviewing a child alleged to be abused, needy, neglected, dependent, or delinquent to make a video or audio recording of the interview; specify to whom recordings of interviews are available; limit uses of recordings of interviews; provide for destruction of recordings when no longer needed.
Latest Action: 04/24/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 186) Bill Text
Amend KRS 431.540 relating to the setting of the uniform schedule of amounts of bail by the Supreme Court to permit the court to set a uniform schedule of bail for nonviolent Class D felonies in addition to the current misdemeanors and violations.
Latest Action: 01/29/2008 - To Judiciary (H); posting waived Bill Text
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 403 relating to child custody and visitation to provide a procedure for relocation of the principal residence of a child, provide for objection to relocation; amend KRS 403.270 relating to custodial issues to specify what court order for relocation of a child shall contain; amend KRS 403.340 relating to modification of a child custody decree to require notice of proposed relocation to be mailed to all parties entitled to notice.
Latest Action: 11/07/2008 - To: Interim Joint Committee on Judiciary Bill Text
Amend KRS 421.350, relating to the testimony of a child victim or witness, to include violent offenses; provide that the child witness, while being exempt from attendance at trial, shall be subject to being recalled during the course of the trial to give additional testimony under the same circumstances as with any other recalled witness, provided that the additional testimony is given utilizing the same closed circuit or video tape procedure as for the original testimony.
Latest Action: 01/31/2008 - To Judiciary (S) Bill Text
Amend KRS 23A.205 relating to court costs in criminal cases in Circuit Court to increase costs from $100 to $125; amend KRS 24A.175 relating to court costs in criminal cases in District Court to increase costs from $100 to $125; amend KRS 42.330 relating to disposition of court costs to provide that $25 from each court cost go to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to provide supervised visitation in cases where a court requires supervised visitation.
Latest Action: 01/11/2008 - To Judiciary (H) Bill Text
Amend KRS 403.720 to include dating partners among the class of persons allowed to obtain domestic violence protective orders; amend KRS 431.005 to reference the definition of "unmarried couple" in KRS 403.720.
Latest Action: 01/10/2008 - To Judiciary (H) Bill Text
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 403 to require that divorce, child custody, child support, and similar records not be released with information identifying the address, Social Security number, telephone number or similar information relating to a party to the proceeding; provide exemptions for public agencies and court-ordered disclosure of the information.
Latest Action: 01/29/2008 - To Judiciary (H) Bill Text
Amend KRS 403.735 to require each court to designate at least one day per week for domestic violence hearings; amend KRS 403.740 to require an emergency protective order to remain in effect until the full domestic violence hearing occurs; require the date, time, and place of the full hearing to be noted on the emergency protective order upon service to the adverse party; require notice to be sent to the petitioner; amend KRS 403.745 to require a summons for a domestic violence hearing to remain in effect until the hearing occurs; require the date, time, and place of the full hearing to be noted on the summons upon service to the adverse party; require notice to be sent to the petitioner.
Latest Action: 01/24/2008 - To Judiciary (H) Bill Text
Amend KRS 403.750 to provide that the court, in a domestic violence order, may prohibit a respondent from possessing firearm while the order is in effect; provide for confiscation of firearms in possession of the defendant and for confiscated firearms to be turned over to the office of the sheriff for custody; provide for return of firearms or alternate disposition of firearms upon expiration or vacation of the domestic violence order.
Also tagged in: Civil Actions, Courts, Courts, Courts, Circuit, Crime Victims, Crimes and Punishments, Criminal Procedure, Domestic Relations, Men, Women, Women
Latest Action: 01/14/2008 - To Judiciary (S) Bill Text
Amend KRS 403.725, relating to issuance of domestic violence orders, to specify that if the petition is filed in a county other than the county of usual residence, then the petition shall also include the name of the county of usual residence; provide that when an emergency protective order is issued other than in the county in which there is a pending domestic relations action, that the action be transferred to the county in which the domestic relations action was filed for a full hearing; amend KRS 403.765, relating to certification of domestic violence orders, to provide that either party to an existing domestic violence order may apply to have the case transferred to the court in which an action under KRS Chapter 403 is pending.
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Latest Action: 03/10/2008 - To Appropriations & Revenue (S) Bill Text
Amend KRS 64.092, relating to compensation of sheriffs and court security officers, to increase salary from $8 per hour to $9 per hour on July 1, 2008 and to $11 per hour on July 1, 2009; EMERGENCY; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2008.
Latest Action: 03/07/2008 - To Judiciary (S) Bill Text
Amend KRS 29A.040 to place persons holding state personal identification cards on the master juror list of a county; amend KRS 29A.070 to prevent the release of personal identifying information on juror qualification forms.
Latest Action: 04/24/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 187) Bill Text
Amend KRS 620.220 to permit use of electronic records from court clerks to citizen foster care review boards.
Latest Action: 03/12/2008 - To Judiciary (S) Bill Text
Amend KRS 29A.040 to allow persons who have reached age 72 to have their names removed from the master list of prospective jurors; amend KRS 29A.090 to allow automatic exemption from jury service for a prospective juror who has reached age 72 who has elected to have his or her name removed from the master list of prospective jurors.
Latest Action: 02/27/2008 - Posted in committee Bill Text
Create various new sections of KRS Chapters 23A and 24A and amend KRS 32A.2065 and 24A.1765 to impose a $5 fee on all civil and criminal cases to be used to fund a pay supplement for deputy circuit court clerks through the justice administration trust fund; create a new section of KRS Chapter 15A to require the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet to administer the justice administration trust fund.
Latest Action: 02/27/2008 - Posted in committee Bill Text
Amend KRS 21.580 to establish prerequisites for entry into the senior status judge program and establish a sunset date of July 1, 2012; make technical corrections.
Also tagged in: Corrections and Correctional Facilities, State, Courts, Courts, Circuit, Fees, Firefighters and Fire Departments, Local Mandate, Military Affairs and Civil Defense, Peace Officers and Law Enforcement, Public Officers and Employees, Wills and Estates Latest Action: 03/28/2008 - 2nd reading, to Rules Bill Text
Amend KRS 61.315 to give the Department of Military Affairs the authority to promulgate administrative regulations and conduct administrative hearings regarding eligibility for death gratuity benefits; exempt from probate fees the estates of people whose families would be eligible for the death gratuity benefits.
Latest Action: 02/21/2008 - To Judiciary (H) Bill Text
Amend KRS 29A.320 relating to duties of the jury after the case is submitted to the jury to specify that a jury is required to be sent out for further deliberation in specified situations.
Latest Action: 02/27/2008 - Posted in committee Bill Text
Amend KRS 532.020 relating to the classification of misdemeanor offenses outside of the Penal Code to specify that an offense that has a maximum jail time of 30 days is a Class B misdemeanor and an offense with a maximum jail time in excess of 30 days but less than 12 months is a Class A misdemeanor; amend KRS 532.090 relating to jail time for misdemeanors in the Penal Code to reduce maximum jail time for a Class A misdemeanor from 12 months to 6 months, and maximum jail time for a Class B misdemeanor from 90 days to 30 days; amend numerous other statutes to conform; permit a person who is in jail on the effective date of the act for a misdemeanor committed prior the effective date of the act to apply to the sentencing court for a sentence reduction; RETROACTIVE.
Also tagged in: Children and Minors, Civil Actions, Court, Supreme, Courts, Circuit, Crime Victims, Crimes and Punishments, Criminal Procedure, Domestic Relations, Judges and Court Commissioners, Parental Rights, Parental Rights
Latest Action: 02/14/2008 - Posted in committee Bill Text
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 610 relating to juvenile proceedings to request the Chief Justice to adopt administrative procedures relating to protecting parents; create new sections of KRS Chapter 21A relating to the Supreme Court to request the Supreme Court to create a pilot project for a limited opening courts of in three to seven jurisdictions when handling dependency, needy, neglect, and abuse cases involving children and termination of parental rights, to set parameters, and require reporting to the Interim Joint Committees on Health and Welfare and Judiciary; create a new section of KRS Chapter 615 relating to juvenile procedure to permit pilot project courts to open proceedings which otherwise would be closed.
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