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Latest Action: 03/14/2008 - To Judiciary (H) Bill Text
Create new sections in KRS Chapter 14 to establish a crime victim address protection program for victims of domestic violence and abuse, stalking, and felony sexual offenses which would allow crime victims to use an address provided by the Secretary of State in lieu of the victim's actual physical address for the purpose of receiving mail and to allow crime victims to access government services, including the right to vote, based upon their actual addresses but utilizing the program's address on government records and documents.
Latest Action: 01/30/2008 - To Judiciary (H) Bill Text
Amend KRS 508.025, relating to assault in the third degree, to include within that offense an assault on an elected official of a city or county.
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.
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Latest Action: 01/15/2008 - To Judiciary (H) Bill Text
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to abolish the death penalty and require the court with jurisdiction over a person sentenced to death to sentence the person to imprisonment for life without benefit of probation or parole; amend KRS 24A.110, 27A.430, 431.060, 431.215, 431.510, 439.265, 506.010, 506.030, 506.040, 506.080, 507.020, 509.040, 520.120, 527.200, 532.030, 532.040, 532.050, 532.100, 532.140, 533.010, 610.265, 635.020, 635.090, 640.040, 17.173, 17.176, 507A.020, and 422.285 to conform; repeal KRS 422.287, 431.213, 431.2135, 431.218, 431.220, 431.223, 431.224, 431.240, 431.250, 431.260, 431.270, 507A.060, 532.025, 532.075, 532.300, 532.305, and 532.309, relating to the death penalty.
Latest Action: 01/24/2008 - To Judiciary (H) Bill Text
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 527, relating to firearms and weapons, to prohibit a person who is subject to a domestic violence order from possessing or attempting to possess a firearm; establish possession of a firearm by a person subject to a domestic violence order as a Class D felony.
Also tagged in: Civil Actions, Courts, Courts, Courts, Circuit, Courts, District, 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.
Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - To Judiciary (S) Bill Text
Amend KRS 337.415, relating to court-ordered appearances by employees, to prohibit employers from discharging or retaliating against an employee who is a crime victim when the employee takes leave to attend proceedings associated with the crime; require employee to give employer reasonable notice to take leave when practicable; provide guidelines for use of paid leave time; require employer to maintain confidentiality of records and communications with employee crime victim; create a penalty for failing to maintain confidentiality; define terms.
Latest Action: 10/03/2008 - To: Interim Joint Committee on Judiciary Bill Text
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 533 to allow persons convicted of one Class D felony or a series of Class D felonies arising out of a single event to petition to have their records expunged; amend KRS 431.078, relating to misdemeanor expungements, to change the application fee from $25 to $50 dollars and to begin the five-year waiting period from the date of adjudication of the offense; amend KRS 527.040 to exempt individuals who have had their records expunged from the statute on a felon in possession of a firearm; create a new section of KRS Chapter 533 to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to keep a confidential index of expungement orders for utilization in the preparation of presentence investigations.
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Latest Action: 03/26/2008 - To Judiciary (S) Bill TextCreate new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to create definitions related to identity theft; restrict certain uses by businesses of a consumer's Social Security number subject to certain exceptions, to delay the effective date to July 1, 2009, and to make a violation subject to the same remedies, duties, powers, and penalties as violations of the Consumer Protection Act; require a business to give specified notice to a person whose personal information was acquired in a security breach subject to certain exceptions, to make a waiver void and unenforceable, and to declare that a violation is subject to the same remedies, duties, powers, and penalties as violations of the Consumer Protection Act; require a business to take certain measures to safeguard against security breaches subject to certain exceptions and to declare that a violation is subject to the same remedies, duties, powers, and penalties as violations of the Consumer Protection Act; declare that the provisions regarding business use [...] show full description
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Latest Action: 04/10/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 64) Bill Text
Create a commission to study and reform the Kentucky Penal Code; set commission membership; require report to the General Assembly no later than July 1, 2011.
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Latest Legislation - View All
Latest Action: 03/04/2008 - To Judiciary (H) Bill Text
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 522 to provide enhanced sanctions against public servants convicted of theft or misappropriation of property in their care, custody, or control; provide for forfeiture of retirement benefits upon conviction.
Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - To State & Local Government (S) Bill Text
Amend KRS 15.245 to make technical correction.
Also tagged in: Children and Minors, Corrections Impact, Courts, Crimes and Punishments, Criminal Procedure, Information Technology, Local Mandate, Obscenity and Pornography, Police, State, Probation and Parole Latest Action: 03/05/2008 - To Judiciary (S) Bill TextAmend KRS 510.155, relating to using a communications system to procure a minor to engage in sexual offenses, to add to "minor" "any individual the person has reason to believe is a minor" to the elements of the offense; amend KRS 508.130 to include in the definitions used for Kentucky's stalking offenses stalking activity that is done electronically; amend KRS 531.010 and 531.300 to include live images transmitted over the Internet within material subject to the standards of Kentucky's obscenity laws; amend KRS 17.500 to create definitions for "electronic identity or online membership information" and "substantial change in appearance" and amend the definition of "registrant information" to require registrants on the sex offender registry to disclose more information; amend KRS 17.510 to require a new photograph of registrant if there is a substantial change in appearance; create provisions governing when a registrant changes or creates an electronic identity or online membership; amend [...] show full description
Latest Action: 02/29/2008 - To Judiciary (H) Bill Text
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 508 to increase the penalty for an assault against an elderly or a disabled person.
Latest Action: 02/28/2008 - To Judiciary (H) Bill Text
Amend KRS 421.500 to include tampering with a witness as an offense for which law enforcement and prosecutors are to provide information to a victim or witness; delete reference to repealed statute KRS 524.045.
Also tagged in: Attorney, Commonwealth's, Attorney, County, Children and Minors, Corrections Impact, Crimes and Punishments, Criminal Procedure, Jails and Jailers, Local Mandate, Obscenity and Pornography, Police, City and County, Police, State, Poverty, Probation and Parole, Property, Prosecutors, Real Estate, Title Amendments
Latest Action: 03/20/2008 - To Judiciary (H) Bill Text
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 500, the general provisions for the Kentucky Penal Code, to require forfeiture of all real and personal property used in or acquired as a result of certain sexual offenses against minors and create forfeiture procedures; amend KRS 500.090, relating to forfeiture, and KRS 16.210, relating to disposition of property by the Kentucky State Police to conform.
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Latest Action: 03/27/2008 - Received in House Bill Text
Amend KRS 421.500 to make technical correction.
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Latest Action: 03/26/2008 - To Judiciary (S) Bill TextCreate new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to create definitions related to identity theft; restrict certain uses by businesses of a consumer's Social Security number subject to certain exceptions, to delay the effective date to July 1, 2009, and to make a violation subject to the same remedies, duties, powers, and penalties as violations of the Consumer Protection Act; require a business to give specified notice to a person whose personal information was acquired in a security breach subject to certain exceptions, to make a waiver void and unenforceable, and to declare that a violation is subject to the same remedies, duties, powers, and penalties as violations of the Consumer Protection Act; require a business to take certain measures to safeguard against security breaches subject to certain exceptions and to declare that a violation is subject to the same remedies, duties, powers, and penalties as violations of the Consumer Protection Act; declare that the provisions regarding business use [...] show full description
Also tagged in: Attorney, Commonwealth's, Attorney, County, Children and Minors, Civil Actions, Civil Procedure, Crimes and Punishments, Criminal Procedure, Local Mandate, Peace Officers and Law Enforcement, Police, City and County, Police, State, Sheriffs
Latest Action: 04/14/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 112) Bill Text
Create new sections of KRS Chapters 16, 65, 70, and 95 to prohibit law enforcement officers or a state prosecutors from requiring the victim of a sexual offense to submit to a polygraph examination as a condition precedent to the investigation or prosecution of an alleged sexual offense.
Also tagged in: Children and Minors, Civil Actions, Court, Supreme, Courts, Circuit, Courts, District, 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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