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Latest Action: 01/25/2008 - To Judiciary (H) Bill Text
Amend KRS 196.270, relating to canteens in state correctional facilities to require profits to be turned over to the Governor's Office for Local Development for payment to counties to defray cost of holding prisoners charged with felonies; amend KRS 197.510, relating to private prison contracts, to specify that private prison canteen profits shall be treated in the same manner as state correctional facility canteen profits; amend KRS 441.135, relating to local jail canteens, to provide that canteen profits be given to county treasurer to defray costs of operating the jail as provided by the fiscal court.
Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - Reassigned to Judiciary (S) Bill Text
Amend KRS 15.380 to require certain correctional officers employed by local governments to be certified as peace officers, amend KRS 15.400 to grandfather existing correctional officers; amend KRS 15.420 to exclude correctional officers from the definition of police officer as applicable to the Kentucky Law Enforcement Foundation Program fund.
Latest Action: 03/28/2008 - 2nd reading, to Rules Bill Text
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 520 to create the criminal offense of failure to return to custody; set the penalty at a Class D felony; amend KRS 520.030 and 520.040, relating to escape, to conform.
Latest Action: 04/02/2008 - Reported favorably, to Rules Bill Text
Amend KRS 17.170 to require the collection of DNA from any person, including any juvenile, who is convicted on or after the effective date of any felony offense, or who is in the custody of the Department of Corrections, the Department of Juvenile Justice, or a local or county jail on the effective date for conviction of a felony offense, or who is on probation, parole, conditional discharge, conditional release, or diversion for a felony offense that occurred prior to the effective date; repeal KRS 17.171, 17.172, 17.173, and 17.174.
Latest Action: 01/09/2008 - To Judiciary (H) Bill Text
Create a new section of KRS 16.030 to 16.170, relating to the Department of Kentucky State Police, to require the state police to negotiate with the United States Department of Justice or Department of Homeland security to enforce federal immigration law and train officers to enforce federal immigration law; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to require detention facilities to ascertain the immigration status of detained foreign nationals.
Latest Action: 01/11/2008 - To Judiciary (H) Bill Text
Create the Task Force on Statewide Jail Consolidation to study the issues relative to merging the jails with the correctional system.
Also tagged in: Attorney, County, Children and Minors, Civil Procedure, Corrections Impact, Courts, Courts, Circuit, Courts, District, Crimes and Punishments, Local Mandate, Public Advocate, Technical Corrections, Title Amendments
Latest Action: 04/11/2008 - Signed by Governor Bill Text
Amend and create various provisions within the Unified Juvenile Code to establish requirements for the detention of status offenders, establish a process to notify the Department for Community Based Services when a status offender has been detained, and make technical corrections; amend KRS 31.200, 31. 110, 164.2847, 605.090, 610.080, 610.255, 610.330 and 620.155 to conform.
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.
Latest Action: 02/01/2008 - To Appropriations & Revenue (H) Bill TextCreate new sections of KRS Chapter 441, relating to jails, to provide a per diem payment of $30 per day for a state prisoner in local jail and an additional medical care payment of $2 per day for each state prisoner in local jail; require the state to pay for the time a convicted felon spends in jail prior to conviction on a phased-in basis, with the state paying the full amount for incarceration after July 1, 2013; require all jails to comply with the minimum jail standards of the Department of Corrections and provide that if jail does not meet those standards, the county shall contract with a county with a compliant jail; require that all state payments to counties for the operation of jails have an automatic annual cost-of-living increase; amend KRS 441.206, relating to jail bed allotments, to set the jail bed allotment based on the 1983-1984 formula, adjusted for inflation since that year; amend KRS 431.215 relating to state payment for convicted felons following conviction to require [...] show full description
Latest Action: 03/03/2008 - To Judiciary (H) Bill Text
Amend KRS 197.055 to require that the Department of Corrections administer an HIV/AIDS test to all penitentiary inmates no less than 30 days prior to release; require that a copy of the results be sent to the inmate, the warden of the penitentiary, the secretary of the cabinet, and the legal spouse of the inmate by registered mail within five days of the department receiving the results; require that the results not be public record but be a part of the inmate's medical file.
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Latest Action: 03/21/2008 - Taken from Rules; placed in the Orders of the Day Bill Text
Amend KRS 441.115 to provide that in-service training on the subject of human immunodeficiency virus be conducted at least once every ten years but that a local governing authority may require training more frequently.
Latest Action: 03/05/2008 - To Judiciary (S) Bill Text
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 439, relating to parole, to require the Parole Board to create a program for the supervised release of nonviolent felony drug offenders with requirements for substance abuse treatment and monitoring; create a new section of KRS Chapter 197 to require the Department of Corrections to assist the board in identifying eligible inmates.
Also tagged in: Children and Minors, Corrections and Correctional Facilities, State, Corrections Impact, Crimes and Punishments, Criminal Procedure, Fees, Police, State, Probation and Parole, State Agencies, Title Amendments Latest Action: 04/24/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 158) Bill Text
Amend KRS 439.320 to replace the two part time members of the Parole Board with two full time members; amend KRS 439.340 to allow the Parole Board to review the parole application of a Class C felon without a hearing; include noncodified effective date of July 1, 2008; EMERGENCY.
Also tagged in: Attorney, Commonwealth's, Attorney, County, Children and Minors, Corrections Impact, Crime Victims, Crimes and Punishments, Criminal Procedure, 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.
Also tagged in: Attorney General, Cities, Consumer Affairs, Corrections Impact, Counties, Courts, Courts, Circuit, Crime Victims, Crimes and Punishments, Criminal Procedure, Effective Dates, Delayed, Fiscal Note, Immigration, Labor and Industry, Local Mandate, Peace Officers and Law Enforcement, Piggybacked Bills, Police, City and County, Police, State, Sheriffs, State Agencies, Title Amendments, Trade Practices and Retailing, United States
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
Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - Reassigned to Judiciary (S) Bill Text
Amend KRS 15.380 to require certain correctional officers employed by local governments to be certified as peace officers, amend KRS 15.400 to grandfather existing correctional officers; amend KRS 15.420 to exclude correctional officers from the definition of police officer as applicable to the Kentucky Law Enforcement Foundation Program fund.
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.
Latest Action: 02/01/2008 - To Appropriations & Revenue (H) Bill TextCreate new sections of KRS Chapter 441, relating to jails, to provide a per diem payment of $30 per day for a state prisoner in local jail and an additional medical care payment of $2 per day for each state prisoner in local jail; require the state to pay for the time a convicted felon spends in jail prior to conviction on a phased-in basis, with the state paying the full amount for incarceration after July 1, 2013; require all jails to comply with the minimum jail standards of the Department of Corrections and provide that if jail does not meet those standards, the county shall contract with a county with a compliant jail; require that all state payments to counties for the operation of jails have an automatic annual cost-of-living increase; amend KRS 441.206, relating to jail bed allotments, to set the jail bed allotment based on the 1983-1984 formula, adjusted for inflation since that year; amend KRS 431.215 relating to state payment for convicted felons following conviction to require [...] show full description
Latest Action: 03/28/2008 - 2nd reading, to Rules Bill Text
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 520 to create the criminal offense of failure to return to custody; set the penalty at a Class D felony; amend KRS 520.030 and 520.040, relating to escape, to conform.
Also tagged in: Attorney, County, Children and Minors, Civil Procedure, Corrections Impact, Courts, Courts, Circuit, Courts, District, Crimes and Punishments, Local Mandate, Public Advocate, Technical Corrections, Title Amendments
Latest Action: 04/11/2008 - Signed by Governor Bill Text
Amend and create various provisions within the Unified Juvenile Code to establish requirements for the detention of status offenders, establish a process to notify the Department for Community Based Services when a status offender has been detained, and make technical corrections; amend KRS 31.200, 31. 110, 164.2847, 605.090, 610.080, 610.255, 610.330 and 620.155 to conform.
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