All Crime Victims Legislation - Kentucky
HB700
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. Comment on Bill Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - To State & Local Government (S) Bill Text Amend KRS 15.245 to make technical correction. SB214
Latest Action: 03/05/2008 - To Judiciary (S) Bill Text Amend 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 HB672
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. HB660
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for which law enforcement and prosecutors are to provide information to a victim or witness; delete reference to repealed statute KRS 524.045. SB180
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. SB175
Latest Action: 03/27/2008 - Received in House Bill Text Amend KRS 421.500 to make technical correction. HB553
Latest Action: 03/26/2008 - To Judiciary (S) Bill Text Create 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 SB151
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. HB421
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. HB402
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. SJ80
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. 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. HB367
Latest Action: 04/15/2008 - Reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute Bill Text Amend 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; add KRS 510.110 relating to sexual abuse in the first degree to prohibited solicitations; create prima facie evidence presumption of intent to commit offense even if the meeting did not occur; apply provisions to any communication originating or received within the Commonwealth. HB352
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. HB285
Latest Action: 01/15/2008 - To Judiciary (H) Bill Text Create a new section of KRS Chapter 510 relating to sex offenses to provide that a conviction of a felony offense under the chapter operates as an application for a restraining order prohibiting contact with the victim, unless the victim requests otherwise; provide defendant notice of right to request a hearing on the restraining order; provide for time of hearing; provide for contents of order; provide for modification of order upon petition of victim or defendant; provide for modification hearing; provide for entering order into KSP LINK computer system; provide civil and criminal immunity for law enforcement officers acting in good faith in enforcing an order; provide for nondisclosure of victim's personal information; violation of order is Class A misdemeanor. 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: 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. SB62
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. SB46
Latest Action: 04/10/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 60) Bill Text Amend KRS 421.500 and 532.055 to allow victim impact testimony from more than one family member of a deceased crime victim in the penalty phase of a trial. HB172
Latest Action: 01/11/2008 - To Judiciary (H) Bill Text Amend KRS 439.3401 to include commission or attempted commission of a felony sexual offense during a burglary within the definition of "violent offender." HB31
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. Latest Action: 04/11/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 72) Bill Text Amend KRS 510.110, relating to sexual abuse in the first degree, to prohibit any person over the age of 21 from subjecting a minor under the age of 16 to sexual contact or engaging in masturbation in the minor's presence, and to prohibit a person in a position of authority or special trust from engaging in the same prohibited acts with a minor under the age of 18, make these acts Class D or Class C felonies, depending on the age of the victim; amend KRS 510.120, relating to sexual abuse in the second degree, to prohibit any person who is 18 to 20 years old from subjecting another person who is less than 16 to sexual contact and create a defense when the accused and the other person are close in age and the sexual contact was otherwise consensual; amend KRS 510.130, relating to sexual abuse in the third degree, to create a defense when the accused is less than 18 years old, the other person is close in age to the accused, and the sexual contact was otherwise consensual; amend KRS 620.030 [...] show full description SB13
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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