AN ACT relating to the correction of marriage documents. [HB-462]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 402 to allow a county clerk to correct a marriage application or marriage license upon receipt of an affidavit executed by both parties to the marriage; provide examples of errors and omissions that a clerk may correct upon receipt of the affidavit; allow persons to obtain a corrected marriage license by court order if they choose; make a person who intentionally submits a material false statement subject to the penalties in KRS 523.030; amend KRS 209A.045 to permit any funds collected from amending marriage licenses
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HB-462: AN ACT relating to the correction of marriage documents.
Sponsored by: Rep. Stephanie Dietz
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 135) on 03/31/2025
AN ACT relating to background checks. [HB-340]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 17 to define terms and require criminal justice agencies to provide criminal history records information to requesting agencies when they are conducting a basic suitability or fitness assessment for federal or contractor employees under 5 U.S.C. sec. 9101; authorize the agency to request a fee of $25 for reimbursement of expenses related to the check; amend KRS 610.340, relating to juvenile justice records, to conform.
HB-340: AN ACT relating to background checks.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Grossberg
Reported Favorably, To Rules on 03/13/2025
AN ACT relating to access to the records and meetings of public agencies. [HB-509]
Create a new section of KRS 61.870 to 61.884, the Open Records Act, to require a public agency to furnish an officer, employee, board member, or commission member an agency email account; define terms; allow the governing body of a public agency or its appointing authority to identify, in writing, the names of specific personnel that do not require the use of an agency-furnished email account; allow a public agency to issue an email address through a third-party provider if a public is incapable of issuing an agency-furnished email account; prohibit
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HB-509: AN ACT relating to access to the records and meetings of public agencies.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Nemes
Floor Amendments (4) And (5) Filed on 04/12/2024
AN ACT relating to vital records. [SB-160]
Amend KRS 186.010 to define "Electronic Verification of Vital Events system"; amend KRS 186.412 to require the Transportation Cabinet to electronically verify birth certificates which are presented as part of an operator's license application with states participating in the system; provide authority for Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to assist applicants; create a new section of KRS Chapter 213 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to maintain a digital archive of all certificates dated on or after
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SB-160: AN ACT relating to vital records.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adrienne Southworth
To Transportation (s) on 02/07/2024
AN ACT relating to adoption records. [HB-87]
Amends KRS 199.572 to permit the child, grandchild, or sibling of a deceased birth parent or deceased adoptee to be given the right to inspect adoption papers and records, to establish new language that allows the court to determine who has access to adoption records on a case-by-case basis, to establish that both birth parents have to be deceased or provide consent before the adoption records can be inspected, and to provide that the court shall authorize an adult adopted person to inspect his or her adoption records; and amends KRS 199.570 to
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HB-87: AN ACT relating to adoption records.
Sponsored by: Rep. John Blanton
Signed By Governor (acts Ch.43) on 04/04/2024
AN ACT relating to children and declaring an emergency. [HB-177]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 405 to establish definitions; provide for parental rights; establish that no governmental entity shall substantially burden the rights of parents unless required by a compelling governmental interest of the highest order and in the least restrictive means; establish specific rights of parents, with some limitations; provide that specific governmental employees shall not encourage or coerce a child to withhold information from a parent; recognize additional rights beyond those enumerated; require local boards of
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HB-177: AN ACT relating to children and declaring an emergency.
Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
To Judiciary (h) on 02/23/2023
AN ACT relating to vital records. [SB-199]
Amend KRS 186.010 to define "Electronic Verification of Vital Events system"; amend KRS 186.412 to require the Transportation Cabinet to electronically verify birth certificates which are presented as part of an operator's license application; create a new section of KRS Chapter 213 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to maintain a digital archive of all certificates dated on or after January 1, 1947, in possession of the state registrar.
SB-199: AN ACT relating to vital records.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adrienne Southworth
To Health & Welfare (s) on 02/24/2022
AN ACT relating to local government records. [HB-351]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define terms; allow local governments to submit to the state or the Legislative Research Commission an affidavit in lieu of a record that has been lost, damaged, or destroyed that was required to be submitted; establish requirements for the affidavit, and allow a government entity to require the production of the information contained in the record if necessary for governmental operations.
HB-351: AN ACT relating to local government records.
Sponsored by: Rep. Deanna Frazier Gordon
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 111) on 04/08/2022