Corrections And Correctional Facilities, State
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the establishment of the Kentucky Restoration of Voting Rights Task Force. [HCR-67]
Establish the Kentucky Restoration of Voting Rights Task Force to review, study, and recommend language for a constitutional amendment or statutory change to restore voting rights to individuals with felony convictions who have completed their sentences; establish task force membership; require the task force to submit a report with recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2025.
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AN ACT relating to pregnant inmates. [HB-798]
Amend KRS 196.175 to allow an inmate who is known to be pregnant or who has given birth in the last six weeks access to reasonable accommodations for the provision of available certified professional midwifery services or doula services.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to crime victim notification and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-740]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 27A to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to establish and maintain a crime victim notification system; establish requirements of the system; establish authority to contract with a third-party vendor if required in compliance with the procurement process of the Administrative Office of the Courts; APPROPRIATION.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to pregnant inmates. [SB-226]
Amend KRS 196.173 to allow an inmate who is known to be pregnant or who has given birth in the last six weeks access to reasonable accommodations for the provision of available certified professional midwifery services or doula services.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to wrongful conviction compensation. [SB-262]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a cause of action for a person who was wrongfully convicted of a felony in the Commonwealth; specify amounts of damages that may be awarded to claimants; establish the wrongful conviction compensation fund.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to correctional facilities. [HB-5]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 15A, relating to juvenile detention facilities, to direct that all incarcerated youth are subject to search at any time and to require separate bathrooms and sleeping quarters for males and females; create new sections of KRS Chapter 197, relating to penitentiaries, to direct that all prisoners are subject to search at any time, require separate bathrooms and sleeping quarters for males and females, and to prohibit the Department of Corrections from providing cosmetic procedures or initiating cross-sex hormones
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to tampering with a prisoner monitoring device. [HB-400]
Amend KRS 519.070 to include tampering with video recording or video monitoring devices in a correctional facility.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to correctional facilities. [SB-2]
Create new section of KRS Chapter 197 to define terms; prohibit hormone treatment or elective surgery for gender reassignment.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sanctuary policies. [HB-344]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 61 to define terms; prohibit state and local governmental entities from adopting sanctuary policies; require law enforcement agencies to use reasonable resources to support the enforcement of federal immigration law; prohibit policies which would restrict the sharing of information with federal immigration agencies; require compliance with federal requirements when a defendant subject to an immigration detainer has been sentenced in a criminal case; require correctional facilities to provide information regarding
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to offender reentry. [HB-333]
Amend KRS 186.417 to require that felony offenders released from county jails and local correctional facilities be issued personal identification cards or operator's licenses under certain conditions.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
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.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the rights of incarcerated children. [HB-228]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 600 to enumerate the rights of incarcerated children; provide that the Act may be cited as the Incarcerated Children's Bill of Rights.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to wrongful conviction compensation. [HB-206]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a cause of action for a person who was wrongfully convicted of a felony in the Commonwealth; specify amounts of damages that may be awarded to claimants; establish the wrongful conviction compensation fund.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to restoring religious liberty. [HB-177]
Amend KRS 446.350 to define "government" and "substantially burden"; outline procedures and relief that may be sought if statute is violated; outline procedures and relief for any inmate who alleges a violation of this statute; establish duties and authority of the Attorney General; apply to laws adopted before or after the effective date of this statute; include severability clause; waive sovereign, judicial, and governmental immunity; waive qualified immunity under specified circumstances.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to corrections. [HB-136]
Amend KRS 439.3103 to require the Department of Corrections to include in its report certain data on time served by persons released from a correctional institution and on persons released from a correctional institution on parole; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2026.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sex crimes. [HB-23]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to provide that any person who has been convicted of, pled guilty to, or entered an Alford plea to a sex crime in which the victim was under the age of 12 shall undergo medroxyprogesterone acetate treatment; provide that treatment shall begin no later than one month before the person is released from custody; provide that treatment shall continue until the person is released from probation, parole, or postincarceration supervision; provide that the person shall be evaluated by a licensed physician prior to
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to jails. [HB-35]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to require payment to the county of a fee and, if applicable, the fees set forth in KRS 532.100(7), for each day a prisoner is charged with a felony and lodged in the county with payment ceasing the day the prisoner is acquitted of the felony charges or has judgment rendered otherwise involving no felony; amend KRS 431.215 to provide that the state pays a fee to counties for lodging prisoners judged guilty of death or confinement to the penitentiary beginning on the date the prisoner is first lodged in the
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to terms of imprisonment. [HB-619]
Amend KRS 532.110 to allow the aggregate of consecutive indeterminate terms to exceed the longest extended term authorized by KRS 532.080 where a person convicted of a felony is convicted of or enters a guilty plea to an additional felony committed while on parole, probation, shock probation, or conditional discharge, or where the person is convicted of or enters a guilty plea to an offense committed while awaiting trial for another offense.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the rights of incarcerated children. [HB-404]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 600 to enumerate rights of incarcerated children; create short title of The Incarcerated Children's Bill of Rights.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to pregnant inmates. [HB-350]
Amend KRS 196.173 to allow an inmate who is known to be pregnant or who has given birth in the last six weeks access to reasonable accommodations for the provision of available certified professional midwifery services or doula services.