Jails And Jailers
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
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.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nima Kulkarni
To Judiciary (h) on 02/27/2025
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AN ACT relating to disaster recovery, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-727]
Appropriate necessary funds from the Budget Reserve Trust Fund to the WKSAFE Fund to be distributed to the Graves County Fiscal Court to support the replacement of the Graves County Jail; stipulate that the funding shall be reimbursed to the Commonwealth should the recipient receive moneys from any other source; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Steven Rudy
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to local correctional facilities. [HB-730]
Amend KRS 441.420 to allow for local correctional facilities to be constructed with fewer than 150 prisoner beds under certain conditions.
Sponsored by: Rep. Steven Rudy
To Local Government (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to jailer service cards issued by the Secretary of State. [SB-193]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 14 to provide for the issuance of jailer service cards by the Secretary of State to jailers who are currently serving or have previously served as jailers in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Sponsored by: Sen. Rick Girdler
3rd Reading, Passed 34-0 on 03/07/2025
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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.
Sponsored by: Sen. Keturah Herron
To Judiciary (s) on 02/20/2025
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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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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Judiciary (h) on 02/14/2025
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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.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rachel Roarx
To Judiciary (h) on 02/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to juvenile justice. [SB-111]
Create a new section in KRS Chapter 200 to define terms; establish procedures for a child charged with a public offense to determine if the child is a high acuity youth; establish procedures for securing a treatment plan and dispute resolution through a review process and the court if the parties cannot agree to a plan; require a 24-hour protocol for health facilities, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, the Department of Juvenile Justice, and the courts to direct care; establish reimbursement rates for inpatient and outpatient psychiatric
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Sponsored by: Sen. Danny Carroll
Returned To Judiciary (h) on 03/12/2025
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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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Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Nemes
To Local Government (h) on 02/07/2025
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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.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Judiciary (h) on 02/07/2025
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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.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Grossberg
Reported Favorably, To Rules on 03/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sanctuary policies. [HB-213]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to define terms; prohibit local governments and local government personnel from enacting, adopting, or otherwise enforcing any sanctuary policy; allow civil actions against local governments or local law enforcement agencies for damages, costs, and attorney's fees if a person subject to a detainer is released from custody as a result of a sanctuary policy of the local government or local law enforcement agency and commits a violent crime; withdraw immunities afforded local governments and local law enforcement
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Sponsored by: Rep. Thomas Huff
To Local Government (h) on 02/04/2025
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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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Sponsored by: Rep. Mitchum Whitaker
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the behavioral health conditional dismissal program. [SB-347]
Amend KRS 533.270 to define terms; amend KRS 533.274 to remove a misdemeanor as a disqualifying offense; require an assessment of a homeless defendant for a behavioral health disorder and establish preference for participation in the program if an eligible defendant; amend KRS 533.286 to remove the requirement that the initial vocational screening be conducted in person.
Sponsored by: Sen. Whitney Westerfield
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/08/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to correctional services. [SB-283]
Create a new chapter of KRS Chapter 441 to require the Department of Corrections to contract with a fiscal court of a county or local or regional correctional authority to provide correctional services to state prisoners; provide that the per diem rate agreed to shall not exceed five percent over the actual cost to provide correctional services; amend KRS 196.030 and KRS 441.025 to conform; provide that current contracts between counties to house prisoners shall remain in effect until the contract periods ends; provide that any contract between
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jimmy Higdon
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/22/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to jails and declaring an emergency. [HB-12]
Create a new section of KRS 441.420 to 441.450 to prohibit the building, reconstructing, remodeling, or renovation of a jail unless it is a regional jail and the General Assembly provides express approval; provide exceptions to the prohibition including where a court has ordered jail construction, construction is necessary to comply with state or federal law or regulations, or to replace or rebuild a facility following a catastrophic event; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Meade
To State & Local Government (s) on 03/13/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to municipal payments to counties for jails and declaring an emergency. [HB-687]
Amend KRS 441.035 to require cities to enter into an interlocal agreement with the county to subsidize the cost of lodging persons in jail who were arrested in the boundaries of the city; provide for a default payment if a contract is not agreed to; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ryan Dotson
Introduced In House on 02/23/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to local jails. [HB-660]
Amend KRS 532.100 to provide that a Class C or D felon may serve his or her term of imprisonment in a local jail in which the fiscal court of the county has agree to house state prisoners, under certain circumstances.
Sponsored by: Rep. Josh Bray
Introduced In House on 02/22/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to detention facilities. [HB-659]
Amend KRS 441.111 to make technical corrections.
Sponsored by: Rep. Josh Bray
Taken From Committee On Committees (h) on 03/13/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to fiscal impact statements. [HB-635]
Amends KRS 6.350 to require that an actuary performing an actuarial analysis clearly describe a new assumption or method and the basis for selecting the assumption or method, including any documentation, studies, written opinions, calculations, or citations, and to require that the actuary certify that the information provided in the analysis is accurate; amends KRS 6.948 to require that the commissioner of the Department of Insurance include in a fiscal impact statement documentation, studies, written opinions, calculations, and citations in support
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 58) on 04/04/2024