KY HB158 | 2019 | Regular Session
Status
Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 7-4)
Status: Passed on March 19 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-03-19 - signed by Governor (KY Acts ch. 033)
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 7-4)
Status: Passed on March 19 2019 - 100% progression
Action: 2019-03-19 - signed by Governor (KY Acts ch. 033)
Text: Latest bill text (Enrolled) [PDF]
Summary
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to require national and state background checks of staff members of child-caring facilities and child-placing agencies in Kentucky as newly required by federal law; amend KRS 199.011 to update the definition of "voluntary and informed consent" as it relates to adoption; amend KRS 199.505 to establish a beginning timeframe related to searches of the Kentucky putative father registry that corresponds to the date on which the statute became effective following its enactment in 2018; create a new section of KRS Chapter 620 to establish a foster child bill of rights; amend KRS 620.020 to establish definitions for "position of authority" and "position of special trust"; amend KRS 620.030, relating to reports of abuse or neglect of a child that may or may not involve fictive kin, persons in a position of authority, or persons in a position of special trust; amend KRS 620.040, relating to reports of abuse or neglect of a child that may or may not involve fictive kin, persons in a position of authority, or persons in a position of special trust; amend KRS 620.180 to require case reviews for court approval 60 days after a child has been placed in a qualified residential facility to ensure the Commonwealth is in compliance with federal law.
Title
AN ACT relating to child welfare and declaring an emergency.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2019-03-06 - House - House: Third Reading RCS# 249 (Y: 94 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 5) [PASS]
2019-03-06 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading W/scs 1, sfa 1, sfa 2 RSN# 923 (Y: 36 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2019-02-20 - House - House: Third Reading RCS# 73 (Y: 99 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2019-03-06 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading W/scs 1, sfa 1, sfa 2 RSN# 923 (Y: 36 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2019-02-20 - House - House: Third Reading RCS# 73 (Y: 99 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
History
Date | Chamber | Action |
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2019-03-19 | House | signed by Governor (KY Acts ch. 033) |
2019-03-07 | House | delivered to Governor |
2019-03-07 | House | enrolled, signed by President of the Senate |
2019-03-07 | House | enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House |
2019-03-06 | House | passed 94-1 |
2019-03-06 | House | House concurred in Senate Committee Substitute (1) and floor amendments (1) and (2) |
2019-03-06 | House | posted for concurrence |
2019-03-06 | House | to Rules (H) |
2019-03-06 | House | received in House |
2019-03-06 | Senate | 3rd reading, passed 36-0 with Committee Substitute (1) and floor amendments (1) and (2) |
2019-03-06 | Senate | posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 6, 2019 |
2019-03-01 | Senate | floor amendment (2) filed to Committee Substitute |
2019-02-28 | Senate | floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute |
2019-02-28 | Senate | 2nd reading, to Rules |
2019-02-27 | Senate | reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) |
2019-02-25 | Senate | to Health & Welfare (S) |
2019-02-21 | Senate | received in Senate |
2019-02-20 | House | 3rd reading, passed 99-0 with Committee Substitute (1) and committee amendment (1-title) |
2019-02-20 | House | taken from the Consent Orders of the Day, placed in the Regular Orders of the Day |
2019-02-15 | House | posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 19, 2019 |
2019-02-15 | House | 2nd reading, to Rules |
2019-02-14 | House | reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) and committee amendment (1-title) |
2019-02-12 | House | posted in committee |
2019-02-05 | House | to Health and Family Services (H) |
2019-01-11 | House | introduced in House |