Kentucky House Bill 257 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 47-10)
Status: Introduced on January 14 2016 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-01-19 - to Health & Welfare (H)
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [PDF]

Amend KRS 311.770 to prohibit an abortion from being performed that will resort in the dismemberment, crushing, or vivisection of the unborn child; amend KRS 311.780 to prohibit abortion after 20 weeks of fetal development; create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to regulate the classifiaction of the remains of an aborted child or deceased infant; amend KRS 525.120 to classify the placement of the remains of an aborted child or deceased infant in a Kentucky landfill within the offense of abuse of a corpse; amend KRS 216B.0431 to include additional requirements relating to the disposition of remains in regulations governing abortion facilities; amend KRS 311.990 to clarify the applicable criminal penalty; EMERGENCY.

AN ACT relating to the human rights of unborn children and declaring an emergency.

Rep. Addia Wuchner [R]	Rep. Joseph Fischer [R]	Rep. Lynn Bechler [R]	Rep. Robert Benvenuti [R]
Rep. Kevin Bratcher [R]	Rep. Regina Huff [R]	Rep. Dwight Butler [R]	Rep. John Carney [R]
Rep. Hubert Collins [D]	Rep. Tim Couch [R]	Rep. Will Coursey [D]	Rep. Ron Crimm [R]
Rep. Jim DeCesare [R]	Rep. Bob DeWeese [R]	Rep. Myron Dossett [R]	Rep. Jim Duplessis [R]
Rep. Daniel Elliott [R]	Rep. David Floyd [R]	Rep. Jim Gooch [R]	Rep. David Hale [R]
Rep. Richard Heath [R]	Rep. Jeff Hoover [R]	Rep. Cluster Howard [D]	Rep. Kenny Imes [R]
Rep. Thomas Kerr [R]	Rep. Kim King [R]	Rep. Martha King [D]	Rep. Adam Koenig [R]
Rep. Stan Lee [R]	Rep. Brian Linder [R]	Rep. Donna Mayfield [R]	Rep. David Meade [R]
Rep. Michael Meredith [R]	Rep. Russ Meyer [D]	Rep. Suzanne Miles [R]	Rep. Jerry Miller [R]
Rep. Phil Moffett [R]	Rep. Brad Montell [R]	Rep. Tim Moore [R]	Rep. Rick Nelson [D]
Rep. David Osborne [R]	Rep. Marie Rader [R]	Rep. Bart Rowland [R]	Rep. Steven Rudy [R]
Rep. Sal Santoro [R]	Rep. Jonathan Shell [R]	Rep. John Short [D]	Rep. Diane St Onge [R]
Rep. Fitz Steele [D]	Rep. Jim Stewart [R]	Rep. Thomas Thompson [D]	Rep. James Tipton [R]
Rep. Tommy Turner [R]	Rep. Ken Upchurch [R]	Rep. Gerald Watkins [D]	Rep. Russell Webber [R]
Rep. Jill York [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-01-19	House	to Health & Welfare (H)
2016-01-14	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB257.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB257/bill.pdf
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB257/LM.pdf
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/HB257/CI.pdf