Kentucky Senate Bill 17 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 3 2023 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2023-02-14 - to State & Local Government (S)
Pending: Senate State & Local Government Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Create a new section of KRS 61.870 to 61.884 to require current officers and employees of public agencies to complete at least one hour of open records training within 12 months; require officers and employees of public agencies to complete at least one hour of open records training within 90 days of employment or election; require current official custodians to complete at least two hours of open records training within 12 months; require any newly named official custodian to complete two hours of open records training within 90 days of designation as official custodian; require official custodians to complete open records training every two years so long as he or she remains the official custodian; require the Attorney General to provide open records training to officers, employees, and official custodians of public agencies, but allow public agencies to provide their own training if the training would qualify as open records training and is approved by the Attorney General; require the training to be in a live format, but permit training to be performed remotely; amend KRS 61.870 to define "open records training"; amend KRS 61.876 to require every public agency to submit to the Attorney General contact information of its official custodian; require the Attorney general to maintain a database and publish on its website the contact information of each official custodian submitted by a public agency; amend KRS 61.8746 and 61.872 to conform.

AN ACT relating to open records training.

Sen. Adrienne Southworth [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-02-14	Senate	to State & Local Government (S)
2023-01-03	Senate	to Committee on Committees (S)
2023-01-03	Senate	introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/23RS/sb17.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/23RS/sb17/orig_bill.pdf
Supplement	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/23RS/sb17/LM.pdf
Supplement	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/23RS/sb17/FN.pdf