HB 374 Kentucky House · 2017 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to federally mandated background checks and declaring an emergency. Amend KRS 17.165 to define "criminal offense against a victim who is a minor"; require that all employers of applicants for initial employment in positions involving supervisory or disciplinary power over minors request conviction information from the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet or the Administrative Office of the Courts; prohibit hiring of such applicants if they were convicted of a violent crime, sex crime, or criminal offense against a minor victim, or have been found by a court to have abused or neglected a child; amend KRS 199.011 to add the definition for "rap back system"; amend KRS 199.462 to allow the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to register members of certified adoptive or foster homes into the rap back system; create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to define "child care staff member"; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to require child care staff members to submit to background checks; permit the cabinet to charge a fee for the check and require that the fee charged to the cabinet is no greater than the actual cost of the check; require the promulgation of administrative regulations; amend KRS 199.896 to require directors and employees of child-care centers with supervisory or disciplinary power over minors or in direct contact with minors to submit to background checks; amend KRS 199.8982 to require family child-care providers to submit to background checks; amend KRS 17.990 to conform; EMERGENCY.

Bill status signed all 4 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2017
Committee Review
Mar 2017
Senate Passage
Mar 2017
Signed into Law
Mar 2017
Introduced Feb 14, 2017 Signed Mar 27, 2017
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This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
26
Key actions
4
Committee
4
Amendments
2
Mar 27, 2017
Signed into law
Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 135)
legislature
Mar 15, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Bill passed 93-0
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Mar 15, 2017
Legislature · Passed
House concurred in Senate floor amendment (1)
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Mar 15, 2017
Introduced
Posted for passage for concurrence in Senate floor amendment (1)
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Mar 14, 2017
Committee
To Rules (H)
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Mar 7, 2017
Introduced
Floor amendment (1) filed
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Feb 28, 2017
Committee
To Judiciary (S)
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Feb 22, 2017
Legislature · Passed
Posted in committee
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Feb 15, 2017
Committee
To Judiciary (H)
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Feb 14, 2017
Introduced
Introduced in House
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0 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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