KY HB207 | 2024 | Regular Session
Status
Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 8-3)
Status: Passed on March 28 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-03-28 - signed by Governor (Acts Ch.15)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [PDF]
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 8-3)
Status: Passed on March 28 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-03-28 - signed by Governor (Acts Ch.15)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [PDF]
Summary
Amends KRS 17.500 to include distribution of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor in the definition of “sex crime”; amends KRS 531.010 to define “child sex doll,” “computer,” “computer-generated image,” and “identifiable person”; creates a new section of KRS 531.300 to 531.370 to provide that in a prosecution where the offense involves material portraying a computer-generated image of a minor, the Commonwealth shall not be required to prove the actual identity or age of the computer-generated minor, or that the minor exists; creates new sections of KRS 531.310 to 531.370 to prohibit the possession, trafficking, importing, and promoting the use of a child sex doll; amends KRS 531.320, 531.335, 531.340, 531.350, and 531.360 to include computer-generated images of a minor as an element of those offenses; and amends KRS 531.330 to provide that in a prosecution where the offense involves a computer-generated image that used an actual minor as the source, the presumption of minority shall be based on the age of the actual minor.
Title
AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2024-03-27 - House - House: Third Reading RCS# 378 (Y: 96 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2024-03-06 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading W/scs1 RSN# 2964 (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-05 - House - House: Third Reading RCS# 77 (Y: 93 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 5) [PASS]
2024-03-06 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading W/scs1 RSN# 2964 (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-05 - House - House: Third Reading RCS# 77 (Y: 93 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 5) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-28 | House | signed by Governor (Acts Ch.15) |
| 2024-03-27 | House | delivered to Governor |
| 2024-03-27 | House | enrolled, signed by President of the Senate |
| 2024-03-27 | House | enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House |
| 2024-03-27 | House | passed 96-0 |
| 2024-03-27 | House | House concurred in Senate Committee Substitute (1) |
| 2024-03-25 | House | posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute (1) |
| 2024-03-07 | House | to Rules (H) |
| 2024-03-07 | House | received in House |
| 2024-03-06 | Senate | 3rd reading, passed 38-0 with Committee Substitute (1) |
| 2024-03-05 | Senate | posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 06, 2024 |
| 2024-03-01 | Senate | 2nd reading, to Rules |
| 2024-02-29 | Senate | reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) |
| 2024-02-16 | Senate | to Judiciary (S) |
| 2024-02-06 | Senate | to Committee on Committees (S) |
| 2024-02-06 | Senate | received in Senate |
| 2024-02-05 | House | 3rd reading, passed 93-0 with Committee Substitute (1) and Floor Amendment (1) |
| 2024-01-31 | House | posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 01, 2024 |
| 2024-01-30 | House | floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute |
| 2024-01-26 | House | returned to Rules (H) |
| 2024-01-26 | House | taken from Judiciary (H) |
| 2024-01-25 | House | recommitted to Judiciary (H) |
| 2024-01-25 | House | 2nd reading, to Rules |
| 2024-01-24 | House | reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) |
| 2024-01-23 | House | to Judiciary (H) |
| 2024-01-09 | House | to Committee on Committees (H) |
| 2024-01-09 | House | introduced in House |
