KY HB244 | 2024 | Regular Session
Status
Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: Passed on April 19 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-04-19 - signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 219)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [PDF]
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 4-0)
Status: Passed on April 19 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-04-19 - signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 219)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [PDF]
Summary
Amends KRS 401.020 to require a court to conduct a hearing and consider the best interests of a child when one parent refuses or is unable to execute a petition for a name change for a minor child; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 403 to define terms, to provide that shared parenting time may be exercised by the consent of the parties, to establish procedures and parenting time credit, and to provide that the court may consider whether a parent has consistently exercised time sharing when considering a child support modification; amends KRS 403.090, 403.212, 403.740, 405.430, and 406.025 to conform; amends KRS 403.211 to establish which parent owes the initial $250 in medical expenses; and repeals KRS 403.2121.
Title
AN ACT relating to children.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2024-04-15 - House - House: Third Reading RCS# 475 (Y: 96 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2024-03-28 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading W/scs1 scta1 RSN# 3185 (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-22 - House - House: Third Reading RCS# 139 (Y: 94 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]
2024-03-28 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading W/scs1 scta1 RSN# 3185 (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-02-22 - House - House: Third Reading RCS# 139 (Y: 94 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 4) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-19 | House | signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 219) |
| 2024-04-15 | House | delivered to Governor |
| 2024-04-15 | House | enrolled, signed by President of the Senate |
| 2024-04-15 | House | enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House |
| 2024-04-15 | House | passed 96-0 |
| 2024-04-15 | House | House concurred in Senate Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) |
| 2024-04-15 | House | posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) |
| 2024-03-28 | House | to Rules (H) |
| 2024-03-28 | House | received in House |
| 2024-03-28 | Senate | 3rd reading, passed 38-0 with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) |
| 2024-03-28 | Senate | posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 28, 2024 |
| 2024-03-28 | Senate | reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) as a consent bill |
| 2024-03-27 | Senate | returned to Judiciary (S) |
| 2024-03-27 | Senate | 2nd reading |
| 2024-03-27 | Senate | taken from Judiciary (S) |
| 2024-03-26 | Senate | returned to Judiciary (S) |
| 2024-03-26 | Senate | 1st reading |
| 2024-03-26 | Senate | taken from Judiciary (S) |
| 2024-03-22 | Senate | to Judiciary (S) |
| 2024-02-23 | Senate | to Committee on Committees (S) |
| 2024-02-23 | Senate | received in Senate |
| 2024-02-22 | House | 3rd reading, passed 94-0 with Committee Substitute (1) |
| 2024-02-21 | House | posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 22, 2024 |
| 2024-02-15 | House | 2nd reading, to Rules |
| 2024-02-14 | House | reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) |
| 2024-02-13 | House | to Judiciary (H) |
| 2024-01-11 | House | to Committee on Committees (H) |
| 2024-01-11 | House | introduced in House |
