KY HB271 | 2024 | Regular Session
Status
Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on April 9 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-04-09 - signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 144)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [PDF]
Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Passed on April 9 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-04-09 - signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 144)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [PDF]
Summary
Amends KRS 600.020 to define “safety plan” and “statewide reporting system”; amends KRS 620.023 to allow a court access to a child’s protection and permanency record; amends KRS 620.030 to allow a person to make a written report of dependency, neglect, or abuse of a child, to allow child dependency, neglect, or abuse reports to be submitted electronically, and to require that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services establish a statewide reporting system for making reports of child dependency, neglect, and abuse via phone call or written report available to the public; amends KRS 620.032 to require that the cabinet report monthly to the General Assembly on child protective services intakes; amends KRS 605.035 to establish requirements related to when a family accountability, intervention, and response team has to refer a case to the cabinet; amends KRS 620.040 to establish new requirements for the cabinet when it is making the initial determination as to the risk of harm and immediate safety of the child; amends KRS 620.050 to require that the cabinet refer families to community-based child and family service agencies for services when it determines that a report of dependency, abuse, or neglect does not meet criteria for an investigation; and creates a new section of KRS Chapter 620 to establish requirements for the cabinet related to when a safety plan is put in place for a child.
Title
AN ACT relating to child abuse.
Sponsors
| Rep. Nicolas Wilson [R] | Rep. Samara Heavrin [R] | Rep. Beverly Chester-Burton [D] | Rep. Jennifer Henson Decker [R] |
| Rep. Rachel Roarx [D] |
Roll Calls
2024-03-28 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading RSN# 3132 (Y: 38 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-03-06 - House - House: Third Reading RCS# 228 (Y: 95 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2024-03-06 - House - House: Third Reading RCS# 228 (Y: 95 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-09 | House | signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 144) |
| 2024-03-28 | House | delivered to Governor |
| 2024-03-28 | House | enrolled, signed by President of the Senate |
| 2024-03-28 | House | enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House |
| 2024-03-28 | House | received in House |
| 2024-03-28 | Senate | 3rd reading, passed 38-0 |
| 2024-03-27 | Senate | passed over and retained in the Consent Orders of the Day |
| 2024-03-26 | Senate | passed over and retained in the Consent Orders of the Day |
| 2024-03-25 | Senate | posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 26, 2024 |
| 2024-03-22 | Senate | 2nd reading, to Rules as a consent bill |
| 2024-03-21 | Senate | reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar |
| 2024-03-14 | Senate | to Families & Children (S) |
| 2024-03-07 | Senate | to Committee on Committees (S) |
| 2024-03-07 | Senate | received in Senate |
| 2024-03-06 | House | 3rd reading, passed 95-0 with Committee Substitute (1) and Floor Amendment (1) |
| 2024-03-05 | House | posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 06, 2024 |
| 2024-03-01 | House | 2nd reading, to Rules |
| 2024-02-29 | House | floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute |
| 2024-02-29 | House | reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) |
| 2024-02-01 | House | to Families & Children (H) |
| 2024-01-16 | House | to Committee on Committees (H) |
| 2024-01-16 | House | introduced in House |
