Kentucky House Bill 315 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 6-2)
Status: Engrossed on February 27 2017 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2017-03-14 - reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [PDF]

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 506 to define "criminal gang" and " pattern of criminal gang activity"; enumerate what constitutes criminal gang recruitment in the first, second, and third degree; amend KRS 506.120 to define "criminal gang syndicate" and associated penalties for defendants convicted of certain offenses committed while acting as a criminal gang syndicate; amend KRS 506.150 to revise evidence that is corroborative of the existence of a gang or gang membership; create new sections of KRS Chapter 506 to require that anyone who is found to be a member of a criminal gang at the time of commission of a felony, and who is and subsequently convicted of a felony that put the public at risk, will be sentenced one class higher than the penalty provision pertaining to the felony offense he or she was convicted for; establish a cause of action for persons harmed by a criminal gang or criminal gang member; establish that any profits or proceeds forfeited or seized from a criminal gang are subject to forfeiture under KRS 218A.420; amend KRS 218A.420 to conform; provide that this Act will be known as the Gang Violence Prevention Act; encourage state and local law enforcement agencies to create a statewide gang violence prevention database; repeal KRS 506.140, relating to criminal gang recruitment; EMERGENCY.

AN ACT relating to gang violence prevention and declaring an emergency.

Rep. Robert Benvenuti [R]	Rep. John Blanton [R]	Rep. Stan Lee [R]	Sen. Robert Mills [R]
Rep. Wesley Morgan [R]	Rep. Ruth Palumbo [D]	Rep. Brandon Reed [R]	Rep. Susan Westrom [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-03-14	Senate	reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute
2017-03-07	Senate	returned to Judiciary (S)
2017-03-07	Senate	2nd reading
2017-03-07	Senate	taken from Judiciary (S)
2017-03-06	Senate	returned to Judiciary (S)
2017-03-06	Senate	1st reading
2017-03-06	Senate	taken from Judiciary (S)
2017-03-06	Senate	returned to Judiciary (S)
2017-03-06	Senate	1st reading
2017-03-06	Senate	taken from Judiciary (S)
2017-02-28	Senate	to Judiciary (S)
2017-02-27	Senate	received in Senate
2017-02-24	House	3rd reading, passed 91-3 with Committee Substitute and floor amendment (1)
2017-02-23	House	floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute
2017-02-23	House	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 24, 2017
2017-02-23	House	2nd reading, to Rules
2017-02-22	House	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute
2017-02-21	House	posted in committee
2017-02-15	House	to Judiciary (H)
2017-02-13	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/17RS/HB315.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/HB315/bill.pdf
Amendment	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/HB315/HCS1.pdf
Amendment	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/HB315/HFA1.pdf
Amendment	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/HB315/SCS1.pdf
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/17RS/HB315/vote_history.pdf
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/17RS/HB315/LM.pdf
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/17RS/HB315/HCS1LM.pdf
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/17RS/HB315/CI.pdf
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/17RS/HB315/HCS1CI.pdf
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/17RS/HB315/SCS1LM.pdf
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/17RS/HB315/SCS1CI.pdf