Kentucky Senate Bill 20 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Bipartisan Bill
Status: Introduced on January 9 2019 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2019-03-01 - recommitted to Judiciary (S)
Pending: Senate Judiciary Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Create new sections of KRS Chapters 15A, 27A, 158, and 194A to require reporting of statistics, including age, race, and gender, to determine whether there is disproportionate minority contact with the juvenile justice, social welfare, and educational discipline systems; create training requirements; require the development and reporting of plans to ameliorate disproportionate minority contact with juvenile justice and education systems; amend KRS 156.095 to require professional development for education professionals on juvenile justice topics; create a new section of KRS Chapter 31 to allow the Division of Protection and Advocacy to investigate the use of restraint and seclusion in schools and require confidentiality; amend KRS 15.334 to require training on juvenile justice topics; create new sections of KRS Chapter 610 to create a minimum age of criminal responsibility of 12 years of age; establish rules relating to the court's treatment of developmental immaturity, mental illness, and intellectual disability; amend KRS 503.010 to define "physical restraint"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to regulate the use of physical restraint by teachers or school personnel; amend KRS 635.020 to limit the youthful offender process to cases involving offenses against persons and to require that a child be 16 years of age; amend KRS 158.135 to further define "state agency children"; amend KRS 15A.220 to require facilities under contract to the Department of Juvenile Justice to report data; amend KRS 635.060 to allow a child who has committed an offense that would be a Class D felony if committed by an adult to be retained on probation for 18 months if the court-ordered substance abuse or mental health program is longer than 12 months and to limit the exclusion of children from the time limits placed on certain dispositions; amend KRS 610.105 to expand a court's options for diversion of a child's adjudicated case; amend KRS 600.020 to define "restorative justice practices"; amend KRS 630.070 to limit detention for a child violating a court order to 30 days; amend various sections to conform; amend KRS 610.265 to require hearings every 10 days to continue holding a child in custody; amend KRS 15A.305, 610.030, 610.190, 610.200, 610.220, 635.010, and 630.030 to make technical corrections; repeal KRS 610.012, relating to court jurisdiction over detention of suspected runaways.

AN ACT relating to juvenile justice.

Sen. Whitney Westerfield [R]

Sen. Gerald Neal [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2019-03-01	Senate	recommitted to Judiciary (S)
2019-02-25	Senate	floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute
2019-02-25	Senate	reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1)
2019-02-22	Senate	returned to Judiciary (S)
2019-02-22	Senate	2nd reading
2019-02-22	Senate	taken from Judiciary (S)
2019-02-21	Senate	returned to Judiciary (S)
2019-02-21	Senate	1st reading
2019-02-21	Senate	taken from Judiciary (S)
2019-01-11	Senate	to Judiciary (S)
2019-01-09	Senate	introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/19RS/sb20.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/19RS/sb20/orig_bill.pdf
Amendment	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/19RS/SB20/SCS1.pdf
Supplement	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/19RS/sb20/SCS1CI.pdf
Supplement	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/19RS/sb20/SCS1LM.pdf
Amendment	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/19RS/SB20/SFA1.pdf
Supplement	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/19RS/sb20/LM.pdf
Supplement	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/19RS/sb20/CI.pdf