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Passed Kentucky Firearm Legislation HB8

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Legislation Overview

Title: AN ACT relating to interpersonal protective orders.

Description: Establish KRS Chapter 456 and create new sections thereof to allow persons to petition for interpersonal protective orders when the person has been the victim of domestic violence and abuse, dating violence and abuse, sexual assault, or stalking; define terms; set forth legislative intent; establish procedures for the filing, review, and hearing of the petition and issuance and service of a resulting protective order; provide court processes and evidentiary standards, county attorney protocols, a process for filing, authenticating, and enforcing protective orders from other states, entry of the orders into law enforcement systems, and law enforcement responsibilities; set penalties for violation of the order and protocols for ordering GPS monitoring of a respondent; create a new section of KRS 403.715 to 403.785; provide transitional provisions in regard to the existing domestic violence order system; amend KRS 431.005 and 431.015 to account for arrests in dating violence situations; amend KRS 508.155 to provide a transition timeline for the existing stalking protective order system; create a new section of KRS Chapter 510 to establish a system for issuance of a protective order in rape, sodomy, and abuse cases; amend various other sections to conform; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2016.

Session: 2015 Regular Session

Last Action: signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 102)

Last Action Date: April 1, 2015

Sponsors

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28 sponsors: John Tilley; Joni Jenkins; Linda Belcher; Robert Benvenuti; Regina Bunch; Thomas Burch; Larry Clark; Ron Crimm; Mitchel Denham; Derrick Graham; Chris Harris; Cluster Howard; Kenny Imes; Martha King; Mary Marzian; Thomas McKee; Rick Nelson; Ruth Palumbo; Jody Richards; Tom Riner; Dean Schamore; Rita Smart; Fitz Steele; Wilson Stone; Gerald Watkins; Jim Wayne; Susan Westrom; Brent Yonts;

Percentage of House Of Representatives sponsoring bill: 28% (28 of 100)

History
Chamber Date Action
House Apr 1, 2015 signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 102)
House Mar 25, 2015 House concurred in Senate Committee Substitute, committee amendment (1-title)
House Mar 25, 2015 delivered to Governor
House Mar 25, 2015 enrolled, signed by each presiding officer
House Mar 25, 2015 Bill passed 100-0
Senate Mar 24, 2015 passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day
House Mar 24, 2015 posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute, committee amendment (1-title)
House Mar 24, 2015 to Rules (H)
House Mar 24, 2015 received in House
Senate Mar 24, 2015 3rd reading, passed 37-1 with Committee Substitute, committee amendment (1-title)
Senate Mar 23, 2015 passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day
Senate Mar 11, 2015 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 11, 2015
Senate Mar 11, 2015 passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day
Senate Mar 4, 2015 2nd reading, to Rules
Senate Mar 3, 2015 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute, committee amendment (1-title)
Senate Feb 19, 2015 to Judiciary (S)
Senate Feb 13, 2015 received in Senate
House Feb 12, 2015 3rd reading, passed 98-0 with Committee Substitute, floor amendment (1)
House Feb 11, 2015 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 12, 2015
House Feb 11, 2015 floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute
House Feb 11, 2015 2nd reading, to Rules
House Feb 10, 2015 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute
House Feb 6, 2015 posted in committee
House Feb 5, 2015 to Judiciary (H)
House Feb 4, 2015 introduced in House
Texts
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Amendments
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Link: link to state bill page

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