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HB402 - AN ACT relating to adult-oriented businesses and declaring an emergency.
Nancy J. Tate, Danny R. Bentley, Josh Calloway
Last updated 8 months ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 231 to express the findings of the General Assembly relating to adult-oriented businesses and the need for regulation; define terms; establish distance parameters for the location of adult-oriented businesses in proximity to identified entities and locations; establish transition provisions for existing businesses; affirm the authority of local governmental units to supplement regulation of adult-oriented businesses; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Introduced
HB271 - AN ACT relating to child abuse.
Nicolas Wilson, Samara Rae Heavrin, Jennifer Henson Decker
Last updated 6 months ago
5 Co-Sponsors
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.
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Representative from Kentucky district HD-058
COMMITTEES
Kentucky House
BIRTH
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ABOUT
Jennifer Henson Decker is from South Dakota. She earned her BS in Nursing from South Dakota State University in 1993. She currently works as a Registered Nurse. Ms. Decker served on the Canton School Board from 2005 to 2012. She is active in community organizations including Relay for Life and the American Legion. In 2014, she was elected to the South Dakota House of Representatives to represent District 10.read less
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Kentucky House from Kentucky
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