SEE LATEST
SPONSORED LEGISLATION
SB144 - AN ACT relating to the abolition of the death penalty.
Stephen L. Meredith, Karen Berg, Denise Harper Angel
Last updated 8 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to abolish the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without parole for inmates presently sentenced to death; amend KRS 532.030 to remove the death penalty; amend KRS 640.040 to prohibit life imprisonment without benefit of parole for a juvenile offender convicted of a capital offense; amend KRS 640.010 to define "serious intellectual disability" and "significant subaverage general intellectual functioning"; amend KRS 422.285, 532.050, 532.100, and 533.010 to conform; repeal KRS 431.213, 431.2135, 431.218, 431.220, 431.223, 431.224, 431.240, 431.250, 431.260, 431.270, 507A.060, 532.025, 532.075, 532.130, 532.135, 532.140, 532.300, 532.305, and 532.309.
STATUS
Introduced
SR130 - A RESOLUTION recognizing October 2024 as Domestic Violence Awareness Month in Kentucky.
Whitney H. Westerfield, Denise Harper Angel
Last updated 6 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Recognize October 2024 as Domestic Violence Awareness Month.
STATUS
Passed
SB55 - AN ACT relating to fishing in privately-owned lakes and ponds.
Gary M. Boswell, Donald Douglas, Shelley Frommeyer
Last updated 9 months ago
13 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 150.170 to allow a bona fide resident landowner and other authorized persons to take fish from any lake or pond located on the owner's property without procuring a sport fishing license.
STATUS
Introduced
SB189 - AN ACT relating to veterinary medicine programs at comprehensive universities.
Jason G. Howell, Robert M. Mills, Jared K. Carpenter
Last updated 8 months ago
22 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 164.295 to permit Murray State University to offer doctor's degrees required for professional practice and licensure in veterinary medicine.
STATUS
Introduced
SB318 - AN ACT relating to energy.
Whitney H. Westerfield
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amend KRS 224.10-225 to make technical correction.
STATUS
Introduced
SB317 - AN ACT relating to commercial rights to the use of names, voices, and likenesses.
Whitney H. Westerfield, Reginald Thomas
Last updated 6 months ago
2 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 365 to define terms; establish property rights in every individual's name, voice, or likeness; establish how those property rights may be transferred or terminated; provide for liability, enforcement, and damages resulting from violation of those property rights.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB319 - AN ACT relating to victims of crime.
Denise Harper Angel, Whitney H. Westerfield, Gerald A. Neal
Last updated 6 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 49.280 to expand definitions relating to crime victims compensation; amends KRS 49.300 to specify duties of the Crime Victims Compensation Board; amends KRS 49.310 to allow family members and caregivers of a victim to file claims; amends KRS 49.330 to increase access for victims to file claims; amends KRS 49.340 to limit the time for an investigation; amends KRS 49.350 to allow a claim in default to be revived; amends KRS 49.360 to increase the allowable amount of emergency awards; amends KRS 49.370 to raise award limits and expand the types of claims eligible for payment; amends KRS 49.390 to remove the requirement of financial hardship for the victim; amends KRS 49.400 to limit the penalty to the intentional filing of false information; amends KRS 216B.400 to increase the medical services eligible for reimbursement, amends KRS 216B.990 to require an online portal for reporting violations of KRS 216B.400 to aid in penalty enforcement; and amends KRS 49.380 to conform and to make technical corrections.
STATUS
Passed
SB347 - AN ACT relating to the behavioral health conditional dismissal program.
Whitney H. Westerfield
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Amend KRS 533.270 to define terms; amend KRS 533.274 to remove a misdemeanor as a disqualifying offense; require an assessment of a homeless defendant for a behavioral health disorder and establish preference for participation in the program if an eligible defendant; amend KRS 533.286 to remove the requirement that the initial vocational screening be conducted in person.
STATUS
Introduced
SB373 - AN ACT relating to protecting access to in vitro fertilization.
Whitney H. Westerfield
Last updated 7 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to limit the liability of facilities that provide procedures related to in vitro fertilization; create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to limit the liability of health care providers that perform procedures related to in vitro fertilization.
STATUS
Introduced
SB203 - AN ACT relating to early childhood education.
Danny Carroll, Julie Adams, Whitney H. Westerfield
Last updated 7 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require the Kentucky Community and Technical College System to offer an associate degree program in interdisciplinary early childhood education entrepreneurship; create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to establish the Division of Regulated Early Childhood Education within the Office of Inspector General within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; establish the Division of Early Childhood Education within the Department for Community Based Services within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 164.787 to change the definition of "eligible program of study"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 199 to create definitions, establish the innovations in early childhood education delivery fund, the foundations for early learning fund, the family early childhood educator provider fund, and the early childhood education provider start up fund; establish the requirements and operations of the funds for the purpose of offering grants to applicants for the purpose of increasing the availability of early childhood education services in the Commonwealth; amend KRS 199.894 to define "Child Care and Development Fund" and "Child Care Assistance Program"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to establish eligibility requirements of the Child Care Assistance Program; amend KRS 199.8983 and 12.020 to conform; provide that the Act may be cited as the Horizons Act.
STATUS
Introduced
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Senator from Kentucky district SD-003
COMMITTEES
Kentucky Senate
BIRTH
--
ABOUT
Whitney H. Westerfield is a Republican member of the Kentucky State Senate, representing District 3. He was first elected to the chamber in 2014. Westerfield sits on the Senate Committees on Appropriations & Revenue, Economic Development, Tourism & Labor, Judiciary, and State & Local Government. He also serves as Majority Caucus Chair. Prior to his election, Westerfield was an attorney in private practice. He earned his B.A. from Western Kentucky University in 1998 and his J.D. from Salmon P. Chase College of Law in 2001.read less
OFFICES HELD
Kentucky Senate from Kentucky
NEXT ELECTION
