AN ACT relating to telecommunicators employed by local governments.
     Amend 15.530 to define "CJIS," "CJIS-full access course, " and" CJIS telecommunicator"; designate the commissioner of the Department of Criminal Justice Training as overseer of training; define "law enforcement basic telecommunicator basic training program," "non-CJIS telecommunications academy," and "telecommunications academy;" amend KRS 15.560 to require all law enforcement telecommunicators to successfully complete a non-CJIS telecommunications academy as a condition of employment; establish in-service training requirements for law enforcement telecommunicators and allow extensions in in-service training requirements; create a new section KRS Chapter 15 to require any CJIS telecommunicator to successfully complete the CJIS-full assess course as a condition of his or her employment; require any law enforcement telecommunicator that becomes a CJIS telecommunicator to successfully complete the CJIS full-access course as a condition of his or her employment; require any CJIS telecommunicator to complete 8 hours in-service training annually; to require any CJIS telecommunicator to complete biannual in-service training; and to grant the commissioner of the Department of State Police the power to grant extensions for the CJIS in-service training requirements.

     Feb 10-introduced in House
     Feb 11-to Local Government (H)
     Feb 12-posting waived
     Feb 13-reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
     Feb 14-2nd reading, to Rules
     Feb 19-posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 20, 2003
     Feb 24-3rd reading, passed 56-34
     Feb 25-received in Senate
     Feb 27-to Judiciary (S)
     Mar 4-reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
     Mar 5-2nd reading, to Rules
     Mar 6-posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 6, 2003
     Mar 10-3rd reading, passed 30-3; received in House
     Mar 11-enrolled, signed by each presiding officer; delivered to Governor
     Mar 12-signed by Governor (Acts ch. 52)