Kentucky
General Assembly

03/05/14	introduced in Senate
03/07/14	to Judiciary (S)
03/13/14	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute
03/14/14	2nd reading, to Rules
03/17/14	floor amendments (1) and (2) filed to Committee Substitute
03/18/14	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 19, 2014 floor amendment (3) filed to Committee Substitute
03/19/14	passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day
03/20/14	3rd reading floor amendments (1) and (3) withdrawn passed 31-7 with Committee Substitute, floor amendment (2)
03/21/14	received in House taken from Committee on Committees (H) 1st reading returned to Committee on Committees (H)
03/24/14	to Judiciary (H) posted in committee
03/26/14	reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules with Committee Substitute Judiciary (H)
03/27/14	taken from Rules posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 27, 2014 3rd reading, passed 84-15 with Committee Substitute received in Senate
04/14/14	posted for passage for concurrence in House Committee Substitute Senate concurred in House Committee Substitute passed 30-8 enrolled, signed by each presiding officer delivered to Governor
04/25/14	signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 132)

Amendment	Senate Committee Substitute 1
Impact Statements	Fiscal Note Local Mandate
Summary	Create new sections of KRS Chapter 15A to require data sharing between the Department of Corrections and the Department of Juvenile Justice, create the Juvenile Justice Oversight Council, and create a fiscal incentive program; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require schools to prepare annual reports on school safety and discipline; create new sections of KRS Chapter 605 to create in every judicial district a family accountability, intervention, and response team, and to require the Department of Juvenile Justice to promulgate regulations; create a new section of KRS Chapter 610 to allow informal adjustment of juvenile cases; amend KRS 15A.067 to require assessment of usage of Department of Juvenile Justice facilities; amend KRS 156.095 to require teachers to receive training on juvenile justice and juvenile mental health; amend KRS 158.441 to define "school safety officer" and require training; amend KRS 159.140 to allow a director of pupil personnel to refer a truancy complaint to the family accountability, intervention, and response team after meeting with a court-designated worker; amend KRS 159.150 to require early intervention programs; amend KRS 200.505 and KRS 200.509 to broaden the purpose of the State Interagency Council and the Regional Interagency Councils; amend KRS 600.010 to state the juvenile justice policy of the Commonwealth; amend KRS 600.020 to provide definitions of "evidence-based practices," "graduated sanction," "out-of-home placement," and "risk and needs assessment"; amend KRS 600.060 to limit detention for contempt to 10 days; amend KRS 605.020 and KRS 605.030 to expand the role and training of the court-designated worker; amend KRS 605.050 and KRS 605.060 to expand use of risk and needs assessments; amend KRS 605.100 to include risk and needs assessments and graduated sanctions; amend KRS 605.130 to require the cabinet to investigate all referrals from a court-designated worker and to report; amend KRS 610.030 to define expanded role of the court-designated worker and the interaction with the family accountability, intervention, and response team; amend KRS 635.010 to clarify role of the county attorney in juvenile public offense cases; amend KRS 635.060 to define disposition options for public offense cases; amend various sections to conform; repeal KRS 67.0831.
Index Headings	Children and Minors - Reforming juvenile justice system

Amendment	Senate Floor Amendment 1
Sponsor	W. Westerfield
Summary	Remove judges from the family accountability, intervention, and response teams; increase the length of detention permissible for contempt sanctions; decrease the number of diversions subject to mandatory diversion; and clarify jurisdiction.
Index Headings	Children and Minors - Reforming juvenile justice system

Amendment	Senate Floor Amendment 2
Sponsor	W. Westerfield
Summary	Remove judges from the family accountability, intervention, and response teams; increase the length of detention permissible for contempt sanctions; decrease the number of diversions subject to mandatory diversion; clarify jurisdiction; and clarify procedure by which process may issue.
Index Headings	Children and Minors - Reforming juvenile justice system

Amendment	Senate Floor Amendment 3
Sponsor	R. Webb
Summary	Add private attorneys to family accountability, intervention, and response team and to juvenile justice oversight council.
Index Headings	Children and Minors - Reforming juvenile justice system

Amendment	House Committee Substitute 1
Impact Statements	Local Mandate
Summary	Retain original provisions; make technical corrections; move first report of the Juvenile Justice Oversight Council to late 2014; allow the commissioner of DJJ to delegate the authority to extend the maximum out-of-home placement for a particular child to the Administrative Transfer Request Committee or another body within DJJ; delete added training requirements for teachers; limit the reporting of school incidents to those which result in the filing of a complaint; allow school boards to collaborate with other juvenile justice stakeholders in creating and utilizing early intervention programs such as truancy diversion programs; restrict tuition waivers to children committed to DCBS for at least 12 months; require the cabinet to track and report to the Oversight Council all youth who have status offense charges and are committed or probated to the cabinet; require AOC to develop a form complaint for use with the CDW in originating complaints; allow the CDW to request records from the schools pursuant to the FERPA provisions of this bill; reduce the requirement for the cabinet from an investigation of any report from the FAIR team to an assessment of these reports; require AOC to track and report to the Oversight Council all youth who have status charges, or whose cases originated as status cases, and who are committed to the cabinet; require that, for runaways, the court make a finding that no less restrictive alternative is available before detaining the child in a secure facility; ensure that youth subject to diversion agreements are required to attend school; include fair teams in information-sharing; allow schools to share information with the court system pursuant to FERPA.
Index Headings	Children and Minors - Reforming juvenile justice system