AN ACT relating to jail construction and declaring an emergency.
Summary
Create a new section of KRS 441.420 to 441.450 to place a moratorium on building, constructing, remodeling, or making other physical changes to local correctional facilites, and the remodeling of local correctional facilities if that remodeling is financed with debt; include an exception in the case that a court of law orders specific construction; provide that the provisions be repealed effective December 31, 2028; EMERGENCY.
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2023
Committee Review
Mar 2023
House Passage
Mar 2023
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Feb 22, 2023
Last action Mar 29, 2023
Floor votes · House Mar 7, 2023
How they voted
54–32
Passed · 3 other
Total votes 89
Mar 7, 2023
D
Democratic20
75% Nay
R
Republican69
72% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
18
Key actions
2
Committee
5
Amendments
2
Mar 16, 2023
Introduced
floor amendment (2) filed
lower
Mar 14, 2023
Introduced
floor amendment (1) filed
lower
Mar 10, 2023
Committee
to State & Local Government (S)
upper
Mar 8, 2023
Committee
to Committee on Committees (S)
upper
Mar 7, 2023
Lower · Passed
3rd reading, passed 63-34 with Committee Substitute (1)
lower
Mar 1, 2023
Lower · Passed
reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1)
lower
Feb 24, 2023
Committee
to Local Government (H)
lower
Feb 22, 2023
Committee
to Committee on Committees (H)
lower
Feb 22, 2023
Introduced
introduced in House
lower
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
No sponsor information available.
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