HB 361: AN ACT relating to the prevention of child abuse and exploitation. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to define "criminal offense against a minor," "sex crime," "violent offender," and "youth camp"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to specify the application of Sections 1 to 4 of this Act; create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to prohibit youth camps from employing, contracting, or utilizing as a volunteer a person who committed a sex crime, is a violent offender, or has abused or neglected a child, and to require criminal background checks; create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to delineate punishments for employing a prohibited individual; create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to allow a parent or guardian to request a background check of child abuse and neglect records; amend KRS 160.380 to require superintendents to run a name-based background check of child abuse and neglect records for employees; amend KRS 17.545 to prohibit registered sex offenders from being on a publicly owned playground without the playground owner's or managing authority's advance written permission; amend KRS 17.500 to include promoting human trafficking involving commercial sexual activity as a criminal offense against a minor if the victim is under 18; amend KRS 156.095 to require public schools to display the National Human Trafficking Reporting Hotline; amend KRS 156.070 to require the State Board of Education to address matters pertaining to the health and well-being of schoolchildren; create a new section of KRS Chapter 620 to require the cabinet to notify the school of a child whose custody has been granted to the cabinet as a result of dependency, neglect, or abuse of the persons authorized to contact the child at school; amend KRS 413.249 to extend the statute of limitations for actions involving childhood sexual abuse or childhood sexual assault from 5 years to 10; amend KRS 510.020 to state that a 16 or 17 year old victim is incapable of consent when the actor is at least 10 years older than the victim; amend KRS 510.030 to add lack of knowledge of the victim's age being 16 or 17 when the offender was at least ten years older at the time of the offense as a defense; amend KRS 510.060 to add to rape in the third degree being at least 10 years older than a victim who is 16 or 17; amend KRS 510.090 to add to sodomy in the third degree being at least 10 years older than a victim who is 16 or 17; amend KRS 15.232 to give the Attorney General concurrent jurisdiction in human trafficking prosecutions; amend KRS 176.415 to require the Department of Highways to post the hotline number of the National Human Trafficking Resource Center in all rest areas; amend KRS 600.020 to add "take into protective custody" to the definition of "take into custody"; amend KRS 610.190 to allow a peace officer to take a child into protective custody under various circumstances; amend KRS 610.200 to allow peace officers to file a status offense complaint; amend KRS 610.220 to prohibit the placement of nonoffenders in secure or nonsecure detention; amend KRS 630.030 to allow circumstances under which a child may be taken into protective custody; amend KRS 15A.068 to require a person or organization operating a facility to file a report, notify the child's attorney, and petition for a transfer of custody; create a new section of KRS Chapter 531 to prohibit the distribution of any material that portrays child pornography or a sexual performance by a minor; amend KRS 500.080 to add specific injuries to a child under 12 to the definition of "serious physical injury"; repeal KRS 610.012; provide that the act may be cited as the Child Protection Act of 2017.
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