14 | BALANCING THE SCALES | April 14, 2021
KFTC’s 2021 Kentucky General Assembly Bill Tracker For more information about our priority legislation, visit www.kftc.org/bill-tracker
DID NOT BECOME LAW: HB 19 & SB 30, BAN CONVERSION THERAPY: Prohibit mental health professionals from engaging in efforts to change sexual orientation or gender identity • N ot assigned to committee HB 21, BREONNA’S LAW: Ban no-knock warrants statewide, require officers serving a warrant to wear and activate body cameras, and require alcohol and drug testing for officers following any shooting or deadly incident while on duty • D enied a vote in committee HB 23, HEALTHY DEMOCRACY: FAIR MAPS: Create a nonpartisan Advisory Redistricting Commission to draft legislative and congressional districts
KFTC SUPPORTED
• N ot assigned to committee HB 27, MATERNAL HEALTH: Work to close the racial maternal and infant health gap; Require health facilities to implement an evidence-based implicit bias program and to provide patients with written information about their rights; Require the Dept. for Public Health to track data on maternal death and severe morbidity • N ot assigned to committee HB 51, HEALTHY DEMOCRACY: VOTING ACCESSIBILITY: Extend voting hours to 7:00 p.m. • N ot assigned to committee SB 60, DEATH PENALTY ABOLITION: Eliminate the death penalty, to be replaced with life imprisonment without parole • N ot assigned to committee HCR 61, HEALTHY DEMOCRACY: FAIR MAPS: Encourage the Kentucky General Assembly to allow public input during the redistricting process • N ot assigned to committee HB 72, HEALTHY DEMOCRACY: VOTE BY MAIL: Allow “convenience of the voter” as a reason for requesting and casting a mail-in, absentee ballot • N ot assigned to committee
HB 132, CIVIL RIGHTS: Establish guidelines for dismissing lawsuits designed to intimidate defendants from engaging in constitutionally protected activities like free speech and more • N ot assigned to committee HB 148, DEATH PENALTY RESTRICTIONS: Prevent the execution of someone diagnosed with a serious mental illness • P assed the full House. Denied a vote in Senate committee HB 182, HEALTHY DEMOCRACY: VOTER REGISTRATION: Allow same day voter registration and make driver’s license applications and renewals simultaneously a voter registration, unless declined • N ot assigned to committee HB 232, VOTING RIGHTS: Respect the voting rights of almost all Kentuckians who have a felony in their past • N ot assigned to committee
BECAME LAW: HB 497, SUPPORT FOR RE-ENTRY: Provide formerly incarcerated, returning Kentuckians and their families and communities a healthy and successful way forward post-incarceration • S igned into law
