Kentucky Legislation
The 2012 Legislative Session convened on January 3. Below are just a few bills pertaining to women that KCW is monitoring during the 2012 session.
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2012 Proposed Legislation |
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SB 44: Amend KRS 403.720 to include persons in dating relationships within the coverage of Kentucky's domestic violence laws. Sponsor: Denise Harper Angel
SB 103: Create a new section of KRS 311.710 to 311.820 to require an ultrasound prior to an abortion; amend KRS 311.990 to provide a criminal penalty. Sponsor: Joe Bowen
HB 163: Amend KRS 411.130 relating to wrongful death actions to cover the deaths of unborn children from fertilization onward; amend KRS 411.135 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to exempt physicians and pregnant women from liability under certain circumstances. Sponsor: Joseph Fischer
HB 164: Create a new section of KRS 311.710 to 311.820 to regulate abortions in relation to the detection of a fetal heartbeat; amend KRS 311.597 to provide for professional physician discipline relative to abortions performed in violation in section 1 of the bill; amend KRS 311.720 to define terms. Sponsor: Joseph Fischer
HB 186: Amend KRS 403.720, relating to domestic violence orders, to include dating partners who are 18 years of age or older among the class of persons allowed to obtain domestic violence protective orders. Sponsor: Joni Jenkins
HB 321: Amend KRS 12.070 to allow the Governor, when appointments to boards and commissions are made from submitted lists, to appoint a male or female so as to achieve as much gender equity as possible. Sponsor: Mary Lou Marzian
HB 337: Amend KRS 337.423 to prohibit wage discrimination on the basis of sex, race, or national origin by prohibiting wage differentials for employees who perform equivalent jobs; provide exceptions for wage differentials based on seniority or merit systems, systems that measure wages by quantity or quality of production, and factors other than sex, race, or national origin; amend KRS 337.420 to define equivalent jobs as those that are equal under the federal Equal Pay Act, or jobs that are dissimilar but equivalent in skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions; amend KRS 337.425 to require promulgation of administrative regulations on or before July 1, 2013, to specify criteria for determining jobs that are dominated by employees of a particular sex, race, or national origin, and acceptable methodology for determining equivalent skill, effort, responsibility, and working conditions; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2014. Sponsor: Mary Lou Marzian
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