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Kentucky · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 291: AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.

Passed one chamber Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 291 is a bill introduced in the Kentucky House on February 4, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments. Most recent recorded action (March 4, 2025): to Families & Children (S).

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 533 to define terms; require the court, upon conviction of the defendant, to consider the defendant's status as a primary caretaker of a dependent child unless the defendant is a violent offender, the victim is a child, or a statute prohibits an alternative sentence; require the court, upon a finding that the defendant is a primary caretaker of a dependent child, to consider an alternative sentence; provide that the defendant shall have the right to present an alternative sentencing plan and a family impact statement to the court; provide that in issuing an alternative sentence, the court may require the defendant to participate in programs and services that support the parent-child relationship; provide that the court may modify or revoke the alternative sentence and commit the defendant to an institution if the defendant fails to adhere to or complete the conditions of an alternative sentence; require the Administrative Office of the Court to report annually, beginning in 2026, to the Kentucky State Corrections Commission and to the Legislative Research Commission on the number, percentage, and demographics of parents and children impacted under this Act; provide that the Act may be cited as the Primary Caretaker Consideration Act.

Sponsors

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
No sponsor recorded in source data.

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. to Families & Children (S)
  2. to Committee on Committees (S)
  3. received in Senate
  4. 3rd reading, passed 93-0 with Committee Substitute (1)
  5. posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 26, 2025
  6. 2nd reading, to Rules
  7. reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1)
  8. to Families & Children (H)
  9. to Committee on Committees (H)
  10. introduced in House

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source