Kentucky

House Bill 497: Improves release procedures, including implementing a system of certificates of employability to improve workforce rates in those released from prisons.

2019

Senate Bill 57: Provides a mechanism for expungement for those with a dismissal or acquittal, expands existing expungement opportunities for additional felonies.

2018

House Bill 124: Treatment and Recovery Standard

Senate Bill 133: Bans the shackling of pregnant women, expands treatment for those struggling with addiction, and improves health and hygiene services for all incarcerated women.

2017

Senate Bill 120: Removes prohibition on obtaining an occupational license simply because a person has a felony criminal history, returns licensing discretion to the licensing boards; expands drug diversion programs; establishes a definition of indigence; establishes a Private Industries Enhancement Certification Program; establishes a new reporting and collection mechanism for DOC data; expands swift and certain detention practices for technical probation and parole violations; changes reporting requirements for out-of-state sex offender convictions; allows jails to operate reentry and day reporting centers.

2016

House Bill 40: Expands expungement process to include Class D felonies, prohibits the introduction of information pertaining to an expunged conviction as evidence in a civil suit or administrative proceeding alleging negligent hiring or licensing; expands the scope of an expungement motion to include felonies referred to a grand jury where no indictment ensues.

Executive Order: Ban-the-box for employment in state government.