republic-os/legislation/us/states/ky/2018rs/hb-70.md

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Bill	AN ACT relating to sex offender registrants. Amend KRS 17.546 to prohibit sex offender registrants from knowingly or intentionally using electronic communications for the purpose of soliciting, contacting, communicating with, or gathering information about a person less than 18 years of age; provide an exception for a registrant using electronic communications to contact, communicate with, or gather information about his or her minor child if not otherwise prohibited and if permitted by the sentencing court; amend KRS 17.510 to require a registrant to provide written notice of all phone numbers, electronic mail addresses, and usernames used by a registrant to electronically communicate with a person less than 18 years of age.	AN ACT relating to sex offender registrants. Amend KRS 17.546 to prohibit sex offender registrants from knowingly or intentionally using electronic communications for the purpose of soliciting, contacting, communicating with, or gathering information about a person less than 18 years of age; provide an exception for a registrant using electronic communications to contact, communicate with, or gather information about his or her minor child if not otherwise prohibited and if permitted by the sentencing court; amend KRS 17.510 to require a registrant to provide written notice of all phone numbers, electronic mail addresses, and usernames used by a registrant to electronically communicate with a person less than 18 years of age.	us/states/ky	Kentucky General Assembly	2018RS	HB 70	Kentucky HB 70 (2018RS)	bill		enacted	C. Morgan J. Fischer J. Richards J. Sims Jr K. King W. Stone	3	19	0	2017-11-30	2018-03-30	openstates	ocd-bill/6a6e0581-2e0b-43b0-baf0-8284a0cfeb16	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB70.htm	540f80ca08220153804deba838b9c39180193aeb4f084166ccc4c6f5411fcd7f	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ky

Kentucky HB 70 (2018RS) — AN ACT relating to sex offender registrants. Amend KRS 17.546 to prohibit sex offender registrants from knowingly or intentionally using electronic communications for the purpose of soliciting, contacting, communicating with, or gathering information about a person less than 18 years of age; provide an exception for a registrant using electronic communications to contact, communicate with, or gather information about his or her minor child if not otherwise prohibited and if permitted by the sentencing court; amend KRS 17.510 to require a registrant to provide written notice of all phone numbers, electronic mail addresses, and usernames used by a registrant to electronically communicate with a person less than 18 years of age.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. HB 70 (As Introduced) (committee substitute) — source
2. HCS1 (committee substitute) — source
3. Most Recent Version (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

• C. Morgan — primary (person)
• J. Fischer — primary (person)
• J. Richards — primary (person)
• J. Sims Jr — primary (person)
• K. King — primary (person)
• W. Stone — primary (person)

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2017-11-30 Prefiled by the sponsor(s).
• 2018-01-02 Introduced in House introduction
• 2018-01-02 To Judiciary (H) referral-committee
• 2018-01-04 Posted in committee
• 2018-01-17 Reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) reading-1
• 2018-01-18 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2018-01-18 Posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Friday, January 19, 2018
• 2018-01-19 3rd reading, passed 89-0 with Committee Substitute (1) reading-3, passage
• 2018-01-22 Received in Senate
• 2018-01-23 To Judiciary (S) referral-committee
• 2018-02-22 Reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar reading-1
• 2018-02-23 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2018-03-19 Posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Monday, March 19, 2018
• 2018-03-19 3rd reading, passed 38-0 reading-3, passage
• 2018-03-20 Received in House
• 2018-03-20 Enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
• 2018-03-20 Enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
• 2018-03-20 Delivered to Governor
• 2018-03-30 Signed by Governor (Acts, ch.42) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6a6e0581-2e0b-43b0-baf0-8284a0cfeb16. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).