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Bill AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Rules of Evidence. Establish a new Kentucky Rule of Evidence to provide a hearsay exception for an out-of-court statement made by a child with a physical, mental, emotional, or developmental age of 12 years or less at the time of trial or hearing describing any sexual act performed by, with, or on the child or describing any act of physical violence directed against the child. AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Rules of Evidence. Establish a new Kentucky Rule of Evidence to provide a hearsay exception for an out-of-court statement made by a child with a physical, mental, emotional, or developmental age of 12 years or less at the time of trial or hearing describing any sexual act performed by, with, or on the child or describing any act of physical violence directed against the child. us/states/ky Kentucky General Assembly 2018RS SB 137 Kentucky SB 137 (2018RS)
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Kentucky SB 137 (2018RS) — AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Rules of Evidence. Establish a new Kentucky Rule of Evidence to provide a hearsay exception for an out-of-court statement made by a child with a physical, mental, emotional, or developmental age of 12 years or less at the time of trial or hearing describing any sexual act performed by, with, or on the child or describing any act of physical violence directed against the child.

Version chain

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

  1. Most Recent Version (committee substitute) — source
  2. SB 137 (As Introduced) (committee substitute) — source
  3. SCS1 (committee substitute) — source

Sponsors

  • W. Westerfield — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2018-02-08 Introduced in Senate introduction
  • 2018-02-09 To Judiciary (S) referral-committee
  • 2018-03-08 Reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) reading-1
  • 2018-03-09 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
  • 2018-03-13 Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 13, 2018
  • 2018-03-13 3rd reading, passed 29-9 with Committee Substitute (1) reading-3, passage
  • 2018-03-14 Received in House
  • 2018-03-16 To Judiciary (H) referral-committee
  • 2018-03-19 Posted in committee
  • 2018-03-20 Taken from Judiciary (H)
  • 2018-03-20 1st reading reading-1
  • 2018-03-20 Returned to Judiciary (H)
  • 2018-03-21 Taken from Judiciary (H)
  • 2018-03-21 2nd reading reading-2
  • 2018-03-21 Returned to Judiciary (H)
  • 2018-03-22 Reported favorably, to Rules
  • 2018-03-22 Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 27, 2018
  • 2018-03-29 3rd reading, passed 89-0 reading-3, passage
  • 2018-03-29 Received in Senate
  • 2018-03-29 Enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
  • 2018-03-29 Enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
  • 2018-03-29 Delivered to Governor
  • 2018-04-10 Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 116) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d941a437-c221-4a83-9005-8f871b3724be. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).