Official record
Measure details
- Jurisdiction
- Kentucky
- Session
- 2026RS
- Chamber
- upper
- Classification
- bill
- Subjects
- Children And Minors, Public Safety, Safety, Short Titles And Popular Names
- Introduced / first action
- 2026-02-27 05:00:00
Source-supplied abstracts
Amend KRS 16.175 to expand the criteria for determining when an Amber alert should be initiated to include when a child's disappearance may not have been voluntary and the physical safety of the child may be endangered and when a child is committed to the Department of Juvenile Justice or in the temporary custody of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, a relative, or a nonrelative placement; provide that the Act may be cited as Wynter's law.
Sponsors
- B. Storm (primary), primary
- M. Deneen (primary), primary
- B. Smith (primary), primary
- L. Tichenor (primary), primary