AN ACT relating to operations in the Office of the Attorney General.

Create a new section of KRS 15.800 to 15.876 to require staff in the Department of Law with access to or use of federal tax information to submit to a criminal background check to be provided to the Attorney General; create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to define terms; establish that each state agency is for all purposes the custodian of its own records; create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to establish a 10-year statute of limitations in actions brought by the Attorney General; amend KRS 13B.140 to prohibit a hearing officer from being named as a party in any court action seeking judicial review of a final order of an agency; amend KRS 216B.115 to establish that in any appeal to the Franklin Circuit Court, neither the Attorney General nor any hearing officer shall be named as a party; amend KRS 322A.030 to remove the Attorney General as legal adviser to the Board of Registration for Professional Geologists; amend KRS 403.213 to remove the secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services as a member of the commission charged with review of the child support tables to conform with the transfer of child support enforcement to the Attorney General; amend KRS 367.160 to conform; make technical corrections.

Status

Engrossed

Passed its first chamber

Status date

Mar 12, 2026

245 days ago

Current chamber

House of Representatives

Session

2026 Regular Session