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Promoting Family Life
Pursuing Social Justice
Practicing Global Solidarity
Protecting Human Life
"Human life is a gift from God, sacred and inviolable. Because every
human person is created in the image and likeness of God, we have a duty to
defend human life from conception until natural death and in every condition."
Faithful Citizenship: A Call to Political Responsibility
To that end, the Catholic Conference is following the progress of the bills
listed in the chart below, urging passage of those that promote life, defeat of
those that do not.
| Bill Number |
Description |
Committee |
CCK Position |
Action |
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HB 149
sponsored by Rep. Joe Fishcher |
AN ACT relating to human embryos. Create a new section of KRS Chapter
438 to prohibit destructive testing of human embryos, including buying,
selling, receiving, or otherwise transferring of embryos or gametes for the
purposes of destructive testing; set civil penalty; make the prohibited
conduct a Class C felony. |
House Judiciary |
Studying |
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HB 181 -
sponsored by Rep. Jim Wayne |
AN ACT relating to
executions and declaring an emergency. Amend KRS 532.130, 532.135, and
532.140, to change the definition of "mentally retarded defendant" who
cannot be subject to execution; prohibit the expenditure of any funds
appropriated in the Executive Branch Budget for fiscal biennium 2004-2006
for executions of death row inmates, persons who were juveniles when the
offense was committed, and persons with certain mental disorder diagnoses;
prohibit the use of any other funds received by the state for the same
actions; encourage the Governor to observe a moratorium on executions;
EMERGENCY. |
House Judiciary |
Support |
Urge
legislators to co-sponsor and support amending Ky law to reflect U.S. Supreme Court in
banning death penalty for mentally retarded |
|
HB 242 sponsored
by Rep. Robin Webb |
AN
ACT relating to criminal law. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 455 to
require that all criminal homicide interrogations be recorded; allow for use
of the recording at trial by both the prosecution and defense; establish
control over the use of taped interrogations outside court proceedings,
create a provision stating that press access to recorded interrogations is
subject to the limitations of the Kentucky Open Records Act. |
House Judiciary |
Support |
Urge
legislators to co-sponsor and support. |
|
HB 279 sponsored
by Keith Hall |
AN ACT relating to the protection of embryonic human life.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to define embryo, define
nontherapeutic research; prohibit nontherapeutic research that destroys a
human embryo; prohibit nontherapeutic research that may result or does
result in a substantial risk of injury or death to a human embryo; prohibit
using cells or tissues for nontherapeutic research knowing that the cells
were obtained in violation of the section; prohibit shipment of embryos to
another person for nontherapeutic research; amend KRS 311.990 relating to
penalties to make violation of the act a Class C felony. |
House Judiciary |
Support with language changes. May need a new bill here.
Companion to be filed in Senate |
Wait
for further instruction on this one. It is complicated and we don't want to
move on this until the wording is correct. |
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HCR 15
sponsored by Rep. J. R. Gray |
Urge the Congress of the United States to pass an amendment to the
Constitution of the United States to prohibit abortion under any
circumstance. |
House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs |
Support |
Urge
legislators to support. |
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