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"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.
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other legislators call 1-800-372-7181; EN
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If a bill is in committee and your State
Representative or State Senator sits on the committee hearing the bill, it is
especially important that you contact him/her.
Click here for list of committee members.
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Bill # |
Description |
Committee |
CCK Position |
Action |
| HB 3,
11,
157 |
HB 3,
11, and
157 deal
primarily with crimes related to sexual abuse, but each one has provisions
to expand the use of the death penalty. CCK will seek to have these
provisions removed from these and any other bills that attempt to increase
the use of the death penalty. |
Judiciary |
Amend |
Urge co-sponsors to withdraw until death penalty is removed.
Urge all to support amending. |
|
HB 8 |
AN ACT
relating to public notification regarding living will directives forms.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 382 to require the county clerk to
notify all persons applying, renewing, or transferring a marriage license,
motor vehicle registration, or voter registration of the availability of
free living will directive forms as prescribed. |
Local Government |
Support |
See:
Kentucky's Advance Health Care Directives and Organ Donation: A Catholic
Perspective |
|
HB 347 |
AN ACT relating to the protection of embryonic human life.
Create a
new section of KRS Chapter 311 to define "human embryo" and "nontherapeutic
research"; prohibit nontherapeutic research that destroys a human embryo;
prohibit nontherapeutic research that subjects a human embryo to a
substantial risk of injury or death; prohibit using cells or tissues for
research when the person knew that the cells were obtained by performing
nontherapeutic research; prohibit shipment of embryos to another person for
nontherapeutic research; amend KRS 311.990, relating to penalties, to make
violations of the Act a civil penalty of not less than $250,000 and not more
than $500,000; define "adult stem cell research"; provide income tax
incentive for adult stem cell research. |
Judiciary |
Support |
Urge chair of Judiciary, Rep. Gross Lindsay, to give bill a
hearing with a vote in committee. |
|
HB 353 |
AN ACT relating to the dispensing of emergency
contraceptives. Amend KRS 217.182 to provide that a practitioner may
dispense an emergency contraceptive to women who may or may not be patients
of the practitioner; provide that emergency contraceptives may be dispensed
by a practitioner in compliance with standards adopted by the respective
licensing authority for the practitioner; amend KRS 311.565 to require the
Board of Medical Licensure to establish standards by promulgation of
administrative regulations relating to emergency contraceptives; amend KRS
311.723 to exempt emergency contraceptives from proscriptive provisions;
amend KRS 311.858 to permit a physician assistant to prescribe and
administer an emergency contraceptive to the extent delegated by the
supervising physician and in compliance with administrative regulations
promulgated by the Board of Medical Licensure; amend KRS 314.011 to provide
that "registered nursing practice" includes the preparing and giving of
emergency contraceptives under specified standards; and amend KRS 314.042 to
provide that an advanced registered nurse practitioner may prescribe and
dispense an emergency contraceptive in compliance with standards established
by the Board of Nursing through administrative regulation. |
Health and Welfare |
Oppose |
If your Representative is on the Health and Welfare committee, contact
him/her and urge him/her to oppose
HB 353. Powerful
drugs of this sort should not be dispensed over the counter. These drugs
should not be dispensed unless done so with full information and under a
doctor's supervision. |
| HB 368 |
An ACT, relating to the abolition of the death penalty.
Repeals current Kentucky law and leaves life in prison without the
possibility of parole as the severest of several possible sentences juries
can impose after convicting a person of capital murder. |
Judiciary |
Support |
See:
Choose Life - Reflections on Capital Punishment, a pastoral letter of
the Catholic Bishops of Kentucky See:
Reverence for Life Pastoral, a pastoral letter of the Catholic Bishops
of Kentucky.
Also see
The Catholic
Campaign to End the Use of the Death Penalty on the U.S. Conference of
Catholic Bishops website. |
|
HB 412 |
AN ACT
relating to the cloning of humans. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 436
to prohibit the cloning of human beings; define "human cloning," "asexual
reproduction," and "somatic cell"; prohibit actual or attempted human
cloning, and the shipping, receiving, or importing of a cloned human embryo
or any product derived from a cloned human embryo; delineate the application
of the new section to research activities; set civil and criminal penalties;
name the Act the "Kentucky Human Cloning Prohibition Act of 2006." |
Judiciary |
Support |
Action: urge Judiciary Chairman Lindsay to give
HB 412
a hearing with a vote.
To learn
more about the Church teaching on this important matter visit the
Pro-Life Activities
page of the USCCB website |
|
HB 413 |
AN ACT
relating to human embryonic research. Amend KRS 311.800 to add a prohibition
of use of public funds or public facility for nontherapeutic embryonic
research that destroys an embryo or subjects an embryo to injury or death;
define "human embryo" and "nontherapeutic research" for subsection. |
Judiciary |
Support |
Action: urge Judiciary Chairman Lindsay to give
HB 413
a
hearing with a vote.
To learn
more about the Church teaching on this important matter visit the
Pro-Life Activities
page of the USCCB website |
|
SB 125
HB 461
HB 585
|
These
three bills vary in detail but all relate to informed consent in an individual private setting.
They establish that anytime informed consent
is required in an individual private setting, informed consent is only valid
when a face-to-face meeting occurs with both parties in the same room. |
Health & Welfare in Senate and House |
Support |
Contact
House and Senate members to urge support. SB 125 and HB 585 have cleared
their respective houses and are both in the chamber opposite the one in
which they were introduced. |
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