2025 Regular Session - Day 27 - SB 237, Rep. Aaron Thompson, Rep. John Blanton, and Rep. Steve Riley

thank you Mr Speaker I ask the clerk to report house committee substitute one to Senate Bill 237 Mr clerk please report house committee substitute one to Senate Bill 237 gentleman from Greenup Mr Speaker I move adoption of house committee substitute one to Senate Bill 237 question for the body is on adoption of house committee substitute one is there any discussion seeing none all those in favor please signify by saying I I'll oppose nay motion carries house committee substitute on is adopted gentleman from greenip thank you Mr Speaker C Bill 237 removes the physical activity requirement for a police officer in good standing from another state who has been employed for at least 10 years this change will help increase the number of police officers in Kentucky by making it easier for experienced officers to continue serving our communities the house committee substitute to City Bill 237 makes necessary updates to the statutory language governing our state's Public Safety telecommunicators the professionals who are the first point of contacts in emergencies for kuckian ensuring well-trained telecommunicators is essential to emergency response and law enforcement support last session House Bill 782 made significant strides in modernizing telecommunicator training but some outdated and unclear language remained particularly regarding training requirements for part-time telecommunicators this committee substitutes fix fixes those issues and ensures Clarity moving forward this language establishes the Kentucky State Police cjis Service Agency establishes that the agency is responsible for administrating cjis training this reflects the reality of how training has been conducted for years and eliminates outdated references to previous oversight entities additionally this legislation ensures that part-time telecommunicators are not subject to requirements that make it unnecessarily difficult for local centers to hire and retain part-time Personnel by implementing a 40-hour online training course for part-time telecommunicators we provide a practical and efficient pathway for them to meet their training obligations while ensuring that our Public Safety infrastructure remains Top Notch if a part-time telecommunicator later transitions to a full-time role the training they have already completed will count toward the 160h hour Public Safety telecommunicator Academy at this time I yield to the gentleman from mulen with the friendly floor Amendment chair recognizes gentleman mcof thank you Mr Speaker would you ask the clerk to uh report house floor Amendment one to Senate Bill 237 Mr clerk please report house floor Amendment one to Senate Bill 237 gentleman from mofin Mr Speaker this is a very simple Amendment dealing with the Physical Agility Test um for condition of employment it just says that they must have passed a Physical Agility Test uh in the state from which they were certified uh and uh from the agency they were certified with that's all it does this was worked out in agreement with everyone involved and so if there's no questions on the floor amendment I would move adoption seeing none all those in favor please signify by saying I I I all oppos nay motion carries C Amendment one's adopted gentlemen from a thank you Mr Speaker I'll yield back to the gentleman from Greenup boy greenip chair recognize the gentleman from Greenup uh this time I'd like to yield to the gentleman from Baron with an additional friendly floor Amendment chair recognizes gentleman from Baron thank you Mr Speaker if you could have the clerk read house floor Amendment two to Senate Bill 237 Mr clerk please report house floor Amendment two to Senate Bill 237 gentleman from Baron thank you Mr Speaker I talked to the senator from Callaway who's the sponsor of this bill um basically what this does yesterday we passed house floor amendment I mean uh House Bill 491 for the universities just in case bill is not heard by the Senate we felt like we need to add it as an amendment to this bill and basically the house Flor Amendment two would remove the limitations on the number of retired police officers a public postsecondary education institution May employ move adoption motion mayor the adoption of house for Amendment two is there any discussion seeing none all those in favor please signify by saying I I all oppos n motion carries house for Amendment two is adopted gentleman from Baron Mr Speaker I yield back to the gentleman from Boyd chair recogniz gent from Greenup if there are no questions I move adoption of Senate Bill 237 as amended by house committee substitute one and house floor amendments one and two