KY SB198

Employees of the Department of Child Support Services with access to federal tax information must undergo FBI and Kentucky State Police fingerprint-based criminal background checks, with results sent to the Attorney General.

State agencies retain custody and control of their own records, which are explicitly not in the possession or control of the Attorney General except for the Attorney General's own office records.

Actions brought by the Attorney General must be commenced within 10 years after the cause of action accrued or was discovered, unless another statute provides a different time period.

Hearing officers shall not be named as parties in Circuit Court appeals of agency decisions and have no duty to defend their decisions in subsequent proceedings.

Removes the Secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services from the child support guidelines review commission and transfers authority to submit parent and advocate member nominations from the Cabinet to the Attorney General.