HB782: AN ACT relating to telecommunicators.

Legislative Summary

Creates a new section within KRS 15.530 to 15.590 to create the Public Safety Telecommunicator Work Group to develop a new delivery format for the public safety telecommunicator academy and to add training provisions for part-time telecommunicators hired before and after July 1, 2026; amends KRS 15.530 to define “public safety telecommunicator” and “public safety telecommunicator academy,” and to remove the “CJIS” and “non-CJIS” designations; amends KRS 15.540 to allow an agency seeking to hire a telecommunicator 120 days to certify the eligibility of an applicant to the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council and to require training regarding the Criminal Justice Information System (CJIS); amends KRS 15.560 to require that all telecommunicators complete the academy within 12 months of their hire date and to remove disparate requirements for CJIS and non-CJIS telecommunicators; amends KRS 15.565 to remove disparate requirements for CJIS and non-CJIS certification and to require that all telecommunicators complete CJIS in-service training recognized by the Kentucky State Police CJIS Services Agency; and amends KRS 15.590 to remove distinction of CJIS and non-CJIS telecommunicator academy and to recognize the public safety telecommunicators academy in its place; EFFECTIVE, in part, July 1, 2026.