Firearms And Weapons
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to assault weapons. [HB-758]
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Amend KRS 527.010 to define "assault weapon" and "large capacity ammunition feeding device"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 527 to criminalize possession and transfer of large capacity ammunition feeding devices; criminalize the possession and transfer of assault weapons; provide exceptions for large capacity ammunition feeding devices and assault weapons lawfully owned prior to the effective date of this Act; amend KRS 237.104 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Grossberg
Introduced In House on 02/26/2024
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AN ACT relating to waiting periods for sales of firearms. [HB-696]
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Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to require a waiting period of five business days between the sale and transfer of a firearm; amend KRS 237.990 to establish a penalty for a violation.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Grossberg
Introduced In House on 02/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to background checks on the sale or transfer of firearms. [HB-735]
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Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to require background checks for private firearms sales and transfers.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nima Kulkarni
Introduced In House on 02/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to weapons on school property. [HB-798]
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Amend KRS 527.010 to include knives longer than three inches in weapons prohibited on school grounds.
Sponsored by: Rep. Deanna Frazier Gordon
To Education (h) on 03/08/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to a firearm safety course tax credit. [HB-708]
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[Taxes ]
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Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a refundable tax credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2024, but before January 1, 2028, for individuals who enroll in a firearm safety course during the taxable year; Amend KRS 141.0205 to provide for the ordering of the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the credit.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rachel Roberts
Introduced In House on 02/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to gun safety for children. [SB-262]
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[Children and Youth ]
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Create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to prohibit the unlawful storage of a firearm; establish elements of the crime for recklessly allowing access to an unsecured firearm by a minor; establish the crime as a Class A misdemeanor unless a physical injury or death results, in which case it is a Class D felony; provide that the Act may be cited as the Baby Dre Gun Safety Act.
Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (s) on 02/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to student safety. [SB-2]
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Amends KRS 156.095 to require schools to provide suicide prevention awareness twice a year and an opportunity for any student who missed the suicide prevention awareness lesson to receive the lesson at a later time, and to make conforming changes; amends KRS 156.501 to remove existing cost-sharing provisions for the registered nurse required to be employed by the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE); creates a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms, to establish a framework for employment of Kentucky guardians in schools, to specify qualifications
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Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise
Became Law Without Governor's Signature (acts Ch. 165) on 04/10/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Office of Safer Communities, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-665]
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[Community Development ]
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Amend KRS 12.020 to place the Office of Safer Communities under the oversight of the Cabinet for General Government; create a new section of KRS Chapter 17 to establish the Office of Safer Communities; appropriate $3,000,000 in fiscal year 2024-2025 to fund the office; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Keturah Herron
Introduced In House on 02/22/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to destructive devices. [HB-599]
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Repeal and reenact KRS 237.030 to define "destructive device" and "booby trap device"; amend KRS 237.040 and create new section of KRS Chapter 237 to create two degrees of the offense of criminal possession of a destructive device or booby trap device; amend KRS 237.050 to exempt commercially manufactured explosives, exploding targets, and fireworks when used by authorized licensees or in accordance with manufacturer's guidelines; amend KRS 237.990 to define penalties.
Sponsored by: Rep. Emily Callaway
Introduced In House on 02/20/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the forensic processing of firearms. [SB-209]
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Create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to require law enforcement agencies to transmit information to national law enforcement databases about firearms collected during criminal investigations.
Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Berg
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (s) on 02/16/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to child and maternal fatalities. [HB-544]
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Amend KRS 211.684 to permanently establish the state child and maternal fatality review team within the Kentucky Department for Public Health; require the team to review and analyze all child fatalities or near fatalities in the Commonwealth each year that involve a person under the age of eighteen (18) years with a gunshot wound; make technical corrections.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rachel Roarx
Introduced In House on 02/14/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to firearm safety. [HB-518]
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Create a new section of KRS Chapter 210 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to produce and distribute educational materials related to firearm safety, suicide prevention, and conflict resolution; require sellers of firearms, ammunition, components of firearms, components of ammunition, firearms accessories, or any combination thereof to display the educational materials; establish civil penalties for failure to display; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to enforce display requirements; require money from
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 02/13/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to destruction of firearms. [HB-520]
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Amend KRS 500.090 to allow consolidated local governments to destroy firearms abandoned, confiscated, or forfeited under the Kentucky Penal Code.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 02/13/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to firearms. [SB-190]
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Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to define terms; establish requirements for individuals to voluntarily request inclusion on a list that prohibits the purchase or possession of firearms for specified periods and to voluntarily commit their firearms to law enforcement for safe storage or permanent surrender; provide processes for individuals to be removed from the list upon request and to have a surrendered firearm returned; establish confidentiality requirements and the exclusion of list and surrender records from the Open Records Act; establish
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Sponsored by: Sen. Julie Adams
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (s) on 02/16/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to modified weapons. [SB-187]
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Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to define "modified weapon"; provide that a licensed dealer may not deliver a modified weapon until seven days have elapsed from the date of the purchase application; create new sections of KRS Chapter 527 to provide that a person shall not possess a modified weapon if the person is under 21 years old; provide that no person shall knowingly sell or transfer a modified weapon to a person who is under 21 years old; establish penalties.
Sponsored by: Sen. Danny Carroll
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (s) on 02/16/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION urging the General Assembly to oppose the adoption of a "Red Flag" law, or any legislation intended to infringe upon a law-abiding citizen's right to keep and bear arms as afforded by the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. [HR-74]
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Urge the General Assembly to oppose the adoption of a "Red Flag" law or other legislation infringing upon the right to keep and bear arms.
Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
Introduced In House on 02/07/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to firearms. [SB-178]
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Amend KRS 16.220 to permit the destruction of confiscated firearms; require destruction if the firearm was used in the commission of a violent offense; amend KRS 500.090 and 500.093 to conform.
Sponsored by: Sen. Julie Adams
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (s) on 02/08/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the prevention of physical harm. [HB-460]
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Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to define terms; establish requirements for individuals in crisis to voluntarily request inclusion on a list that prohibits the purchase or possession of firearms for specified periods and to voluntarily commit their firearms to law enforcement for safe storage or permanent surrender; provide processes for individuals to be removed from the list upon request and to have a surrendered firearm returned; establish confidentiality requirements and the exclusion of list and surrender records from the Open Records
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Fleming
Introduced In House on 02/02/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to firearms and declaring an emergency. [HB-457]
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[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Education ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to define "assault weapon," "large capacity ammunition feeding device," and "seller of ammunition"; require background checks for private firearms sales; require reporting to law enforcement of firearm and ammunition thefts and losses; require the safe storage of firearms; require the Department of Kentucky State Police to promulgate administrative regulations relating to the licensing of persons to possess handguns and assault weapons, the registration of handguns and assault weapons, and the logging of firearms
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 02/01/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to crisis aversion and rights retention orders. [SB-13]
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Establish KRS Chapter 202D and create new sections thereof relating to crisis aversion and rights retention orders; provide limitations on interpretation of the Act; define terms; allow law enforcement officers to petition a court to issue orders when a respondent presents an immediate and present danger of causing serious physical injury to themselves or others through purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm; establish procedures for the filing, review, hearing, service of process, termination, or renewal of the petition and orders; provide
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Sponsored by: Sen. Denise Harper Angel
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (s) on 03/01/2024