AN ACT relating to manufactured housing. [HB-160]
Amend KRS 100.348 to prohibit a local government from adopting or enforcing zoning regulations that treat manufactured homes differently from single-family homes; allow only regulation of certain architectural features of manufactured homes and require that those same standards be applied to single family homes; permit placement of manufactured home with smaller dimensions if a larger manufactured home could not be situated on the lot; remove language regarding legislative purpose of statute; add noncodified statement of the intent of the General
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HB-160: AN ACT relating to manufactured housing.
Sponsored by: Rep. DJ Johnson
Signed By Governor on 04/01/2025
AN ACT relating to heirs property. [SB-70]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 381 to enact the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act; define terms, including "heirs property"; create a mechanism for partition or sale among cotenants by the court; create requirements for notice and determination of value through agreement or appraisal; create protocol for buyouts, partition alternatives, partition in kind, sale by open market, sealed bids, or auction; create the heirs property research fund; amend KRS 324B.050 to authorize the Kentucky Real Estate Authority to promulgate administrative
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SB-70: AN ACT relating to heirs property.
Sponsored by: Sen. Reginald Thomas
To Judiciary (s) on 02/04/2025
AN ACT relating to affordable housing. [SB-59]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 100 to allow religious institutions to develop affordable housing without submission to review by a planning unit if the development is approved by a local government.
SB-59: AN ACT relating to affordable housing.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jimmy Higdon
To Local Government (h) on 03/27/2025
AN ACT relating to swimming pools. [SB-61]
Amend KRS 211.203 to exempt pools that share a plat with a single-family residence that are rented to guests by the owner of the residence from regulation as public pools.
SB-61: AN ACT relating to swimming pools.
Sponsored by: Sen. Gary Boswell
Passed Over And Retained In The Orders Of The Day on 03/27/2025
AN ACT relating to real property rights. [HB-142]
Amend KRS 511.010 and 512.010 to define "squatter"; amend KRS 511.090 to allow a property owner or his or her authorized agent to request a peace officer to immediately remove any squatter occupying a dwelling or commercial building under certain circumstances; provide criminal and civil immunity to peace officers acting in good faith; amend KRS 512.020 and 512.030 to specifically include damage to residential or commercial property caused by squatters in the offense of criminal mischief; create a new section of KRS Chapter 514 to establish the
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HB-142: AN ACT relating to real property rights.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
AN ACT relating to property and casualty insurance. [SB-24]
Amend KRS 304.47-010 to modify the definition of "statement"; make technical amendments; amend KRS 304.47-020 to establish that statements that misrepresent the scope of damages associated with a property, casualty, or property and casualty insurance claim are fraudulent insurance acts; make technical amendments.
SB-24: AN ACT relating to property and casualty insurance.
Sponsored by: Sen. Rick Girdler
Signed By Governor (acts Ch.25) on 03/18/2025
AN ACT relating to planned communities. [HB-27]
Amend KRS 381.800 to establish that the provisions apply to all planned communities and any provision in an existing document to the contrary is void.
HB-27: AN ACT relating to planned communities.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 32) on 03/18/2025
AN ACT relating to privacy protection. [HB-19]
Amend KRS 500.130 to define terms; provide that the use of an unmanned aircraft system is not prohibited in the case of recreational or professional use if there is not intent to conduct surveillance on private property and there is no unauthorized use or publication of images of individuals or areas of private property, or in the case of an insurance company for purposes of underwriting a risk or investigating damage; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a civil action; create a new section of KRS Chapter 413 to establish a statute
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HB-19: AN ACT relating to privacy protection.
Sponsored by: Rep. DJ Johnson
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 19) on 03/15/2025
AN ACT relating to property. [HB-18]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 100 to require certain development projects in zones that have traditionally been reserved for single-family homes to be treated as amendments to a zoning map and to meet the procedural requirements for approval set out in KRS Chapter 100; create a new section of KRS Chapter 383 that prohibits property owner's from leasing accessory dwelling units or multi-family housing units in zones that have traditionally been reserved for single-family homes unless the property owner primarily resides on the lot.
HB-18: AN ACT relating to property.
Sponsored by: Rep. John Hodgson
Returned To State & Local Government (s) on 03/13/2025