AN ACT relating to elections. [HB-693]
Amend KRS 116.035 to provide that a voter shall be deemed a resident of a city within the county of his or her habitation if the voter has at least a 50 percent ownership in a property located within the city precinct.
HB-693: AN ACT relating to elections.
Sponsored by: Rep. Richard White
To Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (h) on 02/27/2025
AN ACT relating to delinquent tax liens. [HB-796]
Amend KRS 134.490 to modify notification requirements for third-party purchasers of delinquent taxes; amend KRS 134.504 to require notice of the homestead exemption application process.
HB-796: AN ACT relating to delinquent tax liens.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sarah Stalker
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/27/2025
AN ACT relating to regional industrial taxing districts. [HB-707]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define terms; allow two or more local governments to form a regional industrial taxing district; establish requirements for an economic development project in a regional industrial taxing district; allow the district to levy a special ad valorem tax; allow local governments to impose an occupational license fee on businesses, trades, and professions performed, rendered, or conducted within a regional industrial taxing district; establish requirements for the occupational license fee and the revenues collected;
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HB-707: AN ACT relating to regional industrial taxing districts.
Sponsored by: Rep. Deanna Frazier Gordon
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/26/2025
AN ACT relating to fish and wildlife law enforcement. [HB-767]
Amend KRS 15.519 to make game wardens employed by the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources subject to the same requirements for entering or accessing private open land as other law enforcement officers; amend KRS 150.090 to conform; amend KRS 235.310 to make boating enforcement officers employed by the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources subject to the same requirements for entering or accessing private open land as other law enforcement officers.
HB-767: AN ACT relating to fish and wildlife law enforcement.
Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
To Tourism & Outdoor Recreation (h) on 02/27/2025
AN ACT relating to the rights of real property owners. [HB-10]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 383 to allow a property owner or his or her authorized agent to request a law enforcement officer immediately remove a person unlawfully occupying real property under certain circumstances; provide criminal and civil immunity to law enforcement officers and property owners acting in good faith; create a civil cause of action for wrongful removal; require the Department of Kentucky State Police to create a form for the petition to remove unlawful occupants; amend KRS 512.010 to define "squatter"; amend KRS 512.020
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HB-10: AN ACT relating to the rights of real property owners.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor on 03/24/2025
AN ACT relating to property theft. [SB-194]
Amend KRS 514.020 to include alteration, falsification, forgery, or misrepresentation of any instrument involving the conveyance or financing or real property as prima facie evidence of intent to commit theft by unlawful taking; amend KRS 514.030 to establish the penalty for theft of immovable property or real property; amend KRS 15.113 to direct the Attorney General to create notices and publications designed to inform and educate the public regarding the risks posed by deed fraud; amend KRS 15.231 to establish concurrent jurisdiction of the Attorney
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SB-194: AN ACT relating to property theft.
Sponsored by: Sen. Rick Girdler
To Judiciary (s) on 02/20/2025
AN ACT relating to economic relief for local communities of the Commonwealth and declaring an emergency. [HB-605]
Amend KRS 154.14-020, relating to the GRANT Program, to redefine "eligible grant applicant," "eligible project," "eligible use," "GRANT program," "GRANT program fund," "regional project," and define "qualifying federal entity"; amend KRS 154.14-030 to make technical changes; amend KRS 154.14-040 to modify the dates of the Cabinet for Economic Development's review of grant applications and provide that obligation of funds shall be no more than 12 months with a possible six month extension; amend KRS 154.14-050 to make technical changes and allow
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HB-605: AN ACT relating to economic relief for local communities of the Commonwealth and declaring an emergency.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie
Signed By Governor on 03/24/2025
AN ACT relating to crisis aversion and rights retention orders. [SB-235]
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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SB-235: AN ACT relating to crisis aversion and rights retention orders.
Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To Judiciary (s) on 02/20/2025
AN ACT relating to vacant and abandoned property. [HB-681]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to allow a law enforcement officer to enter vacant and abandoned property to remove any person unlawfully occupying the property; specify when property shall be presumed vacant and abandoned; provide criminal and civil immunity to a law enforcement officer acting in good faith.
HB-681: AN ACT relating to vacant and abandoned property.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rachel Roarx
To Judiciary (h) on 02/26/2025
AN ACT relating to property rights to the use of an individual's image. [SB-7]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 365 to define terms; establish that every individual has property rights to images of his or her unclothed body; establish how those property rights may be transferred or terminated; provide for liability, enforcement, and damages resulting from a violation of those property rights.
SB-7: AN ACT relating to property rights to the use of an individual's image.
Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
Received In House on 03/06/2025