KY HB53 | 2024 | Regular Session
Status
Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 12-0)
Status: Passed on April 10 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-04-10 - became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 156)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [PDF]
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 12-0)
Status: Passed on April 10 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-04-10 - became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 156)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [PDF]
Summary
Amends KRS 117.001 to remove the definition of “risk-limiting audit” and to remove language from the defined term of “voting machine” or “machine” regarding a direct recording electronic voting machine; amends KRS 117.383 to require that the Secretary of State or his or her designee randomly select at least one ballot scanner and one race tabulated on that scanner for a hand-to-eye recount, to require that the hand-to-eye recount be performed by each county board of elections or its designee, and to establish the process for the hand-to-eye recount; appropriates to the State Board of Elections $1.2 million in fiscal year 2024-2025 and $1.2 million in fiscal year 2025-2026 to reimburse each county clerk up to $5,000 for actual expenses incurred for each election in which the clerk conducts a hand-to-eye recount; and amends 117.295 to conform; APPROPRIATION.
Title
AN ACT relating to elections and making an appropriation therefor.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2024-03-27 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading RSN# 3082 (Y: 34 N: 1 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2024-02-27 - House - House: Third Reading RCS# 166 (Y: 87 N: 8 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
2024-02-27 - House - House: Third Reading RCS# 166 (Y: 87 N: 8 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-10 | House | became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 156) |
| 2024-04-05 | House | filed without Governor's signature with the Secretary of State |
| 2024-03-28 | House | delivered to Governor |
| 2024-03-28 | House | enrolled, signed by President of the Senate |
| 2024-03-27 | House | enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House |
| 2024-03-27 | House | received in House |
| 2024-03-27 | Senate | passed 34-1 |
| 2024-03-27 | Senate | floor Amendment (3) defeated |
| 2024-03-27 | Senate | floor amendments (1) and (2) withdrawn |
| 2024-03-27 | Senate | 3rd reading |
| 2024-03-26 | Senate | passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day |
| 2024-03-26 | Senate | floor amendment (3) filed |
| 2024-03-25 | Senate | posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 26, 2024 |
| 2024-03-22 | Senate | floor amendments (1) and (2) filed |
| 2024-03-22 | Senate | 2nd reading, to Rules as a consent bill |
| 2024-03-21 | Senate | reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar |
| 2024-03-06 | Senate | to State & Local Government (S) |
| 2024-02-28 | Senate | to Committee on Committees (S) |
| 2024-02-28 | Senate | received in Senate |
| 2024-02-27 | House | 3rd reading, passed 87-8 with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) |
| 2024-02-22 | House | posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 23, 2024 |
| 2024-02-16 | House | 2nd reading, to Rules |
| 2024-02-15 | House | reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) |
| 2024-01-12 | House | to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H) |
| 2024-01-02 | House | to Committee on Committees (H) |
| 2024-01-02 | House | introduced in House |
