KY SB299 | 2024 | Regular Session
Status
Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on April 12 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-04-12 - delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 171)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [PDF]
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Passed on April 12 2024 - 100% progression
Action: 2024-04-12 - delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 171)
Text: Latest bill text (Chaptered) [PDF]
Summary
Repeals and reenacts KRS 230.210, 230.225, 230.230, and 230.260 to replace the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission with the Kentucky Horse Racing and Gaming Corporation, to establish definitions, to grant the corporation jurisdiction over all forms of horse racing, horse breed integrity, sports wagering, charitable gaming, and pari-mutuel wagering and exclude the state lottery established under KRS Chapter 154A, to set the corporation and president’s powers and duties, to direct the Governor to appoint the corporation president from a list of three names provided by the board, to abolish the racing commission and the Department of Charitable Gaming on July 1, 2024, and July 1, 2025, respectively, and to transfer all personnel, equipment, and funding to the corporation; creates new sections of KRS Chapter 230 to provide that the president may establish offices run by office managers to address corporation topics, to establish a board of directors to administer the corporation, to set up board appointments and composition, to create the powers and duties of the board and its members, to require a criminal background check for board members and staff, to make the board, president, managers, and staff of the corporation subject to KRS Chapter 11A but exempt from KRS Chapters 18A and 64, and to maintain employee participation in state employee retirement, health insurance, life insurance, and deferred compensation; amends KRS 230.215 to establish a policy to strictly regulate charitable gaming; amends sections of KRS Chapters 138, 230, and 238 to conform with the transfer to the corporation; amends KRS 11A.010, 11A.040, 12.020, 12.252, 15.380, 15.728, 18A.115, 68.182, 91.202, 92.282, 137.170, 139.200, 243.262, 243.500, 247.220, 257.196, 257.472, 321.185, 528.010, and 528.110 to conform; repeals KRS 230.250; makes sections applying to the racing commission effective on July 1, 2024, and amendments related to charitable gaming effective on July 1, 2025; transfers records, files, and documents for racing and charitable gaming on those same dates; keeps the executive director of the racing commission serving on January 1, 2024, as the interim president of the corporation for two years starting on July 1, 2024; requires that the Public Protection Cabinet assist in the transitions of the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission and the Department of Charitable Gaming into parts of the Kentucky Horse Racing and Gaming Corporation; establishes a charity game ticket moratorium from July 1, 2024, to July 1, 2025, that applies only to playing electronic charity game tickets at additional locations beyond a charity’s office, at licensed bingo locations, and at pre-approved charitable fundraising event locations; and prevents any changes to names of agencies and officers from voiding amendments in other bills enacted during the 2024 Regular Session; EMERGENCY.
Title
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission and declaring an emergency.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2024-04-12 - House - House: Veto Override RCS# 458 (Y: 57 N: 38 NV: 0 Abs: 5) [PASS]
2024-04-12 - Senate - Senate: Veto Override RSN# 3208 (Y: 26 N: 12 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-03-28 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading W/FINAL hcs1 hcta1 RSN# 3196 (Y: 25 N: 11 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2024-03-28 - House - House: Third Reading RCS# 402 (Y: 64 N: 28 NV: 0 Abs: 8) [PASS]
2024-03-26 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading W/scs1 RSN# 3049 (Y: 26 N: 11 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
2024-04-12 - Senate - Senate: Veto Override RSN# 3208 (Y: 26 N: 12 NV: 0 Abs: 0) [PASS]
2024-03-28 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading W/FINAL hcs1 hcta1 RSN# 3196 (Y: 25 N: 11 NV: 0 Abs: 2) [PASS]
2024-03-28 - House - House: Third Reading RCS# 402 (Y: 64 N: 28 NV: 0 Abs: 8) [PASS]
2024-03-26 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading W/scs1 RSN# 3049 (Y: 26 N: 11 NV: 0 Abs: 1) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-12 | House | delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 171) |
| 2024-04-12 | House | enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House |
| 2024-04-12 | House | enrolled, signed by President of the Senate |
| 2024-04-12 | House | received in Senate |
| 2024-04-12 | Senate | passed 57-38 |
| 2024-04-12 | Senate | veto overridden |
| 2024-04-12 | Senate | posted for passage for consideration of Governor's veto |
| 2024-04-12 | Senate | taken from Rules |
| 2024-04-12 | Senate | to Rules (H) |
| 2024-04-12 | Senate | received in House |
| 2024-04-12 | House | passed 26-12 |
| 2024-04-12 | House | veto overridden |
| 2024-04-12 | House | posted for passage for consideration of Governor's veto |
| 2024-04-12 | House | to Rules (S) |
| 2024-04-12 | House | received in Senate |
| 2024-04-09 | Senate | Vetoed |
| 2024-03-28 | Senate | delivered to Governor |
| 2024-03-28 | Senate | enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House |
| 2024-03-28 | Senate | enrolled, signed by President of the Senate |
| 2024-03-28 | Senate | passed 25-11 with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) |
| 2024-03-28 | Senate | Senate concurred in House Committee Substitute (1) and committee amendment (1-title) |
| 2024-03-28 | Senate | posted for passage for concurrence in House Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) |
| 2024-03-28 | Senate | received in Senate |
| 2024-03-28 | House | 3rd reading, passed 64-28 with committee amendments (1-title) and Committee Substitute (1) |
| 2024-03-28 | House | placed in the Orders of the Day |
| 2024-03-28 | House | taken from Rules |
| 2024-03-27 | House | floor amendments (1) and (2) filed to Committee Substitute |
| 2024-03-27 | House | reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) |
| 2024-03-26 | House | to Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H) |
| 2024-03-26 | House | returned to Committee on Committees (H) |
| 2024-03-26 | House | 1st reading |
| 2024-03-26 | House | taken from Committee on Committees (H) |
| 2024-03-26 | House | to Committee on Committees (H) |
| 2024-03-26 | House | received in House |
| 2024-03-26 | Senate | committee amendment (1-title) withdrawn |
| 2024-03-26 | Senate | 3rd reading, passed 26-11 with Committee Substitute (1) |
| 2024-03-26 | Senate | posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 26, 2024 |
| 2024-03-26 | Senate | reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) |
| 2024-03-25 | Senate | reassigned to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S) |
| 2024-03-25 | Senate | taken from State & Local Government (S) |
| 2024-03-15 | Senate | reassigned to State & Local Government (S) |
| 2024-03-15 | Senate | returned to Licensing & Occupations (S) |
| 2024-03-15 | Senate | 2nd reading |
| 2024-03-15 | Senate | taken from Licensing & Occupations (S) |
| 2024-03-14 | Senate | returned to Licensing & Occupations (S) |
| 2024-03-14 | Senate | 1st reading |
| 2024-03-14 | Senate | taken from Licensing & Occupations (S) |
| 2024-02-29 | Senate | to Licensing & Occupations (S) |
| 2024-02-27 | Senate | to Committee on Committees (S) |
| 2024-02-27 | Senate | introduced in Senate |
