| KY | HB5 | Pass | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 532 to define "violent felony" and enhance sentencing for a person convicted of a third violent felony; prohibit probation, parole, or other form of release for a person who commits a crime using a weapon that is st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 174) |
| KY | SB20 | Pass | Amends KRS 635.020 to provide that a child 15 years of age or older who is charged with a Class A, B, or C felony involving the use of a firearm shall be transferred to Circuit Court to be tried as an adult, to provide that the Commonwealth’s attor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 160) |
| KY | HB357 | Pass | Creates new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to prohibit certain entities from requiring, incentivizing, or assigning a merchant category code that distinguishes a firearms retailer from other retailers, to prohibit keeping or causing to be kept any list,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch.14) |
| KY | HB798 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 527.010 to include knives longer than three inches in weapons prohibited on school grounds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
To House Education Committee |
| KY | SB13 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 whe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
| KY | SB348 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 237.140 to require retired peace officers to complete the firearms qualification to a carry a concealed deadly weapon once every five years.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
| KY | SB262 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
| KY | HB716 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 65.870 to allow local governments to enact ordinances regulating firearms; amend KRS 65.1591 and 237.115 to conform.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB796 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 527.010 to define "assault weapon," "large capacity ammunition feeding device," and "permanently inoperable"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 527 to criminalize possession and transfer of unregistered large capacity ammunition feeding de...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB758 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 tr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB696 | Intro
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB735 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to require background checks for private firearms sales and transfers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB708 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB665 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB599 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 devic...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB187 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
| KY | SB190 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 fire...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
| KY | SB209 | Intro
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
| KY | HB544 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 yea...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB518 | Intro
Sine Die | 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, ammunit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB520 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 500.090 to allow consolidated local governments to destroy firearms abandoned, confiscated, or forfeited under the Kentucky Penal Code.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-13
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB178 | Intro
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
| KY | SB114 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 527.070 to modify the types of school facilities where weapons are prohibited; state that the prohibition of weapons on school grounds only applies when entrances to the school buildings display a sign indicating that unlawfully possessing ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | HR74 | Intro
Sine Die | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB460 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-02
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB457 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 ammun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB132 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 508.060 to provide an enhanced penalty for discharging a firearm in the commission of an offense constituting wanton endangerment in the first degree; amend KRS 439.3401 to add a Class C felony violation of KRS 508.060 to the definition of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB373 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to prohibit unlawful storage of a firearm; establish elements of the crime as recklessly allowing access to an unsecured firearm by a minor; establish the crime as a Class B misdemeanor unless a physical injury...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-24
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB337 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 82 to define "city," "project labor agreement," and "public construction project"; permit a city to establish a mandatory preference for awarding public construction project contracts to unions through a negotiated...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB331 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to define terms; allow law enforcement officers to petition a court to issue an extreme risk protection order when a respondent poses a present danger of causing serious physical injury to themselves or others t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-22
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB287 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to define terms; allow enumerated persons to petition a District Court to issue an order prohibiting a person from purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm if the person is or has been diagnosed with or t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB288 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeal KRS 237.115, which interprets the application of the license to carry concealed deadly weapon statute as permitting postsecondary facilities, local governments, and units of state government to limit concealed carry in governmental buildings; ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB282 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapters 508, 509, 510, 520, and 525 to provide that any person convicted of an offense under those chapters, who was armed with a firearm during the commission of the offense and in furtherance of the offense, shall be sub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-17
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB259 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 237.109 to lower the age requirement for carrying a concealed and deadly weapon from 21 to 18; amend KRS 237.110 to conform and make technical corrections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB66 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeal KRS 237.115, which interprets the application of the license to carry concealed deadly weapon statute as permitting postsecondary facilities and state and local governments to limit concealed carry in governmental buildings; amend KRS 150.172,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
| KY | SCR44 | Intro
Sine Die | Urge the United States Congress to repeal the firearms restrictions on users of marijuana under the Gun Control Act of 1968.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-12
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
| KY | HB240 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to require an owner or custodian of a firearm to store the firearm in a safe storage depository or to render the firearm incapable of being fired using a gun-locking device; require an owner or other person lawf...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB56 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to define "safe storage depository" and require an owner or custodian of a firearm to store the firearm in a safe storage depository or render the firearm incapable of being fired using a gun-locking device; req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
