27 total bills, 16 anti-gun bills,
4 pro-gun bills for this session
Proposed Kentucky Firearm Legislation
27 total bills, 16 anti-gun bills,
4 pro-gun bills for this session
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Title: AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.
Description: Amend KRS 506.040 to provide that any person who is 18 years of age or older who engages in a criminal conspiracy with a minor shall be subject to the same penalty provided for the offense which is the object of the conspiratorial agreement; amend KRS 527.100 to enhance the penalty of possession of handgun by a minor to a Class D felony for the first offense and a Class C felony for each subsequent offense.
Last Action: to Committee on Committees (H)
Last Action Date: January 3, 2024
Title: AN ACT relating to firearms.
Description: 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 lawfully in possession of a firearm or any person who sells ammunition to report the loss or theft of the firearm or ammunition to a law enforcement agency.
Last Action: to Committee on Committees (H)
Last Action Date: January 11, 2024
Title: AN ACT relating to concealed deadly weapons.
Description: 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.
Last Action: to Committee on Committees (H)
Last Action Date: January 16, 2024
Title: AN ACT relating to concealed deadly weapons.
Description: 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; amend KRS 150.172, 237.110, and 527.020 to conform; amend KRS 237.110 to no longer prohibit the carrying of concealed deadly weapons in schools and specify that the prohibition of carrying concealed deadly weapons in airports is limited to areas controlled by the Transportation Security Administration and make technical corrections; amend KRS 527.070 to add persons with valid licenses to carry concealed deadly weapons to the list of those permitted to possess weapons in schools.
Last Action: to Committee on Committees (H)
Last Action Date: January 17, 2024
Title: AN ACT relating to firearms.
Description: 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 through purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm; establish procedures for the filing, review, hearing, termination, or renewal of the petition and orders; provide court processes and evidentiary standards; allow entry of the orders into law enforcement systems; prescribe issuance and service procedures for resulting protection orders; establish procedures for the surrender, storage, transfer, and return of firearms; establish penalties; create new sections of KRS Chapter 16 to direct the Kentucky State Police to establish the Kentucky Voluntary Do Not Sell Firearms List to prohibit the possession, sale, or transfer of firearms to individuals who voluntarily request to be added the list; prescribe procedures for application for entry and removal from the list; establish penalties; amend KRS 16.220 to direct proceeds of an auctioned firearm confiscated pursuant to a protective order to go to the firearm owner; amend KRS 237.110 to exclude persons subject to an extreme risk protection order from eligibility for a license to carry a concealed weapon; amend KRS 431.015 to allow warrantless arrest for violation of an extreme risk protection order; amend KRS 431.076 to allow expungement of records of dismissed petitions.
Last Action: to Committee on Committees (H)
Last Action Date: January 22, 2024
Title: AN ACT relating to local regulatory actions.
Description: 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 project labor agreement; permit cities to negotiate wages that are higher than the state or federal minimum wage as a condition of the project labor agreement; create a new section in KRS Chapter 337 to define "city," "prevailing wage," "prevailing wage rate," and "public works project"; permit a city to enact prevailing wage ordinances; amend KRS 65.016 to grant local governments the authority to adopt and enforce ordinances that require employers in their jurisdiction to provide leave to employees and set a higher minimum wage than state and federal rates; amend KRS 65.870 to remove state preemption of local firearms regulations and allow local governments to enact ordinances regulating firearms; amend KRS 237.115 to conform; amend KRS 383.210 and 383.215, relating to forcible entry and detainer, to allow a local government to set an alternative time period from the date of the service of the warrant and the date of the hearing to more than the minimum of three days; require the local government to notify the sheriff, the court of jurisdiction, and the administrative office of the courts of that action; and amend KRS 65.1591 to conform.
Last Action: to Committee on Committees (H)
Last Action Date: January 22, 2024
Title: AN ACT relating to firearms.
Description: 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, record, or registry of private firearm ownership, to require that the Attorney General enforce provisions, and provide that the Act may be cited as the Second Amendment Privacy Act.
Last Action: became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch.14)
Last Action Date: March 27, 2024
Title: AN ACT relating to equality in access to financial services.
Description: Create a new section of KRS Chapter 367 to define terms; prohibit financial institutions from discriminating in, or agreeing, conspiring, or coordinating to discriminate in, the provision of financial services by utilizing a social credit score; establish notice requirements when a financial institution refuses to provide, restricts, or terminates financial services; make violation an unfair, false, misleading, or deceptive trade practice in violation of KRS 367.170; establish remedies; authorize enforcement by the Attorney General; require construction in favor of broad protection of conduct, opinions, and beliefs protected by certain laws.
Last Action: to Committee on Committees (H)
Last Action Date: February 1, 2024
Title: AN ACT relating to firearms and declaring an emergency.
Description: 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 ammunition thefts and losses; require the safe storage of firearms; require the Department of Kentucky State Police to promulgate administrative regulations relating to the licensing of persons to possess handguns and assault weapons, the registration of handguns and assault weapons, and the logging of firearms and ammunition sales effective January 1, 2025; create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to create the offense of criminal purchase or disposal of a weapon; amend KRS 395.250 to require an estate's inventory to list each firearm; amend KRS 403.735 to require judges, when issuing an order of protection, to consider whether a person against whom the order is entered should be prohibited from possessing an firearm; amend KRS 504.030 to require judges in criminal cases where a person is found not guilty by reason of insanity to demand the surrender of the defendant's firearms; amend KRS 506.080 to add that the offense of facilitation includes assistance in providing firearms; amend KRS 508.020 to include physical injury to a minor by virtue of the intentional discharge of a firearm within the offense of assault in the second degree; amend KRS 527.040 to require that the sentence for a felon in possession of a firearm be served consecutively to any other felony sentence; amend KRS 527.070 to include postsecondary education facilities within the existing ban on firearms in schools; amend KRS 532.030 to require the judge pronouncing a defendant guilty but mentally ill to demand the surrender of the person's firearms; amend KRS 65.1591, 237.104, 237.115, and 532.025 to conform; repeal KRS 65.870, relating to the prohibition of local firearm control ordinances; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2025; EMERGENCY.
Last Action: to Committee on Committees (H)
Last Action Date: February 1, 2024
Title: AN ACT relating to firearm safety.
Description: 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, ammunition, components of firearms, components of ammunition, firearms accessories, or any combination thereof to display the educational materials; establish civil penalties for failure to display; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to enforce display requirements; require money from of civil penalties to be credited to the Kentucky mental health first aid training fund
Last Action: to Committee on Committees (H)
Last Action Date: February 13, 2024
Title: AN ACT relating to destructive devices.
Description: 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 device; amend KRS 237.050 to exempt commercially manufactured explosives, exploding targets, and fireworks when used by authorized licensees or in accordance with manufacturer's guidelines; amend KRS 237.990 to define penalties.
Last Action: to Committee on Committees (H)
Last Action Date: February 20, 2024
Title: AN ACT relating to waiting periods for sales of firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: to Committee on Committees (H)
Last Action Date: February 26, 2024
Title: AN ACT relating to a firearm safety course tax credit.
Description: 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 141.0205 to provide for the ordering of the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the credit.
Last Action: to Committee on Committees (H)
Last Action Date: February 26, 2024
Title: AN ACT relating to local firearms control ordinances.
Description: Amend KRS 65.870 to allow local governments to enact ordinances regulating firearms; amend KRS 65.1591 and 237.115 to conform.
Last Action: to Committee on Committees (H)
Last Action Date: February 26, 2024
Title: AN ACT relating to background checks on the sale or transfer of firearms.
Description: Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to require background checks for private firearms sales and transfers.
Last Action: to Committee on Committees (H)
Last Action Date: February 26, 2024
Title: AN ACT relating to assault weapons.
Description: 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 transfer of assault weapons; provide exceptions for large capacity ammunition feeding devices and assault weapons lawfully owned prior to the effective date of this Act; amend KRS 237.104 to conform.
Last Action: to Committee on Committees (H)
Last Action Date: February 26, 2024
Title: AN ACT relating to firearms and making an appropriation therefor.
Description: 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 devices; establish a large capacity ammunition feeding device registration program under the Department of Kentucky State Police; authorize a trust and agency account; criminalize the possession and transfer of assault weapons; amend KRS 237.104 to conform; APPROPRIATION.
Last Action: to Committee on Committees (H)
Last Action Date: February 26, 2024
Title: AN ACT relating to student safety.
Description: Amends KRS 156.095 to require schools to provide suicide prevention awareness twice a year and an opportunity for any student who missed the suicide prevention awareness lesson to receive the lesson at a later time, and to make conforming changes; amends KRS 156.501 to remove existing cost-sharing provisions for the registered nurse required to be employed by the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE); creates a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms, to establish a framework for employment of Kentucky guardians in schools, to specify qualifications of a guardian, to specify that a local board of education is immune from civil or criminal liability in all claims arising out of any action of a guardian, and to specify that guardians shall have the immunities of police officers; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require KDE to gather and compile data, coordinate training, and monitor the numbers and types of mental health professionals in schools; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to create the School Mapping Data Program administered by the Center for School Safety and to outline requirements of school mapping data; amends KRS 158.441 to specify required certifications in the definition of “school resource officer” (SRO); amends 158.4414 to allow school districts to hire a guardian until a certified SRO is available as required, to allow a district with an SRO to hire guardians to provide additional school safety and security measures, and to require that the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council update and maintain SRO training; amends KRS 158.4416 to define terms, to specify that at least 60 percent of a school counselor’s time be spent providing direct services, to make conforming changes, to require the trauma-informed team to compile their activities to be used in the creation of the comprehensive school improvement plan and to submit the information to KDE, and to require KDE to annually summarize and submit the information to the state board and the Legislative Research Commission; amends KRS 158.442 to require that the Center for School Safety implement a system to certify guardians to school districts, to authorize the center to employ an individual to provide oversight of the guardian program if funds are available, and to authorize the center to administer and oversee the school mapping program; amends KRS 158.443 to conform; amends KRS 158.4451 to require that the Office of Homeland Security maintain and update the anonymous reporting tool, to require that each school district make available an anonymous reporting tool, and to provide for an alternative anonymous reporting tool; amends KRS 158.162 to allow secondary locking mechanisms in schools, and to require that school councils or principals include school mapping data, if available, in their emergency plans; amends KRS 158.4412 to require that the local school district’s safety coordinator maintain a current copy of school mapping data; and amends KRS 61.637 and 78.5540 to conform.
Last Action: became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 165)
Last Action Date: April 10, 2024
Title: AN ACT relating to crisis aversion and rights retention orders.
Description: 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 court processes and evidentiary standards; allow entry of the orders into law enforcement systems; prescribe issuance and service procedures for additional proceedings; establish procedures for the surrender, storage, transfer, and return of firearms; establish penalties for violations; allow for recognition and enforcement of foreign orders; amend KRS 431.076 to conform.
Last Action: to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)
Last Action Date: March 1, 2024
Title: A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the United States Congress to repeal the firearm restrictions on users of marijuana under the Gun Control Act of 1968.
Description: Urge the United States Congress to repeal the firearms restrictions on users of marijuana under the Gun Control Act of 1968.
Last Action: to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)
Last Action Date: January 12, 2024
Title: AN ACT relating to concealed deadly weapons.
Description: 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, 237.110, and 527.020 to conform.
Last Action: to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)
Last Action Date: January 12, 2024
Title: AN ACT relating to the emergency powers of the Governor.
Description: Amend KRS 39A.010 to remove potential, threatened, or impending occurrences from enumerated emergency management system items; amend KRS 39A.020 to define "executive action" to include all orders and guidelines, including industry-specific or agency specific guidelines related to a declared emergency; amend KRS 39A.030 to remove hazards from list of enumerated items that the emergency management program is responsible; amend KRS 39A.050 to limit the powers of the Division of Emergency Management; amend KRS Chapter 39A.070 to prohibit the director of the Division of Emergency Management from promulgating administrative regulations or from issuing orders and directives, but allow the director to issues standards, rules, procedures, guidance, or recommended practices; allow the director to request increased readiness activities, implementation of local emergency operations plans, or the mobilization or deployment of trained forces of state or local government; allow the director to make recommendations to the Governor and the General Assembly; amend KRS 39A.090 to limit the effect of any promulgated administrative regulation issued by the Governor related to an emergency or disaster that restricts in-person meeting or imposes mandatory quarantine or isolation requirements to 30 days; amend KRS 39A.100 to remove certain emergency powers from the Governor; repeal KRS 39A.190 and 118.027.
Last Action: to State & Local Government (S)
Last Action Date: February 7, 2024
Title: AN ACT relating to firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)
Last Action Date: February 8, 2024
Title: AN ACT relating to modified weapons.
Description: 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 provide that a person shall not possess a modified weapon if the person is under 21 years old; provide that no person shall knowingly sell or transfer a modified weapon to a person who is under 21 years old; establish penalties.
Last Action: to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)
Last Action Date: February 16, 2024
Title: AN ACT relating to firearms.
Description: 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 firearms to law enforcement for safe storage or permanent surrender; provide processes for individuals to be removed from the list upon request and to have a surrendered firearm returned; establish confidentiality requirements and the exclusion of list and surrender records from the Open Records Act; establish penalties for noncompliance; require the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet and the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to develop public awareness campaigns to inform the public and health care providers about the voluntary firearms restriction list.
Last Action: to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)
Last Action Date: February 16, 2024
Title: AN ACT relating to the forensic processing of firearms.
Description: 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.
Last Action: to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)
Last Action Date: February 16, 2024
Title: AN ACT relating to gun safety for children.
Description: 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 injury or death results, in which case it is a Class D felony; provide that the Act may be cited as the Baby Dre Gun Safety Act.
Last Action: to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)
Last Action Date: February 26, 2024
