---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to prevailing wage and declaring an emergency. Amend various KRS sections to delete prevailing wage provisions; abolish the Prevailing Wage Review Board; make conforming amendments; create new section of KRS Chapter 65 to prohibit local governments from requiring employers to pay prevailing wage to employees; repeal KRS 337.505, 337.510, 337.512, 337.520, 337.522, 337.524, 337.525, 337.530, 337.540, 337.548, and 337.550, relating to prevailing wages in public works; apply this repeal to public works projects for which bids have not yet been awarded as of the effective date of the Act; EMERGENCY."
description: "AN ACT relating to prevailing wage and declaring an emergency. Amend various KRS sections to delete prevailing wage provisions; abolish the Prevailing Wage Review Board; make conforming amendments; create new section of KRS Chapter 65 to prohibit local governments from requiring employers to pay prevailing wage to employees; repeal KRS 337.505, 337.510, 337.512, 337.520, 337.522, 337.524, 337.525, 337.530, 337.540, 337.548, and 337.550, relating to prevailing wages in public works; apply this repeal to public works projects for which bids have not yet been awarded as of the effective date of the Act; EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2017RS"
identifier: "HB 3"
citation: "Kentucky HB 3 (2017RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 4
action_count: 26
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-01-03"
last_action: "2017-01-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1ecc249b-9408-4ea1-abc4-58d92c5269ae"
source_url: "http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/17RS/HB3.htm"
source_hash: "23957f407c04457f7748c7ef80299df53bd9f5a472ca4e35fb5f2d75ba572e79"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ky"]
---

# Kentucky HB 3 (2017RS) — AN ACT relating to prevailing wage and declaring an emergency. Amend various KRS sections to delete prevailing wage provisions; abolish the Prevailing Wage Review Board; make conforming amendments; create new section of KRS Chapter 65 to prohibit local governments from requiring employers to pay prevailing wage to employees; repeal KRS 337.505, 337.510, 337.512, 337.520, 337.522, 337.524, 337.525, 337.530, 337.540, 337.548, and 337.550, relating to prevailing wages in public works; apply this repeal to public works projects for which bids have not yet been awarded as of the effective date of the Act; EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB 3 (As Introduced)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/HB3/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **HFA1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/HB3/HFA1.pdf)
3. **HFA2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/HB3/HFA2.pdf)
4. **Most Recent Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/HB3/bill.pdf)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-03** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2017-01-03** To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H) `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-03** Taken from Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
- **2017-01-03** 1st reading `reading-1`
- **2017-01-03** Returned to Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
- **2017-01-03** Posting waived
- **2017-01-04** Reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2017-01-04** Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, January 5, 2017
- **2017-01-05** Floor amendments (1) and (2-title) filed `amendment-introduction`
- **2017-01-05** 3rd reading, passed 57-40 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-01-05** Received in Senate
- **2017-01-05** Taken from Committee on Committees (S)
- **2017-01-05** 1st reading `reading-1`
- **2017-01-05** Returned to Committee on Committees (S)
- **2017-01-06** Taken from Appropriations & Revenue (S)
- **2017-01-06** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-01-06** Returned to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
- **2017-01-07** Reported favorably, to Rules
- **2017-01-07** Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Saturday, January 7, 2017
- **2017-01-07** 3rd reading, passed 25-12 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-01-07** Received in House
- **2017-01-07** Enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
- **2017-01-07** Received in Senate
- **2017-01-07** Enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
- **2017-01-07** Delivered to Governor
- **2017-01-09** Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 003) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1ecc249b-9408-4ea1-abc4-58d92c5269ae`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).