---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to county reapportionment and declaring an emergency."
description: "Require fiscal courts to initiate reapportionment proceedings in 2023 instead of 2022; EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2022RS"
identifier: "HB 212"
citation: "Kentucky HB 212 (2022RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Counties", "Courts", "Fiscal", "Effective Dates", "Emergency", "Local Government", "Local Mandate", "Redistricting"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Freeland", "M. Meredith"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 29
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2022-01-05T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-02-25T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/83ff5406-a3e7-47d8-a23c-ae43c8205adb"
source_url: "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb212.html"
source_hash: "057053dd6162fed9df39349ad84c5b22642f428c0bb410e5c0206118802afac0"
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 212 (2022RS) — AN ACT relating to county reapportionment and declaring an emergency.

Require fiscal courts to initiate reapportionment proceedings in 2023 instead of 2022; EMERGENCY.

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/22RS/hb212/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **Acts Chapter 11** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/22RS/documents/0011.pdf)
3. **Current/Final** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/22RS/hb212/bill.pdf)

## Votes

- Final Passage — **pass** (pass) · lower
- PASS HB 212 W/ scs1 — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Pass — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- C. Freeland — primary (person)
- M. Meredith — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-05T05:00:00+00:00** introduced in House `introduction`
- **2022-01-05T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (H) `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-12T05:00:00+00:00** to Local Government (H) `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-19T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-20T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2022-01-21T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, January 24, 2022
- **2022-01-24T05:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 92-0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-01-25T05:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2022-01-25T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (S) `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-27T05:00:00+00:00** to State & Local Government (S) `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-07T05:00:00+00:00** taken from State & Local Government (S)
- **2022-02-07T05:00:00+00:00** 1st reading `reading-1`
- **2022-02-07T05:00:00+00:00** returned to State & Local Government (S)
- **2022-02-08T05:00:00+00:00** taken from State & Local Government (S)
- **2022-02-08T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2022-02-08T05:00:00+00:00** returned to State & Local Government (S)
- **2022-02-09T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1) `committee-passage`
- **2022-02-10T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, February 14, 2022
- **2022-02-14T05:00:00+00:00** passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day `passage`
- **2022-02-15T05:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 37-0 with Committee Substitute (1) `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-02-15T05:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2022-02-15T05:00:00+00:00** to Rules (H) `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-16T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute (1)
- **2022-02-17T05:00:00+00:00** House concurred in Senate Committee Substitute (1)
- **2022-02-17T05:00:00+00:00** Bill passed 96-0 `passage`
- **2022-02-17T05:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2022-02-17T05:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by President of the Senate `passage`
- **2022-02-17T05:00:00+00:00** delivered to Governor
- **2022-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 11) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/83ff5406-a3e7-47d8-a23c-ae43c8205adb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).