---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to local property tax rate levies."
description: "Amend KRS 132.017 to define \"next regular election\" as it pertains to placing on the ballot the question on whether a local property tax rate shall be levied to specify that the election may occur in the same or a subsequent calendar year as the levy; require the question to the voters to be framed to ask whether the voter is for the levy of the property tax rate; make technical corrections."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2024RS"
identifier: "HB 147"
citation: "Kentucky HB 147 (2024RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Cities", "Counties", "Education", "Finance", "Elections and Voting", "Local Government", "Local Mandate", "Special Districts", "Special Purpose Governmental Entities", "Taxation", "Taxation", "Property"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["K. Fleming"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 22
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-04T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-27T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/2588358e-9e7d-48b1-a9f0-99548e83b0ad"
source_url: "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24RS/hb147.html"
source_hash: "eb9a75bfd9cd46f3fc59ba0ec55a78b4c75dfafabb2aa3135af08d0c5f0b8925"
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 147 (2024RS) — AN ACT relating to local property tax rate levies.

Amend KRS 132.017 to define "next regular election" as it pertains to placing on the ballot the question on whether a local property tax rate shall be levied to specify that the election may occur in the same or a subsequent calendar year as the levy; require the question to the voters to be framed to ask whether the voter is for the levy of the property tax rate; make technical corrections.

## 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/24RS/hb147/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **Acts Chapter 225** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/24RS/documents/0225.pdf)
3. **Current/Final** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/hb147/bill.pdf)

## Votes

- PASS HB 147 — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Pass — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- K. Fleming — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-04T05:00:00+00:00** introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-01-04T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (H) `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-22T05:00:00+00:00** to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H) `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-22T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-23T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2024-02-26T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 27, 2024
- **2024-02-28T05:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 83-13 `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-29T05:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2024-02-29T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (S) `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-08T05:00:00+00:00** to State & Local Government (S) `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00** taken from State & Local Government (S)
- **2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00** 1st reading `reading-1`
- **2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00** returned to State & Local Government (S)
- **2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules `committee-passage`
- **2024-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, April 15, 2024
- **2024-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 30-7 `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2024-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2024-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by President of the Senate `passage`
- **2024-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** delivered to Governor
- **2024-04-19T04:00:00+00:00** filed without Governor's signature with the Secretary of State
- **2024-04-27T04:00:00+00:00** became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 225) `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/2588358e-9e7d-48b1-a9f0-99548e83b0ad`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).