---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to animals."
description: "Amend KRS 258.119 to allow the animal control and care fund to receive fines; amend KRS 258.500 to define \"person\" as a person who has an ongoing therapeutic relationship with a health care provider and stipulate who can be a health care provider under the definition; define additional terms; exclude from therapeutic relationship fee-based transactions for disability documentation absent a face-to-face consultation with a health care provider; establish requirements for an assistance dog to be granted public accommodation; specify that emotional support animals are not required to be admitted where assistance dog are allowed; specify that the rights, privileges, and exemptions afforded to assistance dogs do not extend to emotional support animals; affirm certain rights and priviledges of public establishments as nondiscriminatory and allow additional rights for those providing accommodation in situations of tenancy; amend KRS 258.335 to make unlawful the misrepresentation of a dog as an assistance dog to obtain public accommodation; amend KRS 258.991 to set the penalty for interference with use of an assistance dog at $500 to $1,000 and delete jail time; make the misrepresentation of a dog as an assistance dog to obtain public accommodations unlawful and provide for a fine of up to $1,000; require that funds be paid into the animal control and care fund with 50% to fund spay and neuter clinics and 50% for county animal shelter block grants; amend KRS 525.010 to redefine \"assistance dog.\""
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2024RS"
identifier: "HB 335"
citation: "Kentucky HB 335 (2024RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Disabilities and the Disabled", "Dogs", "Landlord and Tenant", "Local Mandate", "Small Business", "Trade Practices and Retailing"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["C. Massaroni", "S. Rudy"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-22T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-09T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/fa769c0b-99ce-4d11-bd9f-76f428196aaa"
source_url: "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24RS/hb335.html"
source_hash: "0be756e38d4d0457264875cc8768eea1742eb0305d743ab73f0f10ad7fab4f8b"
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 335 (2024RS) — AN ACT relating to animals.

Amend KRS 258.119 to allow the animal control and care fund to receive fines; amend KRS 258.500 to define "person" as a person who has an ongoing therapeutic relationship with a health care provider and stipulate who can be a health care provider under the definition; define additional terms; exclude from therapeutic relationship fee-based transactions for disability documentation absent a face-to-face consultation with a health care provider; establish requirements for an assistance dog to be granted public accommodation; specify that emotional support animals are not required to be admitted where assistance dog are allowed; specify that the rights, privileges, and exemptions afforded to assistance dogs do not extend to emotional support animals; affirm certain rights and priviledges of public establishments as nondiscriminatory and allow additional rights for those providing accommodation in situations of tenancy; amend KRS 258.335 to make unlawful the misrepresentation of a dog as an assistance dog to obtain public accommodation; amend KRS 258.991 to set the penalty for interference with use of an assistance dog at $500 to $1,000 and delete jail time; make the misrepresentation of a dog as an assistance dog to obtain public accommodations unlawful and provide for a fine of up to $1,000; require that funds be paid into the animal control and care fund with 50% to fund spay and neuter clinics and 50% for county animal shelter block grants; amend KRS 525.010 to redefine "assistance dog."

## 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/hb335/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **Acts Chapter 140** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/24RS/documents/0140.pdf)
3. **Current/Final** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/hb335/bill.pdf)

## Votes

- PASS HB 335 — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Pass — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- C. Massaroni — primary (person)
- S. Rudy — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-22T05:00:00+00:00** introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-01-22T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (H) `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-05T05:00:00+00:00** to Agriculture (H) `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-11T04:00:00+00:00** taken from Agriculture (H)
- **2024-03-11T04:00:00+00:00** 1st reading `reading-1`
- **2024-03-11T04:00:00+00:00** returned to Agriculture (H)
- **2024-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** taken from Agriculture (H)
- **2024-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** returned to Agriculture (H)
- **2024-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 15, 2024
- **2024-03-21T04:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 98-0 with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-22T04:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2024-03-22T04:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (S) `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-25T04:00:00+00:00** to Agriculture (S) `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-26T04:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules as a consent bill `reading-2`
- **2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 28, 2024
- **2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 37-1 `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by President of the Senate `passage`
- **2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00** delivered to Governor
- **2024-04-09T04:00:00+00:00** signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 140) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/fa769c0b-99ce-4d11-bd9f-76f428196aaa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).