---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to residential planned communities."
description: "Create a new section of KRS Chapter 381 to allow the appointment of a receiver for a planned community when it fails to maintain the infrastructure, common area, storm water detention or retention area, or other facility that it is legally obligated to maintain; allow a city to recover funds expended to repair, renovate, maintain, or otherwise bring violations up to code."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2024RS"
identifier: "HB 472"
citation: "Kentucky HB 472 (2024RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Cities", "Consolidated Local Governments", "Counties", "Urban", "Housing", "Building", "and Construction", "Land Use", "Local Government", "Property", "Real Estate", "Unified Local Governments"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Chester-Burton", "C. Freeland"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2024-02-06T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-09T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e77ee4d5-575d-41cb-ae24-975cb7715b72"
source_url: "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24RS/hb472.html"
source_hash: "b92f46967f5931e93ab5e123f45db02fc48dcaaaff49639374a16d0da3ef6f1e"
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 472 (2024RS) — AN ACT relating to residential planned communities.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 381 to allow the appointment of a receiver for a planned community when it fails to maintain the infrastructure, common area, storm water detention or retention area, or other facility that it is legally obligated to maintain; allow a city to recover funds expended to repair, renovate, maintain, or otherwise bring violations up to code.

## 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/hb472/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **Acts Chapter 150** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/24RS/documents/0150.pdf)
3. **Current/Final** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/hb472/bill.pdf)

## Votes

- Final Passage — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Pass — **pass** (pass) · lower
- PASS HB 472W/scs1 — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- B. Chester-Burton — primary (person)
- C. Freeland — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-06T05:00:00+00:00** introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-02-06T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (H) `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-13T05:00:00+00:00** to Local Government (H) `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-28T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-29T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2024-02-29T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 01, 2024
- **2024-03-01T05:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 95-0 with Committee Substitute (1) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-04T05:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2024-03-04T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (S) `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-11T04:00:00+00:00** to State & Local Government (S) `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-26T04:00:00+00:00** taken from State & Local Government (S)
- **2024-03-26T04:00:00+00:00** 1st reading `reading-1`
- **2024-03-26T04:00:00+00:00** returned to State & Local Government (S)
- **2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1) as a consent bill `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-28T04:00:00+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 38-0 with Committee Substitute (1) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00** to Rules (H) `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute (1)
- **2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00** House concurred in Senate Committee Substitute (1)
- **2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00** passed 97-0 with Committee Substitute (1) `passage`
- **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. 150) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e77ee4d5-575d-41cb-ae24-975cb7715b72`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).