---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to property tax rates."
description: "Amend KRS 132.017 to allow any registered voter who resides in the district to file a petition; remove the requirement that a petition committee be formed and an affidavit to be filed with the county clerk; remove the requirement that the county clerk publish a notice about the tax rate challenge in the newspaper; allow each sheet of the petition to contain the names of voters from more than one voting precinct; remove the requirement that the petition signees put their Social Security number or the name and number of their designated voting precinct on the petition; amend KRS 132.018 to conform."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2024RS"
identifier: "SB 58"
citation: "Kentucky SB 58 (2024RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["County Clerks", "Education", "Finance", "Elections and Voting", "Local Government", "Local Mandate", "Special Districts", "Taxation", "Taxation", "Property"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["G. Boswell"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-03T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-07T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/b99c9074-cbf9-4d38-96ae-c9cf5e12556b"
source_url: "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24RS/sb58.html"
source_hash: "b01fc35c938010527384fe9f280acf1d121e6f88356729b58c9387a3ad070696"
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 SB 58 (2024RS) — AN ACT relating to property tax rates.

Amend KRS 132.017 to allow any registered voter who resides in the district to file a petition; remove the requirement that a petition committee be formed and an affidavit to be filed with the county clerk; remove the requirement that the county clerk publish a notice about the tax rate challenge in the newspaper; allow each sheet of the petition to contain the names of voters from more than one voting precinct; remove the requirement that the petition signees put their Social Security number or the name and number of their designated voting precinct on the petition; amend KRS 132.018 to conform.

## 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/sb58/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **Acts Chapter 115** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/24RS/documents/0115.pdf)
3. **Current/Final** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/sb58/bill.pdf)

## Votes

- Final Passage — **pass** (pass) · upper
- PASS SB 58 W/ scs1 — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- G. Boswell — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-03T05:00:00+00:00** introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-01-03T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (S) `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-04T05:00:00+00:00** to State & Local Government (S) `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`
- **2024-03-01T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, March 04, 2024
- **2024-03-04T05:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 26-8 with Committee Substitute (1) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-05T05:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2024-03-05T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (H) `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** to State Government (H) `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-15T04:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2024-03-22T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, March 25, 2024
- **2024-03-25T04:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 76-15 `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-26T04:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2024-03-26T04:00:00+00:00** to Enrollment (S) `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-26T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by President of the Senate `passage`
- **2024-03-26T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2024-03-26T04:00:00+00:00** delivered to Governor
- **2024-04-05T04:00:00+00:00** filed without Governor's signature with the Secretary of State
- **2024-04-07T04:00:00+00:00** became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 115) `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/b99c9074-cbf9-4d38-96ae-c9cf5e12556b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).