---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to charitable donor intent protection."
description: "Create a new section of KRS Chapter 273 to define terms; establish that charitable organizations that accept contributions pursuant to an endowment agreement must abide by the terms of the endowment agreement; establish that a donor or a donor's legal representative may bring a civil action against a charitable organization that violates the terms of the endowment agreement."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2024RS"
identifier: "SB 70"
citation: "Kentucky SB 70 (2024RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Charitable Organizations and Institutions", "Civil Actions", "Consumer Affairs"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Storm", "G. Boswell", "J. Schickel", "M. Nemes", "P. Wheeler", "R. Mills", "S. Meredith"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-04T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-09T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/4c74b22c-4146-4303-9dbd-8e7ba4b55c74"
source_url: "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24RS/sb70.html"
source_hash: "5f5587f51a7911b460eb87e116244f049bb0409864b78ca22a4174ff8a36e1de"
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 70 (2024RS) — AN ACT relating to charitable donor intent protection.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 273 to define terms; establish that charitable organizations that accept contributions pursuant to an endowment agreement must abide by the terms of the endowment agreement; establish that a donor or a donor's legal representative may bring a civil action against a charitable organization that violates the terms of the endowment agreement.

## 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/sb70/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **Acts Chapter 121** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/24RS/documents/0121.pdf)
3. **Current/Final** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/sb70/bill.pdf)

## Votes

- Final Passage — **pass** (pass) · upper
- PASS SB 70 W/ scs1 — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- B. Storm — primary (person)
- G. Boswell — primary (person)
- J. Schickel — primary (person)
- M. Nemes — primary (person)
- P. Wheeler — primary (person)
- R. Mills — primary (person)
- S. Meredith — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-04T05:00:00+00:00** introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-01-04T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (S) `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-08T05:00:00+00:00** to Licensing & Occupations (S) `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-16T05:00:00+00:00** recommitted to Judiciary (S)
- **2024-02-01T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-02T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2024-02-02T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, February 05, 2024
- **2024-02-05T05:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 34-2 with Committee Substitute (1) `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-06T05:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2024-02-06T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (H) `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-05T05:00:00+00:00** to Judiciary (H) `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-07T05:00:00+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
- **2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 80-14 `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by President of the Senate `passage`
- **2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00** delivered to Governor
- **2024-04-09T04:00:00+00:00** signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 121) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/4c74b22c-4146-4303-9dbd-8e7ba4b55c74`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).