---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to motor vehicle registration and making an appropriation therefor."
description: "Create a new section of KRS Chapter 186 to allow a person applying online for motor vehicle registration renewal to make a donation to an organ donor program; allow county clerk to ask a person applying in person for motor vehicle registration to make a donation to an organ donor program; require the Transportation Cabinet to forward funds to the Kentucky Circuit Court Clerks' Trust for Life on a monthly basis; require a county clerk to forward funds to the Kentucky Circuit Court Clerks' Trust for Life on a monthly basis; allow a person applying for online motor vehicle registration renewal to express willingness to be an organ donor; allow a county clerk to ask a person applying for motor vehicle registration if he or she would like to express willingness to be an organ donor; amend KRS 311.1917 to conform; APPROPRIATION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2022RS"
identifier: "SB 30"
citation: "Kentucky SB 30 (2022RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Appropriations", "County Clerks", "Motor Vehicles", "Transportation"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Storm", "D. Carroll", "J. Adams", "J. Howell", "J. Schickel", "R. Alvarado"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2022-01-04T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2022-03-10T05:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/c9e82357-f333-489d-8014-ac369f234eab"
source_url: "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb30.html"
source_hash: "362e55be685d0f8ede960446eaf8fdbcb4216ac66db0b66accacbf8306c2a4f5"
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 30 (2022RS) — AN ACT relating to motor vehicle registration and making an appropriation therefor.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 186 to allow a person applying online for motor vehicle registration renewal to make a donation to an organ donor program; allow county clerk to ask a person applying in person for motor vehicle registration to make a donation to an organ donor program; require the Transportation Cabinet to forward funds to the Kentucky Circuit Court Clerks' Trust for Life on a monthly basis; require a county clerk to forward funds to the Kentucky Circuit Court Clerks' Trust for Life on a monthly basis; allow a person applying for online motor vehicle registration renewal to express willingness to be an organ donor; allow a county clerk to ask a person applying for motor vehicle registration if he or she would like to express willingness to be an organ donor; amend KRS 311.1917 to conform; APPROPRIATION.

## 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/22RS/sb30/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **Acts Chapter 16** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/22RS/documents/0016.pdf)
3. **Current/Final** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/22RS/sb30/bill.pdf)

## Votes

- PASS SB 30 — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Final Passage — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- B. Storm — primary (person)
- D. Carroll — primary (person)
- J. Adams — primary (person)
- J. Howell — primary (person)
- J. Schickel — primary (person)
- R. Alvarado — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2022-01-04T05:00:00+00:00** introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2022-01-04T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (S) `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-06T05:00:00+00:00** to Transportation (S) `referral-committee`
- **2022-01-19T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar `committee-passage`
- **2022-01-20T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2022-01-20T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, January 24, 2022
- **2022-01-24T05:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 35-0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-01-25T05:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2022-01-25T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (H) `referral-committee`
- **2022-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** to Transportation (H) `referral-committee`
- **2022-03-01T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar `committee-passage`
- **2022-03-02T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2022-03-08T05:00:00+00:00** taken from Rules
- **2022-03-08T05:00:00+00:00** placed in the Orders of the Day
- **2022-03-08T05:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 95-0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2022-03-09T05:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2022-03-09T05:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by President of the Senate `passage`
- **2022-03-09T05:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2022-03-09T05:00:00+00:00** delivered to Governor
- **2022-03-10T05:00:00+00:00** signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 16) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/c9e82357-f333-489d-8014-ac369f234eab`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).