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Bill AN ACT relating to county clerks. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 67 to define "recorded instrument" and "portal"; establish deadlines for county clerks to maintain portals for the electronic filing and searching of recorded instruments; amend KRS 64.012 to provide that the $10 storage fee collected by a county clerk shall be held by the county fiscal court or legislative body of a consolidated local government or urban-county government or the exclusive purpose of providing funding for the permanent storage of recorded instruments; amend KRS 142.010 to provide that 90 percent of the funds held for the local records grant program shall be set aside and distributed as grants for county clerks; create a new section of KRS Chapter 64 to allow a county clerk in a county containing a population of less than 70,000 to receive an advancement to defray necessary official expenses; appropriate $25,000,000 from the General Fund to the Department for Local Government for the purpose of providing grants to county clerks to establish and maintain portals for the electronic filing and searching of recorded instruments; APPROPRIATION. us/states/ky Kentucky General Assembly 2022RS SB 135 Kentucky SB 135 (2022RS)
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Consolidated Local Governments
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County Clerks
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D. Douglas
J. Howell
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Kentucky SB 135 (2022RS) — AN ACT relating to county clerks.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 67 to define "recorded instrument" and "portal"; establish deadlines for county clerks to maintain portals for the electronic filing and searching of recorded instruments; amend KRS 64.012 to provide that the $10 storage fee collected by a county clerk shall be held by the county fiscal court or legislative body of a consolidated local government or urban-county government or the exclusive purpose of providing funding for the permanent storage of recorded instruments; amend KRS 142.010 to provide that 90 percent of the funds held for the local records grant program shall be set aside and distributed as grants for county clerks; create a new section of KRS Chapter 64 to allow a county clerk in a county containing a population of less than 70,000 to receive an advancement to defray necessary official expenses; appropriate $25,000,000 from the General Fund to the Department for Local Government for the purpose of providing grants to county clerks to establish and maintain portals for the electronic filing and searching of recorded instruments; APPROPRIATION.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

  1. Introduced (filed) — source
  2. Acts Chapter 26 (committee substitute) — source
  3. Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • Pass — pass (pass) · upper
  • PASS SB 135W/ scs1 scta1 — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

  • D. Douglas — primary (person)
  • J. Howell — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2022-02-02T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in Senate introduction
  • 2022-02-02T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S) referral-committee
  • 2022-02-07T05:00:00+00:00 to Appropriations & Revenue (S) referral-committee
  • 2022-02-18T05:00:00+00:00 reassigned to State & Local Government (S)
  • 2022-02-23T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) committee-passage
  • 2022-02-24T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
  • 2022-02-25T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, February 28, 2022
  • 2022-02-28T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 34-0-1 with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) passage, reading-3
  • 2022-03-01T05:00:00+00:00 received in House
  • 2022-03-01T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H) referral-committee
  • 2022-03-08T05:00:00+00:00 to Local Government (H) referral-committee
  • 2022-03-09T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar committee-passage
  • 2022-03-10T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
  • 2022-03-10T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 11, 2022
  • 2022-03-16T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 93-1 passage, reading-3
  • 2022-03-17T04:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
  • 2022-03-17T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
  • 2022-03-17T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
  • 2022-03-17T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Governor
  • 2022-03-24T04:00:00+00:00 signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 26) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/beb2698e-42db-4aa0-b333-ad79d1ad5616. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).