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Bill	AN ACT relating to the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources and declaring an emergency.	Create a new section of KRS Chapter 150 to require the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to conduct all procurements necessary for its performance pursuant to KRS Chapter 45A; provide that upon approval of the commission, the commissioner shall be deemed the chief purchasing officer for the purposes of conducting procurements for the department; make all department personal service contracts, tax incentive agreements, and memoranda of agreement subject to review by the Government Contract Review Committee; require the department, upon approval of the commission, to conduct its own bidding and procurement; amend KRS 150.021 to provide that the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources be attached administratively to the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet only for those limited functions and purposes expressly requested by the department; remove language making the powers conferred to the department by KRS Chapters 150 and 235 subject to KRS Chapters 42, 45, 45A, 56, and 64; require the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet to transfer to the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources copies of all records, files, and documents associated with functions that the cabinet no longer performs for the department; exempt the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources from reorganization under KRS Chapter 12; amend KRS 150.022 to change references from wildlife districts to commission districts; make commission members' terms end on December 31 of the fourth calendar year following their appointments and until their successors are duly appointed and confirmed by the Senate; require that a member serve no more than two full terms, excluding any partial terms that a member may serve; require that a candidate to be a commission member have held hunting and fishing licenses for the previous five consecutive years; require that an appointment to the commission to replace a member whose term has expired be made no later than January 20 of the year following the year in which the term expired; amend KRS 150.061 to make the commissioner the appointing authority for the department for the purposes of KRS Chapter 18A and to conform; amend KRS 235.030 to provide that the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources be attached administratively to the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet only for those limited functions and purposes expressly requested by the department; amend KRS 45A.030, 150.0241, 235.010, and 235.130 to conform.	us/states/ky	Kentucky General Assembly	2022RS	SB 217	Kentucky SB 217 (2022RS)	bill	Boards and Commissions Boats and Boating Financial Responsibility Fish and Wildlife Hunting and Fishing Purchasing State Agencies	enacted	R. Webb	3	38	4	2022-02-24T05:00:00+00:00	2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/cf4bdb64-981a-46f8-b2df-7ae459026b9a	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/sb217.html	db569b53daf74a5232729bf5224dee1e732e08e6c78664891ace5a4eb0c3c157	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ky

Kentucky SB 217 (2022RS) — AN ACT relating to the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources and declaring an emergency.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 150 to require the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to conduct all procurements necessary for its performance pursuant to KRS Chapter 45A; provide that upon approval of the commission, the commissioner shall be deemed the chief purchasing officer for the purposes of conducting procurements for the department; make all department personal service contracts, tax incentive agreements, and memoranda of agreement subject to review by the Government Contract Review Committee; require the department, upon approval of the commission, to conduct its own bidding and procurement; amend KRS 150.021 to provide that the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources be attached administratively to the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet only for those limited functions and purposes expressly requested by the department; remove language making the powers conferred to the department by KRS Chapters 150 and 235 subject to KRS Chapters 42, 45, 45A, 56, and 64; require the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet to transfer to the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources copies of all records, files, and documents associated with functions that the cabinet no longer performs for the department; exempt the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources from reorganization under KRS Chapter 12; amend KRS 150.022 to change references from wildlife districts to commission districts; make commission members' terms end on December 31 of the fourth calendar year following their appointments and until their successors are duly appointed and confirmed by the Senate; require that a member serve no more than two full terms, excluding any partial terms that a member may serve; require that a candidate to be a commission member have held hunting and fishing licenses for the previous five consecutive years; require that an appointment to the commission to replace a member whose term has expired be made no later than January 20 of the year following the year in which the term expired; amend KRS 150.061 to make the commissioner the appointing authority for the department for the purposes of KRS Chapter 18A and to conform; amend KRS 235.030 to provide that the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources be attached administratively to the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet only for those limited functions and purposes expressly requested by the department; amend KRS 45A.030, 150.0241, 235.010, and 235.130 to conform.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Acts Chapter 197 (committee substitute) — source
3. Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Pass — pass (pass) · upper
• FINAL PASSAGE SB 217 VETO OVERRIDE — pass (pass) · upper
• Veto Override — pass (pass) · upper
• PASS SB 217 W/ scs1 sfa1 scta1 — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• R. Webb — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-02-24T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in Senate introduction
• 2022-02-24T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S) referral-committee
• 2022-02-28T05:00:00+00:00 to Natural Resources & Energy (S) referral-committee
• 2022-03-08T05:00:00+00:00 taken from Natural Resources & Energy (S)
• 2022-03-08T05:00:00+00:00 1st reading reading-1
• 2022-03-08T05:00:00+00:00 returned to Natural Resources & Energy (S)
• 2022-03-09T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) committee-passage
• 2022-03-09T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 10, 2022
• 2022-03-10T05:00:00+00:00 floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute amendment-introduction
• 2022-03-10T05:00:00+00:00 passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day passage
• 2022-03-11T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 28 - 2 with Committee Substitute (1) Floor Amendment (1), and Committee Amendment (1-title) passage, reading-3
• 2022-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2022-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H) referral-committee
• 2022-03-23T04:00:00+00:00 to Tourism & Outdoor Recreation (H) referral-committee
• 2022-03-24T04:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) committee-passage
• 2022-03-25T04:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2022-03-25T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 29, 2022
• 2022-03-30T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 62-23 passage, reading-3
• 2022-03-30T04:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2022-03-30T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
• 2022-03-30T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
• 2022-03-30T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Governor
• 2022-04-06T04:00:00+00:00 Vetoed executive-veto
• 2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00 to Rules (S) referral-committee
• 2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage for consideration of Governor's veto
• 2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00 veto overridden veto-override-passage
• 2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00 passed 29-8 passage
• 2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00 to Rules (H) referral-committee
• 2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00 taken from Rules
• 2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage for consideration of Governor's veto
• 2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00 veto overridden veto-override-passage
• 2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00 passed 69-24 passage
• 2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
• 2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
• 2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 197) became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cf4bdb64-981a-46f8-b2df-7ae459026b9a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).