republic-os/legislation/us/states/ky/2023rs/hb-153.md

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Bill	AN ACT relating to prohibiting the enforcement of a federal ban or regulation of firearms and declaring an emergency.	Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to prohibit identified entities from enforcing federal firearm bans; prohibit identified entities from adopting rules, regulations, or ordinances that require enforcement of federal firearm bans; and prohibit identified entities from allocating public resources or moneys in the enforcement of federal firearm bans; RETROACTIVE to January 1, 2021; EMERGENCY.	us/states/ky	Kentucky General Assembly	2023RS	HB 153	Kentucky HB 153 (2023RS)	bill	Charter County Government Cities Consolidated Local Governments Corrections Impact Counties Effective Dates Emergency Federal Laws and Regulations Firearms and Weapons Local Government Local Mandate Peace Officers and Law Enforcement Police City and County Police State Public Officers and Employees Retroactive Legislation Sheriffs Unified Local Governments	enacted		3	19	2	2023-02-07T05:00:00+00:00	2023-03-28T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/cf79bbcf-c028-4f42-afa4-1701c8bec9d8	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/23RS/hb153.html	81582d089a22a01bd8fa9407ad4292cf07d9eef00c901ca5bf7f9efa77fa3487	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ky

Kentucky HB 153 (2023RS) — AN ACT relating to prohibiting the enforcement of a federal ban or regulation of firearms and declaring an emergency.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to prohibit identified entities from enforcing federal firearm bans; prohibit identified entities from adopting rules, regulations, or ordinances that require enforcement of federal firearm bans; and prohibit identified entities from allocating public resources or moneys in the enforcement of federal firearm bans; RETROACTIVE to January 1, 2021; EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Acts Chapter 117 (committee substitute) — source
3. Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE HB 153 — pass (pass) · lower
• Pass — pass (pass) · lower

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-07T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in House introduction
• 2023-02-07T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H) referral-committee
• 2023-02-09T05:00:00+00:00 to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (H) referral-committee
• 2023-02-14T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar committee-passage
• 2023-02-15T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2023-02-15T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 16, 2023
• 2023-02-22T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 78-19 passage, reading-3
• 2023-02-23T05:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2023-02-23T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S) referral-committee
• 2023-03-02T05:00:00+00:00 to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S) referral-committee
• 2023-03-09T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar committee-passage
• 2023-03-10T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2023-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 15, 2023
• 2023-03-15T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 27 -9 passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-15T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2023-03-15T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
• 2023-03-15T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
• 2023-03-15T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Governor
• 2023-03-28T04:00:00+00:00 became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 117) became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cf79bbcf-c028-4f42-afa4-1701c8bec9d8. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).