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Bill

AN ACT relating to the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.

Amend 2022 Ky. Acts ch. 197, sec. 11, to direct the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to make the conservation easement acquisitions required to be made under the section instead of the Finance and Administration Cabinet; delete the provision requiring the Finance and Administration Cabinet to procure outside counsel; provide that the conservation easement transfers not be subject to KRS 382.850 provided that the conservation easements stipulate that they will not inhibit coal mining operations; allow the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to work with third parties, contractors, and partners to perform the due diligence necessary to complete the transactions; move the closing date for the acquisitions back to June 30, 2024; provide that notwithstanding KRS 56.040, surveys for the lands involved in the transactions directed by the section may be completed after closing; require funds to be held in escrow to reconcile any differences in acreage of the lands once the surveys are completed; authorize the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to sign all necessary documents to complete the transactions; require the Finance and Administration Cabinet to deliver all documents relating to the due diligence it has already performed to the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources on the effective date of the Act; allow the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to accept, via assignment, contracts that the Finance and Administration Cabinet has already entered into in the course of performing its due diligence; amend 2022 Kentucky Acts Chapter 199, Part I, Operating Budget, L. Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet, 7. Fish and Wildlife Resources, (4) Kentucky Cumberland Forest Conservation Program, to provide that the $3,875,000 one-time allocation in fiscal year 2022-2023 to support the Kentucky Cumberland Forest Conservation Program shall not lapse and shall carry forward; amend KRS 45A.800 to add the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to several definitions for KRS Chapter 45A; amend KRS 45A.810 to create one or more engineering and engineering-related services section committees in the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources and provide for the selection process for the members of the committees; amend KRS 45A.815, 45A.825, 45A.830, 45A.837 to conform; amend KRS 56.040 to require the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to provide for the examination and certification of title when acquiring an interest in land from state funds; amend KRS 150.022 to remove language relating to the removal of a member of the Fish and Wildlife Commission by the Governor; amend KRS 150.0242 to provide that the department shall not be subject to any provision of KRS Chapter 45A that requires Finance and Administration Cabinet approval for any part of its procurement process; require the department to promulgate administrative regulations on or before January 1, 2024 implementing procedures for the procurement of engineering services; amend KRS 150.120 to remove the requirement that the Governor and the Finance and Administration Cabinet approve of the department's sale of contraband; subject sales of contraband to audit by the Auditor of Public Accounts; amend KRS 150.152 to specify certain aspects of the audit of the department by the Auditor of Public Accounts; amend KRS 150.170 to provide for a five acre minimum for a resident owner of farmlands to be hunting and fishing license-exempt when fishing or hunting on their own lands; amend KRS 150.175 to change some department-issued license names and to remove the requirement that an applicant under the age of 16 get written consent from a parent before applying for a youth statewide hunting license; amend KRS 150.195 to remove the requirement that county clerks sell licenses and permits issued by the department; specify other entities authorized to sell licenses and permits issued by the department; make conforming changes; amend KRS 150.250 to remove the requirement that the Governor and the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet approve before thedepartment can enter into a contract with the federal government; amend KRS 150.990 to conform; provide that the requirements of the Act apply to all procurements and acquisitions of interests in land undertaken by the department, including those commenced prior to the effective date of the Act; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.

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Kentucky General Assembly

2023RS

SB 241

Kentucky SB 241 (2023RS)

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Administrative Regulations and Proceedings

Appropriations

Auditor of Public Accounts

Deeds and Conveyances

Effective Dates

Emergency

Environment and Conservation

Financial Responsibility

Fiscal Note

Fish and Wildlife

Governor

Hunting and Fishing

Licensing

Purchasing

Real Estate

State Agencies

enacted

2023-02-21T05:00:00+00:00

2023-03-29T04:00:00+00:00

openstates

ocd-bill/944e55ff-256e-4100-bb65-89844441556c

https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/23RS/sb241.html

5d68dea36237e2a2620f418545c5f64a4e87f4e383a8c50fc2b8d4cf3b8bfcf5

2026-07-01

https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump

2026-07-06

reported

legislation

bill

us-ky

Kentucky SB 241 (2023RS) — AN ACT relating to the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.

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Introduced (filed) — source
Acts Chapter 139 (committee substitute) — source
Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

Votes

PASS SB 241 W/ scs1 sfa1 — pass (pass) · upper
Motion to move the previous question on SB 241 — pass (pass) · upper
Veto Override — pass (pass) · upper
Veto Override Final Passage SB 241 — pass (pass) · upper
Final Passage — pass (pass) · upper

Timeline

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

2023-02-21T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in Senate introduction
2023-02-21T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S) referral-committee
2023-02-23T05:00:00+00:00 to State & Local Government (S) referral-committee
2023-03-01T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) committee-passage
2023-03-01T05:00:00+00:00 floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute amendment-introduction
2023-03-02T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
2023-03-03T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 07, 2023
2023-03-07T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 34-1 with Committee Substitute (1) and Floor Amendment (1) passage, reading-3
2023-03-07T05:00:00+00:00 received in House
2023-03-07T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H) referral-committee
2023-03-09T05:00:00+00:00 taken from Committee on Committees (H)
2023-03-09T05:00:00+00:00 1st reading reading-1
2023-03-09T05:00:00+00:00 returned to Committee on Committees (H)
2023-03-10T05:00:00+00:00 taken from Committee on Committees (H)
2023-03-10T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading reading-2
2023-03-10T05:00:00+00:00 returned to Committee on Committees (H)
2023-03-10T05:00:00+00:00 to Appropriations & Revenue (H) referral-committee
2023-03-16T04:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, to Rules committee-passage
2023-03-16T04:00:00+00:00 taken from Rules
2023-03-16T04:00:00+00:00 placed in the Orders of the Day
2023-03-16T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 83-13 passage, reading-3
2023-03-16T04:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
2023-03-16T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
2023-03-16T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
2023-03-16T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Governor
2023-03-24T04:00:00+00:00 Vetoed executive-veto
2023-03-29T04:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
2023-03-29T04:00:00+00:00 to Rules (S) referral-committee
2023-03-29T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage for consideration of Governor's veto
2023-03-29T04:00:00+00:00 veto overridden veto-override-passage
2023-03-29T04:00:00+00:00 passed 36 -1 passage
2023-03-29T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
2023-03-29T04:00:00+00:00 to Rules (H) referral-committee
2023-03-29T04:00:00+00:00 taken from Rules
2023-03-29T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage for consideration of Governor's veto
2023-03-29T04:00:00+00:00 veto overridden veto-override-passage
2023-03-29T04:00:00+00:00 passed 75-17 passage
2023-03-29T04:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
2023-03-29T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
2023-03-29T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
2023-03-29T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 139) became-law

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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/944e55ff-256e-4100-bb65-89844441556c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).

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