republic-os/legislation/us/states/ky/2024rs/hb-161.md

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Bill	AN ACT relating to elections and declaring an emergency.	Establish that a candidate who has filed nomination papers on or before January 5, 2024, and whose precinct name or number has changed since November 8, 2023, due to reapportionment and precinct establishment shall not be disqualified based solely on precinct name or number designation; RETROACTIVE to November 8, 2023; EMERGENCY.	us/states/ky	Kentucky General Assembly	2024RS	HB 161	Kentucky HB 161 (2024RS)	bill	Effective Dates Emergency Elections and Voting Retroactive Legislation Secretary of State State Agencies	enacted	B. Chester-Burton C. Stevenson D. Graham D. Meade D. Osborne G. Brown Jr. J. Branscum J. Nemes M. Meredith R. Roberts S. Rudy	3	27	2	2024-01-04T05:00:00+00:00	2024-01-18T05:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/1c18a45d-645c-42f9-a394-e1965f75f277	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24RS/hb161.html	177d4f34ae292db71f06f8d484fa65e727ff8cfa923ac0704627fc7494cbc166	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ky

Kentucky HB 161 (2024RS) — AN ACT relating to elections and declaring an emergency.

Establish that a candidate who has filed nomination papers on or before January 5, 2024, and whose precinct name or number has changed since November 8, 2023, due to reapportionment and precinct establishment shall not be disqualified based solely on precinct name or number designation; RETROACTIVE to November 8, 2023; EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• Pass — pass (pass) · lower
• PASS HB 161 — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• B. Chester-Burton — primary (person)
• C. Stevenson — primary (person)
• D. Graham — primary (person)
• D. Meade — primary (person)
• D. Osborne — primary (person)
• G. Brown Jr. — primary (person)
• J. Branscum — primary (person)
• J. Nemes — primary (person)
• M. Meredith — primary (person)
• R. Roberts — primary (person)
• S. Rudy — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-04T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in House introduction
• 2024-01-04T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H) referral-committee
• 2024-01-04T05:00:00+00:00 taken from Committee on Committees (H)
• 2024-01-04T05:00:00+00:00 1st reading reading-1
• 2024-01-04T05:00:00+00:00 returned to Committee on Committees (H)
• 2024-01-05T05:00:00+00:00 taken from Committee on Committees (H)
• 2024-01-05T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading reading-2
• 2024-01-05T05:00:00+00:00 to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H) referral-committee
• 2024-01-08T05:00:00+00:00 reassigned to State Government (H)
• 2024-01-08T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, to Rules committee-passage
• 2024-01-08T05:00:00+00:00 taken from Rules
• 2024-01-08T05:00:00+00:00 placed in the Orders of the Day
• 2024-01-08T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 94-0 passage, reading-3
• 2024-01-09T05:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2024-01-09T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S) referral-committee
• 2024-01-09T05:00:00+00:00 to State & Local Government (S) referral-committee
• 2024-01-09T05:00:00+00:00 taken from State & Local Government (S)
• 2024-01-09T05:00:00+00:00 1st reading reading-1
• 2024-01-09T05:00:00+00:00 returned to State & Local Government (S)
• 2024-01-10T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules committee-passage
• 2024-01-10T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, January 11, 2024
• 2024-01-11T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 34-0 passage, reading-3
• 2024-01-12T05:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2024-01-12T05:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
• 2024-01-12T05:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
• 2024-01-12T05:00:00+00:00 delivered to Governor
• 2024-01-18T05:00:00+00:00 signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 1) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1c18a45d-645c-42f9-a394-e1965f75f277. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).