republic-os/legislation/us/states/ky/2024rs/hb-18.md

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Bill	AN ACT relating to the rights of property owners and declaring an emergency.	Create new sections of KRS Chapter 65 to prohibit local governments from adopting or enforcing ordinances that prohibit owners of housing accommodations from refusing to lease or rent the housing accommodation to a person when the person's source of income to pay rent includes funding from a federal housing assistance program; prohibit local governments from requiring an owner of property occupied by an individual other than the owner to pay an emergency response fee that arises out of the actions of another over which the owner has no control; EMERGENCY.	us/states/ky	Kentucky General Assembly	2024RS	HB 18	Kentucky HB 18 (2024RS)	bill	Effective Dates Emergency Emergency Medical Services Firefighters and Fire Departments Landlord and Tenant Local Government Local Mandate Police City and County Property Special Districts	enacted	B. Wesley D. Hale J. Tipton M. Lockett R. Dotson S. Rawlings	3	37	6	2024-01-02T05:00:00+00:00	2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/4d1df7c5-55ad-4e40-a053-424318f6776a	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24RS/hb18.html	cc044736eb481fce68ea5e5f132ea77282d2ce5d2e91be3c6319da264188a23d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ky

Kentucky HB 18 (2024RS) — AN ACT relating to the rights of property owners and declaring an emergency.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 65 to prohibit local governments from adopting or enforcing ordinances that prohibit owners of housing accommodations from refusing to lease or rent the housing accommodation to a person when the person's source of income to pay rent includes funding from a federal housing assistance program; prohibit local governments from requiring an owner of property occupied by an individual other than the owner to pay an emergency response fee that arises out of the actions of another over which the owner has no control; EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

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

Votes

• Final Passage — pass (pass) · lower
• OVERRIDE VETO HB 18 — pass (pass) · lower
• Final Passage — pass (pass) · lower
• Concur — pass (pass) · lower
• Pass — pass (pass) · lower
• PASS HB 18 W/ scs1 — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• B. Wesley — primary (person)
• D. Hale — primary (person)
• J. Tipton — primary (person)
• M. Lockett — primary (person)
• R. Dotson — primary (person)
• S. Rawlings — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-02T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in House introduction
• 2024-01-02T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H) referral-committee
• 2024-01-12T05:00:00+00:00 to State Government (H) referral-committee
• 2024-01-18T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar committee-passage
• 2024-01-19T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2024-01-22T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, January 23, 2024
• 2024-01-23T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 74-20 passage, reading-3
• 2024-01-24T05:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2024-01-24T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S) referral-committee
• 2024-01-26T05:00:00+00:00 to State & Local Government (S) referral-committee
• 2024-02-14T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) committee-passage
• 2024-02-15T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2024-02-15T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 20, 2024
• 2024-02-20T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 25-11 with Committee Substitute (1) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-21T05:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2024-02-21T05:00:00+00:00 to Rules (H) referral-committee
• 2024-02-22T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute (1)
• 2024-02-27T05:00:00+00:00 House concurred in Senate Committee Substitute (1)
• 2024-02-27T05:00:00+00:00 passed 75-20 passage
• 2024-02-27T05:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
• 2024-02-27T05:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
• 2024-02-27T05:00:00+00:00 delivered to Governor
• 2024-03-05T05:00:00+00:00 Vetoed executive-veto
• 2024-03-05T05:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2024-03-05T05:00:00+00:00 to Rules (H) referral-committee
• 2024-03-05T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage for consideration of Governor's veto
• 2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 veto overridden veto-override-passage
• 2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 passed 76-19 passage
• 2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 to Rules (S) referral-committee
• 2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage for consideration of Governor's veto
• 2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 veto overridden veto-override-passage
• 2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 passed 31-7 passage
• 2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
• 2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
• 2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 3) became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4d1df7c5-55ad-4e40-a053-424318f6776a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).