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Bill AN ACT relating to animals. Amend KRS 258.119 to allow the animal control and care fund to receive fines; amend KRS 258.500 to define "person" as a person who has an ongoing therapeutic relationship with a health care provider and stipulate who can be a health care provider under the definition; define additional terms; exclude from therapeutic relationship fee-based transactions for disability documentation absent a face-to-face consultation with a health care provider; establish requirements for an assistance dog to be granted public accommodation; specify that emotional support animals are not required to be admitted where assistance dog are allowed; specify that the rights, privileges, and exemptions afforded to assistance dogs do not extend to emotional support animals; affirm certain rights and priviledges of public establishments as nondiscriminatory and allow additional rights for those providing accommodation in situations of tenancy; amend KRS 258.335 to make unlawful the misrepresentation of a dog as an assistance dog to obtain public accommodation; amend KRS 258.991 to set the penalty for interference with use of an assistance dog at $500 to $1,000 and delete jail time; make the misrepresentation of a dog as an assistance dog to obtain public accommodations unlawful and provide for a fine of up to $1,000; require that funds be paid into the animal control and care fund with 50% to fund spay and neuter clinics and 50% for county animal shelter block grants; amend KRS 525.010 to redefine "assistance dog." us/states/ky Kentucky General Assembly 2024RS HB 335 Kentucky HB 335 (2024RS)
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Disabilities and the Disabled
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Small Business
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C. Massaroni
S. Rudy
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Kentucky HB 335 (2024RS) — AN ACT relating to animals.

Amend KRS 258.119 to allow the animal control and care fund to receive fines; amend KRS 258.500 to define "person" as a person who has an ongoing therapeutic relationship with a health care provider and stipulate who can be a health care provider under the definition; define additional terms; exclude from therapeutic relationship fee-based transactions for disability documentation absent a face-to-face consultation with a health care provider; establish requirements for an assistance dog to be granted public accommodation; specify that emotional support animals are not required to be admitted where assistance dog are allowed; specify that the rights, privileges, and exemptions afforded to assistance dogs do not extend to emotional support animals; affirm certain rights and priviledges of public establishments as nondiscriminatory and allow additional rights for those providing accommodation in situations of tenancy; amend KRS 258.335 to make unlawful the misrepresentation of a dog as an assistance dog to obtain public accommodation; amend KRS 258.991 to set the penalty for interference with use of an assistance dog at $500 to $1,000 and delete jail time; make the misrepresentation of a dog as an assistance dog to obtain public accommodations unlawful and provide for a fine of up to $1,000; require that funds be paid into the animal control and care fund with 50% to fund spay and neuter clinics and 50% for county animal shelter block grants; amend KRS 525.010 to redefine "assistance dog."

Version chain

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

  1. Introduced (filed) — source
  2. Acts Chapter 140 (committee substitute) — source
  3. Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

Votes

  • PASS HB 335 — pass (pass) · lower
  • Pass — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

  • C. Massaroni — primary (person)
  • S. Rudy — primary (person)

Timeline

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

  • 2024-01-22T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in House introduction
  • 2024-01-22T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H) referral-committee
  • 2024-03-05T05:00:00+00:00 to Agriculture (H) referral-committee
  • 2024-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 taken from Agriculture (H)
  • 2024-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 1st reading reading-1
  • 2024-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 returned to Agriculture (H)
  • 2024-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 taken from Agriculture (H)
  • 2024-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 2nd reading reading-2
  • 2024-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 returned to Agriculture (H)
  • 2024-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) committee-passage
  • 2024-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 15, 2024
  • 2024-03-21T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 98-0 with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) passage, reading-3
  • 2024-03-22T04:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
  • 2024-03-22T04:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S) referral-committee
  • 2024-03-25T04:00:00+00:00 to Agriculture (S) referral-committee
  • 2024-03-26T04:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar committee-passage
  • 2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules as a consent bill reading-2
  • 2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 28, 2024
  • 2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 37-1 passage, reading-3
  • 2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
  • 2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
  • 2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
  • 2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Governor
  • 2024-04-09T04:00:00+00:00 signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 140) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fa769c0b-99ce-4d11-bd9f-76f428196aaa. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).