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Bill	AN ACT relating to fire protection.	Create a new section of KRS 75.100 to 75.260 to require a fire protection district, volunteer fire department district, or subdistrict when making a change to fire protection services involving communications, firefighting resources, or water supply that will likely downgrade fire service ratings to host a public hearing and provide notice of the hearing.	us/states/ky	Kentucky General Assembly	2024RS	HB 43	Kentucky HB 43 (2024RS)	bill	Counties Financial Responsibility Fire Prevention Firefighters and Fire Departments Insurance Local Government Public Meetings Public Safety Special Districts	enacted	J. Bauman J. Hodgson J. Nemes K. Bratcher K. Fleming S. Bratcher S. Rawlings S. Witten	3	23	2	2024-01-02T05:00:00+00:00	2024-04-05T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/5388f0e4-e0a2-43cc-93bc-f8c0d826e5ce	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24RS/hb43.html	805113d5dfe818d6fa820f5a228292ca41a14b6b71d6f8ceabe03f2b699084bc	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ky

Kentucky HB 43 (2024RS) — AN ACT relating to fire protection.

Create a new section of KRS 75.100 to 75.260 to require a fire protection district, volunteer fire department district, or subdistrict when making a change to fire protection services involving communications, firefighting resources, or water supply that will likely downgrade fire service ratings to host a public hearing and provide notice of the hearing.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Acts Chapter 92 (committee substitute) — source
3. Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASS HB 43 — pass (pass) · lower
• Pass — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• J. Bauman — primary (person)
• J. Hodgson — primary (person)
• J. Nemes — primary (person)
• K. Bratcher — primary (person)
• K. Fleming — primary (person)
• S. Bratcher — primary (person)
• S. Rawlings — primary (person)
• S. Witten — 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
• 2024-01-09T05:00:00+00:00 to Local Government (H) referral-committee
• 2024-01-17T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar committee-passage
• 2024-01-18T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2024-01-23T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, January 24, 2024
• 2024-01-24T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 93-0 passage, reading-3
• 2024-01-25T05:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2024-01-25T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S) referral-committee
• 2024-02-23T05:00:00+00:00 to State & Local Government (S) referral-committee
• 2024-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar committee-passage
• 2024-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules as a consent bill reading-2
• 2024-03-15T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Friday, March 22, 2024
• 2024-03-22T04:00:00+00:00 passed over and retained in the Consent Orders of the Day passage
• 2024-03-25T04:00:00+00:00 passed over and retained in the Consent Orders of the Day passage
• 2024-03-26T04:00:00+00:00 passed over and retained in the Consent Orders of the Day passage
• 2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 passed over and retained in the Consent Orders of the Day passage
• 2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 38-0 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
• 2024-04-05T04:00:00+00:00 signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 92) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/5388f0e4-e0a2-43cc-93bc-f8c0d826e5ce. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).