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Bill	AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.	Create new sections of KRS Chapter 532 to define "violent felony" and enhance sentencing for a person convicted of a third violent felony; prohibit probation, parole, or other form of release for a person who commits a crime using a weapon that is stolen, defaced, loaded with restricted ammunition, or otherwise violates state law; amend KRS 610.070 to require a parent, legal guardian, or custodian to be present at court proceedings involving a child in the juvenile justice system; create a new section of KRS Chapter 610 to establish penalty; amend KRS 507.020 to expand offense of murder; amend KRS 507.030 to expand offense of manslaughter in the first degree; amend KRS 507.040 to expand offense of manslaughter in the second degree; amend KRS 218A.1412 to provide increased penalties for certain trafficking offenses; create a new section of KRS Chapter 515 to create a new offense of carjacking; amend KRS 512.020 and 512.030 to lower the threshold for criminal mischief in the first degree to $500; amend KRS 149.410, 506.160, and 525.220 to conform; amend KRS 520.050 to enhance promoting contraband to a Class B felony if the dangerous contraband is fentanyl, carfentanil, or a fentanyl derivative; amend KRS 16.220 to allow purchase of a confiscated firearm by a person who bids under the condition that they not take possession of the firearm, but instead leave it with the Department of Kentucky State Police for destruction; prohibit government agencies from purchasing the firearm; make technical corrections; create new sections of KRS Chapters 511, 198A, and 65 to establish the offense of criminal street camping and provide exceptions; amend KRS 503.080 to conform; amend KRS 202C.050 to reduce requirements to find a person subject to involuntary commitment pursuant to KRS Chapter 202C; amend KRS 186.417 to include felony offenders released from county jails and local correctional facilities among those who may be issued personal identification cards or operator's licenses under certain conditions; amend KRS 431.510 to define terms; prohibit any charitable bail organization from posting bail in excess of $5,000; prohibit any charitable bail organization from posting bail for any offense of domestic violence and abuse or dating violence and abuse, and for any offense under a civil court order or warrant under KRS 222.430 to 222.437; establish that any bond ordered forfeited following a new criminal offense shall be distributed to the victim of the new offense; require publication of records and annual reporting to the General Assembly; create new section of KRS Chapter 507 to create the offense of murder of a first responder and establish penalties; amend KRS 506.010 to conform; amend KRS 532.025 to include the murder of first responders as an aggravating circumstance for the death penalty; amend KRS 532.036 to allow restitution following a conviction for Murder of a first responder; amend KRS 439.320 to provide that members of the Parole Board shall serve at the pleasure of the Governor, that panels of the board shall consist of not less than three and not more than six members, and that all members of the panel must agree on a decision or the matter shall be referred to the full board; amend KRS 439.330 to require that parole be granted upon a two-thirds vote of the full board; amend KRS 433.236 to limit liability for shopkeepers; amend KRS 439.3401 to add a person who has been convicted of or entered a plea of guilty to a Class B felony violation of KRS 520.050 to the definition of "violent offender" and to include carjacking and attempted murder in the list of violent offenses; amend KRS 508.075 and 508.078, relating to terroristic threatening, to include any workplace or any gathering of 3 or more persons; amend KRS 524.040 to include harassing communications as conduct constituting intimidation of a participant in the legal process; amend KRS 439.340 to allow the Parole Board to order participation in a specific violence reduction program as a condition of parole; amend KRS 533.030 to allow a court to require participationin a specific violence reduction program as a condition of probation or conditional discharge; amend KRS 403.763 and 456.180 to enhance a second or subsequent violation of an order of protection within a five-year period to a Class D felony; amend KRS 500.080 to include family members, members of an unmarried couple, and persons in a dating relationship, in application of a particular definition of serious physical injury; amend KRS 514.020 to reduce the time required to establish prima facie evidence of theft by deception of rented or leased property that is not returned to the owner from 10 days to four days; amend KRS 196.031 to require the annual report to also include the percentage of offenders who commit new offenses within two years; amend KRS 520.095 to enhance fleeing or evading police in the first degree to a Class C felony; provide that the defendant shall not be released on probation, shock probation, conditional discharge, or parole until he or she has served at least 50 percent of the sentence imposed; amend KRS 520.100 to enhance fleeing or evading police in the second degree to a Class D felony; amend KRS 532.110 to provide sentences for two or more felony sex crimes shall run consecutively; provide that the defendant shall not be released on probation, shock probation, conditional discharge, or parole until he or she has served at least 50 percent of the sentence imposed; amend KRS 158.155 to require school employees to report certain enumerated crimes to law enforcement; repeal KRS 512.040, which establishes the crime of criminal mischief in the third degree and KRS 158.154, which deals with discipline in schools; EFFECTIVE, in part, August 1, 2025.	us/states/ky	Kentucky General Assembly	2024RS	HB 5	Kentucky HB 5 (2024RS)	bill	Bail and Pretrial Release Boards and Commissions Bonds of Surety Charitable Organizations and Institutions Children and Minors Civil Actions Corrections Impact Corrections and Correctional Facilities State Courts Courts Circuit Courts District Courts Family Crime Victims Crimes and Punishments Criminal Procedure Domestic Relations Drugs and Medicines Effective Dates Delayed Explosives Firearms and Weapons Jails and Jailers Judges and Court Commissioners Juries and Jurors Landlord and Tenant Local Mandate Motor Vehicles Police State Probation and Parole Property Prosecutors Public Protection Public Safety Reports Mandated	enacted	A. Neighbors B. Wesley C. Freeland C. Fugate D. Bentley D. Fister D. Hale D. Osborne DJ Johnson E. Callaway J. Bauman J. Blanton J. Decker J. Gooch Jr. J. Hodgson J. Justice J. Nemes J. Tipton K. Bratcher K. Fleming K. Jackson K. King M. Clines M. Dossett M. Imes M. Lockett M. Pollock N. Tate N. Wilson P. Flannery P. Pratt R. Dotson R. Duvall R. Heath R. Raymer R. White S. Baker S. Bratcher S. Dietz S. Lewis S. McPherson S. Rawlings S. Riley S. Sharp S. Witten T. Huff T. Truett W. Thomas W. Williams	3	49	10	2024-01-09T05:00:00+00:00	2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/51a2786a-682f-4dd7-a229-f660df4555c9	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24RS/hb5.html	025e7c884253129ab5079fcdb86c315e252f9a753b41ae15c1d2b6e2e021d52e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ky

Kentucky HB 5 (2024RS) — AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 532 to define "violent felony" and enhance sentencing for a person convicted of a third violent felony; prohibit probation, parole, or other form of release for a person who commits a crime using a weapon that is stolen, defaced, loaded with restricted ammunition, or otherwise violates state law; amend KRS 610.070 to require a parent, legal guardian, or custodian to be present at court proceedings involving a child in the juvenile justice system; create a new section of KRS Chapter 610 to establish penalty; amend KRS 507.020 to expand offense of murder; amend KRS 507.030 to expand offense of manslaughter in the first degree; amend KRS 507.040 to expand offense of manslaughter in the second degree; amend KRS 218A.1412 to provide increased penalties for certain trafficking offenses; create a new section of KRS Chapter 515 to create a new offense of carjacking; amend KRS 512.020 and 512.030 to lower the threshold for criminal mischief in the first degree to $500; amend KRS 149.410, 506.160, and 525.220 to conform; amend KRS 520.050 to enhance promoting contraband to a Class B felony if the dangerous contraband is fentanyl, carfentanil, or a fentanyl derivative; amend KRS 16.220 to allow purchase of a confiscated firearm by a person who bids under the condition that they not take possession of the firearm, but instead leave it with the Department of Kentucky State Police for destruction; prohibit government agencies from purchasing the firearm; make technical corrections; create new sections of KRS Chapters 511, 198A, and 65 to establish the offense of criminal street camping and provide exceptions; amend KRS 503.080 to conform; amend KRS 202C.050 to reduce requirements to find a person subject to involuntary commitment pursuant to KRS Chapter 202C; amend KRS 186.417 to include felony offenders released from county jails and local correctional facilities among those who may be issued personal identification cards or operator's licenses under certain conditions; amend KRS 431.510 to define terms; prohibit any charitable bail organization from posting bail in excess of $5,000; prohibit any charitable bail organization from posting bail for any offense of domestic violence and abuse or dating violence and abuse, and for any offense under a civil court order or warrant under KRS 222.430 to 222.437; establish that any bond ordered forfeited following a new criminal offense shall be distributed to the victim of the new offense; require publication of records and annual reporting to the General Assembly; create new section of KRS Chapter 507 to create the offense of murder of a first responder and establish penalties; amend KRS 506.010 to conform; amend KRS 532.025 to include the murder of first responders as an aggravating circumstance for the death penalty; amend KRS 532.036 to allow restitution following a conviction for Murder of a first responder; amend KRS 439.320 to provide that members of the Parole Board shall serve at the pleasure of the Governor, that panels of the board shall consist of not less than three and not more than six members, and that all members of the panel must agree on a decision or the matter shall be referred to the full board; amend KRS 439.330 to require that parole be granted upon a two-thirds vote of the full board; amend KRS 433.236 to limit liability for shopkeepers; amend KRS 439.3401 to add a person who has been convicted of or entered a plea of guilty to a Class B felony violation of KRS 520.050 to the definition of "violent offender" and to include carjacking and attempted murder in the list of violent offenses; amend KRS 508.075 and 508.078, relating to terroristic threatening, to include any workplace or any gathering of 3 or more persons; amend KRS 524.040 to include harassing communications as conduct constituting intimidation of a participant in the legal process; amend KRS 439.340 to allow the Parole Board to order participation in a specific violence reduction program as a condition of parole; amend KRS 533.030 to allow a court to require participationin a specific violence reduction program as a condition of probation or conditional discharge; amend KRS 403.763 and 456.180 to enhance a second or subsequent violation of an order of protection within a five-year period to a Class D felony; amend KRS 500.080 to include family members, members of an unmarried couple, and persons in a dating relationship, in application of a particular definition of serious physical injury; amend KRS 514.020 to reduce the time required to establish prima facie evidence of theft by deception of rented or leased property that is not returned to the owner from 10 days to four days; amend KRS 196.031 to require the annual report to also include the percentage of offenders who commit new offenses within two years; amend KRS 520.095 to enhance fleeing or evading police in the first degree to a Class C felony; provide that the defendant shall not be released on probation, shock probation, conditional discharge, or parole until he or she has served at least 50 percent of the sentence imposed; amend KRS 520.100 to enhance fleeing or evading police in the second degree to a Class D felony; amend KRS 532.110 to provide sentences for two or more felony sex crimes shall run consecutively; provide that the defendant shall not be released on probation, shock probation, conditional discharge, or parole until he or she has served at least 50 percent of the sentence imposed; amend KRS 158.155 to require school employees to report certain enumerated crimes to law enforcement; repeal KRS 512.040, which establishes the crime of criminal mischief in the third degree and KRS 158.154, which deals with discipline in schools; EFFECTIVE, in part, August 1, 2025.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Acts Chapter 174 (committee substitute) — source
3. Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASS HB 5 w/ SCS1 — pass (pass) · lower
• Consider Motion — pass (pass) · lower
• Adopt — fail (fail) · lower
• Pass — pass (pass) · lower
• Motion to Divide — fail (fail) · lower
• Adopt — fail (fail) · lower
• Veto Override HB 5 — pass (pass) · lower
• Table — fail (fail) · lower
• Veto Override — pass (pass) · lower
• Final Passage — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• A. Neighbors — primary (person)
• B. Wesley — primary (person)
• C. Freeland — primary (person)
• C. Fugate — primary (person)
• D. Bentley — primary (person)
• D. Fister — primary (person)
• D. Hale — primary (person)
• D. Osborne — primary (person)
• DJ Johnson — primary (person)
• E. Callaway — primary (person)
• J. Bauman — primary (person)
• J. Blanton — primary (person)
• J. Decker — primary (person)
• J. Gooch Jr. — primary (person)
• J. Hodgson — primary (person)
• J. Justice — primary (person)
• J. Nemes — primary (person)
• J. Tipton — primary (person)
• K. Bratcher — primary (person)
• K. Fleming — primary (person)
• K. Jackson — primary (person)
• K. King — primary (person)
• M. Clines — primary (person)
• M. Dossett — primary (person)
• M. Imes — primary (person)
• M. Lockett — primary (person)
• M. Pollock — primary (person)
• N. Tate — primary (person)
• N. Wilson — primary (person)
• P. Flannery — primary (person)
• P. Pratt — primary (person)
• R. Dotson — primary (person)
• R. Duvall — primary (person)
• R. Heath — primary (person)
• R. Raymer — primary (person)
• R. White — primary (person)
• S. Baker — primary (person)
• S. Bratcher — primary (person)
• S. Dietz — primary (person)
• S. Lewis — primary (person)
• S. McPherson — primary (person)
• S. Rawlings — primary (person)
• S. Riley — primary (person)
• S. Sharp — primary (person)
• S. Witten — primary (person)
• T. Huff — primary (person)
• T. Truett — primary (person)
• W. Thomas — primary (person)
• W. Williams — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-09T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in House introduction
• 2024-01-09T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H) referral-committee
• 2024-01-18T05:00:00+00:00 floor amendments (1) and (2) filed amendment-introduction
• 2024-01-18T05:00:00+00:00 to Judiciary (H) referral-committee
• 2024-01-19T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) committee-passage
• 2024-01-19T05:00:00+00:00 floor amendments (3) and (4) filed to Committee Substitute amendment-introduction
• 2024-01-22T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2024-01-22T05:00:00+00:00 floor amendments (5), (7), (9) and (11) filed to Committee Substitute, floor amendments (6), (8), (10) and (12-title) filed to bill
• 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 floor amendments (13), (14), (15), (16), (17), (18), (19), (20), (21), (22), (23), (24), (25) and (26) filed to Committee Substitute
• 2024-01-24T05:00:00+00:00 floor amendment (27) filed to Committee Substitute amendment-introduction
• 2024-01-25T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading reading-3
• 2024-01-25T05:00:00+00:00 floor amendments (3), (5) and (7) defeated
• 2024-01-25T05:00:00+00:00 passed 74-22 with Committee Substitute (1) and Floor Amendment (27) passage
• 2024-01-26T05:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2024-01-26T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S) referral-committee
• 2024-02-07T05:00:00+00:00 to Judiciary (S) referral-committee
• 2024-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 taken from Judiciary (S)
• 2024-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 1st reading reading-1
• 2024-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 returned to Judiciary (S)
• 2024-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1) committee-passage
• 2024-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 15, 2024
• 2024-03-15T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading reading-3
• 2024-03-15T04:00:00+00:00 floor amendments (1) (2) (3) (4) and (5) withdrawn
• 2024-03-15T04:00:00+00:00 passed 27-9 with Committee Substitute (1) passage
• 2024-03-21T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2024-03-21T04:00:00+00:00 to Rules (H) referral-committee
• 2024-03-25T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute (1)
• 2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00 House concurred in Senate Committee Substitute (1)
• 2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00 passed 75-23 with Committee Substitute (1) passage
• 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 Vetoed executive-veto
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 to Rules (H) referral-committee
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 taken from Rules
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage for consideration of Governor's veto
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 veto overridden veto-override-passage
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 passed 73-22 passage
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 to Rules (S) referral-committee
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage for consideration of Governor's veto
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 veto overridden veto-override-passage
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 passed 27-10 passage
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 174) became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/51a2786a-682f-4dd7-a229-f660df4555c9. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).