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Bill	AN ACT relating to elections and making an appropriation therefor.	Amend KRS 15.243 to require that the Attorney General or his or her designee randomly select at least one ballot scanner and one race tabulated on that scanner for a hand-to-eye recount, which fulfills the requirement for a risk-limiting audit; require that the hand-to-eye recount be performed by each county clerk or his or her designee; establish the process for the hand-to-eye recount; amend KRS 117.383 and 117.295 to conform.	us/states/ky	Kentucky General Assembly	2024RS	HB 53	Kentucky HB 53 (2024RS)	bill	Attorney General County Clerks Elections and Voting Local Mandate	enacted	A. Bowling C. Massaroni D. Elliott DJ Johnson E. Callaway J. Calloway J. Decker J. Hodgson J. Nemes N. Tate S. Bratcher S. Rawlings	3	26	2	2024-01-02T05:00:00+00:00	2024-04-10T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/6aee3e50-88f9-4463-8b16-cb40d866d1ba	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24RS/hb53.html	32cecc7f533024b06df853cba2e2c7c4bf84ffb3bc3e98d152632946afb8f3c5	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ky

Kentucky HB 53 (2024RS) — AN ACT relating to elections and making an appropriation therefor.

Amend KRS 15.243 to require that the Attorney General or his or her designee randomly select at least one ballot scanner and one race tabulated on that scanner for a hand-to-eye recount, which fulfills the requirement for a risk-limiting audit; require that the hand-to-eye recount be performed by each county clerk or his or her designee; establish the process for the hand-to-eye recount; amend KRS 117.383 and 117.295 to conform.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Acts Chapter 156 (committee substitute) — source
3. Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASS HB 53 — pass (pass) · lower
• Pass — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• A. Bowling — primary (person)
• C. Massaroni — primary (person)
• D. Elliott — primary (person)
• DJ Johnson — primary (person)
• E. Callaway — primary (person)
• J. Calloway — primary (person)
• J. Decker — primary (person)
• J. Hodgson — primary (person)
• J. Nemes — primary (person)
• N. Tate — primary (person)
• S. Bratcher — 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 Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H) referral-committee
• 2024-02-15T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) committee-passage
• 2024-02-16T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2024-02-22T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 23, 2024
• 2024-02-27T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 87-8 with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-28T05:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2024-02-28T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S) referral-committee
• 2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 to State & Local Government (S) referral-committee
• 2024-03-21T04:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar committee-passage
• 2024-03-22T04:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules as a consent bill reading-2
• 2024-03-22T04:00:00+00:00 floor amendments (1) and (2) filed amendment-introduction
• 2024-03-25T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 26, 2024
• 2024-03-26T04:00:00+00:00 floor amendment (3) filed amendment-introduction
• 2024-03-26T04:00:00+00:00 passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day passage
• 2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading reading-3
• 2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 floor amendments (1) and (2) withdrawn
• 2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 floor Amendment (3) defeated
• 2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 passed 34-1 passage
• 2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2024-03-27T04:00:00+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 filed without Governor's signature with the Secretary of State
• 2024-04-10T04:00:00+00:00 became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 156) became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/6aee3e50-88f9-4463-8b16-cb40d866d1ba. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).