republic-os/legislation/us/states/ky/2024rs/sb-143.md

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Bill	AN ACT proposing to amend Sections 145 and 155 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to persons entitled to vote.	Propose to amend Sections 145 and 155 of the Constitution of Kentucky to prohibit persons who are not citizens of the United States from being allowed to vote in the Commonwealth of Kentucky; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.	us/states/ky	Kentucky General Assembly	2024RS	SB 143	Kentucky SB 143 (2024RS)	bill	Constitution Ky. County Clerks Elections and Voting Local Mandate Secretary of State	enacted	B. Storm D. Douglas D. Yates G. Boswell G. Elkins J. Howell M. Deneen M. Wilson M. Wise P. Wheeler R. Mills S. Meredith	3	22	2	2024-01-29T05:00:00+00:00	2024-03-21T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/fe1c4b6b-1d04-4483-b066-ae478e3aa33c	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24RS/sb143.html	35beab6e71fb5c92e9c7758e921bc6c777c158634a731447f1a27533ca1419e4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ky

Kentucky SB 143 (2024RS) — AN ACT proposing to amend Sections 145 and 155 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to persons entitled to vote.

Propose to amend Sections 145 and 155 of the Constitution of Kentucky to prohibit persons who are not citizens of the United States from being allowed to vote in the Commonwealth of Kentucky; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Acts Chapter 7 (committee substitute) — source
3. Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASS SB 143 — pass (pass) · upper
• Final Passage — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• B. Storm — primary (person)
• D. Douglas — primary (person)
• D. Yates — primary (person)
• G. Boswell — primary (person)
• G. Elkins — primary (person)
• J. Howell — primary (person)
• M. Deneen — primary (person)
• M. Wilson — primary (person)
• M. Wise — primary (person)
• P. Wheeler — primary (person)
• R. Mills — primary (person)
• S. Meredith — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-29T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in Senate introduction
• 2024-01-29T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S) referral-committee
• 2024-01-31T05:00:00+00:00 to State & Local Government (S) referral-committee
• 2024-02-07T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar committee-passage
• 2024-02-08T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2024-02-08T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, February 12, 2024
• 2024-02-12T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 31-4 passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-13T05:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2024-02-13T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H) referral-committee
• 2024-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 taken from Committee on Committees (H)
• 2024-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 1st reading reading-1
• 2024-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 returned to Committee on Committees (H)
• 2024-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H) referral-committee
• 2024-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 taken from Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
• 2024-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 2nd reading reading-2
• 2024-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 returned to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
• 2024-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, to Rules 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, passed 72-12 passage, reading-3
• 2024-03-15T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
• 2024-03-21T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
• 2024-03-21T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 7) became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/fe1c4b6b-1d04-4483-b066-ae478e3aa33c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).