republic-os/legislation/us/states/ky/2024rs/sb-70.md

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Bill	AN ACT relating to charitable donor intent protection.	Create a new section of KRS Chapter 273 to define terms; establish that charitable organizations that accept contributions pursuant to an endowment agreement must abide by the terms of the endowment agreement; establish that a donor or a donor's legal representative may bring a civil action against a charitable organization that violates the terms of the endowment agreement.	us/states/ky	Kentucky General Assembly	2024RS	SB 70	Kentucky SB 70 (2024RS)	bill	Charitable Organizations and Institutions Civil Actions Consumer Affairs	enacted	B. Storm G. Boswell J. Schickel M. Nemes P. Wheeler R. Mills S. Meredith	3	19	2	2024-01-04T05:00:00+00:00	2024-04-09T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/4c74b22c-4146-4303-9dbd-8e7ba4b55c74	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24RS/sb70.html	5f5587f51a7911b460eb87e116244f049bb0409864b78ca22a4174ff8a36e1de	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ky

Kentucky SB 70 (2024RS) — AN ACT relating to charitable donor intent protection.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 273 to define terms; establish that charitable organizations that accept contributions pursuant to an endowment agreement must abide by the terms of the endowment agreement; establish that a donor or a donor's legal representative may bring a civil action against a charitable organization that violates the terms of the endowment agreement.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Acts Chapter 121 (committee substitute) — source
3. Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Final Passage — pass (pass) · upper
• PASS SB 70 W/ scs1 — pass (pass) · upper

Sponsors

• B. Storm — primary (person)
• G. Boswell — primary (person)
• J. Schickel — primary (person)
• M. Nemes — primary (person)
• P. Wheeler — primary (person)
• R. Mills — primary (person)
• S. Meredith — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-01-04T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in Senate introduction
• 2024-01-04T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S) referral-committee
• 2024-01-08T05:00:00+00:00 to Licensing & Occupations (S) referral-committee
• 2024-01-16T05:00:00+00:00 recommitted to Judiciary (S)
• 2024-02-01T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) committee-passage
• 2024-02-02T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2024-02-02T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, February 05, 2024
• 2024-02-05T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 34-2 with Committee Substitute (1) passage, reading-3
• 2024-02-06T05:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2024-02-06T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H) referral-committee
• 2024-03-05T05:00:00+00:00 to Judiciary (H) referral-committee
• 2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar committee-passage
• 2024-03-07T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2024-03-22T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, March 25, 2024
• 2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 80-14 passage, reading-3
• 2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
• 2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
• 2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Governor
• 2024-04-09T04:00:00+00:00 signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 121) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4c74b22c-4146-4303-9dbd-8e7ba4b55c74. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).