republic-os/legislation/us/states/ky/2025rs/hb-114.md

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Bill	AN ACT relating to landowner liability for recreational use permission.	Amend KRS 150.645, relating to landowner liability, to provide that an owner, lessee, or occupant of premises who gives permission to another person to rock climb, boulder, or rappel on the premises shall not be liable for any injury to any person or property caused by the negligent acts of any person to whom permission is granted except for willful and malicious failure on behalf of the owner, lessee, or occupant; amend KRS 411.190, relating to obligations of owner to persons using land for recreation, to include rocks, boulders, and cliffs in the definition of "land" and rock climbing, bouldering, and rappelling in the definition of "recreational purpose."	us/states/ky	Kentucky General Assembly	2025RS	HB 114	Kentucky HB 114 (2025RS)	bill	Amusements and Recreation Athletics Civil Actions Economic Development Land Use Tourism	enacted		3	24	2	2025-01-08T05:00:00+00:00	2025-03-31T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/9f85266f-604f-4ff6-90ad-20c30843b293	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/25RS/hb114.html	e6a2f37015f2839e5fb3d6f58341ef1fd499c056e2429a73c0883abeaa5fe69e	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ky

Kentucky HB 114 (2025RS) — AN ACT relating to landowner liability for recreational use permission.

Amend KRS 150.645, relating to landowner liability, to provide that an owner, lessee, or occupant of premises who gives permission to another person to rock climb, boulder, or rappel on the premises shall not be liable for any injury to any person or property caused by the negligent acts of any person to whom permission is granted except for willful and malicious failure on behalf of the owner, lessee, or occupant; amend KRS 411.190, relating to obligations of owner to persons using land for recreation, to include rocks, boulders, and cliffs in the definition of "land" and rock climbing, bouldering, and rappelling in the definition of "recreational purpose."

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Acts Chapter 133 (committee substitute) — source
3. Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Pass — 96–0 (pass) · lower
• PASS HB 114 — 38–0 (pass) · lower

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-08T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in House introduction
• 2025-01-08T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H) referral-committee
• 2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00 to Tourism & Outdoor Recreation (H) referral-committee
• 2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar committee-passage
• 2025-02-28T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2025-02-28T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 04, 2025
• 2025-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 96-0 passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-07T05:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2025-03-07T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S) referral-committee
• 2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S) referral-committee
• 2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 taken from Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)
• 2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 1st reading reading-1
• 2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 returned to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)
• 2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 taken from Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)
• 2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 2nd reading reading-2
• 2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 returned to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)
• 2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, to Rules committee-passage
• 2025-03-28T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 28, 2025
• 2025-03-28T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 38-0 passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-28T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2025-03-28T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
• 2025-03-28T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
• 2025-03-28T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Governor
• 2025-03-31T04:00:00+00:00 signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 133) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/9f85266f-604f-4ff6-90ad-20c30843b293. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).