republic-os/legislation/us/states/ky/2025rs/hb-520.md

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Bill	AN ACT relating to law enforcement records.	Amend KRS 61.878, relating to open records, to provide that law enforcement records shall be exempt from public inspection if the disclosure of the information could pose an articulable risk of harm to the law enforcement agency or its investigtion by revealing the identity of informants or witnesses not otherwise known.	us/states/ky	Kentucky General Assembly	2025RS	HB 520	Kentucky HB 520 (2025RS)	bill	Administrative Regulations and Proceedings Local Mandate Peace Officers and Law Enforcement Police City and County Police State Public Records and Reports	enacted		3	27	2	2025-02-13T05:00:00+00:00	2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/a6527644-11bc-49e0-a4ee-f301d8cca605	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/25RS/hb520.html	2195ed477b3eabfc2e0dc4974dc8e0e41a04515e3f0b92aeedbbebef725e3f18	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ky

Kentucky HB 520 (2025RS) — AN ACT relating to law enforcement records.

Amend KRS 61.878, relating to open records, to provide that law enforcement records shall be exempt from public inspection if the disclosure of the information could pose an articulable risk of harm to the law enforcement agency or its investigtion by revealing the identity of informants or witnesses not otherwise known.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Acts Chapter 97 (committee substitute) — source
3. Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASS HB 520 — 25–12 (pass) · lower
• Pass — 78–21 (pass) · lower

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-13T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in House introduction
• 2025-02-13T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H) referral-committee
• 2025-02-21T05:00:00+00:00 to State Government (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
• 2025-03-04T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 78-21 passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-05T05:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2025-03-05T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S) referral-committee
• 2025-03-07T05:00:00+00:00 to State & Local Government (S) referral-committee
• 2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 taken from State & Local Government (S)
• 2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 1st reading reading-1
• 2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 returned to State & Local Government (S)
• 2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 taken from State & Local Government (S)
• 2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 2nd reading reading-2
• 2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 returned to State & Local Government (S)
• 2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1) committee-passage
• 2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 14, 2025
• 2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading reading-3
• 2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 Committee Substitute (1) withdrawn
• 2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 passed 25-12 passage
• 2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
• 2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
• 2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Governor
• 2025-03-26T04:00:00+00:00 filed without Governor's signature with the Secretary of State
• 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 97) became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a6527644-11bc-49e0-a4ee-f301d8cca605. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).