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| Bill | AN ACT relating to local government financial practices. | Amend KRS 91A.040 to change the population thresholds for exceptions to annual municipal audits to a single exception for municipalities with less than 3,000 people; change the revenue exception from $150,000 to $500,000; allow the Department for Local Government to consider any evidence in assessing whether to allow an extension from the deadline for annual audits; permit the department to grant extensions up to 18 months; amend KRS 91A.040, 65.003, and 65.920 to indicate that the withholding of state funds from a municipality due to noncompliance with the statutes should not be construed to cause the withholding of nondiscretionary payments to a city for the provision of services by the city to the state or any agency of the state; amend KRS 154.40-060 to allow a city government that appoints members to the board of the corporation that runs the Eastern Kentucky Exposition Center to elect to have the corporation included in its audit and to have its required annual audit be performed by an independent auditor; require any independent audit be forwarded to the Auditor of Public Accounts; amend KRS 42.460 and 424.220 to conform. | us/states/ky | Kentucky General Assembly | 2025RS | HB 555 | Kentucky HB 555 (2025RS) |
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enacted | 3 | 23 | 3 | 2025-02-14T05:00:00+00:00 | 2025-04-01T04:00:00+00:00 | openstates | ocd-bill/1cff6f1c-1a5b-4613-9ee2-c03cd55dd0bf | https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/25RS/hb555.html | 053d0c4f4dda237a30b87411225a5180f2aa4440333910686c85dcd6086e4ae0 | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Kentucky HB 555 (2025RS) — AN ACT relating to local government financial practices.
Amend KRS 91A.040 to change the population thresholds for exceptions to annual municipal audits to a single exception for municipalities with less than 3,000 people; change the revenue exception from $150,000 to $500,000; allow the Department for Local Government to consider any evidence in assessing whether to allow an extension from the deadline for annual audits; permit the department to grant extensions up to 18 months; amend KRS 91A.040, 65.003, and 65.920 to indicate that the withholding of state funds from a municipality due to noncompliance with the statutes should not be construed to cause the withholding of nondiscretionary payments to a city for the provision of services by the city to the state or any agency of the state; amend KRS 154.40-060 to allow a city government that appoints members to the board of the corporation that runs the Eastern Kentucky Exposition Center to elect to have the corporation included in its audit and to have its required annual audit be performed by an independent auditor; require any independent audit be forwarded to the Auditor of Public Accounts; amend KRS 42.460 and 424.220 to conform.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Introduced (filed) — source
- Acts Chapter 153 (committee substitute) — source
- Current/Final (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Pass — 91–0 (pass) · lower
- PASS HB 555 W/ scs1 scta1 — 36–2 (pass) · lower
- Final Passage — 98–0 (pass) · lower
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2025-02-14T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in House
introduction - 2025-02-14T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H)
referral-committee - 2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00 to Local Government (H)
referral-committee - 2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
committee-passage - 2025-02-26T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules
reading-2 - 2025-02-26T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 27, 2025
- 2025-02-28T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 91-0
passage, reading-3 - 2025-03-04T05:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
- 2025-03-04T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S)
referral-committee - 2025-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 to State & Local Government (S)
referral-committee - 2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title)
committee-passage - 2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules
reading-2 - 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 27, 2025
- 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 36-2 with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title)
passage, reading-3 - 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
- 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 to Rules (H)
referral-committee - 2025-03-28T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title)
- 2025-03-28T04:00:00+00:00 House concurred in Senate Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title)
- 2025-03-28T04:00:00+00:00 passed 98-0
passage - 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
- 2025-04-01T04:00:00+00:00 signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 153)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/1cff6f1c-1a5b-4613-9ee2-c03cd55dd0bf. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).