Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| Bill | AN ACT relating to protection of information and declaring an emergency. | Amend KRS 42.722 to define terms relating to artificial intelligence; amend KRS 42.726 to require the Commonwealth Office of Technology to establish and implement policy standards for the use of artificial intelligence; create a new section of KRS 42.720 to 42.742 to create the Artificial Intelligence Governance Committee; task the committee with the establishment of responsible, ethical, and transparent procedures for the allowable use, development, and approval of artificial intelligence for any department, program, cabinet, agency, and administrative body that uses and accesses the Commonwealth's information technology and technology infrastructure; require public disclosure of any use of artificial intelligence; provide employee education and training; prioritize personal privacy and protection of the data of individuals and businesses; require the Commonwealth Office of Technology to promulgate administrative regulations; amend KRS 117.001 to define "electioneering communication," "information content provider," "interactive computer service," "sponsor," and "synthetic media"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 117 to establish a cause of action for the use of synthetic media in an electioneering communication; establish an affirmative defense that the electioneering communication includes a conspicuous disclosure; provide that the sponsor of the electioneering communication may be held liable, but the medium and its advertising sales representative are not liable, except in certain circumstances; EMERGENCY. | us/states/ky | Kentucky General Assembly | 2025RS | SB 4 | Kentucky SB 4 (2025RS) |
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enacted | 3 | 30 | 2 | 2025-02-18T05:00:00+00:00 | 2025-03-24T04:00:00+00:00 | openstates | ocd-bill/60b221d0-4685-4e43-975e-03eadbf3f165 | https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/25RS/sb4.html | 3879f7ec3d268f3e53dc54404156c33d7f1efeab8f667b13e6a99ab21ede871a | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Kentucky SB 4 (2025RS) — AN ACT relating to protection of information and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 42.722 to define terms relating to artificial intelligence; amend KRS 42.726 to require the Commonwealth Office of Technology to establish and implement policy standards for the use of artificial intelligence; create a new section of KRS 42.720 to 42.742 to create the Artificial Intelligence Governance Committee; task the committee with the establishment of responsible, ethical, and transparent procedures for the allowable use, development, and approval of artificial intelligence for any department, program, cabinet, agency, and administrative body that uses and accesses the Commonwealth's information technology and technology infrastructure; require public disclosure of any use of artificial intelligence; provide employee education and training; prioritize personal privacy and protection of the data of individuals and businesses; require the Commonwealth Office of Technology to promulgate administrative regulations; amend KRS 117.001 to define "electioneering communication," "information content provider," "interactive computer service," "sponsor," and "synthetic media"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 117 to establish a cause of action for the use of synthetic media in an electioneering communication; establish an affirmative defense that the electioneering communication includes a conspicuous disclosure; provide that the sponsor of the electioneering communication may be held liable, but the medium and its advertising sales representative are not liable, except in certain circumstances; EMERGENCY.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Introduced (filed) — source
- Acts Chapter 66 (committee substitute) — source
- Current/Final (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- PASS SB 4 — 30–3 (pass) · upper
- Pass — 86–10 (pass) · upper
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2025-02-18T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in Senate
introduction - 2025-02-18T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S)
referral-committee - 2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00 to State & Local Government (S)
referral-committee - 2025-02-26T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
committee-passage - 2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules
reading-2 - 2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 28, 2025
- 2025-02-28T05:00:00+00:00 floor amendment (1) filed
amendment-introduction - 2025-02-28T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 30-3
passage, reading-3 - 2025-03-04T05:00:00+00:00 received in House
- 2025-03-04T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H)
referral-committee - 2025-03-07T05:00:00+00:00 taken from Committee on Committees (H)
- 2025-03-07T05:00:00+00:00 1st reading
reading-1 - 2025-03-07T05:00:00+00:00 returned to Committee on Committees (H)
- 2025-03-07T05:00:00+00:00 to Small Business & Information Technology (H)
referral-committee - 2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 taken from Small Business & Information Technology (H)
- 2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 2nd reading
reading-2 - 2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 returned to Small Business & Information Technology (H)
- 2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1)
committee-passage - 2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 taken from Rules
- 2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 placed in the Orders of the Day
- 2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 86-10 with Committee Substitute (1)
passage, reading-3 - 2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
- 2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 to Rules (S)
referral-committee - 2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage for concurrence in House Committee Substitute (1)
- 2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 Senate concurred in House Committee Substitute (1)
- 2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 passed 33-4 with Committee Substitute (1)
passage - 2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
passage - 2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
passage - 2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Governor
- 2025-03-24T04:00:00+00:00 signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 66)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/60b221d0-4685-4e43-975e-03eadbf3f165. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).