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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to right-to-work provisions involving a condition of employment or continuation of employment and declaring an emergency. Amend KRS 336.130 to indicate that public employees may not strike; prohibit mandatory membership in or financial support of a labor organization as a condition of employment; define \"employee\"; require the Labor Cabinet to investigate complaints and prosecute those who violate Section 1 of the Act; amend KRS 336.180 to conform and define \"employer\" and \"public employee\"; amend KRS 336.990 to make a violation of the Act a Class A misdemeanor, award damages, and provide injunctive relief; create new sections of KRS Chapter 336 to exempt existing contracts or agreements and to prohibit deduction of membership dues to a labor organization without express written consent of the employee; create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to restrict certain local governments from enforcing an ordinance contrary to the provisions of the Act; amend KRS 67A.6904, 67C.406, 70.262, 78.470, 78.480, and 345.050 to conform; provide for severability of Act's provisions; provide short title of Act; EMERGENCY."
description: "AN ACT relating to right-to-work provisions involving a condition of employment or continuation of employment and declaring an emergency. Amend KRS 336.130 to indicate that public employees may not strike; prohibit mandatory membership in or financial support of a labor organization as a condition of employment; define \"employee\"; require the Labor Cabinet to investigate complaints and prosecute those who violate Section 1 of the Act; amend KRS 336.180 to conform and define \"employer\" and \"public employee\"; amend KRS 336.990 to make a violation of the Act a Class A misdemeanor, award damages, and provide injunctive relief; create new sections of KRS Chapter 336 to exempt existing contracts or agreements and to prohibit deduction of membership dues to a labor organization without express written consent of the employee; create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to restrict certain local governments from enforcing an ordinance contrary to the provisions of the Act; amend KRS 67A.6904, 67C.406, 70.262, 78.470, 78.480, and 345.050 to conform; provide for severability of Act's provisions; provide short title of Act; EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2017RS"
identifier: "HB 1"
citation: "Kentucky HB 1 (2017RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 10
action_count: 28
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-01-03"
last_action: "2017-01-09"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/68e79a05-1baa-4754-84b0-66435ef21f92"
source_url: "http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/17RS/HB1.htm"
source_hash: "120566575384958ca0cf68db5ad51d359b1a23923e0aeec179476c7304477bb5"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ky"]
---
# Kentucky HB 1 (2017RS) — AN ACT relating to right-to-work provisions involving a condition of employment or continuation of employment and declaring an emergency. Amend KRS 336.130 to indicate that public employees may not strike; prohibit mandatory membership in or financial support of a labor organization as a condition of employment; define "employee"; require the Labor Cabinet to investigate complaints and prosecute those who violate Section 1 of the Act; amend KRS 336.180 to conform and define "employer" and "public employee"; amend KRS 336.990 to make a violation of the Act a Class A misdemeanor, award damages, and provide injunctive relief; create new sections of KRS Chapter 336 to exempt existing contracts or agreements and to prohibit deduction of membership dues to a labor organization without express written consent of the employee; create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to restrict certain local governments from enforcing an ordinance contrary to the provisions of the Act; amend KRS 67A.6904, 67C.406, 70.262, 78.470, 78.480, and 345.050 to conform; provide for severability of Act's provisions; provide short title of Act; EMERGENCY.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **HB 1 (As Introduced)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/HB1/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **HCS1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/HB1/HCS1.pdf)
3. **HFA1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/HB1/HFA1.pdf)
4. **HFA2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/HB1/HFA2.pdf)
5. **HFA3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/HB1/HFA3.pdf)
6. **HFA4** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/HB1/HFA4.pdf)
7. **HFA5** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/HB1/HFA5.pdf)
8. **HFA6** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/HB1/HFA6.pdf)
9. **HFA7** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/HB1/HFA7.pdf)
10. **Most Recent Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/HB1/bill.pdf)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2017-01-03** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2017-01-03** To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H) `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-03** Taken from Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
- **2017-01-03** 1st reading `reading-1`
- **2017-01-03** Returned to Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
- **2017-01-03** Posting waived
- **2017-01-04** Reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules Committee Substitute `reading-2`
- **2017-01-04** Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, January 5, 2017
- **2017-01-04** Floor amendments (1) and (2-title) filed `amendment-introduction`
- **2017-01-05** Floor amendment (6) and (7-title) filed, and floor amendments (3), (4), & (5) filed to Committee Substitute `amendment-introduction`
- **2017-01-05** 3rd reading, passed 58-39 with Committee Substitute `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-01-05** Received in Senate
- **2017-01-05** Taken from Committee on Committees (S)
- **2017-01-05** 1st reading `reading-1`
- **2017-01-05** Returned to Committee on Committees (S)
- **2017-01-05** To State & Local Government (S) `referral-committee`
- **2017-01-06** Taken from State & Local Government (S)
- **2017-01-06** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-01-06** Returned to State & Local Government (S)
- **2017-01-07** Reported favorably, to Rules
- **2017-01-07** Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Saturday, January 7, 2017
- **2017-01-07** 3rd reading, passed 25-12 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-01-07** Received in House
- **2017-01-07** Enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
- **2017-01-07** Received in Senate
- **2017-01-07** Enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
- **2017-01-07** Delivered to Governor
- **2017-01-09** Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 001) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/68e79a05-1baa-4754-84b0-66435ef21f92`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).