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Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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type: "Bill"
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title: "AN ACT relating to campaign finance. Amend KRS 121.180 to create a single threshold of $3,000 for campaign finance reports; require state executive committees that establish a building fund account to make quarterly reports; change the date for executive committees and caucus campaign committees to file reports from five days after the 30th day following a primary and regular election to January 31 and July 31; amend KRS 121.150 to increase anonymous and cash contribution limits to $100, and individual contribution limits to $2,000 as indexed for inflation; increase individual contribution limit to $5,000 per year to the state executive committee of a political party; allow contributions of $5,000 per year to subdivisions and affiliates of political parties; make those contribution limits not applicable to contributions to a state executive committee's building fund account; increase the contribution limit to caucus campaign committees to $5,000; allow married couples to make a contribution with one check that reflects the combined individual contribution limits of each individual spouse for all elections in a calendar year; amend KRS 121.230 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 121 to allow the executive committees of political parties to establish building fund accounts and specify permissible and prohibited uses of funds; amend KRS 121.025 and 121.035 to specify that prohibitions on corporate contributions do not prevent a corporation from contributing to a state executive committee's political party building fund account; amend KRS 6.767 to add a definition for \"accept\" that specifies the time when a contribution is accepted."
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description: "AN ACT relating to campaign finance. Amend KRS 121.180 to create a single threshold of $3,000 for campaign finance reports; require state executive committees that establish a building fund account to make quarterly reports; change the date for executive committees and caucus campaign committees to file reports from five days after the 30th day following a primary and regular election to January 31 and July 31; amend KRS 121.150 to increase anonymous and cash contribution limits to $100, and individual contribution limits to $2,000 as indexed for inflation; increase individual contribution limit to $5,000 per year to the state executive committee of a political party; allow contributions of $5,000 per year to subdivisions and affiliates of political parties; make those contribution limits not applicable to contributions to a state executive committee's building fund account; increase the contribution limit to caucus campaign committees to $5,000; allow married couples to make a contribution with one check that reflects the combined individual contribution limits of each individual spouse for all elections in a calendar year; amend KRS 121.230 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 121 to allow the executive committees of political parties to establish building fund accounts and specify permissible and prohibited uses of funds; amend KRS 121.025 and 121.035 to specify that prohibitions on corporate contributions do not prevent a corporation from contributing to a state executive committee's political party building fund account; amend KRS 6.767 to add a definition for \"accept\" that specifies the time when a contribution is accepted."
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jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
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legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
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session: "2017RS"
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identifier: "SB 75"
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citation: "Kentucky SB 75 (2017RS)"
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classification: ["bill"]
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subjects: []
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status: "enacted"
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primary_sponsors: []
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version_count: 6
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action_count: 26
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vote_count: 0
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first_action: "2017-02-13"
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last_action: "2017-03-27"
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source: "openstates"
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source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a102bf1b-def4-4c23-867e-d506ca95f91c"
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source_url: "http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/17RS/SB75.htm"
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source_hash: "b5a75e39d845f36d5ea3b4791d170578159069ddf20a738876894d0e504889da"
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vintage: "2026-07-01"
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source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
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retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
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confidence: "reported"
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tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ky"]
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---
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# Kentucky SB 75 (2017RS) — AN ACT relating to campaign finance. Amend KRS 121.180 to create a single threshold of $3,000 for campaign finance reports; require state executive committees that establish a building fund account to make quarterly reports; change the date for executive committees and caucus campaign committees to file reports from five days after the 30th day following a primary and regular election to January 31 and July 31; amend KRS 121.150 to increase anonymous and cash contribution limits to $100, and individual contribution limits to $2,000 as indexed for inflation; increase individual contribution limit to $5,000 per year to the state executive committee of a political party; allow contributions of $5,000 per year to subdivisions and affiliates of political parties; make those contribution limits not applicable to contributions to a state executive committee's building fund account; increase the contribution limit to caucus campaign committees to $5,000; allow married couples to make a contribution with one check that reflects the combined individual contribution limits of each individual spouse for all elections in a calendar year; amend KRS 121.230 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 121 to allow the executive committees of political parties to establish building fund accounts and specify permissible and prohibited uses of funds; amend KRS 121.025 and 121.035 to specify that prohibitions on corporate contributions do not prevent a corporation from contributing to a state executive committee's political party building fund account; amend KRS 6.767 to add a definition for "accept" that specifies the time when a contribution is accepted.
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## Version chain
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The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
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1. **HFA1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/SB75/HFA1.pdf)
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2. **HFA2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/SB75/HFA2.pdf)
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3. **HFA3** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/SB75/HFA3.pdf)
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4. **Most Recent Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/SB75/bill.pdf)
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5. **SB 75 (As Introduced)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/SB75/orig_bill.pdf)
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6. **SCS1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/SB75/SCS1.pdf)
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## Timeline
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The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
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- **2017-02-13** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
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- **2017-02-13** Taken from Committee on Committees (S)
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- **2017-02-13** 1st reading `reading-1`
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- **2017-02-13** To State & Local Government (S) `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-14** Taken from State & Local Government (S)
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- **2017-02-14** 2nd reading `reading-2`
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- **2017-02-14** Returned to State & Local Government (S)
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- **2017-02-15** Reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute
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- **2017-02-15** Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 15, 2017
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- **2017-02-15** 3rd reading, passed 27-10 with Committee Substitute `reading-3, passage`
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- **2017-02-16** Received in House
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- **2017-02-21** To Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H) `referral-committee`
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- **2017-02-28** Posted in committee
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- **2017-03-06** Reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar `reading-1`
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- **2017-03-06** Floor amendment (1) filed `amendment-introduction`
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- **2017-03-07** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
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- **2017-03-07** Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 8, 2017
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- **2017-03-07** Floor amendments (2) and (3) filed `amendment-introduction`
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- **2017-03-14** 3rd reading `reading-3`
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- **2017-03-14** Floor amendments (1) and (3) ruled out of order
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- **2017-03-14** Passed 52-43
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- **2017-03-15** Received in Senate
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- **2017-03-15** Enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
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- **2017-03-15** Enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
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- **2017-03-15** Delivered to Governor
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- **2017-03-27** Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 122) `executive-signature`
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## Source
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OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a102bf1b-def4-4c23-867e-d506ca95f91c`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).
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