republic-os/legislation/us/states/ky/2024rs/hb-357.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to firearms."
description: "Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to prohibit financial institutions from requiring the use of a firearms code, discriminating against a firearms retailer as a result of the assignment or nonassignment of a firearms code, and disclosing protected financial information; prohibit keeping or causing to be kept any list, record, or registry of private firearm ownership; allow the Attorney General to enforce provisions; provide that the Act may be cited as the Second Amendment Privacy Act; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2025."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2024RS"
identifier: "HB 357"
citation: "Kentucky HB 357 (2024RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Attorney General", "Banks and Financial Institutions", "Effective Dates", "Delayed", "Firearms and Weapons", "Local Government", "Local Mandate", "Short Titles and Popular Names"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["A. Bowling", "C. Fugate", "D. Elliott", "D. Frazier Gordon", "D. Hale", "D. Lewis", "E. Callaway", "J. Branscum", "J. Bray", "J. Decker", "J. Nemes", "K. Moser", "M. Meredith", "P. Flannery", "R. Duvall", "R. Heath", "T. Huff", "T. Smith", "W. Thomas", "W. Williams"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-01-24T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/9a9b51aa-d9d8-483b-8ecd-476f1391043f"
source_url: "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24RS/hb357.html"
source_hash: "ce98f8f4d3d1c8885825aac9d5687bb3727701f5f7c55eee4520bcf2678312bc"
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 357 (2024RS) — AN ACT relating to firearms.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to prohibit financial institutions from requiring the use of a firearms code, discriminating against a firearms retailer as a result of the assignment or nonassignment of a firearms code, and disclosing protected financial information; prohibit keeping or causing to be kept any list, record, or registry of private firearm ownership; allow the Attorney General to enforce provisions; provide that the Act may be cited as the Second Amendment Privacy Act; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2025.

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/hb357/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **Acts Chapter 14** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/24RS/documents/0014.pdf)
3. **Current/Final** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/hb357/bill.pdf)

## Votes

- Pass — **pass** (pass) · lower
- PASS HB 357 — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- A. Bowling — primary (person)
- C. Fugate — primary (person)
- D. Elliott — primary (person)
- D. Frazier Gordon — primary (person)
- D. Hale — primary (person)
- D. Lewis — primary (person)
- E. Callaway — primary (person)
- J. Branscum — primary (person)
- J. Bray — primary (person)
- J. Decker — primary (person)
- J. Nemes — primary (person)
- K. Moser — primary (person)
- M. Meredith — primary (person)
- P. Flannery — primary (person)
- R. Duvall — primary (person)
- R. Heath — primary (person)
- T. Huff — primary (person)
- T. Smith — primary (person)
- W. Thomas — primary (person)
- W. Williams — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-01-24T05:00:00+00:00** introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-01-24T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (H) `referral-committee`
- **2024-01-30T05:00:00+00:00** to Banking & Insurance (H) `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-21T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-22T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2024-02-22T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 23, 2024
- **2024-02-26T05:00:00+00:00** floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute `amendment-introduction`
- **2024-02-27T05:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2024-02-27T05:00:00+00:00** Floor Amendment (1) ruled out of order
- **2024-02-27T05:00:00+00:00** passed 78-18 with Committee Substitute (1) `passage`
- **2024-02-28T05:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2024-02-28T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (S) `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-01T05:00:00+00:00** to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S) `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-07T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-08T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2024-03-11T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 13, 2024
- **2024-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 32-6 `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2024-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2024-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by President of the Senate `passage`
- **2024-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** delivered to Governor
- **2024-03-26T04:00:00+00:00** filed without Governor's signature with the Secretary of State
- **2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch.14) `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/9a9b51aa-d9d8-483b-8ecd-476f1391043f`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).