republic-os/legislation/us/states/ky/2024rs/hb-517.md

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Bill	AN ACT relating to legislative ethics.	Amend KRS 6.681 to require the Legislative Ethics Commission provide a draft of its proposed response to an advisory opinion request at least 10 days before it is scheduled to consider the advisory opinion; amend KRS 6.686 to require the commission to determine whether there is reason to believe a person has committed or about to commit an ethics code violation; provide that if the commission finds by a vote of at least five members that there is reason to believe a violation has been or is about to be committed, it shall initiate a preliminary inquiry into the alleged violations; provide that if less than five members find there is reason to believe a violation has been or is about to be committed, then it shall dismiss the complaint; provide that a reason to believe finding is not a finding that a person has violated the code, but that the finding merits further inquiry and investigation.	us/states/ky	Kentucky General Assembly	2024RS	HB 517	Kentucky HB 517 (2024RS)	bill	Boards and Commissions Ethics General Assembly Public Ethics Public Officers and Employees State Agencies	enacted	D. Meade	3	36	4	2024-02-13T05:00:00+00:00	2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/a3d11717-4f70-4202-a3cf-8b622836793b	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24RS/hb517.html	386a6cb56196dbf23edb18c6190c8085ff5549fbb62444bf39a4805da13f0ef4	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ky

Kentucky HB 517 (2024RS) — AN ACT relating to legislative ethics.

Amend KRS 6.681 to require the Legislative Ethics Commission provide a draft of its proposed response to an advisory opinion request at least 10 days before it is scheduled to consider the advisory opinion; amend KRS 6.686 to require the commission to determine whether there is reason to believe a person has committed or about to commit an ethics code violation; provide that if the commission finds by a vote of at least five members that there is reason to believe a violation has been or is about to be committed, it shall initiate a preliminary inquiry into the alleged violations; provide that if less than five members find there is reason to believe a violation has been or is about to be committed, then it shall dismiss the complaint; provide that a reason to believe finding is not a finding that a person has violated the code, but that the finding merits further inquiry and investigation.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Acts Chapter 184 (committee substitute) — source
3. Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Veto Override — pass (pass) · lower
• Pass — pass (pass) · lower
• PASS HB 517 — pass (pass) · lower
• Veto Override HB 517 — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• D. Meade — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-13T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in House introduction
• 2024-02-13T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H) referral-committee
• 2024-03-01T05:00:00+00:00 to State Government (H) referral-committee
• 2024-03-07T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) committee-passage
• 2024-03-08T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2024-03-08T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, March 11, 2024
• 2024-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 75-17 with Committee Substitute (1) passage, reading-3
• 2024-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2024-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S) referral-committee
• 2024-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 to State & Local Government (S) referral-committee
• 2024-03-21T04:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar committee-passage
• 2024-03-22T04:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2024-03-25T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 26, 2024
• 2024-03-26T04:00:00+00:00 passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day passage
• 2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day passage
• 2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00 passed 28-8 passage
• 2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
• 2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
• 2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Governor
• 2024-04-04T04:00:00+00:00 Vetoed executive-veto
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 to Rules (H) referral-committee
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 taken from Rules
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage for consideration of Governor's veto
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 veto overridden veto-override-passage
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 passed 77-20 passage
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 to Rules (S) referral-committee
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage for consideration of Governor's veto
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 veto overridden veto-override-passage
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 passed 24-8 passage
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
• 2024-04-12T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 184) became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a3d11717-4f70-4202-a3cf-8b622836793b. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).