republic-os/legislation/us/states/ky/2024rs/hb-551.md

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Bill	AN ACT relating to cold cases.	Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to allow law enforcement agencies to contract with retired peace officers to assist with homicide cold cases.	us/states/ky	Kentucky General Assembly	2024RS	HB 551	Kentucky HB 551 (2024RS)	bill	Contracts Crimes and Punishments Local Government Peace Officers and Law Enforcement Police City and County	enacted	B. Chester-Burton G. Brown Jr. J. Blanton K. Herron L. Willner P. Stevenson R. Roberts S. Stalker	3	24	2	2024-02-14T05:00:00+00:00	2024-04-04T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/4d51f1a7-00dd-4cd3-a551-4d23c853fe1c	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24RS/hb551.html	d94bacebe98593e14f39cabe187401daeb71a85ddb530fc2636cab7a235eb76b	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ky

Kentucky HB 551 (2024RS) — AN ACT relating to cold cases.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to allow law enforcement agencies to contract with retired peace officers to assist with homicide cold cases.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Acts Chapter 63 (committee substitute) — source
3. Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASS HB 551 — pass (pass) · lower
• Pass — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• B. Chester-Burton — primary (person)
• G. Brown Jr. — primary (person)
• J. Blanton — primary (person)
• K. Herron — primary (person)
• L. Willner — primary (person)
• P. Stevenson — primary (person)
• R. Roberts — primary (person)
• S. Stalker — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2024-02-14T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in House introduction
• 2024-02-14T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H) referral-committee
• 2024-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 to State Government (H) referral-committee
• 2024-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar committee-passage
• 2024-03-15T04:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2024-03-15T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 21, 2024
• 2024-03-21T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 98-0 passage, reading-3
• 2024-03-22T04:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2024-03-22T04:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S) referral-committee
• 2024-03-25T04:00:00+00:00 to Judiciary (S) referral-committee
• 2024-03-26T04:00:00+00:00 taken from Judiciary (S)
• 2024-03-26T04:00:00+00:00 1st reading reading-1
• 2024-03-26T04:00:00+00:00 returned to Judiciary (S)
• 2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 taken from Judiciary (S)
• 2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 2nd reading reading-2
• 2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 returned to Judiciary (S)
• 2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, to Rules as a consent bill committee-passage
• 2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 28, 2024
• 2024-03-28T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 38-0 passage, reading-3
• 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 signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 63) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/4d51f1a7-00dd-4cd3-a551-4d23c853fe1c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).