republic-os/legislation/us/states/ky/2025rs/hb-19.md

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Bill	AN ACT relating to privacy protection.	Amend KRS 500.130 to define terms; provide that the use of an unmanned aircraft system is not prohibited in the case of recreational or professional use if there is not intent to conduct surveillance on private property and there is no unauthorized use or publication of images of individuals or areas of private property, or in the case of an insurance company for purposes of underwriting a risk or investigating damage; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a civil action; create a new section of KRS Chapter 413 to establish a statute of limitations for the civil action.	us/states/ky	Kentucky General Assembly	2025RS	HB 19	Kentucky HB 19 (2025RS)	bill	Aeronautics and Aviation Civil Actions Property	enacted		3	19	2	2025-01-07T05:00:00+00:00	2025-03-15T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/98d15be0-3864-49fa-8f8d-8f3b77581bfe	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/25RS/hb19.html	35af54b635b7452b62307b6a8945945d532e87705f9fe624c043428518e56be3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ky

Kentucky HB 19 (2025RS) — AN ACT relating to privacy protection.

Amend KRS 500.130 to define terms; provide that the use of an unmanned aircraft system is not prohibited in the case of recreational or professional use if there is not intent to conduct surveillance on private property and there is no unauthorized use or publication of images of individuals or areas of private property, or in the case of an insurance company for purposes of underwriting a risk or investigating damage; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a civil action; create a new section of KRS Chapter 413 to establish a statute of limitations for the civil action.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Acts Chapter 19 (committee substitute) — source
3. Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Pass — 90–1 (pass) · lower
• PASS HB 19 — 37–0 (pass) · lower

Timeline

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

• 2025-01-07T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in House introduction
• 2025-01-07T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H) referral-committee
• 2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00 to Small Business & Information Technology (H) referral-committee
• 2025-02-19T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) committee-passage
• 2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 21, 2025
• 2025-02-21T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 90-1 with Committee Substitute (1) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S) referral-committee
• 2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00 to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S) referral-committee
• 2025-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar committee-passage
• 2025-03-07T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 12, 2025
• 2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 37-0 passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
• 2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
• 2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Governor
• 2025-03-15T04:00:00+00:00 signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 19) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/98d15be0-3864-49fa-8f8d-8f3b77581bfe. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).