republic-os/legislation/us/states/ky/2025rs/hb-216.md

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Bill	AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Office of Agricultural Policy and declaring an emergency.	Create a new section of KRS Chapter 246 to allow employees of the Department of Agriculture, except those employed within the Kentucky Office of Agricultural Policy, to participate in, apply for, or receive funds, awards, or contracts administered by the department's Kentucky Office of Agricultural Policy; amend KRS 11A.040 to conform; RETROACTIVE; EMERGENCY.	us/states/ky	Kentucky General Assembly	2025RS	HB 216	Kentucky HB 216 (2025RS)	bill	Agriculture Ethics Retroactive Legislation State Agencies State Employees	enacted		3	34	4	2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00	2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/a4d93d1b-b319-416d-84f8-5027fe933269	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/25RS/hb216.html	52710fd4bd63b36b7ab33ca1abb371f8304bc40ffdd3ff482ccae7b39ef58a33	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ky

Kentucky HB 216 (2025RS) — AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Office of Agricultural Policy and declaring an emergency.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 246 to allow employees of the Department of Agriculture, except those employed within the Kentucky Office of Agricultural Policy, to participate in, apply for, or receive funds, awards, or contracts administered by the department's Kentucky Office of Agricultural Policy; amend KRS 11A.040 to conform; RETROACTIVE; EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Acts Chapter 102 (committee substitute) — source
3. Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Final Passage — 79–15 (pass) · lower
• Override Veto Final Passage HB 216 — 32–6 (pass) · lower
• PASS HB 216 — 32–0 (pass) · lower
• Pass — 93–0 (pass) · lower

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in House introduction
• 2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H) referral-committee
• 2025-02-07T05:00:00+00:00 to Agriculture (H) referral-committee
• 2025-02-12T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar committee-passage
• 2025-02-13T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2025-02-14T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 18, 2025
• 2025-02-18T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 93-0 passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-19T05:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2025-02-19T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S) referral-committee
• 2025-02-21T05:00:00+00:00 to Agriculture (S) referral-committee
• 2025-03-04T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar committee-passage
• 2025-03-05T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2025-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 07, 2025
• 2025-03-07T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 32-0 passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-07T05:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2025-03-07T05:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
• 2025-03-07T05:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
• 2025-03-07T05:00:00+00:00 delivered to Governor
• 2025-03-19T04:00:00+00:00 Vetoed executive-veto
• 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 to Rules (H) referral-committee
• 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 taken from Rules
• 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 posted for consideration of Governor's veto
• 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 veto overridden veto-override-passage
• 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 passed 79-15 passage
• 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 to Rules (S) referral-committee
• 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage for consideration of Governor's veto
• 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 veto overridden veto-override-passage
• 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 passed 32-6 passage
• 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
• 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
• 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 102) became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a4d93d1b-b319-416d-84f8-5027fe933269. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).