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---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to the Public Pension Oversight Board."
description: "Amend KRS 7A.220 to amend the membership and membership qualifications of the Public Pension Oversight Board by adding the chairs or vice chairs of the Senate State & Local Government Standing Committee and House State Government Standing Committee to the board, adding the State Treasurer to the membership, removing 1 of the gubernatorial appointees from the membership, and amending \"retirement experience\" requirements for appointed members to include experience in retirement plan management or policy by a former elected official; make technical and conforming changes; amend KRS 7A.255 to require the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority to annually report line of duty death benefit payments to the Public Pension Oversight Board in addition to line of duty disability benefit payments; make technical amendments; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2027."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2026RS"
identifier: "SB 70"
citation: "Kentucky SB 70 (2026RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Boards And Commissions", "Effective Dates", "Delayed", "General Assembly", "Governor", "Legislative Research Commission", "Reports Mandated", "Retirement And Pensions", "State Agencies"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["G. Elkins", "J. Higdon", "R. Mills"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 20
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-01-12T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-04-23T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/049d89c1-5607-49cd-925c-2ebe91f03271"
source_url: "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/26RS/sb70.html"
source_hash: "5b8d82c75f41a0fb6c577e7e67fac8107584e4ecf86bd5a34bef0f0b70646145"
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 SB 70 (2026RS) — AN ACT relating to the Public Pension Oversight Board.
Amend KRS 7A.220 to amend the membership and membership qualifications of the Public Pension Oversight Board by adding the chairs or vice chairs of the Senate State & Local Government Standing Committee and House State Government Standing Committee to the board, adding the State Treasurer to the membership, removing 1 of the gubernatorial appointees from the membership, and amending "retirement experience" requirements for appointed members to include experience in retirement plan management or policy by a former elected official; make technical and conforming changes; amend KRS 7A.255 to require the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority to annually report line of duty death benefit payments to the Public Pension Oversight Board in addition to line of duty disability benefit payments; make technical amendments; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2027.
## 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/26RS/sb70/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **Current/Final** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/26RS/sb70/bill.pdf)
## Votes
- Pass — **971** (pass) · upper
- PASS SB 70 — **380** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- G. Elkins — primary (person)
- J. Higdon — primary (person)
- R. Mills — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2026-01-12T05:00:00+00:00** introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2026-01-12T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (S) `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-09T05:00:00+00:00** to State & Local Government (S) `referral-committee`
- **2026-02-18T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar `committee-passage`
- **2026-02-19T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2026-02-19T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 20 2026
- **2026-02-20T05:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 38-0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-02-23T05:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2026-02-23T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (H) `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-18T04:00:00+00:00** to State Government (H) `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-19T04:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-20T04:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2026-03-31T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, April 01 2026
- **2026-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 97-1 `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2026-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by President of the Senate `passage`
- **2026-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2026-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** delivered to Governor
- **2026-04-23T04:00:00+00:00** Vetoed `executive-veto`
- **2026-04-23T04:00:00+00:00** delivered to Secretary of State `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/049d89c1-5607-49cd-925c-2ebe91f03271`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).