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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to pedestrian swinging bridges."
description: "Amend KRS 67.083 to allow fiscal courts to provide for the care and maintenance of pedestrian swinging bridges that are available for recreation and public enjoyment; amend KRS 411.190 to give liability protections to owners of land leased to a local government that maintains pedestrian swinging bridges that are available for recreation and public enjoyment on the land."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2026RS"
identifier: "SB 261"
citation: "Kentucky SB 261 (2026RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Amusements And Recreations", "Civil Actions", "Counties", "Courts", "Fiscal", "Local Government", "Property", "Tourism"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. Stivers"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 27
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2026-02-26T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2026-04-23T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/65a13074-da81-40d7-89d6-fd865a17c7c0"
source_url: "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/26RS/sb261.html"
source_hash: "5e7b0a950ea710f0c7f190df168f714fdf506123a3b7f439cc865344fbf28c38"
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 261 (2026RS) — AN ACT relating to pedestrian swinging bridges.
Amend KRS 67.083 to allow fiscal courts to provide for the care and maintenance of pedestrian swinging bridges that are available for recreation and public enjoyment; amend KRS 411.190 to give liability protections to owners of land leased to a local government that maintains pedestrian swinging bridges that are available for recreation and public enjoyment on the land.
## 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/sb261/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **Acts Chapter 192** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/26RS/documents/0192.pdf)
3. **Current/Final** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/26RS/sb261/bill.pdf)
## Votes
- PASS SB 261 w/ SCS 1 — **370** (pass) · upper
- Pass — **933** (pass) · upper
## Sponsors
- R. Stivers — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2026-02-26T05:00:00+00:00** introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2026-02-26T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (S) `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-02T05:00:00+00:00** to State & Local Government (S) `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-04T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) `committee-passage`
- **2026-03-05T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2026-03-09T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 11 2026
- **2026-03-11T04:00:00+00:00** passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day `passage`
- **2026-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 37-0 with Committee Substitute (1) `passage, reading-3`
- **2026-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2026-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (H) `referral-committee`
- **2026-03-31T04:00:00+00:00** taken from Committee on Committees (H)
- **2026-03-31T04:00:00+00:00** 1st reading `reading-1`
- **2026-03-31T04:00:00+00:00** returned to Committee on Committees (H)
- **2026-04-01T04:00:00+00:00** taken from Committee on Committees (H)
- **2026-04-01T04:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2026-04-01T04:00:00+00:00** returned to Committee on Committees (H)
- **2026-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** taken from Committee on Committees (H)
- **2026-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** to Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H) `referral-committee`
- **2026-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, to Rules `committee-passage`
- **2026-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** taken from Rules
- **2026-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** placed in the Orders of the Day
- **2026-04-15T04:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 93-3 `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** signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 192) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/65a13074-da81-40d7-89d6-fd865a17c7c0`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).