KY HB509 | 2024 | Regular Session
Status
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: Engrossed on March 13 2024 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2024-04-12 - floor amendments (4) and (5) filed
Pending: Senate Rules Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]
Status: Engrossed on March 13 2024 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2024-04-12 - floor amendments (4) and (5) filed
Pending: Senate Rules Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]
Summary
Create a new section of KRS 61.870 to 61.884, the Open Records Act, to require a public agency to furnish an officer, employee, board member, or commission member an agency email account; define terms; allow the governing body of a public agency or its appointing authority to identify, in writing, the names of specific personnel that do not require the use of an agency-furnished email account; allow a public agency to issue an email address through a third-party provider if a public is incapable of issuing an agency-furnished email account; prohibit an employee or a member of a board, commission, or public agency from using an email account other than an agency-furnished or agency-designated email account; provide that an employee or member of a board, commission, or public agency who uses an email account other than an agency-furnished or agency-designated email account is subject to discipline or removal, as appropriate; amend KRS 61.870 to amend the definition of "public record"; amend KRS 61.848 to specify that any formal action taken by a public agency that does not comply with KRS 61.840, relating to conditions placed on public attendance at meetings, are voidable by a court of competent jurisdiction; make technical corrections; amend various other sections to conform.
Title
AN ACT relating to access to the records and meetings of public agencies.
Sponsors
Roll Calls
2024-03-12 - House - House: Third Reading RCS# 272 (Y: 61 N: 31 NV: 0 Abs: 6) [PASS]
History
| Date | Chamber | Action |
|---|---|---|
| 2024-04-12 | Senate | floor amendments (4) and (5) filed |
| 2024-03-27 | Senate | floor amendments (1) and (2) and (3) filed |
| 2024-03-27 | Senate | reported favorably, to Rules |
| 2024-03-26 | Senate | returned to State & Local Government (S) |
| 2024-03-26 | Senate | 2nd reading |
| 2024-03-26 | Senate | taken from State & Local Government (S) |
| 2024-03-25 | Senate | returned to State & Local Government (S) |
| 2024-03-25 | Senate | 1st reading |
| 2024-03-25 | Senate | taken from State & Local Government (S) |
| 2024-03-15 | Senate | to State & Local Government (S) |
| 2024-03-13 | Senate | to Committee on Committees (S) |
| 2024-03-13 | Senate | received in Senate |
| 2024-03-12 | House | 3rd reading, passed 61-31 with Committee Substitute (1) and Floor Amendment (1) |
| 2024-03-11 | House | posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 12, 2024 |
| 2024-03-08 | House | floor amendments (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6) and (7) filed to Committee Substitute |
| 2024-03-08 | House | 2nd reading, to Rules |
| 2024-03-07 | House | reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) |
| 2024-02-26 | House | to State Government (H) |
| 2024-02-12 | House | to Committee on Committees (H) |
| 2024-02-12 | House | introduced in House |
Subjects
Advisory Boards, Commissions, and Committees
Archives and Records
Boards and Commissions
Cities
Counties
Education, Elementary and Secondary
Local Government
Local Mandate
Public Meetings
Public Records and Reports
Special Districts
Special Purpose Governmental Entities
State Agencies
State Employees
Universities and Colleges
Archives and Records
Boards and Commissions
Cities
Counties
Education, Elementary and Secondary
Local Government
Local Mandate
Public Meetings
Public Records and Reports
Special Districts
Special Purpose Governmental Entities
State Agencies
State Employees
Universities and Colleges
