Kentucky Senate Bill 310

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 1)
Status: Introduced on March 2 2026 - 25% progression
Action: 2026-03-02 - to Committee on Committees (S)
Pending: Senate Committee on Committees Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Amend KRS 61.315 to define "public safety officer," "public safety officer in training," "retired public safety officer" and "post-service act in the line of duty"; provide a lump-sum payment of $80,000 to the families of public safety officers in training who die in the line of duty and retired public safety officers who die as a result of an attack related to their prior service as a public safety officer; make technical and clerical changes; provide that the benefit is effective for deaths occurring on or after the effective date of the Act, except that provisions impacting retired public safety officers shall be retroactive to deaths occuring on or after August 1, 2012, and provisions impacting public safety officers in training shall be retroactive to deaths occuring on or after November 1, 2024; RETROACTIVE.

AN ACT relating to lump-sum line of duty death payments.

Sen. Danny Carroll [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2026-03-02	Senate	to Committee on Committees (S)
2026-03-02	Senate	introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/26RS/sb310.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/26RS/sb310/orig_bill.pdf
Supplement	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/26RS/sb310/LM.pdf
Supplement	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/26RS/sb310/CI.pdf