Kentucky Senate Bill 92 (Prior Session Legislation)

---

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on March 3 2023 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2023-03-16 - to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
Pending: House Appropriations and Revenue Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

Amend KRS 258.119 to allow the animal care assistance fund to receive fines; amend KRS 258.500 to define "person" as a person with a disability who has an ongoing therapeutic relationship with a health care provider and stipulate who can be a health care provider under the definition; exclude from therapeutic relationship fee-based transactions for disability documentation absent a face-to-face consultation with a health care provider; establish requirements for an assistance dog to be granted public accommodation; affirm certain rights and privileges of public establishments as nondiscriminatory and allow additional rights for those providing accommodation in situations of tenancy; amend KRS 258.335 to make unlawful the misrepresentation of a dog as an assistance dog to obtain public accommodation; amend KRS 258.991 to set penalty for interference with use of an assistance dog at $500 to $1,000 and delete jail time; make the misrepresentation of a dog as an assistance dog to obtain public accommodations unlawful and provide for a fine of up to $1,000; require that fines be paid into the animal control and care fund with 50% for spay and neuter clinics and 50% for county animal shelter block grants; amend KRS 525.010 to clarify the definition of "assistance dog"; APPROPRIATION.

AN ACT relating to animals and making an appropriation therefor.

Sen. Jimmy Higdon [R]

2023-03-03 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading RSN# 2540 (Y: 34 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 3) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-03-16	House	to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
2023-03-16	House	returned to Committee on Committees (H)
2023-03-16	House	1st reading
2023-03-16	House	taken from Committee on Committees (H)
2023-03-03	House	to Committee on Committees (H)
2023-03-03	House	received in House
2023-03-03	Senate	3rd reading, passed 34 -0 with Committee Substitute (1)
2023-03-01	Senate	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 03, 2023
2023-03-01	Senate	2nd reading, to Rules
2023-02-28	Senate	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1)
2023-02-09	Senate	to Agriculture (S)
2023-02-07	Senate	to Committee on Committees (S)
2023-02-07	Senate	introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/23RS/sb92.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/23RS/sb92/orig_bill.pdf
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/23RS/sb92/bill.pdf
Amendment	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/23RS/SB92/SCS1.pdf
Supplement	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/23RS/sb92/SCS1LM.pdf
Supplement	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/23RS/sb92/LM.pdf
Roll Call	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/23RS/sb92/vote_history.pdf