26 total bills, 9 anti-gun bills,
9 pro-gun bills for this session
Proposed Kentucky Firearm Legislation
26 total bills, 9 anti-gun bills,
9 pro-gun bills for this session
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Title: A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging the United States Congress to allow users of medical cannabis to own firearms.
Description: Urge the United States Congress to allow users of medical cannabis to own firearms.
Last Action: WITHDRAWN
Last Action Date: February 19, 2025
Title: A RESOLUTION urging the United States Congress to allow users of medical cannabis to own firearms.
Description: Urge the United States Congress to allow users of medical cannabis to own firearms.
Last Action: to Committee on Committees (H)
Last Action Date: February 18, 2025
Title: AN ACT relating to prohibiting the enforcement of a federal ban or regulation of firearms.
Description: Amend KRS 237.105, relating to state and local enforcement of federal bans on firearms on or after January 1, 2021, to change the definition of "federal ban" to mean a federal law, executive order, rule or regulation that is enacted, adopted, or becomes effective on or after December 15, 1791.
Last Action: to Judiciary (H)
Last Action Date: February 4, 2025
Title: AN ACT relating to firearms.
Description: Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237, relating to firearms, to define "red flag law"; prohibit police department and judicial enforcement of red flag laws.
Last Action: to Local Government (H)
Last Action Date: February 4, 2025
Title: AN ACT relating to target shooting.
Description: Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to define terms; provide that a person shall not target shoot carelessly, recklessly, or without regard for the safety of any person, or in a manner that endangers or is likely to endanger any person, pet, livestock, wildlife, or property; provide exceptions for target shooting at a recreation facility or in an area with an earthen backstop; establish a violation as a Class A misdemeanor.
Last Action: to Judiciary (H)
Last Action Date: February 4, 2025
Title: AN ACT relating to gun safety for children.
Description: Amend KRS 527.010 to define "securely locked container" and make technical corrections; create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to prohibit unlawful storage of a firearm; establish elements of the crime as recklessly allowing access to an unsecured firearm by a minor; establish the crime as a Class B misdemeanor unless a physical injury or death results, in which case it is a Class A misdemeanor; provide that an affirmative defense exists if a minor obtained the firearm through the minor's unlawful entry; provide that the Act may be cited as the Baby Dre Gun Safety Act.
Last Action: to Judiciary (H)
Last Action Date: February 4, 2025
Title: AN ACT relating to firearms and declaring an emergency.
Description: Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to define "assault weapon," "large capacity ammunition feeding device," and "seller of ammunition"; require background checks for private firearms sales; require reporting to law enforcement of firearm and ammunition thefts and losses; require the safe storage of firearms; require the Department of Kentucky State Police to promulgate administrative regulations relating to the licensing of persons to possess handguns and assault weapons, the registration of handguns and assault weapons, and the logging of firearms and ammunition sales effective January 1, 2026; amend KRS 237.990 to establish penalties; create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to create the offense of criminal purchase or disposal of a weapon; amend KRS 395.250 to require an estate's inventory to list each firearm; amend KRS 403.735 to require judges, when issuing an order of protection, to consider whether a person against whom the order is entered should be prohibited from possessing an firearm; amend KRS 504.030 to require judges in criminal cases where a person is found not guilty by reason of insanity to demand the surrender of the defendant's firearms; amend KRS 506.080 to add that the offense of facilitation includes assistance in providing firearms; amend KRS 508.020 to include physical injury to a minor by virtue of the intentional discharge of a firearm within the offense of assault in the second degree; amend KRS 527.040 to require that the sentence for a felon in possession of a firearm be served consecutively to any other felony sentence; amend KRS 527.070 to include postsecondary education facilities within the existing ban on firearms in schools; amend KRS 532.030 to require the judge pronouncing a defendant guilty but mentally ill to demand the surrender of the person's firearms; amend KRS 65.1591, 237.104, 237.115, and 532.025 to conform; repeal KRS 65.870, relating to the prohibition of local firearm control ordinances; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2026; EMERGENCY.
Last Action: to Judiciary (H)
Last Action Date: February 4, 2025
Title: AN ACT relating to concealed deadly weapons.
Description: Amend KRS 237.109 to lower the age requirement for carrying a concealed and deadly weapon from 21 to 18; amend KRS 237.110 to conform; make technical corrections.
Last Action: to Judiciary (H)
Last Action Date: February 4, 2025
Title: AN ACT relating to concealed deadly weapons.
Description: Repeal KRS 237.115, which interprets the application of the license to carry concealed deadly weapon statute as permitting postsecondary facilities, local governments, and units of state government to limit concealed carry in governmental buildings; amend KRS 150.172, 237.110, and 527.020 to conform; amend KRS 237.110 to no longer prohibit the carrying of concealed deadly weapons in schools and specify that the prohibition of carrying concealed deadly weapons in airports is limited to areas controlled by the Transportation Security Administration; make technical corrections; amend KRS 527.070 to add persons with valid licenses to carry concealed deadly weapons to the list of those permitted to possess weapons in schools.
Last Action: to Judiciary (H)
Last Action Date: February 4, 2025
Title: AN ACT relating to a firearm safety course credit.
Description: Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to define terms; establish a refundable credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, but before January 1, 2030, for individuals who enroll in a firearm safety course during the taxable year; amend KRS 141.0205 to provide for the ordering of the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the credit.
Last Action: to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
Last Action Date: February 7, 2025
Title: AN ACT relating to sales and use tax exemptions for firearm-related items.
Description: Amend KRS 139.010, relating to sales and use taxes, to define "ammunition," "antique firearm," "body armor," firearm," "firearm muffler or silencer," "firearm-related accessory," "firearm safety course," "firearm safety device," and "firearm storage device"; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt ammunition, antique firearms, body armor, firearms, firearm-related accessories, firearm safety courses, firearm safety devices, firearm storage devices, noise cancelling ear protection, and admissions or program fees related to certain firearm-related activities; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2025.
Last Action: to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
Last Action Date: February 7, 2025
Title: AN ACT relating to equality in access to financial services.
Description: Create a new section of KRS Chapter 367 to define terms; prohibit financial institutions from discriminating in, or agreeing, conspiring, or coordinating to discriminate in, the provision of financial services by utilizing a social credit score; establish notice requirements when a financial institution refuses to provide, restricts, or terminates financial services; make violation an unfair, false, misleading, or deceptive trade practice in violation of KRS 367.170; establish remedies; authorize enforcement by the Attorney General; require construction in favor of broad protection of conduct, opinions, and beliefs protected by certain laws.
Last Action: to Banking & Insurance (H)
Last Action Date: February 7, 2025
Title: AN ACT relating to firearms possession by domestic abusers.
Description: Amend KRS 527.010 to define "domestic abuse offense," "domestic violence protective order," and "physical force"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 527 to create the crimes of possession of a firearm by a convicted domestic abuser and possession of a firearm by the subject of a domestic violence protective order; require the surrender of firearm by individuals subject to protective orders or convicted of specified crimes; amend KRS 403.740 and 456.060 to require courts to inform the subject of a domestic violence order or an interpersonal protective order of the firearm possession prohibition.
Last Action: to Judiciary (H)
Last Action Date: February 7, 2025
Title: AN ACT relating to background checks on the sale or transfer of firearms.
Description: Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to require background checks for private firearms sales and transfers; amend KRS 237.990 to establish a penalty for violations.
Last Action: to Judiciary (H)
Last Action Date: February 7, 2025
Title: AN ACT relating to gun safety for children.
Description: Create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to make it a crime to unlawfully store a firearm; establish elements of the crime for recklessly allowing access to an unsecured firearm by a minor; establish the crime as a Class A misdemeanor unless a physical injury or death results, in which case it is a Class D felony; provide that the Act may be cited as the Baby Dre Gun Safety Act.
Last Action: WITHDRAWN
Last Action Date: February 13, 2025
Title: AN ACT relating to the destruction of confiscated firearms.
Description: Amend KRS 16.220 to require the destruction of confiscated firearms; amend KRS 45.777, 147A.002, 500.090, and 500.093 to conform.
Last Action: to Judiciary (H)
Last Action Date: February 7, 2025
Title: AN ACT relating to risk protection orders.
Description: Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to define terms; allow enumerated persons to petition a District Court to issue an order prohibiting a person from purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm if the person is or has been diagnosed with or treated for a mental condition that causes or is likely to cause impairment in judgment, perception, or impulse control to an extent that presents an unreasonable risk to public health, safety, or welfare if the person were in possession or control of a firearm; establish that a violation of an order is a Class A misdemeanor; amend KRS 237.104 to conform; provide that the Act may be cited as Diego's Law.
Last Action: to Judiciary (H)
Last Action Date: February 12, 2025
Title: AN ACT relating to waiting periods for sales of firearms.
Description: Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to require a waiting period of five business days between the sale and transfer of a firearm; amend KRS 237.990 to establish a penalty for a violation.
Last Action: to Judiciary (H)
Last Action Date: February 12, 2025
Title: AN ACT relating to the restoration of Second Amendment rights.
Description: Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237, relating to firearms, to define terms; provide that firearms manufactured in Kentucky shall not be subject to federal law or regulation; require firearms manufactured and sold in Kentucky to have the words "Made in Kentucky" clearly stamped on them; prohibit the state and local enforcement of a federal statute, order, rule, or regulation that does not exist under state law and that purports to regulate a firearm; allow citizens to report evidence of specified state and local entities' noncompliance to the Office of the Attorney General; require the Office of the Attorney General to investigate; prohibit specified entities from receiving state grant funds if found noncompliant; allow the Office of the Attorney General to file a petition for a writ of mandamus or apply for other appropriate equitable relief to compel compliance; provide that the Act applies to firearms that are manufactured on or after the effective date of the Act; provide that the Act may be cited as the Second Amendment Restoration Act.
Last Action: to Committee on Committees (H)
Last Action Date: February 18, 2025
Title: AN ACT relating to the restoration of Second Amendment rights.
Description: Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237, relating to firearms, to define terms; provide that firearm suppressors manufactured in Kentucky shall not be subject to federal law or regulation; require firearm suppressors manufactured and sold in Kentucky to have the words "Made in Kentucky" clearly stamped on them; prohibit the state and local enforcement of a federal statute, order, rule, or regulation that does not exist under state law and that purports to regulate a firearm suppressor; allow citizens to report evidence of specified state and local entities' noncompliance to the Office of the Attorney General; require the Office of the Attorney General to investigate; prohibit specified entities from receiving state grant funds if found noncompliant; allow the Office of the Attorney General to file a petition for a writ of mandamus or apply for other appropriate equitable relief to compel compliance; provide that the Act applies to firearm suppressors that are manufactured on or after the effective date of the Act; provide that the Act may be cited as the Second Amendment Restoration Act.
Last Action: to Committee on Committees (H)
Last Action Date: February 18, 2025
Title: AN ACT relating to a sales and use tax holiday.
Description: Create a new section of KRS Chapter 139 to establish a five-day sales and use tax holiday from April 5 to April 15 each year to exempt firearm safety devices and firearm storage devices; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2025.
Last Action: to Committee on Committees (H)
Last Action Date: February 19, 2025
Title: A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION urging Kentucky's congressional delegation to support amending the Gun Control Act of 1968 to allow users of medical cannabis to exercise their Second Amendment right to bear arms.
Description: Urge Kentucky's congressional delegation to support amending the Gun Control Act of 1968 to remove the firearms restrictions on users of medical cannabis.
Last Action: to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)
Last Action Date: February 4, 2025
Title: A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the establishment of the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force.
Description: Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Gun Violence Prevention Task Force to study the causes of and examine ways to prevent gun violence; establish task force membership; require the task force to meet at least once per month during the 2025 Interim; require the task force to submit its findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2025.
Last Action: to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)
Last Action Date: February 20, 2025
Title: AN ACT relating to concealed deadly weapons.
Description: Amend KRS 237.109 to lower the age requirement for carrying a concealed and deadly weapon from 21 to 18; amend KRS 237.110 to conform; make technical corrections.
Last Action: to Committee on Committees (S)
Last Action Date: February 14, 2025
Title: AN ACT relating to the forensic processing of firearms.
Description: Create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to require law enforcement agencies to transmit information to national law enforcement databases about firearms collected during criminal investigations.
Last Action: to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S)
Last Action Date: February 6, 2025
Title: AN ACT relating to crisis aversion and rights retention orders.
Description: Establish KRS Chapter 202D and create new sections thereof relating to crisis aversion and rights retention orders; provide limitations on interpretation of the Act; define terms; allow law enforcement officers to petition a court to issue orders when a respondent presents an immediate and present danger of causing serious physical injury to themselves or others through purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm; establish procedures for the filing, review, hearing, service of process, termination, or renewal of the petition and orders; provide court processes and evidentiary standards; allow entry of the orders into law enforcement systems; prescribe issuance and service procedures for additional proceedings; establish procedures for the surrender, storage, transfer, and return of firearms; establish penalties for violations; allow for recognition and enforcement of foreign orders; amend KRS 431.076 to conform.
Last Action: to Judiciary (S)
Last Action Date: February 20, 2025
