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Kentucky · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 462: AN ACT relating to the correction of marriage documents.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

HB 462 is a bill introduced in the Kentucky House on February 12, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: AN ACT relating to the correction of marriage documents. Most recent recorded action (March 31, 2025): signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 135).

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Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 402 to allow a county clerk to correct a marriage application or marriage license upon receipt of an affidavit executed by both parties to the marriage; provide examples of errors and omissions that a clerk may correct upon receipt of the affidavit; allow persons to obtain a corrected marriage license by court order if they choose; make a person who intentionally submits a material false statement subject to the penalties in KRS 523.030; amend KRS 209A.045 to permit any funds collected from amending marriage licenses to be remitted to the domestic violence shelter fund.

Sponsors

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
No sponsor recorded in source data.

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 135)
  2. delivered to Governor
  3. enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
  4. enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
  5. received in House
  6. 3rd reading, passed 38-0
  7. posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 28, 2025
  8. 2nd reading, to Rules
  9. reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
  10. to State & Local Government (S)
  11. to Committee on Committees (S)
  12. received in Senate

Showing 12 most recent of 19 actions. Full history

Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source