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Kentucky · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

HB 493: AN ACT relating to the towing and storage of motor vehicles.

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 493 is a bill introduced in the Kentucky House on February 13, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: AN ACT relating to the towing and storage of motor vehicles. Most recent recorded action (April 1, 2025): signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 152).

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Official summary

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

Amend KRS 281.630 to establish a towing and storage facility certificate and require applicants for a towing and storage facility certificate to file a rate sheet with the application and renewal for the certificate; amend KRS 281.631 to set a fee of $10 for motor carrier plates for tow trucks; amend KRS 281.928 to require an entity requesting a vehicle in a storage facility to be held pending a civil or criminal investigation to notify the owner, lienholder, and insurer of a vehicle with 24 hours of a hold being initiated or released; amend KRS 281.930 to set limits on charges for storage on vehicles held for civil or criminal investigation; amend KRS 281.926 to require towing companies and storage facilities to have one rate sheet that is applicable to all customers and to establish that statements that misrepresent the scope of damages associated with a property, casualty, or property and casualty insurance claim are fraudulent insurance acts; make technical amendments; amend KRS 281.010 to define "towing and storage facility certificate"; amend KRS 281.990 to set penalties for violations of KRS 281.920 to 281.936.

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. 152)
  2. delivered to Governor
  3. enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
  4. enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
  5. passed 88-10
  6. House concurred in Senate Committee Substitute (1)
  7. posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute (1)
  8. to Rules (H)
  9. received in House
  10. 3rd reading, passed 38-0 with Committee Substitute (1)
  11. posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 27, 2025
  12. 2nd reading, to Rules

Showing 12 most recent of 23 actions. Full history

Sources

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