Kentucky · 2025 Regular Session · Bill
HB 520: AN ACT relating to law enforcement records.
Enacted Official data
- Introduced
- In committee
- Passed one chamber
- Passed both chambers
- Enacted
Last official action: ·Record last updated:
Plain-language summary
HB 520 is a bill introduced in the Kentucky House on February 13, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: AN ACT relating to law enforcement records. Most recent recorded action (March 27, 2025): became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 97).
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Official summary
Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.
Amend KRS 61.878, relating to open records, to provide that law enforcement records shall be exempt from public inspection if the disclosure of the information could pose an articulable risk of harm to the law enforcement agency or its investigtion by revealing the identity of informants or witnesses not otherwise known.
Sponsors
| Name | Role | Party | Chamber | District |
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| 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
- became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 97)
- filed without Governor's signature with the Secretary of State
- delivered to Governor
- enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
- enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
- received in House
- passed 25-12
- Committee Substitute (1) withdrawn
- 3rd reading
- posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 14, 2025
- reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1)
- returned to State & Local Government (S)
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