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Kentucky · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 124: AN ACT relating to animal care.

In committee 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

SB 124 is a bill introduced in the Kentucky Senate on February 11, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: AN ACT relating to animal care. Most recent recorded action (February 13, 2025): to State & Local Government (S).

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

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

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 525 to define terms; require peace officers and animal control officers to serve notice of seizure of an animal subjected to cruelty; create procedure for seizing agencies to petition a court to order owner to pay cost of care for a seized animal; establish penalties; amend KRS 258.215 to require owners to be responsible for cost of care of an impounded animal; repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 258.117 to reduce the number of board appointees from each nominating organization from two to one; add one member to be selected from a list submitted by Kentucky Animal Action; add a member from a list submitted by the Kentucky Veterinary Medical Association representing registered nonprofit organizations whose missions prioritize spay and neuter advocacy for companion animals to the Animal Control Advisory Board; provide that on the effective date of the Act, the Animal Control Advisory Board shall be dissolved and reconstituted and all new members be appointed; provide for the staggering of initial appointments.

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. to State & Local Government (S)
  2. to Committee on Committees (S)
  3. introduced in Senate

Sources

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