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Kentucky · 2026 Regular Session · Bill

SB 198: AN ACT relating to operations in the Office of the Attorney General.

Passed both chambers 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 198 is a bill introduced in the Kentucky Senate on February 13, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: AN ACT relating to operations in the Office of the Attorney General. Most recent recorded action (April 1, 2026): Conference Committee appointed in House and Senate.

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 a new section of KRS 15.800 to 15.876 to require staff in the Department of Law with access to or use of federal tax information to submit to a criminal background check to be provided to the Attorney General; create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to define terms; establish that each state agency is for all purposes the custodian of its own records; create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to establish a 10-year statute of limitations in actions brought by the Attorney General; amend KRS 13B.140 to prohibit a hearing officer from being named as a party in any court action seeking judicial review of a final order of an agency; amend KRS 216B.115 to establish that in any appeal to the Franklin Circuit Court, neither the Attorney General nor any hearing officer shall be named as a party; amend KRS 322A.030 to remove the Attorney General as legal adviser to the Board of Registration for Professional Geologists; amend KRS 403.213 to remove the secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services as a member of the commission charged with review of the child support tables to conform with the transfer of child support enforcement to the Attorney General; amend KRS 367.160 to conform; make technical corrections.

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. Conference Committee appointed in House and Senate
  2. House refused to recede from Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title)
  3. posted for passage for receding from House Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title)
  4. to Rules (H)
  5. received in House
  6. Senate refused to concur in House Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title)
  7. posted for passage for concurrence in House Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title)
  8. to Rules (S)
  9. received in Senate
  10. 3rd reading, passed 67-19 with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title)
  11. placed in the Orders of the Day
  12. taken from Rules

Showing 12 most recent of 29 actions. Full history

Sources

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