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Kentucky · 2026 Regular Session · Bill

SB 41: AN ACT relating to the levy of an ad valorem tax rate.

Passed one chamber 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 41 is a bill introduced in the Kentucky Senate on January 7, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: AN ACT relating to the levy of an ad valorem tax rate. Most recent recorded action (March 10, 2026): to Committee on Committees (H).

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.

Amend KRS 132.017, relating to the process for a recall of a local ad valorem tax rate, to define "school nickel tax rate"; require a petition process for recalling the levy of a school nickel tax rate; remove other taxes levied by local governmental entities from the petition process requirements; require an ad valorem tax levied by a local governmental entity and a general tax rate levied by a local board of education to be voted upon by the voters if the tax rate produces more than 4% in revenues over the revenues produced by the compensating tax rate; require the suspension of the ordinance, order, resolution, or motion levying the tax rate until after the required election; allow a local governmental entity or a local board of education to cancel a required recall election by reconsidering the levy and instead levying a tax rate that produces no more than 4% in revenues over the revenues produced by the compensating tax rate; specify ballot and public notification requirements for the election; provide that if a tax rate is recalled, the compensating tax rate shall be levied; amend KRS 68.245, 75A.050, 132.018, 132.023, 132.027, and 160.470 to conform; make technical changes; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2027.

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 Committee on Committees (H)
  2. received in House
  3. 3rd reading, passed 26-9
  4. passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day
  5. posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 06 2026
  6. 2nd reading, to Rules
  7. reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
  8. to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
  9. to Committee on Committees (S)
  10. introduced in Senate

Sources

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