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HB 256 Kentucky House · 2025 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to marketable title.

Summary
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 381 to define terms; establish what constitutes an unbroken chain of title; establish the interests and rights to which a marketable title is subject; include the procedure for preserving an interest in land; delineate protected interests; establish that the provisions are to be liberally construed.
Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
Feb 2025
House Passage
Feb 2025
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Feb 4, 2025 Last action Feb 26, 2025
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What changed between versions

Introduced → Current/Final · 4 edits
MODERATE
This bill reorganizes and clarifies definitions related to marketable title in Kentucky real estate law. The most significant substantive change is the addition of a new definition for 'Mineral' and 'Mineral interest' that explicitly lists various extractable resources (gas, oil, coal, sand, gravel, etc.) and clarifies that mineral rights are treated as separate interests that can be conveyed independently. The bill also renumbers and restructures the definition sections for better organization while maintaining the core provisions about 40-year title chains that extinguish older claims.
Scope change
The bill's scope remains focused on marketable title law but now more explicitly addresses mineral rights as a distinct category of interest that can be separated from surface rights.
DEFINITION

Added new definitions for 'Mineral' and 'Mineral interest' to explicitly list extractable resources and clarify that mineral rights can be absolute, fractional, or undivided interests.

Reorganized and renumbered definition sections from 6-15 to 1-9 for better structure and clarity.

Changed 'Muniments' definition to appear later in the sequence (now section 9) and adjusted related definition numbering throughout.

TECHNICAL

Minor formatting corrections including punctuation adjustments and removal of page header information from the main text.

Floor votes · House Feb 20, 2025

How they voted

97–0
Passed · 7 other
Total votes 104
Feb 20, 2025
D Democratic21
19 Yea 2
90% Yea
R Republican83
78 Yea 5
93% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
10
Key actions
2
Committee
5
Feb 26, 2025
Committee
to Judiciary (S)
upper
Feb 21, 2025
Committee
to Committee on Committees (S)
upper
Feb 20, 2025
Lower · Passed
3rd reading, passed 93-0 with Committee Substitute (1)
lower
Feb 18, 2025
Lower · Passed
reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1)
lower
Feb 7, 2025
Committee
to Local Government (H)
lower
Feb 4, 2025
Committee
to Committee on Committees (H)
lower
Feb 4, 2025
Introduced
introduced in House
lower
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

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