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HB 373 Kentucky House · 2025 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to campaign finance.

Summary
Amend KRS 121.175 to allow the use of campaign funds to pay for the reasonable costs of security measures for a state candidate, officeholder, his or her family, and employees of the candidate's campaign or the officeholder's office; define "security measure" and "usual and normal charge."
Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
Mar 2025
House Passage
Feb 2025
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Feb 6, 2025 Last action Mar 6, 2025
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What changed between versions

Introduced → Current/Final · 5 edits
MODERATE
The bill was renumbered from BR 1544 to HB 373 and updated with current formatting. The main substantive change involves renumbering penalty subsections from (4) and (5) to (3) and (4), and adding a new penalty provision that allows the registry to impose daily fines of up to $100 (capped at $1,000) for unrepaid campaign fund violations.
TECHNICAL

Bill number changed from BR 1544 to HB 373 with updated page headers and formatting.

DEFINITION

Definition of 'Security measure' was refined to specify that structural devices must be solely for security and not property improvement, and added cybersecurity software/devices to the list.

Definition of 'Usual and normal charge' was clarified to specify market pricing for goods and commercially reasonable rates for services.

ENFORCEMENT

Penalty subsections were renumbered from (4) and (5) to (3) and (4) to align with updated bill structure.

New penalty provision added allowing the registry to impose daily fines of up to $100 (maximum $1,000) for unrepaid campaign fund violations.

Floor votes · House Feb 26, 2025

How they voted

99–0
Passed · 5 other
Total votes 104
Feb 26, 2025
D Democratic21
18 Yea 3
85% Yea
R Republican83
81 Yea 2
97% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
16
Key actions
2
Committee
5
Mar 4, 2025
Committee
to State & Local Government (S)
upper
Feb 27, 2025
Committee
to Committee on Committees (S)
upper
Feb 26, 2025
Lower · Passed
3rd reading, passed 95-0
lower
Feb 20, 2025
Lower · Passed
reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
lower
Feb 12, 2025
Committee
to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
lower
Feb 6, 2025
Committee
to Committee on Committees (H)
lower
Feb 6, 2025
Introduced
introduced in House
lower
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

No sponsor information available.