Aeronautics And Aviation
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION recognizing and commending Bowman Skunk Works for empowering Kentucky students for a future in the aviation industry. [SR-91]
Recognize and commend Bowman Skunk Works.
Sponsored by: Sen. Julie Adams
Adopted By Voice Vote on 03/05/2025
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A JOINT RESOLUTION establishing the Air Mobility and Aviation Economic Development Task Force. [SJR-66]
Create the legislative Air Mobility and Aviation Economic Development Task Force to study innovations in aviation and advanced air mobility, actions taken by other states to support this technology, Kentucky's ability to attract aviation and aerospace-related economic development, industry trends, and actions Kentucky should take to support aviation growth and aviation-related economic development in the Commonwealth; establish membership; direct the task force to meet during the 2025 Interim and to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative
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Sponsored by: Sen. Danny Carroll
3rd Reading, Adopted 33-0 on 03/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Emergency Volunteer Corps. [SB-160]
Amend KRS 37.170 to create the Kentucky Emergency Volunteer Corps (KEV Corps) within the Kentucky State Defense Force; create a new section of KRS Chapter 37 to detail KEV Corps eligibility, supervision, training requirements, uniform details, and prohibitions and to create the KEV Corps fund; amend KRS 39B.030 to permit the local emergency management director to use the KEV Corps during a local disaster or emergency; amend KRS 39B.050 to include the KEV Corps as a part of the local disaster and emergency services organization; amend KRS 39B.070
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Sponsored by: Sen. David Givens
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 02/18/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to a tax credit for alternative jet fuel. [HB-296]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a nonrefundable income tax credit for alternative jet fuel producers and consumers; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the credit.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Meade
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to airport police. [HB-234]
Amend KRS 16.220, relating to confiscated firearms sold at public auction, to add airport safety and security department to the list of agencies that are eligible to receive grant funds from the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security for purchasing body armor and other necessary equipment.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 3) on 03/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to aviation. [SB-87]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 183 to allow an air board that operates a commercial airport serving more than 1,000,000 passengers annually to utilize small purchase procedures established by the Federal Aviation Administration for purchases that do not exceed the simplified acquisition threshold identified in 2 C.F.R. sec. 200.88 and to purchase goods and services directly from vendors who maintain agreements with the General Services Administration; exempt these transactions from the requirements of KRS 45A.345 to 45A.460 and 424.260; amend
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Sponsored by: Sen. Steve Rawlings
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 11) on 03/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to privacy protection. [HB-19]
Amend KRS 500.130 to define terms; provide that the use of an unmanned aircraft system is not prohibited in the case of recreational or professional use if there is not intent to conduct surveillance on private property and there is no unauthorized use or publication of images of individuals or areas of private property, or in the case of an insurance company for purposes of underwriting a risk or investigating damage; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a civil action; create a new section of KRS Chapter 413 to establish a statute
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Sponsored by: Rep. DJ Johnson
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 19) on 03/15/2025
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION urging the Kentucky Department of Military Affairs to explore the feasibility of moving contractor operations currently housed at Bluegrass Station to the Blue Grass Army Depot. [SR-262]
Urge the Kentucky Department of Military Affairs to explore the opportunities surrounding moving contractor operations currently housed at Bluegrass Station to the Blue Grass Army Depot.
Sponsored by: Sen. Steve West
Adopted By Voice Vote on 04/15/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to tax credits for sustainable aviation fuel, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [SB-313]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish the sustainable aviation fuel tax credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, but before January 1, 2035; compute credit based on $2.50 per gallon of sustainable aviation fuel consumed by taxpayers; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish the nonrefundable feedstock production tax credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, but before January 1, 2035; compute credit based on the amount of usable feedstock produced in this state; amend KRS 141.0205
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jay Williams
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 02/29/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to human trafficking. [HB-3]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to permit the Attorney General to establish a working group to study and discuss human trafficking in the Commonwealth; amends KRS 15.706 to include forced labor in reporting data on human trafficking from the Prosecutors Advisory Council; amends KRS 176.415 to require that the Department of Highways post signs or window clings containing contact information for assistance for victims of human trafficking; amends KRS 183.075 to require that airports post signs or window clings containing contact information
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Sponsored by: Rep. Suzanne Miles
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 61) on 04/04/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to aviation and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-664]
Amend KRS 183.525, regarding the Kentucky Aviation Economic Development Fund, to allow moneys in the fund to be used for programs supporting aviation education and workforce development; APPROPRIATION.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Fleming
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 03/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to aerospace infrastructure, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-345]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Aerospace, Aviation, and Defense Investment Fund Advisory Committee; establish the membership of the committee; establish the Kentucky aerospace, aviation, and defense investment fund to be administered by the Council for Postsecondary Education for the purpose of funding public and private partnerships to provide aviation training scholarships and aviation and aerospace equipment grants; require that the portion of the fund expended towards the council's administrative
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Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/13/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to aerospace infrastructure, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [SB-127]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; establishes the Kentucky Aerospace, Aviation, and Defense Investment Fund Advisory Committee; establishes the membership of the committee; establishes the Kentucky aerospace, aviation, and defense investment fund to be administered by the Council for Postsecondary Education for the purpose of funding public and private partnerships to provide aviation training scholarships and aviation and aerospace equipment grants; requires that the portion of the fund expended toward the council’s administrative
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Sponsored by: Sen. Damon Thayer
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 109) on 04/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to privacy protection. [HB-45]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to define terms related to automated license plate readers; establish limitations on use and sale of data captured by automated license plate readers; create a new section of KRS Chapter 183 to define terms and establish limitations on the use of an unmanned aircraft system; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a cause of action for the unauthorized use of an unmanned aircraft system; create a new section of KRS Chapter 413 to establish a statute of limitations for an action filed for the unauthorized
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Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
Reassigned To Transportation (s) on 03/07/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to agricultural key infrastructure assets. [SB-16]
Amends KRS 511.100 to add commercial food manufacturing or processing facility, animal feeding operation, and concentrated animal feeding operation to the definition of “key infrastructure assets,” to penalize those who operate an unmanned aircraft system, video recording device, audio recording device, or photography equipment on or above the assets without consent, to penalize those who record or distribute unauthorized images or material of a concentrated animal feeding operation, animal feeding operation, or commercial food manufacturing or
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Sponsored by: Sen. Rick Girdler
Delivered To Secretary Of State on 04/12/2024
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Multimodal Freight Transportation System Improvement Task Force. [HCR-72]
Create the Multimodal Freight Transportation System Improvement Task Force to study the current system of ports, freight, and air terminals, identify needed improvements, and explore options to fund the system; set task force membership; allow the task force to meet during the 2023 Interim and to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2023.
Sponsored by: Rep. Suzanne Miles
Received In Senate on 03/07/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION honoring the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport. [SR-24]
Honor Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky International Airport on its 75th anniversary.
Sponsored by: Sen. John Schickel
Adopted By Voice Vote on 02/28/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day. [HB-28]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to designate the fourth Thursday in March of each year as Tuskegee Airmen Commemoration Day.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Elliott
Taken From State & Local Government (s) on 03/15/2023
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to taxation of sustainable aviation fuel, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [SB-323]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish the sustainable aviation fuel tax credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2023, but before January 1, 2027; compute credit based on $1.00 per gallon of qualified mixture consumed by taxpayers or $1.50 per gallon of sustainable aviation fuel consumed by taxpayers; amend KRS 141.0205 for the ordering of the tax credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow reporting by the Department of Revenue on the credit; amend KRS 154.27-010 and 154.27-020 to allow incentives for sustainable aviation
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Sponsored by: Sen. Wil Schroder
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 03/07/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to aviation. [HB-560]
Amend KRS 183.8621 to require the Transportation Cabinet to appoint a cabinet employee to be administrator of the Airport Zoning Commission; clarify the role and supervision of the administrator; amend KRS 174.020 to place the Airport Zoning Commission under the Department of Aviation; amend KRS 183.140 to eliminate references to a pilot project for commuter air service; amend KRS 183.475 to conform; repeal KRS 183.032, 183.050, 183.070, 183.203, 183.207, 183.210, 183.213, and 183.490.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Upchurch
Introduced In House on 02/23/2022