Deeds And Conveyances
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to property theft. [SB-194]
Amend KRS 514.020 to include alteration, falsification, forgery, or misrepresentation of any instrument involving the conveyance or financing or real property as prima facie evidence of intent to commit theft by unlawful taking; amend KRS 514.030 to establish the penalty for theft of immovable property or real property; amend KRS 15.113 to direct the Attorney General to create notices and publications designed to inform and educate the public regarding the risks posed by deed fraud; amend KRS 15.231 to establish concurrent jurisdiction of the Attorney
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Sponsored by: Sen. Rick Girdler
To Judiciary (s) on 02/20/2025
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AN ACT relating to the acquisition and ownership of real property by a foreign principal. [HB-393]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 381, relating to real property, to define terms; prohibit foreign principals from owning real property in the Commonwealth of Kentucky; provide exceptions; require foreign principals to register any ownership interest acquired before the effective date of this Act with the Cabinet for Economic Development; allow persons to report evidence of noncompliance to the Office of the Attorney General; require the Office of the Attorney General to investigate the evidence; allow the Office of the Attorney General to enforce
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Sponsored by: Rep. Billy Wesley
To Judiciary (h) on 02/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to marketable title. [HB-256]
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.
Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Flannery
To Judiciary (s) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to heirs property. [SB-70]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 381 to enact the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act; define terms, including "heirs property"; create a mechanism for partition or sale among cotenants by the court; create requirements for notice and determination of value through agreement or appraisal; create protocol for buyouts, partition alternatives, partition in kind, sale by open market, sealed bids, or auction; create the heirs property research fund; amend KRS 324B.050 to authorize the Kentucky Real Estate Authority to promulgate administrative
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Sponsored by: Sen. Reginald Thomas
To Judiciary (s) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the acquisition and ownership of real property by a foreign principal. [SB-284]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 381 to define terms; prohibit a foreign principal from acquiring or owning agricultural land; require a foreign principal that owns or acquires agricultural land before the effective date of this Act to register the ownership with the Department of Agriculture; require a purchaser of agricultural land to file an affidavit with the Department of Agriculture attesting that the purchaser is not a foreign principal; authorize the Department of Agriculture to promulgate regulations; prohibit a foreign principal from
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Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise
To Agriculture (s) on 02/28/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to economic development. [HB-712]
Amends KRS 147A.090 to provide that area development district boards of directors have the power and duty to cooperate with the Kentucky Ohio River Regional Recreation Authority (KORRRA); creates new sections of KRS Chapter 148 to promote outdoor recreation and tourism development by establishing the KORRRA; amends KRS Chapter 241.010 to define terms; creates new sections of KRS Chapter 242 and 243 to authorize a precinct local option election to allow the sale of alcoholic beverages at marinas, to set petition and ballot language, to define “marina”
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Fleming
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 151) on 04/09/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to transfers of land. [HB-657]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 382 to require that an owner of land comprising a subdivision in a county which has not adopted regulations under KRS Chapter 100, relating to planning and zoning, for the subdivision of land within its boundaries, record a plat of the subdivision in the office of the county clerk, and to establish penalties for violations.
Sponsored by: Rep. Randall Bridges
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 205) on 04/18/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the acquisition of agricultural land. [HB-575]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 247 to define terms, prohibit a nonresident alien, foreign business, foreign agent, trustee, or fiduciary associated with the government of any proscribed country referenced in 22 C.F.R. sec. 126.1 from the purchase, lease, or acquisition of agricultural land in Kentucky or participation in programs administered by the Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Development Board, and Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation; allow an existing foreign-owned business to purchase adjacent agricultural land to expand
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Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
Posted For Passage For Concurrence In Senate Committee Substitute (1) on 04/15/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to legal instruments. [HB-488]
Amends KRS 382.297 to establish when a county clerk shall admit any amendment, renewal, modification, or extension of a recorded mortgage to record, to establish when a county clerk shall admit affidavits of amendment prepared and executed by an attorney to record, and to establish recording requirements and construction of section; and amends KRS 413.100 to establish when a promise, acknowledgment, or payment of money operates as an extension of a lien in a recorded mortgage or deed, and to establish recording requirements for an extended lien.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Meredith
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 130) on 04/09/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to wills. [HB-451]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 394 to allow for a will to refer to a separate written statement or list in order to dispose of items of tangible personal property not otherwise specifically bequeathed.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Elliott
Received In Senate on 03/07/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to agricultural districts. [HB-418]
Amends KRS 262.850 to decrease the minimum number of acres to qualify as an agricultural district from 250 acres to 50 acres, to add cities that are within one mile of the agricultural district to the list of entities to be notified of the proposal, approval, and withdrawal of property from an agricultural district, and to allow a district board of supervisors to consider possible dissolution of an agricultural district if an owner’s withdrawal of property results in the remaining land no longer qualifying as agricultural land.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Meredith
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 136) on 04/09/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the administration of estates and creating an emergency. [HB-50]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 391 to establish the Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act to codify provisions for the creation, administration, modification, termination, and validity of transfer on death deeds; define terms; specify that a transfer on death deed is revocable and shall be nontestmentary; establish requirements for a transfer on death deed and specify the process of recording a transfer on death deed; specify that a transfer on death deed is effective without notice to or acceptance by the beneficiary during the transferor’s
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kevin Bratcher
2nd Reading, To Rules on 01/25/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the recording of interests in real property. [HB-37]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 382 to define "greenhouse gas emissions reduction agreement"; require that a greenhouse gas emissions reduction agreement be properly recorded pursuant to the requirements of KRS 382.110 for it to be binding on subsequent purchasers or creditors.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
Introduced In House on 01/02/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to heirs property and making an appropriation therefor. [SB-54]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 381 to enact the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act; define terms, including "heirs property"; create a mechanism for partition or sale among cotenants by the court; create requirements for notice and determination of value through agreement or appraisal; create protocol for buyouts, partition alternatives, partition in kind, sale by open market, sealed bids, or auction; create the heirs property research fund; amend KRS 324B.050 to authorize the Kentucky Real Estate Authority to promulgate administrative
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Sponsored by: Sen. Reginald Thomas
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 01/03/2024
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the transfer of property on death. [SB-208]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 391 to establish the Kentucky Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act to codify provisions for the creation, administration, modification, termination, and validity of transfer on death deeds; define terms; specify that a transfer on death deed is not an inter vivos transfer and that transfer occurs at the time of the transferor’s death; specify that the transferor retains the power to revoke a transfer on death deed; enumerate that a transfer on deed is nontestmentary; establish requirements for a transfer
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Sponsored by: Sen. John Schickel
To Judiciary (s) on 02/23/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [SB-241]
Amend 2022 Ky. Acts ch. 197, sec. 11, to direct the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to make the conservation easement acquisitions required to be made under the section instead of the Finance and Administration Cabinet; delete the provision requiring the Finance and Administration Cabinet to procure outside counsel; provide that the conservation easement transfers not be subject to KRS 382.850 provided that the conservation easements stipulate that they will not inhibit coal mining operations; allow the Department of Fish and Wildlife
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Sponsored by: Sen. Damon Thayer
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 139) on 03/29/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to interests in property. [SB-280]
Amend KRS 389A.010 to establish that a conveyance or mortgage of real estate made in contravention of the statutory provisions regarding finality of a judicial determination is voidable instead of null and void; amend KRS 65.032 to change the date for county clerks to provide and maintain a portal to allow the electronic filing of any recorded instrument from June 30, 2023, to January 1, 2024; make technical correction; RETROACTIVE.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jason Howell
To Judiciary (s) on 02/23/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to mechanic's and materialman's liens. [HB-309]
Amend KRS 376.010 to establish a mechanism for protection for owners and lessors of leased property from liens arising from work performed through a contract with the lessee when the lessee is prohibited from entering into such an agreement by the lease; require the filing of notice documents with the county clerk to apprise the prospective provider of labor or materials; amend KRS 371.325 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Myron Dossett
To Judiciary (h) on 03/01/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION recognizing February 15, 2023, as Kentucky Land Title Day. [SR-71]
Recognize February 15, 2023, as Kentucky Land Title Day.
Sponsored by: Sen. Steve West
Adopted By Voice Vote on 02/15/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the recording of greenhouse gas emissions reduction agreements. [HB-187]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 382 to define "greenhouse gas emissions reduction agreement"; require that a greenhouse gas emissions reduction agreement be properly recorded pursuant to the requirements of KRS 382.110 for it to be binding on subsequent purchasers or creditors.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
Introduced In House on 02/07/2023