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SB 59 Kentucky Senate · 2025 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to affordable housing.

Summary
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 100 to allow religious institutions to develop affordable housing without submission to review by a planning unit if the development is approved by a local government.
Issues: ✓ HousingSupports HousingBill removes planning review barrier for religious institutions building affordable housing, directly advancing development of affordable housing projects.95% confidence
Bill status passed 3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Jan 2025
Committee Review
Mar 2025
Senate Passage
Feb 2025
House Passage
Governor
Introduced Jan 8, 2025 Last action Mar 27, 2025
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What changed between versions

Introduced → Current/Final · 2 edits
MINOR
The bill was reformatted with updated page headers and tracking numbers, while the substantive legislative text remains unchanged. No policy changes were made to the affordable housing provisions.
TECHNICAL

Page header information was updated from a placeholder date (1/7/2025) to a current date (2/11/2025) and tracking numbers were corrected from BR 258 to SB 59/GA.

Indentation levels were adjusted throughout the document for formatting consistency, but no legal text was altered.

Floor votes · Senate Feb 11, 2025

How they voted

39–3
Passed · 1 other
Total votes 43
Feb 11, 2025
D Democratic6
6 Yea
100% Yea
R Republican37
33 Yea 3 Nay 1
89% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
17
Key actions
7
Committee
10
Mar 27, 2025
Committee
to Local Government (H)
lower
Mar 27, 2025
Lower · Passed
taken from Committee on Committees (H)
lower
Mar 13, 2025
Lower · Passed
returned to Committee on Committees (H)
lower
Mar 13, 2025
Lower · Passed
taken from Committee on Committees (H)
lower
Mar 12, 2025
Lower · Passed
returned to Committee on Committees (H)
lower
Mar 12, 2025
Lower · Passed
taken from Committee on Committees (H)
lower
Feb 12, 2025
Committee
to Committee on Committees (H)
lower
Feb 11, 2025
Upper · Passed
3rd reading, passed 34-3 with Committee Substitute (1)
upper
Feb 6, 2025
Upper · Passed
reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1)
upper
Jan 10, 2025
Committee
to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)
upper
Jan 8, 2025
Committee
to Committee on Committees (S)
upper
Jan 8, 2025
Introduced
introduced in Senate
upper
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors

Sponsors

No sponsor information available.