Kentucky · Senate Bill 142 · 2026 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to affordable housing, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.

SB 142 Sponsored by Brandon Smith Died in committee

  1. Introduced Jan 30, 2026
  2. In committee Jan 30, 2026
  3. Died  
  4. Passed the House  
  5. To the governor  
  6. Became law  

What it does

The legislature's own summary of the bill, or its official long title.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 198A to define terms; establish the abandoned home pool fund to be administered by the Kentucky Housing Corporation; specify eligible recipients, activities, and uses of fund; amend KRS 64.012 to increase county clerk recording fees and add a $2 fee to be deposited in the abandoned home pool fund; appropriate $25,000,000 from the General Fund to the abandoned home pool fund; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY, effective July 1, 2026.

Every action

3 steps, oldest first, as the legislature records them.

  1. Senateintroduced in Senate
  2. Senateto Committee on Committees (S)
  3. Committeeto State & Local Government (S) · Senate State & Local Government (S)

Roll calls

No recorded votes on this bill yet.

Sponsors

The member who introduced it.

From Kentucky's official records (apps.legislature.ky.gov), checked Nov 2, 2026. Text links go to the official versions; LegiList does not copy bill text.