Official record
Measure details
- Jurisdiction
- Kentucky
- Session
- 2026RS
- Chamber
- lower
- Classification
- bill
- Subjects
- Firearms And Weapons, Funds, Homeland Security, Military Affairs And Civil Defense, Police, State, State Agencies
- Introduced / first action
- 2026-02-25 05:00:00
Source-supplied abstracts
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 16 to define terms; establish the Office of Public Defense within the Department of Kentucky State Police to acquire and transfer machine guns to qualified persons; establish the duties of the office and its director; require the director or designee to issue a transfer certificate upon transfer of a machine gun to a qualified person; require a qualified person who becomes ineligible to possess a firearm to return a machine gun to the office within 7 days of learning of his or her prohibited status; allow a qualified person to transfer a machine gun to another qualified person; establish the public defense fund; provide civil immunity to the Commonwealth, the office, and the office's director, officers, and employees in the performance of their duties; provide that the Commonwealth, the office, and the office's director, officers, and employees shall not be civilly or criminally liable for acts or omissions of qualified persons; amend KRS 12.020 and 15A.020 to conform.
Sponsors
- T. Roberts (primary), primary
- S. Doan (primary), primary
- J. Calloway (primary), primary
- R. Dotson (primary), primary
- J. Hodgson (primary), primary
- T. Huff (primary), primary
- B. Wesley (primary), primary