Kentucky legislation · 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky HB780: AN ACT relating to recording of deeds.
Status: In committee, March 24, 2026
Amend KRS 382.110 to establish that a municipal government may initiate a cause of action to compel the filing of a commissioner's deed if more than 30 business days have passed since the grantee's receipt of the deed from the commissioner; establish available relief; make technical corrections.
What the bill says
An act relating to recording of deeds.
From the introduced text:
AN ACT relating to recording of deeds. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Section 1. KRS 382.110 is amended to read as follows: (1) All deeds, mortgages, and other instruments required by law to be recorded to be effectual against purchasers without notice, or creditors, shall be recorded in the county clerk's office of the county in which the property conveyed, or the greater part of the property conveyed[thereof], is located. (2) No county clerk or deputy county clerk shall admit to record any deed of conveyance of any interest in real property equal to or greater than a life estate, unless the deed plainly specifies and refers to the immediate source from which the grantor derived title to the property or the interest conveyed in the deed[therein]. (3) (a) An authentic photocopy of any original record may be certified[,] as a true, complete, unaltered copy of the original record on file by the official public custodian of the record. (b) A certified copy of a document[ certified by the official public custodian of that document] may be submitted for filing in any other filing officer's jurisdiction as though it were the original record. However, no county clerk or deputy county clerk shall accept for filing any original document or certified copy of any …
Sponsors
- Daniel Elliott (R, HD-054) · primary sponsor
- Beverly Chester-Burton (D, HD-044)
Latest actions
- : to Judiciary (S)
- : to Committee on Committees (S)
- : received in Senate
- : 3rd reading, passed 96-0 with Floor Amendment (1)
- : posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 17 2026
- : floor amendment (1) filed
- : 2nd reading, to Rules
- : reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
- : to Judiciary (H)
- : to Committee on Committees (H)
Votes
- House: Pass RCS# 276 (March 18, 2026): 96 yea, 0 nay, passed
Subjects: Property, Deeds And Conveyances, Civil Actions, Local Government, Civil Procedure, Cities, County Clerks
Common questions
- What is HB780?
- HB780 is a bill in the Kentucky Legislature (2026 Regular Session): AN ACT relating to recording of deeds.
- What does HB780 do?
- In its own words: An act relating to recording of deeds.
- What is the status of HB780?
- In committee as of March 24, 2026. Latest action: to Judiciary (S) (March 24, 2026).
- Who sponsored HB780?
- Daniel Elliott (R, HD-054), with 1 co-sponsor.
- Where is the official record for HB780?
- On the Kentucky Legislature website: https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/26rs/hb780.html
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