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KY SB39

Bill

Status

Engrossed

2/23/2026

Primary Sponsor

Gary Boswell

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Origin

Senate

2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Private landowners would be exempt from state creel limits, possession limits, size limits, and method-of-take restrictions for fish in their own lakes or ponds

  • Landowners could extend these fishing exemptions to others through written or electronic permission specifying dates and pond location

  • Private landowners would be exempt from state stocking requirements for their lakes and ponds, except for restrictions on invasive fish species

  • Largemouth bass (except Alabama bass) would be explicitly classified as non-invasive, and no restrictions would apply to stocking first filial (F1) largemouth bass

  • Amends KRS 150.170 to add these new exemptions for bona fide owners of private land

Legislative Description

AN ACT relating to fishing in privately owned lakes and ponds.

Fish and Wildlife

Last Action

to Natural Resources & Energy (H)

3/5/2026

Committee Referrals

Natural Resources & Energy3/5/2026
Committee On Committees2/23/2026
Rules1/23/2026
Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor1/20/2026
Committee on Committees1/7/2026

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