Byerman, 042018 KYAGO, AGO OAG 18-7

• Case Date: April 20, 2018
• Court: Kentucky

David A. Byerman, Director AGO OAG 18-7 No. OAG 18-007 Kentucky Attorney General Opinion Commonwealth of Kentucky Office of the Attorney General April 20, 2018          Subject: Effective date of certain legislation passed during the 2018 Regular Session of the Kentucky General Assembly          Requested by: David A. Byerman, Director, Legislative Research Commission          Written by: James M. Herrick, Assistant Attorney General          Syllabus: In accordance with Section 55 of the Constitution of Kentucky, the effective date of legislation passed by the 2018 Regular Session of the Kentucky General Assembly, except for general appropriation measures and those containing emergency or delayed effective date provisions, is the first moment of Saturday, July 14, 2018, since 90 full days will then have passed after final adjournment on April 14, 2018.          Constitutional provision construed: Ky. Const. § 55          OAG cited: OAG 07-002           OPINION OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL          The following question, in substance, has been presented: What is the effective date of legislation, other than general appropriation bills and acts containing emergency or delayed effective date provisions, passed during the 2018 Regular Session of the Kentucky General Assembly, the Assembly having finally adjourned on Saturday, April 14, 2018?          As discussed below, the effective date of legislation, other than general appropriation bills and acts containing emergency or delayed effective date provisions, passed during the 2018 Regular Session of the Kentucky General Assembly, is the first moment of Saturday, July 14, 2018.          Section 55 of the Constitution of Kentucky provides:

No act, except general appropriation bills, shall become a law until ninety days after the adjournment of the session at which it was passed, except in cases of emergency, when, by the concurrence of a majority of the members elected to each House of the General Assembly, by a yea and nay vote entered upon their journals, an act may become a law when approved by the Governor, but the reasons for

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