AN ACT relating to timely emergency response by coroners, making an appropriation therefor and declaring an emergency.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 39A to require the county coroners, in consultation with the Kentucky Coroners Association, to create emergency response areas and equip each district with an emergency response trailer with necessary equipment to adequately respond to a multiple fatality event; require the Division of Emergency Management to promulgate administrative regulations; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.

Introduced: January 13, 2026

Last action: January 30, 2026

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This bill would require county coroners across Kentucky to establish emergency response areas and equip each district with a trailer stocked with the tools needed to handle events involving multiple deaths. Coroners would work with the Kentucky Coroners Association to set up these districts, and the state Division of Emergency Management would create rules to put the plan into action. The bill includes a budget appropriation to fund the effort. Who it may affect: county coroners, local emergency management officials, and Kentuckians in communities responding to large-scale disasters or mass casualty events.

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