AN ACT relating to county law libraries.

Amend KRS 172.100 and 172.200, relating to county law libraries, to ensure that law library funds can be expended for subscriptions to computer-assisted legal research, internet access, and computers and related equipment.

Introduced: February 4, 2025

Last action: March 13, 2025

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This bill updates the rules for how county law library funds can be spent, allowing those funds to be used for online legal research tools, internet access, and computers and related equipment. Currently, the law may not clearly permit these modern expenses, so this change would bring the rules in line with how legal research is actually done today. Who it may affect: county governments managing law libraries, and attorneys or members of the public who use county law library resources.

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