AN ACT relating to recreation and tourism development.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 148 to terms; establish the Dream Big Burnside Development Authority to establish, maintain, and promote a recreational and resort park system surrounding General Burnside Lake; establish board membership and executive director requirements of the authority; establish the duties and purposes of the authority; require that bond debt service be payable solely from the revenue of the bonds; provide that a landowner that has a contractual agreement with the authority for use of private land as part of a recreational area does not waive any protection granted to the landowner by KRS 411.190.

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Introduced: February 19, 2025

Last action: March 14, 2025

2nd Reading, To Rules

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This bill creates a new government authority called the Dream Big Burnside Development Authority, which would be responsible for building, managing, and promoting a recreational and resort park system around General Burnside Lake in Kentucky. The authority would have its own board and executive director, and could issue bonds to fund its work, with bond repayments coming only from the revenue those bonds generate rather than from general tax funds. Private landowners who allow their…

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