Text of KY HB 360 (2026)
AN ACT relating to adult performances and declaring an emergency.
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AN ACT relating to adult performances and declaring an emergency.
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Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:
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SECTION 1. A NEW SECTION OF KRS CHAPTER 525 IS CREATED TO
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READ AS FOLLOWS:
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(1)
As used in this section, "adult performance" means a live:
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(a)
Sexually explicit performance, as defined in KRS 529.010; or
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(b)
Performance involving male or female impersonators who provide
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entertainment, whether or not performed for consideration, that:
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1.
To the average person, applying contemporary community standards,
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and taken as a whole, predominantly appeals to prurient interest in
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sexual conduct;
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2.
Depicts or describes sexual conduct in a patently offensive way; and
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3.
Taken as a whole, lacks serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific
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value.
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(2)
A person is guilty of engaging in an adult performance when he or she engages
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in an adult performance:
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(a)
On publicly owned property; or
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(b)
In a location where the person knows or should know that the adult
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performance is likely to be viewed by a person under the age of eighteen
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(18) years.
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(3)
Engaging in an adult performance is a:
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(a)
Class B misdemeanor for the first offense;
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(b)
Class A misdemeanor for the second offense; and
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(c)
Class D felony for the third and each subsequent offense.
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Section 2. Whereas the protection of children is of paramount importance to the
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citizens of this Commonwealth, an emergency is declared to exist, and this Act takes
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effect upon its passage and approval by the Governor or upon its otherwise becoming a
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law.
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