KRS 446.145: Manner of indicating amended, created, repealed, and repealed and

reenacted sections and sections not intended to be codified.

(1) Bills amending an existing section of the statutes shall indicate the material

proposed to be deleted by brackets and by striking through the material.

(2) Bills amending an existing section of the statutes shall indicate new material by

underlining.

(3) Bills creating a new section of the statutes shall begin with the phrase "A NEW

SECTION OF KRS CHAPTER --- IS CREATED TO READ AS FOLLOWS:" and

shall contain underlining of all material in the section.

(4) Bills repealing a section of the statutes shall list the statute number and headnote.

(5) (a) Bills repealing and reenacting a section of the statutes without change from

the text of that statute as it read at the time of its repeal shall begin with the

phrase "KRS --- is repealed and reenacted (or "reenacted as a new section of

KRS Chapter ---", if appropriate) to read as follows:" and shall not contain

underlining of the reenacted text.

(b) Bills repealing and reenacting a section of the statutes with changes from the

text of that statute as it read at the time of its repeal shall begin with the phrase

"KRS --- is repealed, reenacted (or "reenacted as a new section of KRS

Chapter ---", if appropriate), and amended to read as follows:", shall indicate

the material proposed to be deleted by brackets and by striking through the

material, and shall indicate new material by underlining.

(c) Bills repealing and reenacting a sectio n of the statutes with text totally

different from the text of that statute as it read at the time of its repeal or so

substantially different that using the procedure set out in paragraph (b) of this

subsection is impracticable shall begin with the phrase "KRS --- IS

REPEALED AND REENACTED (or "REENACTED AS A NEW SECTION

OF KRS CHAPTER ---", if appropriate) TO READ AS FOLLOWS:" and

shall indicate the reenacted text of the statute by underlining.

(6) Sections of a bill not intended to be codified shall begi n simply with the section

number within the bill without any further introductory phrase, and the text of those

sections shall be in normal type and not in all capitals or with underlining. These

not-to-be-codified sections shall ordinarily be placed at t he end of the bill or, in a

bill having multiple parts, at the end of a particular part of that bill. Unless

expressly drafted in a manner indicating codification is intended or unless

determined by the reviser of statutes that codification is appropriate and necessary,

the following material shall not be codified, in conformity with KRS 7.131(3):

(a) Repealers and repeals of repealers;

(b) Appropriation provisions;

(c) Temporary provisions;

(d) Construction clauses, including severability clauses;

(e) A short title, if necessary, for an act that is not a distinct codifiable unit; and

(f) Effective date provisions.