{"data":{"id":"us-ky/kre-1102","jurisdiction":"us-ky","citation":"KRE 1102","heading":"Amendments","body":"(a) Supreme Court. The Supreme Court of Kentucky shall have the power to prescribe\namendments or additions to the Kentucky Rules of Evidence. Amendments or\nadditions shall not take effect until they have been reported to the Kentucky General\nAssembly by the Ch ief Justice of the Supreme Court at or after the beginning of a\nregular session of the General Assembly but not later than the first day of March,\nand until the adjournment of that regular session of the General Assembly; but if the\nGeneral Assembly within  that time shall by resolution disapprove any amendment\nor addition so reported it shall not take effect. The effective date of any amendment\nor addition so reported may be deferred by the General Assembly to a later date or\nuntil approved by the General A ssembly. However, the General Assembly may not\ndisapprove any amendment or addition or defer the effective date of any amendment\nor addition that constitutes rules of practice and procedure under Section 116 of the\nKentucky Constitution.\n(b) General Assembly. The General Assembly may amend any proposal reported by the\nSupreme Court pursuant to subdivision (a) of this rule and may adopt amendments\nor additions to the Kentucky Rules of Evidence not reported to the General\nAssembly by the Supreme Court. Howeve r, the General Assembly may not amend\nany proposals reported by the Supreme Court and may not adopt amendments or\nadditions to the Kentucky Rules of Evidence that constitute rules of practice and\nprocedure under Section 116 of the Constitution of Kentucky.\n(c) Review of proposals for change. Neither the Supreme Court nor the General\nAssembly should undertake to amend or add to the Kentucky Rules of Evidence\nwithout first obtaining a review of proposed amendments or additions from the\nEvidence Rules Review Commission described in KRE 1103.","path":["KENTUCKY RULES OF EVIDENCE ----- Legislative Research Commission Note (7/1/92). Although denominated \"rules,\" the elements of the Kentucky Rules of Evidence were enacted as statutes by the Kentucky General Assembly. See 1990 Ky. Acts ch. 88; 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 324. Originally codified as KRS Chapter 422A in 1990, the Kentucky Rules of Evidence were renumbered by the Reviser of Statutes, effective July 1, 1992, pursuant to 1992 Ky. Acts ch. 324, sec. 34. By an order dated May 12, 1992, the Kentucky Supreme Court \"adopt[ed] so much of the Kentucky Rules of Evidence as enacted by HB 241 [1992 Ky. Acts ch. 324] as comes within the rule making power of the Court, pursuant to Ky. Const. sec. 116.\""],"source_url":"https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/statutes/statute.aspx?id=20426","current_through":"Includes enactments through the 2026 Regular Session","vintage":"09/05/2026","retrieved_at":"2026-09-05T21:00:11Z","sha256":"dcdc69cfbbcd51f18180287861f13156596cd423e473195b361f8ad4f292e1dd","source_id":"us-ky","stale":false,"prev":"us-ky/kre-1101","next":"us-ky/kre-1103"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}