Administrative Regulations And Proceedings
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to the operation of a motor vehicle and declaring an emergency. [HB-664]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Construction ]
[Crime ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 189 to define "automated speed enforcement device," "owner," "program," and "recorded images"; direct the Transportation Cabinet to establish a pilot program for automated speed enforcement in highway work zones and issue a civil citation to an operator of a motor vehicle traveling more than 10 miles per hour over the posted speed limit when a bona fide worker is present; establish procedures for citation issuance; direct the Transportation Cabinet to install signage with lights that are flashing when an automated
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Sponsored by: Rep. John C. Blanton
Signed By Governor on 04/04/2025
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AN ACT relating to hospital price transparency. [SB-243]
[Healthcare ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Health ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 216B to define terms; require hospitals to disclose prices for certain items and services provided by hospitals; require hospitals to provide descriptions of different services and standard charges of those services; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations, monitor each facility's compliance, and provide administrative penalties; prohibit collective action of debt for noncompliant facilities.
Sponsored by: Sen. Keturah Herron
To Health Services (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to protection of information and declaring an emergency. [HB-672]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Artificial Intelligence ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Elections ]
[Ethics ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Amend KRS 42.722 to define terms relating to artificial intelligence; amend KRS 42.726 to require the Commonwealth Office of Technology to establish and implement policy standards for the use of artificial intelligence; create a new section of KRS 42.720 to 42.742to create the Artificial Intelligence Governance Committee; task the committee with the establishment of responsible, ethical, and transparent procedures for the allowable use, development, and approval of artificial intelligence for any department, program, cabinet, agency, and administrative
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josh Bray
To State Government (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to earned income access transactions. [HB-645]
[Finance ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Data Privacy ]
Establish Subtitle 13 of KRS Chapter 286, the Kentucky Financial Services Code, and create new sections thereof to regulate earned income access transactions; define terms; establish licensing requirements for certain earned income access providers; establish requirements for the change of control of a licensee; establish records requirements for licensees; require annual and other reports by licensees; permit the commissioner of the Department of Financial Institutions to conduct examinations and investigations of licensees and other persons; establish
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Pollock
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to mobile services. [SB-265]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Small Business ]
[Public Health ]
Amend KRS 317.410 to define "mobile barber shop"; amend KRS 317.420 to restrict a person from operating a mobile barber shop without being licensed by the Kentucky Board of Barbering; amend KRS 317.430 to authorize the board to govern mobile barber shops; amend KRS 317.440 to direct the board to promulgate administrative regulations governing the location and housing of mobile barber shops, requirements regarding its operation, and inspection criteria for mobile barber shops; direct the board to establish on its website a system that allows licensees
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Sponsored by: Sen. Reginald Thomas
To Licensing & Occupations (s) on 02/20/2025
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AN ACT relating to prohibited employment agreements. [HB-594]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Crime ]
[Human Rights ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to prohibit an employer from conditioning employment or employment benefits on an employee signing specified types of releases and agreements related to unlawful acts in the workplace; create a new section of KRS Chapter 372 to prohibit specified provisions related to harassment in settlement agreements in civil and administrative actions with exceptions.
Sponsored by: Rep. Adrielle Camuel
To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to employment provisions for employees on parental leave. [HB-598]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require employers with 50 or more employees to provide 12 weeks of paid parental leave for an employee who has been employed for at least one year; allow an employee to waive the paid parental leave; provide for the promulgation of administrative regulations.
Sponsored by: Rep. Adrielle Camuel
To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to certificate of need. [HB-609]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Amend KRS 216B.020, relating to certificates of need, to reformat the list of facilities and services exempt from certificate of need provisions; amend KRS 216B.095 to require rather than permit the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to grant a nonsubstantive review to listed health facilities and services; add a presumption of need and state health plan consistency to health facilities and services granted a nonsubstantive review; amend KRS 216B.062 to prohibit the cabinet from batching applications for certificate of need applications that
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Michael Nemes
To Health Services (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to protection of information and declaring an emergency. [SB-4]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Artificial Intelligence ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Elections ]
[Ethics ]
Amend KRS 42.722 to define terms relating to artificial intelligence; amend KRS 42.726 to require the Commonwealth Office of Technology to establish and implement policy standards for the use of artificial intelligence; create a new section of KRS 42.720 to 42.742 to create the Artificial Intelligence Governance Committee; task the committee with the establishment of responsible, ethical, and transparent procedures for the allowable use, development, and approval of artificial intelligence for any department, program, cabinet, agency, and administrative
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Sponsored by: Sen. Brandon Jackson Storm
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 66) on 03/24/2025
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AN ACT relating to highway work zones. [SB-227]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Public Safety ]
[Construction ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 189 to define "automated speed enforcement device," "owner," "program," and "recorded images"; direct the Transportation Cabinet to establish a pilot program for automated speed enforcement in highway work zones and issue a civil citation to an operator of a motor vehicle traveling more than 10 miles per hour over the posted speed limit when a bona fide worker is present; establish procedures for citation issuance; direct the Transportation Cabinet to install signage and to promulgate administrative regulations
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Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To Transportation (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to property fees. [HB-608]
[Property Tax ]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
[Environmental ]
[Taxes ]
[Finance ]
[Funding ]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 75 to define "premises"; allow a fire protection district or subdistrict, or a volunteer fire department district, to assess a fee against a premises for the costs of maintaining necessary fire protection measures; establish billing and appeals process; set reporting requirements; create a new section of KRS Chapter 75A to define "premises"; allow a consolidated emergency services district board to assess a fee against a premises for the costs of maintaining necessary fire protection measures; establish billing
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Sponsored by: Rep. Candy D. Massaroni
To Local Government (h) on 02/26/2025
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AN ACT relating to social work. [HB-658]
[Healthcare ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
Amend KRS 335.010 to remove outdated provisions that established an amnesty period related to disciplinary action, administrative fees, or fines for unlicensed social workers; amend KRS 335.020 to redefine the "practice of social work" and define "practice of clinical social work"; amend KRS 335.070 to allow the Kentucky Board of Social Work to promulgate administrative regulations relating to provisional license for students; amend KRS 335.080, 335.090, and 335.100, relating to the licensure requirements for certified social workers, licensed social
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Sponsored by: Rep. Steve Bratcher
To Health Services (h) on 02/26/2025
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AN ACT relating to invasive plant species. [HB-640]
[Environmental ]
[Agriculture ]
[Science ]
[Energy ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
Amend KRS 224.10-100 to authorize the Energy and Environment Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to prevent the spread of invasive, non-native plant species.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jim Gooch
3rd Reading, Passed 97-0 on 03/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Tax Tribunal. [HB-650]
[Taxes ]
Establish a new KRS Chapter 145 to create the Kentucky Tax Tribunal within the executive branch to be the single form for all tax litigation; establish judges, forums, processes, and methods of appeal; amend various statutes to conform; repeal sections of KRS Chapter 49 which constituted the Board of Tax Appeals; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2027.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Michael Nemes
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to elections. [SB-233]
[Elections ]
[Voting Rights ]
Amend KRS 117.020 to allow the State Board of Elections to declare a county a preclearance county if there is a repeated administration of elections in a manner that jeopardizes the free and equal exercise of the franchise; amend KRS 117.022 to require an election manager receive a paid salary; clarify that an election manager shall not be incompatible with any other elected office or employment within the Commonwealth; amend KRS 117.155 to require the county clerk to verify that e-poll books received all data reflecting a registered voter's voting
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Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To State & Local Government (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. [SB-201]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
Amend KRS 342.213 to require the commissioner of the Department of Workers' Claims to certify to the Workers' Compensation Nominating Committee that filing an administrative law judge position is necessary 150 days prior to the expiration of the term, add that the nominating committee may recommend the retention of a Workers' Compensation Board member and that each newly appointed member of the board shall not assume office until 30 days after confirmation; amend KRS 342.215 to provide that any board member appointed to fill an unexpired term shall
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Sponsored by: Sen. Phillip Wheeler
Became Law Without Governor's Signature on 03/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the transportation of students and declaring an emergency. [HB-661]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 189.540 to authorize the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to govern the operation of passenger vehicles used to transport students that are owned, leased, or privately contracted by school districts; provide that operators of a passenger vehicle that is owned, leased, or privately contracted by the district to transport students shall possess a valid Class D operator's license; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. James A. Tipton
Received In Senate on 03/07/2025
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A JOINT RESOLUTION directing a report on the transfer processes in interscholastic athletics. [HJR-49]
[Education ]
[Sports ]
[Children and Youth ]
Direct the Kentucky High School Athletic Association to submit a report to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2025, concerning student-athlete transfers and eligibility and making recommendations to improve the process.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Pollock
3rd Reading, Adopted 92-0 on 03/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to fiscal matters and declaring an emergency. [HB-622]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Finance ]
[Funding ]
Amend KRS 45A.030 to expand the definition of "contract"; amend KRS 45A.035 to require promulgation of administrative regulations to establish policies regarding timely payments under contracts; create a new section of KRS Chapter 45A to establish timely payment penalty and procedures; require the Finance and Administration Cabinet to submit a detailed report of interest penalties and reimbursement payments every six months due to payments not timely made to the Legislative Research Commission; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
Became Law Without Governor's Signature (acts Ch. 162) on 04/10/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to administrative regulations and declaring an emergency. [SB-20]
[Economic Development ]
Amend KRS 13A.010 to redefine "major economic impact"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 13A to establish limitations on the authority of an administrative body to promulgate administrative regulations; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 13A to conform; EMERGENCY; EFFECTIVE March 31, 2025.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert M. Mills
2nd Reading, To Rules on 02/26/2025