Administrative Regulations And Proceedings
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Medicaid coverage for doula services. [HB-553]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services and any managed care organization with whom the department contracts for the delivery of Medicaid services to provide coverage for doula services; create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to establish the Doula Advisory Council, council membership, and council duties; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to seek federal approval if they determine that such approval is necessary and comply with KRS 205.525.
Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
To Health Services (h) on 02/25/2025
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AN ACT relating to psychotropic drugs. [HB-572]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to define terms; require Medicaid-enrolled providers prescribing psychotropic drugs to children to provide an FDA Medication Guide to parents or legal guardians; require medical care providers prescribing psychotropic drugs to children covered by Medicaid to obtain signed informed consent from a parent of guardian; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to develop and maintain an adverse drug reaction online reporting system; require the cabinet to compile and submit an annual report of the adverse
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josh Calloway
To Health Services (h) on 02/25/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to student health and safety. [HB-589]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Crime ]
Amend KRS 158.162 to define "critical incident," require investigations in emergency plans for critical incidents, and state the goals of the investigations; amend KRS 158.4410 to task the state school security marshal with investigating serious physical injury or death incidents that occur on school property, at school-sanctioned events, or during interscholastic athletic events; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to outline the parameters of the investigation, require referral of potential criminal charges, and require necessary administrative
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Poore Moser
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/25/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to administrative regulations and declaring an emergency. [HB-6]
[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: Rep. Kimberly Poore Moser
Received In House on 03/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to alcohol and drug counselors. [HB-580]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Human Services ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
Amend KRS 309.0836 to require temporary alcohol and drug peer support specialist licensees to become registered alcohol and drug peer support specialists after a maximum period of nine months from the date of issuance; amend KRS 222.233 to delete the requirement that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services promulgate an administrative regulation relating to reimbursement for temporary alcohol and drug peer specialists and require limitation on group size.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Poore Moser
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to the Legislative Research Commission and declaring an emergency. [SB-176]
Amend KRS 6.905, 7.200, 7A.110, 7A.185, 7A.220, 13A.020, 15A.063, 45.790, 45A.705, 158.647, and 248.723 to require statutory committee membership appointments be made in January of each odd-numbered year; require vacancies to be filled within 30 days; and require the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House to appoint co-chairs; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2027.
Sponsored by: Sen. Matt Nunn
Signed By Governor on 03/19/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Horse Racing and Gaming Corporation and declaring an emergency. [HB-566]
[Gaming ]
[Finance ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
Amend various sections of KRS Chapters 230 and 238, relating to the Kentucky Horse Racing and Gaming Corporation, to define "Kentucky quarter horse purse fund," "proof of wagers," "unclaimed pari-mutuel winning ticket," and "unredeemed pari-mutuel voucher"; confirm the corporation's jurisdiction over racing and gaming entities; require an annual audit of the corporation by a qualified auditing entity and reduce audits by the Auditor of Public Accounts to once every four years; grant the corporation flexibility in promulgating administrative regulations;
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Sponsored by: Rep. David W. Osborne
Received In House on 03/28/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to support systems for English language learners in common schools. [HB-494]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; establish the English learner enhanced support program under the Department of Education to help bring English learners with little or no formal education to grade-level proficiency within three years; require the department to set standards for program, contract with a provider meeting certain standards and with record of success with qualified English learners, identify eligible districts or schools, offer the program to as many students as funds permit, and report to the Legislative Research
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Lee Meredith
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Employee Child Care Assistance Partnership Program. [HB-508]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
[Healthcare ]
Amend KRS 199.884 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish new procedures related to the Employee Child Care Assistance Partnership Program.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jennifer Henson Decker
Reported Favorably, 2nd Reading, To Rules With Committee Substitute (1) And Committee Amendment (1-title) on 03/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prepayment review of Medicaid claims. [SB-153]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to define terms and to establish standards for the utilization of prepayment claims review in the Medicaid program; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to seek federal approval if they determine that such approval is necessary and comply with KRS 205.525.
Sponsored by: Sen. Danny Carroll
Recommitted To Health Services (h) on 03/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to earned wage access services. [SB-161]
[Finance ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Data Privacy ]
Establish Subtitle 13 of KRS Chapter 286, the Kentucky Financial Services Code, and create new sections to regulate earned wage access services; define terms; establish exemptions from the subtitle; establish licensing requirements for certain earned wage access services providers; establish requirements for change of control of a licensee; provide circumstances under which the commissioner of the Department of Financial Institutions is authorized to take adverse action, enter emergency orders, deny a license, or take other regulatory actions; authorize
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jason G. Howell
To Banking & Insurance (s) on 02/19/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to law enforcement records. [HB-520]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Data Privacy ]
Amend KRS 61.878, relating to open records, to provide that law enforcement records shall be exempt from public inspection if the disclosure of the information could pose an articulable risk of harm to the law enforcement agency or its investigtion by revealing the identity of informants or witnesses not otherwise known.
Sponsored by: Rep. John C. Blanton
Became Law Without Governor's Signature (acts Ch. 97) on 03/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Veteran-Owned Small Business and Entrepreneur Loan Program. [HB-505]
[Veterans ]
[Small Business ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Economic Development ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Create a new section of Subchapter 12 of KRS Chapter 154 to create the Veteran-Owned Small Business and Entrepreneur Loan Program to be administered by the Office of Entrepreneurship; establish requirements and program details; create the Veteran-Owned Small Business and Entrepreneur Loan Program fund from which the office provides loans to qualified veterans of not more than $50,000.
Sponsored by: Rep. Chad Aull
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to reading and language arts instruction. [HB-528]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; require the Kentucky Department of Education to establish an approved list of reading curriculum that does not use a three-cueing system; prohibit school districts from using any curriculum that employs a three-cueing system; prohibit the use of a three-cueing system in teacher professional development; require the Educational Professional Standards Board to promulgate administrative regulations establishing curriculum for each approved educator preparation program; amend KRS 164.306 to specify
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Sponsored by: Rep. James A. Tipton
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prohibited uses of state tax dollars. [HB-492]
[Immigration ]
[Taxes ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[National Security ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 48 to define "illegal alien"; prohibit state tax dollars appropriated by the General Assembly from being used to compensate an illegal alien; direct the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security to assist in the implementation and enforcement of the Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to administrative regulations. [HB-500]
Amend KRS 13A.350 to make technical corrections.
Sponsored by: Rep. Derek Lewis
Taken From Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (h) on 03/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prohibited uses of state tax dollars. [SB-151]
[Immigration ]
[Taxes ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[National Security ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 48 to define "illegal alien"; prohibit state tax dollars appropriated by the General Assembly from being used to compensate an illegal alien; direct the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security to assist in the implementation and enforcement of the Act.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert M. Mills
Received In House on 03/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to local government. [HB-450]
[Property Tax ]
[Taxes ]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 132.380 to require the examination of candidates for the office of property valuation administrator to be offered by the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS); require the Department of Revenue to provide KCTCS with examination questions and other relevant examination information; establish the examination period; require KCTCS to work with the department to promulgate administrative regulations for the examination registration and establishment of fees; require KCTCS to provide the Department of Revenue information from
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Sponsored by: Rep. Randall Bridges
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to kratom products. [HB-481]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Health ]
[Healthcare ]
Amend KRS 217.2202 to eliminate the prohibition on kratom extracts and kratom products that contain greater than two percent 7-hydroxymitragynine; amend KRS 217.2203 to establish that products that contain greater than two percent 7-hydroxymitragynine shall comply with labeling requirements for kratom products but shall not be labeled or marketed as a kratom product; amend KRS 217.2205 to establish that that products that contain greater than two percent 7-hydroxymitragynine shall be subject to administrative regulations promulgated by the Department
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Poore Moser
To Health Services (h) on 02/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to students. [HB-440]
[Education ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Disabilities ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 159 to allow the enrollment of a child on a part-time basis in a school district; establish conditions for the part-time enrollment; amend KRS 158.120 to prohibit a district's nonresident pupil policy from discriminating against any pupil on the basis of residential address, abilities, disability, race, ethnicity, sex, or socioeconomic status; require the policy be posted on the district website; prohibit charging tuition to any child; require a board of education to establish policies for a calculation to determine
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Sponsored by: Rep. Steven Doan
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/14/2025