Boards And Commissions
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to solar merchant electric generating facilities. [HB-790]
Amend KRS 278.704 to prohibit the Kentucky State Board on Electric Generation and Transmission Siting from granting a setback deviation for an application for a solar merchant electric generating facility made after January 1, 2026, that would allow the facility to be located within 350 feet of an adjoining property owner unless consented to in writing and approved by the legislative body of the local government where the adjoining property is located; establish requirements for the application of the minimum setback requirements for solar merchant
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jim Gooch
3rd Reading, Passed 97-0 With Committee Substitute (1) on 03/12/2025
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AN ACT relating to boards of the Kentucky General Assembly and declaring an emergency. [HB-9]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 7A to define terms; establish the Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Board of the Kentucky General Assembly to review, analyze, study, evaluate, provide legislative oversight, and make recommendations to the General Assembly regarding any aspect of the Kentucky Medicaid program; establish board membership, authority, and duties; amend KRS 7A.010, 7A.140, 7A.150, and 7A.180 to conform; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Fleming
To Rules (h) on 03/13/2025
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Relating generally to liability insurance coverage for Board of Education [SB-529]
The purpose of this bill is to change the minimum amount of insurance that county boards of education must maintain.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ryan Weld
To House Finance on 03/27/2025
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West Virginia 2025 Regular Session
Creating Pharmacist Prescribing Authority Act [SB-526]
The purpose of this bill is to authorize pharmacists to practice the full extent of their education and training to prescribe low-risk medications to patients.
Sponsored by: Sen. Laura Wakim Chapman
Markup Discussion on 04/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to marriage and family therapists. [SB-221]
Amend KRS 335.320 to require the board to enter into reciprocal agreements with boards of marriage and family therapy in other states; amend KRS 335.325 to remove permissive language relating to reciprocal agreements with other states.
Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Berg
To Licensing & Occupations (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sports wagering. [SB-219]
Amend KRS 230.805 to make technical corrections.
Sponsored by: Sen. Julie Adams
To Licensing & Occupations (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to implement an in-home-drug disposal pilot program. [HJR-37]
Direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to implement a pilot program beginning January 1, 2026, to study the effectiveness of in-home prescription drug disposal in Kentucky; require consultation with the Board of Pharmacy; require submission of a report to the Interim Joint Committee on Health Services by December 1, 2027.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert Duvall
To Health Services (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to fire prevention and protection. [HB-643]
Create a new section of KRS 227.200 to 227.400 to allow for the creation of a local appeals board to hear appeals from final orders of fire chiefs and state fire marshals; establish membership, procedures, and jurisdiction when no local appeals board is established; provide for appeal to Circuit Court of jurisdiction; amend KRS 227.200 to define terms; amend KRS 227.210, 227.335, 227.380, and 227.390 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Hale
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to radon safety. [SB-223]
Amend KRS 309.432 to direct nine members to be appointed to the board; require two members to represent a public health organization; require one member to be a citizen at large that is not associated with or financially interested in the practice of radon measurement, mitigation, or laboratory analysis; amend KRS 309.434 to direct the board to promote the safety of radon measurement, mitigation, and laboratory analysis professionals in the Commonwealth.
Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Berg
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to mobile services. [SB-265]
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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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to local school board student representatives. [HB-626]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to require each local school board to include at least one student representative; require each local school board to adopt a school board student representative policy; set minimum requirements for the school board student representative policy.
Sponsored by: Rep. Vanessa Grossl
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to agriculture. [SB-238]
Amend KRS 247.4477 to add gender-neutral language.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jason Howell
To Agriculture (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education. [SB-207]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to establish a procedure for a local board of education to submit a waiver request to the Kentucky Board of Education to waive a statute or administrative regulation; set the terms and limitations of a waivers; authorize the identification of schools of innovation and establish parameters for the status; establish procedures for the renewal of approved waivers; provide the conditions and procedure for rescinding waivers by the state board; authorize the promulgation of administrative regulations to adopt necessary
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Sponsored by: Sen. Steve West
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 113) on 03/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public schools. [SB-5]
Amend KRS 160.346 to include identification as a state intervention school when a school enters comprehensive support and improvement status and does not make annual improvement for two years or does not exit the status after three years; create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to define "state intervention school"; require the identification of state intervention schools with the 2027-2028 school year; establish the procedures for identification; require the commissioner of education to take management of the state intervention school and develop
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Sponsored by: Sen. Steve West
Taken From Education (s) on 02/28/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission and declaring an emergency. [SB-245]
Amend KRS 150.022 to require that a Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission member whose reappointment confirmation is declined by the Senate shall vacate his or her seat upon the date of sine die adjournment of the session in which the confirmation was declined.
Sponsored by: Sen. Brandon Smith
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 116) on 03/28/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Make America Healthy Again Kentucky Task Force to explore ways to integrate the principles of the Make America Healthy Again movement to improve health outcomes of Kentuckians. [HCR-41]
State the General Assembly's support for the goals of the Make America Healthy Again movement; establish the Make America Healthy Again Kentucky Task Force to integrate the principles of the Make America Healthy Again movement; establish task force membership; require the task force to submit a report with recommendations to the Governor and the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
To Health Services (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency. [HB-653]
Amend KRS 158.192 to change the definition of "harmful to minors" and define terms; deem material, performances, events, or programs that are obscene, harmful to minors, or contain obscene imagery representing minors as educationally unsuitable and not age appropriate; require principals to remove student access to materials, programs, or events deemed educationally unsuitable or not age appropriate; modify complaint and appeals timelines; require that principal or local board of education report that a material, program, or event was educationally
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josh Calloway
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to social work. [HB-658]
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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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Tax Tribunal. [HB-650]
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 Nemes
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Public Service Commission. [SB-8]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to establish the membership of the Public Service Commission; provide for the appointment, confirmation, and replacement of commissioners; establish the qualifications of the commissioners; set the terms and term limits for commissioners; amend KRS 278.040 to provide that the commission is an independent department of state government that is administratively attached to the Energy and Environment Cabinet only for the limited functions and purposes that the commission requests; allow the commission, in its
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Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Stivers
Taken From Natural Resources & Energy (s) on 02/21/2025