Civil Actions
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to restoring religious liberty. [HB-177]
[Religion ]
[Human Rights ]
Amend KRS 446.350 to define "government" and "substantially burden"; outline procedures and relief that may be sought if statute is violated; outline procedures and relief for any inmate who alleges a violation of this statute; establish duties and authority of the Attorney General; apply to laws adopted before or after the effective date of this statute; include severability clause; waive sovereign, judicial, and governmental immunity; waive qualified immunity under specified circumstances.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Hart
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
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AN ACT relating to jurisdiction of contractor disputes involving real property. [HB-183]
[Real Estate ]
[Construction ]
[Housing ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Property Tax ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish exclusive jurisdiction for contractor dispute actions involving real property located in this state.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Grossberg
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the donation of food. [HB-186]
[Food ]
[Nonprofit ]
[Religion ]
[Disaster Relief ]
[Public Health ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Small Business ]
Amend KRS 217.127 to define " charitable food donor" as a nonprofit or religious organization that is recognized as tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or home-based processor, which produces food for distribution to a homeless shelter or to individuals displaced due to a declared natural disaster; exempt a charitable food donor from the licensing requirements of KRS 217.005 to 217.215 and application of State Plumbing Code requirements; amend KRS 217.218 to conform; amend KRS 411.241 to exempt a nonprofit or religious
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Poore Moser
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to heirs property. [SB-70]
[Real Estate ]
[Property Tax ]
[Housing ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Community Development ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 381 to enact the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act; define terms, including "heirs property"; create a mechanism for partition or sale among cotenants by the court; create requirements for notice and determination of value through agreement or appraisal; create protocol for buyouts, partition alternatives, partition in kind, sale by open market, sealed bids, or auction; create the heirs property research fund; amend KRS 324B.050 to authorize the Kentucky Real Estate Authority to promulgate administrative
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Sponsored by: Sen. Reginald Thomas
To Judiciary (s) on 02/04/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Common Ownership Communities - Ombudsman Unit, Governing Document Database, and Local Commissions [HB-306]
[Housing ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Community Development ]
[Real Estate ]
Establishing the Common Ownership Community Ombudsman Unit in the Division of Consumer Protection in the Office of the Attorney General to receive and respond to certain complaints; requiring common ownership communities to file certain documents with the Department of Housing and Community Development; requiring the Department to establish a database of governing documents accessible to the public; and establishing requirements for a local common ownership commission established by the local government of a county.
Sponsored by: Rep. Marvin E Holmes
Hearing 2/04 At 1:00 P.m. on 01/15/2025
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Maryland 2025 Regular Session
Real Property - Regulation of Common Ownership Community Managers [HB-303]
[Real Estate ]
[Housing ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Community Development ]
Creating the State Board of Common Ownership Community Managers in the Maryland Department of Labor to oversee the licensing of community managers who provide management services for common ownership communities; providing that certain provisions of the Act do not prohibit certain persons from providing certain services under certain circumstances; requiring an individual to be issued a license by the Board before providing management services for a common ownership community under certain circumstances; etc.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Healey
Hearing 3/27 At 1:00 P.m. on 03/19/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to landowner liability for recreational use permission. [HB-114]
[Recreation ]
[Public Safety ]
Amend KRS 150.645, relating to landowner liability, to provide that an owner, lessee, or occupant of premises who gives permission to another person to rock climb, boulder, or rappel on the premises shall not be liable for any injury to any person or property caused by the negligent acts of any person to whom permission is granted except for willful and malicious failure on behalf of the owner, lessee, or occupant; amend KRS 411.190, relating to obligations of owner to persons using land for recreation, to include rocks, boulders, and cliffs in
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Sponsored by: Rep. Timothy Truett
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 133) on 03/31/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to peace officers. [HB-110]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Human Rights ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to define terms; impose a duty on peace officers to intervene to prevent or stop another officer from using physical force that will cause unlawful serious physical injury, death, or deprivation of civil rights; impose a duty to provide or obtain emergency medical assistance; require reporting of intervention; provide administrative and legal protections; amend KRS 15.330 to require the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council to prescribe minimum standards for use of force by officer, an officer's duty to intervene,
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Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to legal liability for local governments. [HB-143]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Amend KRS 411.100, relating to a city's liability for damage done during the course of a riot, to provide that any form of local government shall be liable for damage done during the course of a riot if they could have prevented the damage; amend KRS 411.110, relating to a city's liability for any injury that results from any defect of any bridge, street, sidewalk, or other public thoroughfare, to provide that any form of local government shall be liable for any injury that results from any defect of any bridge, street, sidewalk, or other public
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Michael Nemes
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to choking prevention in schools. [HB-44]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define "anti-choking device"; require school cafeteria personnel and other expected users of the device to be trained if a school obtains an anti-choking device; provide immunity from civil liability for rendering emergency care or treatment with an anti-choking device or the Heimlich maneuver at a public or private school; provide that the Act may be cited as Landon's Law.
Sponsored by: Rep. Lisa Willner
To Education (s) on 02/18/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to undesignated glucagon. [HB-75]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Safety ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 217 to define terms; permit health care practitioners to prescribe and dispense undesignated glucagon in the name of a school or to a trained individual; permit trained individuals to receive, possess, and administer undesignated glucagon during diabetic medical emergencies; permit schools to stock undesignated glucagon; provide for immunity from civil liability for any personal injury resulting from good faith actions to use undesignated glucagon to treat diabetic medical emergencies.
Sponsored by: Rep. Adrielle Camuel
To Health Services (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to civil liability of a parent or guardian. [HB-55]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish civil liability against a parent, guardian, or other person legally responsible for a minor if the minor causes the injury or death of another by the use of a destructive device, explosive, firearm, or other deadly weapon; provide limited exemptions; amend KRS 411.155 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Tina Bojanowski
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to expiration of protective orders. [SB-54]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Public Safety ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
Amend KRS 209A.122, relating to data tracking and dissemination, to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to provide the Criminal Justice Statistcal Analysis Center the number of protective orders rescinded under KRS 403.735 and 456.050; amend KRS 403.735 and 456.050, relating to the continuance of protective orders, to extend the time period for expiration from six months to 12 months.
Sponsored by: Sen. Casey Chambers Armstrong
To Judiciary (s) on 01/09/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to campaign finance. [HB-45]
[Elections ]
[Finance ]
[Voting Rights ]
Amend KRS 121.015, relating to campaign finance, to define terms; create new sections of KRS Chapter 121 to establish reporting and record retention requirements for political issues committees and persons making independent expenditures; prohibit political issues committees from knowingly and willfully soliciting or accepting contributions from prohibited sources; establish certification requirements for treasurers of political issues committees and donors making contributions and independent expenditures; define activity that creates a presumption
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Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel B. Elliott
Signed By Governor on 03/24/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to privacy protection. [HB-19]
[Data Privacy ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Insurance ]
[Drones ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Amend KRS 500.130 to define terms; provide that the use of an unmanned aircraft system is not prohibited in the case of recreational or professional use if there is not intent to conduct surveillance on private property and there is no unauthorized use or publication of images of individuals or areas of private property, or in the case of an insurance company for purposes of underwriting a risk or investigating damage; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a civil action; create a new section of KRS Chapter 413 to establish a statute
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Sponsored by: Rep. DJ Johnson
Signed By Governor on 03/15/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coercive control. [HB-96]
[Crime ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Amend KRS 403.720, relating to orders of protection, to define "coercive control" and "stalking"; amend the definition of "domestic violence and abuse" to include coercive control of a family member or member of an unmarried couple; amend KRS 456.010 to define "coercive control"; amend the definition of "dating violence and abuse" to include coercive control of a person with whom the perpetrator is or has been in a dating relationship; amend KRS 209A.122 to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to provide information on petitions for orders
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Poore Moser
2nd Reading, To Rules on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to protective orders. [SB-46]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Crime ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Amend KRS 403.730, relating to petitions for orders of protection, to allow for service in accordance with Rule 4.05 of the Kentucky Rules of Civil Procedure in addition to personal service; amend KRS 403.745, relating to the effective date of protective orders, to allow for service in accordance with Rule 4.05 of the Kentucky Rules of Civil Procedure in addition to personal service; amend KRS 453.060 to direct that attorney's fees for a warning order attorney shall be paid by the Finance and Administration Cabinet; amend KRS 456.040, relating to
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Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To Judiciary (s) on 01/09/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to privacy protection. [HB-20]
[Data Privacy ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Insurance ]
[Crime ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to define terms related to automated license plate readers; establish limitations on use and sale of data captured by automated license plate readers; provide that captured license plate data may be retained longer than 60 days only if it is being used in a criminal or insurance investigation or has become subject to a preservation of evidence notification; provide that any recorded images or data captured by an ALPR may be made available to the National Insurance Crime Bureau or its successor organization;
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Sponsored by: Rep. John F. Hodgson
Taken From Judiciary (s) on 03/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to privacy protection. [HB-21]
[Data Privacy ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to define terms and establish limitations on "deep fakes"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 413 to establish a statute of limitations for an action filed for the unlawful dissemination of a deep fake; create a new section of KRS Chapter 519 to establish a criminal penalty for illegally disseminating a deep fake.
Sponsored by: Rep. John F. Hodgson
To Small Business & Information Technology (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to court proceedings on petitions for order of protection. [SB-56]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Amend KRS 403.735, relating to continuance of an emergency protective order, to allow the petitioner to be excused from future court appearances until the respondent has been served; amend KRS 456.050, relating to continuance of an interpersonal protective order, to allow the petitioner to be excused from future court appearances until the respondent has been served.
Sponsored by: Sen. Casey Chambers Armstrong
To Judiciary (s) on 01/09/2025