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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to parentage fraud. [SB-239]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 530 to establish the crime of parentage fraud as a Class B misdemeanor.
Sponsored by: Sen. Donald Douglas
To Judiciary (s) on 02/20/2025
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AN ACT relating to alcohol and drug counselors. [SB-261]
Amend KRS 532.045, relating to defendants prohibited from probation, to include alcohol and drug counselors licensed or certified under KRS Chapter 309 in the definition of "position of authority."
Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
Withdrawn on 03/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to concealed deadly weapons. [SB-75]
Amend KRS 237.109 to lower the age requirement for carrying a concealed and deadly weapon from 21 to 18; amend KRS 237.110 to conform; make technical corrections.
Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise
Floor Amendments (1), (2), (3-title), (4), (5), (6-title) And (7) Filed on 03/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to automated license plate readers. [SB-185]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to define terms; establish that automated license plate readers (ALPRs) shall only be used as set forth in this section; ALPRs may be deployed and maintained for the purposes of protecting public safety, conducting criminal investigations, ensuring compliance with law, regulating parking, controlling acess to secured areas, deterring crime and theft, and the Transportation Cabinet's toll collection activities; establish a 90-day data storage limit unless being used for criminal prosecutions or toll collection;
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jimmy Higdon
To Judiciary (s) on 02/19/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to firearms. [HB-581]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to define "safe storage depository" and require an owner or custodian of a firearm to store the firearm in a safe storage depository or render the firearm incapable of being fired using a gun-locking device; require an owner or other person lawfully in possession of a firearm or any person who sells ammunition to report the loss or theft of the firearm or ammunition to a law enforcement agency; amend KRS 237.990 to establish penalties for violations.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Judiciary (h) on 02/25/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to gift cards. [HB-533]
Amend KRS 434.560 to define terms; create a new section of KRS 434.550 to 434.730 to establish the offense of tampering with a gift card; amend KRS 434.580 and 434.650 to prohibit theft, receipt and fraudulent use of a gift card.
Sponsored by: Rep. Walker Thomas
Taken From Small Business & Information Technology (h) on 03/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to earned wage access services. [SB-161]
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 Howell
To Banking & Insurance (s) on 02/19/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to unborn children. [HB-523]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 507, relating to criminal homicide, to allow a prosecution where the victim is an unborn child; provide exceptions for spontaneous miscarriages and lawful medical procedures; amend KRS 507.010 to define terms; create new sections of KRS Chapter 508, relating to assault, to define terms; allow a prosecution where the victim is an unborn child; provide exceptions for spontaneous miscarriages and lawful medical procedures; amend KRS 501.090 to allow the defense of duress in a prosecution of intentional homicide where
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Sponsored by: Rep. Richard White
To Judiciary (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the towing and storage of motor vehicles. [HB-493]
Amend KRS 281.630 to establish a towing and storage facility certificate and require applicants for a towing and storage facility certificate to file a rate sheet with the application and renewal for the certificate; amend KRS 281.631 to set a fee of $10 for motor carrier plates for tow trucks; amend KRS 281.928 to require an entity requesting a vehicle in a storage facility to be held pending a civil or criminal investigation to notify the owner, lienholder, and insurer of a vehicle with 24 hours of a hold being initiated or released; amend KRS
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Pollock
Delivered To Governor on 03/28/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to correctional facilities. [HB-5]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 15A, relating to juvenile detention facilities, to direct that all incarcerated youth are subject to search at any time and to require separate bathrooms and sleeping quarters for males and females; create new sections of KRS Chapter 197, relating to penitentiaries, to direct that all prisoners are subject to search at any time, require separate bathrooms and sleeping quarters for males and females, and to prohibit the Department of Corrections from providing cosmetic procedures or initiating cross-sex hormones
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Judiciary (h) on 02/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to motor vehicle racing. [HB-465]
Amend KRS 189.993 to establish enhanced penalties for a violation of KRS 189.505, including increased fines, vehicle impoudment for up to six months for the first offense, and vehicle forfeiture for the second or subsequent offense.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Taken From Judiciary (s) on 03/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to assault in the third degree. [HB-446]
Amend KRS 508.025 to expand assault in the third degree to include causing or attempting to cause physical injury to a justice or judge of the Court of Justice.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Grossberg
Received In Senate on 03/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to aggravating circumstances. [HB-442]
Amend KRS 532.025 to include abuse of a corpse of the victim of kidnapping or murder by engaging in deviate sexual intercourse, sexual intercourse, or sexual contact as an aggravating circumstance; provide that the Act may be cited as Angela's Law.
Sponsored by: Rep. Samara Heavrin
To Judiciary (h) on 02/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to driving under the influence. [HB-456]
Amend KRS 189A.010 to provide that operating a motor vehicle while the person's operator's license is suspended for a previous violation of driving under the influence or KRS 189A.090 is an aggravating circumstance; expand the list of controlled substances; amend KRS 189A.070 to extend the period of license suspension for a person who is issued an ignition interlock license for a first offense from four months to six months; require each person who is issued an ignition interlock license to comply with the consecutive day requirements in KRS 189A.340
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Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Flannery
Received In Senate on 03/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the correction of marriage documents. [HB-462]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 402 to allow a county clerk to correct a marriage application or marriage license upon receipt of an affidavit executed by both parties to the marriage; provide examples of errors and omissions that a clerk may correct upon receipt of the affidavit; allow persons to obtain a corrected marriage license by court order if they choose; make a person who intentionally submits a material false statement subject to the penalties in KRS 523.030; amend KRS 209A.045 to permit any funds collected from amending marriage licenses
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Sponsored by: Rep. Stephanie Dietz
Delivered To Governor on 03/28/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to gift cards. [SB-130]
Amend KRS 434.560 to define terms; create a new section of KRS 434.550 to 434.730 to create the offense of tampering with a gift card; amend KRS 434.580 and 434.650 to prohibit theft, receipt and fraudulent use of a gift card.
Sponsored by: Sen. David Givens
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 38) on 03/19/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to campaign finance. [HB-411]
Amend KRS 121.015, relating to the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance, to define "campaign consultant"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 121 to establish the registration process for campaign consultants; set penalty for failure to register; require employers of campaign consultants to pay a registration fee.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Grossberg
To Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (h) on 02/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prohibiting the possession and transfer of assault weapons and large capacity ammunition feeding devices. [HB-410]
Amend KRS 527.010 to define "assault weapon" and "large capacity ammunition feeding device"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 527 to criminalize possession and transfer of large capacity ammunition feeding devices; criminalize the possession and transfer of assault weapons; provide exceptions for large capacity ammunition feeding devices and assault weapons lawfully owned prior to the effective date of this Act; amend KRS 237.104 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Grossberg
To Judiciary (h) on 02/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments. [SB-118]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 533 to define terms; require the court, upon conviction of the defendant, to consider the defendant's status as a primary caretaker of a dependent child unless the defendant is a violent offender, the victim is a child, or a statute prohibits an alternative sentence; require the court, upon a finding that the defendant is a primary caretaker of a dependent child, to consider an alternative sentence; provide that the defendant shall have the right to present an alternative sentencing plan and a family impact statement
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Sponsored by: Sen. Julie Adams
To Judiciary (s) on 02/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to waiting periods for sales of firearms. [HB-409]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to require a waiting period of five business days between the sale and transfer of a firearm; amend KRS 237.990 to establish a penalty for a violation.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Grossberg
To Judiciary (h) on 02/12/2025