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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to tampering with a prisoner monitoring device. [HB-400]
Amend KRS 519.070 to include tampering with video recording or video monitoring devices in a correctional facility.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rachel Roarx
To Judiciary (h) on 02/12/2025
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AN ACT relating to interference with a legislative proceeding. [HB-399]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 519 to define terms; create the crime of interference with a legislative proceeding in the first degree; create the crime of interference with a legislative proceeding in the second degree; amend KRS 431.015 to require a peace officer to make an arrest for a violation of interference with a legislative proceeding in the first or second degree.
Sponsored by: Rep. John Blanton
Delivered To Secretary Of State on 03/28/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sex-based classifications. [SB-116]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 61 to define "boy," "equal," "female," "girl," "male," "man," "sex," and "woman"; prohibit any state or local law, regulation, ordinance, or policy from treating males or females unfairly from similiarly situated members of the opposite sex, but permit separation of the sexes if in the interest of maintaining safety, privacy, and fairness; provide a non-exhaustive list of examples of areas in which public entities may distinguish between the sexes; require any public school, public school district, state agency,
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Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Mills
To Education (s) on 02/11/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to cultured meat products. [HB-374]
Amend KRS 217.035 to remove meat or a meat product containing cultured animal tissue from the list of foods deemed misbranded; amend KRS 217.175 to prohibit the manufacture, sale, or exchange of meat or a meat product containing cultured animal tissue.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ryan Dotson
To Agriculture (h) on 02/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the acquisition and ownership of real property by a foreign principal. [HB-393]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 381, relating to real property, to define terms; prohibit foreign principals from owning real property in the Commonwealth of Kentucky; provide exceptions; require foreign principals to register any ownership interest acquired before the effective date of this Act with the Cabinet for Economic Development; allow persons to report evidence of noncompliance to the Office of the Attorney General; require the Office of the Attorney General to investigate the evidence; allow the Office of the Attorney General to enforce
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Sponsored by: Rep. Billy Wesley
To Judiciary (h) on 02/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to correctional facilities. [SB-2]
Create new section of KRS Chapter 197 to define terms; prohibit hormone treatment or elective surgery for gender reassignment.
Sponsored by: Sen. David Givens
Became Law Without Governor's Signature (acts Ch. 99) on 03/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to juvenile justice. [SB-111]
Create a new section in KRS Chapter 200 to define terms; establish procedures for a child charged with a public offense to determine if the child is a high acuity youth; establish procedures for securing a treatment plan and dispute resolution through a review process and the court if the parties cannot agree to a plan; require a 24-hour protocol for health facilities, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, the Department of Juvenile Justice, and the courts to direct care; establish reimbursement rates for inpatient and outpatient psychiatric
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Sponsored by: Sen. Danny Carroll
Returned To Judiciary (h) on 03/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to risk protection orders. [HB-375]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to define terms; allow enumerated persons to petition a District Court to issue an order prohibiting a person from purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm if the person is or has been diagnosed with or treated for a mental condition that causes or is likely to cause impairment in judgment, perception, or impulse control to an extent that presents an unreasonable risk to public health, safety, or welfare if the person were in possession or control of a firearm; establish that a violation of an order
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Judiciary (h) on 02/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to controlled substances. [HB-320]
Create new section of KRS Chapter 218A to create a criminal offense of trafficking a controlled substance on hospital property as a Class D felony unless a higher penalty applies; amend KRS 218A.1415 to establish possession of a controlled substance on hospital property is a Class D felony unless a higher penalty applies.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mike Clines
To Judiciary (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to hate crimes. [HB-349]
Repeal and reenact KRS 532.031 to define "gender identity or expression"; list the actions that qualify as hate crimes; list the actual or perceived characteristics a person must have in order to qualify as a victim of a hate crime; outline penalties for a person guilty of a hate crime; set forth criteria for seeking an enhanced sentence; amend KRS 15.334 to add characteristics of a victim to be considered when determining the cause of a crime; add requirement that officers receive training on hate crimes; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Judiciary (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the protection of unborn children. [SB-106]
Amend KRS 311.772, relating to the intentional termination of life of an unborn human being, to define terms; establish criminal penalties and fines for a foreign sender who provides an abortifacient or abortion-inducing drug; establish a civil cause of action that is available to a woman who receives an abortifacient; establish available relief; amend KRS 218A.100 to include abortifacients and abortion-inducing drugs as Schedule IV controlled substance.
Sponsored by: Sen. Steve Rawlings
Introduced In Senate on 02/05/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to smash and grab burglary. [HB-351]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 511 to create the offense of smash and grab burglary.
Sponsored by: Rep. Josh Calloway
To Judiciary (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to background checks on the sale or transfer of firearms. [HB-331]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to require background checks for private firearms sales and transfers; amend KRS 237.990 to establish a penalty for violations.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Judiciary (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to gun safety for children. [HB-332]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to make it a crime to unlawfully store a firearm; establish elements of the crime for recklessly allowing access to an unsecured firearm by a minor; establish the crime as a Class A misdemeanor unless a physical injury or death results, in which case it is a Class D felony; provide that the Act may be cited as the Baby Dre Gun Safety Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. Beverly Chester-Burton
Withdrawn on 02/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to orders of protection. [HB-366]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to define specified felony offenses that are a "qualifying offense"; allow lifetime orders of protection for victims of qualifying offenses; allow a court to vacate a lifetime order of protection if the conviction for the qualifying offense is expunged.
Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
To Judiciary (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the protection of unborn children. [HB-316]
Amend KRS 311.772, relating to the intentional termination of life of an unborn human being, to define terms; establish criminal penalties and fines for a foreign sender who provides an abortifacient or abortion-inducing drug; establish a civil cause of action that is available to a woman who receives an abortifacient; establish available relief; amend KRS 218A.100 to include abortifacients and abortion-inducing drugs as Schedule IV controlled substance.
Sponsored by: Rep. Josh Calloway
To Judiciary (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to firearms possession by domestic abusers. [HB-330]
Amend KRS 527.010 to define "domestic abuse offense," "domestic violence protective order," and "physical force"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 527 to create the crimes of possession of a firearm by a convicted domestic abuser and possession of a firearm by the subject of a domestic violence protective order; require the surrender of firearm by individuals subject to protective orders or convicted of specified crimes; amend KRS 403.740 and 456.060 to require courts to inform the subject of a domestic violence order or an interpersonal protective
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Judiciary (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sanctuary policies. [HB-344]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 61 to define terms; prohibit state and local governmental entities from adopting sanctuary policies; require law enforcement agencies to use reasonable resources to support the enforcement of federal immigration law; prohibit policies which would restrict the sharing of information with federal immigration agencies; require compliance with federal requirements when a defendant subject to an immigration detainer has been sentenced in a criminal case; require correctional facilities to provide information regarding
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Nemes
To Local Government (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to roofing contractors. [HB-350]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 198B to define terms; establish licensing for roofing contractors under the Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction; prohibit any persons not licensed under the department from holding himself or herself out as a roofing contractor; allow the department to issue roofing contractor licenses, promulgate administrative regulations, and implement disciplinary actions; establish applicant requirements and fee limitations; establish a fine and potential misdemeanor incarceration for violations; create the roofing
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Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Grossberg
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to firearms. [SB-105]
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: Sen. Gerald Neal
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (s) on 02/07/2025