Corrections Impact
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to hunting on state historic battlefield sites. [HB-328]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 150 to define "state historic battlefield site" and to prohibit hunting on state historic battlefield sites unless approved by the Department of Parks and authorized by the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission in order to meet specific goals of a wildlife management plan for the area; amend KRS 150.990 to establish penalties.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Elliott
To Tourism & Outdoor Recreation (h) on 02/07/2025
Spread the world
Gettr Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to offender reentry. [HB-333]
Amend KRS 186.417 to require that felony offenders released from county jails and local correctional facilities be issued personal identification cards or operator's licenses under certain conditions.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Judiciary (h) on 02/07/2025
Spread the world
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments. [HB-291]
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
(continued...)
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Families & Children (s) on 03/04/2025
Spread the world
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to driving under the influence. [HB-220]
Amend KRS 189A.010, relating to driving under the influence, to provide that a third or subsequent offense of driving under the influence within a 10-year period is a Class D felony; provide that if a person is convicted of a third or subsequent offense of driving under the influence the minimum term of imprisonment shall be 120 days; amend KRS 189A.040, 189A.200, 189A.240, and 281A.2102 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
To Judiciary (s) on 03/04/2025
Spread the world
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to motor vehicle racing. [HB-312]
Amend KRS 189.993 to establish enhanced penalties for a violation of KRS 189.505, including vehicle impoundment and increased fines.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Judiciary (h) on 02/07/2025
Spread the world
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to property rights. [HB-250]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 383 to allow a property owner or his or her authorized agent to request a law enforcement officer to immediately remove a person unlawfully occupying a residential dwelling or other structure under certain circumstances; provide criminal and civil immunity to law enforcement officers and property owners acting in good faith; create a civil cause of action for wrongful removal; create a new section of KRS Chapter 523 to establish the offense of making a false statement to detain real property.
Sponsored by: Rep. Steve Riley
To Judiciary (h) on 02/07/2025
Spread the world
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to motor vehicle racing. [SB-96]
Amend KRS 189.505, relating to motor vehicle racing, to prohibit knowingly promoting, organizing, or facilitating a motor vehicle race upon any street or highway; amend KRS 189.993 to establish enhanced penalties for a violation of KRS 189.505, including vehicle impoundment, driver's license suspension, and forfeiture of a motor vehicle; amend KRS 186.560, relating to driver's license suspension for violations of various penal and traffic laws, to provide that a person with a second or subsequent violation of KRS 189.505 shall be subject to suspension
(continued...)
Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To Transportation (s) on 02/06/2025
Spread the world
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to plastic waste. [HB-295]
Amend KRS 224.50-585 to define terms; prohibit the intentional release of more than 25 plastic balloons; establish a ban on plastic, single-use carryout bags by July 1, 2030; establish a ban on the provision of single-use plastic straws and Styrofoam food and beverage containers by retail food and beverage establishments by July 1, 2028; establish civil penalty of $100 per day for violations.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mary Marzian
To Natural Resources & Energy (h) on 02/07/2025
Spread the world
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the abolition of the death penalty. [SB-101]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to abolish the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without parole for inmates presently sentenced to death; amend KRS 532.030 to remove the death penalty; amend KRS 640.040 to prohibit life imprisonment without benefit of parole for a juvenile offender convicted of a capital offense; amend KRS 640.010 to define "serious intellectual disability" and "significant subaverage general intellectual functioning"; amend KRS 422.285, 532.050, 532.100, and 533.010 to conform; repeal KRS 431.213, 431.2135,
(continued...)
Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
To Judiciary (s) on 02/06/2025
Spread the world
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sodomy. [HB-227]
Repeal KRS 510.100, relating to sodomy in the fourth degree; amend KRS 194A.380 and 532.031 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Judiciary (h) on 02/07/2025
Spread the world
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the abolition of the death penalty. [SB-98]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to abolish the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without parole for inmates presently sentenced to death; amend KRS 532.030 to remove the death penalty; amend KRS 640.040 to prohibit life imprisonment without benefit of parole for a juvenile offender convicted of a capital offense; amend KRS 640.010 to define "serious intellectual disability" and "significant subaverage general intellectual functioning"; amend KRS 422.285, 532.050, 532.100, and 533.010 to conform; repeal KRS 431.213, 431.2135,
(continued...)
Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To Judiciary (s) on 02/06/2025
Spread the world
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the abolition of the death penalty. [HB-209]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to abolish the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without parole for inmates presently sentenced to death; amend KRS 532.030, relating to authorized dispositions for felony offenses, to remove the death penalty; amend KRS 533.010, relating to probation, to prohibit probation for a person sentenced to life without parole or life without parole for 25 years; amend KRS 640.010 to define terms; amend KRS 640.040, relating to penalties for juveniles convicted of felony offenses, to prohibit life
(continued...)
Sponsored by: Rep. James Tipton
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
Spread the world
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to abortion. [HB-203]
Amend KRS 311.720, 311.7701, and 311.781 to define terms; amend KRS 311.723, 311.725, 311.727, 311.732, 311.7706, 311.772, 311.780, and 311.782 to allow an abortion when the unborn child has a lethal fetal anomaly and delineate additional medical circumstances for the performance of an abortion; allow an abortion when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest and the abortion occurs no later than six weeks after the first day of the woman's last menstrual period; amend KRS 311.800 to provide for an abortion in a publicly owned hospital under
(continued...)
Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Fleming
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
Spread the world
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to theft by failure to make required disposition of property. [HB-201]
Amend KRS 514.060, relating to theft of services, to include the conduct of a person holding the property of another under a rental agreement longer than the period agreed upon and depriving the owner of its use for future rentals.
Sponsored by: Rep. Steven Rudy
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 18) on 03/15/2025
Spread the world
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sexual extortion. [SB-73]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 531 to establish the crime of sexual extortion as a felony; provide for enhancements to penalties; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a civil cause of action for sexual extortion; amend KRS 17.500 to include sexual extortion in the definition of "sex crime"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require superintendents of local school districts to notify students in grades four and above and parents and guardians of all students of the crime of sexual extortion; create a new section of KRS
(continued...)
Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 9) on 03/12/2025
Spread the world
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sexual offenses against children. [HB-199]
Amend KRS 510.040, 510.070, and 510.110 to provide that rape in the first degree, sodomy in the first degree, and sexual abuse in the first degree shall be capital offenses when the victim is under 12 years old; amend KRS 532.025 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Josh Calloway
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
Spread the world
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to concealed deadly weapons. [HB-204]
Repeal KRS 237.115, which interprets the application of the license to carry concealed deadly weapon statute as permitting postsecondary facilities, local governments, and units of state government to limit concealed carry in governmental buildings; amend KRS 150.172, 237.110, and 527.020 to conform; amend KRS 237.110 to no longer prohibit the carrying of concealed deadly weapons in schools and specify that the prohibition of carrying concealed deadly weapons in airports is limited to areas controlled by the Transportation Security Administration;
(continued...)
Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
Spread the world
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to key infrastructure assets and declaring an emergency. [SB-64]
Amend KRS 511.100 to include cable, telephone, and broadband facilities; amend KRS 512.020 to include damaging or taking possession of a key infrastructure asset.
Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 42) on 03/19/2025
Spread the world
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to pretrial release. [HB-104]
Amend KRS 431.066 to limit the use of money bail to certain high-risk defendants and create a preventive detention process for defendants of select risk levels and charge types; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to establish a preventive detention hearing process and define the limited circumstances in which money bail can be imposed; amend various statutes to conform; repeal KRS 431.021, relating to guaranteed arrest bond certificates.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
Spread the world
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to the possession of cannabis. [HB-105]
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to guarantee the right of an individual 21 years of age or older to possess, use, buy, or sell one ounce or less of cannabis and to cultivate, harvest, and store up to five cannabis plants for personal use; grant the General Assembly control over the production, processing, and sale of cannabis and cannabis-derived products; designate the ballot question; direct the Secretary of State to publish the proposed amendment in a newspaper of general circulation; direct the Secretary of State
(continued...)
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Floor Amendment (1) Filed on 03/04/2025