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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to concealed deadly weapons. [HB-139]
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: Rep. Steven Rudy
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
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AN ACT relating to real property rights. [HB-142]
Amend KRS 511.010 and 512.010 to define "squatter"; amend KRS 511.090 to allow a property owner or his or her authorized agent to request a peace officer to immediately remove any squatter occupying a dwelling or commercial building under certain circumstances; provide criminal and civil immunity to peace officers acting in good faith; amend KRS 512.020 and 512.030 to specifically include damage to residential or commercial property caused by squatters in the offense of criminal mischief; create a new section of KRS Chapter 514 to establish the
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workplace violence against drivers of public transportation. [HB-135]
Amend KRS 508.025 to expand assault in the third degree to include causing or attempting to cause physical injury to a driver of any form of public transportation acting in the course and scope of the driver's employment.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rachel Roarx
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to cannabis. [HB-106]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to make possession of a personal use quantity of cannabis exempt from civil or criminal penalty; amend KRS 218A.010 to define "cannabis," "personal use quantity of cannabis," and "cannabis accessory"; amend KRS 218A.1422, regarding cannabis possession, to conform; amend KRS 218A.1423, regarding cannabis cultivation, to conform; amend KRS 218A.500, regarding drug paraphernalia, to exempt personal use cannabis accessories; amend KRS 218A.1421, regarding cannabis trafficking, to exempt personal use quantities;
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to firearms and declaring an emergency. [HB-124]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to define "assault weapon," "large capacity ammunition feeding device," and "seller of ammunition"; require background checks for private firearms sales; require reporting to law enforcement of firearm and ammunition thefts and losses; require the safe storage of firearms; require the Department of Kentucky State Police to promulgate administrative regulations relating to the licensing of persons to possess handguns and assault weapons, the registration of handguns and assault weapons, and the logging of firearms
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to geoengineering. [SB-62]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 512 to make findings and declarations regarding the dangers of atmospheric polluting activities and the Commonwealth's authority to prohibit geoengineering; define terms; make criminal atmospheric pollution a Class D felony; require that a person found guilty of criminal atmospheric pollution pay a civil penalty of not less than $500,000 in addition to all other penalties authorized by law; provide that each day that a person engages in criminal atmospheric pollution constitutes a separate offense; empower all
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Sponsored by: Sen. Steve Rawlings
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 01/10/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to gun safety for children. [HB-120]
Amend KRS 527.010 to define "securely locked container" and make technical corrections; create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to prohibit unlawful storage of a firearm; establish elements of the crime as recklessly allowing access to an unsecured firearm by a minor; establish the crime as a Class B misdemeanor unless a physical injury or death results, in which case it is a Class A misdemeanor; provide that an affirmative defense exists if a minor obtained the firearm through the minor's unlawful entry; provide that the Act may be cited as the
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sex crimes. [HB-97]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 510 to establish the offense of traveling into the Commonwealth to commit a sexual offense; provide that no person shall be convicted of this offense and any offense specified in KRS 506.010, 506.030, 506.040, or 506.080 for a single course of conduct; provide that this section is intended to be a separate offense and shall be punished in addition to violations of sex crimes; provide that traveling into the Commonwealth to commit a sexual offense shall be punished at the same felony classification level as the
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Banta
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to gaming activities. [HB-33]
Amend KRS 230.210 to define terms; amend KRS 230.260 to allow the Kentucky Horse Racing and Gaming Corporation (corporation) to license and regulate casino gaming and fantasy contests; allow the corporation to inspect all premises where casino gaming is conducted and seize any equipment or records related to casino gaming for the purposes of examination and inspection; require the corporation to promulgate administrative regulations related to casino gaming; create new sections of KRS Chapter 230 to establish licensing requirements for full casino,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Thomas Huff
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to animal fighting. [SB-39]
Amend KRS 525.125 to define "animal fight" and remove the definition of "dog fight"; provide that a person is guilty of cruelty to animals in the first degree when he or she knowingly causes an animal to engage in an animal fight, participates in the organization or operation of an animal fight, is present at an animal fight, or allows a minor to attend an animal fight; provide that falconry authorized by a valid permit and hunting license shall not constitute a violation of this section; provide that cruelty to animals in the first degree is a
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Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Berg
To Judiciary (s) on 01/09/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sex crimes. [HB-23]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to provide that any person who has been convicted of, pled guilty to, or entered an Alford plea to a sex crime in which the victim was under the age of 12 shall undergo medroxyprogesterone acetate treatment; provide that treatment shall begin no later than one month before the person is released from custody; provide that treatment shall continue until the person is released from probation, parole, or postincarceration supervision; provide that the person shall be evaluated by a licensed physician prior to
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ryan Dotson
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to balloons. [HB-53]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 512 to create the offense of unlawful release of balloons.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Banta
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to property and casualty insurance. [SB-24]
Amend KRS 304.47-010 to modify the definition of "statement"; make technical amendments; amend KRS 304.47-020 to establish that statements that misrepresent the scope of damages associated with a property, casualty, or property and casualty insurance claim are fraudulent insurance acts; make technical amendments.
Sponsored by: Sen. Rick Girdler
Signed By Governor (acts Ch.25) on 03/18/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to hate crimes. [HB-68]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to provide an enhanced term of imprisonment for any defendant convicted of certain crimes when the defendant intentionally committed the offense because of a person's actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, mental or physical disability, gender identity or expression, or sexual orientation; amend KRS 15.334 and 17.1523 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 508 to create the offense of using hate symbols to intimidate; repeal KRS 49.320 and 532.031.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prohibiting the enforcement of a federal ban or regulation of firearms. [HB-82]
Amend KRS 237.105, relating to state and local enforcement of federal bans on firearms on or after January 1, 2021, to change the definition of "federal ban" to mean a federal law, executive order, rule or regulation that is enacted, adopted, or becomes effective on or after December 15, 1791.
Sponsored by: Rep. Josh Bray
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sex crimes. [HB-99]
Amend KRS 510.060, relating to rape in the third degree, to prohibit a person from engaging in sexual intercourse with another person who is incarcerated by the Department of Corrections, Department of Juvenile Justice, or a detention facility; to prohibit a Commonwealth's attorney, assistant Commonwealth's attorney, county attorney, or assistant county attorney from engaging in sexual intercourse with another person who the attorney is prosecuting unless a prior sexual relationship exists; to prohibit an attorney for a criminal defendant from engaging
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Sponsored by: Rep. Stephanie Dietz
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to campaign finance. [HB-45]
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 Elliott
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 57) on 03/24/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to orders of protection. [HB-38]
Amend KRS 403.763 and 456.180 to enhance criminal penalties for repeated violations of an order of protection; establish what constitutes a repeated violation.
Sponsored by: Rep. James Tipton
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 75) on 03/24/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to violent offenders. [HB-98]
Amend KRS 439.3401 to include kidnapping in the definition of "violent offender."
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Banta
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coercive control. [HB-96]
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 Moser
2nd Reading, To Rules on 02/27/2025