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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to jails. [HB-35]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to require payment to the county of a fee and, if applicable, the fees set forth in KRS 532.100(7), for each day a prisoner is charged with a felony and lodged in the county with payment ceasing the day the prisoner is acquitted of the felony charges or has judgment rendered otherwise involving no felony; amend KRS 431.215 to provide that the state pays a fee to counties for lodging prisoners judged guilty of death or confinement to the penitentiary beginning on the date the prisoner is first lodged in the
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mitchum Whitaker
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/04/2025
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AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to the possession of cannabis. [SB-36]
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; for the production, processing, and sale of cannabis and cannabis-derived products to be controlled by the General Assembly; specify the question to be printed on the ballot; direct the Secretary of State to publish the proposed amendment in a newspaper of general circulation; direct
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Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To State & Local Government (s) on 01/09/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sex offenders. [HB-50]
Amend KRS 17.545 to prohibit a registrant from residing within 3,000 feet of a high school, middle school, elementary school, preschool, publicly owned or leased playground, or licensed daycare facility; provide that the 3,000 feet restriction applies to any person who becomes a registrant after the effective date of the Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to assault in the third degree. [HB-101]
Amend KRS 508.025, relating to assault in the third degree, to enhance the punishment to a Class D felony if a person intentionally causes a peace officer to come into contact with bodily fluids; enhance assault in the third degree to a Class C felony if the person who causes a peace officer to come into contact with bodily fluids has a serious communicable disease and the contact is likely to cause transmission of the disease; enhance assault in the third degree to a Class C felony for a second or subsequent offense.
Sponsored by: Rep. D. Wade Williams
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to driving under the influence of marijuana. [HB-34]
Amend KRS 189A.010 to create a per se limit for a blood level of tetrahydrocannabinol signifying intoxication; amend various sections of the KRS to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mitchum Whitaker
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to postincarceration supervision. [HB-51]
Amend KRS 532.043 to provide that a person convicted of felony attempt to commit a felony offense under KRS Chapter 510, KRS 529.100, 529.110, or a felony offense under KRS 531.310 to 531.370 relating to the sexual exploitation of minors, shall be subject to postincarceration supervision; amend KRS 532.060 to provide that a person convicted of felony attempt to commit a felony offense specified in KRS Chapter 510 or KRS 531.310 to 531.370 shall be subject to postincarceration supervision.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Banta
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sex offenders. [HB-42]
Create a new section of KRS 17.500 to 17.580, relating to the sex offender registry, to define "costume" and "Halloween-related activity"; prohibit sex offenders who have committed a criminal offense against a victim who is a minor from participating in any Halloween-related activity; establish penalties.
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. [HB-22]
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: Rep. Walker Thomas
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to target shooting. [HB-93]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to define terms; provide that a person shall not target shoot carelessly, recklessly, or without regard for the safety of any person, or in a manner that endangers or is likely to endanger any person, pet, livestock, wildlife, or property; provide exceptions for target shooting at a recreation facility or in an area with an earthen backstop; establish a violation as a Class A misdemeanor.
Sponsored by: Rep. D. Wade Williams
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to exceptions to restrictions on maternal healthcare. [SB-35]
Amend KRS 311.720, 311.7701, 311.781, and 311.787 to define terms; amend KRS 311.723, 311.727, 311.732, 311.735, 311.7706, and 311.782 to allow an abortion when there is a lethal fetal anomaly or the fetus is incompatible with sustained life outside the womb, or when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest and the fetus has not reached viability as determined in the good-faith medical judgment of the physician; amend KRS 311.782 to establish a rebuttable presumption that the physician complied with the requirements of the section; amend KRS
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Sponsored by: Sen. Reginald Thomas
Introduced In Senate on 01/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public health. [HB-84]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to provide that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall not promulgate any administrative regulation that implements or enforces any directives from the World Health Organization; amend KRS 211.990 to establish that any violation shall be a Class D felony.
Sponsored by: Rep. Josh Calloway
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to marijuana. [SB-33]
Amend KRS 218A.1421, 218A.1422, and 218A.1423 to remove penalties for possession, cultivation, or trafficking of up to eight ounces or five plants of marijuana; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to allow expungement of certain convictions relating to cannabis; amend KRS 218A.276 to conform; RETROACTIVE, in part.
Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To Judiciary (s) on 01/09/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sexual extortion. [HB-47]
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 new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to require superintendents of local school districts to notify students in grades six and above and parents and guardians of all students of the crime of sexual extortion; require local school boards
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Sponsored by: Rep. Shane Baker
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to possession or viewing of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor. [HB-92]
Amend KRS 531.335, relating to possession or viewing of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor, to provide that the sexual performance may be by a computer-generated image of a minor; provide that any person convicted of possession or viewing of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor shall not be released on probation or parole without serving 85 percent of the sentence imposed.
Sponsored by: Rep. DJ Johnson
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to privacy protection. [HB-21]
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 Hodgson
To Small Business & Information Technology (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the regulation of cannabis and making an appropriation therefor. [SB-382]
Establish KRS Chapter 245, relating to adult use cannabis, to administer its cultivation, processing, transportation, sale, use, taxation, and licensing; define terms; establish the Adult Use Cannabis Control Board and its membership, procedures, powers, and duties; direct the board to promulgate administrative regulations for the administration and enforcement of the chapter; set up advisory committees appointed by the board; create the Department of Cannabis Control within the Public Protection Cabinet for the oversight of cannabis operations
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Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To Judiciary (s) on 03/01/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to the possession of cannabis. [SB-362]
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; for the production, processing, and sale of cannabis and cannabis-derived products to be controlled by the General Assembly; specify the question to be printed on the ballot; direct the Secretary of State to publish the proposed amendment in a newspaper of general circulation; direct
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Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Berg
To State & Local Government (s) on 03/01/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to human trafficking. [HB-3]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to permit the Attorney General to establish a working group to study and discuss human trafficking in the Commonwealth; amends KRS 15.706 to include forced labor in reporting data on human trafficking from the Prosecutors Advisory Council; amends KRS 176.415 to require that the Department of Highways post signs or window clings containing contact information for assistance for victims of human trafficking; amends KRS 183.075 to require that airports post signs or window clings containing contact information
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Sponsored by: Rep. Suzanne Miles
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 61) on 04/04/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the regulation of financial institutions. [HB-726]
Amends sections of Subtitles 1, 2, and 3 of KRS Chapter 286 to consolidate statutes, to make technical corrections, and to make revisions to the required banking experience of the financial institutions commissioner, the Financial Institutions Board, prohibited practices of financial institution examiners, application of financial services code to national bank or federal savings association operating subsidiaries, examination of safe deposit boxes, transaction of business by foreign financial institutions, banking definitions, the transaction of
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Meredith
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 152) on 04/09/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workplace violence. [HB-739]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 338 to define terms; provide that an employer may petition the court for an order of protection after incidents of workplace violence; establish procedures for petitioning the court, service of process, hearings, and penalties for violating an order of protection; amend KRS Chapter 336.130 to include workplace violence, and order of protection based on workplace violence; direct that provisions of this Act are not severable; EFFECTIVE March 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. Phillip Pratt
Taken From The Orders Of The Day on 03/27/2024