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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to motor vehicles. [HB-535]
Amend KRS 186.032 to define "communication disorder"; allow the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to identify other communication disorders; establish that information may be included in the Kentucky vehicle registration system database indicating that a regular passenger of the vehicle may be deaf or hard of hearing or have a communication disorder.
Sponsored by: Rep. John Blanton
To Transportation (h) on 02/21/2025
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AN ACT relating to transportation. [SB-168]
Amend KRS 186.230 and 186.120 to conform to gender-neutral language.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jimmy Higdon
To Transportation (s) on 02/19/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to elections. [HB-472]
Amend KRS 118.125, relating to primary elections, to remove the requirement that two registered voters from a candidate's party and district or jurisdiction must sign the candidate's notification and declaration; amend KRS 118A.060 to remove the requirement that two registered voters from a judicial candidate's district or circuit must sign the candidate's petition for nomination; amend KRS 118A.100 to remove the requirement that two registered voters from a judicial candidate's district or circuit must sign the candidate's petition for nomination;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josh Calloway
To Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (h) on 02/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the issuance of identity documents. [HB-459]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 186 to require the Transportation Cabinet to expand driver licensing services in each county by setting up a system between the Transportation Cabinet and the county clerks for issuance of operator's licenses and personal identification cards; amend KRS 186.531 to conform; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2026.
Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
Withdrawn on 02/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT proposing to amend Section 1 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to the environment. [HB-470]
Propose to amend Section 1 of the Constitution of Kentucky to establish a right of the people to have a healthy environment, including a right to clean air, pure water, and ecologically healthy habitats; declare the Commonwealth's natural resources, among them its air, water, flora, fauna, climate, and public lands, the common property of all people, including generations yet to come; establish that as trustee of the environment and its natural resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all people; provide ballot
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Banta
To Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (h) on 02/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to transportation and declaring an emergency. [SB-136]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 186A to allow for an electronic record of a motor vehicle title to be stored in AVIS without the production of a paper copy of the title; provide that titles held in the system electronically have the same legal status as paper titles; allow a titled holder to request a paper title at any time; exempt from fees the first paper title for a vehicle if the title was held electronically; amend KRS 186A.035 to outline procedures and forms for transfers of vehicles held in joint ownership; amend KRS 186A.115 to allow
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jimmy Higdon
Became Law Without Governor's Signature (acts Ch. 95) on 03/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 32 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to terms of members of the General Assembly. [SB-146]
Propose to amend Section 32 of the Constitution of Kentucky to prevent members of the Senate from serving more than four terms of office, not including partial terms of two years or less, and to prevent members of the House of Representatives from serving more than eight terms of office, not including partial terms of two years or less, beginning with those elected in November 2028; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To State & Local Government (s) on 02/14/2025
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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 property. [SB-129]
Amend KRS 99.727 to define "diverted tax delinquency purchaser" and "third-party purchaser"; require a certificate of delinquency related to property remaining in a tax delinquency diversion program at the expiration of the program's five year period to be made available for purchase by third-party purchasers; allow diverted tax delinquency purchasers to purchase certificates of delinquency related to property included in a tax delinquency diversion program during the program's five year period; set requirements for the county attorney related to
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Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 56) on 03/24/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to motor vehicle insurance. [HB-390]
Amend KRS 186A.040 to define terms; require the Department of Vehicle Regulation to establish an accessible online insurance verification system; establish requirements and timelines for making the system accessible and promulgating administrative regulations; establish requirements and guidelines for the department and the system; establish requirements for insurers to cooperate with the department and to submit insurance information relating to personal motor vehicles; provide option for insurers to submit insurance status information for commercial
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Meredith
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 39) on 03/19/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT proposing to amend Section 77 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to limiting the Governor's ability to grant pardons. [HB-394]
Propose to amend Section 77 of the Constitution of Kentucky to prohibit the Governor from pardoning persons that have not been convicted of a crime, unless the person is currently being investigated or prosecuted in connection to a crime; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Hart
To Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (h) on 02/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to elections. [HB-341]
Amend KRS 118.125 to require that the notification and declaration form prescribed by the State Board of Elections shall include four signature lines; require that candidates provide documentation verifying that the two voters signing the notification and declaration form are from the same party and district or jurisdiction as the candidate seeking nomination; amend KRS 118.165 to direct that the Secretary of State and the county clerk shall not certify any notification and declaration form that does not include proper registration documentation;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josh Calloway
To Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 25 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to slavery and involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime. [HB-319]
Propose to amend Section 25 of the Constitution of Kentucky to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude in all circumstances, including as punishment for a crime; provide that nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit a person convicted of a felony and sentenced to imprisonment from being employed as described in Section 253 of the Constitution of Kentucky or otherwise provided by law; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Holloway
To Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT proposing to amend Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to persons entitled to vote. [HB-246]
Propose to amend Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky to prohibit persons adjudged mentally incompetent by a court from voting; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Holloway
To Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to marketable title. [HB-256]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 381 to define terms; establish what constitutes an unbroken chain of title; establish the interests and rights to which a marketable title is subject; include the procedure for preserving an interest in land; delineate protected interests; establish that the provisions are to be liberally construed.
Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Flannery
To Judiciary (s) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school districts. [HB-297]
Amend KRS 160.041 to provide a merger process for any contiguous school districts; require the Kentucky Board of Education to determine the terms of merger for an insolvent district if no agreement between the school districts can be reached, and to promulgate administrative regulations regarding mergers due to insolvency.
Sponsored by: Rep. James Tipton
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to local regulatory actions. [HB-215]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 82 to define "city," "project labor agreement," and "public construction project"; permit a city to establish a mandatory preference for awarding public construction project contracts to unions through a negotiated project labor agreement; permit cities to negotiate wages that are higher than the state or federal minimum wage as a condition of the project labor agreement; create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to define "city," "prevailing wage," "prevailing wage rate," and "public works project"; permit a city
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Sponsored by: Rep. Alan Gentry
To Local Government (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to the exemption of state and local excise, sales, and use taxes from food and food ingredients, prescription drugs, and residential utilities. [HB-267]
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to exempt from state and local excise, sales, and use taxes food and food ingredients, prescription drugs, and residential utilities; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Withdrawn on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to taxation. [HB-198]
Propose to amend Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky to provide the General Assembly the authority to exempt all or a portion of any class of property from taxation or eliminate all or a portion of any tax and the related provisions of that tax; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
Sponsored by: Rep. Josh Calloway
To Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school board elections. [HB-169]
Amend KRS 160.200 to require the offices of boards of education to have a partisan primary or partisan election; amend KRS 160.210 to require school board candidates to have emblems of political party affiliation presented on the ballot; amend various KRS sections to conform; and repeal KRS 160.250 and 160.260, relating to election of local board of education members.
Sponsored by: Rep. John Hodgson
Floor Amendments (1) And (2-title) Filed on 02/28/2025