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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to agricultural economic development and declaring an emergency. [SB-28]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 246 to create a new agricultural economic development program within the Department of Agriculture; establish the agricultural economic development board; create the agricultural economic development fund; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robin Webb
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 118) on 03/28/2025
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AN ACT relating to executive orders and declaring an emergency. [HB-64]
Invalidate Executive Order 2024-632 relating to the prohibition of state and federal funds being used for the practice of conversion therapy; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
To State Government (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the regulation of nicotine products and declaring an emergency. [HB-62]
Suspend 2024 Ky. Acts ch. 111, House Bill 11 of the 2024 Regular Session, unless and until the Supreme Court of the United States has rendered a decision in Food and Drug Administration v. Wages and White Lion Investments, L.L.C., dba Triton Distribution, et al., No. 23-1038, overruling the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals; RETROACTIVE to January 1, 2025; EMERGENCY.
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 administrative regulations and declaring an emergency. [SB-23]
Amend KRS 13A.010 to define "full review"; amend KRS 13A.030, 13A.270, 13A.280, 13A.290, and 13A.300 to establish the procedures for the informational review of an administrative regulation by the Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee or any other legislative committee; make separate processes for full reviews compared to informational reviews; require promulgating agencies to be present and cooperate with informational reviews; allow deferrals of informational reviews under designated circumstances; amend KRS 13A.335 and 67.767 to conform;
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Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Mills
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 2) on 02/25/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to peace officer certification and declaring an emergency. [HB-17]
Amend KRS 15.382, relating to peace officer professional standards certification, to provide that a person who has previously been employed as a peace officer in the Commonwealth before December 1, 1998, shall not be required to pass a physical agility test unless required by the employing agency; make technical corrections; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Hale
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to governmental accountability and declaring an emergency. [HB-81]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 13B to reinstate a person's credential or benefit if it was lost or denied due to noncompliance with an executive order or administrative regulation relating to pandemic restrictions; amend KRS 13A.190, 13A.310, 13A.315, 13A.330, 13A.335, and 13A.336 to grant the Attorney General authority over some aspects of the administrative regulation process; amend KRS 13B.120 to enable the Attorney General to accept, reject, or modify an agency head's changes that create a more adverse final order; amend KRS 13B.150 to
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Sponsored by: Rep. Felicia Rabourn
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to medicinal cannabis and declaring an emergency. [SB-337]
Amend KRS 12.020 and 194A.030 to establish the Office of Medicinal Cannabis, the Division of Enforcement and Compliance, and the Division of Licensure and Access in the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 218A.202 require the Administrative Office of the Courts to forward all available data regarding disqualifying felony offenses for the previous five years to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 218B.010 to expand the definition of "qualifying medical condition" to include amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson's
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Sponsored by: Sen. Steve West
To Health Services (s) on 03/01/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to energy policy and declaring an emergency. [SB-349]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to make findings and declarations; defines terms; establishes the Energy Planning and Inventory Commission and administratively attaches it to the University of Kentucky Center for Applied Energy Research (UK CAER); provides for membership of the commission board and executive committee; provides for gubernatorial appointments of members of the commission board and executive committee and requires Senate confirmation of those appointments; requires the election of two of the executive committee members by
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Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 172) on 04/12/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Department of Agriculture and declaring an emergency. [SB-3]
Amend KRS 150.021 to remove the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources from the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet, administratively attach the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to the Department of Agriculture, transfer records associated with the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources from the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet to the department; amend KRS 150.022 to authorize the Commissioner of Agriculture to appoint members of the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission; amend KRS 12.020, 150.061, 235.010, 235.030,
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jason Howell
Floor Amendment (2) Filed on 03/25/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to reorganization of the Department of Law and declaring an emergency. [SB-376]
Amends KRS 15.010, relating to the Office of the Attorney General, to rename and restructure units within the office; and amends various statutes to conform and make technical corrections; EMERGENCY..
Sponsored by: Sen. Greg Elkins
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 112) on 04/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to tax credits for sustainable aviation fuel, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [SB-313]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish the sustainable aviation fuel tax credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, but before January 1, 2035; compute credit based on $2.50 per gallon of sustainable aviation fuel consumed by taxpayers; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish the nonrefundable feedstock production tax credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, but before January 1, 2035; compute credit based on the amount of usable feedstock produced in this state; amend KRS 141.0205
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jay Williams
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 02/29/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to terrorist activity and declaring an emergency. [SB-315]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to direct school districts and public schools to act to protect Jewish students from credible threats of violence or violence motivated by antisemitism; prohibit a school district, public school, or student organization from providing material support or resources to a designated terrorist organization; provide that if a school determines that an affiliated student organization has provided material support or resources, the school district shall notify law enforcement and defund and disband the student organization;
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Sponsored by: Sen. Lindsey Tichenor
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (s) on 02/29/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the smoking and vaping cessation program, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [SB-335]
Appropriate certain General Fund moneys to the Department for Public Health to support the Smoking and Vaping Cessation Program; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jason Howell
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 02/29/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school safety and declaring an emergency. [SB-275]
Amend KRS 158.4414 to require each public school building to post signs at least six inches high by 14 inches wide in prominent locations stating, "This school is protected by an armed and trained School Resource Officer."; require the word "armed" to be emphasized; EFFECTIVE, July 1, 2024; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Lindsey Tichenor
Withdrawn on 02/28/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to procurement and declaring an emergency. [HB-750]
Amend KRS 45A.055 to add gender-neutral language.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie
Returned To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 03/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky National Guard and declaring an emergency. [HB-715]
Amends KRS 36.474 removing the post-deployment provision relating to eligibility for the military family assistance trust fund, and to make a technical correction; and amends KRS 36.477 expanding the Kentucky National Guard Adoption Assistance Program to include former members of the Kentucky National Guard, and to allow adoption of stepchildren to qualify; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 59) on 04/04/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Product Development Initiative and declaring an emergency. [HB-13]
Creates a new section of subchapter 21 of KRS Chapter 154 to establish the Kentucky Product Development Initiative of 2024; amends KRS 154.21-015 to define “county population ranking,” “population density,” and “ten (10) year percentage change in population” and to redefine other terms; amends KRS 154.21-020 to designate reporting requirements and to restrict the Kentucky Product Development Initiative of 2022 to fiscal years 2022-2023 and 2023-2024; and amends KRS 154.21-035 to make technical corrections; EMERGENCY; June 1, 2024.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 191) on 04/16/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to government contracts and declaring an emergency. [HB-777]
Amend KRS 45A.030 to expand the definition of "contract"; amend KRS 45A.035 to require promulgation of administrative regulations to establish policies regarding timely payments under contracts; create a new section of KRS Chapter 45A to establish timely payment penalty and procedures; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Returned To State & Local Government (s) on 04/12/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to providing for the authorization of the Office of Broadband Development to implement the federal Broadband Equity Access and Deployment (BEAD) Program and declaring an emergency. [HB-267]
Creates new sections in KRS Chapter 224A to establish the Broadband Equity Access and Development Program (BEAD) within the Office of Broadband Development, to define terms, to require that the Office of Broadband Development create and administer the BEAD Program, to establish program application requirements, and to create the BEAD fund; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 82) on 04/04/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to venue and declaring an emergency. [HB-809]
Amend KRS 120.280 to establish Hardin Circuit Court as the court of original jurisdiction for resolution of specified contests and recounts; amend KRS 120.290 to conform; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Flannery
Returned To Judiciary (s) on 03/26/2024