Labor And Industry
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to economic development. [HB-402]
Amend KRS 154.12-223 to establish two positions in the Department for Business and Community Development within the Cabinet for Economic Development to be tasked with industry recruitment and job creation in the Eastern and Western Coal Field areas.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rebecca Raymer
To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (h) on 02/12/2025
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AN ACT relating to occupational safety and health. [HB-398]
Amend KRS 338.015 to define "qualified representative"; amend KRS 338.062 to prohibit the Kentucky Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board or the secretary of the Education Labor Cabinet from enforcing any occupational safety and health administrative regulation that has not been promulgated by or that is more stringent than the corresponding federal provision; amend KRS 338.091 to allow the Franklin Circuit Court to award actual expenses against the Department of Workplace Standards; amend KRS 338.111 to allow an employee's representative
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Nemes
Vetoed on 03/24/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public contracts. [HB-345]
Create new sections of KRS Chapters 45A, 56, and 65 to require that state and local contracts contain a provision that any iron, steel, aluminum, or manufactured goods used in all state and local projects be manufactured in the United States unless a waiver is granted; amend KRS Chapters 45A.343, 45A.352, 65.027, 162.070, 164A.575, 176.070, 176.080, and 424.260 to conform; provide that Sections 1 to 3 of the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Buy American Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. John Blanton
To State Government (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to wage transparency. [HB-362]
Amend KRS 337.010 to define "job posting" and "wage range"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require all employers to include the wages or wage range for the advertised position in any job posting; amend KRS 95A.250 and 337.020 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nima Kulkarni
To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to a deduction for union dues. [HB-363]
Amend KRS 141.019, relating to income tax, to define terms; allow a deduction from gross income for union dues and professional membership dues paid for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, but before January 1, 2030; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the exclusion; make technical changes.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nima Kulkarni
Withdrawn on 02/18/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to civil rights. [SB-102]
Amend KRS 344.010 to define terms; amend KRS 344.020, relating to the purpose of the Kentucky's civil rights chapter, to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.025, 344.040, 344.050, 344.060, 344.070, and 344.080, relating to prohibited discrimination in various labor and employment practices, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.100 and 344.110 to conform; amend KRS 344.120 and 344.140, relating to prohibited discrimination in places
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Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
To Judiciary (s) on 02/06/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to state contracts. [HB-269]
Amend KRS 45A.110 to require the bidder or offeror to attest to not receiving two or more civil penalties under KRS Chapter 337, 338, 339, or 341 in order to be eligible to receive the written determination of responsibility.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To State Government (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to employment. [HB-224]
Amend KRS 336.130 to delete references restricting rights of public employees to organize, associate collectively, or strike; amend KRS 336.180 to redefine "labor organization" and delete definitions of "candidate," "committee," "contributing organization," "contribution," "election," "electioneering communications," "employer," "fundraiser," "independent expenditure," "political activities," "public employee," "slate of candidates," and "testimonial affair"; amend KRS 336.990 to conform; amend KRS 67A.6904 to allow urban-county governments to make
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To State Government (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to civil rights. [HB-235]
Repeal and reenact KRS 344.010 to define terms; amend KRS 344.020, relating to the purpose of the Kentucky's civil rights chapter, to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.025, 344.040, 344.050, 344.060, 344.070, and 344.080, relating to prohibited discrimination in various labor and employment practices, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 210.033, 344.030, 344.100 and 344.110 to conform; amend KRS 344.120 and 342.140, relating to prohibited
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Judiciary (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to leave from employment. [HB-287]
Amend KRS 337.415, relating to court-ordered appearances by employees, to define terms; prohibit employers from discharging or retaliating against an employee who is a crime victim when the employee takes leave to attend proceedings associated with a crime; require an employee to give an employer reasonable notice to take leave when practicable; provide guidelines for use of paid leave; require the employer to maintain confidentiality of records and communication with employee crime victim; create a private right of action for improper discharge,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Rachel Roarx
To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (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 relating to employment. [HB-225]
Amend KRS 336.130 to delete references restricting rights of public employees to organize, associate collectively, or strike; amend KRS 336.180 to redefine "labor organization" and delete all other definitions; amend KRS 336.990 to conform; amend KRS 67A.6904 to allow urban-county governments to make an agreement with a labor organization to require membership in the organization as a condition of employment; amend KRS 67C.406 to allow consolidated local governments to make an agreement with a labor organization to require membership in the organization
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Withdrawn on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to wages for employment. [HB-289]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to make it a discriminatory employment action if an employer asks questions about previous salary or wages, relies on previous salary when setting a new salary, or refuses to hire if an applicant does not provide previous salary, except to allow a request for information voluntarily provided in response to an offer of employment; allow previous salary to be considered when required by law, for internal transfers, and for public employee positions; require notice to be posted for employees; amend KRS 337.990
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Sponsored by: Rep. Rachel Roarx
To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to labor standards. [HB-229]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require every employer to establish a workplace policy that provides employees the right to disconnect from communications from the employer during nonworking hours; amend KRS 337.990 to provide a penalty for violation of the lunch period requirements in KRS 337.355 and for violation by an employer of a right to disconnect workplace policy.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to minimum wage exceptions and declaring an emergency. [SB-15]
Amend KRS 337.010 to amend the definition of "employee" to exempt baseball players who are compensated pursuant to the terms of a contract and a collective bargaining agreement that expressly provides for wages and working conditions.
Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 22) on 03/17/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. [HB-166]
Amend KRS 342.315 to eliminate the requirement that physicians contracting with the commissioner of the Department of Workers' Claims to perform evaluations in occupational disease claims be "B" readers who are licensed in Kentucky and are board-certified pulmonary specialists; amend KRS 342.316 to allow the commissioner to select a physician or medical facility for referral in occupational disease claims and eliminate the requirement that such physicians be "B" readers who are licensed in Kentucky and are board-certified pulmonary specialists;
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to occupational disease claims. [HB-165]
Amend KRS 342.125 to remove the requirement that an affected employee previously diagnosed with occupational pneumoconiosis resulting from exposure to coal dust must have an additional two years of employment in the Commonwealth wherein the employee was continuously exposed to the hazards of the disease in order to reopen a claim.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance. [HB-107]
Amend KRS 341.370 to prohibit disqualification from benefits for workers unemployed as a result of domestic violence and abuse, dating violence and abuse, sexual assault, or stalking; create a new section of KRS Chapter 341 to direct the secretary of the Education and Labor Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; amend KRS 341.125 to require the secretary to provide training to personnel who process claims related to domestic or dating violence and abuse, sexual assault, or stalking and to report to the Legislative Research Commission
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to firefighters' work schedules. [HB-131]
Amend KRS 95.500 to allow, absent a collective bargaining agreement, specified fire personnel to have schedules consisting of 48 hours on duty followed by 96 hours of off duty time; specify that collective bargaining agreements maintained by a city or urban-county government may control work hours in lieu of the specified schedules.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Meredith
Signed By Governor (acts Ch.24) on 03/17/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to a living wage. [HB-129]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require any employer doing business in Kentucky that receives governmental incentives or subsidies to pay its employees a living wage.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (h) on 02/04/2025