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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to reproductive health services. [HB-793]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Public Health ]
[Insurance ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to define terms; provide rights related to access to contraception; create private right of action; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for contraception; amend KRS 304.17A-099 to exclude contraception from cost defrayal requirements; require health benefit plans to provide coverage for long-acting reversible contraception administered during a postpartum hospital stay; amend KRS 164.2871, 205.522, 205.6485, and 18A.225 to require self-insured
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sarah Stalker
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/27/2025
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AN ACT relating to coverage for the care of children. [HB-691]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Health ]
[Insurance ]
Amend KRS 304.17A-258 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for certain formulas; to suspend the the coverage requirement for certain formulas as applied to qualified health plans if cost defrayment required by the state; amend KRS 304.17A-145 to require coverage for breastfeeding and lactation services without a prescription and in conjunction with the birth of each child; amend KRS 205.522 to require Medicaid to comply with the coverage requirements for formulas and breastfeeding support and equipment; amend KRS 205.560 to conform;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Pamela Stevenson
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to prohibited criminal acts. [HB-753]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Safety ]
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to prohibit child pornography and any form of federally defined racketeering in this state and establish penalties for violations; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
Sponsored by: Rep. T.J. Roberts
To Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to motorboats. [HB-696]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Taxes ]
[Tourism ]
[Recreation ]
[Water ]
[Property Tax ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 132 to exempt federally documented vessels from property taxation; create new sections of KRS Chapter 235 to establish the waterway usage fee and the distribution of revenue generated from the fee; establish the waterway usage fund; create a new section of KRS Chapter 148 to establish the Kentucky lakes and rivers tourism fund; require grants of money from the fund to go to marinas qualifying through an application process; amend KRS 235.990 to establish a penalty for nonpayment of the waterway usage fee; amend
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Upchurch
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/27/2025
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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, food ingredients, prescription drugs, and residential and on-farm utilities. [HB-729]
[Taxes ]
[Food ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Property Tax ]
[Healthcare ]
[Energy ]
[Agriculture ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to exempt from state and local excise, sales, and use taxes food, food ingredients, prescription drugs, residential utilities, and on-farm utilities; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
Sponsored by: Rep. Adrielle Camuel
To Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to limits on government spending and taxation. [HB-756]
[Taxes ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Property Tax ]
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to create spending limits and restrictions on imposing new taxes, tax rate increases, fees, or extension of expiring taxes.
Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
To Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to benefits for Kentucky National Guard members. [HB-776]
[Military ]
[Taxes ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Education ]
[Veterans ]
Amend KRS 38.030 to entitle Kentucky National Guard members to receive hazardous duty incentive pay when called to service under Title 32 when an emergency is declared; amend KRS 138.470 to exempt active members of the Armed Forces assigned to Kentucky who are on temporary duty in other locations and current members of the Kentucky National Guard from motor vehicle usage tax on vehicles purchased from Kentucky motor vehicle dealers; amend KRS 164.5161 to allow current National Guard members and their dependents up to 120 total credit hours at a
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Sponsored by: Rep. Chad Aull
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to employment. [HB-692]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to define terms and make the termination of employment without cause unlawful; establish amount that may be recovered for wrongful discharge; specify when the employers' internal procedures are to be used.
Sponsored by: Rep. Pamela Stevenson
To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to employment. [HB-801]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Elections ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to prohibit all employers of 75 or more employees from demoting, dismissing, disciplining, or discriminating against an employee who misses work because of duties related to being a candidate, candidate-elect, or member of the General Assembly or legislative body of a local government; require an employer grant a leave of absence if the employee requests it, not to exceed three terms for a member of the House of Representatives, two terms for a member of the Senate or a member of a legislative body of a local
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Sponsored by: Rep. Alan Gentry
To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to recreation and tourism development. [HB-808]
[Tourism ]
[Recreation ]
[Economic Development ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 148 to terms; establish the Dream Big Burnside Development Authority to establish, maintain, and promote a recreational and resort park system surrounding General Burnside Lake; establish board membership and executive director requirements of the authority; establish the duties and purposes of the authority; require that bond debt service be payable solely from the revenue of the bonds; provide that a landowner that has a contractual agreement with the authority for use of private land as part of a recreational
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Meade
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to temporary motor vehicle tags. [HB-783]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
Amend KRS 186A.100, 186A.105, and 186A.110 to amend the processes for motor vehicle dealers' applications for and use of temporary tags for motor vehicles sold by the dealer; allow county clerks to keep logs of temporary tags in electronic format; enumerate prohibited activities on the part of a dealer in relation to the application and issuance of temporary tags; amend KRS 186A.990 to set the penalty for theft, fraudulent production or copying, or improper use of a temporary tag at a Class D felony; subject motor vehicle dealers, salespersons,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Meredith
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 70) on 03/24/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the fraudulent sale or lease of real property. [HB-747]
[Real Estate ]
[Crime ]
[Housing ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 514 to establish the offense of fraudulent sale or lease of real property.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Meade
To Judiciary (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT proposing to amend Section 172B of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to property exempt from taxation. [HB-797]
[Property Tax ]
[Taxes ]
Propose to amend Section 172B of the Constitution of Kentucky to expand the freeze on an assessment or reassessment moratorium to include the development of property and to remove the five-year expiration date for the moratorium; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jared Bauman
To Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to keeping chickens on residential property. [HB-806]
[Agriculture ]
[Animals ]
[Housing ]
[Public Health ]
[Community Development ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define "backyard chicken"; allow a person to keep six or fewer backyard chickens on residential property in cities; establish requirements.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Banta
To Local Government (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to relating to motor vehicle licensing and registration procedures. [HB-761]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Veterans ]
[Military ]
Amend KRS 186.020 to allow members of the National Guard or Reserves that are stationed or assigned to a base or location outside the boundaries of the United States, to renew their registration within 30 days of his or her return; allow an individual serving in the United States Armed Forces, the National Guard, or Reserves to renew their motor vehicle registration up to 280 days prior to its expiration if the person will be outside the boundaries of the Commonwealth when the current motor vehicle registration expires; require the applicant to
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Sponsored by: Rep. Chris Fugate
To Transportation (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public health and safety. [HB-745]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Insurance ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
Amend KRS 214.450 to define "autologous donation" and "directed donation"; amend KRS 214.452 to require blood establishments to test for spike proteins, antibodies to the nucleocapsid protein on the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and synthetic mRNA; provide that a person shall not be compelled to donate blood; require blood establishments to inform donors of the potential uses for donations; require blood to be sold to hospitals before any other entity; prohibit blood from sale for pharmaceutical production if there is a hospital blood shortage; amend KRS 214.454
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josh Calloway
To Health Services (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the reporting of fines and fees. [HB-774]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 431 to define terms; require governmental entities to submit specified data to the Office of the Kentucky Center for Statistics regarding fines and fees assessed; require the Office of the Kentucky Center for Statistics to make disaggregated data available on its website; publish an annual report and submit the report to the Legislative Research Commission, the director of the Administrative Office of the Courts, and the Governor by November 30 of each year beginning November 30, 2026; amend KRS 151B.133 to establish
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Judiciary (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the environmental remediation fee. [HB-698]
[Environmental ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Taxes ]
Amend KRS 224.43-500 to define "residual waste facility"; increase the environmental remediation fee from $1.75 to $2; require that the fee collected from residual waste facilities be returned to the county where the facility is located; amend KRS 224.43-505 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rebecca Raymer
To Natural Resources & Energy (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sex offender registration. [HB-716]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 17.500 to include various forms of identification in the definition of "registrant information"; amend KRS 17.510 to reduce the amount of time allowed for a registrant to notify probation and parole of a registrant's change of address from five days to three days; require a registrant to report to probation and parole in-person on a semiannual or quarterly basis; requires the Commonwealth to recognize offenses committed by a person in the District of Columbia or on land recognized as belonging to an Indian tribe; amend KRS 17.520 to include
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Sponsored by: Rep. Stephanie Dietz
To Judiciary (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the compensation of coroners and deputy corners. [HB-712]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Inflation ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Amend KRS 64.185 to establish a salary schedule for coroners and increase the minimum compensation for deputy coroners; require the Department for Local Government to certify the population group within the salary schedule and the years of service for each coroner assuming office; provide for adjustments to compensation for part-time employment and the consumer price index; allow additional compensation for training courses completed; require an annual cost of living adjustment to be granted to each deputy coroner's salary; require the fiscal court
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Hale
To Local Government (h) on 02/20/2025