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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to oversight of government operations and declaring an emergency. [SB-25]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Economic Development ]
Amend KRS 103.200 to include multifamily housing developments of 48 units or more in the definition of "building" for sections related to industrial revenue bonds; and amend KRS 100.347 to limit who can appeal a final action concerning planning and zoning to owners of real property contiguous to a property whose status would be changed as a result of the final action.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert M. Mills
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 117) on 03/28/2025
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AN ACT relating to a property tax homestead exemption for disabled veterans. [HB-639]
[Property Tax ]
[Veterans ]
[Housing ]
[Taxes ]
[Real Estate ]
[Disabilities ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 132, relating to state and local property taxes, to establish a new homestead exemption for veterans with a service-connected disability; establish requirements for the exemption; allow the permanent residence of a veteran's surviving spouse to continue to receive the exemption; require the Department of Revenue to prescribe forms and an application process for the exemption; apply the exemption to state, county, city, and special district taxes; allow mobile homes, manufactured houses, recreational homes, and
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Sponsored by: Rep. Emily Callaway
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to property tax rates for emergency services. [HB-604]
[Property Tax ]
[Taxes ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Healthcare ]
Amend KRS 75.040 to increase the maximum property tax rate that can be levied by a fire protection district or a volunteer fire department district; limit any increase in the total tax levy beyond the initially approved levy to two cents per $100 of assessed valuation a year; require a public hearing and notification to the public for rate levy; exempt the rates from the provisions of KRS 132.023; amend KRS 75A.050 to increase the maximum property tax rate that can be levied by a district that provides fire services, emergency medical services,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Hart
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to group health insurance. [HB-644]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Taxes ]
Amend KRS 91A.080 to exempt group health insurance premiums from local government license fee or tax upon insurance companies.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Pollock
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to minimum wage for essential workers. [HB-593]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Amend KRS 337.010 to define "essential employee"; amend KRS 337.275 to set a minimum wage for essential employees.
Sponsored by: Rep. Adrielle Camuel
To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to real property. [HB-612]
[Real Estate ]
[Property Tax ]
[Taxes ]
Amend KRS 132.010 and 136.010 to include certain types of mains, pipes, pipelines, and conduits in the definition of "real property" for taxation purposes; disallow claims for refunds or credits of tax overpayments from amended returns, tax refund applications or any other method related to the provisions of this legislation; apply to property assessed on or after December 31, 2022; RETROACTIVE.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Banta
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to pregnant inmates. [SB-226]
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[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 196.173 to allow an inmate who is known to be pregnant or who has given birth in the last six weeks access to reasonable accommodations for the provision of available certified professional midwifery services or doula services.
Sponsored by: Sen. Keturah Herron
To Judiciary (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to campaign finance. [SB-206]
[Elections ]
[Finance ]
[Voting Rights ]
Amend KRS 121.015, relating to campaign finance, to define terms; create new sections of KRS Chapter 121 to establish reporting and record retention requirements for political issues committees and persons making independent expenditures; prohibit political issues committees from knowingly and willfully soliciting or accepting contributions from prohibited sources; establish certification requirements for treasurers of political issues committees and donors making contributions and independent expenditures; define activity that creates a presumption
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Sponsored by: Sen. Steve Rawlings
To State & Local Government (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders screenings. [HB-627]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Insurance ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to allow perinatal mood and anxiety disorders screenings to be claimed as a service for the child as part of the early and periodic, diagnostic and treatment benefit; amend KRS 205.6497 to require the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program to cover perinatal mood and anxiety disorders screenings; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require a health plan to cover perinatal mood and anxiety disorders screenings as part of a well-child or well-baby visit; to suspend the coverage requirement
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Sponsored by: Rep. Chad Aull
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to wages. [HB-599]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Disabilities ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
Amend KRS 337.010 to remove specified individuals from the definition of "employee" and to define "worker with a disability"; amend KRS 337.275 to require all employers to pay all employees, including workers with a disability, a minimum wage and increase the state minimum wage over the next three years to no less than 100 percent of the municipality, county, or state minimum wage or the prevailing wage as defined in 29 C.F.R. sec. 1.2; amend KRS 337.295 to remove learners, apprentices, workers with a disability, sheltered workshop employees, and
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Sponsored by: Rep. Adrielle Camuel
To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to elections. [SB-233]
[Elections ]
[Voting Rights ]
Amend KRS 117.020 to allow the State Board of Elections to declare a county a preclearance county if there is a repeated administration of elections in a manner that jeopardizes the free and equal exercise of the franchise; amend KRS 117.022 to require an election manager receive a paid salary; clarify that an election manager shall not be incompatible with any other elected office or employment within the Commonwealth; amend KRS 117.155 to require the county clerk to verify that e-poll books received all data reflecting a registered voter's voting
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Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To State & Local Government (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to grand jury service. [HB-623]
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[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 29A to provide that a person present at any part of a grand jury proceeding shall not knowingly record the proceeding or disclose any information they gather while present during a proceeding; amend KRS 29A.990 to establish the penalty for knowingly recording or disclosing information gathered at a grand jury proceeding as a Class A misdemeanor unless the defendant is a public servant as defined in KRS 519.010, in which case it is a Class D felony; amend KRS 500.050 to provide that a misdemeanor violation of knowingly
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Sponsored by: Rep. Candy D. Massaroni
To Judiciary (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to parentage fraud. [SB-239]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 530 to establish the crime of parentage fraud as a Class B misdemeanor.
Sponsored by: Sen. Donald Douglas
To Judiciary (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public safety. [SB-237]
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[Law Enforcement ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
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 another state and who meets certain criteria, shall not be required to pass a physical agility test; make technical corrections.
Sponsored by: Sen. Danny Carroll
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 53) on 03/24/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to mental health coverage in connection with pregnancy. [HB-633]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Insurance ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms; require health benefit plans to provide coverage for counseling interventions for pregnant and postpartum persons at increased risk of perinatal depression, including persons who have suffered a miscarriage or stillbirth; suspend the coverage requirement's application to qualified health plans if the state would be required to make cost defrayal payments; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485, 18A.225, and 164.2871 to require Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Chad Aull
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to alcohol and drug counselors. [SB-261]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
[Crime ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
Amend KRS 532.045, relating to defendants prohibited from probation, to include alcohol and drug counselors licensed or certified under KRS Chapter 309 in the definition of "position of authority."
Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald A. Neal
Withdrawn on 03/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to voting rights. [SB-225]
[Voting Rights ]
[Elections ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
Propose to amend Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky to automatically restore the voting rights of persons convicted of certain felonies upon completion of their imprisonment, probation, or parole and automatically restore their civil rights five years after completion of their imprisonment, probation, or parole; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
Sponsored by: Sen. Keturah Herron
To State & Local Government (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to election districts and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-628]
[Elections ]
[Voting Rights ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Ethics ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 5 to establish the Advisory Redistricting Commission, which shall be composed of members appointed by the General Assembly and members of the public at large; define terms; establish commissioner pay, conditions, powers, and duties; provide that commissioners' terms correlate with obligations of each census cycle; establish the conditions, powers, and duties of the commission; require the commission to draft redistricting plans for legislative and congressional districts, with parameters prescribed; establish standards
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Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Donworth
To Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to reporting by local governments. [SB-218]
[Taxes ]
[Libraries ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 132 to define terms; require the Department of Revenue to ensure that taxpayers can access financial information regarding local taxing authorities, and to put that information on its website; specify the information that should be included for each type of local taxing authority; create a new section of KRS Chapter 65.900 to 65.925 to require a local government to publish its uniform financial information report on a website or to forward the report to its local county library, requiring a local government to
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Sponsored by: Sen. Amanda Mays Bledsoe
3rd Reading, Passed 37-0 on 03/06/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to insurance disclosures to dog bite and dog attack victims. [SB-232]
[Insurance ]
[Animals ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 258 to require insurance disclosures by dog owners, other persons, and insurers to persons alleging entitlement to damages resulting from a dog bite or dog attack; establish procedures for requesting additional information and amending disclosures; provide that disclosures shall not be construed as a waiver of certain rights or acceptance of liability; create a new section of Subtitle 12 of KRS Chapter 304 to require insurers and other persons subject to regulation under the Insurance Code to comply with insurance
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Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To Banking & Insurance (s) on 02/20/2025