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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Office of Safer Communities, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-515]
[Public Safety ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Community Development ]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 12 to establish the Office of Safer Communities within the Office of the Governor; amend KRS 12.020 and KRS 12.023 to conform; appropriate $3,000,000 in fiscal year 2025-2026 to fund the office; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/21/2025
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AN ACT relating to earned wage access services. [SB-161]
[Finance ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Data Privacy ]
Establish Subtitle 13 of KRS Chapter 286, the Kentucky Financial Services Code, and create new sections to regulate earned wage access services; define terms; establish exemptions from the subtitle; establish licensing requirements for certain earned wage access services providers; establish requirements for change of control of a licensee; provide circumstances under which the commissioner of the Department of Financial Institutions is authorized to take adverse action, enter emergency orders, deny a license, or take other regulatory actions; authorize
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jason G. Howell
To Banking & Insurance (s) on 02/19/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to law enforcement records. [HB-520]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Data Privacy ]
Amend KRS 61.878, relating to open records, to provide that law enforcement records shall be exempt from public inspection if the disclosure of the information could pose an articulable risk of harm to the law enforcement agency or its investigtion by revealing the identity of informants or witnesses not otherwise known.
Sponsored by: Rep. John C. Blanton
Became Law Without Governor's Signature (acts Ch. 97) on 03/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to affordable housing developed on property owned by religious institutions. [HB-514]
[Housing ]
[Community Development ]
[Real Estate ]
[Religion ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 100 to define terms; allow religious institutions to develop affordable housing with only a ministerial submission to review by a planning unit for compliance with the provisions of the section if the development is on land owned by a religious institution, exclusively contains affordable housing for a period of 10 years, and contains fewer than 25 units; require compliance with design standards of the planning unit with the option to obtain a variance; require continuing compliance with the section; allow for
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Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
To Local Government (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to government personnel policies and declaring an emergency. [SB-164]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Ethics ]
[Human Rights ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 61 to prohibit a state or local government or public agency from providing preferential treatment to individuals or entities on the basis of religion, race, sex, color, or national origin when they contract or seek employment with the state or local government; define terms; prohibit a state or local government from requiring or incentivizing a person to attend a diversity, equity, and inclusion training or provide any differential treatment or benefits to an individual based on the individual's participation in
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Sponsored by: Sen. Mike Wilson
To State & Local Government (s) on 02/18/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to healthcare services and declaring an emergency. [HB-495]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Rights ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 344 to define terms; prohibit discrimination against mental health care professionals, mental health care institutions, and ordained ministry for providing protected counseling services; prohibit discrimination against individuals for offering information, training, and referrals for protected counseling services; prohibit discrimination against parents and guardians who consent to their child receiving protected counseling services; prohibit reporting of a mental health care professional or mental health care
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 107) on 03/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to property exempt from taxation. [HB-503]
[Taxes ]
[Veterans ]
[Property Tax ]
[Military ]
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to exempt from state and local property taxes real property maintained as the permanent residence of an owner who is an active-duty member or honorably discharged veteran of the United States Armed Forces, the United States Reserve Forces, or the Kentucky National Guard; require the owner to file paperwork with the local assessor to receive the exemption; provide that the exemptions supersede contrary provisions of Sections 170, 171, 172, and 174 of the Constitution of Kentucky; apply
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Sponsored by: Rep. William Lee Lawrence
To Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to state employee health insurance. [SB-155]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Public Health ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Amend KRS 18A.225 to exclude from the definition of "employee" any employer pursuant to KRS 61.522 that ceases participation in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System by June 30, 2021, once they cease participation in the state employee health insurance plan they may not participate in the future; require minimal participation duration for all benefits administered by the Personnel Cabinet pursuant to KRS 18A.225 to 18A.2287; require health insurance coverage for state employees to provide minimum value that pays over 60 percent of the total cost
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Sponsored by: Sen. Michael Nemes
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 02/18/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prohibited uses of state tax dollars. [HB-492]
[Immigration ]
[Taxes ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[National Security ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 48 to define "illegal alien"; prohibit state tax dollars appropriated by the General Assembly from being used to compensate an illegal alien; direct the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security to assist in the implementation and enforcement of the Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for COVID-19 testing. [HB-540]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Insurance ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
Create new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for polymerase chain reaction testing used to detect the COVID-19 virus; amend KRS 164.2871, 18A.225, 205.522, and 205.6485 to require self-insured employer group plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution, the state employee health plan, Medicaid, and KCHIP to comply with the coverage requirement for polymerase chain reaction testing used to detect the COVID-19 virus; provide that various sections apply
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sarah Stalker
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for substance use disorder. [HB-539]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms; require certain health plans to provide coverage for comprehensive supervised substance use disorder treatment; amend KRS 304.17C-125, 18A.225, and 164.2871 to require limited health services benefit plans, the state employee health plan, and self-insured employer group plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution to comply with the coverage requirement; provide that Section 1 of the Act may be cited as Braxton's Law; provide that various
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Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prohibited uses of state tax dollars. [SB-151]
[Immigration ]
[Taxes ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[National Security ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 48 to define "illegal alien"; prohibit state tax dollars appropriated by the General Assembly from being used to compensate an illegal alien; direct the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security to assist in the implementation and enforcement of the Act.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert M. Mills
Received In House on 03/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to chronic pain treatments. [HB-506]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Insurance ]
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to establish that any health benefit plan that provides coverage for hospital, medical, or surgical expenses shall include coverage for chronic pain treatments provided by a licensed professional; amend KRS 205.522 to require Medicaid and Medicaid managed care organizations to include coverage for chronic pain treatments provided by a licensed professional; amend KRS 218A.172 to require that a health care practitioner discuss and refer or prescribe alternative chronic pain treatments before
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Sponsored by: Rep. Adam Moore
To Health Services (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to correctional facilities. [HB-5]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 15A, relating to juvenile detention facilities, to direct that all incarcerated youth are subject to search at any time and to require separate bathrooms and sleeping quarters for males and females; create new sections of KRS Chapter 197, relating to penitentiaries, to direct that all prisoners are subject to search at any time, require separate bathrooms and sleeping quarters for males and females, and to prohibit the Department of Corrections from providing cosmetic procedures or initiating cross-sex hormones
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Poore Moser
To Judiciary (h) on 02/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to local transient room taxes. [HB-490]
[Taxes ]
[Tourism ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Amend KRS 91A.390 to require a quarterly filing of local transient room taxes for a person that facilitates the rental of the accommodations by brokering, coordinating, or in any other way arranging for the rental; create new section of KRS Chapter 91A.345 to 91A.394 to require local governing bodies who assess various local transient room taxes to provide information to the Secretary of State regarding those taxes and require the Secretary of State to develop a standard return, methods for electronic filing and payment, and publish contact information
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Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Flannery
Taken From Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/28/2025
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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]
[Environmental ]
[Air Quality ]
[Water ]
[Public Lands and National Parks ]
[Climate Change ]
[Public Health ]
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 workers' compensation for educators. [HB-467]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Education ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 342, relating to workers' compensation, to define "educator;" set out when psychological injuries are valid workers' compensation claims for educators when no physical injury exists; amend KRS 342.0011 to modify definition of "injury" to include certain psychological injuries experienced by educators.
Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (h) on 02/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to motor vehicle racing. [HB-465]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Amend KRS 189.993 to establish enhanced penalties for a violation of KRS 189.505, including increased fines, vehicle impoudment for up to six months for the first offense, and vehicle forfeiture for the second or subsequent offense.
Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
Taken From Judiciary (s) on 03/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to assault in the third degree. [HB-446]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Amend KRS 508.025 to expand assault in the third degree to include causing or attempting to cause physical injury to a justice or judge of the Court of Justice.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Grossberg
Received In Senate on 03/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to confiscated firearms. [SB-144]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Amend KRS 16.220, relating to firearms confiscated by law enforcement, to provide that firearms which were used in a homicide be destroyed; provide that firearms in the possession of the Department of Kentucky State Police may be destroyed if they have been defaced, are contaminated by hazardous material, unsafe to discharge, or upon request of an innocent owner; amend KRS 500.090, relating to forfeiture of property in criminal cases, to require local law enforcement agencies to destroy firearms that have been used in a homicide; require that all
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Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald A. Neal
Received In House on 03/06/2025