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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 32 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to terms of members of the General Assembly. [SB-146]
[Elections ]
Propose to amend Section 32 of the Constitution of Kentucky to prevent members of the Senate from serving more than four terms of office, not including partial terms of two years or less, and to prevent members of the House of Representatives from serving more than eight terms of office, not including partial terms of two years or less, beginning with those elected in November 2028; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To State & Local Government (s) on 02/14/2025
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AN ACT relating to driving under the influence. [HB-456]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Crime ]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Amend KRS 189A.010 to provide that operating a motor vehicle while the person's operator's license is suspended for a previous violation of driving under the influence or KRS 189A.090 is an aggravating circumstance; expand the list of controlled substances; amend KRS 189A.070 to extend the period of license suspension for a person who is issued an ignition interlock license for a first offense from four months to six months; require each person who is issued an ignition interlock license to comply with the consecutive day requirements in KRS 189A.340
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Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Flannery
Received In Senate on 03/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the correction of marriage documents. [HB-462]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Crime ]
[Funding ]
[Human Services ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 402 to allow a county clerk to correct a marriage application or marriage license upon receipt of an affidavit executed by both parties to the marriage; provide examples of errors and omissions that a clerk may correct upon receipt of the affidavit; allow persons to obtain a corrected marriage license by court order if they choose; make a person who intentionally submits a material false statement subject to the penalties in KRS 523.030; amend KRS 209A.045 to permit any funds collected from amending marriage licenses
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Sponsored by: Rep. Stephanie A. Dietz
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 135) on 03/31/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to insurance coverage of roofing materials. [SB-123]
[Insurance ]
[Housing ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Create a new section of Subtitle 12 of KRS Chapter 304 to require insurers to replace the roofing materials on the entire roof when uniformity of appearance cannot be achieved due to the age, condition, or discontinued manufacture of the existing roofing materials; prohibit the application of line of sight rules to exclude coverage for the replacement of roofing materials for any portion of the roof; provide that the Act applies to insurance policies, certificates, and contracts issued or renewed on or after the effective date of the Act.
Sponsored by: Sen. Julie Adams
To Banking & Insurance (s) on 02/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to retiree health provisions of the County Employees Retirement System. [SB-10]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Pensions ]
[Retirement ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Insurance ]
Amend KRS 78.5536, relating to the County Employees Retirement System, to increase the nonhazardous and hazardous duty under age 65 retiree health subsidy to $40 and $50 per month for each year of service, respectively, for those members who meet the "career threshold" who began participating in the system on or after July 1, 2003, and who are eligible for a fixed-dollar retiree health subsidy not tied to the premium; extend the employee contribution used to fund retiree health benefits to include members who began participating in the system on
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Sponsored by: Sen. Robert M. Mills
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 37) on 03/19/2025
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AN ACT relating to prior authorization. [HB-423]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
Create new sections of KRS 304.17A-600 to 304.17A-633 to define terms; prohibit insurers of health benefit plans from requiring prior authorization for a health care service for which the provider has an exemption; require insurers of health benefit plans to establish a program under which participating providers may qualify for exemptions from prior authorization; establish mandatory and permitted provisions of an insurer's prior authorization exemption program; establish requirements for sending forms and notices; require the commissioner of the
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Poore Moser
Passed Over And Retained In The Orders Of The Day on 03/28/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to property. [SB-129]
[Property Tax ]
[Taxes ]
[Real Estate ]
Amend KRS 99.727 to define "diverted tax delinquency purchaser" and "third-party purchaser"; require a certificate of delinquency related to property remaining in a tax delinquency diversion program at the expiration of the program's five year period to be made available for purchase by third-party purchasers; allow diverted tax delinquency purchasers to purchase certificates of delinquency related to property included in a tax delinquency diversion program during the program's five year period; set requirements for the county attorney related to
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Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald A. Neal
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 56) on 03/24/2025
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AN ACT relating to animal care. [SB-124]
[Animals ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 525 to define terms; require peace officers and animal control officers to serve notice of seizure of an animal subjected to cruelty; create procedure for seizing agencies to petition a court to order owner to pay cost of care for a seized animal; establish penalties; amend KRS 258.215 to require owners to be responsible for cost of care of an impounded animal; repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 258.117 to reduce the number of board appointees from each nominating organization from two to one; add one member to be
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Sponsored by: Sen. Julie Adams
To State & Local Government (s) on 02/13/2025
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AN ACT relating to the recruitment and retention of health care professionals and declaring an emergency. [SB-132]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Health ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 344 to ensure federal law relating to emergency medical treatment and the collection of evidence is not overridden; define terms; prohibit discrimination against health care professionals who decline to perform procedures that violate their conscience; grant health care professionals the right not to participate in services that violate their conscience; exempt health care professionals from liability for exercising these rights; prohibit hiring or licensing authorities from reprimanding health care professionals;
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Sponsored by: Sen. Donald Douglas
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/13/2025
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AN ACT relating to perinatal palliative care. [HB-414]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Insurance ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to require all hospitals offering obstetric services and alternative birthing centers to provide or make referrals for perinatal palliative care; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for perinatal palliative care; amend KRS 164.2871, 205.522, 205.6485, and 18A.225 to require self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary institution to its employees, Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health
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Sponsored by: Rep. Walker Wood Thomas
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to emergency medical services. [HB-406]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Amend KRS 311A.155 to add training and education to uses of grant funds; change grant fund amounts that may be awarded; delete discretion for a county to hold unspent funds for two years; require all grants to be used during the fiscal year for authorized purposes; amend KRS 311A.055 to delete transfer of complaints regarding ambulance services to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; repeal KRS 216B.106 relating to ambulance service investigations and hearings.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Fleming
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (h) on 02/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prohibiting the possession and transfer of assault weapons and large capacity ammunition feeding devices. [HB-410]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Amend KRS 527.010 to define "assault weapon" and "large capacity ammunition feeding device"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 527 to criminalize possession and transfer of large capacity ammunition feeding devices; criminalize the possession and transfer of assault weapons; provide exceptions for large capacity ammunition feeding devices and assault weapons lawfully owned prior to the effective date of this Act; amend KRS 237.104 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Grossberg
To Judiciary (h) on 02/12/2025
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AN ACT relating to prescription drugs. [HB-413]
[Healthcare ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Insurance ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Amend KRS 304.17A-164 to establish cost-sharing requirements for prescription drugs; require rebates to be passed through; establish confidentiality requirements for the rebate information; create a new section of KRS 365.880 to 365.900 to provide that the actual amount of rebates received is a trade secret; provide that compliance with prescription drug cost-sharing and rebate requirements shall not be in violation of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act; amend KRS 304.17C-125, 304.38A-115, 18A.225, and 164.2871 to apply the cost-sharing and rebate requirements
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Poore Moser
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/12/2025
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AN ACT relating to coverage for rapid whole genome sequencing. [HB-401]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Public Health ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 18A to define "rapid whole genome sequencing"; require any health plan offered to public employees provide coverage and reimbursement for rapid whole genome sequencing; establish conditions for coverage.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rebecca Raymer
To Health Services (h) on 02/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments. [SB-118]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 533 to define terms; require the court, upon conviction of the defendant, to consider the defendant's status as a primary caretaker of a dependent child unless the defendant is a violent offender, the victim is a child, or a statute prohibits an alternative sentence; require the court, upon a finding that the defendant is a primary caretaker of a dependent child, to consider an alternative sentence; provide that the defendant shall have the right to present an alternative sentencing plan and a family impact statement
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Sponsored by: Sen. Julie Adams
To Judiciary (s) on 02/12/2025
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AN ACT relating to waiting periods for sales of firearms. [HB-409]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to require a waiting period of five business days between the sale and transfer of a firearm; amend KRS 237.990 to establish a penalty for a violation.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Grossberg
To Judiciary (h) on 02/12/2025
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AN ACT relating to interference with a legislative proceeding. [HB-399]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 519 to define terms; create the crime of interference with a legislative proceeding in the first degree; create the crime of interference with a legislative proceeding in the second degree; amend KRS 431.015 to require a peace officer to make an arrest for a violation of interference with a legislative proceeding in the first or second degree.
Sponsored by: Rep. John C. Blanton
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 123) on 03/28/2025
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AN ACT relating to short-term rentals. [SB-110]
[Real Estate ]
[Housing ]
[Community Development ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 100 to prohibit a local government from requiring the operator of a short-term rental to obtain a conditional use permit or imposing density-based restrictions on short-term rentals.
Sponsored by: Sen. Steve West
To Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (s) on 02/11/2025
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AN ACT relating to motor vehicle insurance. [HB-390]
[Insurance ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Amend KRS 186A.040 to define terms; require the Department of Vehicle Regulation to establish an accessible online insurance verification system; establish requirements and timelines for making the system accessible and promulgating administrative regulations; establish requirements and guidelines for the department and the system; establish requirements for insurers to cooperate with the department and to submit insurance information relating to personal motor vehicles; provide option for insurers to submit insurance status information for commercial
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Lee Meredith
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 39) on 03/19/2025
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AN ACT relating to sex-based classifications. [SB-116]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Human Rights ]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 61 to define "boy," "equal," "female," "girl," "male," "man," "sex," and "woman"; prohibit any state or local law, regulation, ordinance, or policy from treating males or females unfairly from similiarly situated members of the opposite sex, but permit separation of the sexes if in the interest of maintaining safety, privacy, and fairness; provide a non-exhaustive list of examples of areas in which public entities may distinguish between the sexes; require any public school, public school district, state agency,
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Sponsored by: Sen. Robert M. Mills
To Education (s) on 02/11/2025