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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school bus stops. [HB-258]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to define "bus stop camera system," "school bus stop," and "qualifying school district"; require the installation of video cameras at each school bus stop in a qualifying school district; require the unit of government responsible for maintaining the road where the bus stop is located to install the cameras and retain the video images; specify the allowable uses of the video images and provide for retention timeframes; require school districts to notify the Transpiration Cabinet and all local governments that
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Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
To Transportation (h) on 02/07/2025
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AN ACT relating to the forensic processing of firearms. [SB-95]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to require law enforcement agencies to transmit information to national law enforcement databases about firearms collected during criminal investigations.
Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Berg
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (s) on 02/06/2025
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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 and food ingredients, prescription drugs, and residential utilities. [HB-267]
[Taxes ]
[Food ]
[Healthcare ]
[Energy ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Public Health ]
[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 and food ingredients, prescription drugs, and residential utilities; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
Withdrawn on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for emergency ground ambulance services. [HB-245]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Health ]
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require coverage for emergency ground ambulance services; establish minimum allowable reimbursement for out-of-network emergency ground ambulance services; establish requirements for reimbursement of out-of-network ground ambulance providers; prohibit balance billing by out-of-network ground ambulance providers; establish construction clause in the event of conflicts; amend KRS 304.17A-099 to exempt emergency ground ambulance coverage and payment requirements from the cost defrayal payment
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Fleming
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the collection of local business taxes and fees. [HB-253]
[Taxes ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Small Business ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Economic Development ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 41 to define "occupational license fee" and "system"; require the Office of the State Treasurer to develop and maintain a web-based system for the centralized reporting, collection, and distribution of occupational license fees; establish requirements for the system; allow the State Treasurer to assess a fee on businesses using the system; establish requirements related to the web-based system for the State Treasurer and local taxing jurisdictions; create a working group to be chaired by the State Treasurer; require
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Sponsored by: Rep. Randall Bridges
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to interest on medical debt. [HB-288]
[Healthcare ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Health ]
[Finance ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 360 to establish a maximum interest rate of three percent on medical debt; amend KRS 360.020 to expand the civil penalty for excessive interest on medical debt; amend KRS 360.040 to establish a maximum interest rate of three percent on judgments rendered in an action to collect medical debt; make technical amendments; amend KRS 216B.250 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rachel Roarx
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to animal control officers. [HB-194]
[Animals ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
Create a new section of KRS 258.095 to 258.500 to require animal control officers to receive training on recognizing child abuse; amend KRS 620.030 to add animal control officers to the list of people with a duty to report dependency, neglect, or abuse of a child; provide that the Act may be cited as Kyan's Law.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rachel Roarx
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/05/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to theft by failure to make required disposition of property. [HB-201]
[Crime ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Amend KRS 514.060, relating to theft of services, to include the conduct of a person holding the property of another under a rental agreement longer than the period agreed upon and depriving the owner of its use for future rentals.
Sponsored by: Rep. Steven Jack Rudy
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 18) on 03/15/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage of annual mental health wellness examinations. [SB-74]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms; require certain health insurance policies to provide coverage for an annual mental health wellness examination; require the coverage to be no less extensive than coverage for medical and surgical benefits, comply with the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008, and not to be subject to any cost-sharing requirements; 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
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Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sexual extortion. [SB-73]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 531 to establish the crime of sexual extortion as a felony; provide for enhancements to penalties; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a civil cause of action for sexual extortion; amend KRS 17.500 to include sexual extortion in the definition of "sex crime"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require superintendents of local school districts to notify students in grades four and above and parents and guardians of all students of the crime of sexual extortion; create a new section of KRS
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Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald A. Neal
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 9) on 03/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to dental benefit plans. [HB-210]
[Insurance ]
[Healthcare ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Create a new section of KRS 304.17C-130 to 304.17C-138 to establish requirements for insurers of dental benefit plans relating to assignment of benefits; require providers to comply with assignment provisions; amend KRS 304.14-250, 304.17-130, and 304.18-090 to conform; direct that provisions apply to policies, plans, and contracts issued or renewed on or after the effective date of the Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. Steve Riley
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 147) on 04/01/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to concealed deadly weapons. [HB-204]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Crime ]
Repeal KRS 237.115, which interprets the application of the license to carry concealed deadly weapon statute as permitting postsecondary facilities, local governments, and units of state government to limit concealed carry in governmental buildings; amend KRS 150.172, 237.110, and 527.020 to conform; amend KRS 237.110 to no longer prohibit the carrying of concealed deadly weapons in schools and specify that the prohibition of carrying concealed deadly weapons in airports is limited to areas controlled by the Transportation Security Administration;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to cigar bars. [HB-211]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
[Public Health ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Small Business ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define terms; provide that local government restrictions on smoking shall not apply to cigar bars; require cigar bars to provide certain smoke-free spaces.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Lee Meredith
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/06/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sanctuary policies. [HB-213]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Immigration ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to define terms; prohibit local governments and local government personnel from enacting, adopting, or otherwise enforcing any sanctuary policy; allow civil actions against local governments or local law enforcement agencies for damages, costs, and attorney's fees if a person subject to a detainer is released from custody as a result of a sanctuary policy of the local government or local law enforcement agency and commits a violent crime; withdraw immunities afforded local governments and local law enforcement
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Sponsored by: Rep. Thomas Huff
To Local Government (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school board elections. [HB-169]
[Education ]
[Elections ]
Amend KRS 160.200 to require the offices of boards of education to have a partisan primary or partisan election; amend KRS 160.210 to require school board candidates to have emblems of political party affiliation presented on the ballot; amend various KRS sections to conform; and repeal KRS 160.250 and 160.260, relating to election of local board of education members.
Sponsored by: Rep. John F. Hodgson
Floor Amendments (1) And (2-title) Filed on 02/28/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to gender transition services. [HB-154]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Insurance ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to define terms;prohibit health care providers from accepting payment or reimbursement for gender transition services from a state or local government or Medicare, except when specific conditions exist; require licensing or certifying agencies to revoke a health care provider's license for a violation; create new sections of KRS Chapter 205 and Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304, and amend KRS 18A.225, 164.2871, and 304.17C-125 to require Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program (KCHIP), state
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Sponsored by: Rep. Thomas Huff
To Health Services (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to government services. [HB-182]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to define "state or local government"; prohibit a state or local government from using the word "free" in a description of a benefit, product, or service financed with public funds.
Sponsored by: Rep. Deanna L. Frazier Gordon
Floor Amendment (2) Filed on 03/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to rental properties. [HB-173]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Property Tax ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 preempting local governments from adopting or enforcing ordinances that create a registry of rental properties for enumerated reasons.
Sponsored by: Rep. Derek Lewis
To Local Government (h) on 02/04/2025
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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-158]
[Taxes ]
[Real Estate ]
[Property Tax ]
[Veterans ]
[Disabilities ]
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to exempt from taxation a portion of the assessed value of real property maintained as the permanent residence of an owner who is a veteran or first responder; require an owner's disability status to meet the same disability requirements under Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky; allow real property maintained as the permanent residence of the surviving spouse of a veteran or first responder to receive an exemption based on the qualifiers of the veteran or first responder prior
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Sponsored by: Rep. Richard White
To Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to key infrastructure assets and declaring an emergency. [SB-64]
[Telecommunications ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Public Safety ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Crime ]
Amend KRS 511.100 to include cable, telephone, and broadband facilities; amend KRS 512.020 to include damaging or taking possession of a key infrastructure asset.
Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald A. Neal
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 42) on 03/19/2025