Occupations And Professions
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 the Interstate Dental and Dental Hygiene Licensure Compact. [HB-762]
[Healthcare ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 313 to adopt the Interstate Dental and Dental Hygiene Licensure Compact; declare the intent and purpose of the compact; define terms; establish conditions under which an individual can practice in a remote state; authorize a home state to impose adverse action against an individual's license issued by the home state; authorize a member state's licensing authority to issue subpoenas for hearings and investigations as well as cease and desist orders to restrict, suspend, or revoke an individual's privilege to practice
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Sponsored by: Rep. Chris Freeland
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to employment discrimination. [HB-656]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Human Rights ]
Amend KRS 344.040, 344.050, 344.060, 344.070, 344.080, 344.100, and 344.110 to add protections against discrimination based on weight.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to marriage and family therapists. [SB-221]
[Healthcare ]
Amend KRS 335.320 to require the board to enter into reciprocal agreements with boards of marriage and family therapy in other states; amend KRS 335.325 to remove permissive language relating to reciprocal agreements with other states.
Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Berg
To Licensing & Occupations (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to licensed occupations. [HB-617]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Amend KRS 312.165 to make technical corrections.
Sponsored by: Rep. Matthew Koch
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to licensed and certified professions. [HB-689]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 335B to create the offense of holding oneself out to be a member of a licensed or certified profession and set a penalty.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Grossberg
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to radon safety. [SB-223]
[Public Health ]
[Environmental ]
Amend KRS 309.432 to direct nine members to be appointed to the board; require two members to represent a public health organization; require one member to be a citizen at large that is not associated with or financially interested in the practice of radon measurement, mitigation, or laboratory analysis; amend KRS 309.434 to direct the board to promote the safety of radon measurement, mitigation, and laboratory analysis professionals in the Commonwealth.
Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Berg
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to mobile services. [SB-265]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Small Business ]
[Public Health ]
Amend KRS 317.410 to define "mobile barber shop"; amend KRS 317.420 to restrict a person from operating a mobile barber shop without being licensed by the Kentucky Board of Barbering; amend KRS 317.430 to authorize the board to govern mobile barber shops; amend KRS 317.440 to direct the board to promulgate administrative regulations governing the location and housing of mobile barber shops, requirements regarding its operation, and inspection criteria for mobile barber shops; direct the board to establish on its website a system that allows licensees
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Sponsored by: Sen. Reginald Thomas
To Licensing & Occupations (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to social work. [HB-658]
[Healthcare ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
Amend KRS 335.010 to remove outdated provisions that established an amnesty period related to disciplinary action, administrative fees, or fines for unlicensed social workers; amend KRS 335.020 to redefine the "practice of social work" and define "practice of clinical social work"; amend KRS 335.070 to allow the Kentucky Board of Social Work to promulgate administrative regulations relating to provisional license for students; amend KRS 335.080, 335.090, and 335.100, relating to the licensure requirements for certified social workers, licensed social
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Sponsored by: Rep. Steve Bratcher
To Health Services (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to marriage and family therapists. [SB-222]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Amend KRS 335.330 to require the board to review and approve applications within the specified time frames and to issue licenses within two weeks of application completion date; amend KRS 335.332 to allow an approved acting supervisor to assume responsibility for an associate practitioner receiving qualifying experience; amend KRS 335.340 to require the board to issue renewal license within two weeks of request receipt; create a new section of KRS 335.300 to 335.399 to mandate reciprocal licensure of a practitioner licensed in another state when
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Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Berg
To Licensing & Occupations (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to a deduction for union dues. [HB-575]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Taxes ]
Amend KRS 141.019, relating to income tax, to define terms; allow a deduction from gross income for union dues and professional membership dues paid for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, but before January 1, 2030; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the exclusion; make technical changes.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nima Kulkarni
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to alcohol and drug counselors. [HB-580]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Human Services ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
Amend KRS 309.0836 to require temporary alcohol and drug peer support specialist licensees to become registered alcohol and drug peer support specialists after a maximum period of nine months from the date of issuance; amend KRS 222.233 to delete the requirement that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services promulgate an administrative regulation relating to reimbursement for temporary alcohol and drug peer specialists and require limitation on group size.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to cosmetology, esthetics, and nail technology. [HB-497]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Military ]
[Veterans ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 317A to allow reciprocal licensing for cosmetologists, estheticians, and nail technicians; include work experience as a basis for licensure; explicitly include military personnel and spouses; repeal KRS 317A.100, relating to reciprocal licensing and continuing education.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to telecommunicators. [HB-525]
[Telecommunications ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Amend KRS 15.530 to define terms; amend KRS 15.552 to remove hiring date restriction and allow a fully-trained part-time telecommunicator credit toward the full-time training academy if conditions are met; amend KRS 15.560 to require all part-time telecommunicators to complete telecommunicator overview training within 12 months of the hire date; EFFECTIVE, in part, July 1, 2026.
Sponsored by: Rep. Aaron Thompson
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to occupational licensing. [HB-480]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Amend KRS 335.030 to add gender-neutral language.
Sponsored by: Rep. Derek Lewis
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (h) on 02/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the display of child labor laws in public schools. [HB-457]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 158.195 to require each public school with students in grades six through 12 to display a printed abstract of certain child labor laws, including limited and prohibited occupations and work hour restrictions for minors; require the information to be posted on the school's website.
Sponsored by: Rep. Chris Freeland
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public health hygienists. [HB-449]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Amend KRS 313.040 to allow dental hygienists associated with in-state colleges or universities to practice as a public health hygienist.
Sponsored by: Rep. Chris Freeland
3rd Reading, Passed 93-0 on 03/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to youth mental health protection and declaring an emergency. [HB-426]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Healthcare ]
[Funding ]
[Human Rights ]
[Human Services ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 210 to define terms; prohibit mental health professionals from engaging in sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts with a person under 18 years of age, a person who is 18 years or older who is an adult as defined in KRS 209.020, or a ward as defined in KRS 387.510; require violations to be subject to board discipline; prohibit public funds from being used for sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts; create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to require the Department for Public Health
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Health Services (h) on 02/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation for first responders. [HB-420]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Mental Health ]
[Healthcare ]
Amend KRS 342.0011, relating to workers' compensation, to expand the definition of "injury" to include psychological injuries for police officers, firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, front-line staff members, or members of the National Guard; create a new section of KRS Chapter 342 to establish when psychological injuries are valid workers' compensation claims when not a direct result of a physical injury.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nima Kulkarni
To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (h) on 02/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to voters qualified for excused in-person absentee voting. [HB-405]
[Elections ]
[Voting Rights ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Disabilities ]
[Healthcare ]
Amend KRS 117.076 to allow caregivers of voters qualified to cast an excused in-person absentee ballot due to age, disability, or illness to cast an excused in-person absentee ballot.
Sponsored by: Rep. Adam Moore
To Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (h) on 02/12/2025