Occupations And Professions
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to tobacco, nicotine, or vapor product licensure. [SB-100]
[Public Health ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 438.305 to define terms; create new sections of KRS 438.305 to 438.350 to create the Division of Tobacco, Nicotine, and Vapor Product Licensing within the Department of Beverage Control; give the department investigators the authority to inspect any premise where alternative nicotine products, tobacco products, or vapor products are sold without obtaining a search warrant; require any retailer that sells alternative nicotine products, tobacco products, or vapor products to obtain a tobacco, nicotine, and vapor products license issued by
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jimmy Higdon
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 78) on 03/24/2025
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AN ACT relating to a deduction for union dues. [HB-363]
[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
Withdrawn on 02/18/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to educators. [HB-324]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 160.160 to authorize a local board of education to establish minimum score requirements for certified positions within the district on specific assessments related to content knowledge, competency in educational practices, or both; require the district include minimum score information in any posts or notices for a related certified vacancy; amend KRS 161.030 to remove successful completion of assessments prior to receiving a teacher certification; amend KRS 161.048, 161.010, and 161.053 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Walker Thomas
3rd Reading, Passed 85-6 on 03/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to roofing contractors. [HB-350]
[Construction ]
[Housing ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Small Business ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 198B to define terms; establish licensing for roofing contractors under the Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction; prohibit any persons not licensed under the department from holding himself or herself out as a roofing contractor; allow the department to issue roofing contractor licenses, promulgate administrative regulations, and implement disciplinary actions; establish applicant requirements and fee limitations; establish a fine and potential misdemeanor incarceration for violations; create the roofing
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Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Grossberg
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to military healthcare personnel. [HB-303]
[Healthcare ]
[Military ]
[Education ]
[Veterans ]
[Public Health ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to direct the Kentucky Community and Technical College System to develop academic career pathways and integrated academic bridge programs to prepare military healthcare personnel for licensure in various healthcare-related fields.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 46) on 03/19/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to physical therapy. [HB-255]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Amend various sections of KRS Chapter 327, relating to the practice and regulation of physical therapy, to state legislative findings; allow a physical therapist to refer a patient for tests or examination; require a practitioner or employer to report a physical therapist or physical therapist assistant who has been convicted of a misdemeanor; require potential board members to not have been under any disciplinary action in the past five years; permit the Board of Physical Therapy to purchase professional liability insurance; authorize the board
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Sponsored by: Rep. Beverly Chester-Burton
Reported Favorably, To Rules on 03/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the licensing of professional engineers. [HB-306]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Construction ]
[Science ]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 322.040 to allow an individual to qualify for licensure as a professional engineer if he or she has graduated from a fire protection engineering technology program of four years or more accredited by the Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 60) on 03/24/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to wages for employment. [HB-289]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to make it a discriminatory employment action if an employer asks questions about previous salary or wages, relies on previous salary when setting a new salary, or refuses to hire if an applicant does not provide previous salary, except to allow a request for information voluntarily provided in response to an offer of employment; allow previous salary to be considered when required by law, for internal transfers, and for public employee positions; require notice to be posted for employees; amend KRS 337.990
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Sponsored by: Rep. Rachel Roarx
To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to certified public accountant firms. [HB-262]
[Small Business ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Amend KRS 325.380 to eliminate limitations on the naming rights of small certified public accounting firms upon the death or retirement of an owner.
Sponsored by: Rep. Deanna Frazier Gordon
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 5) on 03/10/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to health care. [HB-305]
[Healthcare ]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
Amend KRS 164.0401 to add physician assistant license, dietitian license, and nutritionist certificate to the definition of "eligible healthcare credential"; amend KRS 164.0403 to limit healthcare training scholarship awards to applicants enrolled in a state registered nursing aide training and competency evaluation program; prohibit employment restrictions in healthcare training scholarships awarded to applicants enrolled in a state registered nursing aide training and competency evaluation program.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Fleming
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 150) on 04/01/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to retired certified public accountants. [HB-261]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Retirement ]
Amend KRS 325.290 to allow retired certified public accountant (CPAs) to offer certain uncompensated services to the public; require retired CPAs who wish to offer limited services to complete a continuing professional education waiver based on retirement before practicing; amend KRS 325.330 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Deanna Frazier Gordon
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 4) on 03/10/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Option 9 alternative teacher certification programs. [HB-170]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 161.048 to allow employment in substitute teaching to qualify as part of the required residency or paraprofessional component of an Option 9 alternative teacher certification program.
Sponsored by: Rep. Walker Thomas
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to allied animal health professional licenses. [SB-69]
[Animals ]
[Healthcare ]
Amend KRS 321.181 to define terms; create new sections of KRS Chapter 321 to establish new allied animal health professional licenses for equine dentistry and animal chiropractic practice; create the allied animal health professional advisory board; amend KRS 321.187 regarding retention of original patient records; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 321 to conform.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robin Webb
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 87) on 03/25/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to cosmetology. [HB-130]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Health ]
[Small Business ]
Amend KRS 317A.010 to allow fixed or mobile beauty salons, esthetic salons, nail salons, and limited beauty salons; amend KRS 317A.020 and 317A.145 to consider any type of mobile salon a "facility" and a "premises"; amend KRS 317A.060 to require the cosmetology board to set the standards for mobile and fixed salons and establish inspection schedules; direct any administrative regulations to balance licensee and public interests; amend KRS 317A.050 and 317A.155 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to physical therapy. [HB-117]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Amend various sections of KRS Chapter 327, relating to the practice and regulation of physical therapy, to state legislative findings; allow a physical therapist to refer a patient for tests or examination; require a practitioner or employer to report a physical therapist or physical therapist assistant who has been convicted of a misdemeanor; require potential board members to not have been under any disciplinary action in the past five years; permit the Board of Physical Therapy to purchase professional liability insurance; authorize the board
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Sponsored by: Rep. Amy Neighbors
Withdrawn on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to universal recognition of occupational licenses. [HB-133]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Military ]
[Veterans ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 335B to allow universal recognition of occupational licenses and government certifications; include work experience as a basis for licensure or certification; explicity include military personnel and their spouses; provide that the Act may be cited as the Universal Recognition of Occupational Licenses Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. Steven Doan
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to licensed professionals. [SB-22]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Amend KRS 317.570 and 317A.120 to allow barber and cosmetology license applicants to retake the failed portion of an examination one month after receiving actual notice of the failure; enable cosmetologist and esthetician applicants to retake any examination an unlimited number of times; amend KRS 317A.020 to allow a penalty more severe than a warning notice to be issued if a licensee knowingly employs or utilizes an unlicensed nail technician; amend KRS 317A.040 to remove the requirement that a licensed cosmetologist serve as the executive director
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Sponsored by: Sen. Reginald Thomas
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 68) on 03/24/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to licensed occupations. [HB-79]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Public Health ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 335B to require the licensing authorities of healthcare occupations to collect workforce participation data during the annual, biennial, or triennial licensure renewal process; prohibit the collection of a licensee's Social Security number; allow licensees to decline the data collection of personal information; require licensing authorities to report collected data to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; create a new section of KRS 335.300 to 335.399 to authorize the board to grant licensure to an applicant
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to building trade professions. [HB-54]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Construction ]
[Housing ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198B to allow on-the-job training equivalencies of internship and cooperative placement hours to count toward those hours needed to obtain licensure; require that the Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction recognize and honor the agreements toward licensure in the professions regulated by the department, including electricians, plumbers, and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Banta
Signed By Governor (acts Ch.34) on 03/19/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Medicaid coverage for certified professional midwifery services. [SB-16]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services and any managed care organization with whom the department contracts for the delivery of Medicaid services to provide coverage for certified professional midwifery services that are provided by a licensed certified professional midwife; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to seek federal approval if they determine that such approval is necessary and comply with KRS 205.525.
Sponsored by: Sen. Steve Rawlings
To Families & Children (s) on 01/09/2025