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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the establishment of the Automatic Expungement Task Force. [HCR-84]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Establish the Automatic Expungement Task Force; establish duties and membership; require the task force to submit a report with recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by November 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Elliott
Taken From Committee On Committees (h) on 03/14/2025
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A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the establishment of the Sexual and Domestic Abuse Task Force. [HCR-83]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Crime ]
[Human Services ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Direct the Legislative Research Commission to create the Sexual and Domestic Abuse Task Force; establish duties and membership; require the task force to submit a report to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. DJ Johnson
Introduced In House on 03/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the establishment of the Commonwealth Artificial Intelligence Consortium Task Force. [SCR-142]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Artificial Intelligence ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Science ]
[Education ]
[Economic Development ]
Establish the Commonwealth Artificial Intelligence Consortium Task Force to design the needs, collect data, develop artificial intelligence solutions, foster innovation and competitiveness, promote artificial intelligence literacy, and ensure trusted artificial intelligence development and governance; establish task force membership; require the task force to meet as needed; require the task force to submit its findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by November 21, 2025.
Sponsored by: Sen. Amanda Mays Bledsoe
To Senate Floor on 03/11/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the Legislative Research Commission to study gun violence in the Commonwealth. [SCR-143]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Direct the Legislative Research Commission staff to study the causes of gun violence in Kentucky; require a report to be submitted to the Interim Joint Committees on Judiciary and Health Services by December 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Sen. Keturah Herron
To Judiciary (s) on 03/11/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the establishment of the Automatic Expungement Task Force. [SCR-137]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Establish the Automatic Expungement Task Force; establish duties and membership; require the task force to submit a report with recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by November 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Sen. Brandon Storm
Taken From Judiciary (s) on 03/11/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the establishment of the Kentucky Restoration of Voting Rights Task Force. [SCR-89]
[Voting Rights ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Elections ]
Establish the Kentucky Restoration of Voting Rights Task Force to review, study, and recommend language for a constitutional amendment or statutory change to restore voting rights to individuals with felony convictions who have completed their sentences; establish task force membership; require the task force to submit a report with recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jimmy Higdon
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the establishment of the Kentucky Restoration of Voting Rights Task Force. [HCR-67]
[Voting Rights ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Elections ]
Establish the Kentucky Restoration of Voting Rights Task Force to review, study, and recommend language for a constitutional amendment or statutory change to restore voting rights to individuals with felony convictions who have completed their sentences; establish task force membership; require the task force to submit a report with recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Floor Amendments (2), (3) And (4-title) Filed on 03/13/2025
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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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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the partial distribution of pari-mutuel racing tax receipts to local governments. [HB-782]
[Gaming ]
[Taxes ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Economic Development ]
Amend KRS 138.510 to allocate moneys to a newly created fund from the pari-mutuel racing tax distribution; create a new section of KRS Chapter 230 to establish a fund relating to local governments and administered by the Department for Local Government; and amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to share information relating to the calculation of the new fund's distribution.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to a provisional license to practice medicine. [HB-786]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311.530 to 311.620 to permit an international medical graduate to apply for a provisional license that may lead to a full and unrestricted license to practice medicine in Kentucky notwithstanding KRS 311.571; require the Board of Medical Licensure to promulgate administrative regulations to establish provisional licensure pathway requirements, applicant requirements, eligibility for obtaining a full and unrestricted license after completing the provisional period, establish a data collection process to evaluate
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Health Services (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to mental health parity and declaring an emergency. [HB-748]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Insurance ]
[Public Health ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
Amend KRS 304.17A-661 to require that annual mental health parity reports be submitted to the Legislative Research Commission on or before June 1 of each year for referral to certain committees and be published by the insurance commissioner on the Department of Insurance's website; authorize the Attorney General to enforce the mental health parity law; establish duties, remedies, and penalties for enforcement by the Attorney General; authorize a private cause of action by any person directly injured by a violation or likely violation of the mental
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Sponsored by: Rep. Vanessa Grossl
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Medicaid program and declaring an emergency. [HB-695]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Funding ]
Retain original provisions, except delete Medicaid coverage limitations for psychoeducational services; establish that changes to the Medicaid program necessitated by requirements imposed by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services or related to payment programs for university hospitals shall be exempt from the requirement that the change be authorized by the General Assembly; amend KRS 205.5371 to establish that the community engagement program shall be a mandatory waiver program; locate the Kentucky Medicaid pharmaceutical rebate
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 110) on 03/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to establishing a first-generation homebuyer trust fund and program. [HB-717]
[Housing ]
[Real Estate ]
[Community Development ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 198A to define terms; establish the first-generation homebuyer trust fund, establish eligible activities and use of trust fund; require Kentucky Housing Corporation to submit annual reports to the Legislative Research Commission.
Sponsored by: Rep. Chad Aull
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to mental health parity and declaring an emergency. [HB-725]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Insurance ]
[Public Health ]
Amend KRS 304.17A-661 to require insurers to submit the annual report relating to mental health parity requirements to the Legislative Research Commission for referral to the Interim Joint Committee on Health Services; require the annual report be submitted by June 1; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jared Bauman
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the release of funds. [HJR-53]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Healthcare ]
[Construction ]
Authorize the Office of State Budget Director to release capital construction funds for the Design Health Services Center project at Kentucky State University; require the university to submit a comprehensive business plan on or before November 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie
Signed By Governor (acts Ch.41) on 03/19/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to health education. [HB-706]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Health ]
[Healthcare ]
Repeal and reenact KRS 158.1415 to require each school district to provide healthy relationship education instruction to all public school students; establish minimum requirements for the instruction; establish minimum requirements for the healthy relationship curricula and instructional materials; prohibit a school or school district from restricting the ability of an instructor to answer a question related to the instruction; require that a school make the healthy relationship curricula and instructional materials available upon the request of
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mary Marzian
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education. [HB-8]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 158.645 to modify language on core capacities, specify the intent of K-5 education, and define terms; amend KRS 156.070 to give the state board the responsibility for adopting or rejecting the state academic standards, adopting or rejecting instructional materials collections, setting a timeline for adoption updates, and ensuring alignment of academics across the state; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to require the Kentucky Department of Education to deconstruct the approved academic standards and provide free guides to districts
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie
Taken From Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 03/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the reporting of fines and fees. [HB-774]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 431 to define terms; require governmental entities to submit specified data to the Office of the Kentucky Center for Statistics regarding fines and fees assessed; require the Office of the Kentucky Center for Statistics to make disaggregated data available on its website; publish an annual report and submit the report to the Legislative Research Commission, the director of the Administrative Office of the Courts, and the Governor by November 30 of each year beginning November 30, 2026; amend KRS 151B.133 to establish
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Judiciary (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Medicaid managed care organizations. [HB-787]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
Amend KRS 205.533 to require Medicaid managed care organizations to include certain information for providers on their websites; amend KRS 205.534 to require managed care organizations to allow providers 120 days to file an appeal or grievance related to a reduction of denial of a claim; establish penalties for a managed care organization's failure to ensure the timely disposition of any appeal or grievance; require payment of any amount owed to a provider following an appeal to be paid within 30 days; require payments made following an appeal to
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Health Services (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to solar merchant electric generating facilities. [HB-790]
[Energy ]
[Environmental ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Construction ]
[Economic Development ]
Amend KRS 278.704 to prohibit the Kentucky State Board on Electric Generation and Transmission Siting from granting a setback deviation for an application for a solar merchant electric generating facility made after January 1, 2026, that would allow the facility to be located within 350 feet of an adjoining property owner unless consented to in writing and approved by the legislative body of the local government where the adjoining property is located; establish requirements for the application of the minimum setback requirements for solar merchant
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jim Gooch
3rd Reading, Passed 97-0 With Committee Substitute (1) on 03/12/2025