Reports Mandated
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
✔
AN ACT relating to transportation, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-546]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Infrastructure ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 176 to define terms relating to Local Assistance Road Program funding; require the Transportation Cabinet to establish procedures whereby cities and counties can submit projects for consideration in the Local Assistance Road Program; limit projects to those that are rehabilitative in nature and do not expand capacity or the design of the original road; limit state funding for any individual project to $500,000; require the cabinet to assign a score to each project evaluating the project's impact on safety, congestion,
(continued...)
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie
Received In House on 03/27/2025
Spread the world
Gettr Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to psychotropic drugs. [HB-572]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to define terms; require Medicaid-enrolled providers prescribing psychotropic drugs to children to provide an FDA Medication Guide to parents or legal guardians; require medical care providers prescribing psychotropic drugs to children covered by Medicaid to obtain signed informed consent from a parent of guardian; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to develop and maintain an adverse drug reaction online reporting system; require the cabinet to compile and submit an annual report of the adverse
(continued...)
Sponsored by: Rep. Josh Calloway
To Health Services (h) on 02/25/2025
Spread the world
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education funding integrity. [HB-554]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to define "foreign source"; preclude common schools from receiving funds from the Chinese government, Chinese Communist Party, or agents thereof; require reporting of foreign source funding in common schools; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to define "foreign source"; preclude public postsecondary education institutions schools from receiving funds from the Chinese government, Chinese Communist Party, or agents thereof; require reporting of foreign source funding in public postsecondary education institutions.
Sponsored by: Rep. Steven Doan
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/25/2025
Spread the world
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to a tax credit for renters. [HB-559]
[Taxes ]
[Housing ]
[Property Tax ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a refundable qualified rent payment credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, but before January 1, 2030, in the amount of 25 percent of the qualified rent payments made during the taxable year, not to exceed $1,000; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow reporting by the Department of Revenue.
Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/21/2025
Spread the world
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
✔
AN ACT relating to nuclear energy development, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [SB-179]
[Energy ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Science ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Nuclear Energy Development Grant Program to be administered by the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority; establish the nuclear energy development grant administration subcommittee and provide for its duties; limit individual grant awards from the Nuclear Energy Development Grant Program to $2,000,000 per grant; amend KRS 164.2802 to require the director of the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority to publicize and encourage application to the Nuclear Energy Development Grant
(continued...)
Sponsored by: Sen. Danny Carroll
Signed By Governor on 03/24/2025
Spread the world
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Make America Healthy Again Kentucky Task Force to explore ways to integrate the principles of the Make America Healthy Again movement to improve health outcomes of Kentuckians. [SCR-61]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
State the General Assembly's support for the goals of the Make America Healthy Again movement; establish the Make America Healthy Again Kentucky Task Force to integrate the principles of the Make America Healthy Again movement; establish task force membership; require the task force to submit a report with recommendations to the Governor and the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert M. Mills
Received In House on 02/28/2025
Spread the world
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to support systems for English language learners in common schools. [HB-494]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; establish the English learner enhanced support program under the Department of Education to help bring English learners with little or no formal education to grade-level proficiency within three years; require the department to set standards for program, contract with a provider meeting certain standards and with record of success with qualified English learners, identify eligible districts or schools, offer the program to as many students as funds permit, and report to the Legislative Research
(continued...)
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Lee Meredith
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/21/2025
Spread the world
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency. [SB-165]
[Education ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Funding ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; prohibit a school district, public school, or cooperative board from providing differential treatment or benefits on the basis of an individual's religion, race, sex, color, or national origin; prohibit the Kentucky Department of Education, a school district, a public school, or a cooperative board from expending any resources on diversity, equity, and inclusion; prohibit the department, a school district, a public school, or a cooperative board from soliciting statements on an applicant's
(continued...)
Sponsored by: Sen. Mike Wilson
To Education (s) on 02/18/2025
Spread the world
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Office of Safer Communities, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-515]
[Public Safety ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Community Development ]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 12 to establish the Office of Safer Communities within the Office of the Governor; amend KRS 12.020 and KRS 12.023 to conform; appropriate $3,000,000 in fiscal year 2025-2026 to fund the office; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/21/2025
Spread the world
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to use of artificial intelligence by courts. [HB-498]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Artificial Intelligence ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 21A to request that the Supreme Court establish a pilot project to permit participating courts to use artificial intelligence for court transcription services; establish guidelines.
Sponsored by: Rep. Stephanie A. Dietz
To Judiciary (h) on 02/21/2025
Spread the world
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
✔
AN ACT relating to initiatives regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion. [HB-4]
[Education ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Human Rights ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; prohibit a public postsecondary education institution from providing differential treatment or benefits on the basis of an individual's religion, race, sex, color, or national origin; from influencing the composition of the student body or scholarship recipients on the basis of religion, race, sex, color, or national origin; from implementing a student housing assignment plan on the basis of religion, race, color, or national origin with designated exceptions; from expending any resources on
(continued...)
Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 120) on 03/28/2025
Spread the world
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
✔
A JOINT RESOLUTION directing Kentucky's public postsecondary institutions to combat antisemitism. [SJR-55]
[Education ]
[Human Rights ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
Direct the governing board of public postsecondary education institutions to adopt policies to combat antisemitism and require implementation until June 30, 2028; establish the requirements for the policies; require each institution to report data collected through policies to the Council on Postsecondary Education; and require the Council on Postsecondary Education to compile and report data to the Legislative Research Commission.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert M. Mills
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 157) on 04/02/2025
Spread the world
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
✔
AN ACT relating to elections. [HB-455]
[Elections ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to establish the Office of Election Investigations and Security within the Office of the Attorney General; establish powers, duties, and procedures; require an annual report to the Legislative Research Commission.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jennifer Henson Decker
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 45) on 03/19/2025
Spread the world
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to students. [HB-440]
[Education ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Disabilities ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 159 to allow the enrollment of a child on a part-time basis in a school district; establish conditions for the part-time enrollment; amend KRS 158.120 to prohibit a district's nonresident pupil policy from discriminating against any pupil on the basis of residential address, abilities, disability, race, ethnicity, sex, or socioeconomic status; require the policy be posted on the district website; prohibit charging tuition to any child; require a board of education to establish policies for a calculation to determine
(continued...)
Sponsored by: Rep. Steven Doan
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/14/2025
Spread the world
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
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
(continued...)
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Poore Moser
Passed Over And Retained In The Orders Of The Day on 03/28/2025
Spread the world
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school governance. [SB-131]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 160.350 to require a majority vote instead of a four-fifths vote of board members to remove the superintendent; delete requirements for approval from the commissioner of education to remove a superintendent; amend KRS 160.180 to remove the relative employee eligibility requirement for candidates for the local board of education; require a local board member obtain at least one hour of open records and open meetings training per term; amend KRS 160.160 to establish a one-year term for chair and vice chair of the local board of education;
(continued...)
Sponsored by: Sen. Lindsey Tichenor
To Education (s) on 02/13/2025
Spread the world
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to patient-directed care at the end of life. [HB-408]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Insurance ]
[Senior Citizens ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to define terms; establish a qualified terminally ill patient's right to voluntarily request medication to self-administer to cause death; establish conditions required to make request; permit patient to rescind request at any time; permit an attending physician to provide medication; establish requirements for attending physician to inform patients and document request; require disposal of unused medications; establish residency requirements for qualified patients; require report by the Cabinet for Health
(continued...)
Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
To Health Services (h) on 02/12/2025
Spread the world
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
(continued...)
Sponsored by: Sen. Julie Adams
To Judiciary (s) on 02/12/2025
Spread the world
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to juvenile justice. [SB-111]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Mental Health ]
[Healthcare ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Crime ]
Create a new section in KRS Chapter 200 to define terms; establish procedures for a child charged with a public offense to determine if the child is a high acuity youth; establish procedures for securing a treatment plan and dispute resolution through a review process and the court if the parties cannot agree to a plan; require a 24-hour protocol for health facilities, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, the Department of Juvenile Justice, and the courts to direct care; establish reimbursement rates for inpatient and outpatient psychiatric
(continued...)
Sponsored by: Sen. Danny Carroll
Taken From Judiciary (h) on 03/12/2025
Spread the world
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
✔
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the Legislative Research Commission to study access to sexual assault nurse examiners. [HCR-20]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Direct the Legislative Research Commission to study access to sexual assault nurse examiners; require report to be submitted to the Interim Joint Committee on Health Services and the Interim Joint Committee on Judiciary by December 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rebecca Raymer
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 7) on 03/12/2025