State Agencies
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 A. Brown
Floor Amendments (2), (3) And (4-title) Filed on 03/13/2025
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Maine 132nd Legislature
An Act to Create a History Education and Learning Mobile Unit Within the Maine State Archives [SB-674]
[Education ]
[Arts and Culture ]
[Libraries ]
An Act to Create a History Education and Learning Mobile Unit Within the Maine State Archives
Sponsored by: Sen. Joseph M. Baldacci
Reports Read. on 05/14/2025
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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 fiscal impact statements. [HB-800]
[Insurance ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Healthcare ]
Amend KRS 6.948 to require the commissioner of the Department of Insurance to include in a health mandate fiscal impact statement and state employee health plan impact statement any documentation, studies, written opinions, calculations, and citations in support of his or her findings and conclusions; include in the statement an estimate of any potential future cost savings, including an explanation why the bill would or would not provide future cost savings; require the commissioner to certify that the information in the health mandate fiscal impact
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Meade
Taken From State Government (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to pregnancy resource centers. [HB-794]
[Healthcare ]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "pregnancy resource center"; require pregnancy resource centers to be licensed; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to establish licensure standards for pregnancy resource centers; provide that operation or advertisement of a pregnancy resource center without a license is a Class A misdemeanor; provide that a pregnancy resource center's or health care provider's liability is neither limited nor expanded by the licensure requirement; amend KRS
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sarah Stalker
To Health Services (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for the care of children. [HB-691]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Health ]
[Insurance ]
Amend KRS 304.17A-258 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for certain formulas; to suspend the the coverage requirement for certain formulas as applied to qualified health plans if cost defrayment required by the state; amend KRS 304.17A-145 to require coverage for breastfeeding and lactation services without a prescription and in conjunction with the birth of each child; amend KRS 205.522 to require Medicaid to comply with the coverage requirements for formulas and breastfeeding support and equipment; amend KRS 205.560 to conform;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Pamela D. Stevenson
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to elections. [HB-699]
[Elections ]
Amend KRS 118.176 to require the county board of elections or the State Board of Elections to notify a candidate and the appropriate certifying authority that the candidate fails to meet the jurisdictional or party affiliation requirements for the office sought; require that the notification be made by the first Friday after the candidate filing deadline; require that the certifying authority shall not certify any candidate that fails to meet requirements; provide that a candidate whose bona fides are questioned may appeal a certifying authority's
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Sponsored by: Rep. DJ Johnson
Taken From The Orders Of The Day on 03/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to motorboats. [HB-696]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Taxes ]
[Tourism ]
[Recreation ]
[Water ]
[Property Tax ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 132 to exempt federally documented vessels from property taxation; create new sections of KRS Chapter 235 to establish the waterway usage fee and the distribution of revenue generated from the fee; establish the waterway usage fund; create a new section of KRS Chapter 148 to establish the Kentucky lakes and rivers tourism fund; require grants of money from the fund to go to marinas qualifying through an application process; amend KRS 235.990 to establish a penalty for nonpayment of the waterway usage fee; amend
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Upchurch
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to regulated beverages. [HB-734]
[Cannabis ]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
[Public Health ]
Amend KRS 241.010 to define "cannabinoid" and "cannabis-infused beverage"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 243 to indicate that the Department for Public Health regulates the manufacture, distribution, and retail sale of cannabis-infused beverages containing cannabinoids; make technical corrections; amend KRS 217.039, 243.034, and 243.0341 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Matthew R. Koch
Taken From Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (h) on 03/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to state personnel. [HB-738]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Agriculture ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 64 to allow the State Treasurer, Auditor of Public Accounts, Secretary of State, Commissioner of Agriculture, and Attorney General to employ persons exempt from approval requirements the classified service as necessary for advice and to carry out policy; permit the State Treasurer, Auditor of Public Accounts, Secretary of State, Commissioner of Agriculture, and Attorney General to increase, by executive order the salary of any classified employee with status to the midpoint of the grade of the employee's classification.
Sponsored by: Rep. Thomas Huff
Received In Senate on 03/12/2025
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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 postsecondary education. [HB-711]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 164.001 to remove the definition of "committee" and "P-16 council"; amend KRS 164.013 to conform; amend KRS 164.020 to remove the Council on Postsecondary Education's ability to postpone approval of new programs due to an institution's unmet equal educational opportunity goals; amend KRS 164.0211 to attach the Board of Student Body Presidents to the Council on Postsecondary Education for administration and organization purposes; amend KRS 164.321 to require Senate confirmation of gubernatorial appointees to the boards of regents of the
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Sponsored by: Rep. James A. Tipton
Received In Senate on 03/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Medicaid coverage for doula services. [HB-814]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services and any managed care organization with which the department contracts for the delivery of Medicaid services to provide coverage for doula services; establish training and education requirements for doulas; require the department to promulgate administrative regulations; 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: Rep. George A. Brown
To Health Services (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
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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
Received In House on 03/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to state government. [HB-666]
Amend KRS 56.020 to insert gender-neutral language.
Sponsored by: Rep. Steven Jack Rudy
To State Government (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the funding of lawsuits instituted by the Commonwealth. [HB-754]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 48 to prohibit an executive branch official from expending any appropriations or funds, including the use of state time or resources to challenge any action of the federal government without the written consent of the Attorney General; require the Attorney General to represent the Commonwealth in all litigation pertaining to federal government actions; prohibit the Governor from taking a position on legal actions against the federal government without the written consent of the Attorney General; allow the Attorney
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Sponsored by: Rep. T.J. Roberts
To State Government (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the family child care homes. [HB-749]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Healthcare ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
Amend KRS 199.894 to define "Child Care and Development Fund" and "Child Care Assistance Program"; apply definitions to Section 2 of the Act; amend KRS 199.8982 to require that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services allow certified family child-care home providers to participate in the child care assistance program and establish requirements related to a provider's children in the program and other nonrelative children of the provider that are served in the program.
Sponsored by: Rep. Vanessa Grossl
Floor Amendment (1) Filed on 03/14/2025
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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 school mapping. [HB-777]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[National Security ]
Amend KRS 158.442, 39G.010, and 158.4443 to require that administration of the School Mapping Data Program be the responsibility of the Office of Homeland Security instead of the Center for School Safety.
Sponsored by: Rep. Steve Bratcher
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to state contracts. [HB-813]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Finance ]
[Recreation ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 148, defining "state marina", "marina operator", and "license agreement"; allow the Finance and Administration Cabinet to enter into an agreement with a marina operator to renew or extend a license agreement or other agreements with a marina operator.
Sponsored by: Rep. James A. Tipton
To State Government (h) on 02/27/2025