State Agencies
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages. [HB-735]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
Amend KRS 243.036 to allow a licensed auctioneer to hold a special temporary alcoholic beverage auction license; establish duties, privileges, and limitations for auctioneers who hold the license; suspend the auctioneer's special temporary alcoholic beverage auction license if the person ceases to be a licensed auctioneer; make a special temporary alcoholic beverage auction license valid for one year; create a new section of KRS Chapter 330, relating to auctioneer licensing, to allow a licensed auctioneer to obtain a special temporary alcoholic
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Sponsored by: Rep. Matthew R. Koch
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (h) on 02/27/2025
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AN ACT relating to career and technical education. [HB-758]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Amend KRS 157.069 to apportion supplemental funds for career and technical education to be 75 percent for enrollment-based funding and 25 percent for incentive-based funding; modify incentives to permit two incentives per student; require "concentrator" status as the first incentive before eligibility for a second incentive.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nima Kulkarni
Reported Favorably, To Rules on 03/05/2025
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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 A. Bauman
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
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A JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the release of funds. [HJR-54]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Construction ]
[Funding ]
[Public Safety ]
[Economic Development ]
Authorize the Office of State Budget Director to release capital construction funds for the Kentucky Exposition Center Redevelopment - Phase II.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie
Signed By Governor on 03/19/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to Teachers' Retirement System benefit funding. [HB-694]
[Pensions ]
[Retirement ]
[Education ]
[Healthcare ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Create a new section of KRS 161.220 to 161.716, relating to the Teachers' Retirement System (TRS), to require that once the TRS retiree health fund has an actuarial funding level of at least 100%, then the employer funding for retiree health shall be used to pay down the unfunded liability of the TRS pension fund; require that if the actuarial funding level of the TRS retiree health fund falls below 95%, then the employer funding shall be restored to the retiree health fund until the retiree health fund is 100% funded; amend KRS 161.540, 161.550,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 126) on 03/28/2025
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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 Lou 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 public health and safety. [HB-745]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Insurance ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
Amend KRS 214.450 to define "autologous donation" and "directed donation"; amend KRS 214.452 to require blood establishments to test for spike proteins, antibodies to the nucleocapsid protein on the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and synthetic mRNA; provide that a person shall not be compelled to donate blood; require blood establishments to inform donors of the potential uses for donations; require blood to be sold to hospitals before any other entity; prohibit blood from sale for pharmaceutical production if there is a hospital blood shortage; amend KRS 214.454
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josh Calloway
To Health Services (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to executive branch agencies. [HB-799]
[Budget and Spending ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 11 to require an executive branch agency to perform any directive issued by the General Assembly by law or program created by an Act of the General Assembly; require the agency to perform the task or provide the service through their existing funds if the General Assembly does not provide additional funding or an appropriation.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Meade
To Health Services (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to paid family leave for state employees. [HB-771]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Healthcare ]
[Human Services ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to provide an employee of the Commonwealth in the judicial or legislative branch of the state government a paid leave of absence of up to six weeks for the birth, adoption, foster care placement, or serious health condition of a child; establish requirements; create a new section of KRS 18A.005 to 18A.200 to provide the paid leave benefits to classified employees in the executive branch of state government; amend KRS 18A.025 and 18A.110 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Chad Aull
To State Government (h) on 02/27/2025
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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 Poore Moser
To Health Services (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sales tax rebates for entertainment events. [HB-739]
[Taxes ]
[Arts and Culture ]
[Economic Development ]
[Tourism ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 139 to define terms; establish a sales tax rebate and process for venues which have entertainment events that are qualifying attractions; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. Susan Tyler Witten
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school counselors and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-719]
[Education ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Children and Youth ]
Appropriate necessary funds to the SEEK Program budget unit to provide financial assistance to local school districts for employment of school counselors; APPROPRIATION.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sarah Stalker
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the environmental remediation fee. [HB-698]
[Environmental ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Taxes ]
Amend KRS 224.43-500 to define "residual waste facility"; increase the environmental remediation fee from $1.75 to $2; require that the fee collected from residual waste facilities be returned to the county where the facility is located; amend KRS 224.43-505 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rebecca Raymer
To Natural Resources & Energy (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to occupational health and safety. [HB-778]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Public Safety ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
Amend KRS 338.991 to increase the civil penalties for employers who have violated any provision of KRS Chapter 338, received a citation for a violation of the requirements of KRS Chapter 338, or failed to correct a violation for which a citation has been issued; require the secretary for the Education and Labor Cabinet to annually adjust the maximum civil penalties beginning in 2025 by the percentage increase, if any, in the United State Average Consumer Price Index for all Urban Customers (CPI-U); direct the secretary to begin a three year phase-in
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Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Medicaid program. [HB-785]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Mental Health ]
[Insurance ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 205 to define terms; establish limitations on material changes to contracts between Medicaid managed care organizations and Medicaid-participating providers; require contracts between the Department for Medicaid Services and a managed care organization to comply with federal laws related to mental health parity; require behavioral health programs to be accredited and narcotic treatment programs to be licensed in order to be eligible for Medicaid reimbursement; amend KRS 205.522 to require the Department for Medicaid
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Poore Moser
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to retirement benefits for state and county employees in hazardous positions. [HB-714]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Pensions ]
[Retirement ]
Create a new section of KRS 16.505 to 16.652 to change the retirement benefits for members participating in the State Police Retirement System (SPRS) or in a hazardous position in either the Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS) or County Employees Retirement System (CERS) who are hired after January 1, 2014, but before January 1, 2026, so that, in lieu of continued participation in the hybrid cash balance plan (Tier 3 benefits), these members receive the benefits provided to members in a hazardous position who began participating immediately
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ashley Tackett Laferty
To State Government (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the compensation of coroners and deputy corners. [HB-712]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Inflation ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Amend KRS 64.185 to establish a salary schedule for coroners and increase the minimum compensation for deputy coroners; require the Department for Local Government to certify the population group within the salary schedule and the years of service for each coroner assuming office; provide for adjustments to compensation for part-time employment and the consumer price index; allow additional compensation for training courses completed; require an annual cost of living adjustment to be granted to each deputy coroner's salary; require the fiscal court
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Hale
To Local Government (h) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to eliminating nontraditional instruction. [HB-737]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 158.070 to remove the authorization for nontraditional instruction.
Sponsored by: Rep. Felicia Rabourn
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to fish and wildlife law enforcement. [HB-767]
[Animals ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Environmental ]
[Crime ]
Amend KRS 15.519 to make game wardens employed by the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources subject to the same requirements for entering or accessing private open land as other law enforcement officers; amend KRS 150.090 to conform; amend KRS 235.310 to make boating enforcement officers employed by the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources subject to the same requirements for entering or accessing private open land as other law enforcement officers.
Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
To Tourism & Outdoor Recreation (h) on 02/27/2025