State Agencies
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to hazardous duty coverage in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System. [HB-713]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Pensions ]
[Public Safety ]
[Retirement ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Crime ]
Amend KRS 61.592 to redefine "hazardous position" to include Department of Kentucky State Police forensic lab and crime scene personnel.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ashley Tackett Laferty
To State Government (h) on 02/27/2025
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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
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to boards of the Kentucky General Assembly and declaring an emergency. [HB-9]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 7A to define terms; establish the Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Board of the Kentucky General Assembly to review, analyze, study, evaluate, provide legislative oversight, and make recommendations to the General Assembly regarding any aspect of the Kentucky Medicaid program; establish board membership, authority, and duties; amend KRS 7A.010, 7A.140, 7A.150, and 7A.180 to conform; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Fleming
3rd Reading on 03/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to minimum staffing requirements for long-term care facilities. [HB-810]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Human Services ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 216 to define terms; require staff-to-resident ratios in long-term care facilities as a condition of licensure or relicensure; establish minimum staffing requirements; prohibit long-term care facilities from admitting new residents if the facility fails to comply with the minimum staffing requirements, beginning on the second day of noncompliance and continuing until six days after the required staffing is achieved, with exceptions allowed for weather emergencies and other similar events; require additional staffing
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Sponsored by: Rep. James A. Tipton
To Health Services (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to state contracts. [HB-760]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Small Business ]
[Construction ]
Amend KRS 45A.110 to require the bidder or offeror to attest to not receiving two or more civil penalties under KRS Chapter 337, 338, 339, or 341 in order to be eligible to receive the written determination of responsibility.
Sponsored by: Rep. Adrielle Camuel
Withdrawn on 02/20/2025
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AN ACT relating to fiscal matters. [HB-775]
[Economic Development ]
[Community Development ]
[Finance ]
Amend KRS 65.490 to remove the minimum square-mile requirement for a development area; amend KRS 65.494 to define "existing development area" and "new development area"; allow certain new development areas to be created within an existing development area.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Michael Nemes
Became Law Without Governor's Signature (acts Ch. 98) on 03/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to disaster recovery, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-727]
[Disaster Relief ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Public Safety ]
Appropriate necessary funds from the Budget Reserve Trust Fund to the WKSAFE Fund to be distributed to the Graves County Fiscal Court to support the replacement of the Graves County Jail; stipulate that the funding shall be reimbursed to the Commonwealth should the recipient receive moneys from any other source; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Steven Jack Rudy
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to communications with elected officials. [HB-715]
[Ethics ]
[Telecommunications ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 prohibiting public entities from requiring, compelling, or incentivizing program participants to communicate with elected officials with a specific political message.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Donworth
To State Government (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prevailing wage. [HB-757]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Economic Development ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to require the Office of Kentucky Center for Statistics to establish a certified living wage based on occupation type and geographic area utilizing data from the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics if the employer receives certain financial incentives from local, state, or federal agencies; amend KRS 151B.133 to require the Office of Kentucky Center for Statistics to establish a certified living wage by July 1 and every year thereafter; amend KRS 337.990 to establish civil penalties.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nima Kulkarni
To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to fantasy contests. [HB-742]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Gaming ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Taxes ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 230 to authorize the corporation to regulate the conduct of fantasy contest operators; require the use of geolocation technology; require fantasy contest operators to implement procedures to prevent fraud, abuse, and money laundering; require notification to the corporation for a confirmed breach of a sport's governing body's internal rules and codes of conduct, conduct that corrupts any outcome, and confirmed illegal activities; establish licensing requirements for a fantasy contest operator; allow the corporation
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Lee Meredith
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION encouraging the Kentucky Department of Education and the Kentucky Historical Society to recognize the 250th anniversary of America's independence throughout Kentucky's schools. [HR-57]
[Education ]
[Arts and Culture ]
Encourage the Kentucky Historical Society, in collaboration with the Kentucky Department of Education, to commemorate the 250th anniversary of the United States of America; provide that the Resolution may be cited as the Kentucky's Kids Remembering America's Path to Independence Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. Aaron Thompson
Taken From Committee On Committees (h) on 03/11/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Teachers' Retirement System. [HB-638]
[Pensions ]
[Retirement ]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 161.220 to add certain employees of WeLeadCS to the definition of "member"; allow the Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) to promulgate administrative regulations to facilitate payment and collection for purchased service credit, and make technical changes; amend KRS 161.230 to allow TRS to establish a title holding company for certain investments; amend KRS 161.250 to specify the deadline for a written appeal of a TRS decision is not subject to the jurisdiction of any court or appeal process; amend KRS 161.430 to allow agreements for commingled
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Sponsored by: Rep. DJ Johnson
To State Government (h) on 02/26/2025
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A JOINT RESOLUTION relating to contingent appropriations. [HJR-31]
[Agriculture ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
Express the General Assembly's consideration of program-specific funding to the Department of Agriculture.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie
Signed By Governor on 03/19/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to insurance. [SB-256]
[Insurance ]
Amend KRS 304.48-080 to replace a reference to the executive director with the commissioner.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jared K. Carpenter
To Banking & Insurance (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to commercial financing. [HB-680]
[Finance ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Small Business ]
Establish Subtitle 13 of KRS Chapter 286, and create new sections thereof, to define terms; establish exemptions; require certain commercial financing providers to register with the commissioner of the Department of Financial Institutions to engage in business; establish commercial financing trade practice standards and disclosure requirements for commercial financing transactions; establish penalties and exclusive enforcement by the financial institutions commissioner; provide that Subtitle 13 of KRS Chapter 286 may be cited as the Kentucky Commercial
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Pollock
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to liability shield products and declaring an emergency. [HB-648]
[Public Health ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Healthcare ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 217 to define terms; require a manufacturer of a liability shield product to subject the product to a placebo-controlled study before it is manufactured, marketed, distributed, or administered in Kentucky; establish requirements for the placebo-controlled study; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to monitor and track adverse outcomes of liability shield products; require manufacturers of liability shield products to submit documentation to the cabinet of the placebo-controlled study and results
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Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
To Health Services (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Office of the Auditor of Public Accounts. [SB-257]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Ethics ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Retain original provisions, except, make technical changes to provisions regarding funds available to the Auditor; amend KRS 43.010 to expand the definition of "state agency"; amend KRS 43.030 to rename the assistant auditor the deputy auditor and revise qualifications; amend KRS 43.050 to revise duties of the Auditor to make special audits and investigations if requested; amend KRS 43.080 to include gender-neutral language and expand the auditor's authority regarding investigations; amend KRS 43.990 to include agency premises as an area subject
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Sponsored by: Sen. Robert M. Mills
Received In House on 03/06/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to implement an in-home-drug disposal pilot program. [HJR-37]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
Direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to implement a pilot program beginning January 1, 2026, to study the effectiveness of in-home prescription drug disposal in Kentucky; require consultation with the Board of Pharmacy; require submission of a report to the Interim Joint Committee on Health Services by December 1, 2027.
Sponsored by: Rep. Robert B. Duvall
To Health Services (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to hospital price transparency. [SB-243]
[Healthcare ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Public Health ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 216B to define terms; require hospitals to disclose prices for certain items and services provided by hospitals; require hospitals to provide descriptions of different services and standard charges of those services; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations, monitor each facility's compliance, and provide administrative penalties; prohibit collective action of debt for noncompliant facilities.
Sponsored by: Sen. Keturah Herron
To Health Services (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to protection of information and declaring an emergency. [HB-672]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Artificial Intelligence ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Elections ]
[Ethics ]
[Consumer Protection ]
Amend KRS 42.722 to define terms relating to artificial intelligence; amend KRS 42.726 to require the Commonwealth Office of Technology to establish and implement policy standards for the use of artificial intelligence; create a new section of KRS 42.720 to 42.742to create the Artificial Intelligence Governance Committee; task the committee with the establishment of responsible, ethical, and transparent procedures for the allowable use, development, and approval of artificial intelligence for any department, program, cabinet, agency, and administrative
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josh Bray
To State Government (h) on 02/26/2025