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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. [SB-201]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
Amend KRS 342.213 to require the commissioner of the Department of Workers' Claims to certify to the Workers' Compensation Nominating Committee that filing an administrative law judge position is necessary 150 days prior to the expiration of the term, add that the nominating committee may recommend the retention of a Workers' Compensation Board member and that each newly appointed member of the board shall not assume office until 30 days after confirmation; amend KRS 342.215 to provide that any board member appointed to fill an unexpired term shall
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Sponsored by: Sen. Phillip Wheeler
Became Law Without Governor's Signature on 03/27/2025
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A JOINT RESOLUTION relating to contingent appropriations. [HJR-33]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Children and Youth ]
Declare that the General Assembly does not authorize the contingent appropriation moneys to establish an Innovations in Early Childhood Education Delivery Grant Program.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie
Taken From Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 03/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Ibogaine research in the Commonwealth. [SB-240]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Agriculture ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
Create new sections of KRS 218A to define terms; establish the intent of the General Assembly that ibogaine is worthy of clinical research, trials, and studies as a potential viable therapeutic treatment of opioid dependence and any other co-occurring mental health disorders; establish a trust and agency account entitled the ibogaine research fund; establish a process for private entities to apply to the Department of Agriculture for access to funds in the Ibogaine Research Fund.
Sponsored by: Sen. Donald Douglas
To Health Services (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
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A JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the release of funds. [HJR-30]
[Water ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
Authorize the Office of State Budget Director to release a portion of the moneys appropriated for the Kentucky Water or Wastewater Assistance for Troubled or Economically Restrained Systems Fund.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 127) on 03/28/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to health and family services. [HB-675]
[Healthcare ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Human Services ]
Amend KRS 205.558 to add gender-neutral language.
Sponsored by: Rep. Suzanne Miles
To Families & Children (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to mental health coverage in connection with pregnancy. [HB-633]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Insurance ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms; require health benefit plans to provide coverage for counseling interventions for pregnant and postpartum persons at increased risk of perinatal depression, including persons who have suffered a miscarriage or stillbirth; suspend the coverage requirement's application to qualified health plans if the state would be required to make cost defrayal payments; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485, 18A.225, and 164.2871 to require Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Chad Aull
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Kentucky Discipline of Government Efficiency Task Force. [HCR-50]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Economic Development ]
[Public Safety ]
Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Kentucky Discipline of Government Efficiency (KY DOGE) Task Force to study Executive Branch expenditures and provide recommendations for efficiency in government operations; require the task force to meet monthly during the 2025 Interim, and submit its findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Fleming
Floor Amendment (1) Filed To Committee Substitute on 03/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to medicinal cannabis. [SB-195]
[Cannabis ]
[Healthcare ]
Amend KRS 218B.020 to remove the requirement that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services collaborate with the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and the Kentucky Center for Cannabis in compiling an annual medicinal cannabis report.
Sponsored by: Sen. Steve West
To Health Services (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to housing development districts. [HB-7]
[Housing ]
[Economic Development ]
[Community Development ]
[Construction ]
[Real Estate ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define terms; permit a local government to establish a housing development district by following specified procedure; allow a local government to exempt housing developments within the district from planning and zoning following a public hearing; permit other local taxing authorities to participate in the district; allow a local government to accept applications from developers to construct residential homes within the district; allow a local government to negotiate with a developer whose application it
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie
To Local Government (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to reporting by local governments. [SB-218]
[Taxes ]
[Libraries ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 132 to define terms; require the Department of Revenue to ensure that taxpayers can access financial information regarding local taxing authorities, and to put that information on its website; specify the information that should be included for each type of local taxing authority; create a new section of KRS Chapter 65.900 to 65.925 to require a local government to publish its uniform financial information report on a website or to forward the report to its local county library, requiring a local government to
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Sponsored by: Sen. Amanda Mays Bledsoe
3rd Reading, Passed 37-0 on 03/06/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance. [SB-263]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Unemployment ]
[Insurance ]
Amend KRS 341.350, relating to unemployment insurance benefits, to reduce the required weekly work search activites from five to three and to state that applications to and interviews with different locations of the same franchise constitute separate work searches.
Sponsored by: Sen. Keturah Herron
To State & Local Government (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Department of Kentucky State Police. [SB-266]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
Amend KRS 16.060 to allow the commissioner of the Department of Kentucky State police to authorize officers of the department to engage in law enforcement-related off-duty employment; require the commissioner to establish policies and procedures for off-duty employment; amend KRS 16.070 to require the commissioner of the Department of Kentucky State Police to establish policies and procedures related to the use of uniforms, equipment, and facilities for off-duty employment; amend KRS 44.045 to allow officers of the Department of Kentucky State Police
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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
AN ACT relating to third-party payors. [HB-687]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to define terms; establish payment and response requirements for third-party payors; amend KRS 205.623 to require third-party payors to respond within 60 days of certain health care claim inquiries from the Department for Medicaid Services; create a new section of KRS Chapter 18A, and amend KRS 205.532 and 304.12-255, to require the state employee health plan, affiliated and associated entities of Medicaid managed care organizations, and health insurers to comply with third-party payor requirements.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Poore Moser
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to health care. [HB-688]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Education ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Disabilities ]
[Crime ]
Amend KRS 314.041, relating to registered nurse licensure, and KRS 314.051, relating to licensed practical nurse licensure, to permit rather than require the board to issue credentials; amend KRS 314.042 to require physicians collaborating with an advanced practice registered nurse to have an active and unrestricted license in Kentucky; amend KRS 314.109 to reduce the time from 90 to 30 days for a person under the jurisdiction of the board to notify the board of a conviction of certain misdemeanors or felonies; amend KRS 209.032, relating to employees
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Poore Moser
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to fiscal matters and declaring an emergency. [HB-622]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Finance ]
[Funding ]
Amend KRS 45A.030 to expand the definition of "contract"; amend KRS 45A.035 to require promulgation of administrative regulations to establish policies regarding timely payments under contracts; create a new section of KRS Chapter 45A to establish timely payment penalty and procedures; require the Finance and Administration Cabinet to submit a detailed report of interest penalties and reimbursement payments every six months due to payments not timely made to the Legislative Research Commission; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
Became Law Without Governor's Signature (acts Ch. 162) on 04/10/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to certificate of need. [SB-217]
[Healthcare ]
Amend KRS 216B.020 to add various health facilities and services to the list of health facilities and services that are exempt from certificate of need requirements; amend KRS 216B.065 to exempt various health facilities and services from acquisition of facilities or major medical equipment notification and certificate of need requirements; amend KRS 216.380 to conform.
Sponsored by: Sen. Steve Rawlings
Introduced In Senate on 02/18/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to elections. [HB-684]
[Elections ]
[Education ]
[Voting Rights ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
Amend KRS 117.045 to allow a lesser number of precinct officers when the State Board of Elections has approved a county board of elections' precinct consolidation plan; amend KRS 117.065 to require the county board of elections to notify local boards of education of its intent to use school buildings as voting places by December 1 of each year; require the county board of elections to specify which school buildings will be used; amend KRS 117.066 to conform; allow a county board of elections to request an amendment to its previously submitted precinct
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jennifer Henson Decker
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 125) on 03/28/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to the fiduciary duties owed to the state-administered retirement systems. [SB-183]
[Retirement ]
[Pensions ]
[Investments ]
[Finance ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Amend KRS 21.450, 61.650, 78.790, and 161.430 relating to the fiduciary duties owed to the state-administered retirement systems to define "shareholder-sponsored proposal" and "economic analysis"; require a proxy adviser under contract with a state-administered retirement system to conduct and document an economic analysis prior to voting on or recommending a vote on a shareholder-sponsored proposal that is inconsistent with the recommendation of the board of directors of the issuer of shares in order to demonstrate that a vote against management's
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Sponsored by: Sen. Robert M. Mills
Received In Senate on 03/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to government oversight. [HB-585]
[Ethics ]
Amend KRS 6.935 to include gender neutral language.
Sponsored by: Rep. Scott L. Sharp
To State Government (h) on 02/25/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to housing and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-583]
[Housing ]
[Finance ]
[Taxes ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Construction ]
[Property Tax ]
[Community Development ]
[Religion ]
[Human Services ]
[Real Estate ]
[Energy ]
[Public Health ]
[Economic Development ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Poverty ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198A to create the affordable housing loan pool fund to be administered by the Kentucky Housing Corporation to provide rehabilitation and construction loans to eligible entities; specify terms and process; create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to create the homelessness prevention fund to be administered by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services for continuum of care funds; specify eligible uses and eligible entities; amend KRS 198A.080 to modify criteria for housing development loan fund, require notice
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Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/21/2025