State Agencies
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Medicaid coverage for doula services. [HB-553]
[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 whom the department contracts for the delivery of Medicaid services to provide coverage for doula services; create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to establish the Doula Advisory Council, council membership, and council duties; 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 02/25/2025
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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,
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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 retirement. [SB-187]
[Retirement ]
Amend KRS 61.530 to insert gender-neutral language.
Sponsored by: Sen. Michael Nemes
To State & Local Government (s) on 02/19/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Building Code. [HB-579]
[Construction ]
[Housing ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198B to permit less than six stories of Residential Group R-2 occupancy to be served by a single exit.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nima Kulkarni
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (h) on 02/25/2025
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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
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the regulation of recovery residences and declaring an emergency. [HB-587]
[Housing ]
[Public Health ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Community Development ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Safety ]
Amend KRS 222.504 and 222.506 to require that recovery residences be inspected at least annually by state or local officials capable of ensuring compliance with all state and local zoning, building code, and fire safety laws, administrative regulations, and ordinances and establish maximum occupancy standards for recovery residences; amend KRS 222.510 to permit local governments to require an individual or entity seeking to establish a recovery residence to provide notice up to six months in advance to all property owners within 1,000 feet of the
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Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
To Local Government (h) on 02/25/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to local government financial practices. [HB-555]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Finance ]
[Taxes ]
Amend KRS 91A.040 to change the population thresholds for exceptions to annual municipal audits to a single exception for municipalities with less than 3,000 people; change the revenue exception from $150,000 to $500,000; allow the Department for Local Government to consider any evidence in assessing whether to allow an extension from the deadline for annual audits; permit the department to grant extensions up to 18 months; amend KRS 91A.040, 65.003, and 65.920 to indicate that the withholding of state funds from a municipality due to noncompliance
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Sponsored by: Rep. Chris Freeland
Signed By Governor on 04/01/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to student health and safety. [HB-589]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Crime ]
Amend KRS 158.162 to define "critical incident," require investigations in emergency plans for critical incidents, and state the goals of the investigations; amend KRS 158.4410 to task the state school security marshal with investigating serious physical injury or death incidents that occur on school property, at school-sanctioned events, or during interscholastic athletic events; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to outline the parameters of the investigation, require referral of potential criminal charges, and require necessary administrative
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Poore Moser
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/25/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to membership of the Geographic Information Advisory Council. [HB-550]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Community Development ]
Amend KRS 42.740 to reduce the number of candidates submitted by the Kentucky League of Cities and Kentucky Association of Counties for consideration of the Governor to be appointed to the Geographic Information Advisory Council from six persons to three persons.
Sponsored by: Rep. Randall Bridges
To State Government (h) on 02/25/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to alcohol and drug counselors. [HB-580]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Human Services ]
[Overdose Prevention ]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
Amend KRS 309.0836 to require temporary alcohol and drug peer support specialist licensees to become registered alcohol and drug peer support specialists after a maximum period of nine months from the date of issuance; amend KRS 222.233 to delete the requirement that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services promulgate an administrative regulation relating to reimbursement for temporary alcohol and drug peer specialists and require limitation on group size.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Poore Moser
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to elementary literacy and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-557]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Libraries ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 171 to establish the Kids Love to Read Program; specify the program is for children in kindergarten through grade five; require books to be sent to children's homes; require the Department for Libraries and Archives to promulgate administrative regulations necessary to administer the program; appropriate $500,000 in fiscal year 2025-2026 to support the program; APPROPRIATION.
Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
To State Government (h) on 02/25/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to disaster relief, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-544]
[Disaster Relief ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
Amend KRS 48.210, relating to branch budget bills, to require the Transportation Cabinet to provide assistance to the General Assembly during the budgeting process.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 129) on 03/31/2025
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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
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to automated license plate readers. [SB-185]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Crime ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to define terms; establish that automated license plate readers (ALPRs) shall only be used as set forth in this section; ALPRs may be deployed and maintained for the purposes of protecting public safety, conducting criminal investigations, ensuring compliance with law, regulating parking, controlling acess to secured areas, deterring crime and theft, and the Transportation Cabinet's toll collection activities; establish a 90-day data storage limit unless being used for criminal prosecutions or toll collection;
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jimmy Higdon
To Judiciary (s) on 02/19/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to children. [SB-181]
[Children and Youth ]
[Education ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Crime ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to define terms; direct each local board of education to designate one or more programs or applications as a traceable communication system that shall be the exclusive means for school district employees and volunteers to communicate electronically with students; provide that a parent may submit written consent for a designated school district employee or volunteer to communicate electronically with a student outside of the traceable communication system; exclude communications between a parent that is a school
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Sponsored by: Sen. Lindsey Tichenor
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 149) on 04/01/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to campaign finance. [SB-174]
[Elections ]
[Ethics ]
[Finance ]
Amend KRS 121.120 to require that the city and state of contributors to candidates for the General Assembly and statewide office be available to the public online.
Sponsored by: Sen. Matt Nunn
Received In House on 03/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to the Education and Labor Cabinet reorganization. [SB-178]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Education ]
[Disabilities ]
Amend KRS 151B.015 to establish the Division of Program Policy and Support within the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation; establish the Department for Disability Determination Services and its divisions in the Education and Labor Cabinet; establish the Office of Industry and Apprenticeship Services and the Division of Workforce Talent within the Department of Workforce Development; amend KRS 151B.017, 151B.185, and 12.020 to conform.
Sponsored by: Sen. Michael Nemes
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 29) on 03/18/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to government accountability. [HB-586]
[Ethics ]
Amend KRS 6.925 to insert 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
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AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Horse Racing and Gaming Corporation and declaring an emergency. [HB-566]
[Gaming ]
[Finance ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Alcoholic Beverages ]
Amend various sections of KRS Chapters 230 and 238, relating to the Kentucky Horse Racing and Gaming Corporation, to define "Kentucky quarter horse purse fund," "proof of wagers," "unclaimed pari-mutuel winning ticket," and "unredeemed pari-mutuel voucher"; confirm the corporation's jurisdiction over racing and gaming entities; require an annual audit of the corporation by a qualified auditing entity and reduce audits by the Auditor of Public Accounts to once every four years; grant the corporation flexibility in promulgating administrative regulations;
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Sponsored by: Rep. David W. Osborne
Received In House on 03/28/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the issuance of identity documents. [SB-166]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS 186.400 to 186.640 to require the Transportation Cabinet establish at least one permanent driver license regional office in each county with a population of 50,000 or more; create a new section of KRS Chapter 186 to require the Transportation Cabinet establish a mutual agreement with county clerks to issue operator's licenses and personal identification cards in each county that does not have a driver licensing regional office; amend KRS 186.531 to conform; amend KRS 186.577 to require that all driver vision testing results
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Sponsored by: Sen. Lindsey Tichenor
To Transportation (s) on 02/19/2025