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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to support systems for English language learners in common schools. [HB-494]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; establish the English learner enhanced support program under the Department of Education to help bring English learners with little or no formal education to grade-level proficiency within three years; require the department to set standards for program, contract with a provider meeting certain standards and with record of success with qualified English learners, identify eligible districts or schools, offer the program to as many students as funds permit, and report to the Legislative Research
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Lee Meredith
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/21/2025
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AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency. [SB-165]
[Education ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Funding ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; prohibit a school district, public school, or cooperative board from providing differential treatment or benefits on the basis of an individual's religion, race, sex, color, or national origin; prohibit the Kentucky Department of Education, a school district, a public school, or a cooperative board from expending any resources on diversity, equity, and inclusion; prohibit the department, a school district, a public school, or a cooperative board from soliciting statements on an applicant's
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Sponsored by: Sen. Mike Wilson
To Education (s) on 02/18/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to insurance. [HB-522]
[Insurance ]
Amend KRS 304.5-150 to include gender-neutral language.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Lee Meredith
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to state government. [SB-156]
Amend KRS 56.020 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 Employee Child Care Assistance Partnership Program. [HB-508]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
[Healthcare ]
Amend KRS 199.884 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish new procedures related to the Employee Child Care Assistance Partnership Program.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jennifer Henson Decker
Reported Favorably, 2nd Reading, To Rules With Committee Substitute (1) And Committee Amendment (1-title) on 03/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Office of Safer Communities, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-515]
[Public Safety ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Community Development ]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 12 to establish the Office of Safer Communities within the Office of the Governor; amend KRS 12.020 and KRS 12.023 to conform; appropriate $3,000,000 in fiscal year 2025-2026 to fund the office; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to earned wage access services. [SB-161]
[Finance ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Data Privacy ]
Establish Subtitle 13 of KRS Chapter 286, the Kentucky Financial Services Code, and create new sections to regulate earned wage access services; define terms; establish exemptions from the subtitle; establish licensing requirements for certain earned wage access services providers; establish requirements for change of control of a licensee; provide circumstances under which the commissioner of the Department of Financial Institutions is authorized to take adverse action, enter emergency orders, deny a license, or take other regulatory actions; authorize
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jason G. Howell
To Banking & Insurance (s) on 02/19/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to government personnel policies and declaring an emergency. [SB-164]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Ethics ]
[Human Rights ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 61 to prohibit a state or local government or public agency from providing preferential treatment to individuals or entities on the basis of religion, race, sex, color, or national origin when they contract or seek employment with the state or local government; define terms; prohibit a state or local government from requiring or incentivizing a person to attend a diversity, equity, and inclusion training or provide any differential treatment or benefits to an individual based on the individual's participation in
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Sponsored by: Sen. Mike Wilson
To State & Local Government (s) on 02/18/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to healthcare services and declaring an emergency. [HB-495]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Rights ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 344 to define terms; prohibit discrimination against mental health care professionals, mental health care institutions, and ordained ministry for providing protected counseling services; prohibit discrimination against individuals for offering information, training, and referrals for protected counseling services; prohibit discrimination against parents and guardians who consent to their child receiving protected counseling services; prohibit reporting of a mental health care professional or mental health care
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 107) on 03/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to economic development. [SB-152]
[Economic Development ]
Amend KRS 154.10-040 to add gender-neutral language.
Sponsored by: Sen. Phillip Wheeler
To Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (s) on 02/19/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance. [SB-162]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Unemployment ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 341 to require the Education and Labor Cabinet to refer suspected unemployment insurance fraud cases to the United States Department of Justice, the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, and the county attorney or Commonwealth's attorney within 30 days of the suspected fraud determination; require that public agencies immediately terminate employees or contractors determined to have collected or attempted to collect unemployment benefits while employed by the public agency; do not require a legal disposition
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Sponsored by: Sen. Donald Douglas
Signed By Governor on 03/24/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
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AN ACT relating to the Commonwealth's property and casualty insurance fund and declaring an emergency. [HB-524]
[Insurance ]
Amend KRS 56.065, 56.070, 56.095, 56.100, 56.110, 56.120, 56.140, 56.150, 56.160, and 56.180 to rename the state fire and tornado insurance fund to the Commonwealth's property and casualty insurance fund and make technical corrections; to extend the reinsurance requirements for the Commonwealth's property and casualty insurance fund; amend KRS 42.0651 and 164A.577 to conform; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Lee Meredith
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 136) on 03/31/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to state employee health insurance. [SB-155]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Public Health ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Amend KRS 18A.225 to exclude from the definition of "employee" any employer pursuant to KRS 61.522 that ceases participation in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System by June 30, 2021, once they cease participation in the state employee health insurance plan they may not participate in the future; require minimal participation duration for all benefits administered by the Personnel Cabinet pursuant to KRS 18A.225 to 18A.2287; require health insurance coverage for state employees to provide minimum value that pays over 60 percent of the total cost
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Sponsored by: Sen. Michael Nemes
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 02/18/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to reading and language arts instruction. [HB-528]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; require the Kentucky Department of Education to establish an approved list of reading curriculum that does not use a three-cueing system; prohibit school districts from using any curriculum that employs a three-cueing system; prohibit the use of a three-cueing system in teacher professional development; require the Educational Professional Standards Board to promulgate administrative regulations establishing curriculum for each approved educator preparation program; amend KRS 164.306 to specify
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Sponsored by: Rep. James A. Tipton
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prohibited uses of state tax dollars. [HB-492]
[Immigration ]
[Taxes ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[National Security ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 48 to define "illegal alien"; prohibit state tax dollars appropriated by the General Assembly from being used to compensate an illegal alien; direct the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security to assist in the implementation and enforcement of the Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the governance of the Kentucky School for the Deaf. [HB-532]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Disabilities ]
Amend KRS 167.017 to set timelines for appointment of a search committee for the superintendent of the Kentucky School for the Deaf and appointment of the superintendent; require prioritization of candidates that will be locally available and commit to full-time duties as superintendent; preclude Department of Education employees or Board of Education members from being appointed as superintendent within one year of employment or membership.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel B. Elliott
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the acquisition of agricultural land. [SB-167]
[Agriculture ]
[Real Estate ]
[Trade ]
[Economic Development ]
[Property Tax ]
[National Security ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 247 to define terms; prohibit a nonresident alien, foreign business, foreign agent, trustee, or fiduciary associated with the government of any proscribed country referenced in 22 C.F.R. sec. 126.1 from the purchase, lease, or acquisition of agricultural land in Kentucky or participation in programs administered by the Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Development Board, and Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation; allow an existing foreign-owned business to purchase adjacent agricultural land to expand
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jason G. Howell
To Judiciary (s) on 02/19/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prohibited uses of state tax dollars. [SB-151]
[Immigration ]
[Taxes ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[National Security ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 48 to define "illegal alien"; prohibit state tax dollars appropriated by the General Assembly from being used to compensate an illegal alien; direct the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security to assist in the implementation and enforcement of the Act.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert M. Mills
Received In House on 03/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the issuance of identity documents. [HB-518]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 186 to require the Transportation Cabinet to expand driver licensing services in each county by setting up a system between the Transportation Cabinet and the circuit clerks for issuance of operator's licenses and personal identification cards; amend KRS 186.531 to conform; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2026.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Hale
To Transportation (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to dementia training. [HB-479]
[Healthcare ]
[Senior Citizens ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Human Services ]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 194A.545 to require the Department for Community Based Services (DCBS) to require a one-hour dementia training and continuing education course using available training at no cost; require dementia training for DCBS supervisory, direct services, and adult protective services staff.
Sponsored by: Rep. Derek Lewis
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/12/2025