Kentucky 2025 Regular Session All Bills
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB234
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Report Pass
2/18/25
Engrossed
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
3/4/25
Enrolled
3/6/25
Enrolled
3/6/25
Chaptered
3/7/25
Passed
3/7/25
Amend KRS 16.220, relating to confiscated firearms sold at public auction, to add airport safety and security department to the list of agencies that are eligible to receive grant funds from the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security for purchasing body armor and other necessary equipment.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB235
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Repeal and reenact KRS 344.010 to define terms; amend KRS 344.020, relating to the purpose of the Kentucky's civil rights chapter, to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.025, 344.040, 344.050, 344.060, 344.070, and 344.080, relating to prohibited discrimination in various labor and employment practices, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 210.033, 344.030, 344.100 and 344.110 to conform; amend KRS 344.120 and 342.140, relating to prohibited discrimination in places of public accommodation and advertisements therefor, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.170, 344.180, 344.190, 344.300, and 344.310, relating to the state and local human rights commissions, to include prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in the scope of their powers and duties; amend KRS 344.360, 344.370, 344.380, and 344.680, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain housing, real estate, and other financial transactions, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.367, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain insurance sales, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.400, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain credit transactions, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 18A.095 to conform; make technical corrections.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB236
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Report Pass
3/5/25
Engrossed
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Refer
3/12/25
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to cover epinephrine devices for covered persons; limit a covered person's cost-sharing amount to $100 annually; amend KRS 304.17A-099 to exempt the epinephrine device coverage requirement from being suspended under state law due to the triggering of federal cost defrayment requirements; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485,164.2871, and 18A.225 to require Medicaid, KCHIP, self-insured employer group health plans offered by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution, and the state employee health plan to comply with the epinephrine device coverage requirement; provide that various sections apply to health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2026; require the Department of Insurance to determine whether the epinephrine devices coverage requirement would be in addition to essential health benefits required under federal law; require the Department of Insurance to obtain federal approval, if necessary; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to obtain federal approval, if necessary, and comply with notice requirements; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2026.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB237
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to define terms; prohibit persons who own 50 or more single-family rental homes in qualifying counties from purchasing additional single-family homes in qualifying counties except for use by the person as a residence; limit the purchase restriction to single-family homes that have been advertised for sale for less than 90 days or less than 30 days if the purchaser qualifies as a small business; provide that a violation is also a violation of KRS 367.170; provide for joinder of certain parties with joint and several liability in enforcement actions.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB238
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amend KRS 164.092 to remove the definition of "equilibrium" and all references to equilibrium; require that university resources shall be allocated without weighting; require the postsecondary working group to meet every odd year; make technical amendments.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB239
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amend KRS 156.160 to require any course meeting the health requirement for high school graduation to include information on the organ donation program.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB24
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/12/25
Engrossed
2/25/25
Refer
2/25/25
Refer
2/27/25
Report Pass
3/11/25
Refer
3/13/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Chaptered
3/31/25
Passed
3/31/25
Amend KRS 65A.010 to add specificity to the definition of "special purpose governmental entity" to include soil and water conservation services; amend KRS 262.097 to conform; amend KRS 262.280 to exempt a soil and water conservation district from the requirements set forth in KRS 65A.030; amend KRS 262.763 to exempt a watershed conservancy district from the requirements set forth in KRS 65A.030.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB240
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Report Pass
2/12/25
Engrossed
2/27/25
Refer
2/27/25
Refer
3/4/25
Report Pass
3/11/25
Refer
3/14/25
Enrolled
3/14/25
Enrolled
3/14/25
Vetoed
3/26/25
Refer
3/27/25
Override
3/27/25
Refer
3/27/25
Override
3/27/25
Enrolled
3/27/25
Enrolled
3/27/25
Chaptered
3/27/25
Passed
3/27/25
Amend KRS 158.305 to require kindergarten students to be given a universal screener within the final 10 instructional days of the school year; beginning with the 2025-2026 school year require that a student remain in kindergarten for an additional year if he or she did not make adequate progress in kindergarten; prohibit a school from requiring a student who turns seven by August 1 to remain in kindergarten; require the school to reevaluate the reading improvement plan of any student remaining in kindergarten; allow a student provided an additional year in kindergarten to advance through the primary program when it is determined to be in the student's best interest.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB241
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Report Pass
2/19/25
Engrossed
2/25/25
Refer
2/25/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
2/27/25
Report Pass
3/6/25
Refer
3/7/25
Refer
3/11/25
Refer
3/14/25
Enrolled
3/14/25
Enrolled
3/14/25
Chaptered
3/27/25
Passed
3/27/25
Allow local school districts to make up days missed by adding instructional time to student attendance days; notwithstand the requirement for the student instructional year to have 170 student attendance days; allow waiver of up to five student attendance days if a school district is unable to provide the required 1,062 hours of instruction by June 4, 2025; require local boards of education seeking to revise its calendar to submit a plan for approval to the Department of Education; allow instructional time made up and days waived to count as employee contracted days; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB242
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Engrossed
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
3/4/25
Enrolled
3/11/25
Enrolled
3/11/25
Enrolled
3/11/25
Chaptered
3/15/25
Passed
3/15/25
Amend KRS 620.050 to allow identified persons or entities to have access to confidential information related to child dependency, neglect, and abuse reports for the purpose of a bona fide research, quality improvement, or evaluation project; establish criteria.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB243
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 7A to establish the Financial Incentive Review Committee; define terms; specify committee membership, authority, powers and duties; establish requirements for meetings; establish requirements for how the General Assembly shall enact new financial incentives; require agencies to assign a unique identification number for purposes of reporting financial incentives; amend KRS 11.068 to require the annual production of a detailed estimate of the revenue loss resulting from each tax expenditure from the general fund and road fund; amend KRS 131.020 to require the Department of Revenue to collect, report, and provide data to the committee; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to provide confidential data to the committee; amend KRS 148.522 to require the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet to collect, report, and provide data to the committee; amend KRS 154.12-210 to require the Cabinet for Economic Development to collect, report, coordinate, and provide data to the committee; amend KRS 246.030 to require the Department of Agriculture to collect, report, coordinate, and provide data to the committee.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB244
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Create new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms; require health plans to provide coverage for eating or feeding disorder treatment; prohibit health plans from using certain standards, including body mass index, when determining medical necessity or the appropriate level of care for an individual diagnosed with a feeding or eating disorder; amend KRS 304.17C-125, 205.522, 205.6485, 164.2871, and 18A.225 to require limited health services benefit plans, Medicaid, KCHIP, self-insured employer group plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution, and the state employee health plan to comply with the prohibition from using certain standards when determining medical necessity and the coverage requirement for eating or feeding disorder treatment; provide that various sections apply to health plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2026; require the Department for Medicaid Services or the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to obtain federal approval, if necessary, and comply with notice requirements; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2026.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB245
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require coverage for emergency ground ambulance services; establish minimum allowable reimbursement for out-of-network emergency ground ambulance services; establish requirements for reimbursement of out-of-network ground ambulance providers; prohibit balance billing by out-of-network ground ambulance providers; establish construction clause in the event of conflicts; amend KRS 304.17A-099 to exempt emergency ground ambulance coverage and payment requirements from the cost defrayal payment suspension requirement; amend KRS 18A.225 to require the state employee health plan to comply with emergency ground ambulance coverage and payment requirements; provide that Act applies to health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2026; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2026.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB246
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Propose to amend Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky to prohibit persons adjudged mentally incompetent by a court from voting; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB247
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amend KRS 139.200, relating to the imposition of sales and use taxes on various types of property and services, to remove leisure, recreational, and athletic instructional services and recreational camp tuition and fees; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt electricity used for specified agricultural purposes from sales and use taxes; amend various other sections to conform; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2025.