Kentucky 2025 Regular Session All Bills
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB289
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to make it a discriminatory employment action if an employer asks questions about previous salary or wages, relies on previous salary when setting a new salary, or refuses to hire if an applicant does not provide previous salary, except to allow a request for information voluntarily provided in response to an offer of employment; allow previous salary to be considered when required by law, for internal transfers, and for public employee positions; require notice to be posted for employees; amend KRS 337.990 to assess a civil penalty for a violation.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB29
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Refer
2/4/25
Amend KRS 227.480 to expand the group of entities whose model codes may be used as a source or basis for the standards required for electrical system construction, repair, and inspection as promulgated in the Uniform State Building Code; amend KRS 198B.050, 227.450, 227.489, 227.810, and 227A.010 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB290
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Report Pass
2/18/25
Engrossed
2/27/25
Refer
2/27/25
Refer
3/4/25
Report Pass
3/12/25
Amend KRS 172.100 and 172.200, relating to county law libraries, to ensure that law library funds can be expended for subscriptions to computer-assisted legal research, internet access, and computers and related equipment.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB291
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Report Pass
2/20/25
Engrossed
2/27/25
Refer
2/27/25
Refer
3/4/25
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 533 to define terms; require the court, upon conviction of the defendant, to consider the defendant's status as a primary caretaker of a dependent child unless the defendant is a violent offender, the victim is a child, or a statute prohibits an alternative sentence; require the court, upon a finding that the defendant is a primary caretaker of a dependent child, to consider an alternative sentence; provide that the defendant shall have the right to present an alternative sentencing plan and a family impact statement to the court; provide that in issuing an alternative sentence, the court may require the defendant to participate in programs and services that support the parent-child relationship; provide that the court may modify or revoke the alternative sentence and commit the defendant to an institution if the defendant fails to adhere to or complete the conditions of an alternative sentence; require the Administrative Office of the Court to report annually, beginning in 2026, to the Kentucky State Corrections Commission and to the Legislative Research Commission on the number, percentage, and demographics of parents and children impacted under this Act; provide that the Act may be cited as the Primary Caretaker Consideration Act.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB292
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amend KRS 156.070 to establish an interscholastic varsity athletics eligibility rule for transfers between member schools.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB293
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amend KRS 148.021 to establish a discount at state park lodging resorts and golf courses for Kentucky residents; provide that the Act may be cited as the J.E. Jones Kentucky Fairways Act.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB294
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define "Success Sequence"; require all students to receive instruction on the Success Sequence during grades 7 and 10 beginning with the 2026-2027 school year; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to establish academic standards for instruction on the Success Sequence; require the Department of Education to develop guidelines for implementing Success Sequence instruction; permit superintendents to partner with Kentucky-based nonprofits to develop required curriculum.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB295
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amend KRS 224.50-585 to define terms; prohibit the intentional release of more than 25 plastic balloons; establish a ban on plastic, single-use carryout bags by July 1, 2030; establish a ban on the provision of single-use plastic straws and Styrofoam food and beverage containers by retail food and beverage establishments by July 1, 2028; establish civil penalty of $100 per day for violations.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB296
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a nonrefundable income tax credit for alternative jet fuel producers and consumers; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the credit.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB297
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amend KRS 160.041 to provide a merger process for any contiguous school districts; require the Kentucky Board of Education to determine the terms of merger for an insolvent district if no agreement between the school districts can be reached, and to promulgate administrative regulations regarding mergers due to insolvency.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB298
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Report Pass
2/19/25
Engrossed
3/6/25
Refer
3/6/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
3/11/25
Refer
3/13/25
Refer
3/14/25
Enrolled
3/14/25
Enrolled
3/14/25
Chaptered
3/26/25
Passed
3/26/25
Amend KRS 160.346 to require the Kentucky Department of Education to annually identify schools for comprehensive support and improvement (CSI); require the audit of a CSI school to include an assessment and recommendation regarding the principal's capacity to lead the turnaround effort; remove the required use of a turnaround vendor by a CSI school; require the department to establish professional learning for teachers in a CSI school; require the superintendent of the district in which the CSI school is located to adopt evidence-based curriculum and select high-quality instructional materials for the school.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB299
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 67 to require county governments to operate at least one emergency shelter for persons experiencing homelessness or to otherwise contract with an operator of an emergency shelter; require an adequate number of beds in the emergency shelter; require the emergency shelter to conform to applicable federal and state law; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to provide standards for emergency shelters.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB3
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amend KRS 205.522 and 205.6485 to require Medicaid and KCHIP to comply with pharmacy reimbursement requirements established in KRS 304.12-237; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the department to seek federal approval if it is determined that such approval is necessary; and require the cabinet to comply with KRS 205.525.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB30
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Engrossed
2/20/25
Refer
2/20/25
Refer
2/25/25
Report Pass
3/5/25
Refer
3/12/25
Enrolled
3/14/25
Enrolled
3/14/25
Chaptered
3/24/25
Passed
3/24/25
Amend KRS 61.598 to exempt from the pension spiking provisions any increases in rates of pay authorized or funded by the legislative or administrative body of an employer or mandated in a collective bargaining agreement approved by the legislative body of the employer that are provided to members of the Kentucky Employees Retirement System, County Employees Retirement System, or State Police Retirement System.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB300
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amend KRS 157.3175 to require school districts provide a full-day preschool education program for eligible three and four-year-olds; establish eligibility for the program; require that preschool for three year old children continue to be funded through a grant process and preschool programs for four-year-old children be funded under KRS 157.310 to 157.440; require preschool programs to operate on the school district calendar; require transportation be provided; amend KRS 158.031 to include preschool education programs for four-year-old children in the primary school program; amend KRS 157.320 to remove the definition of "kindergarten full-time equivalent pupil in average daily attendance"; amend KRS 157.360 to remove a reference to the kindergarten full-time equivalent; amend KRS 158.030 to include a preschool education program for four-year-old children in the definition of "common school"; remove language allowing kindergarten to operate for less than six hours on a school day; amend KRS 158.060 and 160.1596 to conform.