Kentucky 2025 Regular Session All Bills
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB329
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amend KRS 65.870 to allow local governments to enact ordinances regulating firearms; amend KRS 65.1591 and 237.115 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB33
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Refer
2/4/25
Amend KRS 230.210 to define terms; amend KRS 230.260 to allow the Kentucky Horse Racing and Gaming Corporation (corporation) to license and regulate casino gaming and fantasy contests; allow the corporation to inspect all premises where casino gaming is conducted and seize any equipment or records related to casino gaming for the purposes of examination and inspection; require the corporation to promulgate administrative regulations related to casino gaming; create new sections of KRS Chapter 230 to establish licensing requirements for full casino, limited casino, and riverboat casino gaming; establish local option election requirements for the purpose of approving casino gaming; permit the corporation to solicit bids for the purpose of licensing casino gaming in a county; allow a limited casino license for racing associations that meet certain requirements; prohibit the sale or lease of gaming unless a person possesses a manufacturer or supplier license; prohibit a person under 21 years of age from placing a wager at a casino or accessing areas of a casino in which games are operated; require a licensee to compile a list of persons who are to be excluded from any licensed casino if they pose a threat to the interests of this state or to licensed gaming; establish requirements for any person seeking to register as a fantasy contest operator; prohibit a fantasy contest operator from offering a fantasy contest without a valid registration issued by the corporation; require the corporation to promulgate administrative regulations for the operation of fantasy contests; create a new section of KRS Chapter 138 to define terms and impose an excise tax and an admissions tax on gaming operations at casinos; amend KRS 68.182, 91.202, 92.282, 230.215, 230.225, and 230.232 to conform; amend KRS 243.500, 525.090, 528.010, 528.020, 528.070, 528.080, and 528.100 to exempt casino gaming and fantasy contests; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2025.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB330
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amend KRS 527.010 to define "domestic abuse offense," "domestic violence protective order," and "physical force"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 527 to create the crimes of possession of a firearm by a convicted domestic abuser and possession of a firearm by the subject of a domestic violence protective order; require the surrender of firearm by individuals subject to protective orders or convicted of specified crimes; amend KRS 403.740 and 456.060 to require courts to inform the subject of a domestic violence order or an interpersonal protective order of the firearm possession prohibition.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB331
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
2/7/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to require background checks for private firearms sales and transfers; amend KRS 237.990 to establish a penalty for violations.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB332
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
2/7/25
Failed
2/13/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to make it a crime to unlawfully store a firearm; establish elements of the crime for recklessly allowing access to an unsecured firearm by a minor; establish the crime as a Class A misdemeanor unless a physical injury or death results, in which case it is a Class D felony; provide that the Act may be cited as the Baby Dre Gun Safety Act.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB333
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amend KRS 186.417 to require that felony offenders released from county jails and local correctional facilities be issued personal identification cards or operator's licenses under certain conditions.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB334
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amend KRS 16.220 to require the destruction of confiscated firearms; amend KRS 45.777, 147A.002, 500.090, and 500.093 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB335
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
2/7/25
Propose to amend Section 29 of the Constitution of Kentucky to establish the initiative power of the people to propose laws and to enact or reject proposed initiatives at an election; establish procedures for initiatives, effect of adopted initiatives, and parameters for the subject of any initiative; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB336
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
2/7/25
Appropriate $224 million, $17 million, and $16 million in fiscal year 2025-2026 to the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority to fund a one-time two percent cost-of-living adjustment effective July 1, 2025, for Kentucky Employees Retirement System nonhazardous and hazardous duty recipients, and for State Police Retirement System recipients, respectively; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB337
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
2/7/25
Appropriate $95 million from the budget reserve trust fund in fiscal year 2024-2025 to the Kentucky Public Pension Authority to fund one-time supplemental payments on July 1, 2025, to recipients of a retirement allowance from the Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS) and the State Police Retirement System (SPRS); specify that the one-time supplemental payment shall be equal to the monthly payment received by the recipient in the month of June 2025; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB338
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amend KRS 141.019 to exclude all wages earned by a state service employee from individual income tax.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB339
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
2/7/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 227 to require owner, seller, or lessor to have functional smoke, carbon monoxide, and gas detectors where applicable in all existing residential structures; require seller or lessor to verify in affidavit prior to transfer or tenancy of property; exempt KRS Chapter 324 licensees from liability.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB34
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Refer
2/4/25
Amend KRS 189A.010 to create a per se limit for a blood level of tetrahydrocannabinol signifying intoxication; amend various sections of the KRS to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB340
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
2/7/25
Report Pass
3/4/25
Engrossed
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Refer
3/11/25
Report Pass
3/13/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 17 to define terms and require criminal justice agencies to provide criminal history records information to requesting agencies when they are conducting a basic suitability or fitness assessment for federal or contractor employees under 5 U.S.C. sec. 9101; authorize the agency to request a fee of $25 for reimbursement of expenses related to the check; amend KRS 610.340, relating to juvenile justice records, to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB341
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amend KRS 118.125 to require that the notification and declaration form prescribed by the State Board of Elections shall include four signature lines; require that candidates provide documentation verifying that the two voters signing the notification and declaration form are from the same party and district or jurisdiction as the candidate seeking nomination; amend KRS 118.165 to direct that the Secretary of State and the county clerk shall not certify any notification and declaration form that does not include proper registration documentation; amend KRS 118.176 to require that a person challenging a candidate's bona fides shall have the burden of showing that a candidate acted maliciously or with intent to defraud the court.