Kentucky 2025 Regular Session All Bills
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB397
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
Amend KRS 158.1415 to require a school district to adopt health curricula that includes human growth and development instruction that meets specific criteria; set restrictions for the instruction that grants parents an opportunity to review materials and opt their child out of instruction; provide that the Act may be cited as the Baby Olivia Act.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB398
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
Report Pass
2/20/25
Engrossed
2/27/25
Refer
2/27/25
Refer
3/4/25
Report Pass
3/13/25
Refer
3/13/25
Enrolled
3/13/25
Enrolled
3/13/25
Vetoed
3/24/25
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 338.015 to define "qualified representative"; amend KRS 338.062 to prohibit the Kentucky Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board or the secretary of the Education Labor Cabinet from enforcing any occupational safety and health administrative regulation that has not been promulgated by or that is more stringent than the corresponding federal provision; amend KRS 338.091 to allow the Franklin Circuit Court to award actual expenses against the Department of Workplace Standards; amend KRS 338.111 to allow an employee's representative be present during an inspection; to allow the commissioner's representative to consult with employees if there is no employee representative available; amend KRS 338.121 to allow only current employees or qualified representatives of current employees to request an inspection; require that the alleged violation date be included in the notice and the employee's representative be notified; create time limits for filing a complaint and issuing a citation; amend KRS 338.141 to require that each citation include reference to the provision of the rule or regulation violated; require a citation or notice for any de minimus violation be issued promptly after inspection; prohibit issuance of a citation more than six months after the violation; require the correction time period be tolled until conclusion of the action.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB399
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
Report Pass
2/26/25
Engrossed
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Refer
3/11/25
Report Pass
3/12/25
Enrolled
3/13/25
Enrolled
3/13/25
Vetoed
3/25/25
Refer
3/27/25
Override
3/27/25
Refer
3/27/25
Override
3/27/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Chaptered
3/28/25
Passed
3/28/25
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 519 to define terms; create the crime of interference with a legislative proceeding in the first degree; create the crime of interference with a legislative proceeding in the second degree; amend KRS 431.015 to require a peace officer to make an arrest for a violation of interference with a legislative proceeding in the first or second degree.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB4
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
2/14/25
Report Pass
3/4/25
Engrossed
3/6/25
Refer
3/6/25
Refer
3/6/25
Report Pass
3/11/25
Refer
3/13/25
Enrolled
3/13/25
Enrolled
3/13/25
Vetoed
3/20/25
Refer
3/27/25
Override
3/27/25
Refer
3/27/25
Override
3/27/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Chaptered
3/28/25
Passed
3/28/25
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; prohibit a public postsecondary education institution from providing differential treatment or benefits on the basis of an individual's religion, race, sex, color, or national origin; from influencing the composition of the student body or scholarship recipients on the basis of religion, race, sex, color, or national origin; from implementing a student housing assignment plan on the basis of religion, race, color, or national origin with designated exceptions; from expending any resources on diversity, equity, and inclusion, the promotion of discriminatory topics, or bias incident investigations; from soliciting statements on an applicant's experience with or views on religion, race, sex, color, or national origin; from requiring a course dedicated to discriminatory concepts; or disseminating or profiting from any research, work product, or material that promotes or justifies discriminatory concepts; prohibit a public postsecondary education institution from requiring any individual to endorse or condemn a specific ideology or viewpoint; prohibit the Council on Postsecondary Education from providing differential treatment or benefits on the basis of an individual's religion, race, sex, color, or national origin or from expending any resources on diversity, equity, and inclusion or discriminatory topics; establish exclusions for legal compliance; require each governing board of a public postsecondary education institution to ensure compliance with specific sections of this Act no later than June 30, 2025; authorize the Attorney General to bring an action for a writ of mandamus to compel the council or a public postsecondary education institution to comply; create a cause of action to permit a qualified individual to file a civil action against council or a public postsecondary education institution for injunctive relief and limited damages arising from a violation of certain sections of this Act; waive sovereign and governmental immunity for the limited purpose of bringing this claim; prohibit retaliation; require each public postsecondary education institution to submit and publish a certified annual report on governmentally mandated discrimination to the Legislative Research Commission by October 1 each year; provide that a public postsecondary education institution or the council cannot claim a federal, state, judicial, contractual, or accreditation mandate as a defense to a civil action filed under this Act unless the policy, practice, or procedure upon which the complaint is founded is listed and clearly and accurately described in the public institution's annual report filed in accordance with this Act; require each public postsecondary education institution to provide the Personnel Cabinet and State Treasurer the name, job title, duty station, and salary or wages of each employee each month beginning January 1, 2025, and to post its itemized annual budget; amend KRS 164.020 to prohibit the Council on Postsecondary Education from approving a degree, certificate, or diploma program that includes discriminatory concepts or diversity, equity, and inclusion iniatives; amend KRS 164.011, 164.131, 164.321, and 164.821 to conform; direct the Council on Postsecondary Education to consider certain enumerated conditions when considering the elimination of an existing program; direct each public postsecondary education institution and the Council on Postsecondary Education to discontinue designated programs and follow designated procedures when implementing this Act; provide specific instructions for public postsecondary education institutions and the Council on Postsecondary Education to follow in implementing this Act; direct public postsecondary education institutions and the council to submit a report on implementation of this Act.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB40
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Refer
2/4/25
Amend KRS 311B.020 to add and amend definitions; amend KRS 311B.030 to add magnetic resonance imaging technologists, diagnostic medical sonographers, and student medical imaging technologists to the Kentucky Board of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy; amend KRS 311B.050 to add authority to recognize and enforce nationally recognized professional organizations and certifying bodies and issue advisory opinions; amend KRS 311B.090 to add non-ionizing and exempt ultrasounds for therapeutic, non-medical or keepsake ultrasounds from requirements; amend KRS 311B.100 to add individuals utilizing ionizing or non-ionizing radiation; add magnetic resonance imaging technologists, diagnostic medical sonographers, and student medical imaging technologists to licensure requirements; require the board to promulgate administrative regulations to permit licensure of magnetic resonance imaging technologists and diagnostic medical sonographers who are not credentialed by a national organization recognized by the board prior to January 1, 2027; amend KRS 311B.110 to add magnetic resonance imaging technologists, diagnostic medical sonographers, and student medical imagining technologists to application for licensure requirements; amend KRS 311B.120 to add magnetic resonance imaging technologists and diagnostic medical sonographers to fees and penalty requirements; delete reference to duplicate licenses and home study courses; amend KRS 311B.150 to add non-ionizing radiation; add magnetic resonance imaging technologists, diagnostic medical sonographers, and student medical imaging technologists to legal conditions; amend KRS 311B.160 to add violations and penalties for practicing without a license and other violations; amend KRS 311.727 to make technical corrections; repeal KRS 311B.080, 311B.180, and 311B.190 as the provisions of these statutes were incorporated in other statutes.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB400
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
Amend KRS 519.070 to include tampering with video recording or video monitoring devices in a correctional facility.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB401
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
2/12/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 18A to define "rapid whole genome sequencing"; require any health plan offered to public employees provide coverage and reimbursement for rapid whole genome sequencing; establish conditions for coverage.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB402
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
2/12/25
Amend KRS 154.12-223 to establish two positions in the Department for Business and Community Development within the Cabinet for Economic Development to be tasked with industry recruitment and job creation in the Eastern and Western Coal Field areas.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB403
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
2/12/25
Report Pass
2/25/25
Engrossed
3/5/25
Refer
3/5/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
3/13/25
Amend KRS 72.415 to allow the commissioner of the Department of Criminal Justice Training or his or her designee, to grant an extension to a deputy coroner to complete the required training, specify when the extension begins to toll, specify consequences for failure to complete the training within the time period of the extension; delete existing provisions relating to reinstatement and pay modification of deputy coroners who fail to complete the required training.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB404
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
2/12/25
Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB405
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
2/12/25
Amend KRS 117.076 to allow caregivers of voters qualified to cast an excused in-person absentee ballot due to age, disability, or illness to cast an excused in-person absentee ballot.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB406
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
2/12/25
Amend KRS 311A.155 to add training and education to uses of grant funds; change grant fund amounts that may be awarded; delete discretion for a county to hold unspent funds for two years; require all grants to be used during the fiscal year for authorized purposes; amend KRS 311A.055 to delete transfer of complaints regarding ambulance services to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; repeal KRS 216B.106 relating to ambulance service investigations and hearings.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB407
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
2/12/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 277 to require that every railroad company destroy or remove obstructive vegetation at intersections with public roads or highways; direct the Transportation Cabinet or local government to remove obstructive vegetation if the railroad company fails to do so and establish procedures for reimbursement by the railroad company for the vegetation removal.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB408
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
2/12/25
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to define terms; establish a qualified terminally ill patient's right to voluntarily request medication to self-administer to cause death; establish conditions required to make request; permit patient to rescind request at any time; permit an attending physician to provide medication; establish requirements for attending physician to inform patients and document request; require disposal of unused medications; establish residency requirements for qualified patients; require report by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; establish provisions for contracts, insurance policies, and beneficiaries; prohibit applicability of provisions to ending a patient's life by lethal injection, mercy killing, or active euthanasia; establish that a health care provider is not required to provide medication to a qualified patient; permit health care providers to prohibit persons or entities from participating in a qualified patient's request during or on the premises of employment; prohibit reporting a health care provider to a licensing board for participating in a qualified patient's request; state that actions under this Act do not authorize lethal injection, mercy killing or active euthanasia; establish that actions under this Act do not constitute suicide or homicide; create a form for a qualified patient to make a request; create a form for an interpreter for a qualified patient making a request; create a new section of Subtitle 12 of KRS Chapter 304 to establish provisions for insurance policies and beneficiaries of qualified patients; amend KRS 507.020 and 507.030 to create an affirmative defense to a charge of murder and manslaughter in the first degree; provide that the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Death with Dignity Act.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB409
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
2/12/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to require a waiting period of five business days between the sale and transfer of a firearm; amend KRS 237.990 to establish a penalty for a violation.