Kentucky 2025 Regular Session All Bills
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB41
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Refer
2/4/25
Amend KRS 37.170 to create the Kentucky Emergency Volunteer Corps (KEV Corps) within the Kentucky State Defense Force; create a new section of KRS Chapter 37 to detail KEV Corps eligibility, supervision, training requirements, uniform details, and prohibitions and to create the KEV Corps fund; amend KRS 39B.030 to permit the local emergency management director to use the KEV Corps during a local disaster or emergency; amend KRS 39B.050 to include the KEV Corps as a part of the local disaster and emergency services organization; amend KRS 39B.070 to permit each city, urban-county government, or charter county government the use of the KEV Corps.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB410
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
2/12/25
Amend KRS 527.010 to define "assault weapon" and "large capacity ammunition feeding device"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 527 to criminalize possession and transfer of large capacity ammunition feeding devices; criminalize the possession and transfer of assault weapons; provide exceptions for large capacity ammunition feeding devices and assault weapons lawfully owned prior to the effective date of this Act; amend KRS 237.104 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB411
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
2/12/25
Amend KRS 121.015, relating to the Kentucky Registry of Election Finance, to define "campaign consultant"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 121 to establish the registration process for campaign consultants; set penalty for failure to register; require employers of campaign consultants to pay a registration fee.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB412
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
2/12/25
Amend KRS 121.015 to define "expenditure"; amend KRS 121.150 to prohibit candidates, slates of candidates, committees, contributing organizations, or anyone on their behalf from making an expenditure to an intermediary, including subcontractors, for the purpose of making a payment to another person; require that expenditures be made directly to the provider of goods or personal services.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB413
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
2/12/25
Amend KRS 304.17A-164 to establish cost-sharing requirements for prescription drugs; require rebates to be passed through; establish confidentiality requirements for the rebate information; create a new section of KRS 365.880 to 365.900 to provide that the actual amount of rebates received is a trade secret; provide that compliance with prescription drug cost-sharing and rebate requirements shall not be in violation of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act; amend KRS 304.17C-125, 304.38A-115, 18A.225, and 164.2871 to apply the cost-sharing and rebate requirements for prescription drugs to limited health service benefit plans, limited health service organizations, the state employee health plan, and self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution; apply provisions to health plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2026; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2026.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB414
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
2/12/25
Report Pass
3/12/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to require all hospitals offering obstetric services and alternative birthing centers to provide or make referrals for perinatal palliative care; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for perinatal palliative care; amend KRS 164.2871, 205.522, 205.6485, and 18A.225 to require self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary institution to its employees, Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program, and the state employee health plan to comply with the new section on perinatal palliative care; make technical corrections; provide that the Act may be cited as the Love Them Both Act of 2025; direct that certain provisions apply to health benefit plans issued, renewed, effective, or delivered on or after January 1, 2026; 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 HB415
Introduced
2/11/25
Refer
2/11/25
Refer
2/14/25
Report Pass
2/19/25
Engrossed
2/27/25
Refer
2/27/25
Refer
3/4/25
Report Pass
3/11/25
Enrolled
3/14/25
Enrolled
3/14/25
Chaptered
3/24/25
Passed
3/24/25
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to establish application of the subtitle to types of insurance, coverages, and benefits; authorize the insurance commissioner to exempt other types of similar or limited insurance, coverage, or benefits from the subtitle.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB416
Introduced
2/11/25
Refer
2/11/25
Refer
2/14/25
Report Pass
2/26/25
Engrossed
3/5/25
Refer
3/5/25
Amend KRS 304.39-020 to modify requirements for medical expenses submitted pursuant to the Motor Vehicle Reparations Act; amend KRS 304.39-210 to establish requirements for reparations obligors paying medical expenses and persons submitting and collecting on medical expenses.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB417
Introduced
2/11/25
Refer
2/11/25
Refer
2/14/25
Amend KRS 211.690 to require the Health Access Nurturing Development Services (HANDS) Program to provide educational information about maternal and postpartum depression; make technical corrections.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB418
Introduced
2/11/25
Refer
2/11/25
Refer
2/14/25
Create a new section of KRS 311.710 to 311.820 to define terms; establish privacy protections for a woman seeking reproductive health care outside of the Commonwealth; establish protections for any person or entity assisting a woman seeking reproductive health care out of the Commonwealth; establish a civil cause of action for violations; waive sovereign immunity protections of the Commonwealth.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB419
Introduced
2/11/25
Refer
2/11/25
Refer
2/14/25
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to establish reproductive rights and define terms; amend KRS 18A.225 to remove the prohibition of insurance coverage for abortion; amend KRS 39A.180 to allow the Governor to suspend statutes related to abortion during a declared emergency; amend KRS 156.496 to allow a school district to operate a family resource center that provides abortion counseling; amend KRS 205.010 to permit financial aid for an abortion; amend KRS 205.510 to include abortions or induced miscarriages as medical care; amend KRS 205.560 to allow medical aid payments for abortion; amend KRS 211.603 to allow money in the rape crisis trust fund to be used for abortion services or education; amend KRS 212.275 to allow health departments to dispense medication for an abortion; amend KRS 213.101 to remove various reporting requirements; amend various sections to remove penalties associated with performing abortions; amend various sections to conform; repeal, reenact, and amend or repeal and reenact KRS 311.783, 311.7710, 311.820, 311.990, 311.780, 311.810, 311.572, 311.591, 311.686, and 311.852 to conform; repeal KRS 15.241, 213.098, 213.172, 213.174, 213.176, 216B.0435, 216B.200, 216B.202, 216B.204, 216B.206, 216B.208, 216B.210, 304.5-160, 311.710, 311.715, 311.720, 311.723, 311.724, 311.725, 311.727, 311.728, 311.731, 311.732, 311.733, 311.735, 311.750, 311.760, 311.765, 311.770, 311.7701, 311.7702, 311.7703, 311.7704, 311.7705, 311.7706, 311.7707, 311.7708, 311.7709, 311.7711, 311.772, 311.7731, 311.7733, 311.7734, 311.7735, 311.7736, 311.7737, 311.7739, 311.774, 311.7741, 311.7743, 311.781, 311.7811, 311.782, 311.784, 311.7841, 311.785, 311.786, 311.787, 311.790, 311.800, 311.821, 311.822, 311.823, 311.824, 311.825, 311.826, 311.827, 311.830, 311.992, and 315.315; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2026.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB42
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Refer
2/4/25
Create a new section of KRS 17.500 to 17.580, relating to the sex offender registry, to define "costume" and "Halloween-related activity"; prohibit sex offenders who have committed a criminal offense against a victim who is a minor from participating in any Halloween-related activity; establish penalties.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB420
Introduced
2/11/25
Refer
2/11/25
Refer
2/14/25
Amend KRS 342.0011, relating to workers' compensation, to expand the definition of "injury" to include psychological injuries for police officers, firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, front-line staff members, or members of the National Guard; create a new section of KRS Chapter 342 to establish when psychological injuries are valid workers' compensation claims when not a direct result of a physical injury.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB421
Introduced
2/11/25
Refer
2/11/25
Refer
2/14/25
Report Pass
3/5/25
Engrossed
3/6/25
Refer
3/6/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
3/11/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Chaptered
4/2/25
Passed
4/2/25
Amend KRS 304.17A-257 to require coverage for all colorectal cancer examinations and laboratory tests specified in the United States Multi-Society Task Force on Colorectal Cancer guidelines for certain covered persons; require coverage for all United States Food and Drug Administration-approved bowel preparation prescribed in connection with a colorectal cancer examination or test; prohibit prior authorization requirements for colorectal cancer examinations and laboratory tests; provide an exemption from the cost sharing prohibition for Health Savings Account-qualified High Deductible Health Plans under certain circumstances; provide that the colorectal cancer examination and laboratory test coverage section applies to health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2026; establish construction of certain provisions for purposes of federal law and require state officials to comply; 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 HB422
Introduced
2/11/25
Refer
2/11/25
Refer
2/14/25
Report Pass
2/26/25
Engrossed
3/6/25
Refer
3/6/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
3/13/25
Enrolled
3/14/25
Enrolled
3/14/25
Chaptered
3/25/25
Passed
3/25/25
Amend KRS 13A.010 to define "signature"; amend KRS 13A.190, 13A.220, 13A.2251, 13A.2255, 13A.240, 13A.250, 13A.255, 13A.280, 13A.312, and 13A.320 to establish administrative regulation filing and notification requirements; amend KRS 13A.270 to direct the Commonwealth Office of Technology to administer a centralized state government website to inform the public about regulation filings; require promulgating agencies to join the registration website; amend KRS 13A.290 and 13A.300 to set out regulation deferral powers and requirements; amend KRS 13A.315 to no longer require the Governor to send regulation withdrawal decisions to the regulations compiler by telephone; amend KRS 13A.335 to make designated regulation deficiency procedures apply to all legislative committees; amend KRS 13A.040 to conform.