Kentucky 2025 Regular Session All Bills
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB437
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
2/14/25
Report Pass
2/26/25
Engrossed
3/4/25
Refer
3/4/25
Refer
3/6/25
Report Pass
3/11/25
Refer
3/14/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Chaptered
4/1/25
Passed
4/1/25
Retain original provisions; allow an administrator in a consolidated local government hired before the effective date of the Act to retain the power to make arrests regardless of his or her certification status; require a territory to enact a regulatory license fee by July 1, 2027, if it meets certain conditions; permit a licensee that is authorized to sell distilled spirits and wine by the drink at retail to sell distilled spirits and wine by the drink on Sunday; permit a licensee that is authorized to sell malt beverages by the drink at retail to sell malt beverages on Sundays.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB438
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
2/14/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 281 to establish procedures and requirements for providers of youth transportation network company services to children under the age of 14; allow school districts to contract with providers of youth transportation network company services for pupil transportation, subject to approval by the student's parent or legal guardian; amend KRS 281.010 to define "youth transportation network company services" or "youth TNC services."
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB439
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
2/14/25
Amend KRS 158.850 to define terms; ban schools from selling or providing ultra-processed foods during the school day.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB44
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/5/25
Engrossed
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
Refer
2/18/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define "anti-choking device"; require school cafeteria personnel and other expected users of the device to be trained if a school obtains an anti-choking device; provide immunity from civil liability for rendering emergency care or treatment with an anti-choking device or the Heimlich maneuver at a public or private school; provide that the Act may be cited as Landon's Law.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB440
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
2/14/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 159 to allow the enrollment of a child on a part-time basis in a school district; establish conditions for the part-time enrollment; amend KRS 158.120 to prohibit a district's nonresident pupil policy from discriminating against any pupil on the basis of residential address, abilities, disability, race, ethnicity, sex, or socioeconomic status; require the policy be posted on the district website; prohibit charging tuition to any child; require a board of education to establish policies for a calculation to determine enrollment capacity; establish requirements for a district's nonresident pupil policy; require districts to report to the Kentucky Department of Education numbers related to nonresident pupils and require the department to publish the reports on the department's website, authorize the department to promulgate administrative regulations for nonresident enrollment appeals processes and forms; amend KRS 157.350 and 156.070 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB441
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
2/14/25
Report Pass
2/20/25
Engrossed
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Refer
2/28/25
Report Pass
3/5/25
Refer
3/11/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Chaptered
4/1/25
Passed
4/1/25
Amend KRS 161.605, relating to the Teachers' Retirement System, to remove language requiring superintendents to make every reasonable effort to hire qualified applicants for teaching and nonteaching positions, increase the percentage of retired members that an employer can employ full-time from three percent to 10 percent, increase the number of retired members that a local school district may employ under the critical shortage provision from one percent of total active members employed by the school district or two members to 10 percent or four members, remove Kentucky Virtual High School the list of schools the Department of Education operates, remove the pension waiver program, and make technical changes; amend KRS 156.106 to remove language requiring superintendents to make every reasonable effort to hire qualified applicants for critical shortage areas; direct that current participants in the pension waiver program may continue to participate.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB442
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
2/14/25
Amend KRS 532.025 to include abuse of a corpse of the victim of kidnapping or murder by engaging in deviate sexual intercourse, sexual intercourse, or sexual contact as an aggravating circumstance; provide that the Act may be cited as Angela's Law.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB443
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
2/14/25
Report Pass
2/25/25
Engrossed
3/6/25
Refer
3/6/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
3/11/25
Enrolled
3/14/25
Enrolled
3/14/25
Chaptered
3/24/25
Passed
3/24/25
Amend KRS 177.317 to direct the Transportation Cabinet to include Kentucky Route 80 in the counties of Perry, Knott, and Floyd as part of the Hal Rogers Parkway; establish timeline for updating maps and signage.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB444
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
2/14/25
Report Pass
2/25/25
Engrossed
2/28/25
Refer
2/28/25
Refer
3/4/25
Report Pass
3/5/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Chaptered
3/31/25
Passed
3/31/25
Retain original provisions; amend KRS 281A.170 to allow a holder of a CDL who is under the age of 21 to receive a hazardous materials endorsement to transport hazardous materials in intrastate commerce.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB445
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
2/14/25
Amend KRS 61.510 to change the current definition of "membership date" in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System to remove date restrictions regarding educational contracts and allow any member who entered into an educational contract as a conditional employee of the state of Kentucky to have their system membership date for purposes of retirement benefits determination be based upon the earliest date of the contract.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB446
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
2/14/25
Report Pass
2/26/25
Engrossed
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Amend KRS 508.025 to expand assault in the third degree to include causing or attempting to cause physical injury to a justice or judge of the Court of Justice.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB447
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
2/14/25
Amend KRS 304.12-230 to establish an unfair claims settlement practice relating to the alteration of an independent adjuster's, staff adjuster's, or public adjuster's report in connection with a homeowner's insurance claim without providing certain documentation to the insured.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB448
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
2/14/25
Amend KRS 158.070 to provide that certified school personnel shall be compensated for professional development activities required outside of the days scheduled in the school calendar or regularly scheduled hours in the school work day.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB449
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
2/14/25
Report Pass
3/5/25
Engrossed
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Amend KRS 313.040 to allow dental hygienists associated with in-state colleges or universities to practice as a public health hygienist.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB45
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/6/25
Engrossed
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
Refer
2/18/25
Report Pass
3/5/25
Refer
3/11/25
Enrolled
3/14/25
Enrolled
3/14/25
Chaptered
3/24/25
Passed
3/24/25
Amend KRS 121.015, relating to campaign finance, to define terms; create new sections of KRS Chapter 121 to establish reporting and record retention requirements for political issues committees and persons making independent expenditures; prohibit political issues committees from knowingly and willfully soliciting or accepting contributions from prohibited sources; establish certification requirements for treasurers of political issues committees and donors making contributions and independent expenditures; define activity that creates a presumption of a violation; prohibit foreign nationals from making a donation, contribution, or expenditure, soliciting another person to make a donation, contribution, or expenditure, or participating in another person's decision to influence a ballot measure; establish a cause of action for accepting or soliciting contributions from prohibited sources and failing to certify, report, or retain records; establish a right of privacy in donations to tax-exempt organizations; establish a penalty for a state or local governmental entity, court, or officer of the court that violates the right of privacy; amend KRS 121.190 to require a "paid for by" disclosure for advertisements advocating or opposing a ballot measure.