Kentucky 2025 Regular Session All Bills
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB478
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
2/14/25
Amend KRS 65.111 to prohibit collection of an emergency response fee from a landlord if the response was not the result of the landlord's failure to maintain the building; specify authority to collect from the responsible party.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB479
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
2/14/25
Report Pass
2/20/25
Engrossed
2/27/25
Refer
2/27/25
Refer
3/4/25
Report Pass
3/11/25
Amend KRS 194A.545 to require the Department for Community Based Services (DCBS) to require a one-hour dementia training and continuing education course using available training at no cost; require dementia training for DCBS supervisory, direct services, and adult protective services staff.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB48
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/5/25
Report Pass
2/19/25
Engrossed
3/5/25
Refer
3/5/25
Refer
3/6/25
Report Pass
3/13/25
Refer
3/14/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Chaptered
4/1/25
Passed
4/1/25
Amend KRS 156.557 to increase the time period between mandatory summative evaluations for tenured certified school staff from once every three years to once every five years; provide that additional summative evaluations may be performed at the discretion of the individual's immediate supervisor but shall not be imposed as a uniform requirement across the system; amend KRS 158.060 to provide teachers access to their employment contract upon request; amend KRS 156.095 to require the Department of Education to create and local school districts to implement a four year recurring professional development training schedule that includes all required professional development trainings; provide that all certified school employees shall complete designated trainings within 12 months of initial hire and at least once every four years thereafter; consolidate state-required certified school personnel trainings; create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to relocate language currently contained in KRS 158.060 related to the display of designated hotline information and the publication of and school lessons on evidence-based suicide prevention awareness information; amend KRS 158.070 to remove language regarding professional development trainings consolidated elsewhere; amend KRS 160.346 to prohibit the Department of Education from requiring comprehensive school improvement plans and comprehensive district improvement plans not expressly required by federal law; amend KRS 156.492, 157.360, and 158.4416 to conform; amend KRS 161.031 to remove the mandate for an induction program for new teachers; require a report identifying school districts that do not implement an induction program for new teachers; require the Department of Education to conduct a review of the reporting requirements imposed upon public schools and public school districts; eliminate all reporting requirements not expressly required by state statute or federal law; submit a report on the remaining reporting requirements; provide that the Act may be cited as the Red Tape Reduction Act.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB480
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
2/14/25
Amend KRS 335.030 to add gender-neutral language.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB481
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
2/14/25
Amend KRS 217.2202 to eliminate the prohibition on kratom extracts and kratom products that contain greater than two percent 7-hydroxymitragynine; amend KRS 217.2203 to establish that products that contain greater than two percent 7-hydroxymitragynine shall comply with labeling requirements for kratom products but shall not be labeled or marketed as a kratom product; amend KRS 217.2205 to establish that that products that contain greater than two percent 7-hydroxymitragynine shall be subject to administrative regulations promulgated by the Department for Public Health, except the department shall not require those products to be labeled as a kratom product or as containing kratom extracts.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB482
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
2/14/25
Amend KRS 164.092 to exclude square feet leased for a commercial purpose or otherwise privatized from the square footage calculation contained in the comprehensive funding model for the public postsecondary education.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB483
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
2/14/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to waive qualified official immunity as a defense for employees or agents of public postsecondary education institutions that are not law enforcement officers; amend KRS 164.6949 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB484
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Failed
2/13/25
Amend KRS 164.321 to conform the size of the University of Louisville and University of Kentucky boards to the size and authority of the governing boards of all other state universities; replace the other state universities' boards of regents with boards of trustees and designate the board of trustees as the successor board; remove language regarding KCTCS; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to create the KCTCS board of regents; amend KRS 164.290 to bring the University of Kentucky and University of Louisville's establishment language into the same section as all other state universities; amend KRS 164.295 to provide all public universities the same program authority; amend KRS 164.001 to define terms and remove the distinction of a "comprehensive university"; amend KRS 164.420 to require the treasurer of all governing boards to have the same duties; amend KRS 164.350, 154.24-090; 164.005, 164.0053, 164.0057, 164.011, 164.013, 164.020, 164.0203, 164.021, 164.0211, 164.0283, 164.0284, 164.030, 164.036, 164.037, 164.092, 164.2843, 164.287, 164.291, 164.2951, 164.296, 164.297, 164.325, 164.330, 164.335, 164.352, 164.360, 164.365, 164.370, 164.375, 164.380, 164.400, 164.440, 164.450, 164.465, 164.475, 164.7894, 164.7919, 164.7911, 164.800, 63.080, 160.15911, 161.565, 161.568, 183.132, 164A.550, 164.945, 164.870, 151.010, 177.377, 1518.408, and 164.7917 to conform; repeal KRS 164.003, 164.004, 164.100,164.125, 164.131, 164.140, 164.150, 164.160, 164.170, 164.180, 164.190, 164.200, 164.210, 164.220, 164.225, 164.230, 164.240, 164.250, 164.260, 164.280, 164.810, 164.815, 164.821, and 164.830; state that the University of Kentucky and University of Louisville shall be governed by KRS 164.290 to 164.475, state that the existing members of the University of Louisville and University of Kentucky Board of Trustees will be permitted to finish the remainder of their unexpired terms but shall not be replaced until the size of the board conforms to this Act; provide that the Act may be cited as the University Fairness Act.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB485
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
2/14/25
Amend KRS 148.056, relating to the Department of Parks, to add gender-neutral language.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB486
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
2/14/25
Amend KRS 150.023 to insert gender-neutral language.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB487
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
2/14/25
Amend KRS 262.095 to add gender neutral language.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB488
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
2/14/25
Amend KRS 246.285, relating to the Commissioner of Agriculture, to add gender-neutral language.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB489
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
2/14/25
Amend KRS 65.2005 to establish that a local government is not required to provide a legal defense for an employee and may refuse to pay a settlement or judgment against an employee if the employee refuses to cooperate or has been convicted or pled guilty to a crime arising from an action that led to the claim being filed; establish that a local government may file a claim against the employee to recover the amount paid by the local government, including costs and attorneys' fees, under specified circumstances including lack of cooperation and entry of a guilty plea or conviction for an action that led to the claim against the employee; establish a statute of limitations for the initiation of a claim by the local government.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB49
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Refer
2/4/25
Amend KRS 335.330 to require the board to review and approve applications within the specified time frames and to issue licenses within two weeks of application completion date; amend KRS 335.332 to allow an approved acting supervisor to assume responsibility for an associate practitioner receiving qualifying experience; amend KRS 335.340 to require the board to issue renewal license within two weeks of request receipt; create a new section of KRS 335.300 to 335.399 to mandate reciprocal licensure of a practitioner licensed in another state when specified criteria are met.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB490
Introduced
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
2/14/25
Amend KRS 91A.390 to require a quarterly filing of local transient room taxes for a person that facilitates the rental of the accommodations by brokering, coordinating, or in any other way arranging for the rental; create new section of KRS Chapter 91A.345 to 91A.394 to require local governing bodies who assess various local transient room taxes to provide information to the Secretary of State regarding those taxes and require the Secretary of State to develop a standard return, methods for electronic filing and payment, and publish contact information for local taxing districts; amend KRS 91A.392, 153.440, and 153.450 to conform; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2025.