Kentucky 2025 Regular Session All Bills
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB126
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
2/4/25
Amend KRS 2.110 to add the nineteenth day of June as a state holiday commemorating Juneteenth National Freedom Day.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB127
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
2/4/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to designate January 15 to April 4 of each year as Black History Season; require the Governor to proclaim Black History Season and to encourage Kentuckians to acknowledge its significance.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB128
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
2/4/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 344 to prohibit employers from considering or requiring disclosure of prior criminal history as part of the initial job application; provide that the Act may be cited as the Ban the Box - The Criminal Record Employment Discrimination Act.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB129
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
2/4/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require any employer doing business in Kentucky that receives governmental incentives or subsidies to pay its employees a living wage.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB13
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/25/25
Report Pass
3/14/25
Engrossed
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
Refer
3/14/25
Amend KRS 131.575 to make technical corrections.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB130
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
2/4/25
Amend KRS 317A.010 to allow fixed or mobile beauty salons, esthetic salons, nail salons, and limited beauty salons; amend KRS 317A.020 and 317A.145 to consider any type of mobile salon a "facility" and a "premises"; amend KRS 317A.060 to require the cosmetology board to set the standards for mobile and fixed salons and establish inspection schedules; direct any administrative regulations to balance licensee and public interests; amend KRS 317A.050 and 317A.155 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB131
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/18/25
Engrossed
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Refer
2/28/25
Report Pass
3/6/25
Enrolled
3/12/25
Enrolled
3/12/25
Passed
3/17/25
Amend KRS 95.500 to allow, absent a collective bargaining agreement, specified fire personnel to have schedules consisting of 48 hours on duty followed by 96 hours of off duty time; specify that collective bargaining agreements maintained by a city or urban-county government may control work hours in lieu of the specified schedules.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB132
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/12/25
Engrossed
2/20/25
Refer
2/20/25
Refer
2/25/25
Report Pass
3/6/25
Enrolled
3/12/25
Enrolled
3/12/25
Chaptered
3/18/25
Passed
3/18/25
Amend KRS 158.033 to allow a student admitted to an inpatient facility to receive home and hospital services effective on the day of admittance.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB133
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
2/4/25
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 335B to allow universal recognition of occupational licenses and government certifications; include work experience as a basis for licensure or certification; explicity include military personnel and their spouses; provide that the Act may be cited as the Universal Recognition of Occupational Licenses Act.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB134
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
2/4/25
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to exempt for homeowners who are 65 years of age or older any increase in the valuation of their permanent residence that is assessed after the later of the year the homeowner turned 65 or the year the homeowner purchased the property; require the exemption to be in addition to the exemption provided in Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky and notwithstanding Sections 171, 172, and 174 of the Constitution of Kentucky; apply the exemption to increases in valuation that occur after the date the amendment is ratified by the voters; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB135
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
2/4/25
Amend KRS 508.025 to expand assault in the third degree to include causing or attempting to cause physical injury to a driver of any form of public transportation acting in the course and scope of the driver's employment.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB136
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/19/25
Engrossed
2/27/25
Refer
2/27/25
Refer
3/4/25
Report Pass
3/6/25
Refer
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
Amend KRS 439.3103 to require the Department of Corrections to include in its report certain data on time served by persons released from a correctional institution and on persons released from a correctional institution on parole; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2026.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB137
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Engrossed
2/20/25
Refer
2/20/25
Refer
2/25/25
Report Pass
3/5/25
Enrolled
3/12/25
Enrolled
3/12/25
Chaptered
3/25/25
Passed
3/25/25
Amend KRS 77.155 and 224.20-110 to require that for purposes of determining compliance with the requirements established by an air pollution control board, the Energy and Environment Cabinet, or the federal Clean Air Act, only the most current data collection methods approved or promulgated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency shall be used; provide that data collected using a method that does not meet those requirements shall not be admissible or considered in an enforcement proceeding initiated by the air pollution control board, an air pollution control officer, the cabinet, or a private citizen; amend KRS 77.160 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB138
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
2/4/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require employers to provide earned paid sick leave to employees; provide that employees earn paid sick leave upon the date of hire and can use the leave after being employed for 90 days; set forth allowable uses of accrued earned paid sick leave; designate how notice of need to use earned paid sick leave is provided by employees; amend KRS 337.990 to establish the penalty for employers that fail to follow earned paid sick leave requirements.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB139
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
2/4/25
Amend KRS 237.109 to lower the age requirement for carrying a concealed and deadly weapon from 21 to 18; amend KRS 237.110 to conform; make technical corrections.