Kentucky 2025 Regular Session All Bills
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB586
Introduced
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Refer
2/25/25
Amend KRS 6.925 to insert gender-neutral language.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB587
Introduced
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Refer
2/25/25
Amend KRS 222.504 and 222.506 to require that recovery residences be inspected at least annually by state or local officials capable of ensuring compliance with all state and local zoning, building code, and fire safety laws, administrative regulations, and ordinances and establish maximum occupancy standards for recovery residences; amend KRS 222.510 to permit local governments to require an individual or entity seeking to establish a recovery residence to provide notice up to six months in advance to all property owners within 1,000 feet of the property on which the recovery residence will be located; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB588
Introduced
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Refer
2/21/25
Amend KRS 64.012 to increase and modify fees received by the county clerk; after January 1, 2026, allow recalculation using the CPI-U, with the fee increase going to the Affordable Housing Trust Fund; apply to fees received by county clerks for services provided on or after August 1, 2025.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB589
Introduced
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Refer
2/25/25
Amend KRS 158.162 to define "critical incident," require investigations in emergency plans for critical incidents, and state the goals of the investigations; amend KRS 158.4410 to task the state school security marshal with investigating serious physical injury or death incidents that occur on school property, at school-sanctioned events, or during interscholastic athletic events; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to outline the parameters of the investigation, require referral of potential criminal charges, and require necessary administrative regulations; amend KRS 72.025 to require the coroner conduct an autopsy in deaths occuring on public or nonpublic school property or during a school-sanctioned event.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB59
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Refer
2/4/25
Amend KRS 319.020 to expand the Kentucky Board of Examiners of Psychology from nine members to 11 members; make one of the new members a doctoral-level psychologist and the other a masters-level psychologist; amend KRS 319.030 to require the board to submit its annual report to the Legislative Research Commission and post the report on its website; include both the average and modal time it takes the board to issue or deny a license and to complete the disciplinary process; amend KRS 319.050 to require an applicant to pass examinations related to mental health law and psychology practice; direct the board to schedule an examination within 30 to 60 days of accepting the examination application; allow an examinee to delay the examination for accident, illness, or injury, if approved by the board chair or the chair's designee; allow the board to suspend the applicant's temporary license for any unapproved examination delay.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB590
Introduced
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Refer
2/21/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish an income tax credit for employers that maintain an aprenticeship program and hire apprentices; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the credit.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB591
Introduced
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Refer
2/25/25
Amend KRS 186.230 and 186.120 to insert gender-neutral language; make technical correction.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB592
Introduced
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Refer
2/25/25
Amend KRS 401.020 to require the establishment of a legal relationship between a parent and child in proceedings involving a name change for the child.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB593
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/26/25
Amend KRS 337.010 to define "essential employee"; amend KRS 337.275 to set a minimum wage for essential employees.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB594
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/26/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to prohibit an employer from conditioning employment or employment benefits on an employee signing specified types of releases and agreements related to unlawful acts in the workplace; create a new section of KRS Chapter 372 to prohibit specified provisions related to harassment in settlement agreements in civil and administrative actions with exceptions.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB595
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/26/25
Amend KRS 403.720 to supplement the definition of domestic violence and abuse; amend KRS 456.010 to supplement the definition of dating violence and abuse.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB596
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/26/25
Amend KRS 403.725 and 456.030 to require the court of justice to create protocols to allow law enforcement officers to assist victims in filing a petition for an order of protection.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB597
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/26/25
Amend KRS 403.270, 403.280, 403.315, and 403.340 to remove the presumption in favor of joint custody and equal parenting time; amend KRS 403.320 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB598
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/26/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require employers with 50 or more employees to provide 12 weeks of paid parental leave for an employee who has been employed for at least one year; allow an employee to waive the paid parental leave; provide for the promulgation of administrative regulations.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB599
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/26/25
Amend KRS 337.010 to remove specified individuals from the definition of "employee" and to define "worker with a disability"; amend KRS 337.275 to require all employers to pay all employees, including workers with a disability, a minimum wage and increase the state minimum wage over the next three years to no less than 100 percent of the municipality, county, or state minimum wage or the prevailing wage as defined in 29 C.F.R. sec. 1.2; amend KRS 337.295 to remove learners, apprentices, workers with a disability, sheltered workshop employees, and students from regulations issued by the commissioner for the Department of Workplace Standards; amend KRS 205.5605 to exclude referrals to sheltered workshop employment from the definition of "covered services and supports" as of July 1, 2028; amend KRS 154.22-040 to conform; provide that the Act may be cited as the Employees with Disabilities Equal Pay Act.