Kentucky 2025 Regular Session All Bills
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB6
Introduced
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Refer
2/21/25
Report Pass
2/26/25
Engrossed
3/4/25
Refer
3/4/25
Refer
3/6/25
Report Pass
3/11/25
Enrolled
3/13/25
Enrolled
3/13/25
Vetoed
3/24/25
Refer
3/27/25
Override
3/27/25
Refer
3/27/25
Override
3/27/25
Enrolled
3/27/25
Enrolled
3/27/25
Chaptered
3/27/25
Passed
3/27/25
Amend KRS 13A.010 to redefine "major economic impact"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 13A to establish limitations on the authority of an administrative body to promulgate administrative regulations; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 13A to conform; EMERGENCY; EFFECTIVE March 31, 2025.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB60
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Refer
2/4/25
Amend KRS 132.4851 to exempt motor vehicles assessed under KRS 132.485 from state property taxes; amend KRS 132.020 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB600
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/21/25
Appropriate $26,000,000 in General Fund in fiscal year 2024-2025 to the Support Education Excellence in Kentucky (SEEK) budget unit from the Budget Reserve Trust Fund Account; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB601
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/26/25
Amend KRS 214.452 to add receipt of a COVID -19 vaccine to the blood donor risk factor statement collected by a blood establishment; amend KRS 214.458 to add donor receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine to the donor identification information affixed to a unit of donated blood; add that except in an emergency, a patient be informed if the donor of the blood to be transfused had received a COVID-19 vaccine.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB602
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Failed
2/20/25
Amend KRS 336.130 to delete references restricting rights of public employees to organize, associate collectively, or strike; amend KRS 336.180 to redefine "labor organization" and delete definitions of "candidate," "committee," "contributing organization," "contribution," "election," "electioneering communications," "employer," "fundraiser," "independent expenditure," "political activities," "public employee," "slate of candidates," and "testimonial affair"; amend KRS 336.990 to conform; amend KRS 67A.6904 to allow urban-county governments to make an agreement with a labor organization to require membership in the organization as a condition of employment; amend KRS 67C.406 to allow consolidated local governments to make an agreement with a labor organization to require membership in the organization as a condition of employment; amend KRS 70.262, 78.470, and 78.480 to remove exceptions; amend KRS 345.050 to allow public employers to make an agreement with a labor organization to require membership in the organization as a condition of employment; amend KRS 336.1341 and 336.135 to conform; repeal KRS 65.016, 336.132, and 336.134.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB603
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/26/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define "organization" as a federally recognized patriotic civic service organization that consists of or serves youths; permit an organization to request and require superintendents to provide an opportunity to provide information to students on school property during a school day.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB604
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/26/25
Amend KRS 75.040 to increase the maximum property tax rate that can be levied by a fire protection district or a volunteer fire department district; limit any increase in the total tax levy beyond the initially approved levy to two cents per $100 of assessed valuation a year; require a public hearing and notification to the public for rate levy; exempt the rates from the provisions of KRS 132.023; amend KRS 75A.050 to increase the maximum property tax rate that can be levied by a district that provides fire services, emergency medical services, and rescue services; limit any increase in the total tax levy beyond the initially approved levy to two cents per $100 of assessed valuation a year; require a public hearing and notification to the public for rate levy; exempt tax increases from the provisions of KRS 132.023; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2026.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB605
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/20/25
Report Pass
2/25/25
Engrossed
2/28/25
Refer
2/28/25
Refer
3/4/25
Report Pass
3/12/25
Enrolled
3/14/25
Enrolled
3/14/25
Chaptered
3/24/25
Passed
3/24/25
Amend KRS 154.14-020, relating to the GRANT Program, to redefine "eligible grant applicant," "eligible project," "eligible use," "GRANT program," "GRANT program fund," "regional project," and define "qualifying federal entity"; amend KRS 154.14-030 to make technical changes; amend KRS 154.14-040 to modify the dates of the Cabinet for Economic Development's review of grant applications and provide that obligation of funds shall be no more than 12 months with a possible six month extension; amend KRS 154.14-050 to make technical changes and allow community support evidence to come from the grant applicant or a majority of applicants for a regional project; amend KRS 154.14-060 to make technical changes and authorize the cabinet to transfer up to 10 percent of the funds remaining in the two categories of funds with notice to the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue or applicable standing; amend KRS 154.14-070 to make technical changes; repeal KRS 154.14-010 and 154.14-080; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB606
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/20/25
Report Pass
2/25/25
Engrossed
2/28/25
Refer
2/28/25
Refer
3/4/25
Report Pass
3/12/25
Refer
3/12/25
Refer
3/27/25
Refer
3/28/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Chaptered
4/2/25
Passed
4/2/25
Amend KRS 45.812 to require an agency, corporation, or school district that is authorized to issue a general obligation bond by an appropriation of the General Assembly, or by or on behalf of any Kentucky school district, to report the costs associated with the issuance of the bond to the Capital Projects and Bond Oversight Committee and the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB607
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/26/25
Amend KRS 158.200 to detail process by which local boards of education may permit pupils to attend moral instruction; permit individuals or groups offering moral instruction to submit a request to a board and set requirements to be included in request; require superintendents to submit individuals providing transportation or moral instruction for criminal history and CA/N background checks; provide that students attending moral instruction are counted in average daily attendance for SEEK funding; repeal KRS 158.210, 158.220, 158.230, 158.240, 158.250, and 158.260.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB608
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/26/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 75 to define "premises"; allow a fire protection district or subdistrict, or a volunteer fire department district, to assess a fee against a premises for the costs of maintaining necessary fire protection measures; establish billing and appeals process; set reporting requirements; create a new section of KRS Chapter 75A to define "premises"; allow a consolidated emergency services district board to assess a fee against a premises for the costs of maintaining necessary fire protection measures; establish billing and appeals process; set reporting requirements; create a new section of KRS Chapter 244 to define terms; establish a process for distilled spirits aging facilities to reimburse nearby property owners for cleaning expenses relating to whiskey fungus; require the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to promulgate administrative regulations to administer the program; include any affected property within a three mile radius of aging facilities; determine cleaning expenses based on costs incurred by the property owner and verify through an independent entity; direct the department to determine the cleaning expenses in the absence of an agreement; impose fines on distilled spirits licensees who disregard the reimbursement process; pay all cleaning expense reimbursements from moneys in the distilled spirits environmental fund; create a new section of KRS Chapter 138 to define terms; require distilled spirits barrel aging facilities to pay to the Department of Revenue a $0.25 environmental fee on each barrel stored on January 1 of each year; apply all provisions of KRS Chapter 131 to the fee; create a new section of KRS Chapter 244 to establish the distilled spirits environmental fund; authorize the fund to consist of moneys received from the barrel environmental fee and cleaning expense fines; direct the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to administer the fund; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2026.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB609
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/26/25
Amend KRS 216B.020, relating to certificates of need, to reformat the list of facilities and services exempt from certificate of need provisions; amend KRS 216B.095 to require rather than permit the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to grant a nonsubstantive review to listed health facilities and services; add a presumption of need and state health plan consistency to health facilities and services granted a nonsubstantive review; amend KRS 216B.062 to prohibit the cabinet from batching applications for certificate of need applications that propose the same or similar types of services, facilities, or equipment; create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to require the cabinet to establish a four-year pilot program for urban health care markets with modified certificate of need exemptions and nonsubstantive review requirements beginning January 1, 2026; define "health care system," "pilot program," and "urban health care market"; list health facilities and services exempt from certificate of need for purposes of the pilot program; list nonsubstantive review requirements and conditions for the pilot program; require that a certificate of need and all related investments be retained after the completion of the pilot program; require a report to the Legislative Research Commission on the pilot program by November 1 each year; permit the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the pilot program.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB61
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
3/6/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to establish the Cabinet for Health and Family Services' responsibilities with regard to the administration of nonemergency medical transportation services for Medicaid beneficiaries; require the Cabinet or the Department for Medicaid Services to seek federal approval if it is determined that such approval is necessary; require the cabinet to comply with KRS 205.525.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB610
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/21/25
Repeal and reenact KRS 132.010, relating to property taxes, to remove definitions of terms not used within KRS Chapter 132 and to alphabetize and restructure the definitions; amend various other sections to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB611
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/26/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 243 to define terms; exempt qualified estate collections of vintage distilled spirits from the annual package maximum; limit the exemption to 12 collections in any given 12 months; amend KRS 243.232 to allow vintage distilled spirits licensees to purchase from vintage distilled spirits sellers either in person or via shipment; require a vintage distilled spirits licensee to report its estate collection purchases and whether the vintage distilled spirits were shipped or purchased in person; permit sellers and licensees to direct ship vintage distilled spirits; establish the separate direct shipping privileges, duties, and limitations for both sellers and licensees.