Kentucky 2025 Regular Session All Bills
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB14
Introduced
2/7/25
Refer
2/7/25
Refer
2/12/25
Report Pass
2/19/25
Engrossed
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to allow school districts to implement a wearable panic alert system; establish system criteria; require the Department of Education to provide a list of approved wearable panic alert systems; require the Center for School Safety to establish the Wearable Panic Alert Grant Program; amend KRS 158.446 to allow the Center for School Safety to distribute wearable panic alert grants using funds appropriated in the biennial budget to support school safety.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB140
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
2/4/25
Failed
2/12/25
Amend KRS 214.450 to define "autologous donation" and "directed donation"; amend KRS 214.452 to require blood establishments to test for spike proteins, antibodies to the nucleocapsid protein on the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and synthetic mRNA; require additional screening questions for blood donors; add to the list of conditions requiring the refusal or sale of blood; provide that a person shall not be compelled to donate blood; require blood establishments to inform donors of the potential uses for donations; require blood to be sold to hospitals before any other entity; prohibit blood from sale for pharmaceutical production if there is a hospital blood shortage; amend KRS 214.454 to add to the conditions for which a donor is prohibited from making a donation; amend KRS 214.456 to permit any person to make an autologous or a directed donation of blood; prohibit restrictions on making autologous or directed donations; amend KRS 214.458 to add the mRNA status of blood and treatment or therapy received to the label of blood donated; add negative test for spike proteins, antibodies to the nucleocapsid protein on the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and synthetic mRNA to requirements for an allowable blood transfusions; add requirements for health facilities, health services, and health care providers to provide patient information on donated blood; amend KRS 214.464 to include additional tests that a patient is required to be notified about in an emergency transfusion; create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to prohibit state agencies from acquiring or maintaining a list of the vaccination status of citizens; create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to require hospitals to invest in blood transfusion prevention strategies and to establish a task force for bloodless medicine and surgery by January 1, 2026; create a new section of subschapter 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require all health benefit plans to cover any autologous or directed transfusion of blood; amend KRS 205.522 to require Medicaid coverage of any autologous or a directed transfusion of blood; amend KRS 18A.225 to require state health benefit plans coverage of any autologous or directed transfusion of blood; apply coverage mandates to health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after January 1 2026; require the Department for Medicaid Services or the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to request any necessary federal approval for coverage within ninety days of the effective date of this Act; require a copy of any federal approval requested to the Legislative Research Commission; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2026; require appropriate infrastructure to be established by health facilities, services, and providers within 90 days of the effective date of this Act.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB141
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
2/4/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 38 to restrict the use of the Kentucky National Guard outside of state active duty unless Congress officially declares war or has taken official action pursuant to the Constitution of the United States and has satisfied any outstanding balance to the Kentucky National Guard; allow the Governor to deploy the National Guard under Title 32 of the United States Code to assist in border protection, for not more than 30 days, when the governor of a state or territory has declared an invasion; provide that the Act may be cited as the Defend the Guard Act.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB142
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
2/4/25
Amend KRS 511.010 and 512.010 to define "squatter"; amend KRS 511.090 to allow a property owner or his or her authorized agent to request a peace officer to immediately remove any squatter occupying a dwelling or commercial building under certain circumstances; provide criminal and civil immunity to peace officers acting in good faith; amend KRS 512.020 and 512.030 to specifically include damage to residential or commercial property caused by squatters in the offense of criminal mischief; create a new section of KRS Chapter 514 to establish the offense of fraudulent sale or lease of real property.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB143
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
2/4/25
Amend KRS 411.100, relating to a city's liability for damage done during the course of a riot, to provide that any form of local government shall be liable for damage done during the course of a riot if they could have prevented the damage; amend KRS 411.110, relating to a city's liability for any injury that results from any defect of any bridge, street, sidewalk, or other public thoroughfare, to provide that any form of local government shall be liable for any injury that results from any defect of any bridge, street, sidewalk, or other public thoroughfare.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB144
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
2/4/25
Create a new section of KRS 217.005 to 217.215 to allow certain USDA-exempted poultry processors to sell to end consumers on a farm, at a farmers market, or at a roadside stand.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB145
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
2/4/25
Failed
2/12/25
Amend KRS 304.17-020 and 304.18-010, and create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304, to establish application of health insurance subtitles to types of insurance, coverages, and benefits; authorize the insurance commissioner to exempt other types of similar or limited insurance, coverage, or benefits from health insurance subtitles.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB146
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
2/4/25
Amend KRS 141.019 to increase the retirement distribution exclusion from $31,110 to $41,110 for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB147
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
2/4/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 277 to require a crew of at least two persons during operation of a train or light engine; amend KRS 277.990 to include penalties for crews of less than two persons.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB148
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
2/4/25
Failed
2/18/25
Amend KRS 199.894 to define "Child Care and Development Fund" and "Child Care Assistance Program"; create a new section of KRS 199.892 to 199.896 to establish income eligibility requirements for the Child Care Assistance Program.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB149
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
2/4/25
Create a new section of KRS 164.740 to 164.7891 to establish a coal-county paramedic scholarship to be administered by the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority (KHEAA); define terms; establish a fund in the State Treasury to be administered by KHEAA for providing coal county paramedic scholarships.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB15
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/11/25
Engrossed
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Refer
2/20/25
Report Pass
3/5/25
Refer
3/11/25
Enrolled
3/13/25
Enrolled
3/13/25
Chaptered
3/25/25
Passed
3/25/25
Amend KRS 186.450 to allow persons who are at least 15 years of age to apply for a motor vehicle instruction permit; establish that an instruction permit is valid for four years; amend KRS 186.410, 186.452 and 159.051 to conform; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB150
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
2/4/25
Failed
2/18/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 14 to define terms; require the Secretary of State to create a grant database that will be a central repository for information on all available state or local government grants; require state and local agencies to report grant opportunities to the Finance and Administration Cabinet for inclusion in the grant database.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB151
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
2/4/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a refundable income tax credit for certain volunteer firefighters; declare the purpose of the credit; require annual reporting to the Legislative Research Commission and the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue to evaluate the impact of the credit; amend KRS 141.0205 to provide the ordering of the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow confidential tax return information to be shared with the Legislative Research Commission and Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB152
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/11/25
Report Pass
2/25/25
Engrossed
2/27/25
Refer
2/27/25
Refer
3/4/25
Report Pass
3/11/25
Enrolled
3/14/25
Enrolled
3/14/25
Chaptered
3/24/25
Passed
3/24/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services to submit a Medicaid preprint to establish a supplemental payment program for public ground ambulance providers.