Kentucky 2025 Regular Session All Bills
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB653
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/26/25
Amend KRS 158.192 to change the definition of "harmful to minors" and define terms; deem material, performances, events, or programs that are obscene, harmful to minors, or contain obscene imagery representing minors as educationally unsuitable and not age appropriate; require principals to remove student access to materials, programs, or events deemed educationally unsuitable or not age appropriate; modify complaint and appeals timelines; require that principal or local board of education report that a material, program, or event was educationally unsuitable and age appropriate to the educational materials review committee; provide that willful violation be a basis for employee disciplinary action; require local boards of education to adopt policies to prevent educationally unsuitable and not age appropriate material from being introduced into the school library or made accessible on school property; require the Kentucky Department of Education to provide a model policy for excluding matter that is educationally unsuitable and not age appropriate from school libraries; require the Kentucky Board of Education to establish an educational materials review committee to evaluate decisions made locally and provide recommendations to the Kentucky Board of Education on the usage of reported materials, programs, and events; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB654
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/26/25
Amend KRS 6.072 to require witnesses appearing before a committee, interim committee, statutory committee, subcommittee, commission, or task force of the General Assembly to take an oath prior to giving testimony and that any oath administered is video recorded.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB655
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/26/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; establish the future Kentucky teacher scholarship; define eligibility for the program; direct the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to administer the program; provide monetary awards for student loan repayment for eligible students who complete qualified teaching service; establish the future Kentucky teacher scholarship fund.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB656
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/26/25
Amend KRS 344.040, 344.050, 344.060, 344.070, 344.080, 344.100, and 344.110 to add protections against discrimination based on weight.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB657
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/26/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to define and designate the Honor and Remember flag as the state's emblem of the service and sacrifice of members of the United States Armed Forces who gave their lives in the line of duty; specify locations, dates, and circumstances under which the flag may be displayed; provide that if Congress designates a flag to honor those service members who gave their lives in the line of duty, then that flag shall be used instead of the flag created by Honor and Remember, Inc.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB658
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/26/25
Amend KRS 335.010 to remove outdated provisions that established an amnesty period related to disciplinary action, administrative fees, or fines for unlicensed social workers; amend KRS 335.020 to redefine the "practice of social work" and define "practice of clinical social work"; amend KRS 335.070 to allow the Kentucky Board of Social Work to promulgate administrative regulations relating to provisional license for students; amend KRS 335.080, 335.090, and 335.100, relating to the licensure requirements for certified social workers, licensed social workers, and licensed clinical social workers to include practice via telehealth and require Council on Social Work Education accreditation; amend KRS 335.158 to establish requirements for social workers who provide services via telehealth; amend KRS 387.610 and 457.090 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB659
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/26/25
Amend KRS 224.10-225 for gender neutrality.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB66
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Refer
2/4/25
Amend KRS 164.020 to remove the provision requiring the Council on Postsecondary Education to postpone approval of new programs at state postsecondary institutions that have not met equal educational opportunity goals; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 164 to conform and remove outdated language pertaining to staggering of initial terms.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB660
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/26/25
Amend KRS 350.028 to include gender-neutral language.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB661
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/21/25
Report Pass
2/26/25
Engrossed
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Amend KRS 189.540 to authorize the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to govern the operation of passenger vehicles used to transport students that are owned, leased, or privately contracted by school districts; provide that operators of a passenger vehicle that is owned, leased, or privately contracted by the district to transport students shall possess a valid Class D operator's license; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB662
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
3/5/25
Engrossed
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Refer
3/11/25
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
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to define terms; prohibit the disclosure of personally identifiable information of judicial officers or their immediate family members by a government agency if a written request not to disclose the information has been made; require a government agency to remove personally identifiable information of a judicial officer or immediate family member within 72 hours of receiving a written request for its removal; establish a civil cause of action for injunctive or declaratory relief for unauthorized disclosure.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB663
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/26/25
Repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 177.905, 177.910, 177.912, 177.915, 177.920, 177.925, 177.395, 177.940, and 177.950 as new sections of KRS Chapter 190 to place the licensing of recyclers under the Motor Vehicle Commission.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB664
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
3/4/25
Engrossed
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Refer
3/11/25
Report Pass
3/12/25
Refer
3/28/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Chaptered
4/4/25
Passed
4/4/25
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 189 to define "automated speed enforcement device," "owner," "program," and "recorded images"; direct the Transportation Cabinet to establish a pilot program for automated speed enforcement in highway work zones and issue a civil citation to an operator of a motor vehicle traveling more than 10 miles per hour over the posted speed limit when a bona fide worker is present; establish procedures for citation issuance; direct the Transportation Cabinet to install signage with lights that are flashing when an automated speed enforcement device is active; specify that courtesy warnings shall be given for the first 30 days following the date on which the system is active in any part of the work zone; establish when an image recorded by an automated speed enforcement device is to be destroyed; establish to whom an image recorded by an automated speed enforcement device may be disclosed; direct the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the program; establish civil fines for violations issued under the program; specify that all fines and penalties assessed be deposited into the automated speed enforcement fund; require the Transportation Cabinet to annually report to the Legislative Research Commission the status of the program and the number of vehicle accidents, injuries, and fatalities occurring in highway work zones; establish the automated speed enforcement fund; specify that moneys collected be used to defray the costs of administering the program; specify that any moneys collected in excess of program costs be deposited into the highway work zone safety fund and used for the purposes of that fund; provide that the provisions be repealed effective July 1, 2029; provide that the Act may be cited as the Jared Lee Helton Act of 2025.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB665
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/26/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 446 to include construction of specified terms in the title of an act of the General Assembly.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB666
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/26/25
Amend KRS 56.020 to insert gender-neutral language.