Kentucky 2025 Regular Session All Bills
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB720
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 394 to enact the Uniform Electronic Wills Act; define terms; establish the applicability of electronic wills; address the effect of a will electronically executed in another jurisdiction; establish requirements for executing and revoking an electronic will; address records that are not executed in compliance with the requirements for an electronic will; provide requirements for an electronic will to be self-proving; allow for certified paper copies of an electronic will; create new sections of KRS Chapter 394 to enact the Uniform Electronic Estate Planning Documents Act; define terms; establish that a non-testamentary estate planning document or a signature on a non-testamentary estate planning document may not be denied legal effect or enforceability solely because it is in electronic form; provide that an electronic record of a document satisfies a requirement for a non-testamentary estate planning document to be in writing; establish notarization, acknowledgment, and verification requirements; create new sections of KRS Chapter 386 to enact the Kentucky Qualified Dispositions in Trust Act; define terms; establish requirements for qualified affidavit; prohibit claims by creditors against property subject to a qualified disposition to a qualified trust except under limited circumstances; provide that limitations on actions by creditors do not apply to past due child support, past due maintenance to a spouse or former spouse, or a written agreement, judgment, or order of a court for division of marital property of a spouse or former spouse; limit powers and rights of transferor to those conferred by the qualified trust; establish rules for avoiding a qualified disposition to a qualified trust; address rights of trustee and beneficiary when a qualified disposition has been avoided; provide that a spendthrift provision acts as a restriction on the transferor's beneficial interest in the trust under law other than bankruptcy law; enumerate persons who may not act as a qualified trustee; allow a transferor to appoint trust advisors; provide for the appointment of a successor trustee in certain circumstances; provide that the inclusion of certain provisions in the qualified trust instrument does not deem the trust to be revocable; application to trusts and dispositions of property on or after effective date of Act; establish a new subchapter of KRS Chapter 386B and create new sections to enact the Uniform Directed Trust Act; define terms; establish that Act does not apply to powers of appointment; subject trust directors to same rules, liabilities, and fiduciary duties as trustees; enumerate powers of trust director and responsibilities of trustee in a trust under direction; provide for liability of trust director for breach of trust; time limitation for breach of trust action; require communication of information between trustees and trust directors; establish a new subchapter of KRS Chapter 386B and create new sections to enact the Uniform Trust Decanting Act; define terms; applicability of provisions; require fiduciaries to act in accordance with fiduciary duties in exercising trust decanting power; specify notice requirements prior to exercise of the decanting power; address authority to represent and bind or another person under a first-trust instrument; allow court intervention in disputes regarding the exercise of the decanting power; require an exercise of the decanting power to be made in a record signed by an authorized fiduciary; allow an authorized fiduciary with expanded distributive discretion over the principal of a first trust to exercise decanting power over the principal of the first trust; specify trust provisions and actions permissible when property is decanted to a second trust by such a fiduciary; allow an authorized fiduciary with limited distributive discretion over the principal of a first trust to exercising decanting power over the principal of the first rust; specify trust provisions and actions permissible when property is decanted to a second trust by such a fiduciary; establish rules for decanting to a special needs trust; establish rules to protect charitable trust interests; provide for limitations on decanting power through restrictions in a first-trust instrument; prohibit decanting to a second trust to increase fiduciary compensation unless beneficiaries of the second trust agree to the increase or it is approved by a court; address fiduciary compensation and liability in a second-trust instrument; provide for limitations on authority of authorized fiduciary to exercise decanting power to modify provisions relating to removal or replacement of the fiduciary; set limitations for exercise of the decanting power with respect to transfers of property affecting tax liability; specify requirements for duration of a second trust; allow authorized fiduciary to exercise decanting power regardless of whether the fiduciary could have made or would have been compelled to make a discretionary distribution under discretionary distribution standard of the first trust; provide for circumstances where decanting power is effective even if second trust does not comply in part with the provisions of the Act; provide for decanting powers to an animal trust; provide that a settlor of a first trust is deemed to be settlor of first trust; establish rules for disposition of later-discovered property; provide that obligations enforceable against first trust are enforceable to same extent against second trust; require provisions to be applied and construed so as to promote uniformity among states; conform to federal requirements related to electronic signatures and records; amend and repeal various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to conform; establish short titles.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB721
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Amend KRS 141.0401 to prevent entities doing business in Kentucky with gross receipts of less than $100,000 from paying the limited liability entity tax for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB722
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Amend KRS 67.160 to insert gender-neutral language.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB723
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Create a new section to KRS Chapter 2 to officially recognize that a person has only one gender, male or female.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB724
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to authorize participation in a public school interscholastic extracurricular activity by an at-home private school student; establish criteria for participation; require a parent, guardian, or teacher of an at-home private school student participating in a public school interscholastic activity to verify the student's academic progress; declare a public school student who does not make academic progress at a public school and withdraws and enters an at-home private school program ineligible for participation in an interscholastic activity for the remainder of the school year; provide that the Act may be cited as the Play Fair Kentucky Act.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB725
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Amend KRS 304.17A-661 to require insurers to submit the annual report relating to mental health parity requirements to the Legislative Research Commission for referral to the Interim Joint Committee on Health Services; require the annual report be submitted by June 1; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB726
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Amend KRS 140.080 to exempt Class B beneficiaries from inheritance taxation when receiving property from a decendent who died on or after January 1, 2026.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB727
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Appropriate necessary funds from the Budget Reserve Trust Fund to the WKSAFE Fund to be distributed to the Graves County Fiscal Court to support the replacement of the Graves County Jail; stipulate that the funding shall be reimbursed to the Commonwealth should the recipient receive moneys from any other source; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB728
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Amend KRS 158.4414 to provide up to $20,000 to school districts for each school that employs an on-site full-time certified school resource officer; amend KRS 158.4431 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB729
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to exempt from state and local excise, sales, and use taxes food, food ingredients, prescription drugs, residential utilities, and on-farm utilities; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB73
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/20/25
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
Amend KRS 161.220 to add WeLeadCS, a virtual computer science career academy for Kentucky high school students, to the list of participating employers of the Teachers' Retirement System (TRS).
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB730
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Amend KRS 441.420 to allow for local correctional facilities to be constructed with fewer than 150 prisoner beds under certain conditions.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB731
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Create new section of KRS 6.601 to 6.849 to prohibit sexual harassment by any legislator or legislative agent to a legislator, legislative, or legislative branch employee; define "sexual harassment."
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB732
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to define terms; establish the School Supplies for Kentucky Teachers Program to provide eligible classroom teachers with financial and technical support in purchasing school supplies; authorize the Kentucky Board of Education to adopt policies and promulgate administrative regulations necessary to administer the program; require the Kentucky Department of Education to enter into contracts for an online commerce platform and to identify online school supplies vendors for the program; provide that the Act may be cited as the School Supplies for Kentucky Teachers Act.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB733
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Amend KRS 393A.020 to remove the exemption for mineral proceeds from the requirements of the Revised Uniform Unclaimed Property Act.