Kentucky 2025 Regular Session All Bills
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB734
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Amend KRS 241.010 to define "cannabinoid" and "cannabis-infused beverage"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 243 to indicate that the Department for Public Health regulates the manufacture, distribution, and retail sale of cannabis-infused beverages containing cannabinoids; make technical corrections; amend KRS 217.039, 243.034, and 243.0341 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB735
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Amend KRS 243.036 to allow a licensed auctioneer to hold a special temporary alcoholic beverage auction license; establish duties, privileges, and limitations for auctioneers who hold the license; suspend the auctioneer's special temporary alcoholic beverage auction license if the person ceases to be a licensed auctioneer; make a special temporary alcoholic beverage auction license valid for one year; create a new section of KRS Chapter 330, relating to auctioneer licensing, to allow a licensed auctioneer to obtain a special temporary alcoholic beverage auction license; make an auctioneer whose alcohol license is suspended or revoked subject to potential discipline by the auctioneer board; prohibit the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control from taking any action against an auctioneer's regular license; allow the auction of alcoholic beverages either separately or as a part of another auction; amend KRS 243.033 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB736
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 40 to limit the compensation for advising or assisting with veterans' benefits; prohibit persons seeking compensation for advising, assisting, or consulting on a veterans' benefits matter from utilizing international call or data centers, directly or aggressively soliciting business, gaining access to personal medical, financial, or benefits log-in or password information, charging late fees, and utilizing a doctor with whom they have an employment or business relationship; limit the fee for representation; provide that attorneys and law firms seeking to receive compensation for advising, assisting, or consulting any individual with any veterans' benefits matter shall be governed by limitations set forth in 38 C.F.R. sec. 14.636.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB737
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Amend KRS 158.070 to remove the authorization for nontraditional instruction.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB738
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Report Pass
3/6/25
Engrossed
3/12/25
Refer
3/12/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 64 to allow the State Treasurer, Auditor of Public Accounts, Secretary of State, Commissioner of Agriculture, and Attorney General to employ persons exempt from approval requirements the classified service as necessary for advice and to carry out policy; permit the State Treasurer, Auditor of Public Accounts, Secretary of State, Commissioner of Agriculture, and Attorney General to increase, by executive order the salary of any classified employee with status to the midpoint of the grade of the employee's classification.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB739
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 139 to define terms; establish a sales tax rebate and process for venues which have entertainment events that are qualifying attractions; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2025.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB74
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Refer
2/4/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define "feminine hygiene product"; require each public school that includes any of grades four through 12 to provide free feminine hygiene products to female students; require each local board of education to adopt policies for the distribution of free feminine hygiene products.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB740
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 27A to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to establish and maintain a crime victim notification system; establish requirements of the system; establish authority to contract with a third-party vendor if required in compliance with the procurement process of the Administrative Office of the Courts; APPROPRIATION.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB741
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Report Pass
3/11/25
Engrossed
3/11/25
Refer
3/11/25
Refer
3/11/25
Amend KRS 224A.320 to require that eligible funding recipients for the Kentucky Water and Wastewater Assistance for Troubled or Economically Restrained Systems (WWATERS) Program meet three or more of the eligibility criteria instead of one; require that a funding application for a capital construction project include cost and timeline estimates prepared and signed by a licensed professional engineer; allow the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority board to evaluate and score funding applications for proposed projects in phases; remove the funding evaluation criteria categories of current accounts payable turnover ratio and current days' sales in accounts receivable ratio; remove the requirement from the evaluation criteria that the applicant's receipt of a notice of violation of drinking water or other water quality standards occur in the past year; add to the funding evaluation criteria that the funding applicant previously received funding through the program for a prior phase of the proposed project.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB742
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 230 to authorize the corporation to regulate the conduct of fantasy contest operators; require the use of geolocation technology; require fantasy contest operators to implement procedures to prevent fraud, abuse, and money laundering; require notification to the corporation for a confirmed breach of a sport's governing body's internal rules and codes of conduct, conduct that corrupts any outcome, and confirmed illegal activities; establish licensing requirements for a fantasy contest operator; allow the corporation to promulgate administrative regulations to establish additional qualifications and requirements for licensing to preserve the integrity and security of fantasy contests; prohibit a license from being issued to a person that has been convicted of a felony, crime involving illegal gaming or gambling, or any crime involving theft or fraud; require a fantasy contest operator to conduct an independent audit; require a fantasy contest operator to be at least 18 years old; require the corporation to investigate all reasonable allegations of prohibited conduct; require each fantasy contest operator to include a statement regarding obtaining assistance with real-money gaming problems on the operator's website or mobile application; prohibit a fantasy contest operator from paying any price or award to a person who is on the self-exclusion list; create a new section of KRS Chapter 230 to establish the fantasy contest administration fund from fantasy contest taxes and fees; create a new section of KRS Chapter 138 to define "adjusted gross fantasy contest receipts" and impose a tax on fantasy contests; amend KRS 243.500, 525.090, 528.010, 528.070 to exempt fantasy contests; amend KRS 68.182, 91.202, 92.282, 230.215, 230.225, 230.232, 230.260 to conform; provide that the Act may be cited as the Fantasy Sports Consumer Protection Act; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2025.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB743
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB744
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Report Pass
3/11/25
Amend KRS 68.020 to permit a county treasurer to make authorized payments by means of electronic funds transfers; Amend KRS 68.275 to permit a standing order for county payments to include payments made to regular vendors of the county.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB745
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
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; 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 conform and make technical corrections; 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 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 Subchapter 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 90 days of the effective date of this Act; require a copy of any federal approval requested to the Legislative Research Commission; require appropriate infrastructure to be established by health facilities, services, and providers within 90 days of the effective date of the applicable section of the Act; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2026.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB746
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Amend KRS 77.070 to include gender-neutral language.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB747
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 514 to establish the offense of fraudulent sale or lease of real property.