Kentucky 2025 Regular Session All Bills
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB748
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Amend KRS 304.17A-661 to require that annual mental health parity reports be submitted to the Legislative Research Commission on or before June 1 of each year for referral to certain committees and be published by the insurance commissioner on the Department of Insurance's website; authorize the Attorney General to enforce the mental health parity law; establish duties, remedies, and penalties for enforcement by the Attorney General; authorize a private cause of action by any person directly injured by a violation or likely violation of the mental health parity law; establish duties, remedies, and penalties for a private right of action under the mental health parity law; establish construction clauses; authorize the Attorney General to promulgate administrative regulations for proper enforcement of mental health parity law; amend KRS 205.522 to require the Department for Medicaid Services, Medicaid managed care organizations, and the state' medical assistance program to comply with mental health parity law; require the Department for Medicaid Services or the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to obtain federal approval, if necessary, and comply with notice requirements; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB749
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Amend KRS 199.894 to define "Child Care and Development Fund" and "Child Care Assistance Program"; apply definitions to Section 2 of the Act; amend KRS 199.8982 to require that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services allow certified family child-care home providers to participate in the child care assistance program and establish requirements related to a provider's children in the program and other nonrelative children of the provider that are served in the program.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB75
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Refer
2/4/25
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 217 to define terms; permit health care practitioners to prescribe and dispense undesignated glucagon in the name of a school or to a trained individual; permit trained individuals to receive, possess, and administer undesignated glucagon during diabetic medical emergencies; permit schools to stock undesignated glucagon; provide for immunity from civil liability for any personal injury resulting from good faith actions to use undesignated glucagon to treat diabetic medical emergencies.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB750
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Amend KRS 164.767 to restrict eligibility for any program authorized under KRS 164.740 to 164.790 to exclude any individual who is a violent offender or who has been convicted of a criminal offense against a victim who is a minor and incarcerated individuals convicted of designated crimes; direct KHEAA to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the eligibility restrictions; amend KRS 164.7874 to delete the requirement that an eligible high school student and eligible postsecondary student not be a convicted felon for KEES eligibility purposes.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB751
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to establish an individual right to reproductive freedom; allow the Commonwealth to regulate abortion after fetal viability, but not prohibit if medically needed to protect a pregnant patient's life or physical or mental health; forbid discrimination in enforcement of this right; prohibit prosecution of an individual, or a person helping a pregnant individual, for exercising the right to reproductive freedom; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB752
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Amend KRS 160.350 to require, beginning July 1, 2025, any new or renewal contract of a superintendent shall include a provision to review and adjust the total salary paid and benefits provided at the end of every two contract years; limit the total salary and benefits of a school district superintendent to three times the median Rank I salary on the school district's salary schedule if no less than 50 percent of students in the district are proficient or above, and to two times the median if less than 50 percent are proficient or above; provide that no limit to the superintendent salary applies if 75 percent or more students are proficient or above; create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to require, beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, the limitation of salary paid to administrator positions using criteria similar to that established for the superintendent; amend KRS 157.350 to provide that in order to be eligible to receive support education excellence in Kentucky funds a school district must compensate all administrators in accordance with the provisions of Sections 1 and 2 of this Act and ensure that the annual aggregate administrator salaries for the district do not exceed ten percent of the total district budget; amend KRS 156.070 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB753
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to prohibit child pornography and any form of federally defined racketeering in this state and establish penalties for violations; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB754
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 48 to prohibit an executive branch official from expending any appropriations or funds, including the use of state time or resources to challenge any action of the federal government without the written consent of the Attorney General; require the Attorney General to represent the Commonwealth in all litigation pertaining to federal government actions; prohibit the Governor from taking a position on legal actions against the federal government without the written consent of the Attorney General; allow the Attorney General to bring a civil action to enjoin the Governor or an executive branch official alleged to have violated this Act; require the office of the Governor or an executive branch official reimburse the Attorney General for any costs involving the lawsuit if the Governor or an executive branch official is found to have violated this Act; allow for removal of an executive branch official found to have violated this Act; waive immunity under certain conditions.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB755
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Amend KRS 519.040 to enhance the offense classification and penalty for giving false information to a law enforcement officer with the intent to implicate someone else under specified circumstances.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB756
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to create spending limits and restrictions on imposing new taxes, tax rate increases, fees, or extension of expiring taxes.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB757
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to require the Office of Kentucky Center for Statistics to establish a certified living wage based on occupation type and geographic area utilizing data from the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics if the employer receives certain financial incentives from local, state, or federal agencies; amend KRS 151B.133 to require the Office of Kentucky Center for Statistics to establish a certified living wage by July 1 and every year thereafter; amend KRS 337.990 to establish civil penalties.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB758
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Report Pass
3/5/25
Amend KRS 157.069 to apportion supplemental funds for career and technical education to be 75 percent for enrollment-based funding and 25 percent for incentive-based funding; modify incentives to permit two incentives per student; require "concentrator" status as the first incentive before eligibility for a second incentive.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB759
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Amend KRS 311.720, 311.7701, and 311.781 to define terms; amend KRS 311.723, 311.725, 311.727, 311.732, 311.7706, 311.772, 311.780, and 311.782 to allow an abortion when the unborn child has a lethal fetal anomaly and delineate additional medical circumstances for the performance of an abortion; allow an abortion when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest and the gestational age of the fetus is 22 weeks or less; amend KRS 311.800 to provide for an abortion in a publicly owned hospital under certain circumstances; amend KRS 213.101 to add rape or incest to the reporting requirement; amend KRS 311.990 to conform; repeal KRS 311.735, relating to notice to a spouse; provide that the Act may be cited as the Compassionate Care Act.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB76
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Refer
2/4/25
Create a new section of KRS 16.505 to 16.652 to change the retirement benefits for members participating in the State Police Retirement System (SPRS) or in a hazardous position in either the Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS) or County Employees Retirement System (CERS) who are hired after January 1, 2014, but before January 1, 2026, so that, in lieu of continued participation in the hybrid cash balance plan (Tier 3 benefits), these members receive the benefits provided to members in a hazardous position who began participating immediately prior to January 1, 2014 (Tier 2 benefits); for those eligible hazardous employees, create a presumption that service credit in a hazardous position earned after January 1, 2014, is service credit earned immediately prior to January 1, 2014; for eligible hazardous members transitioning to Tier 2, require that accumulated contributions in the hybrid cash balance plan remain in the member’s account, but any employer credit be transferred to the retirement allowance account; allow a member in a hazardous position subject to a change from Tier 3 to Tier 2 benefits to make a one-time election to opt out of the change of benefits within 30 days; establish exclusions; amend KRS 16.576, 16.577, 16.578, 16.582, 61.546, 61.552, 61.597, 61.615, 78.5512, 78.5514, 78.5524, 78.5528, and 78.616 to grant to members in a hazardous position who begin participating after January 1, 2026, or whose participation is presumed under Section1of this Act to begin immediately prior to January 1, 2014, the same benefits provided to members whose participation began immediately prior to January 1, 2014 (Tier 2 benefits), including death and disability benefits, benefit factors and service credit that includes service credit for unused sick leave, and eligibility for early retirement and service purchases; make technical corrections; amend KRS 16.583 and 78.5516 to limit the hybrid cash balance plan (Tier 3 benefits) only to members participating in SPRS or in hazardous positions in KERS or CERS who make an election to opt out of Tier 2 benefits under Section 1 of this Act or who make an election, prior to the effective date of the Act, under KRS 61.5955; amend KRS 61.5955 to provide that only a member in a nonhazardous position who began participating in KERS or CERS as a Tier 2 member may elect to receive Tier 3 benefits in the hybrid cash balance plan in lieu of Tier 2 benefits; amend KRS 16.505, 61.510, and 78.510 to amend definitions of various terms to conform and make technical changes; amend KRS 16.560, 61.575, and 78.640 to allow interest credited on the accounts of members participating in SPRS or in a hazardous position in KERS or CERS to be adjusted to conform; amend KRS 61.592 and 78.5520 to exempt only hazardous members who opt out of receiving Tier 2 benefits from eligibility for an employer payment to convert nonhazardous service to hazardous service; amend KRS 61.680 to require that a member who is eligible under Section 1 of this Act and who has nonhazardous service credit as a Tier 3 member of either KERS or CERS to have his or her nonhazardous and hazardous service consolidated to determine eligibility and benefits; amend KRS 78.545 to add Section 1 of this Act as one of the provisions that shall be administered for the CERS in the same manner as for the KERS.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB760
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Failed
2/20/25
Amend KRS 45A.110 to require the bidder or offeror to attest to not receiving two or more civil penalties under KRS Chapter 337, 338, 339, or 341 in order to be eligible to receive the written determination of responsibility.