Kentucky 2025 Regular Session All Bills
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB801
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to prohibit all employers of 75 or more employees from demoting, dismissing, disciplining, or discriminating against an employee who misses work because of duties related to being a candidate, candidate-elect, or member of the General Assembly or legislative body of a local government; require an employer grant a leave of absence if the employee requests it, not to exceed three terms for a member of the House of Representatives, two terms for a member of the Senate or a member of a legislative body of a local government; amend KRS 336.990 to provide a penalty for employers who violate Section 1 of the Act.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB802
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish the 2026 toll relief tax credit; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the tax credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the department to report on the credit.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB803
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Repeal KRS 338.062, relating to occupational safety and health standards.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB804
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 139 to establish a 10-day sales and use tax holiday from April 5 to April 15 each year to exempt firearm safety devices and firearm storage devices; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2025.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB805
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
2/27/25
Engrossed
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Refer
3/11/25
Report Pass
3/13/25
Amend KRS 600.020 to change the definition of "safety plan" to reference risks to a child's safety; amend KRS 620.032 related to child welfare data reporting; amend KRS 620.040 to include children who are alleged victims of domestic violence and abuse or sexual assault for automatic acceptance for investigation of reports of child dependency, neglect, or abuse; amend KRS 620.048 related to negotiated safety plans in child protective services investigations.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB806
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define "backyard chicken"; allow a person to keep six or fewer backyard chickens on residential property in cities; establish requirements.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB807
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Amend KRS 162.055 to allow school property to be utilized for teacher and employee housing; create a new section of KRS Chapter 162 to permit school boards or school district finance corporations to use land currently owned or newly leased to provide affordable housing options for teachers and school employees.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB808
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/25/25
Report Pass
2/27/25
Engrossed
3/5/25
Refer
3/5/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
3/13/25
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 148 to terms; establish the Dream Big Burnside Development Authority to establish, maintain, and promote a recreational and resort park system surrounding General Burnside Lake; establish board membership and executive director requirements of the authority; establish the duties and purposes of the authority; require that bond debt service be payable solely from the revenue of the bonds; provide that a landowner that has a contractual agreement with the authority for use of private land as part of a recreational area does not waive any protection granted to the landowner by KRS 411.190.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB809
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Report Pass
3/5/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to authorize a superintendent or principal to request assistance from a local health department to implement a health curriculum, comply with statutory program requirements, or provide additional health programming for students; provide example programs a local health department may offer; require instruction and programming provided in partnership with a local health department be subject to the curricular requirements of KRS 160.345.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB81
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Refer
2/4/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 13B to reinstate a person's credential or benefit if it was lost or denied due to noncompliance with an executive order or administrative regulation relating to pandemic restrictions; amend KRS 13A.190, 13A.310, 13A.315, 13A.330, 13A.335, and 13A.336 to grant the Attorney General authority over some aspects of the administrative regulation process; amend KRS 13B.120 to enable the Attorney General to accept, reject, or modify an agency head's changes that create a more adverse final order; amend KRS 13B.150 to direct a Circuit Court reviewing a final order to determine if the agency committed misconduct by violating appropriation restrictions placed upon the agency by the General Assembly; remove a noncompliant agency head or administrative official from office for willfully violating an appropriation restriction; prohibit a removed official from holding office for 10 years after the finding; RETROACTIVE; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB810
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 216 to define terms; require staff-to-resident ratios in long-term care facilities as a condition of licensure or relicensure; establish minimum staffing requirements; prohibit long-term care facilities from admitting new residents if the facility fails to comply with the minimum staffing requirements, beginning on the second day of noncompliance and continuing until six days after the required staffing is achieved, with exceptions allowed for weather emergencies and other similar events; require additional staffing based on the needs of the residents; exempt intermediate-care facilities for persons with intellectual disabilities, institutions for the treatment of mental illnesses, personal care homes, and family care homes from the minimum staffing requirements; create the Long-Term-Care Minimum Staffing Committee to review staffing requirements on an annual basis; establish duties and membership; establish a civil fine of no more than $1,000 for each day that the staffing requirements are not maintained.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB811
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Amend the 2024-2026 State/Executive Branch biennial budget to stipulate that no unbudgeted Federal Funds can be allotted or expended without the express authority of the General Assembly and that no unanticipated, unappropriated Federal Funds received after January 1, 2025, can be expended without the express authority of the General Assembly; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB812
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Amend KRS 12.210 to allow the Governor to participate in litigation to defend or vindicate only those matters particular to his or her office; require all other litigation matters affecting the Commonwealth to be under the purview of the Attorney General.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB813
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 148, defining "state marina", "marina operator", and "license agreement"; allow the Finance and Administration Cabinet to enter into an agreement with a marina operator to renew or extend a license agreement or other agreements with a marina operator.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB814
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services and any managed care organization with which the department contracts for the delivery of Medicaid services to provide coverage for doula services; establish training and education requirements for doulas; require the department to promulgate administrative regulations; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to seek federal approval if they determine that such approval is necessary and comply with KRS 205.525.