Kentucky 2025 Regular Session All Bills
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB56
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Refer
1/9/25
Amend KRS 403.735, relating to continuance of an emergency protective order, to allow the petitioner to be excused from future court appearances until the respondent has been served; amend KRS 456.050, relating to continuance of an interpersonal protective order, to allow the petitioner to be excused from future court appearances until the respondent has been served.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB57
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
1/10/25
Report Pass
2/5/25
Engrossed
2/27/25
Refer
2/27/25
Amend KRS 189.010 to define "super speeder"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to assess a fee of $200 to any person convicted as a super speeder; assess a fee of $50 and require the suspension of driving privileges for not making a timely payment of fee imposed; require that money from fees be deposited into the Kentucky trauma care system fund, the emergency medical services education grant fund, the school AED fund, and the Bentley rural hospital preservation fund; require the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations relating to the fees; create a new section of KRS Chapter 311A to establish an emergency medical services education grant fund and program; allow the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services to promulgate administrative regulations relating to the grant fund; amend KRS 211.496 to set forth how money from the trauma care system fund is to be used; amend KRS 154.20-190 to rename the rural hospital operations and facilities revolving loan fund the Bentley rural hospital preservation fund and require priority be given to providing loans to hospitals in counties that lack a rural hospital; amend KRS 158.1622 to provide that the school AED fund receives money from super speeder fees; amend KRS 186.440 and 189.394 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB58
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
2/6/25
Report Pass
2/26/25
Engrossed
3/6/25
Refer
3/6/25
Amend KRS 16.505, 61.510, and 78.510 to define "special needs trust" (SNT) for purposes of the State Police Retirement System, Kentucky Employees Retirement System, and County Employees Retirement System; amend the definition of "person" to include a SNT, and amend the definition of "beneficiary" to exclude sole beneficiary of a SNT; amend KRS 16.578 to allow a SNT to receive a lifetime retirement benefit; amend KRS 61.623 to allow a trustee to receive checks on behalf of a SNT; amend KRS 61.635 to allow a person who is the beneficiary of a SNT to be designated as the beneficiary of a lifetime retirement benefit; require the trustee of a SNT to notify the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority (KPPA) upon the death of the beneficiary of a SNT and repay any payment not properly payable to the SNT; allow KPPA to promulgate administrative regulations to administer the SNT provisions; amend KRS 61.640 to allow a SNT to receive a lifetime retirement payment if a member dies before retirement; amend KRS 78.5532 to allow a SNT to receive a lifetime retirement benefit if a member dies before retirement; amend KRS 161.525, relating to the Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) to allow a SNT to receive a lifetime annuity if a member dies before retirement; amend KRS 161.640 to allow checks to be sent by mail to the trustee of a SNT; require the trustee to notify the TRS upon the death of the beneficiary; require any payments not properly payable to the SNT to be repaid to TRS; allow TRS to promulgate administrative regulations to administer the SNT provisions; amend KRS 161.700 to require TRS to assign annuity payments to a SNT, issue payments to the trustee, and prevent annuity payments from being used to reimburse any state for any Medicaid benefits paid on behalf of the beneficiary of a SNT; amend KRS 21.420 , relating to the Judicial Retirement Plan, to allow for a SNT to be selected as a beneficiary, and define "special needs trust"; amend KRS 21.425 to allow a member to designate a SNT to receive lifetime survivorship benefits on behalf of a surviving spouse, dependent child, or disabled child.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB59
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
1/10/25
Report Pass
2/6/25
Engrossed
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
3/27/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 100 to allow religious institutions to develop affordable housing without submission to review by a planning unit if the development is approved by a local government.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB6
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/20/25
Report Pass
2/27/25
Engrossed
3/5/25
Refer
3/5/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
3/13/25
Amend KRS 157.320 to include costs paid on behalf of districts in the definition of "Support Education Excellence in Kentucky"; define "distributable cost" and "on-behalf cost"; amend KRS 157.330 to include appropriations of on-behalf costs in the fund to support education excellence in Kentucky; amend KRS 157.360 to provide for the calculation of total cost of the program to support education excellence in Kentucky to include on-behalf costs and distributable costs; provide for the calculation; provide for the determination of on-behalf costs; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2026.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB60
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
1/10/25
Report Pass
2/20/25
Engrossed
2/27/25
Refer
2/27/25
Refer
3/7/25
Amend KRS 446.350 to define terms; outline appropriate relief if the statute is violated; apply to laws adopted before or after the effective date; include severability clause; waive sovereign and governmental immunity.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB61
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
1/10/25
Report Pass
2/6/25
Engrossed
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
Refer
3/6/25
Report Pass
3/11/25
Refer
3/14/25
Amend KRS 211.203 to exempt pools that share a plat with a single-family residence that are rented to guests by the owner of the residence from regulation as public pools.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB62
Introduced
1/8/25
Refer
1/8/25
Refer
1/10/25
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 512 to make findings and declarations regarding the dangers of atmospheric polluting activities and the Commonwealth's authority to prohibit geoengineering; define terms; make criminal atmospheric pollution a Class D felony; require that a person found guilty of criminal atmospheric pollution pay a civil penalty of not less than $500,000 in addition to all other penalties authorized by law; provide that each day that a person engages in criminal atmospheric pollution constitutes a separate offense; empower all peace officers of the Commonwealth to enforce the provisions of the section; require the arresting officer to issue a notice to the appropriate federal agency that those activities cannot be lawfully carried out in the Commonwealth.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB63
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/26/25
Engrossed
3/5/25
Refer
3/5/25
Refer
3/5/25
Report Pass
3/13/25
Refer
3/13/25
Enrolled
3/13/25
Enrolled
3/13/25
Chaptered
3/26/25
Passed
3/26/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 186 to define "special purpose vehicle" and "street-legal special purpose vehicle"; allow street-legal special purpose vehicles to operate on a highway under certain circumstances; prohibit street-legal special purpose vehicles from traveling a distance greater than 20 miles on a highway displaying centerline pavement markings; require street-legal special purpose vehicles to register the vehicle and comply with all requirements of KRS Chapter 186; direct the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; amend KRS 186.020 and 186.050 to conform
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB64
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/6/25
Engrossed
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
Refer
2/25/25
Report Pass
3/5/25
Refer
3/12/25
Enrolled
3/13/25
Enrolled
3/13/25
Chaptered
3/19/25
Passed
3/19/25
Amend KRS 511.100 to include cable, telephone, and broadband facilities; amend KRS 512.020 to include damaging or taking possession of a key infrastructure asset.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB65
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
Report Pass
2/19/25
Engrossed
2/26/25
Refer
2/26/25
Refer
3/4/25
Report Pass
3/5/25
Refer
3/12/25
Enrolled
3/13/25
Enrolled
3/13/25
Vetoed
3/24/25
Refer
3/27/25
Override
3/27/25
Refer
3/27/25
Override
3/27/25
Enrolled
3/27/25
Enrolled
3/27/25
Chaptered
3/27/25
Passed
3/27/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 13A to nullify two administrative regulations relating to Medicaid services after those administrative regulations were found deficient during the 2024 legislative interim; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB66
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Refer
2/4/25
Amend KRS 160.180 to remove the definition of "relative"; remove prohibition for local school board eligibility for individuals directly or indirectly interested in sales for which school funds are expended; prohibit employees of the board from being eligible for local school board membership; remove prohibition that a local school board candidate have no relative employed by the district; provide that board members may be removed from office after election for becoming an employee of the board, failure to abstain from board votes in which they have an interest, or for violation of the board's code of ethics; amend KRS 160.290 to require each local school board to create a board code of ethics; provide that a code of ethics cannot prohibit relatives of board members from being employed by the school district.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB67
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/12/25
Engrossed
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to exempt for homeowners who are 65 years of age or older any increase in the valuation of their permanent residence and contiguous real property that is assessed after the later of the year the homeowner turned 65 or the year the homeowner purchased the property; require the exemption to be in addition to the exemption provided in Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky and notwithstanding Sections 171, 172, and 174 of the Constitution of Kentucky; apply the exemption to increases in valuation that occur after the date the amendment is ratified by the voters; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB68
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
3/4/25
Engrossed
3/6/25
Refer
3/6/25
Refer
3/11/25
Report Pass
3/12/25
Refer
3/14/25
Enrolled
3/14/25
Enrolled
3/14/25
Chaptered
3/25/25
Passed
3/25/25
Amend KRS 158.645 to change the required learning capacities of Kentucky public school students; amend KRS 158.6451 to provide that schools shall expect a high level of academic achievement and shall develop students' ability to think critically and independently; amend KRS 156.010 to include career and technical education; amend KRS 160.345 to remove the reporting requirement relating to physical activity of students; amend KRS 157.065 to remove the reporting requirement relating to participation in breakfast programs; amend KRS 424.250 to reflect that school boards are tax levying authorities and do not file budgets with the county clerk; require district budgets to be published in the same manner as school financial reports; repeal KRS 157.061 and 158.856.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB69
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Engrossed
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/28/25
Report Pass
3/12/25
Enrolled
3/14/25
Enrolled
3/14/25
Chaptered
3/25/25
Passed
3/25/25
Amend KRS 321.181 to define terms; create new sections of KRS Chapter 321 to establish new allied animal health professional licenses for equine dentistry and animal chiropractic practice; create the allied animal health professional advisory board; amend KRS 321.187 regarding retention of original patient records; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 321 to conform.