Kentucky 2025 Regular Session All Bills
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB7
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/20/25
Report Pass
2/27/25
Engrossed
3/6/25
Refer
3/6/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 365 to define terms; establish that every individual has property rights to images of his or her unclothed body; establish how those property rights may be transferred or terminated; provide for liability, enforcement, and damages resulting from a violation of those property rights.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB70
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Refer
2/4/25
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 381 to enact the Uniform Partition of Heirs Property Act; define terms, including "heirs property"; create a mechanism for partition or sale among cotenants by the court; create requirements for notice and determination of value through agreement or appraisal; create protocol for buyouts, partition alternatives, partition in kind, sale by open market, sealed bids, or auction; create the heirs property research fund; amend KRS 324B.050 to authorize the Kentucky Real Estate Authority to promulgate administrative regulations to issue grants from the fund; amend KRS 64.012 to increase the recording and indexing fee collected by county clerks by $1 and to direct those additional fees to the heirs property research fund; amend KRS 381.135 and 389A.030 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB71
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/26/25
Engrossed
3/4/25
Refer
3/4/25
Refer
3/6/25
Amend KRS 173.490 and 173.730 to allow a county judge/executive to appoint members to a public library board of trustees and fill vacancies with the approval of the fiscal court and without consultation with the previous board members or the Department for Libraries and Archives.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB72
Introduced
1/9/25
Refer
1/9/25
Refer
2/4/25
Amend KRS 150.170 to prohibit the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife from imposing a hunter education requirement for a person over 18 years of age to obtain a hunting or fishing license or permit and deletes provisions regarding live fire exercises.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB73
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/6/25
Engrossed
2/13/25
Refer
2/13/25
Refer
2/28/25
Report Pass
3/5/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Chaptered
3/12/25
Passed
3/12/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 531 to establish the crime of sexual extortion as a felony; provide for enhancements to penalties; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a civil cause of action for sexual extortion; amend KRS 17.500 to include sexual extortion in the definition of "sex crime"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require superintendents of local school districts to notify students in grades four and above and parents and guardians of all students of the crime of sexual extortion; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require local school boards to display posters in schools with the definition of sexual extortion and contact information for entities offering assistance to victims; amend KRS 164.2518 to require postsecondary institutions to display posters with the definition of sexual extortion and contact information for entities offering assistance to victims in residential facilities and buildings containing instructional spaces, student services, or academic support services.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB74
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
2/4/25
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms; require certain health insurance policies to provide coverage for an annual mental health wellness examination; require the coverage to be no less extensive than coverage for medical and surgical benefits, comply with the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act of 2008, and not to be subject to any cost-sharing requirements; amend KRS 164.2871, 205.522, 205.6485, and 18A.225 to require self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution, Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program, and the state employee health plan to comply with the mental health coverage requirement; amend KRS 304.17C-125 to apply the mental health wellness examination requirement to limited health service contracts; state purpose of the Act; direct that provisions apply to health plans issued or renewed on or after the effective date of the section; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to seek federal approval if it determines that such approval is necessary; provide that Section 1 may be cited as the Kentucky Act in Support of Annual Mental Health Wellness Exams; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2026.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB75
Introduced
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Refer
2/25/25
Report Pass
3/6/25
Engrossed
3/11/25
Refer
3/11/25
Amend KRS 237.109 to lower the age requirement for carrying a concealed and deadly weapon from 21 to 18; amend KRS 237.110 to conform; make technical corrections.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB76
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/6/25
Engrossed
2/12/25
Refer
2/12/25
Refer
3/5/25
Report Pass
3/11/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Chaptered
4/2/25
Passed
4/2/25
Amend KRS 371.160 to increase the threshold for the creation of escrow accounts for real estate improvement contracts from $500,000 to $2,000,000; amend KRS 371.405 to prohibit the waiver by contract of any provision of KRS 371.160.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB77
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Engrossed
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
3/11/25
Refer
3/13/25
Enrolled
3/13/25
Enrolled
3/13/25
Chaptered
3/19/25
Passed
3/19/25
Amend KRS 161.028 to allow for a designee of the chief academic officer of an independent not-for-profit college or university to serve as a member of the Education Professional Standards Board.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB78
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amend KRS 139.010 to define "diaper"; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt all diapers from the sales and use tax.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB79
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
Report Pass
2/12/25
Engrossed
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
Amend KRS 18A.005 to define "intern employee" and "intern position"; amend KRS 18A.050 to require a member of the Personnel Board to vacate his or her position or have the board terminate his or her position if he or she separates from the classified service; amend KRS 18A.0751 to no longer require the Personnel Board to promulgate administrative regulations pertaining to employee fines or employee reemployment after a layoff; amend KRS 18A.110 to allow the secretary of the Personnel Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to implement scholarship programs, internship programs, education programs, and educational assistance programs for employees; allow the secretary of the Personnel Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations for the classified service governing layoffs, furloughs, and reduction of hours to include, but not be limited to reemployment of laid-off employees; amend KRS 18A.113 to provide that in the same department or office, county, and job classification, intern, interim and probationary employees shall be terminated before full-time and part-time employees with status are laid off; amend KRS 18A.115 to permit members and employees of boards and commissions exempt from the classified service to employ staff subject to the provisions of KRS 18A.005 to 18A.200, 18A.202, and 18A.203; exempt juvenile institution superintendents from the classified service; amend KRS 18A.125 to require all agencies and employees for which the Personnel Cabinet administers payroll to comply with the secretary's payroll administration; prohibit an executive branch agency for which the cabinet administers payroll from authorizing work performance outside of the Commonwealth without approval from the secretary; allow an agency to request the secretary deduct certain items from an employee's final paycheck so long as the deduction is expressly authorized in writing and does not reduce the employee's pay below the federal minimum wage; amend KRS 18A.135 to direct when reemployment rights expire; amend KRS 18A.197 and 18A.203 to permit an employee who has provided proper notice of resignation or retirement to transfer all or part of their remaining sick or annual leave balance even if they have accumulated under 75 hours of sick or annual leave; amend KRS 18A.035, 18A.095, 18A.100, 18A.355, 132.370, and 163.032 to conform and make technical corrections.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB8
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/20/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to establish the membership of the Public Service Commission; provide for the appointment, confirmation, and replacement of commissioners; establish the qualifications of the commissioners; set the terms and term limits for commissioners; amend KRS 278.040 to provide that the commission is an independent department of state government that is administratively attached to the Energy and Environment Cabinet only for the limited functions and purposes that the commission requests; allow the commission, in its sole discretion, to identify and determine the compensation for categories of its professional employees; prohibit the commission from being reorganized under KRS Chapter 12; amend KRS 278.060 to prohibit the immediate family members of commissioners from having any official relationship to any utility; allow for a commissioner or an immediate family member to have a pension or a retirement savings account with utility as long as no contributions have been made to it for at least one year prior to the commissioner's appointment; amend KRS 278.070 to allow the officer who appointed a commissioner to remove the commissioner for cause; amend KRS 278.120 to allow the commission to have sole discretion in fixing the compensation of the executive director; amend KRS 278.702, 64.640, and 160.617 to conform; repeal KRS 278.050, relating to membership of the Public Service Commission; require the Auditor of Public Accounts to make initial appointments to the commission on or before July 1, 2025, and provide for the staggering of the appointments; allow current members of the commission to serve out the remainders of their terms provided that they meet the qualification requirements of the Act; terminate the terms of current commissioners who do not meet the qualification requirements of the Act and provide for their replacement; direct the transfer of all records, files, or documents associated with functions previously performed by the Energy and Environment Cabinet to the Public Service Commission.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB80
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
Amend KRS 164.295 to permit Murray State University to offer doctor's degrees required for professional practice and licensure in veterinary medicine.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB81
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to authorize local governments regulating short-term rentals.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB82
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
Amend KRS 222.504 and 222.506 to require that recovery residences be inspected at least annually by state or local officials capable of ensuring compliance with all state and local zoning, building code, and fire safety laws, administrative regulations, and ordinances and establish maximum occupancy standards for recovery residences; amend KRS 222.510 to permit local governments to require an individual or entity seeking to establish a recovery residence to provide notice up to six months in advance to all property owners within 1,000 feet of the property on which the recovery residence will be located; EMERGENCY.