Kentucky 2025 Regular Session All Bills
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB194
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
3/4/25
Create a new section of KRS 258.095 to 258.500 to require animal control officers to receive training on recognizing child abuse; amend KRS 620.030 to add animal control officers to the list of people with a duty to report dependency, neglect, or abuse of a child; provide that the Act may be cited as Kyan's Law.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB195
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
2/4/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to define terms; establish a tax deduction for contributions made to an eligible savings account by a first-time home buyer and allow an exclusion from income for any interest earned from an eligible savings account of a first-time home buyer effective for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, but before January 1, 2036; require the Department of Revenue to report to the Legislative Research Commission and the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue; amend KRS 141.019 and 131.190 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB196
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Engrossed
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
3/6/25
Enrolled
3/12/25
Enrolled
3/12/25
Chaptered
3/25/25
Passed
3/25/25
Amend KRS 351.127 to reduce the number of emergency medical or mine emergency technicians required to be on shift at every active coal mine from two to one, if the number of employees on the shift is 10 or fewer.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB197
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
2/4/25
Amend KRS 164.020 to abolish the Council on Postsecondary Education and transfer authorities and duties to the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority; amend KRS 164.746 to add three student members to the board of the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority; amend various sections of KRS Chapters 164, 164A, 165, 165A, 168, 171, 183, 200, 210, 214, 309, 367, 11A, 12, 18A, 42, 56, 61, 63, 64, 138, 151B, 154, 156, 157,158, 160, and 161 to conform; repeal KRS 164.011, which created and established the Council on Postsecondary Education; dissolve the Council on Postsecondary Education and transfer personnel, records, files, equipment, and funds to the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority; make technical corrections.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB198
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
2/4/25
Propose to amend Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky to provide the General Assembly the authority to exempt all or a portion of any class of property from taxation or eliminate all or a portion of any tax and the related provisions of that tax; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB199
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
2/4/25
Amend KRS 510.040, 510.070, and 510.110 to provide that rape in the first degree, sodomy in the first degree, and sexual abuse in the first degree shall be capital offenses when the victim is under 12 years old; amend KRS 532.025 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB2
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/18/25
Engrossed
2/27/25
Refer
2/27/25
Refer
3/4/25
Report Pass
3/12/25
Refer
3/12/25
Refer
3/13/25
Enrolled
3/14/25
Enrolled
3/14/25
Vetoed
3/25/25
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 139 to create a violation when an official notice published by the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet or the commissioner of the Department of Revenue improperly instructs that taxpayers should continue to collect and remit sales and use tax on currency or bullion currency, allow the taxpayer to file an action for refund in Circuit Court, and entitle the taxpayer to interest, injunctive relief, attorney's fees and costs, and liquidated damages of $1,000 for each day that the violation occurred; RETROACTIVE; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB20
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/18/25
Engrossed
2/25/25
Refer
2/25/25
Refer
2/27/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to define terms related to automated license plate readers; establish limitations on use and sale of data captured by automated license plate readers; provide that captured license plate data may be retained longer than 60 days only if it is being used in a criminal or insurance investigation or has become subject to a preservation of evidence notification; provide that any recorded images or data captured by an ALPR may be made available to the National Insurance Crime Bureau or its successor organization; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to define terms and establish limitations on the introduction of identification devices on or within the human body; create a new section of KRS Chapter 413 to establish a statute of limitations for an action filed for introduction of an identification device; amend KRS 508.152, relating to the unlawful use of tracking devices, to include the installation of a tracking device on the person or property of another without their consent and exempt parental tracking of minors from the prohibition.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB200
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
2/4/25
Amend KRS 198B.130 to establish criteria for a violation for deviation from the Uniform State Building Code.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB201
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/19/25
Report Pass
2/19/25
Engrossed
2/25/25
Refer
2/25/25
Refer
2/27/25
Report Pass
3/6/25
Enrolled
3/12/25
Enrolled
3/12/25
Chaptered
3/15/25
Passed
3/15/25
Amend KRS 514.060, relating to theft of services, to include the conduct of a person holding the property of another under a rental agreement longer than the period agreed upon and depriving the owner of its use for future rentals.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB202
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
2/4/25
Failed
2/18/25
Amend KRS 286.9-100 to limit interest on deferred deposit transactions to an annual percentage rate of 36 percent; apply to transactions entered on or after the effective date of the Act.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB203
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
2/4/25
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 abortion occurs no later than six weeks after the first day of the woman's last menstrual period; 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 311.760 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB204
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
2/4/25
Repeal KRS 237.115, which interprets the application of the license to carry concealed deadly weapon statute as permitting postsecondary facilities, local governments, and units of state government to limit concealed carry in governmental buildings; amend KRS 150.172, 237.110, and 527.020 to conform; amend KRS 237.110 to no longer prohibit the carrying of concealed deadly weapons in schools and specify that the prohibition of carrying concealed deadly weapons in airports is limited to areas controlled by the Transportation Security Administration; make technical corrections; amend KRS 527.070 to add persons with valid licenses to carry concealed deadly weapons to the list of those permitted to possess weapons in schools.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB205
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
2/4/25
Amend KRS 161.030 to remove the authority of the Education Professional Standards Board to require successful completion of assessments prior to teacher certification; amend KRS 161.048 and 161.053 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB206
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/12/25
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a cause of action for a person who was wrongfully convicted of a felony in the Commonwealth; specify amounts of damages that may be awarded to claimants; establish the wrongful conviction compensation fund.