Kentucky 2025 Regular Session All Bills
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB207
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
2/4/25
Amend KRS 158.192 to require the local board of education to allow parents and guardians an opportunity to orally recite passages from materials, programs, or events subject to appeal; require immediate removal of the material, program, or event if the board denies a parent or guardian the opportunity to orally recite passages.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB208
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/26/25
Engrossed
3/11/25
Refer
3/11/25
Refer
3/12/25
Report Pass
3/13/25
Enrolled
3/14/25
Enrolled
3/14/25
Chaptered
3/26/25
Passed
3/26/25
Amend KRS 158.165 to require local boards of education to adopt a policy to, at a minimum, prohibit student use of a personal telecommunications device during the school day with specific exceptions; amend KRS 156.675 to include social media in prohibited material to be made inaccessible through school technology and provide the scope of social media to be prohibited.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB209
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
2/4/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to abolish the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without parole for inmates presently sentenced to death; amend KRS 532.030, relating to authorized dispositions for felony offenses, to remove the death penalty; amend KRS 533.010, relating to probation, to prohibit probation for a person sentenced to life without parole or life without parole for 25 years; amend KRS 640.010 to define terms; amend KRS 640.040, relating to penalties for juveniles convicted of felony offenses, to prohibit life imprisonment without benefit of parole for a capital offense; amend KRS 422.285, 532.050, and 532.100 to conform; repeal KRS 431.213, 431.2135, 431.218, 431.220, 431.223, 431.224, 431.240, 431.250, 431.260, 431.270, 507A.060, 532.025, 532.075, 532.130, 532.135, 532.140, 532.300, 532.305, and 532.309.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB21
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Refer
2/4/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to define terms and establish limitations on "deep fakes"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 413 to establish a statute of limitations for an action filed for the unlawful dissemination of a deep fake; create a new section of KRS Chapter 519 to establish a criminal penalty for illegally disseminating a deep fake.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB210
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
3/5/25
Engrossed
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
3/11/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Chaptered
4/1/25
Passed
4/1/25
Create a new section of KRS 304.17C-130 to 304.17C-138 to establish requirements for insurers of dental benefit plans relating to assignment of benefits; require providers to comply with assignment provisions; amend KRS 304.14-250, 304.17-130, and 304.18-090 to conform; direct that provisions apply to policies, plans, and contracts issued or renewed on or after the effective date of the Act.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB211
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
2/4/25
Report Pass
2/11/25
Engrossed
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/21/25
Report Pass
3/5/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define terms; provide that local government restrictions on smoking shall not apply to cigar bars; require cigar bars to provide certain smoke-free spaces.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB212
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
2/4/25
Amend various sections of KRS Chapter 161 to remove provisions of HB 258 enacted during the 2021 Regular Session that created and adjusted benefits for individuals who become members of the Teachers' Retirement System on or after January 1, 2022; repeal KRS 161.633, 161.634, 161.635, and 161.636, relating to university and nonuniversity members; provide that these members shall be eligible for the benefits applicable to members who entered the system immediately prior to January 1, 2022; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB213
Introduced
1/10/25
Refer
1/10/25
Refer
2/4/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to define terms; prohibit local governments and local government personnel from enacting, adopting, or otherwise enforcing any sanctuary policy; allow civil actions against local governments or local law enforcement agencies for damages, costs, and attorney's fees if a person subject to a detainer is released from custody as a result of a sanctuary policy of the local government or local law enforcement agency and commits a violent crime; withdraw immunities afforded local governments and local law enforcement agencies.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB214
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to define terms; establish a refundable credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, but before January 1, 2030, for individuals who enroll in a firearm safety course during the taxable year; amend KRS 141.0205 to provide for the ordering of the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the credit.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB215
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 82 to define "city," "project labor agreement," and "public construction project"; permit a city to establish a mandatory preference for awarding public construction project contracts to unions through a negotiated project labor agreement; permit cities to negotiate wages that are higher than the state or federal minimum wage as a condition of the project labor agreement; create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to define "city," "prevailing wage," "prevailing wage rate," and "public works project"; permit a city to enact prevailing wage ordinances; amend KRS 65.016 to grant local governments the authority to adopt and enforce ordinances that require employers in their jurisdiction to provide leave to employees and set a higher minimum wage than state and federal rates; amend KRS 383.210 and 383.215, relating to forcible entry and detainer, to allow a local government to set an alternative time period from the date of the service of the warrant and the date of the hearing to more than the minimum of three days; require the local government to notify the sheriff, the court of jurisdiction, and the administrative office of the courts of that action; and amend KRS 65.1591 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB216
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Report Pass
2/12/25
Engrossed
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/21/25
Report Pass
3/4/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Vetoed
3/19/25
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 246 to allow employees of the Department of Agriculture, except those employed within the Kentucky Office of Agricultural Policy, to participate in, apply for, or receive funds, awards, or contracts administered by the department's Kentucky Office of Agricultural Policy; amend KRS 11A.040 to conform; RETROACTIVE; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB217
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Failed
2/6/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to define "rapid whole genome sequencing"; require the Department for Medicaid Services and Medicaid managed care organizations to provide coverage for rapid whole genome sequencing; establish conditions for coverage; amend KRS 205.6485 to require the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program to provide coverage for rapid whole genome sequencing; require the Department for Medicaid Services (department) to promulgate administrative regulations; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the department to seek federal approval if it is determined that such approval is necessary, and to comply with KRS 205.525.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB218
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to create the vaping settlement trust fund to be administered by the Office of the Attorney General; direct the deposit of certain litigation proceeds into the fund; direct the allowable uses of fund moneys for certain vaping cessation and enforcement efforts.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB219
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Report Pass
2/13/25
Engrossed
2/20/25
Refer
2/20/25
Refer
2/25/25
Report Pass
3/4/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Chaptered
3/12/25
Passed
3/12/25
Amend KRS 216B.400 to require hospitals that offer emergency services to develop and provide training for emergency department staff on sexual assault emergency response requirements, protocols, and resources; amend KRS 314.011 and 403.707 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB22
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Refer
2/4/25
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.