Kentucky 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 35)
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KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB559
Introduced
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Refer
2/21/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a refundable qualified rent payment credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, but before January 1, 2030, in the amount of 25 percent of the qualified rent payments made during the taxable year, not to exceed $1,000; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow reporting by the Department of Revenue.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB56
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Refer
2/4/25
Amend KRS 164.295 to permit Eastern Kentucky University to offer doctor of osteopathic medicine degrees required for professional practice and licensure in osteopathic medicine.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB560
Introduced
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Refer
2/25/25
Amend KRS 164.507 to remove degree-seeking requirement for nonremarried spouse and children of a deceased veteran when utilizing educational benefits; require students to use federal grant funds toward tuition prior to the use of the waiver; amend KRS 164.515 to expand educational benefit to include service members with a disability rating of 50% or higher; remove degree-seeking requirement; require students to use federal grant funds toward tuition prior to the use of the waiver.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB561
Introduced
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Refer
2/25/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to designate June 12 of each year as Women Veterans Appreciation Day in the Commonwealth; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB562
Introduced
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Refer
2/25/25
Amend KRS 381.697 to require the governing authority of a city to mandate the proper care of a burial ground.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB563
Introduced
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Refer
2/25/25
Amend KRS 40.050 to include gender-neutral language.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB564
Introduced
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Refer
2/25/25
Amend KRS 337.010 to increase the applicable threshold of employees of retail stores and service industries from $95,000 to $500,000 average annual gross volume of sales for the employer; amend KRS 337.275 to incrementally raise minimum wage of hourly and tipped employees and require adherence to any future federal increase in excess of the new state wage rates; include anti-preemption language permitting local governments to establish minimum wage ordinances in excess of the state minimum wage.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB565
Introduced
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Refer
2/25/25
Amend KRS 12.245, 12.354, 14A.1-070, 16.040, 40.010, 40.310, 40.650, 42.0146, 148.0211, 158.105, 158.140, 161.048, 164.512, 164.515, 186.041, 186.163, and 186.416 to make certain LGBTQ and qualifying veterans, as defined, eligible for state veterans' benefits.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB566
Introduced
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Refer
2/18/25
Report Pass
2/19/25
Engrossed
2/25/25
Refer
2/25/25
Refer
2/27/25
Report Pass
3/11/25
Refer
3/12/25
Enrolled
3/13/25
Enrolled
3/13/25
Vetoed
3/25/25
Refer
3/27/25
Override
3/27/25
Refer
3/27/25
Override
3/27/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Chaptered
3/28/25
Passed
3/28/25
Amend various sections of KRS Chapters 230 and 238, relating to the Kentucky Horse Racing and Gaming Corporation, to define "Kentucky quarter horse purse fund," "proof of wagers," "unclaimed pari-mutuel winning ticket," and "unredeemed pari-mutuel voucher"; confirm the corporation's jurisdiction over racing and gaming entities; require an annual audit of the corporation by a qualified auditing entity and reduce audits by the Auditor of Public Accounts to once every four years; grant the corporation flexibility in promulgating administrative regulations; authorize the corporation to participate in state agency master agreements; prohibit banning or reducing charitable games or charitable gaming activities approved as of July 1, 2025; create staggered initial terms for members of the corporation's board of directors; add two board members, one representing charitable gaming and the other representing the quarter horse industry; appoint all three charitable gaming board members immediately; make those associated with the corporation subject to KRS Chapter 11A, but state that KRS Chapter 230 will control if there is a conflict; permit the board to remove the corporation president; establish qualifications of the corporation's chief financial officer; require the Office of Charitable Gaming to make formal recommendations to the president on charitable gaming matters; combine racing and charitable gaming security and investigators into one group; allow investigators to acquire criminal justice training certification under KRS Chapter 15; establish to corporation's authority over all aspects of charitable gaming, including its employees, agency structure, licensing, and administrative regulations; create a new section of KRS Chapter 230 to direct state financial officers to transfer existing moneys and future receipts to designated accounts; create a new section of KRS Chapter 230 to allow the corporation to control the disbursement of unredeemed pari-mutuel voucher funds held by tracks; create new sections of KRS Chapter 230 to set up quarter horse development and purse funds; amend KRS 230.400, 230.445, 230.446, 230.770, 230.800, 230.802, and 230.804 to modify all equine development, breeder incentive, and purse funds into corporation accounts, with at least 90% of each fund going directly to the fund's primary purpose; allow the corporation to use up to 10% from each fund for its administration and operation; remove quarter horses from all paint horse, Appaloosa, and Arabian funds; amend KRS 230.811 to pay sports wagering license fees directly to the corporation; amend KRS 230.817 to allow the corporation to use up to 10% from the sports wagering administration fund for its administration and operation; require quarterly and annual reports on the status of the sports wagering administration fund; distribute sports wagering funds as they are received; create a new section of KRS Chapter 238 to maintain existing excess charitable gaming licenses; revoke excess licenses after the licensee's commission of listed offenses; amend KRS 238.535 to exempt public or private elementary and secondary schools from charitable gaming licensure; maintain reporting, records retention, and net receipt requirements; amend KRS 238.570 to remove the corporation's ability to adjust the charitable gaming fee; amend KRS 18A.115 to exempt all corporation employees from the classified service; amend KRS 238.550 to allow charitable organizations to make bank deposits up to five days after a charitable event; make technical corrections; amend KRS 68.182, 91.202, 92.282, 138.510, 230.374, 230.3771, 238.536, and 238.540 to conform; repeal KRS 230.270, 238.520, and 238.522; direct the corporation to evaluate and propose its licensing structure to the Interim Joint Committee on Licensing and Occupations by October 1, 2025; make sections relating to the corporation board and funds effective immediately and all other sections effective July 1, 2025; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB567
Introduced
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Refer
2/25/25
Amend KRS 205.592 to extend Medicaid eligibility for new parents from 12 months to 24 months postpartum.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB568
Introduced
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Refer
2/25/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms, require postsecondary education institutions to designate at least one employee in an appropriate department to serve as a liaison between the institution and a homeless student or student in care who is enrolled at the institution; detail responsibilities of the liaison, the Council on Postsecondary Education, and the institution; require an institution to create a position to carry out the responsibilities of a liaison if the number of students experiencing homelessness or students in care exceeds two percent of the student body.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB569
Introduced
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Refer
2/25/25
Amend KRS 342.610 to remove the presumption that the use of an illegal substance prior to an accident caused the injury; provide that the use of an illegal substance shall be the proximate cause of the injury.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB57
Introduced
1/7/25
Refer
1/7/25
Refer
2/4/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to prohibit employers from publishing job postings for ghost jobs; amend KRS 337.990 to establish a penalty for violations.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB570
Introduced
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Refer
2/25/25
Amend KRS 342.610 to exclude certain levels of delta-9-tetrahydrocannabinol in the blood from the presumption that an injury was caused by the introduction of certain substances into the employee's body.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB571
Introduced
2/14/25
Refer
2/14/25
Refer
2/25/25
Amend KRS 218B.010 to add additional qualifying medical conditions for the use of medicinal cannabis; amend KRS 218B.025 to exempt medicinal cannabis resulting from at-home cultivation activities from possession limits and from the requirement that medicinal cannabis be kept in the original container received from a dispensary; amend KRS 218B.030 to conform; amend KRS 218B.035 to permit the use or consumption of medicinal cannabis by smoking while located on private property owned by the cardholder; amend KRS 218B.080 to conform; amend KRS 218B.140 to remove the requirement that raw plant packaged or sold in the state be marked or labeled as "not intended for consumption by smoking"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 218B to permit registered qualified patients who are at least 18 years of age and designated caregivers to possess, cultivate, and harvest up to three mature medicinal cannabis plants and three seedlings on private property owned by the cardholder.