Kentucky 2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 10)

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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB716

Introduced
2/24/26  
Refer
2/24/26  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to require each local school board to include at least 1 student representative; require each local school board to adopt a school board student representative policy with certain requirements.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SB227

Introduced
2/24/26  
Amend KRS 40.050 to include gender-neutral language.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SB240

Introduced
2/24/26  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms and establish student rights related to secular education and religious liberty; direct school districts to establish a formal grievance procedure for students, parents, and staff to report violations of those rights and set minimum requirements for the procedure; create a cause of action for violations of those rights that permits students or parents of students to bring an action for a violation of those rights within 2 years from the date of violation; permit recovery of attorney's fees and costs; waive sovereign and governmental immunity; prohibit retaliation; direct the Kentucky Department of Education to establish model policies, guidance documents, and training materials to assist in implementation by designated dates; direct school districts to provide trainings on compliance during the 2026-2027 school year; amend KRS 158.175 to remove schools' permission to recite the Lord's prayer; remove the requirement for a moment of silence or reflection within the first period of a school day; amend KRS 158.188 to remove references to the Bible and religious aspects of holidays; amend KRS 158.195 to remove the requirement that schools display "In God We Trust" in a prominent location; repeal KRS 158.170, KRS 158.177, and 158.178; provide that the Act may be cited as the Student Secular Bill of Rights.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SB230

Introduced
2/24/26  
Amend KRS 36.230 to include gender-neutral language.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SB241

Introduced
2/24/26  
Amend KRS 141.019, relating to income tax, to define terms; allow a deduction from gross income for professional membership dues paid for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2027, but before January 1, 2031; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the deduction.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB720

Introduced
2/24/26  
Refer
2/24/26  
Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB710

Introduced
2/24/26  
Refer
2/24/26  
Amend KRS 40.050 to include gender-neutral language.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB709

Introduced
2/24/26  
Refer
2/24/26  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 314A to allow an advanced practice respiratory therapist employed by a health facility to declare a patient death and sign the provisional report of death; repeal and reenact KRS 314A.010, 314A.110, and 314A.220 to define terms; create a new license category for advanced practice respiratory therapists; deem the practice credential a license instead of a mandatory certificate; replace the term "respiratory care practitioner" with "respiratory therapist" or "advanced practice respiratory therapist"; establish education and training requirements; set procedures for license reinstatement and reactivation; amend KRS 314A.100 to authorize a respiratory therapist to perform services with the prescription of a physician, physician assistant, advanced practice registered nurse, or advanced practice respiratory therapist; describe services an advanced practice respiratory therapist may provide under prospective medical direction, including prescribing legend drugs; amend KRS 314A.112 to establish requirements for a limited student respiratory therapist license; amend KRS 314A.200 to make the Kentucky Board of Respiratory Care's meetings subject to Kentucky Open Meetings and Open Records laws; amend KRS 314A.215 to raise board members' daily pay from $50 to $100; amend KRS 314A.225 to expand avenues for board discipline of licensees; amend KRS 314A.990 to authorize the board to impose a civil penalty of up to $5,000 per violation; amend KRS 164.0401, 216.2920, 216.380, 217.015, 311.646, 314A.105, 314A.115, 314A.205, 314A.230, 353.510, and 405.024 to conform.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SB243

Introduced
2/24/26  
Amend KRS 2.147, relating to Juneteenth National Freedom Day, to include emphasis on roles of African-Americans in the history of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB717

Introduced
2/24/26  
Refer
2/24/26  
Repeal and reenact KRS 158.1415 to require each school district to provide healthy relationship education instruction to all public school students; establish minimum requirements for the instruction; establish minimum requirements for the healthy relationship curricula and instructional materials; prohibit a school or school district from restricting the ability of an instructor to answer a question related to the instruction; require that a school make the healthy relationship curricula and instructional materials available upon the request of a parent or guardian and establish a procedure for a parent or guardian to opt a student out of the instruction; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations necessary to implement, administer, and enforce this section; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations requiring that each school district submit a report on healthy relationship instruction in the district biennially; require the Kentucky Department of Education to maintain a list of recommended healthy relationship curricula and instructional materials; permit a parent or guardian to file an enforcement action in Circuit Court; provide that the Act may be cited as the Education for Healthy Youth Act.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB724

Introduced
2/24/26  
Refer
2/24/26  
Amend KRS 186.230 and 186.120 to conform to gender-neutral language.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB725

Introduced
2/24/26  
Refer
2/24/26  
Amend KRS 141.019, relating to income tax, to define terms; allow a deduction from gross income for professional membership dues paid for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2027, but before January 1, 2031; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the deduction.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB706

Introduced
2/24/26  
Refer
2/24/26  
Amend KRS 164.050 to insert gender-neutral language.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB721

Introduced
2/24/26  
Refer
2/24/26  
Refer
3/3/26  
Amend KRS 205.558 to insert gender-neutral language; make technical corrections.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB711

Introduced
2/24/26  
Refer
2/24/26  
Amend KRS 36.230 to include gender-neutral language.