| HB1 | FEDERAL EDUCATION OPPORTUNITY PROGRAM (MOSER, KIMBERLY POORE; Roberts, T.J.; Bauman, Jared; Calloway, Josh; Decker, Jennifer; Doan, Steven; Dotson, Ryan; Fleming, Ken; Hodgson, John; Lewis, Derek; Lewis, Scott ; Lewis, Chris; Lockett, Matt; Massaroni, Candy; Nemes, Jason; Osborne, David W.; Proctor, Marianne; Rabourn, Felicia; Tate, Nancy; Tipton, James; Wesley, Bill) AN ACT implementing the federal education opportunity program in Kentucky.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 14 to elect for the Commonwealth to participate in the qualified elementary and secondary education scholarship federal tax credit; designate the Secretary of State as the sole official authorized to report the state's election and submit the required list to the United States Secretary of the Treasury; require the Secretary of State to publish associated administrative regulations and other guidance on a website; authorize the Secretary of State to promulgate administrative regulations to carry out the program; authorize the Secretary of State to collect a fee and accept private contributions to pay for necessary costs and establish requirements for the administration of the funds; waive Eleventh Amendment immunity for the section; amend KRS 141.019 to exclude qualified contributions made to scholarship granting organizations from allowed individual income tax dedications. HCS (1) Retain original provisions; declare that the General Assembly designates itself under state law to make the election with respect to federal tax benefits under 26 U.S.C sec. 25F; make the Secretary of State the sole official authorized to report the state's election or nonelection; require the Secretary of State to collect a fee; delete amendment to KRS 141.019, relating to exceptions to allowable deductions. |
| | Current Status: | 3/17/2026 - delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 4)
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| HB2 | MEDICAID (FLEMING, KEN; Grossl, Vanessa; Hampton, Tony; Hodgson, John; Osborne, David W.) AN ACT relating to Medicaid, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
HCS(1) Retain original provisions, with the following changes: require individuals enrolled in Medicaid to demonstrate community engagement for 3 consecutive months to maintain eligibility; delete provisions prohibiting certain forms of cost sharing in the Medicaid program; delete requirement for copayments on prescription glasses and contacts from January 1, 2027, through September 30, 2028; establish copayment amounts for prescription drugs; require Medicaid benefit and tracking agencies to review data from the National Change of Address database on a quarterly basis; require calculation of capitation rates for NEMT brokers to consider region-specific factors; require NEMT brokers to attest to the accuracy of data provided to a state agency; require the Department for Medicaid Services to designate a nationally recognized level of care assessment tool for each 1915(c) waiver program; require an individual be a resident of Kentucky for at least 1 year before being eligible for enrollment in a 1915(c) waiver program; exempt members of the United States Armed Services, their families, and veterans from certain 1915(c) waiver requirements; delete provisions requiring the enrollment of individuals on a 1915(c) waiver waitlist in the fee-for-service Medicaid program; require the Department for Medicaid Services to establish waiver-specific emergency allocation criteria for each 1915(c) waiver program by January 1, 2027; delete provisions exempting individuals currently on a waiver waitlist from the newly established tiered priority leveling system; require the Department for Medicaid Services to employ a Medicaid dental director by July 1, 2028; require the Medicaid dental director to be licensed under KRS Chapter 313; delete provisions limiting compensation to the dental administrative services organization; delete provisions permitting the establishment of an incentive payment program for the dental administrative services organization; delay implementation of the transition of Medicaid-covered dental services to an administrative services organization delivery model until January 1, 2029; prohibit procurement of a dental administrative services organization until January 1, 2028; delete provisions related to quality control reviews by the Commonwealth Office of the Ombudsman; create new sections of KRS Chapter 205 to establish a timeline for procuring new managed care contracts; sunset provision as of March 15, 2029; prohibit the Medicaid program from covering prescription drugs prescribed primarily for weight loss or weight management; delay establishment of the Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Board Dental Services Transition subcommittee until July 1, 2027; delete provisions requiring any contract between the Department for Medicaid Services and a managed care organization entered into, renewed, or extended after the effective date of this Act to provide notice to the managed care organization of the department's intent to transition dental services from a managed care delivery model to an administrative services organization delivery model; require the healthcare transparency dashboard to track certain performance indicators; make technical changes. HFA(18) Require nonemergency medical transportation (NEMT) regional brokers to achieve an annual medical loss ratio of at least 85% for the state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2026; require NEMT regional brokers to achieve an annual medical loss ratio of at least 87.5% for the state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2027; require NEMT regional brokers to achieve an annual medical loss ratio of at least 90% for the state fiscal year beginning July 1, 2028 and each state fiscal year thereafter. SCS (1) Retain original provisions, except delete provisions related to implementation of cost-sharing requirements between January 1, 2027, and September 30, 2028; delete provisions related to limitations on the authority of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to request a hardship waiver related to community engagement; delete provisions related to prohibitions on self-attestation; delete provisions related to implementation of a tiered priority system for assigning waiver slots; delete provisions related to a comprehensive examination of the Medicaid program conducted by the Auditor of Public Accounts; delete provisions related to the appropriation of funds to the office of the Auditor of Public Accounts to conduct a comprehensive examination of the Medicaid program; delete provisions related to the establishment of Medicaid impact statements; delete provisions prohibiting Medicaid coverage for prescription drugs when primarily prescribed for weight management; require the Legislative Research Commission to collaborate, instead of partnering, with the University of Kentucky and University of Louisville to develop a healthcare transparency dashboard; revise provisions related to Medicaid provider audits conducted by a managed care organization; revise the amount of cost-sharing requirements in the Medicaid program; require Medicaid eligibility redetermination be conducted every 6 months beginning January 1, 2027 instead of July 1, 2026; establish that existing statutory limitations on self-attestation shall apply to determinations of compliance with community engagement requirements; revise the definition of "inactive Medicaid provider"; revise the process for how the Department for Medicaid Services shall handle returned mail; establish that the cost of global positioning system devices in vehicles providing nonemergency medical transportation services be borne by regional brokers and not the Department for Medicaid Services; permit advanced practice registered nurses, physician's assistants, and licensed psychologists to provide attestation to an individual's need for waiver services; establish that an individual who is under the age of 18 and receiving waiver services on the effective date of this Act shall continue to be reassessed using level of care assessment tools in effect on the effective date of this Act; require reserve capacity waiver slots to prioritize allocation to individuals who are in need of skilled nursing services; amend KRS 7A.286 to revise the schedule of examinations conducted by the Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Board; amend KRS 205.5372 to prohibit the Cabinet for Health and Family Services from providing any Medicaid benefit or expending general fund moneys on any benefit that has not been expressly authorized by the General Assembly or required under federal law or make any change related to Medicaid eligibility, coverage, or benefits without authorization from the General Assembly to do so; delete provisions related to the establishment of a Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Board subcommittee on Medicaid-covered dental services; establish that emergency allocation criteria requiring need for skilled nursing services shall only apply to the home and community based, or HCB, waiver program; require currently enrolled Medicaid beneficiaries to demonstrate community engagement for 3 out of the previous 6 months, instead of 3 consecutive months out of the previous 6 months. SCA (1T) Make title amendment. FCCR (1) Retain original provisions; establish procedures for Medicaid managed care organization provider audits; direct the Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Board to study waiver waitlist management strategies during the 2026 legislative interim; direct the Department for Medicaid Services to distribute funds to Volunteers of America for administration of a community engagement pilot program. |
| | Current Status: | 4/14/2026 - delivered to Secretary of State
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| HB6 | CHILD CARE (HEAVRIN, SAMARA; Duvall, Robert; Bivens, Ryan; Branscum, Joshua; Bratcher, Steve; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Clines, Mike; Dietz, Stephanie; Grossberg, Daniel; Grossl, Vanessa; Hampton, Tony; Jackson, Kevin; Johnson, DJ; Lawrence, William; Lewis, Scott ; Lewis, Derek; Lewis, Chris; McPherson, Shawn; Meade, David; Moser, Kimberly Poore; Neighbors, Amy; Nemes, Jason; Osborne, David W.; Pollock, Michael Sarge; Thomas, Walker; Williams, Wade; Witten, Susan) AN ACT relating to child care and declaring an emergency.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 related to the quality-based graduated early care and education rating system program to establish the intent of the General Assembly related to the program; establish processes and procedures for how the program is changed by administrative regulation; require a program modernization plan and final recommendations for modernization to be created and submitted to the Legislative Research Commission; amend KRS 199.891 to define terms; create new requirements for how the Cabinet for Health and Family Services establishes and operates the Certified Child Care Community Designation Program; delete language related to a previous 1 time requirement for the cabinet to submit recommendations and best practices to the Legislative Research Commission; establish a new January 1, 2028 submission deadline for the cabinet to make publicly available a standardized application for certification and instructions for the program; establish new requirements for applications by local governments to participate in the program; require an annual report by the Cabinet for Economic Development regarding the program; amend KRS 199.8983 to increase the membership of the Kentucky Child Care Advisory Council; establish that the council shall additionally advise the Cabinet for Health and Family Services on the operations, funding, and licensing of child-care microcenters; create new sections of KRS Chapter 199 to define terms; establish licensure for child-care microcenters; establish the Kentucky Child-Care Microcenter Program to regulate the standards and operations of child-care microcenters; establish early care and education training requirements for licensed child-care providers and certified family child-care home providers; establish that the Education and Labor Cabinet shall compile, produce, and make publicly available a monthly report providing a comprehensive snapshot of all licensed and certified child care services, Head Start services, child care services regulated by the United States Department of Defense, and state-funded public preschool services operating within the Commonwealth; establish a voluntary designation process through which any licensed or certified child-care provider may identify as a faith-based program; require the Office of State Budget Director to produce a comprehensive annual report outlining all state and federal spending on child care and early childhood education services and submit it annually to the Legislative Research Commission; establish that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall submit an approval request to the federal Administration for Children and Families to utilize a cost estimation model to inform payment rates beginning with the fiscal year 2028-2030 Child Care and Development Fund state plan; amend KRS 199.882 to change the definitions of "contribution" and "state match" and define "third-party administrator"; amend KRS 199.883 to establish that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall enter into a contract with a private third-party administrator to administer the Employee Child Care Assistance Partnership Program and establish duties and requirements of the third-party administrator; amend KRS 199.885 to establish the third-party administrator is responsible for issuing state fund matches out of the Employee Child Care Assistance Partnership fund; amend KRS 199.886 and 199.887 to specify how employers and employees interact directly with the third-party administrator instead of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. HCS (1) Retain original provisions; amend KRS 199.8982 to establish an exemption from the state certification requirements for a child-care provider on a military installation or military facility that is licensed or certified as a family child-care provider by the United States Department of Defense, any branch of the United States Armed Forces, the National Guard, or reserve component thereof; establish a pilot program related to specific family child-care homes that meet requirements set by the Armed Forces and the United States Department of Defense; EMERGENCY. SFA (1) Create new sections of KRS Chapter 199 to define terms; create the Kentucky Kindergarten Readiness Performance-Based Child-Care Incentive Pilot Program; require the University of Kentucky to operate the pilot program; establish the purpose and directives of the pilot program; establish completion date and reporting requirements; establish that the Kentucky Kindergarten Readiness Performance-Based Child-Care Incentive Pilot Program will determine how to award incentive funds that could include direct payments or refundable tax credits. SFA (2) Amend KRS 199.896 to establish standards and factors for the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to consider in determining whether to issue a plan of correction, directed plan of correction, or suspension or revocation of a child-care license in response to any alleged violation of an administrative regulation by a child-care center; require that a single violation of a directed plan of correction does not result in a suspension or revocation of a child-care center's license unless the violation is solely determined to be serious enough to justify the action; permit documentation to be submitted to the cabinet up to 5 business days following a request; require weekly support contacts for a child-care center with a preliminary license; prohibit the cabinet from issuing violations during the probationary period; permit, but not require the inspector general, the inspector general's designee, or other cabinet representative, to take actions relating to a child-care center license; make technical corrections; apply provisions of the Act to pending and not yet final actions related to licensed child-care centers, and to all actions that occur on or after the effective date; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 4/14/2026 - BECAME LAW WITHOUT GOVERNOR'S SIGNATURE
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| HB7 | SCHOOL BUS SAFTEY (HALE, DAVID; Aull, Chad; Grossberg, Daniel; King, Kim) AN ACT relating to school bus safety.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; allow the use of camera monitoring systems on school buses operated by a school district and allow the enforcement of a civil penalty for stop arm camera violations recorded by a camera monitoring system; establish the amount of the civil penalty; require that the revenue generated from a civil penalty be retained by the school district; allow a law enforcement agency to charge a fee of $25 from every civil penalty enforced by the law enforcement agency; require specific notice for a stop arm camera violation; establish defenses to a violation; establish procedures for a contest to a violation; allow for suspension of motor vehicle registration for failure to timely pay a penalty; require a school district or law enforcement agency to notify the Transportation Cabinet of the need to release a motor vehicle registration suspension within 1 business day of payment; amend KRS 189.370 to require traffic in the opposite direction of a school or church bus to stop for the bus on a highway that is not divided by an elevated barrier or unpaved median; amend KRS 189.990 to increase the maximum fines for failing to stop for a school or church bus that is receiving or discharging passengers. SCS (1) Retain original provisions except permit the use of recorded images from the stop arm camera only for the purposes of enforcing the stop arm camera violations. |
| | Current Status: | 4/9/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 62)
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| HB11 | INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICTS (BAUMAN, JARED; AN ACT relating to independent school districts.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 160 to establish a process for the creation of new independent school districts from a persistently underperforming school district; define terms; establish the process for a local legislative body where a persistently underperforming school district is located to place the question of creating new independent districts and local boards of education on the ballot; specify the requirements for the questions and the board of education provisional election; establish the initial terms of office for the interim board of education; establish the transition of authorities from the originating district board of education to the boards of both the altered originating district and the new independent district; require the Kentucky Department of Education to calculate assets and liabilities of the originating district for division to the new independent districts; authorize the originating district to maintain control and use of assets until the scheduled transfer to the new independent districts and authorize the continued payments of debts; establish a negotiation process between the originating district and the new independent districts to resolve the division of the originating district's assets and liabilities; establish a deadline for the negotiation to conclude; provide a process for resolution of disagreements; establish a deadline for the transfer of all assets and debts; authorize the originating district to continue to assess and collect taxes for all districts until the close of the tax year in which the new independent districts are fully operational; provide for the distribution of collected taxes during the transition period; require the county judge/executive to call the newly elected interim boards of new independent districts to meet; allow the interim board to request assistance from the Kentucky Department of Education; establish the transition process for new independent districts to become fully functional; allow the interim board to submit a waiver request for a statute or administrative regulation to the Kentucky Board of Education; authorize the interim board to enter into service contracts with another school district during the transition; establish a process for the interim board to vote to terminate the establishment of the new independent district due to financial nonviability during the transition; establish the transition from an interim board to a fully functional board of the new independent district; require the continued collection of taxes restricted to the payment of debt or interest; waive the requirement for school-based decision making for the first year of operations of the new independent district; require the interim board of the new independent district to develop a transition plan and establish the requirements of the plan; create a new section of KRS Chapter 157, relating to state formula funding calculations, to establish a projection model for the first year of full operations of the new independent district and the altered originating district. |
| | Current Status: | 1/13/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB13 | INDIVIDUAL TAX RATE (BURKE, LINDSEY; Camuel, Adrielle; Gentry, Alan; Hancock, Erika; Roarx, Rachel; Stalker, Sarah; Stevenson, Pamela) AN ACT relating to the individual income tax rate.
Amend KRS 141.020 to establish a graduated tax rate for net income of $300,000 or less; establish a flat tax rate of 6% for net incomes in excess of $300,000; and remove provisions relating to tax rate reduction procedures. |
| | Current Status: | 1/13/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB14 | RURAL HOSPITAL FUNDING (BURKE, LINDSEY; Aull, Chad; Camuel, Adrielle; Roarx, Rachel; Stalker, Sarah) AN ACT relating to the rural hospital operations and facilities revolving loan fund, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Appropriate $355,000,000 in fiscal year 2026-27 to the rural hospital operations and facilities revolving loan fund; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 1/13/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB15 | AMENDMENT RELATING TO MEDICAID (BURKE, LINDSEY; Camuel, Adrielle) AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to Medicaid expansion.
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to enshrine Medicaid expansion coverage; direct the Secretary of State to advertise the proposed constitutional amendment prior to a general election vote; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) WITHDRAWN
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| HB16 | MEDICAID (BURKE, LINDSEY; AN ACT relating to Medicaid.
Amend KRS 205.520 to establish that it is the policy of the Commonwealth to provide Medicaid eligibility for all residents of the Commonwealth who may be eligible under federal law; amend KRS 205.6312 to require the establishment of cost-sharing requirements in the Medicaid program to the extent required under federal law; require the Governor to commission an independent third-party analysis of the current Medicaid expansion; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to seek federal approval if it is determined that such approval is necessary; provide authorization from the General Assembly to make changes the Medicaid program as required under KRS 205.5372(1). |
| | Current Status: | 1/13/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB17 | PAYMENTS TO SCHOOL EMPLOYEES (BURKE, LINDSEY; Aull, Chad) AN ACT relating to one-time payments to school district employees, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Direct local school districts to provide a one-time payment of $2,000 to certified employees, excluding superintendents, in each year of the 2026-2028 biennium, and a one-time payment of $1,000 to classified employees in each year of the 2026-2028 biennium; appropriate $153 million from the Budget Reserve Trust Fund account in each year of the 2026-2028 biennium to the Learning and Results Services budget unit to provide the payments; authorize the Department of Education to pro rata reduce payments if the appropriation is insufficient; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 1/13/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB19 | SCHOOL DISTRICT EMPLOYEES (BURKE, LINDSEY; AN ACT relating to school district employees and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 157.420 to preclude the Kentucky Board of Education from approving the working budget or salary schedule of a local board of education unless it incorporates a salary increase for certified and classified staff consistent with the percent increase in the Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U); EMERGENCY; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2026. |
| | Current Status: | 1/13/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB20 | REPRODUCTIVE HEALTHCARE (BURKE, LINDSEY; AN ACT relating to coverage for reproductive health care.
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for in vitro fertilization, intrauterine insemination, and any other assisted reproductive technology; establish minimum requirements for the coverage; suspend the coverage requirement's application to qualified health plans if the state would be required to make cost defrayal payments; amend KRS 304.17A-099 to conform; amend 164.2871 and 18A.225 to require self-insured employer plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution and the state employee health plan to comply with the assisted reproductive technology coverage requirement; direct that certain provisions apply to health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2027; EFFECTIVE, January 1, 2027. |
| | Current Status: | 1/13/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Banking & Insurance (H)
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| HB21 | MENTAL HEATHCARE COVERAGE (BURKE, LINDSEY; Camuel, Adrielle) AN ACT relating to mental health coverage in connection with pregnancy.
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms; require health benefit plans to provide coverage for counseling interventions for pregnant and postpartum persons at increased risk of perinatal depression, including persons who have suffered a miscarriage or stillbirth; suspend the coverage requirement's application to qualified health plans if the state would be required to make cost defrayal payments; amend KRS 304.17A-099 to conform; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485, 164.2871, and 18A.225 to require Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program, self-insured employer plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution, and the state employee health plan to comply with the coverage requirement for counseling interventions; provide that certain provisions apply to health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2027; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or Department for Medicaid Services to obtain federal approval if it is determined that such approval is necessary and comply with notice requirements; provide authorization from the General Assembly to make changes in the Medicaid program as required under KRS 205.5372(1); EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2027. |
| | Current Status: | 1/13/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Banking & Insurance (H)
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| HB23 | REPRODUCTIVE HEALTHCARE (BURKE, LINDSEY; Camuel, Adrielle; Donworth, Anne; Stalker, Sarah) AN ACT relating to reproductive health care.
Create a new section of KRS 311.710 to 311.820 to define terms; establish privacy protections for a woman seeking reproductive health care outside of the Commonwealth; establish protections for any person or entity assisting a woman seeking reproductive health care outside of the Commonwealth; establish a civil cause of action for violations; waive sovereign immunity protections of the Commonwealth. |
| | Current Status: | 1/13/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
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| HB24 | EMPLOYMENT SCHEDULES (BURKE, LINDSEY; AN ACT relating to employment schedules.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to require employers to give employees a good-faith estimate of the employee's work schedule, maintain a voluntary standby list of employees who wish to work additional hours, post weekly schedules at least seven days in advance, and provide certain rest periods for employees from being scheduled; allow employees to identify time limitations for scheduling work hours; require compensation for employer changes to the schedule; set forth unlawful practices; amend KRS 337.990 to establish a penalty for violations. |
| | Current Status: | 1/13/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
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| HB25 | CHEMOTHERAPY TREATMENT COVERAGE (BURKE, LINDSEY; Camuel, Adrielle; Chester-Burton, Beverly) AN ACT relating to coverage for scalp cooling systems used in connection with chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer.
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms; require health plans to provide coverage for scalp cooling systems used in connection with chemotherapy treatment for breast cancer; suspend the coverage requirement's application to qualified health plans if the state would be required to make cost defrayal payments; amend KRS 304.17A-099 to conform; amend KRS 304.17C-125, 164.2871, and 18A.225 to require limited health service benefit plans, self-insured employer plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution, and the state employee health plan to comply with the coverage requirement for scalp cooling systems; provide that certain provisions apply to health plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2027; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2027. |
| | Current Status: | 1/13/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Banking & Insurance (H)
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| HB26 | WORKERS' COMPENSATION FOR FIRST RESPONDERS (BURKE, LINDSEY; Aull, Chad; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Gentry, Alan; Hampton, Tony) AN ACT relating to workers' compensation for first responders.
Amend KRS 342.0011, relating to workers' compensation, to expand the definition of "injury" to include psychological injuries for police officers, firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, front-line staff members, or members of the National Guard; create a new section of KRS Chapter 342 to establish when psychological injuries are valid workers' compensation claims when not a direct result of a physical injury. |
| | Current Status: | 1/13/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
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| HB27 | KENTUCKY SAVES ACCOUNT (BURKE, LINDSEY; AN ACT relating to contributions made to a Kentucky Saves account.
Amend KRS 141.019 to establish an individual income tax exclusion for amounts contributed to a Kentucky Saves account for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2027, but before January 1, 2031; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish the parameters for the Kentucky Saves exclusion and to establish the Kentucky Saves tax credit; define terms; require the Department of Revenue to report annually on the exclusion and tax credit; amend KRS 141.0205 to provide ordering of the tax credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the exclusion and tax credit. |
| | Current Status: | 1/13/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB28 | ECUATION OPPORTUNITY ACCOUNTS (BURKE, LINDSEY; AN ACT relating to education opportunity accounts.
Repeal various sections of KRS Chapter 141 to repeal the Education Opportunity Account Program; amend KRS 141.0205 and 131.190 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 1/13/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB29 | LEAVE FROM EMPLOYMENT (BURKE, LINDSEY; Aull, Chad) AN ACT relating to leave from employment.
Amend KRS 337.415 to define "crime," "immediate family," and "victim"; prohibit employers from discharging or retaliating against an employee who is a crime victim when the employee takes leave to attend proceedings associated with the prosecution of the crime; require an employee to give an employer reasonable notice to take leave when practicable; provide guidelines for use of paid leave; require the employer to maintain confidentiality of records and communication with employee crime victim; create a private right of action for improper discharge, discrimination, retaliation, or failure to maintain confidentiality; amend KRS 337.990 to establish penalties for violations by an employer. |
| | Current Status: | 1/13/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
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| HB34 | DEATH BENEFITS (BANTA, KIM; Aull, Chad; Bojanowski, Tina; Bratcher, Steve; Burke, Lindsey; Callaway, Emily; Camuel, Adrielle; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Elliott, Daniel; Flannery, Patrick; Gentry, Alan; Gordon, Deanna; Grossberg, Daniel; Grossl, Vanessa; Hart, Mark; Hodgson, John; Kulkarni, Nima; Moore, Adam; Moser, Kimberly Poore; Proctor, Marianne; Roarx, Rachel; Roberts, T.J.; Stalker, Sarah; Watkins, Joshua; Wesley, Bill; Willner, Lisa) AN ACT relating to death benefits.
Amend KRS 61.315 to include additional cancers which, when they are the cause of death of a firefighter, would make the firefighter eligible for death benefits; make a technical correction. |
| | Current Status: | 1/28/2026 - received in Senate
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| HB35 | SCHOLARSHIP ELIGIBILITY (BANTA, KIM; Hodgson, John; Roberts, T.J.) AN ACT relating to scholarship eligibility for proprietary schools.
Amend KRS 164.786 to include a proprietary school in the definition of "participating institution" for the purpose of the Dual Credit Scholarship Program; amend KRS 164.787 to include a proprietary school in the definition of "eligible institution" for the purpose of the Work Ready Kentucky Scholarship Program. |
| | Current Status: | 1/13/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB36 | INTERSTATE LICENSURE COMPACTS (BRATCHER, STEVE; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Grossberg, Daniel; Grossl, Vanessa; Moore, Adam; Moser, Kimberly Poore; Thompson, Aaron) AN ACT relating to interstate licensure compacts.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 314A to enact and enter into the Respiratory Care Interstate Compact with all other jurisdictions that legally join in the compact; declare the purpose of the compact; define terms; establish participation requirements; recognize a licensure privilege and establish requirements; designate home state licensure for active military members; establish penalties and adverse actions against a licensee; establish the Respiratory Care Interstate Compact Commission; create membership rules, establish voting requirements, and permit the commission to establish rules and perform duties; require the compact commission to create a data system and outline the requirements; permit the executive and judicial branches within each state to enforce the compact; establish dispute resolution and outline termination procedures. HCS(1) Retain original provisions, except establish that employees and agents of the Respiratory Care Interstate Compact Commission have the same legal immunity protections as officials, employees, and agents of the Commonwealth. SCS (1) Retain original provisions and specify applicability of the Respiratory Care Interstate Compact to Kentucky state law and administrative regulations; include provisions from the Dietitian Licensure Compact; specify applicability of the Dietitian Licensure Compact to Kentucky state law and administrative regulations; include the Athletic Trainer Compact; specify applicability of the Athletic Trainer Compact to Kentucky state law and administrative regulations; make technical corrections. SCA (1T) Make title amendment. SFA (2) Add background check requirements to the Dietitian Licensure Compact; update immunity language for the executive director and employees or representatives of the interstate compact commissions acting within the scope of their duties. |
| | Current Status: | 4/6/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 33)
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| HB37 | RETIREMENT BENEFITS FOR HAZARDOUS POSITIONS (LEHMAN, MATTHEW; Aull, Chad; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Clines, Mike; Hancock, Erika; Roarx, Rachel) AN ACT relating to retirement benefits for state and county employees in hazardous positions.
Create a new section of KRS 16.505 to 16.652 to change the retirement benefits for members participating in the State Police Retirement System (SPRS) or in a hazardous position in either the Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS) or County Employees Retirement System (CERS) who are hired after January 1, 2014, but before January 1, 2027, so that, in lieu of continued participation in the hybrid cash balance plan (Tier 3 benefits), these members receive the benefits provided to members in a hazardous position who began participating immediately prior to January 1, 2014 (Tier 2 benefits); for those eligible hazardous employees, create a presumption that service credit in a hazardous position earned after January 1, 2014, is service credit earned immediately prior to January 1, 2014; for eligible hazardous members transitioning to Tier 2, require that accumulated contributions in the hybrid cash balance plan remain in the member’s account, but any employer credit be transferred to the retirement allowance account; allow a member in a hazardous position subject to a change from Tier 3 to Tier 2 benefits to make a one-time election to opt out of the change of benefits within 30 days; establish exclusions; amend KRS 16.576, 16.577, 16.578, 16.582, 61.546, 61.552, 61.597, 61.615, 78.5512, 78.5514, 78.5524, 78.5528, and 78.616 to grant to members in a hazardous position who begin participating after January 1, 2027, or whose participation is presumed under Section 1 of this Act to begin immediately prior to January 1, 2014, the same benefits provided to members whose participation began immediately prior to January 1, 2014 (Tier 2 benefits), including death and disability benefits, benefit factors and service credit that includes service credit for unused sick leave, and eligibility for early retirement and service purchases; make technical corrections; amend KRS 16.583 and 78.5516 to limit the hybrid cash balance plan (Tier 3 benefits) only to members participating in SPRS or in hazardous positions in KERS or CERS who make an election to opt out of Tier 2 benefits under Section 1 of this Act or who make an election, prior to the effective date of the Act, under KRS 61.5955; amend KRS 61.5955 to provide that only a member in a nonhazardous position who began participating in KERS or CERS as a Tier 2 member may elect to receive Tier 3 benefits in the hybrid cash balance plan in lieu of Tier 2 benefits; amend KRS 16.505, 61.510, and 78.510 to amend definitions of various terms to conform and make technical changes; amend KRS 16.560, 61.575, and 78.640 to allow interest credited on the accounts of members participating in SPRS or in a hazardous position in KERS or CERS to be adjusted to conform; amend KRS 61.592 and 78.5520 to exempt only hazardous members who opt out of receiving Tier 2 benefits from eligibility for an employer payment to convert nonhazardous service to hazardous service; amend KRS 61.680 to require that a member who is eligible under Section 1 of this Act and who has nonhazardous service credit as a Tier 3 member of either KERS or CERS to have his or her nonhazardous and hazardous service consolidated to determine eligibility and benefits; amend KRS 78.545 to add Section 1 of this Act as one of the provisions that shall be administered for the CERS in the same manner as for the KERS. |
| | Current Status: | 3/4/2026 - (H) WITHDRAWN
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| HB41 | PUBLIC NOTICES (LEHMAN, MATTHEW; AN ACT relating to public notices.
Amend KRS 424.260 to make a technical correction and to increase the expenditure threshold for the advertising requirement from $40,000 to $60,000; exempt vehicles and installed vehicle equipment from the bidding requirement; allow an alternative publication procedure for the advertisement; amend KRS 424.145 to remove the population restriction and allow any city, county, special district, school district, or special purpose governmental entity to use the alternative publication procedures. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Local Government (H)
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| HB42 | INTERCOLLEGIATE ATHLETICS (LEHMAN, MATTHEW; AN ACT relating to intercollegiate athletics in the Commonwealth.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to declare findings; set mandated annual varsity athletic game requirements for the University of Kentucky, the University of Louisville, Eastern Kentucky University, Kentucky State University, Morehead State University, Murray State University, Northern Kentucky University, and Western Kentucky University in various sports; ensure existing contracts of public postsecondary institutions are not violated. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Postsecondary Education (H)
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| HB43 | DEPUTY CORONER TRAINING (GORDON, DEANNA; Clines, Mike; Grossl, Vanessa) AN ACT relating to deputy coroner training.
Amend KRS 72.415 to allow the commissioner of the Department of Criminal Justice Training to grant an extension to a deputy coroner to complete the required training; specify when the extension begins to toll; specify consequences for failure to complete the training within the time period of the extension; delete provisions relating to reinstatement and pay modification of deputy coroners who fail to complete the required training. |
| | Current Status: | 4/3/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 20)
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| HB46 | INHERITANCE TAX EXEMPTION (GORDON, DEANNA; Wilson, Nick; Aull, Chad; Banta, Kim) AN ACT relating to inheritance tax exemptions.
Amend KRS 140.080 to exempt Class B beneficiaries from inheritance taxation when receiving property from a decedent who died on or after January 1, 2027. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB49 | PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERING (CALLAWAY, EMILY; Duvall, Robert; Hodgson, John; Huff, Thomas; Koch, Matthew; Lewis, Derek; Lewis, Scott ; Lewis, Chris; Lockett, Matt; Thomas, Walker) AN ACT relating to professional engineering and land surveying scholarships.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 322 to establish and grant scholarships through the Kentucky professional engineer and professional land surveyor incentive scholarship fund; declare legislative intent to address engineer and land surveyor development and needs by providing Kentucky residents with postsecondary scholarships; establish the Kentucky professional engineer and professional land surveyor incentive scholarship fund as a trust and agency accounts direct the engineer and land surveyor board to administer the fund and award scholarships to qualified applicants; require a written contract between the board and the recipient where the recipient agrees to obtain engineer or land surveyor licensure within 6 years of graduation and practice in Kentucky for at least 1 year for each year of scholarships granted; acquire moneys for the fund through penalties and fines, assessments from license renewals, and the board's budgeted funds; make the applicant's failure to complete the terms of the contract subject to recovery of the fund assistance, attorney's fees, and 8% annual interest; require the board to annually report its scholarship data to the Legislative Research Commission for referral to the Interim Joint Committee on Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations. |
| | Current Status: | 4/3/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 22)
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| HB52 | SCHOOL CURRICULUM (BAKER, SHANE; Banta, Kim; Doan, Steven; Hodgson, John; Nemes, Jason) AN ACT relating to school curriculum.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define "Success Sequence"; require all students to receive instruction on the Success Sequence during grades 7 and 10 beginning with the 2027-2028 school year; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to establish academic standards for instruction on the Success Sequence; require the Department of Education to develop guidelines for implementing Success Sequence instruction; permit superintendents to partner with Kentucky-based nonprofits to develop required curriculum. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB54 | ELECTION DISTRICTS (DONWORTH, ANNE; Moore, Adam; Aull, Chad; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Gentry, Alan; Grossberg, Daniel) AN ACT relating to election districts.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 5 to establish the Advisory Redistricting Commission, which shall be composed of members appointed by the General Assembly and members of the public at large; define terms; establish commissioner pay, conditions, powers, and duties; provide that commissioners' terms correlate with obligations of each census cycle; establish the conditions, powers, and duties of the commission; require the commission to draft redistricting plans for legislative and congressional districts, with parameters prescribed; establish standards to be followed by the commission for commissioners who develop plans; require the commission to submit its redistricting plans to the Legislative Research Commission for referral to the Interim Joint Committee on State Government; require the General Assembly to consider the commission's plans as approved by the Interim Joint Committee on State Government; allow the General Assembly to enact or reject the plans of the commission by a date certain or to return to the commission for adjustment; provide that if the General Assembly does not enact the plans, the plans shall be returned to the commission, which may incorporate changes requested by the General Assembly, but shall not be required to incorporate changes; require the commission to submit to the General Assembly new redistricting plans for enactment at a date certain; allow General Assembly to enact its own redistricting plans after a date certain; establish a $20,000 fine upon conviction of persons attempting to influence, or commissioners accepting influence, relating to the duties of the commission; amend KRS 5.005 to remove the Secretary of State as being named as a defendant in any action challenging the constitutionality of any legislative district and replace with the Advisory Redistricting Commission; provide that the Act may be cited as the Fair Maps Act; APPROPRIATION. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
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| HB56 | DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE PROGRAMS (FISTER, DANIEL; Aull, Chad) AN ACT relating to programs administered by the Department of Agriculture.
Amend KRS 247.234 to require amusement rides and attractions business registrants and insurance carriers to notify the Department of Agriculture of each intended operating site that is open to the public and specify that the tag issued upon inspection will be valid for 1 year from the date of issue; amend KRS 251.355 establish a process for the Department of Agriculture to issue violation notice and assess civil fines before the suspension or revocation of a grain dealer's license; permits a licensee to contest the violation notice with the Department of Agriculture prior to appeal to either the Franklin Circuit Court or to the respondent's local circuit court; amend KRS 260.600 to update the expiration of an egg dealer license to January 31, in accordance with similar licenses issued by the Department of Agriculture; amend KRS 246.220 and 260.540 to conform; repeal KRS 248.005, 248.010, 248.015, 248.025, 248.035, 248.280, 248.290, 248.300, 248.310, 248.320, 248.330, 248.340, 248.350, 248.353, 248.355, 248.370, 248.380, 248.391, 248.400, 248.410, 248.420, 248.430, 248.440, 248.450, 248.460, 248.990, relating to tobacco; repeal KRS 260.570, relating to the Egg Marketing Board. |
| | Current Status: | 4/3/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 23)
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| HB57 | SALES AND USE TAX (FISTER, DANIEL; Banta, Kim; Bivens, Ryan; Heavrin, Samara) AN ACT relating to sales and use tax.
Amend KRS 139.480, relating to the sales and use taxes, to exempt bees used in a commercial enterprise for the production of honey or wax for sale or for the pollination of crops, and certain items used in that pursuit; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2026. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB59 | HEALTHCARE BILLING PRACTICES (HODGSON, JOHN; Baker, Shane; Banta, Kim; Bivens, Ryan; Bratcher, Steve; Callaway, Emily; Calloway, Josh; Decker, Jennifer; Grossberg, Daniel; Jackson, Kevin; Johnson, DJ; Lockett, Matt; Massaroni, Candy; McCool, Bobby; Proctor, Marianne; Roberts, T.J.) AN ACT relating to health care billing practices.
Repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 216B.250 as a new section of KRS Chapter 367 to define terms; require health facilities and other health care providers to provide itemized health care statements in certain circumstances; specify the contents of the health care statements; require that health care statements contain information about price classifications and claims made with third-party payors; prohibit health facilities and providers from charging for the health care statements; establish means by which patients may request a health care statement to be furnished; require health facilities and providers to make public postings and have appropriate staff available to respond to questions and resolve disputes; make conforming amendments; prohibit health facilities and other providers from requesting or accepting a total payment for health care services that exceeds an agreed-upon price or the amount the facility or provider is entitled to receive under state or federal law; authorize the Attorney General to enforce certain state and federal laws regulating health care prices; allow a violation to be cured for good-faith errors; establish causes of action and penalties for violation of health care billing requirements; authorize the Attorney General to enforce health care billing requirements; specify that remedies and penalties are cumulative; authorize the Attorney General to promulgate administrative regulations to effectuate or aid in the effectuation of health care billing requirements; amend KRS 304.14-410, 304.32-1551, 214.556, 216B.990, and 216B.300 to conform; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2027. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Banking & Insurance (H)
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| HB60 | GEOENGINERING (HODGSON, JOHN; Baker, Shane; Bivens, Ryan; Bratcher, Steve; Callaway, Emily; Calloway, Josh; Decker, Jennifer; Huff, Thomas; Lockett, Matt; Massaroni, Candy; Proctor, Marianne; Roberts, T.J.; White, Richard) AN ACT relating to geoengineering.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 512 to 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 prohibition on criminal atmospheric pollution; require an arresting officer to issue a notice to any federal agency that approved the action that those activities cannot be lawfully carried out in the Commonwealth. |
| | Current Status: | 2/9/2026 - (H) recommitted to committee House Judiciary (H)
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| HB61 | KENTUCKY EMERGENCY VOLUNTEER CORPS (HODGSON, JOHN; Baker, Shane; Bivens, Ryan; Calloway, Josh; Griffee, Peyton; Grossberg, Daniel; Hale, David; Jackson, Kevin; Johnson, DJ; Lewis, Scott ; Lewis, Derek; Lewis, Chris; Lockett, Matt; Roberts, T.J.) AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Emergency Volunteer Corps.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 39A to create the Kentucky Emergency Volunteer Corps (KEV Corps); establish KEV Corps eligibility, supervision, training requirements, uniform details, and prohibitions; create the Kentucky Emergency Volunteer Corps fund; amend KRS 39B.030 to permit the local emergency management director to use the KEV Corps during a local disaster or emergency; amend KRS 39B.050 to include the KEV Corps as a part of the local disaster and emergency services organization; amend KRS 39B.070 to permit each city, urban-county government, or charter county government the use of the KEV Corps; amend KRS 39C.110 to include KEV Corps protections relating to limited liability. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (H)
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| HB62 | UNLAWFUL EMPLOYMENT (HODGSON, JOHN; Baker, Shane; Bivens, Ryan; Bratcher, Steve; Callaway, Emily; Calloway, Josh; Gordon, Deanna; Jackson, Kevin; Johnson, DJ; Lockett, Matt; Proctor, Marianne) AN ACT relating to unlawful employment.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 434 to define "unauthorized alien"; establish the crime of unlawful employment as a Class A misdemeanor. |
| | Current Status: | 4/1/2026 - received in House w/ Letter
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| HB65 | WEIGHT LIMITS ON STATE ROADS (HODGSON, JOHN; AN ACT relating to weight limits on state roads.
Amend KRS 189.2226, regarding overweight allowances for hauling of building materials for homes, to require any builder of 10 or more homes in a 1 mile radius to apply for a permit before the person may operate under the exemptions; require all persons applying for a permit issued under this section to enter into a cooperative agreement with the Transportation Cabinet; allow the Transportation Cabinet to require a bond as part of the cooperative agreement; require funds collected under a cooperative agreement to be used for maintanence of state roads covered under the cooperative agreement. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Transportation (H)
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| HB67 | SCHOOLS (PAYNE, J. T.; Flannery, Patrick; Decker, Jennifer; Grossberg, Daniel; Hampton, Tony; Holloway, Kim; McCool, Bobby; Rudy, Steven) AN ACT relating to schools and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 160.145, relating to unauthorized electronic communicating in schools, to expand existing definitions and define "private electronic communication," "qualified school volunteer," and "commercial, nonprofit, or local government affiliation"; limit the scope of unauthorized electronic communication to private electronic communication, and exclude designated types of communication from the scope of the requirement to obtain written parental consent prior to communicating outside of the traceable communication system; include designated Kentucky Department of Education and educational cooperative employees assigned to a school district to the scope of the requirement to obtain written consent; limit the scope of school volunteers subject to this section to qualified school volunteers; specify that the requirement to obtain written parental consent only applies to students enrolled within the same school district as the school district employee or qualified school volunteer; allow a local school district more flexibility in disciplinary actions arising from a violation of this section; allow a written parental consent form to designate more than 1 school district employee or qualified school volunteer; provide that the written consent may be revoked by the parent who filed the consent; require notice of the revocation to be sent to the identified school district employee or qualified school volunteer; prohibit a school or school district from refusing to accept parental consent forms; prohibit requiring parental consent forms under this section as a requirement for a student to participate in an academic, athletic, or extracurricular opportunity; provide an emergency exception to allow a school district employee or qualified school volunteer to communicate electronically without prior written parental consent if the individual discloses the communication after the fact; provide exceptions to allow a school district employee or qualified school volunteer to communicate electronically without prior written parental consent during and in direct relation to a fieldtrip or work-based learning opportunity; provide exceptions to permit a school district employee or qualified school volunteer to communicate electronically without prior written parental consent if the communication is directly related to a commercial, nonprofit, or local government affiliation that has been previously disclosed; permit school district employees to notify a school district of a commercial, nonprofit, or local government affiliation; require reasonable belief to trigger a duty to report unauthorized electronic communication; require parental notification for all material phases of an investigation of or disciplinary actions arising from unauthorized electronic communication with students; permit a school district to reconsider allowing previously prohibited volunteers; EMERGENCY. HCS(1) Retain all original provisions, except remove emergency contacts from the definition of a "family member"; distinguish between classified staff and contractors hired by a school district; exclude academic feedback machanisms from the scope of the requirement to obtain written parental consent prior to communicating electronically outside of the traceable communication system; add exclusions from the requirement to obtain written parental consent prior to communicating electronically outside of the traceable communication system to communications that contain 2 or more school district employees limited to designated purposes. HFA(1) Retain all original provisions and add niece and nephew to the definition of family member to exempt that relation from the prohibition of unauthorized electronic communication with public school students. FCCR (1) Retain provisions of HB 67/ SCS 1, except limit the reporting requirements of school district superintendents to report purchases made through a procurement card and credit card statements to school districts whose reserve is below 4% of the total budget. |
| | Current Status: | 4/13/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 129)
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| HB68 | PLANNING AND ZONING (HODGSON, JOHN; Baker, Shane; Bratcher, Steve; Decker, Jennifer; Johnson, DJ) AN ACT relating to planning and zoning.
Create a new section of KRS 100.401 to 100.419 to specify that if a land use development plan or subdivision plan is for a proposed development adjacent to a county not part of the planning unit and the development would have a substantial impact on the infrastructure of that county, then the planning unit shall require as a binding element of the plan application an agreement from the other county approving the plan. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Local Government (H)
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| HB69 | HOUSING (HODGSON, JOHN; AN ACT relating to housing and declaring an emergency.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198A, relating to affordable housing, to define terms; require agencies that expend state or federal affordable housing funds to expend at least 90% of those funds on single-family detached housing and no more than 10% of those funds on multifamily housing in any given fiscal year; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Local Government (H)
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| HB72 | HAZARDOUS DUTY RETIREMENT (ROARX, RACHEL; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Gentry, Alan; Hodgson, John; Lewis, Chris; Lewis, Scott ; Lewis, Derek; Nemes, Jason; Witten, Susan) AN ACT relating to hazardous duty retirement for code enforcement personnel of a consolidated local government.
Amend KRS 78.5520 to redefine "hazardous position" to include code enforcement and zoning inspection personnel employed by a consolidated local government for the purposes of benefits of the County Employees Retirement System. |
| | Current Status: | 3/13/2026 - (H) Returned to Committee House Local Government (H)
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| HB73 | INTEREST ON MEDICAL DEBT (ROARX, RACHEL; Gentry, Alan) AN ACT relating to interest on medical debt.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 360 to define "medical debt"; establish a maximum interest rate of three percent on medical debt; amend KRS 360.020 to expand the civil penalty for excessive interest on medical debt; amend KRS 360.040 to establish a maximum interest rate of three percent on judgments rendered in an action to collect medical debt; make technical amendments; amend KRS 216B.250 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Banking & Insurance (H)
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| HB74 | LIMITA ON GOVERNMENT SPENDING AND TAXATION (ROBERTS, T.J.; Calloway, Josh; Massaroni, Candy; Rabourn, Felicia) AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to limits on government spending and taxation.
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to create spending limits and restrictions on imposing new taxes, tax rate increases, fees, or extension of expiring taxes; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
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| HB75 | PROPERTY EXEMPT FROM TAXATION (ROBERTS, T.J.; Banta, Kim; Calloway, Josh; Proctor, Marianne) AN ACT proposing to amend Section 1 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to property exempt from taxation.
Propose to amend Section 1 of the Constitution of Kentucky to provide citizens of the Commonwealth the right to exempt from property taxation a property owned and maintained solely as their primary residence and a motor vehicle owned and maintained solely as their primary vehicle after calendar year 2028; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
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| HB79 | TAX EXEMPTIONS FOR FIREARM RELATED ITEMS (ROBERTS, T.J.; Calloway, Josh; Maddox, Savannah) AN ACT relating to sales and use tax exemptions for firearm-related items.
Amend KRS 139.010, relating to sales and use taxes, to define "ammunition," "antique firearm," "body armor," firearm," "firearm muffler or silencer," "firearm-related accessory," "firearm safety course," "firearm safety device," and "firearm storage device"; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt ammunition, antique firearms, body armor, firearms, firearm-related accessories, firearm safety courses, firearm safety devices, firearm storage devices, noise cancelling ear protection, and admissions or program fees related to certain firearm-related activities; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2026. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB81 | KENTUCKY NATIONAL GUARD (ROBERTS, T.J.; Massaroni, Candy; Banta, Kim; Calloway, Josh; Doan, Steven; Holloway, Kim; Maddox, Savannah) AN ACT relating to the Kentucky National Guard.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 38 to restrict the use of the Kentucky National Guard outside of state active duty unless Congress officially declares war or has taken official action pursuant to the Constitution of the United States and has satisfied any outstanding balance to the Kentucky National Guard; allow the Governor to deploy the National Guard under Title 32 of the United States Code to assist in border protection, for not more than 30 days, when the governor of a state or territory has declared an invasion; provide that the Act may be cited as the Defend the Guard Act. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (H)
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| HB85 | SANITATION DISTRICTS (ROBERTS, T.J.; Holloway, Kim; Massaroni, Candy) AN ACT relating to sanitation districts.
Amend KRS 220.510 to establish controls for sanitation districts when charging fees, taxes, or other charges to property owners or to other persons for the provision of services; affirm a cause of action when a person is charged for sewer services, but has not received service within 5 years of the plan approval date; provide that the Act may be cited as the Ensuring Fair Sewer Charges Act. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Local Government (H)
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| HB88 | QUALIFIED EDUCATION SCHOLARSHIP FEDERAL TAX CREDIT (ROBERTS, T.J.; Banta, Kim; Callaway, Emily; Calloway, Josh; Doan, Steven; Dotson, Ryan; Hodgson, John; Huff, Thomas; Lewis, Derek; Lewis, Scott ; Lewis, Chris; Nemes, Jason; Proctor, Marianne; Rabourn, Felicia; Tate, Nancy; Thomas, Walker; Tipton, James) AN ACT relating to the qualified elementary and secondary education scholarship federal tax credit.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 43 to elect for the Commonwealth to participate in the qualified elementary and secondary education scholarship federal tax credit program; designate the Auditor of Public Accounts as the officer to submit the Commonwealth's election and list of scholarship granting organizations to the United States Secretary of the Treasury; require the Auditor to maintain the Commonwealth's list of scholarship granting organizations and maintain certain information on the Auditor's website; authorize the Auditor to promulgate administrative regulations necessary to establish the list; and authorize the Auditor to enter into agreements to assist with implementing the section. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB89 | MEDICAL IMAGING AND RADIATION THERAPY LICENSURE (NEIGHBORS, AMY; AN ACT relating to medical imaging and radiation therapy licensure.
Amend KRS 311B.020 to define and redefine terms; amend KRS 311B.030 to add a magnetic resonance imaging technologist and a diagnostic medical sonographer to the Kentucky Board of Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy; amend KRS 311B.050 to grant the board the authority to recognize and enforce rules and standards of the recognized national professional organizations and certifying bodies and issue advisory opinions; amend KRS 311B.090 to add nonionizing radiation to practices requiring licensure, and exempt ultrasounds for therapeutic, nonmedical, or keepsake purposes from licensure requirements; amend KRS 311B.100 to provide for licensure of magnetic resonance imaging technologists and diagnostic medical sonographers; require the board to promulgate administrative regulations to permit licensure of magnetic resonance imaging technologists and diagnostic medical sonographers who are not credentialed by a national organization recognized by the board prior to January 1, 2028; amend KRS 311B.110 to add magnetic resonance imaging technologists and diagnostic medical sonographers to application requirement; require all applicants for any form of licensure by the board to submit to national and state criminal background checks; amend KRS 311B.120 to add magnetic resonance imaging technologists and diagnostic medical sonographers to fee and penalty requirements; delete reference to duplicate licenses and home study courses; amend KRS 311B.150 to conform; amend KRS 311B.160 to set forth penalties for violations; amend KRS 311.727 to make technical corrections; repeal KRS 311B.080, 311B.180, and 311B.190. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H)
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| HB90 | EDUCATIONAL LOBBYING (GROSSL, VANESSA; Hale, David; Banta, Kim; Bauman, Jared; Hodgson, John; Huff, Thomas; Roberts, T.J.) AN ACT relating to educational lobbying.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to define "lobbying" and "public school or school district"; prohibit a public school or school district from expending any moneys to compensate an external individual or entity to lobby; permit employees of public schools or school districts to engage in lobbying services; permit schools to compensate external individuals or entities to represent their interest before the executive or legislative branch of the federal government; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to prohibit a public postsecondary education institution from expending moneys to compensate an external individual or entity to engage in lobbying services; permit employees of public postsecondary education institutions to engage in lobbying services; permit public postsecondary education institutions to compensate external individuals or entities to represent their interest before the executive or legislative branch of the federal government. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB91 | OUT OF STATE INSURERS (GROSSL, VANESSA; Roberts, T.J.) AN ACT relating to health insurance coverage by out-of-state insurers.
Amend KRS 304.11-020 to exempt foreign insurers from compliance with the insurance code and insurance-specific taxes, assessments, surcharges, fees, and other charges imposed by the state or a local government for an individual or group health insurance policy, certificate, plan, or contract issued or delivered in this state if certain conditions are met; amend KRS 91A.080; create a new section of KRS Chapter 136 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Banking & Insurance (H)
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| HB94 | POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION (GROSSL, VANESSA; Roberts, T.J.) AN ACT relating to postsecondary education.
Amend KRS 164.2951 to require the Council on Postsecondary Education to develop, implement, and maintain statewide transfer pathways available between the public postsecondary education institutions in selected baccalaureate programs; require the council to publish on its website a list of the available transfer pathways; require participating postsecondary education institutions to accept transfer credit, earned or accepted at the prior institution within pathways as general education or program-specific general education credit before applying credit as elective; require the council to provide written notification to public postsecondary education institutions and coordinate credit transfer discussions upon receiving notification of an institution seeking to make changes to curricula impacting lower-division courses. |
| | Current Status: | 2/25/2026 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules
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| HB95 | PROVISION OF MENSTRUAL PRODUCTS IN SCHOOLS (WILLNER, LISA; Kulkarni, Nima; Nemes, Jason; Roarx, Rachel) AN ACT relating to the provision of menstrual products in schools, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require each public school that includes any of grades 6 through 12 to provide free menstrual products to students; require each local board of education to adopt policies for the distribution of free menstrual products; define "menstrual products"; appropriate to the Learning and Results Services budget unit with the Department of Education $2,000,000 in each fiscal year of the 2026-2028 fiscal biennium to provide menstrual products to students; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB96 | POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION WORKING GROUP (TIPTON, JAMES; Grossberg, Daniel) AN ACT relating to the postsecondary education working group and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 164.092 to change the membership of the postsecondary education working group of the Council on Postsecondary Education; require the working group to convene on a calendar year basis rather than a fiscal year basis; EMERGENCY. SCS (1) Retain original provisions; amend KRS 164.092 to require the postsecondary working group to convene every 4 years instead of every 3 years. SFA (1) Retain original provisions; specify that of the 5 members of each chamber shall be appointed based on proportional political affiliation. |
| | Current Status: | 4/14/2026 - delivered to Secretary of State
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| HB98 | RETIREE HEALTH PROVISIONS (TIPTON, JAMES; Blanton, John; Decker, Jennifer; Gentry, Alan; Gordon, Deanna; Hancock, Erika; Lawrence, William) AN ACT relating to retiree health provisions of the Kentucky Retirement Systems.
Amend KRS 61.702, relating to the Kentucky Employees Retirement System and the State Police Retirement System, to increase the nonhazardous and hazardous duty under age 65 retiree health subsidy to $40 and $50 per month for each year of service, respectively, for those members who meet the "career threshold" who began participating in the system on or after July 1, 2003, and who are eligible for a fixed-dollar retiree health subsidy not tied to the premium; extend the employee contribution used to fund retiree health benefits to include members who began participating in the system on or after July 1, 2003, and increase the current hazardous employee contribution rate to 2% of pay for those eligible for the fixed-dollar retiree health subsidy; make technical amendments regarding the retiree health premium reimbursement program to conform to current policy; provide that the amendments to the employee contributions shall be effective July 1, 2027; for calculation of the retiree health subsidy increase, provide that the change shall apply to service earned prior to the effective date of this Act by eligible members, including retirees, and shall prospectively be adjusted annually by the 1.5% increase currently provided in statute; provide that subsidies payable to impacted retirees shall begin on or after January 1, 2027, to coincide with the next health plan year; direct the Public Pension Oversight Board to continue to review the retiree health fund actuarial data and evaluate potential legislative options to address any future continued improvements in the funds; RETROACTIVE. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government (H)
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| HB99 | INDEPENDENT SCHOOL DISTRICTS (TIPTON, JAMES; AN ACT relating to independent school districts.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 160 to establish a process for the creation of new independent school districts; define terms; establish a petition process for voters of a qualifying city to place the question of creating a new independent district and local board of education on the ballot; specify the requirements for the question and the board of education provisional election; establish the initial terms of office for the interim board of education; establish the transition of authorities from the originating district board of education to the boards of both the altered originating district and the new independent district; require the Kentucky Department of Education to calculate assets and liabilities of the originating district for division to the altered originating district and the new independent district; authorize the altered originating district to maintain control and use of assets until the scheduled transfer to the new independent district and authorize the continued payments of debts; establish a negotiation process between the altered originating district and the new independent district to resolve the division of the originating district's assets and liabilities; establish a deadline for the negotiation to conclude; provide a process for resolution of disagreements; establish a deadline for the transfer of all assets and debts; authorize the altered originating district to continue to assess and collect taxes for both districts until the close of the tax year in which the new independent district is fully operational; provide for the distribution of collected taxes during the transition period; require the mayor of the city to call the newly elected interim board of new independent district to meet; allow the interim board to request assistance from the Kentucky Department of Education; establish the transition process for the new independent district to become fully functional; allow the interim board to submit a waiver request for a statute or administrative regulation to the Kentucky Board of Education; authorize the interim board to enter into service contracts with another school district during the transition; establish a process for the interim board to vote to terminate the establishment of the new independent district due to financial nonviability during the transition; establish the transition from an interim board to a fully functional board of the new independent district; require the continued collection of taxes restricted to the payment of debt or interest; waive the requirement for school-based decision making for the first year of operations of the new independent district; require the interim board of the new independent district to develop a transition plan and establish the requirements of the plan; create a new section of KRS Chapter 157, relating to state formula funding calculations, to establish a projection model for the first year of full operations of the new independent district and the altered originating district. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB100 | AMENDMENT RELATING TO PROPERTY EXEMPT FROM TAXATION (TIPTON, JAMES; Gentry, Alan; McCool, Bobby) AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to property exempt from taxation.
Propose to amend Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky to increase the homestead exemption to $100,000; require the homestead exemption amount to be indexed every year; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection; apply to property assessments beginning on or after January 1, 2027. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
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| HB101 | EXEMPTION FROM SALES AND USE TAX (TIPTON, JAMES; Baker, Shane; Banta, Kim; Bivens, Ryan; Blanton, John; Bratcher, Steve; Bridges, Randy; Callaway, Emily; Calloway, Josh; Decker, Jennifer; Doan, Steven; Dossett, Myron; Dotson, Ryan; Duvall, Robert; Fister, Daniel; Flannery, Patrick; Freeland, Chris; Fugate, Chris; Gentry, Alan; Gordon, Deanna; Griffee, Peyton; Grossberg, Daniel; Grossl, Vanessa; Hale, David; Hampton, Tony; Hart, Mark; Hodgson, John; Holloway, Kim; Huff, Thomas; Imes, Mary Beth; Johnson, DJ; Lewis, Derek; Lewis, Scott ; Lewis, Chris; Lockett, Matt; Maddox, Savannah; Massaroni, Candy; McCool, Bobby; Moser, Kimberly Poore; Pollock, Michael Sarge; Proctor, Marianne; Rabourn, Felicia; Riley, Steve; Roberts, T.J.; Smith, Tom; Tate, Nancy; Thomas, Walker; Thompson, Aaron; Truett, Timmy; Wesley, Bill; Whitaker, Mitch; Williams, Wade) AN ACT relating to an exemption from sales and use tax for religious institutions.
Amend KRS 139.495 to define "educational or charitable institution" and "religious institution"; exempt purchases and sales of tangible personal property, digital property, or services made by qualifying religious institutions from state sales and use taxes; make technical changes. |
| | Current Status: | 2/9/2026 - floor amendments (1) and (2-title) filed
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| HB102 | MISCONDUCT IN SCHOOLS (TIPTON, JAMES; Callaway, Emily; Thompson, Aaron) AN ACT relating to misconduct in schools and at school-sponsored activities.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to prohibit a public school district or public charter school from entering into a nondisclosure agreement relating to misconduct involving a minor or student; amend KRS 160.380 to define "abusive conduct"; require school district applicants to disclose being the subject of any disciplinary actions in the previous 12 months relating to abusive conduct and consent to a reference check; require school districts to conduct reference checks; require nonpublic schools and public school districts to disclose any disciplinary actions related to abusive conduct of applicants; provide immunity for disclosures made about school employee conduct; require school districts to request all related information from public and nonpublic schools and the Education Professional Standards Board (ESPB); require schools and EPSB to provide the records; require requests for information to be satisfied in 10 working days; require EPSB to create and implement procedures for information requests; require all school district applicants to list all schools of previous and current employment on the application; require a school district to internally report and investigate to completion all allegations of abusive conduct; require all records relating to an allegation of abusive conduct to be retained in an employee's personnel file unless the allegation is proven false; provide that certain requirements apply to public charter schools; amend KRS 156.160 to direct the Kentucky Board of Education to include employment standards in the voluntary certification standards for private schools; make technical corrections; amend KRS 160.151 to define "certified nonpublic school"; require employees of certified nonpublic schools to submit to a national and state criminal background check and a CA/N check; require certified nonpublic school personnel to have a state criminal background check every 5 years; prohibit a certified nonpublic school from hiring a violent or felony sex crime offender; require a certified nonpublic school to conduct reference checks on all applicants; prohibit a certified nonpublic school from entering into a nondisclosure agreement related to misconduct involving a minor or student; make technical corrections; amend KRS 156.095 to require the Kentucky Department of Education to develop a training related to sexual misconduct and inappropriate relationships for employees to undergo every 5 years; make technical corrections; amend KRS 161.151 to conform; require that an allegation of abusive conduct be reported pursuant to KRS 620.030; amend KRS 158.4431, 156.492, and 158.200 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB103 | WATER FLUORIDATION PROGRAMS (HART, MARK; Hale, David; Baker, Shane; Bivens, Ryan; Bratcher, Steve; Callaway, Emily; Calloway, Josh; Decker, Jennifer; Doan, Steven; Dossett, Myron; Dotson, Ryan; Fister, Daniel; Grossl, Vanessa; Hodgson, John; Holloway, Kim; Huff, Thomas; Imes, Mary Beth; Johnson, DJ; Lawrence, William; Lockett, Matt; Maddox, Savannah; Massaroni, Candy; McCool, Bobby; Meade, David; Neighbors, Amy; Proctor, Marianne; Rabourn, Felicia; Raymer, Rebecca; Roberts, T.J.; Sharp, Scott; Tate, Nancy; Tipton, James; Truett, Timmy; Wesley, Bill; White, Richard) AN ACT relating to water fluoridation programs.
Amend KRS 211.190 to make water fluoridation programs optional; allow the governing bodies of water systems subject to regulation by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to decide whether they participate in water fluoridation programs; provide that a water fluoridation program in place on the effective date of the Act continues until action is taken by its governing body to end its participation; provide that any decision regarding participation in a water fluoridation program made by the governing body of a water system shall be binding on all water systems it supplies; provide that a governing body, a member or employee of a governing body, or any public or private entity that may be held liable for the actions of a governing body that makes any decision regarding its participation in an optional water fluoridation program shall be immune from civil or criminal liability for acts carried out reasonably and in good faith regarding its decision of whether to participate in the water fluoridation program. HCS (1) Retain original provisions; remove immunity for private entities regarding acts relating to the continuation, termination, or commencement of a water fluoridation program; provide that the immunity is conferred under KRS 65.2003; extend the immunity to discretionary acts; remove the requirement that the immune acts be performed reasonably and in good faith. |
| | Current Status: | 2/6/2026 - received in Senate
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| HB104 | SCHOOL COOPERATION WITH PATRIOTIC ORGANIZATIONS (HART, MARK; Banta, Kim) AN ACT relating to school cooperation with patriotic organizations.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define "organization" as a federally recognized patriotic civic service organization that consists of or serves youths; permit an organization to request and require superintendents to provide an opportunity to provide information to students on school property during a school day. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB105 | PROPERTY TAX RATES FOR EMERGENCY SERVICES (HART, MARK; Callaway, Emily; Decker, Jennifer; Gordon, Deanna; Lewis, Derek; Lewis, Scott ; Lewis, Chris; Nemes, Jason; Willner, Lisa; Witten, Susan) AN ACT relating to property tax rates for emergency services.
Amend KRS 75.040 to establish conditions under which a fire protection district or volunteer fire department district may exceed the maximum established tax rate; create a new section of KRS Chapter 75 to establish the procedure by which a fire protection district or volunteer fire department district may exceed the maximum tax rate set in KRS 75.040 by requiring a public hearing and notification to the public; establish the methods by which the public may recall the portion of the levy that increases the tax beyond the previous year's rate; exempt the rates from the provisions of KRS 132.023; amend KRS 75A.050 to establish conditions under which a fire district may exceed the maximum established tax rate; create a new section of KRS Chapter 75A to establish the procedure by which a fire district may exceed the maximum tax rate set out in KRS 75A.050 by requiring a public hearing and notification to the public; establish the methods by which the public may recall the portion of the levy that increases the tax beyond the previous year's rate; exempt the rates from the provisions of KRS 132.023; amend KRS 75.015 to conform; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2027. |
| | Current Status: | 2/9/2026 - (H) WITHDRAWN
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| HB115 | SALES AND USE TAX EXEMPTION (BROWN JR., GEORGE; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Gentry, Alan) AN ACT relating to sales and use tax exemptions for menstrual discharge collection devices.
Amend KRS 139.010, relating to the sales and use taxes, to define "menstrual discharge collection devices"; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt from sales and use tax the sale or purchase of menstrual discharge collection devices; apply to sales or purchases made on or after August 1, 2026, but before August 1, 2030; require the Department of Revenue to report annually to the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue the total exemptions claimed for the previous fiscal year; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report to the Legislative Research Commission. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB117 | DISRIMINATORY PRACTICES (BROWN JR., GEORGE; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Aull, Chad) AN ACT relating to discriminatory practices against a person.
Amend KRS 344.010 to define "protective hairstyle" and "race"; amend KRS 158.148 to provide that school disciplinary codes shall prohibit discrimination on the basis of race; provide that the Act may be cited as the C.R.O.W.N. Act. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB122 | HISTORICAL INSTRUCTION (BROWN JR., GEORGE; Chester-Burton, Beverly) AN ACT relating to historical instruction.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require African history instruction in certain middle and high school world history and civilization courses; require Native American history instruction in certain middle and high school United States history courses; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations establishing academic standards for the required historical instructions; require superintendents to adopt curricula for required instruction; require the Department of Education to collaborate with the Kentucky Center for African-American Heritage and the Kentucky Native American Heritage Commission to develop recommended curricula and instruction guidelines for the required historical instruction, elective high school course offerings in African history and Native American history, and relevant professional development materials. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB123 | CRIMINAL HISTORY OF JOB APPLICANTS (BROWN JR., GEORGE; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Burke, Lindsey; Gentry, Alan; Willner, Lisa) AN ACT relating to criminal histories of job applicants.
Create a new section of KRS 344.030 to 344.110 to prohibit employers from considering or requiring disclosure of prior criminal history as part of the initial job application; provide that the Act may be cited as the Ban the Box - The Criminal Record Employment Discrimination Act. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
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| HB124 | LIVING WAGE (BROWN JR., GEORGE; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Gentry, Alan) AN ACT relating to a living wage.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require any employer doing business in Kentucky that receives governmental incentives or subsidies to pay its employees a living wage. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
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| HB128 | REGULATION OF RECOVERY RESIDENCES (BROWN JR., GEORGE; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Watkins, Joshua) AN ACT relating to the regulation of recovery residences and declaring an emergency.
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. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Local Government (H)
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| HB129 | AMENDMENT TO THE CONSTITUTION OF KENTUCKY RELATING TO VOTING RIGHTS (BROWN JR., GEORGE; Chester-Burton, Beverly) AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to voting rights.
Propose to amend Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky to automatically restore the voting rights of persons convicted of certain felonies upon completion of their imprisonment, probation, or parole and automatically restore their civil rights 5 years after completion of their imprisonment, probation, or parole; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection. |
| | Current Status: | 1/16/2026 - (H) WITHDRAWN
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| HB130 | SCHOLARSHIPS (AULL, CHAD; Donworth, Anne; Gentry, Alan; Gordon, Deanna; Roarx, Rachel; Stalker, Sarah) AN ACT relating to scholarships.
Amend KRS 164.7879 to require the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to annually adjust the Kentucky education excellence scholarship (KEES) based on the Consumer Price Index; permit the authority to annually adjust KEES supplemental awards based on the Consumer Price Index; require that KEES award adjustments be paid at the most recent calculation for the academic term in which a student utilizes their award; prohibit decrease in KEES awards; amend various statutes to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Postsecondary Education (H)
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| HB131 | TAX CREDIT FOR KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL SAVINGS PLAN CONTRIBUTIONS (AULL, CHAD; Donworth, Anne) AN ACT relating to a tax credit for Kentucky Educational Savings Plan Trust account contributions.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a nonrefundable credit against the tax imposed under KRS 141.020 for qualifying contributions made to a Kentucky Educational Savings Plan trust account in accordance with the guidelines in 26 U.S.C. sec. 529; for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2027, but before January 1, 2031; amend KRS 141.0205 to provide the ordering of the tax credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the department to report on the credit. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB132 | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (RUDY, STEVEN; Hale, David; King, Kim; Roberts, T.J.) AN ACT relating to economic development.
Amend KRS 154.12-210 to require the Cabinet for Economic Development to maintain and disseminate information relating to Kentucky Office of Agricultural Policy programs to enterprises interested in locating or operating within the Commonwealth; amend KRS 154.12-213 to require the Cabinet for Economic Development to promote Kentucky Office of Agricultural Policy programs; require the Cabinet for Economic Development to submit a monthly report to the Kentucky Office of Agricultural Policy and the Legislative Research Commission; amend KRS 154.20-010 to add the Executive Director of the Kentucky Office of Agricultural Policy as an ex officio member of the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Agriculture (H)
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| HB133 | SEVERANCE TAX (GOOCH JR., JIM; AN ACT relating to severance taxes.
Amend KRS 143A.030 to remove fluorspar from the severance tax exemption and make it taxable as a natural resource; amend KRS 143A.010 to add fluorspar to the definition of "natural resources." |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB137 | NEW SECTION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF KENTUCKY RELATING TO PROPERTY EXEMPT FROM TAXATION (WILLIAMS, WADE; Branscum, Joshua; King, Kim) AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to property exempt from taxation.
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to provide homeowners who are 65 years of age or older with an exemption from any increase in the valuation of their permanent residence that is assessed after the later of the year the homeowner turned 65 or the year the homeowner acquired the property; require the exemption to be in addition to the exemption provided in Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky and notwithstanding Sections 171, 172, and 174 of the Constitution of Kentucky; apply the exemption to increases in valuation that occur after the date the amendment is ratified by the voters; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
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| HB139 | ELECTIONS (DECKER, JENNIFER; Wilson, Nick; Grossberg, Daniel; Hodgson, John; Johnson, DJ; Roberts, T.J.) AN ACT relating to elections and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 116.112 to allow the State Board of Elections to enter into intergovernmental agreements with other governmental agencies to exchange data to assist in investigating violations of election offenses; amend KRS 117.125 to require voting systems and equipment meet or exceed a standard approved by the Election Assistance Commission; amend KRS 117.145 to require that county clerks provide voting equipment with the necessary supplies for write-in votes on the day before any in-person voting occurs; amend KRS 117.265 to change the date a person running for President or Vice President must file a declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate to the same deadline as the certification of candidates; amend KRS 117.355 to require county boards of elections to deliver signature rosters and precinct results to the State Board of Elections within 10 days after any primary or general election; amend KRS 117.379 to require voting systems meet a previously established Election Assistance Commission standard; amend KRS 117.389 to require county clerks to test automatic tabulating equipment after any petitions for local option elections have been filed; amend KRS 118.015 to change the definition of "political party"; amend KRS 118.125 to require that the notification and declaration be in the form prescribed by the Secretary of State; amend KRS 118.129 to allow a contraction as an acceptable form of a candidate's name; amend KRS 118.165 to require that candidates for Commonwealth's Attorney file nomination papers with the Secretary of State; amend KRS 118.315 to require that the form of petition be prescribed by the Secretary of State; amend KRS 118.367 to specify that candidates for a special election or election for an unexpired term shall not be required to file a statement-of-candidacy form; require that the statement-of-candidacy form be prescribed by the Secretary of State; amend KRS 118A.060 to require that the petition for nomination be in the form prescribed by the Secretary of State; amend KRS 119.015 to remove the term "falsely"; amend KRS 119.165, relating to the penalty of a Class B misdemeanor regarding voters who vote at a regular or special election before being a citizen; make technical corrections; amend KRS 132.017 to require that questions as to whether the property tax rate shall be levied shall be submitted to voters in a common school election not less than 50 days nor more than 60 days from the date the signatures are validated; require the school district holding the election to post bond with the Circuit Court to cover the costs of the election within 5 days after the petition is found to be sufficient; amend KRS 160.210 to prohibit changes in the boundary of any division after June 1 in the year in which a school board member is to be elected; amend various statutes to conform; repeal KRS 118.551, relating to the definition of political party; EMERGENCY. HCS (1) Retain original provisions; amend KRS 118.105 to allow withdrawal as a reason to fill a vacancy in a nomination of candidacy; remove severe disabling condition as a reason to fill a vacancy in candidacy. HFA (1) Retain original provisions, except amend KRS 83A.170, 83A.175, 118.212, and 118A.150 to establish that the precinct election officers and county board of elections shall not disclose or report the official certification of votes cast for a candidate who withdraws, dies, or is disqualified after the certification of candidates; require that precinct election officers display a notice advising voters when votes for a candidate shall not be disclosed or reported; make technical corrections. SCS (1) Retain original provisions, except remove language in Section 1 providing that the State Board of Elections can enter into intergovernmental agreements with other governmental agencies to exchange data to assist in investigating violations of election offenses; remove Section 11 allowing withdrawal as a reason to fill a vacancy in a nomination of candidacy and removing severe disabling condition as a reason to fill a vacancy in candidacy; amend KRS 27A.070 to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to send the State Board of Elections an all-time list of persons convicted of a felony, including those whose case is currently on appeal, by July 1, 2026; require the State Board of Elections to remove any person identified through the list as ineligible to vote from the voter registration records by August 1, 2026; amend KRS 83A.040 to require a special election if more than the majority of the membership of a legislative body is vacated because of an election error due to no fault of any candidate or fraud; establish that members of the legislative body whose term expires shall remain in office until the contest and any appeals of the regular election are complete and final; create a new section of KRS Chapter 116 to allow the State Board of Elections to enter into agreements with agencies of the federal government for the purpose of identifying and removing individuals who are deceased or who are not citizens of the United States from the voter registration records; identify procedures for identifying and removing unauthorized voters; amend KRS 116.113 to specify that the Administrative Office of the Courts shall include persons convicted of a felony whose case is on appeal in the lists they send to the State Board of Elections for removal from the voter registration records; amend KRS 117.155 and 117.205 to conform; amend KRS 117.383 to require that the ballot scanner and race selected for a hand-to-eye recount by the Secretary of State shall have at least 10 votes cast; amend KRS 118.176 to establish that a person who successfully challenges the bona fides of a candidate may recover certain costs; create a new chapter of KRS Chapter 118A to establish that judicial candidates may disclose their political party, state current and past voter registration status, and communicate political values or viewpoints consistent with that party affiliation; establish that judicial candidates shall not claim to be the official nominee of a political party, use language or materials that imply nomination, designation, or endorsement by a political party, or use party symbols, slogans, or imagery in a manner that would lead someone to believe they are running in a partisan election; amend KRS 120.165 to require the county clerk and local board of elections to call a special election if a majority of the offices of a legislative body are deemed vacant; establish that a person bringing a successful election contest may recover certain costs; amend KRS 121.015 to define "executive committee of a political party"; change the definition of "contributing organization" to require that contributions in excess of $200 shall be reported to the registry rather than $100; change the definition of "contribution" to include goods, advertising, or services with a value of more than $200 rather than $100; establish that certain fees are not included in the definition of "contribution"; amend KRS 121.065, relating to limits on political advertising rates, to include digital media platforms; amend KRS 121.110 to require that any vacancy on the registry be filled within 30 days; establish that members of the registry shall be reimbursed for necessary travel and expenses in the same manner as state employees; amend KRS 121.120, 121.160, and 121.220 to require certain information from contributors that contribute more than $200 rather than $100; amend KRS 121.140 to establish that certain penalties shall not accrue or be assessed until 5 business days after the registry has provided notice to the candidate or campaign treasurer of the delinquency; amend KRS 121.150 to allow a state or county executive committee of a political party to make contributions to certain civic organizations; allow federal candidates to contribute to a party executive committee if the amount of the contribution is within con |
| | Current Status: | 4/14/2026 - delivered to Secretary of State
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| HB140 | HIGHWAY PAVEMENT MARKINGS (MASSARONI, CANDY; AN ACT relating to highway pavement markings.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to require the Transportation Cabinet conduct a quality assurance check 6 months after each highway pavement marking or other highway paint application; require the Transportation Cabinet repair or reapply the highway pavement markings within 30 days of a failed quality assurance check. |
| | Current Status: | 1/29/2026 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules
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| HB144 | MOTOR VEHICLE TITLES (HUFF, THOMAS; Callaway, Emily; Dotson, Ryan; Elliott, Daniel; Griffee, Peyton; Grossberg, Daniel; Hart, Mark; Hodgson, John; Smith, Tom; Tate, Nancy) AN ACT relating to motor vehicle titles.
Amend KRS 186A.295 to exclude the cost of parts and labor to make cosmetic repairs to a motor vehicle from the cost of repair calculation for the required surrender of the certificate of title for a motor vehicle or trailer that has been destroyed; require a motor vehicle that is exempt from title surrender to be issued a salvage title; amend KRS 186A.190 and 186A.520 to conform. HCS (1) Retain original provisions, except amend KRS 186A.295 to retain the existing obligation of insurers to pay the cost of parts and labor for repair of cosmetic damage to a motor vehicle or trailer. SCS (1) Retain original provisions, except amend KRS 186A.295 to include only costs for labor and parts for actual damage in the calculation of the cost of repair for a motor vehicle or trailer; provide that the calculation of the cost of repair shall not alter any obligation of an insurer to pay for the cost of cosmetic repairs. |
| | Current Status: | 4/13/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 100)
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| HB145 | STATE PERSONNEL (GRIFFEE, PEYTON; Whitaker, Mitch) AN ACT relating to state personnel.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 64 to allow the State Treasurer, Auditor of Public Accounts, Secretary of State, Commissioner of Agriculture, and Attorney General to employ persons exempt from approval requirements of the classified service as deemed necessary or advisable to make and carry out policy; permit the State Treasurer, Auditor of Public Accounts, Secretary of State, Commissioner of Agriculture, and Attorney General to increase, by administrative order, the salary of any classified employee with status up to the midpoint of the grade of the employee's classification. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2026 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules
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| HB147 | INHERITANCE AND ESTATE TAX (GRIFFEE, PEYTON; Kulkarni, Nima) AN ACT relating to inheritance and estate tax.
Amend KRS 140.160, relating to the inheritance and estate taxes, to extend the deadline for filing a tax return from 18 months to 36 months for deaths on or after August 1, 2026; amend KRS 140.210 to correspondingly extend the due date for payment of tax and discount; amend KRS 140.222 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB148 | USE OF SICK LEAVE BY SCHOOL DISTRICT PERSONNEL (GROSSBERG, DANIEL; AN ACT relating to the use of sick leave by school district personnel.
Amend KRS 161.155 to allow school district employees to use sick leave for observance of religious holidays not otherwise included on the school's calendar, provided the employee submits a personal statement verifying the observance and gives advance notice to the district. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB149 | TRADE PRACTICES (GROSSBERG, DANIEL; AN ACT relating to trade practices.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 365 to define “prohibited advertisement” and “solicit”; prohibit a person from soliciting residential property owners with a prohibited advertisement, offering value in exchange for inspecting residential property owner's roof, offering value in exchange for making an insurance claim for damage to the residential property owner's roof, and providing an agreement authorizing repairs to a residential property owner's roof pursuant to a property insurance claim without providing a good-faith estimate of itemized and detailed cost of services. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
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| HB150 | ROOFING CONTRACTORS (GROSSBERG, DANIEL; AN ACT relating to roofing contractors.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 198B to define terms; establish licensing for roofing contractors under the Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction; prohibit any persons not licensed under the department from holding himself or herself out as a roofing contractor; allow the department to issue roofing contractor licenses, promulgate administrative regulations, and implement disciplinary actions; establish applicant requirements and fee limitations; establish a fine and potential misdemeanor incarceration for violations; create the roofing contractors fund. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H)
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| HB151 | LICENSED AND CERTIFIED PROFESSIONS (GROSSBERG, DANIEL; AN ACT relating to licensed and certified professions.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 335B to prohibit using a professional title, term, or abbreviation or holding oneself out as licensed or certified to practice a profession without holding a valid license or certification; provide that a violation is a Class B misdemeanor. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H)
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| HB152 | INDIVIDUAL INCOME TAX RATE (WILLNER, LISA; Marzian, Mary Lou; Bojanowski, Tina; Camuel, Adrielle; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Donworth, Anne; Grossberg, Daniel; Hancock, Erika; Stalker, Sarah; Stevenson, Pamela; Watkins, Joshua) AN ACT relating to the individual income tax rate.
Amend KRS 141.020, relating to the individual income tax, to establish graduated individual income tax rates for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2027; remove provisions relating to tax rate reduction procedures. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB153 | ADMINISTRATIVE REGULATIONS FOR MEDICATIONS FOR SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER (WILLNER, LISA; Aull, Chad; Bratcher, Steve; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Fleming, Ken; Grossberg, Daniel; Grossl, Vanessa; Lewis, Chris; Lewis, Scott ; Lewis, Derek; Moser, Kimberly Poore; Nemes, Jason; Roarx, Rachel; Stalker, Sarah) AN ACT relating to administrative regulations for medications for substance use disorder and declaring an emergency.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 13A to find 201 KAR 9:270 and 201 KAR 20:065 deficient and void; create new sections of KRS Chapters 311, 313, 314, and 315 to establish that the State Board of Medical Licensure, Board of Dentistry, Kentucky Board of Nursing, and Kentucky Board of Pharmacy shall not promulgate administrative regulations that restrict or limit the prescribing, dispensing, or administering of buprenorphine-mono-product, buprenorphine-combined-with-naloxone, or any other Schedule III, IV, or V medication approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of a substance use disorder; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health Services (H)
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| HB155 | NEW SECTION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF KENTUCKY RELATING TO THE EXEMPTION OF STATE AND LOCAL TAXES FROM FOOD, FOOD INGREDIENTS, PRESCRIPTION DRUGS, AND RESIDENTIAL AND ON-FARM UTILITIES (CAMUEL, ADRIELLE; Holloway, Kim) AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to the exemption of state and local excise, sales, and use taxes from food, food ingredients, prescription drugs, and residential and on-farm utilities.
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to exempt from state and local excise, sales, and use taxes food, food ingredients, prescription drugs, residential utilities, and on-farm utilities; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
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| HB157 | ELLIGIBLE CAREGIVER CREDIT (CAMUEL, ADRIELLE; Moore, Adam; Aull, Chad; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Grossberg, Daniel; Roarx, Rachel; Stalker, Sarah; Watkins, Joshua) AN ACT relating to an eligible caregiver credit.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish an eligible caregiver credit against the tax imposed in KRS 141.020; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the credit. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB158 | TAX CREDIT FOR QUALIFIED HOME MODIFICATIONS (CAMUEL, ADRIELLE; Gentry, Alan; Roarx, Rachel) AN ACT relating to a tax credit for qualified home modifications.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish the qualified home modification credit against the tax imposed in KRS 141.020; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the credit. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB159 | ACCESSIBLE HOME INCOME TAX CREDIT (CAMUEL, ADRIELLE; Roarx, Rachel) AN ACT relating to an accessible home income tax credit.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish the accessible home credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2027, but before January 1, 2031; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the credit. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB160 | PUBLIC CHARTER SCHOOLS (CAMUEL, ADRIELLE; AN ACT relating to public charter schools.
Amend various statutes to remove references to public charter schools; repeal various sections of KRS Chapter 160 and KRS 161.141 relating to public charter schools. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB161 | PUBLIC SCHOOL FACILITIES (DOAN, STEVEN; Moore, Adam) AN ACT relating to public school facilities.
Amend KRS 165.055 to define terms; require school districts to permit public members of the community to access all running tacks on school property; establish the terms of the access; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to ensure implementation; create a new section of KRS Chapter 162 to define terms; make the intentional or negligent damaging of a school district running track or bringing a pet onto a running track or its immediate surrounding area unlawful; require school districts to report incidents of violations; amend KRS 162.990 to establish criminal and civil penalties for violations; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2027. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB165 | NEW SECTION OF THE CONSTITUTION OF KENTUCKY RELATING TO MEDICAID EXPANSION (BURKE, LINDSEY; AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to Medicaid expansion.
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to enshrine Medicaid expansion coverage; direct the Secretary of State to advertise the proposed constitutional amendment prior to a general election vote; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
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| HB166 | DISASTER RESILIENCY (BURKE, LINDSEY; Gentry, Alan) AN ACT relating to disaster resiliency.
Create a new section of KRS 39A to establish the position of chief resiliency officer, appointed by the Governor, to lead disaster preparedness and resiliency efforts; amend KRS 39A.070 to include cooperation with chief resiliency officer in the powers, responsibility, and duties of the director of the Division of Emergency Management. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (H)
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| HB167 | TAX DEDUCTION FOR THEFT LOSSES (FLEMING, KEN; AN ACT relating to a tax deduction for theft losses.
Amend KRS 141.019 to allow a deduction for theft losses in accordance with Section 165(e) of the Internal Revenue Code. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB174 | CHILD MARRIAGE (GROSSBERG, DANIEL; AN ACT relating to child marriage.
Amend KRS 402.020 to prohibit marriage with a person under 18 years of age; exclude from being prohibited and void, marriages entered into in the Commonwealth before the effective date of this Act if both parties are 18 or older and marriages entered into in another state or country if both parties are 18 at time residency is established; amend KRS 402.030 to require courts to declare any marriage void if a person is under 18 years of age at the time of the petition; amend KRS 402.080 and 402.210 to prohibit the issuance of marriage licenses to persons under 18 years of age; repeal KRS 402.205. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Families & Children (H)
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| HB175 | A SALES AND USE TAX HOLIDAY (CHESTER-BURTON, BEVERLY; Donworth, Anne; Dossett, Myron; Flannery, Patrick; Gentry, Alan; Grossberg, Daniel; Grossl, Vanessa; Lewis, Chris; Lewis, Scott ; Lewis, Derek; Marzian, Mary Lou; Neighbors, Amy; Nemes, Jason; Pollock, Michael Sarge; Roberts, T.J.; Wilson, Nick) AN ACT relating to a sales and use tax holiday and declaring an emergency.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 139 to define terms; establish a 3-day sales and use tax holiday during the first Friday through Sunday in August each year exempting eligible property, which includes tangible personal property, with certain exceptions, not to exceed $3,000, and clothing or clothing accessories or equipment if the price of the item does not exceed $200; direct that the first sales tax holiday will occur from August 7 to August 9, 2026; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB176 | PRIOR AUTHORIZATION (MOSER, KIMBERLY POORE; Duvall, Robert; Aull, Chad; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Grossberg, Daniel; McCool, Bobby; Stalker, Sarah) AN ACT relating to prior authorization.
Create new sections of KRS 304.17A-600 to 304.17A-633 to define terms; prohibit insurers of health benefit plans from requiring prior authorization for a health care service for which the provider has an exemption; require insurers of health benefit plans to establish a program under which participating providers may qualify for exemptions from prior authorization; establish mandatory and permitted provisions of an insurer's prior authorization exemption program; establish requirements for sending forms and notices; require the commissioner of the Department of Insurance to submit an annual report relating to prior authorization, provide a detailed briefing upon request, and promulgate administrative regulations; amend KRS 304.17A-605 to conform; amend KRS 304.17A-611 to prohibit conducting a retrospective review that is based solely on a participating provider having a prior authorization exemption; provide that certain utilization review timeframes do not apply to retrospective reviews conducted for the purposes of determining eligibility for a prior authorization exemption; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the commissioner of the Department for Medicaid Services to submit an annual report relating to prior authorization, provide a detailed briefing upon request, and promulgate administrative regulations; amend KRS 205.536 to conform; apply the provisions to contracts delivered, entered, renewed, extended, or amended on or after January 1, 2028; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2027, and January 1, 2028. |
| | Current Status: | 4/13/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 102)
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| HB177 | HEALTH CARE (MOSER, KIMBERLY POORE; AN ACT relating to health care.
Amend KRS 314.041, relating to registered nurse licensure, and KRS 314.051, relating to licensed practical nurse licensure, to add credential requirements; amend KRS 314.042 to require physicians collaborating with an advanced practice registered nurse to have an active and unrestricted license in Kentucky; amend KRS 314.109 to reduce the time from 90 to 30 days for a person under the jurisdiction of the board to notify the board of a conviction of certain misdemeanors or felonies; amend KRS 209.032, relating to employees of vulnerable adult service providers, to permit a state licensing board to query the cabinet for a validated substantiated finding of adult abuse, neglect, or exploitation against an individual under the licensing board's jurisdiction; create a new section of KRS 158.830 to 158.838 to define terms; permit health care practitioners to prescribe and dispense undesignated glucagon in the name of a school or to a trained individual; permit trained individuals to receive, possess, and administer undesignated glucagon during diabetic medical emergencies; permit schools to stock undesignated glucagon; provide for immunity from civil liability for any personal injury resulting from good-faith actions to use undesignated glucagon to treat diabetic medical emergencies; amend KRS 158.832 to add definition of "documented medical conditions" and medications to the definition of "medications"; amend KRS 158.834 to add medical conditions and medications that may be self-administered in schools with parental authorization and a prescription; amend KRS 158.836 to require students to permit bronchodilator rescue inhalers, nebulizers, glucagon, Solu-Cortef, or other prescribed medications in their possession or in the possession of school personnel; encourage schools to stock undesignated glucagon; and require policies and Good Samaritan protection for the good-faith administration of glucagon, Solu-Cortef, or other prescribed medications for authorized school employees. |
| | Current Status: | 1/9/2026 - (H) WITHDRAWN
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| HB179 | CHILDREN'S HEALTH AND WELFARE (STALKER, SARAH; AN ACT relating to children's health and welfare fiscal impact statements.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 6 to establish a children's health and welfare fiscal impact statement to evaluate the potential costs that would be incurred by the state or a local government by passing certain legislation; specify the requirements and components of the statement; require state agencies and local governments to respond to requests for information relating to the statements; require the Attorney General to certify, upon request, if a proposal constitutes a state mandate; authorize the director of the Legislative Research Commission to implement policies and procedures necessary to produce the statements. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Families & Children (H)
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| HB180 | DEPENDENT, NEGLECTED, OR ABUSED CHILDREN (STALKER, SARAH; AN ACT relating to dependent, neglected, or abused children.
Amend KRS 620.140 to expand the ability for a dependent, neglected, or abused youth to request to have his or her commitment extended or reinstated beyond the age of 18. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Families & Children (H)
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| HB182 | DUTY-RELATED DISABILITY BENEFITS (TACKETT LAFERTY, ASHLEY; Blanton, John; Dotson, Ryan; Fugate, Chris; Gentry, Alan; Gordon, Deanna; Griffee, Peyton; Hale, David; Hampton, Tony; Hart, Mark; Hodgson, John; Kulkarni, Nima; McCool, Bobby; Wesley, Bill) AN ACT relating to duty-related disability benefits.
Amend KRS 61.621 to allow a member of a state-administered retirement system who works in a nonhazardous position that could be certified as a hazardous position and who receives a duty-related injury to be eligible for the same minimum retirement benefit provided to members who receive a hazardous disability retirement; amend KRS 61.702 to allow Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS) members working in a nonhazardous position that could be certified as a hazardous position who receive a duty-related injury to receive the same health benefit provided to members who receive a hazardous disability retirement; amend KRS 78.5536 to allow County Employees Retirement System (CERS) members working in a nonhazardous position that could be certified as a hazardous position who receive a duty-related injury to receive the same health benefit provided to members who receive a hazardous disability retirement; allow certain persons whose last day of paid employment was on or after January 1, 2022, but prior to the effective date of the Act to apply for benefits; RETROACTIVE. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government (H)
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| HB183 | TAXATION OF RETIREMENT DISTRIBUTIONS (TACKETT LAFERTY, ASHLEY; Elliott, Daniel; Gentry, Alan) AN ACT relating to the taxation of retirement distributions.
Amend KRS 141.019 to increase the retirement distribution exclusion from $31,110 to $41,110 for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2027. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB185 | EMPLOYMENT (CALLAWAY, EMILY; Bauman, Jared; Duvall, Robert; Koch, Matthew; Roberts, T.J.; Thomas, Walker) AN ACT relating to employment.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 335B.010 to 335B.070 to require hiring or licensing authorities to establish an application process that gives persons convicted of a crime an opportunity to obtain a determination about whether the crime will disqualify the individual from a position of public employment or occupational license before pursuing employment or training; require hiring or licensing authorities to formulate policies and procedures for the application process by promulgating regulations no later than January 1, 2027; provide an annual report to the Legislative Research Commission by November 1, 2027; provide that certain entities are exempted from the requirements of the application process; amend KRS 335B.020 to add criteria for hiring and licensing authorities to consider when determining if a conviction directly relates to the position of public employment or occupational license sought; amend KRS 335B.030 to require hiring or licensing authorities to evaluate information and provide written findings of fact to the applicant upon determination. SCS (1) Retain original provisions; define "tipped employee"; exclude salaried employees, managers, and supervisors from tip pooling arrangements; EMERGENCY. SCA (1t) Make title amendment. |
| | Current Status: | 4/10/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 72)
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| HB186 | QUALIFICATIONS FOR ELECTED OFFICE (BAKER, SHANE; Hodgson, John; Calloway, Josh; Tate, Nancy) AN ACT relating to qualifications for elected office.
Amend KRS 67.060, 83A.040, 160.180, and 262.240, to require a candidate for county commissioner, city mayor, city legislative body member, board of education member, and soil and water conservation district supervisor to be a natural born citizen of the United States and no other country and a national of only the United States in order to hold each respective office. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
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| HB188 | PUBLIC SAFETY (JACKSON, KEVIN; Duvall, Robert; Elliott, Daniel; Hale, David; Hodgson, John; Lewis, Chris; Lewis, Scott ; Lewis, Derek; McPherson, Shawn; Meredith, Michael; Moser, Kimberly Poore; Riley, Steve; Williams, Wade) AN ACT relating to public safety.
Amend KRS 508.025 to expand assault in the third degree to include causing or attempting to cause physical injury to a healthcare provider in a jail, penitentiary, or local or state correctional or detention facility; amend KRS 65.1591 to add jailers, deputy jailers, and correctional officers employed by a local detention center, local correctional facility, or regional jail to the list of public safety employees eligible to participate in a peer support counseling program. HFA (1) Amend Section 1 to include assaults committed against healthcare providers in facilities which provide for the care, treatment, or detention of juveniles charged with or adjudicated delinquent because of a public offense or as youthful offenders. |
| | Current Status: | 4/3/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 28)
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| HB200 | UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (KULKARNI, NIMA; Heavrin, Samara) AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance.
Amend KRS 341.370 to prohibit disqualification from benefits for workers unemployed as a result of domestic violence and abuse, dating violence and abuse, sexual assault, or stalking; create a new section of KRS Chapter 341 to direct the secretary of the Education and Labor Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; amend KRS 341.125 to require the secretary to provide training to personnel who process claims related to domestic or dating violence and abuse, sexual assault, or stalking and to report to the Legislative Research Commission annually the number of claims paid involving domestic or dating violence and abuse, sexual assault, or stalking; amend KRS 341.360 to conform; amend KRS 341.530 to charge benefits to pooled account for workers displaced from employment through domestic or dating violence and abuse, sexual assault, or stalking; amend KRS 341.550 to prevent benefit payments from pooled account from impacting an employer's experience rating. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
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| HB202 | RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF LANDLORDS AND TENANTS (KULKARNI, NIMA; AN ACT relating to rights and obligations of landlords and tenants to a residential lease.
Repeal and reenact various sections of KRS Chapter 383 to amend the Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act; create new sections of KRS Chapter 383 to conform; amend KRS 383.240 to conform; repeal KRS 383.300, 303.302, 383.500, 383.505, 383.515, 383.525, 383.540, 383.580, 383.620, and 383.665; apply to a lease made on or after the effective date of the Act. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
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| HB204 | DUPLEXES (KULKARNI, NIMA; AN ACT relating to duplexes.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 100 to define "duplex"; allow duplexes as a permitted use in all residential zones; prohibit a planning unit from adopting or enforcing regulations that would exclude duplexes in residential zones or impose requirements or fees on duplexes different than those for single-family homes. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Local Government (H)
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| HB205 | PLANNING AND ZONING (KULKARNI, NIMA; AN ACT relating to planning and zoning.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 100 to define terms; allow multi-unit dwellings and mixed-use developments as permitted uses in commercial zones; prohibit a planning unit from adopting or enforcing regulations that do not allow multi-unit dwellings and mixed-use developments in commercial zones, impose requirements on multi-unit dwellings or mixed-use developments more restrictive than other uses in a zone, or require certain parking restrictions on multi-unit dwellings or mixed-use developments. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Local Government (H)
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| HB206 | KENTUCKY BUILDING CODE (KULKARNI, NIMA; AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Building Code.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198B to permit less than 6 stories of Residential Group R-2 occupancy to be served by a single exit. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H)
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| HB207 | DEDUCTION FOR UNION DUES (KULKARNI, NIMA; Gentry, Alan; Grossberg, Daniel) AN ACT relating to a deduction for union dues.
Amend KRS 141.019, relating to income tax, to define "professional membership dues" and "union dues"; allow a deduction from gross income for union dues and professional membership dues paid for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2027, but before January 1, 2031, and require the Department of Revenue to annually report information about this deduction to the Legislative Research Commission; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the department to report on the exclusion. |
| | Current Status: | 2/19/2026 - (H) WITHDRAWN
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| HB208 | WORKPLACE SAFETY (KULKARNI, NIMA; AN ACT relating to workplace safety.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 338 to require employers to develop emergency action plans for the workplace; establish minimum requirements for the plans. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
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| HB209 | CERTIFIED LIVING WAGE (KULKARNI, NIMA; Gentry, Alan) AN ACT relating to certified living wage.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require the Office of the Kentucky Center for Statistics to establish a certified living wage based on occupation type and geographic area utilizing data from the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics program if the employer receives certain financial incentives from local, state, or federal agencies; amend KRS 151B.133 to require the Office of Kentucky Center for Statistics to establish a certified living wage by July 1, 2027, and every year thereafter; amend KRS 337.990 to establish civil penalties. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
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| HB210 | WAGE TRANSPARENCY (KULKARNI, NIMA; AN ACT relating to wage transparency.
Amend KRS 337.010 to define "job posting" and "wage range"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require all employers to include the wages or wage range for the advertised position in any job posting; amend KRS 95A.250 and 337.020 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
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| HB217 | DESIGNATED INCOME TAX REFUNDS (HOLLOWAY, KIM; Banta, Kim; Grossl, Vanessa; Lawrence, William) AN ACT relating to designating income tax refunds to the animal control and care fund.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to provide taxpayers the option of having all or a portion of their individual income tax refund be contributed to the animal control and care fund created in KRS 258.119; establish requirements for administering the designation. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB218 | KENTUCKY EMPLOYEE RETIREMENT SYSTEM (BLANTON, JOHN; Fugate, Chris) AN ACT relating to membership dates in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System.
Amend KRS 61.510 to change the current definition of "membership date" in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System to remove date restrictions regarding educational contracts and allow any member who entered into an educational contract as a conditional employee of the state of Kentucky to have their system membership date, for purposes of retirement benefits determination, be based upon the earliest date of the contract. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government (H)
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| HB219 | RETIREEE HEALTH PROVISIONS (BLANTON, JOHN; Fugate, Chris) AN ACT relating to retiree health provisions of the Kentucky Retirement Systems.
Amend KRS 61.702, relating to the Kentucky Employees Retirement System and the State Police Retirement System, to increase the nonhazardous and hazardous duty under age 65 retiree health subsidy to $40 and $50 per month for each year of service, respectively, for those members who meet the "career threshold" who began participating in the system on or after July 1, 2003, and who are eligible for a fixed-dollar retiree health subsidy not tied to the premium; extend the employee contribution used to fund retiree health benefits to include members who began participating in the system on or after July 1, 2003, and increase the current hazardous employee contribution rate to 2% of pay for those eligible for the fixed-dollar retiree health subsidy; make technical amendments regarding the retiree health premium reimbursement program to conform to current policy; provide that the amendments to the employee contributions shall be effective July 1, 2027; for calculation of the retiree health subsidy increase, provide that the change shall apply to service earned prior to the effective date of this Act by eligible members, including retirees, and shall prospectively be adjusted annually by the 1.5% increase currently provided in statute; provide that subsidies payable to impacted retirees shall begin on or after January 1, 2027, to coincide with the next health plan year; direct the Public Pension Oversight Board to continue to review the retiree health fund actuarial data and evaluate potential legislative options to address any future continued improvements in the funds; RETROACTIVE. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government (H)
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| HB220 | PENSION SPIKING (BLANTON, JOHN; Fugate, Chris; Meredith, Michael) AN ACT relating to pension spiking in the systems administered by the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority.
Amend KRS 61.598, relating to pension spiking and the definition of "bona fide promotion or career advancement," to retroactively exempt pension spiking adjustments that were due to increases in rates of pay authorized or funded by the legislative or administrative body of an employer or mandated in a collective bargaining agreement approved by the legislative body of the employer for members of the Kentucky Employees Retirement System, County Employees Retirement System, or State Police Retirement System who retired on or after July 1, 2022; require the Kentucky Public Pension Authority to review and make necessary adjustments to benefits payable on or after July 1, 2022, to impacted members; RETROACTIVE. HFA(1) Retain original provisions, except to make provisions retroactive to retirements ocurring on or after July 1, 2021; RETROACTIVE. SCS (1) Retain original provisions; amend KRS 16.198 to require the Department of Kentucky State Police to establish vacation, bereavement, and sick leave and holiday pay for Trooper R Class and Trooper CVE R Class employees at the same level as an officer with less than 5 years of service. SCA (1t) Make title amendment. |
| | Current Status: | 4/17/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 189)
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| HB222 | RAILROAD OPERATIONS (TACKETT LAFERTY, ASHLEY; AN ACT relating to railroad operations.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 277 to define "light engine"; require a crew of at least 2 persons during operation of a train or light engine; amend KRS 277.990 to include penalties on railroad companies for crews of less than two persons. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Transportation (H)
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| HB223 | AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES (TACKETT LAFERTY, ASHLEY; AN ACT relating to autonomous vehicles.
Amend KRS 186.763 to prohibit a school district from operating a fully autonomous vehicle as a school bus or for transporting students; prohibit the operation of a fully autonomous vehicle if that vehicle requires an operator with a commercial driver's license; amend KRS 281.764 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Transportation (H)
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| HB225 | TAX CREDIT FOR VOLUNTEER FIREFIGHTERS (TACKETT LAFERTY, ASHLEY; Bojanowski, Tina; Fugate, Chris; Gordon, Deanna; King, Kim; Lawrence, William; Massaroni, Candy; Wesley, Bill; White, Richard) AN ACT relating to a tax credit for volunteer firefighters.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a refundable income tax credit for certain volunteer firefighters; declare the purpose of the credit; require annual reporting to the Legislative Research Commission to evaluate the impact of the credit; amend KRS 141.0205 to provide the ordering of the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow confidential tax return information to be shared with the Legislative Research Commission. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB226 | SPECIAL LICENSE PLATES (PAYNE, J. T.; Aull, Chad; Callaway, Emily; Duvall, Robert; Griffee, Peyton; Grossberg, Daniel; Hart, Mark; Thomas, Walker) AN ACT relating to special license plates.
Amend KRS 186.162, relating to special license plates, to establish that a portion of the initial and renewal fee for a Kentucky National Guard plate is dedicated to the National Guard Association of Kentucky. |
| | Current Status: | 3/4/2026 - (H) recommitted to committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB228 | TAX CREDIT FOR RENTERS (WATKINS, JOSHUA; Aull, Chad; Bojanowski, Tina; Camuel, Adrielle; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Donworth, Anne; Gentry, Alan; Lehman, Matthew; Marzian, Mary Lou; Stalker, Sarah; Stevenson, Pamela; Willner, Lisa) AN ACT relating to a tax credit for renters.
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, 2027, but before January 1, 2031, 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. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB229 | HOUSING (WATKINS, JOSHUA; Stevenson, Pamela; Aull, Chad; Bojanowski, Tina; Burke, Lindsey; Camuel, Adrielle; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Donworth, Anne; Gentry, Alan; Hancock, Erika; Lehman, Matthew; Marzian, Mary Lou; Moore, Adam; Stalker, Sarah; Willner, Lisa) AN ACT relating to housing, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198A to create the affordable housing loan pool fund to be administered by the Kentucky Housing Corporation to provide rehabilitation and construction loans to eligible entities; specify terms and process; amend KRS 198A.080 to modify criteria for housing development loan fund, require notice of eligible funds, and allow expenditure of funds for technical and administrative costs; create new section of KRS Chapter 198A to establish parameters by which the Kentucky Housing Corporation shall review and approve the affordable housing credit; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish the affordable housing credit; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the credits; appropriate $102,000,000 from the Budget Reserve Trust Fund account for various affordable housing initiatives; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB230 | HEALTHCARE PRICE TRANSPARENCY (LOCKETT, MATT; AN ACT relating to health care price transparency.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 216B to define terms; require hospitals to disclose prices for certain items and services provided by hospitals; require hospitals to make public a digital list of all standard charges and a consumer-friendly list of charges for a set of shoppable services; require hospitals to provide descriptions of different services and standard charges of those services; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to establish a template for each hospital; require the cabinet to monitor each facility's compliance; provide for administrative penalties; require health care providers to provide patients with written pricing sheets for health care services provided except in an emergency; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to establish a template for the written pricing sheets; require the cabinet or the Department for Medicaid Services to seek federal approval if they determine that such approval is necessary to comply with KRS 205.5372(1). |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health Services (H)
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| HB231 | REPORTING MEDICAL DEBT (MOORE, ADAM; Burke, Lindsey; Stalker, Sarah) AN ACT relating to the reporting of medical debt.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 367 to define terms; prohibit a health care professional from furnishing medical debt to a consumer reporting agency; require a contract between a health care professional and collection entity to include a provision prohibiting the reporting of medical debt to a consumer reporting agency; provide that medical debt that is reported in violation of the section is void and unenforceable; make a violation of the section an unfair, false, misleading, or deceptive act or practice in violation of KRS 367.170; establish remedies for a violation of the section; provide that section shall not be construed to limit or restrict any powers, duties, remedies, or penalties available; direct that provisions apply to contracts entered into or renewed on or after the effective date of the Act. |
| | Current Status: | 1/15/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Banking & Insurance (H)
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| HB233 | AMEND CONSTITUTION RELATING TO PROPERTY EXEMPT FROM TAXATION (BAUMAN, JARED; AN ACT proposing to amend Section 172B of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to property exempt from taxation.
Propose to amend Section 172B of the Constitution of Kentucky to expand the freeze on an assessment or reassessment moratorium to include the development of property and to remove the 5-year expiration date for the moratorium; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection. |
| | Current Status: | 1/15/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
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| HB234 | POSTING OF VETERANS' BENEFITS (BAUMAN, JARED; AN ACT relating to the posting of veterans' benefits and services.
Amend KRS 337.327 to require employers to keep copies of a veterans' benefits and services document in a conspicuous and accessible place. |
| | Current Status: | 1/15/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (H)
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| HB235 | AMEND CONSTITUTION RELATING TO PROPERTY EXEMPT FROM TAXATION (BAUMAN, JARED; AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to property exempt from taxation.
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to exempt homeowners who are 65 years of age or older from any increase in the valuation of their permanent residence that is assessed after the later of the year the homeowner turned 65 or the year the homeowner acquired the property; require the exemption to be in addition to the exemption provided in Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky and notwithstanding Sections 171, 172, and 174 of the Constitution of Kentucky; apply the exemption to increases in valuation that occur after the date the amendment is ratified by the voters; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection. |
| | Current Status: | 1/15/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
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| HB237 | EMPLOYER STUDENT LOAN REPAYMENT CREDIT (KULKARNI, NIMA; AN ACT relating to the employer student loan repayment credit.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish the employer student loan repayment credit, equal to 50% of the amount paid by an employer on an eligible student loan of a qualified employee effective for taxable years beginning January 1, 2026, but before January 1, 2030; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the credit. |
| | Current Status: | 1/15/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB238 | APPRENTICESHIP TAX CREDIT (KULKARNI, NIMA; AN ACT relating to an apprenticeship tax credit.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish an income tax credit for employers that maintain an apprenticeship program and hire apprentices; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report to the Legislative Research Commission on the credit. |
| | Current Status: | 1/15/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB240 | EDUCATION RESIDENCY (GORDON, DEANNA; Grossl, Vanessa) AN ACT relating to residency as defined by the Council on Postsecondary Education.
Amend KRS 164.020 to require the Council on Postsecondary Education to consider individuals born in Kentucky as Kentucky residents when determining residency for tuition and admission purposes in the state postsecondary education system; provide that the Act may be cited as the Welcome Back to My Old Kentucky Home Initiative. |
| | Current Status: | 1/15/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Postsecondary Education (H)
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| HB241 | ANIMAL SERVICES TAX EXEMPTION (WHITE, RICHARD; Lewis, Scott ; Lewis, Derek; Lewis, Chris) AN ACT relating to the exemption of certain animal services from sales and use tax.
Amend KRS 139.470 to exempt from sales and use tax pet adoption fees and certain small veterinarian service fees charged by local government animal shelters and nonprofit animal welfare organizations; apply to transactions on or after August 1, 2026. |
| | Current Status: | 1/15/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB242 | AMEND CONSTITUTION RELATING TO PROPERTY EXEMPT FROM TAXATION (WHITE, RICHARD; Wesley, Bill) AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to property exempt from taxation.
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to exempt from taxation a portion of the assessed value of real property maintained as the permanent residence of an owner who is a veteran or first responder; require an owner to meet the disability requirements under Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky; allow real property maintained as the permanent residence of the surviving spouse of a veteran or first responder to receive an exemption based on the qualifiers of the veteran or first responder prior to his or her death; allow the General Assembly to set qualification requirements by law; prohibit a property from receiving more than one exemption under this new section of the Constitution of Kentucky; allow the exemption to be in addition to the exemption provided in Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky; provide that the exemptions supersede contrary provisions of Sections 171, 172, and 174 of the Constitution of Kentucky; apply the exemptions to property assessed on or after January 1, 2028; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection. |
| | Current Status: | 1/15/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
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| HB243 | HIGH SCHOOL GRADUATION REQUIREMENTS (WHITE, RICHARD; AN ACT relating to high school graduation requirements.
Amend KRS 156.160 to require any course meeting the health requirement for high school graduation include information on direct the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to organ donation. |
| | Current Status: | 1/15/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB244 | TEN COMMANDMENTS IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS (WHITE, RICHARD; AN ACT relating to the Ten Commandments in public schools.
Amend KRS 158.195 to allow the reading or posting of the Ten Commandments in a public school building, classroom, or event. |
| | Current Status: | 1/13/2026 - (H) WITHDRAWN
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| HB245 | AMEND CONSTITUTION RELATING TO PROPERTY EXEMPT FROM TAXATION (BANTA, KIM; AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to property exempt from taxation.
Propose to amend Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky to increase the homestead exemption to $75,000; require the homestead exemption amount to be indexed every year; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection; apply to property assessments beginning on or after January 1, 2027. |
| | Current Status: | 1/15/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
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| HB247 | DISABLED VETERAN BENEFITS (WILLIAMS, WADE; AN ACT relating to disabled veteran benefits.
Amend KRS 164.515 to allow the spouse or a child under the age of 26 of a disabled veteran free tuition at public universities, colleges, or vocational traiing institutions for up to 128 credit hours of undergraduate instruction. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2026 - (H) WITHDRAWN
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| HB250 | SCHOOL LUNCHES (TACKETT LAFERTY, ASHLEY; Aull, Chad) AN ACT relating to school lunches.
Amend KRS 160.345 to require a school council to adopt a policy requiring students to be assigned a lunch period of at least 30 minutes in length; amend KRS 158.153 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 1/15/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB251 | HAZARDOUS DUTY COVERAGE (TACKETT LAFERTY, ASHLEY; AN ACT relating to hazardous duty coverage in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System.
Amend KRS 61.592 to redefine "hazardous position" to include Department of Kentucky State Police forensic lab and crime scene personnel. |
| | Current Status: | 1/15/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government (H)
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| HB252 | IN LINE OF DUTY DISABILITY BENEFITS (CALLAWAY, EMILY; Blanton, John; Johnson, DJ; Lewis, Scott ; Lewis, Derek; Lewis, Chris; Roarx, Rachel) AN ACT relating to in line of duty disability benefits and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 61.702 and 78.5536 to provide full hospital and medical insurance benefits for a member, their spouse, and their dependents if the member becomes disabled in line of duty with a hazardous disability; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 1/15/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government (H)
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| HB253 | EDUCATION (TIPTON, JAMES; Bojanowski, Tina; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Grossberg, Daniel; Jackson, Kevin; Stevenson, Pamela) AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; require the Kentucky Department of Education to establish an approved list of reading curriculum and interventions that do not use a three-cueing system; prohibit school districts from using any curriculum or program that employs a three-cueing system; prohibit the use of a three-cueing system in teacher professional development; require the Educational Professional Standards Board to promulgate administrative regulations establishing curriculum for each approved educator preparation program; amend KRS 158.307 to require rather than allow local boards of education to develop a policy on dyslexia; require rather than allow the policy to include listed items; amend KRS 164.304 to require postsecondary institutions offering teacher preparation programs to include instruction on dyslexia by the 2027-2028 school year, rather than the instruction being contingent on funding availability; amend KRS 164.306 to specify that educator preparation programs shall use evidence-based reading instruction and intervention programs and shall not provide instruction on a three-cueing system; amend KRS 161.028 to require the board to include in the standards set for teacher preparation programs that the programs shall use evidence-based reading instruction and intervention programs and shall not provide instruction on a three-cueing system. HCS (1) Retain original provisions; specify dates by which three-cueing shall no longer be used in public school districts; specify dates by which interdisciplinary early childhood through fifth grade teachers are required to complete a science of reading professional learning program; require all interdisciplinary early childhood through grade 5 educators who received certification through Options 1 to 5 and 8 to complete a science of reading professional learning program within 2 years of initial employment. SCS (1) Retain original provisions; create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to prohibit a public school district or public charter school from entering into a nondisclosure agreement relating to misconduct involving a minor or student; amend KRS 160.380 to define "abusive conduct"; require school districts to conduct reference checks; require nonpublic schools and public school districts to disclose any disciplinary actions related to abusive conduct of applicants; provide immunity for disclosures made about school employee conduct; require school districts to request all related information from public and nonpublic schools and the Education Professional Standards Board (EPSB); require schools and EPSB to provide the records; require requests for information to be satisfied in 10 working days; require EPSB to create and implement procedures for information requests; require a school district to internally report and investigate to completion all allegations of abusive conduct; require all records relating to an allegation of abusive conduct to be retained in an employee's personnel file unless the allegation is proven false; require the superintendent to annually notify school district employees of self-reporting requirements; provide that certain requirements apply to public charter schools; amend KRS 156.160 to direct the Kentucky Board of Education to include employment standards in the voluntary certification standards for private schools; make technical corrections; amend KRS 160.151 to define "certified nonpublic school"; require employees of certified nonpublic schools to submit to a national and state criminal background check and a CA/N check; prohibit a certified nonpublic school from hiring a violent or felony sex crime offender; prohibit a certified nonpublic school from entering into a nondisclosure agreement related to misconduct involving a minor or student; make technical corrections; amend KRS 156.095 to require the Kentucky Department of Education to develop a training related to sexual misconduct and inappropriate relationships for employees to undergo; make technical corrections; amend KRS 161.151 to conform; amend KRS 158.4431, 156.492, and 158.200 to conform. SFA (2) Retain original provisions; add an emergency clause. SFA (3t) Make title amendment. |
| | Current Status: | 4/10/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 74)
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| HB254 | TEMPORARY STRUCTURES (LAWRENCE, WILLIAM; Callaway, Emily) AN ACT relating to temporary structures.
Amend KRS 198B.050 to exempt certain temporary structures from state building code compliance if erected by or for a state or government agency, city, or municipality; require a temporary structure to be inspected and brought into compliance or removed after 6 months; exempt portable or temporary shower or toilet units from state building code compliance if intended to be used for less than 6 months; require a portable or temporary shower or toilet unit to be inspected and brought into compliance or removed after 6 months. HCS(1) Retain original provisions, except delete the exemption from state building codes for temporary structures intended for use for less than 6 months; require a portable shower or toilet unit to be brought into code compliance unless a state of emergency has been declared by the Governor or a local state of emergency has been declared by a mayor, county judge/executive, or chief executive officer of an applicable local government. |
| | Current Status: | 3/17/2026 - Senate Licensing & Occupations (S), (Bill Scheduled for Hearing); Time & Location: 9:00 AM, Annex 131
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| HB257 | EDUCATION ASSESSMENT AND ACCOUNTABILITY SYSTEM (PAYNE, J. T.; Truett, Timmy; Bojanowski, Tina; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Grossberg, Daniel; Jackson, Kevin; Lewis, Chris; Lewis, Derek; Lewis, Scott ; Riley, Steve; Tipton, James) AN ACT relating to the education assessment and accountability system.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; permit local school districts to develop and implement a local accountability system; require data publication on the local accountability system; require the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) to provide technical assistance in the development of local accountability; permit KDE to incentivize local accountability; set the timeframe for requiring local accountability in all local school districts; authorize the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate necessary administrative regulations; amend KRS 158.6453 to update terminology regarding academic standards; remove specific writing and editing and mechanics as required summative assessments; require KDE to incorporate a writing program into academic standards and professional development; require school-based decision making councils to adopt a writing program policy and publish it on the school's website; remove requirement for KDE to establish recommendations on using preliminary assessment data to identify students for advanced coursework; amend KRS 158.6455 to add individual student growth metric and student engagement as state indicators in the accountability system, remove quality of school climate and safety as state indicator, remove "status" and "change" metrics from state accountability system; amend KRS 158.6459, 164.7874, and KRS 157.069 to conform. HCS (1) Retain original provisions, except change the annual incentive offered by the Department of Education to a 1 time payment to local school districts to offset costs up to $15,000; modify the definition of "locally developed indicators of quality" to include a demonstration of the abilities of all students; amend KRS 158.6453 to give superintendent the authority to select the writing program policy. FCCR (1) Retain original language of SCS 1, as amended by SFA 6, except modify the targeted quality measures and delay the addition of targeted quality measures as a statewide indicator in the accountability system until July 1, 2030; amend KRS 158.6453 (Effective July 1, 2026) to add targeted quality measures to the school and district report card until June 30, 2030; direct the Kentucky Department of Education to submit a study by November 1, 2026, to the Interim Joint Committee on Education on middle school mathematics and middle school advanced mathematics coursework; define the minimum contents of the report; authorize the department to collect data and reports from Kentucky public schools and school districts relevant to inform the study. |
| | Current Status: | 4/13/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 138)
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| HB258 | TRANSPORTATION OF MILK (PAYNE, J. T.; Aull, Chad; Bratcher, Steve; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Dossett, Myron; Hart, Mark; Stalker, Sarah) AN ACT relating to the transportation of milk.
Amend KRS 189.222 to allow vehicles with a gross weight of up to 90,000 pounds transporting fluid milk from a farm to the first market to operate on any state highway; allow for a 10% weight tolerance; provide exceptions and limitations; amend KRS 189.221 to conform. HCS (1) Retain original provisions; amend KRS 189.010 to include fluid milk products in the definition of "nondivisible load" as it pertains to the roads that are a part of the national truck network; amend KRS 189.270 to allow overweight permits for the transportation of fluid milk products up to a gross weight of 100,000 pounds; amend KRS 189.2717 to allow annual overweight permits along a specified route for the transportation of fluid milk products up to a gross weight of 100,000 pounds. |
| | Current Status: | 3/16/2026 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Agriculture (S)
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| HB259 | AMEND CONSTITUTION RELATING TO CITIZENSHIP REQUIREMENTS FOR ELECTED OFFICIALS (BAKER, SHANE; Hodgson, John; Bivens, Ryan; Calloway, Josh; King, Kim) AN ACT proposing an amendment to Sections 32, 72, 91, 100, and 122 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to citizenship requirements of state and local elected officials.
Propose to amend Sections 32, 72, 91, 100, and 122 of the Kentucky Constitution to require candidates for the General Assembly, Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Treasurer, Auditor of Public Accounts, Commissioner of Agriculture, Secretary of State, Attorney General, county clerk, Circuit Court clerk, Commonwealth’s attorney, county attorney, District Judge, Circuit Judge, Court of Appeals Judge, and Justice of the Supreme Court to be a natural born citizen of the United States and a national of only the United States in order to hold each respective office; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection. |
| | Current Status: | 1/15/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
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| HB260 | CERTIFIED STUDENT SUPPORT PERSONNEL (GROSSL, VANESSA; Willner, Lisa; Bojanowski, Tina; Grossberg, Daniel; Truett, Timmy) AN ACT relating to nationally certified student support personnel.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to require a salary supplement for school social workers who have been nationally certified by the School Social Work Association of America and are employed by local boards of education if funding is provided for such purpose, permit local boards of education to provide a supplement from other resources if funding is not provided, and require inclusion of the supplement for Kentucky Teachers’ Retirement System calculations; create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to require a salary supplement for school psychologists who have been nationally certified by the National Association of School Psychologists and are employed by local boards of education if funding is provided for such purpose, permit local boards of education to provide a supplement from other resources if funding is not provided, and require inclusion of the supplement for Teachers’ Retirement System calculations. |
| | Current Status: | 1/15/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB261 | SCHOOL PSYCHOLOGIST INTERSTATE LICENSURE COMPACT (GROSSL, VANESSA; Grossberg, Daniel; McCool, Bobby; Moore, Adam) AN ACT relating to the School Psychologist Interstate Licensure Compact.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 161 to enact and enter into the School Psychologist Interstate Licensure Compact; declare purpose; define terms; set requirements for member states and for school psychologists to participate in the compact; establish provisions for active duty military members or their spouses; designate procedures for adverse actions against a school psychologist; create the School Psychologist Interstate Licensure Compact Commission and establish its internal procedures; provide for the commission to facilitate the exchange of information; establish rulemaking procedures, oversight, financing, dispute resolution, and enforcement provisions of the compact; create member state compact withdrawal procedures; provide for amendments to the compact; specify applicability of the compact to certain Kentucky state law. |
| | Current Status: | 4/1/2026 - (H) Returned to Committee House Committee on Committees (H)
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| HB262 | EXEMPTION OF AIRCRAFT SALES TAX (HOLLOWAY, KIM; AN ACT relating to an exemption of sales and use tax for aircraft.
Amend KRS 139.470 to exempt gross receipts derived from aircraft sold and delivered in this state to a resident of another state from sales and use tax; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2026. |
| | Current Status: | 1/15/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB266 | HEALTHCARE WORKFORCE INVESTMENT FUND (GORDON, DEANNA; Thomas, Walker; Doan, Steven; Grossl, Vanessa; King, Kim; McCool, Bobby; Willner, Lisa) AN ACT relating to healthcare credentials eligible for the Kentucky healthcare workforce investment fund.
Amend KRS 164.0401 to add a speech-language pathology or audiology license to the definition of "eligible healthcare credential" for the purpose of the Kentucky healthcare workforce investment fund. |
| | Current Status: | 4/3/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 29)
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| HB270 | WAGES (GROSSBERG, DANIEL; Gentry, Alan) AN ACT relating to wages.
Amend KRS 337.275 to raise the minimum wage for employers to $9.50 an hour beginning on the effective date of this Act and incrementally thereafter to $15 an hour beginning on July 1, 2030; raise the state minimum wage for tipped employees to five dollars an hour beginning on the effective date of this Act. |
| | Current Status: | 1/15/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
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| HB271 | AFFORDABLE HOUSING (GROSSBERG, DANIEL; AN ACT relating to affordable housing.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198A to establish the abandoned home pool fund to be administered by the Kentucky Housing Corporation to purchase and improve vacant and abandoned homes for rental to eligible individuals and families; specify application process and eligibility criteria. |
| | Current Status: | 1/15/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Local Government (H)
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| HB274 | PROTECTION OF VETERANS' BENEFITS (THOMAS, WALKER; Callaway, Emily; Grossberg, Daniel; Moore, Adam) AN ACT relating to the protection of veterans' benefits.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 40 to require persons seeking to receive compensation for advising or assisting with veterans' benefits claims to provide a signed disclosure document stating these services may be provided for free from other entities. |
| | Current Status: | 1/15/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (H)
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| HB275 | KEES SCHOLARSHIPS (RABOURN, FELICIA; Roberts, T.J.; Calloway, Josh; Doan, Steven; Dotson, Ryan; Hodgson, John; Maddox, Savannah; Massaroni, Candy; Nemes, Jason) AN ACT relating to KEES scholarships for students attending noncertified schools.
Amend KRS 164.7874 to define "eligible noncertified school graduate"; amend definitions of "KEES award," "KEES award maximum," and "KEES base amount" for an eligible noncertified school graduate; amend KRS 164.7879 to establish an equivalent grade point average for eligible noncertified school graduates based on the graduate's ACT score; amend KRS 164.7881 and 164.7884 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 1/15/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Postsecondary Education (H)
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| HB277 | SCHOOL NUTRITION (DOAN, STEVEN; Calloway, Josh) AN ACT relating to school nutrition.
Amend KRS 158.850 to define terms; ban schools from selling or providing ultra-processed foods during the school day. |
| | Current Status: | 1/15/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB278 | HOSPITAL PRICE TRANSPARENCY (DOAN, STEVEN; AN ACT relating to hospital price transparency.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 216B to define terms; require hospitals to maintain a publicly available chargemaster of all standard charges, in dollar amounts, and descriptions for all standard facility items or services; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to establish a template for each facility to use to create the chargemaster, monitor each facility's compliance, and provide administrative penalties; prohibit collective action of debt for noncompliant facilities. |
| | Current Status: | 1/15/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health Services (H)
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| HB279 | MENTAL HEALTH COVERAGE (GROSSL, VANESSA; Willner, Lisa; Grossberg, Daniel; Hampton, Tony) AN ACT relating to coverage for mental health or substance use disorders.
Amend KRS 304.17A-660 to specify classifications to be included in the term "classification of benefits"; specify requirements, standards, and methodologies to be included in the term "nonquantitative treatment limitation"; change the definition of "mental health condition" to the definition of "mental health or substance use disorder condition"; amend KRS 304.17A-661 to require an insurer's mental health parity analysis to include an evaluation of standards relating to network composition, out-of-network utilization rates, and medical management techniques; require insurers to submit a remediation plan for the commissioner's approval if its mental health parity analysis indicates noncompliance; require insurer's annual mental health parity report to be submitted to the Legislative Research Commission; delete language applying remedies under Subtitle 12 of KRS Chapter 304 to violations; authorize the Attorney General to enforce the mental health parity law; establish duties, remedies, and penalties for enforcement by the Attorney General; authorize a private cause of action by any person directly injured by a violation or likely violation of the mental health parity law; establish duties, remedies, and penalties for a private right of action under the mental health parity law; establish construction clauses; authorize the Attorney General to promulgate administrative regulations for proper enforcement of mental health parity law; create new sections of KRS 304.17A-660 to 304.17A-669 to define "health care professional"; require insurers to comply with KRS 304.17A-700 to 304.17A-730 for claims submitted by health care professionals for the diagnosis or treatment of mental health or substance use disorder conditions; authorize the Attorney General to enforce the requirement to comply with KRS 304.17A-700 to 304.17A-730; create the Advisory Council on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Parity; establish duties and membership; amend KRS 304.17A-665 to require the commissioner of insurance to publish a summary of each insurer's mental health parity report and report findings to specified legislative committees; amend KRS 304.17A-669 to conform; amend KRS 18A.225 to require the state employee health plan to comply with KRS 304.17A-660 to 304.17A-669; provide terms for initial appointment of members of the Advisory Council on Mental Health and Substance Use Disorder Parity; provide that certain sections apply to contracts issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2027; EFFECTIVE, January 1, 2027. |
| | Current Status: | 1/15/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Banking & Insurance (H)
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| HB280 | HEALTH CARE (MOSER, KIMBERLY POORE; Bratcher, Steve; Grossberg, Daniel) AN ACT relating to health care and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 314.041, relating to registered nurse licensure, and KRS 314.051, relating to licensed practical nurse licensure, to add credential requirements; amend KRS 314.042 to require physicians collaborating with an advanced practice registered nurse to have an active and unrestricted license in Kentucky; amend KRS 314.109 to reduce the time from 90 to 30 days for a person under the jurisdiction of the board to notify the board of a conviction of certain misdemeanors or felonies; amend KRS 209.032, relating to employees of vulnerable adult service providers, to permit a state licensing board to query the cabinet for a validated substantiated finding of adult abuse, neglect, or exploitation against an individual under the licensing board's jurisdiction; create a new section of KRS 158.830 to 158.838 to define terms; permit health care practitioners to prescribe and dispense undesignated glucagon in the name of a school or to a trained individual; permit trained individuals to receive, possess, and administer undesignated glucagon during diabetic medical emergencies; permit schools to stock undesignated glucagon; provide for immunity from civil liability for any personal injury resulting from good-faith actions to use undesignated glucagon to treat diabetic medical emergencies; amend KRS 158.832 to add definition of "documented medical conditions" and medications to the definition of "medications"; amend KRS 158.834 to add medical conditions and medications that may be self-administered in schools with parental authorization and a prescription; amend KRS 158.836 to require students to permit bronchodilator rescue inhalers, nebulizers, glucagon, Solu-Cortef, or other prescribed medications in their possession or in the possession of school personnel; encourage schools to stock undesignated glucagon; and require policies and Good Samaritan protection for the good-faith administration of glucagon, Solu-Cortef, or other prescribed medications for authorized school employees; EMERGENCY. HCS (1) Retain original provisions; make technical correction. SCS (1) Retain original provisions, except modify the definitions of "diabetes medical management plan" and "trained individual" and other provisions relating to the administration of undesignated glucagon in schools. |
| | Current Status: | 4/10/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 75)
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| HB282 | VEHICLE LIGHTS (WHITE, RICHARD; Flannery, Patrick; Callaway, Emily; Calloway, Josh; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Doan, Steven; Hale, David; Holloway, Kim; King, Kim; Lawrence, William; Lockett, Matt; Maddox, Savannah; Massaroni, Candy; Moser, Kimberly Poore; Rabourn, Felicia; Roberts, T.J.; Thompson, Aaron) AN ACT relating to vehicle lights.
Amend KRS 189.920 to allow wreckers to be equipped with a flashing, rotating, or oscillating blue light, to be used only when the wrecker is stationary and while removing a vehicle or debris from the highway; prohibit a wrecker from using a blue light when towing a vehicle; this Act may be cited as Troy's Law. HCS(1) Retain original provisions except change the color of lights a wrecker may use to green; remove the requirement that the lights be used only when the vehicle is stationary; allow use of green lights on the front and rear of wreckers. |
| | Current Status: | 3/3/2026 - received in Senate
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| HB283 | ADVERSARIAL FOREIGN TRANSACTIONS (SHARP, SCOTT; Callaway, Emily) AN ACT relating to adversarial foreign transactions in the Commonwealth.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 39G to define "center," "executive director," "foreign enterprise," and "resident of the Commonwealth"; prohibit a resident of the Commonwealth from engaging in a transaction with a foreign enterprise if the transaction would result in foreign control of intellectual property, infrastructure, technology, or assets critical to the economic security of the Commonwealth, obstruction of counter-intelligence efforts, or would compromise the economic security of the Commonwealth; require the Kentucky Intelligence Fusion Center to review and investigate a transaction between a foreign enterprise and a resident of the Commonwealth; require the center to notify the executive director of the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security once it has determined that a transaction would compromise the economic security of the Commonwealth; require the center to refer the matter to the appropriate federal authorities if a transaction would compromise the security of the United States; allow the center to contact other state and local agencies and access state and local databases if necessary in pursuit of a review or an investigation; require the center to assess whether the transaction between a foreign enterprise and a resident of the Commonwealth would pose a threat to the security of the Commonwealth, the level of threat the transaction would pose, whether that threat has been mitigated, whether the transaction is with or on behalf of a foreign government, and whether a foreign entity may obtain control of critical infrastructure, technology, or assets critical to the economic security of the Commonwealth; require the center to refer the matter to the Attorney General and notify the executive director of the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security if it determines that the transaction would pose as a threat to the Commonwealth and the threat cannot be mitigated; require the center to meet with the co-chairs of the Legislative Oversight and Investigations Committee at least twice a year to discuss any findings in its review or investigations that would compromise the economic security of the Commonwealth; allow either co-chair of the Legislative Investigations and Oversight Committee to compel additional meetings; require the co-chairs of the Legislative Oversight and Investigations Committee to have required security clearance before meeting with the center; prohibit the center from meeting with the co-chairs if neither have obtained the required security clearance; exempt the meeting between the center and the co-chairs of the Legislative Oversight and Investigations Committee from the Kentucky Open Meetings Act and exempt any records produced in the meeting from the Kentucky Open Records Act; require center to submit an annual report to the Legislative Oversight and Investigations Committee; exempt certain data from the report from the Kentucky Open Records Act; exempt certain data from the report from the Kentucky Open Meetings Act; direct that the first report to the Legislative Oversight and Investigations Committee be issued by July 1, 2027. HCS(1) Retain original provisions, except remove the definition of "foreign enterprise"; define "foreign adversary" and "key infrastructure assets"; remove the prohibition that a resident of the Commonwealth cannot engage in a transaction with a foreign adversary; require the Kentucky Intelligence Fusion Center, upon receipt of relevant information from a person or entity, or upon its own discovery, to review any transaction between a foreign adversary and a resident of the Commonwealth if the transaction would result in ownership or control by a foreign adversary of key infrastructure assets; remove language that would require the center to conduct an investigation; require the center to refer any findings to the Attorney General and the executive director that would result in a foreign adversary having control of key infrastructure assets and that threat cannot be mitigated; exempt certain qualified manufacturers from review. |
| | Current Status: | 4/1/2026 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)
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| HB285 | PROPERTY TAX HOMESTEAD EXEMPTION FOR DISABLED VETERANS (MOORE, ADAM; Griffee, Peyton; Callaway, Emily; Lawrence, William; Thomas, Walker) AN ACT relating to a property tax homestead exemption for disabled veterans.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 132, relating to state and local property taxes, to establish a homestead exemption in an amount up to $100,000 for veterans with a 50% or greater service-connected disability; establish requirements for the exemption; allow the permanent residence of a veteran's surviving spouse to continue to receive the exemption; require the Department of Revenue to prescribe forms and an application process for the exemption; apply the exemption to state, county, city, and special district taxes; allow mobile homes, manufactured houses, recreational homes, and modular homes to qualify for the exemption; require title transfers on property receiving the exemption to be reported to the property valuation administrator; allow the exemption to apply to the value of the property that is assessable to the owner or proportioned to his or her interest when the property is jointly owned or owned through a stock or membership corporation; allow partial or full refunds if an overpayment occurs upon application of the exemption; apply to property assessed on or after January 1, 2027. |
| | Current Status: | 1/16/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB286 | VETERAN ENTREPRENEURS (MOORE, ADAM; Griffee, Peyton; Callaway, Emily) AN ACT relating to veteran entrepreneurs.
Create a new section of Subchapter 12 of KRS Chapter 154 to create the Veteran Entrepreneur Program to be administered by the Office of Entrepreneurship; establish requirements and program details; amend KRS 154.12-277 and 154.12-278 to include the Veteran Entrepreneur Program; and amend KRS 154.12-330 to give preference to veterans in the issuance of small business loans. |
| | Current Status: | 1/16/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (H)
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| HB289 | STUDENTS (BANTA, KIM; Calloway, Josh; Doan, Steven; Grossl, Vanessa; Hodgson, John; Roberts, T.J.; Tipton, James) AN ACT relating to students.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 159 to require a local school district to enroll a student on a part-time basis for courses or programs in a school, subject to standard enrollment policies and procedures; permit part-time enrollment in a local school district to partially satisfy compulsory attendance; prohibit part-time enrollee participation in interscholastic athletics; amend KRS 158.120 to specify that a nonresident pupil policy shall not discriminate on certain factors; prohibit a local school district from charging tuition to a parent or guardian; require school districts to determine and publish nonresident enrollment capacity; require the Kentucky Board of Education to create nonresident pupil enrollment application forms and specify the application process; require reporting by school districts and the Kentucky Department of Education on nonresident enrollment; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; create a formula for distribution of any state appropriated funds to eligible school districts for nonresident students; amend KRS 156.070 and KRS 157.350 to conform; require each school district to report on nonresident pupils and tuition charged during the 2026-2027 school year; require the Kentucky Department of Education to submit a compiled report to the Legislative Research Commission; EFFECTIVE, in part, July 1, 2028. |
| | Current Status: | 1/16/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB291 | ELECTIONS (WHITE, RICHARD; AN ACT relating to elections.
Amend KRS 116.035 to provide that a voter shall be deemed a resident of a city within the county of his or her habitation if the voter has at least 50% ownership in real property located within the city precinct. |
| | Current Status: | 1/16/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
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| HB292 | SPECIAL PURPOSE GOVERNMENTAL ENTITIES (THOMAS, WALKER; Johnson, DJ) AN ACT relating to special purpose governmental entities.
Amend KRS 65A.030, relating to special purpose governmental entities, to increase the audit and financial statement responsibility thresholds; amend KRS 65A.010 to include 911 emergency services within examples of public services provided by special purpose governmental entities and to raise the fire department audit and financial statement responsibility thresholds; amend KRS 95A.055 to raise the fire department audit and financial statement responsibility thresholds; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2027. |
| | Current Status: | 1/20/2026 - (H) WITHDRAWN
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| HB293 | VEHICLE WHEELS (THOMAS, WALKER; Hale, David) AN ACT relating to vehicle wheels.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to require vehicles operating on a highway with an iron, steel, or wooden wheel to be equipped with a rubberized strip on the portion of the wheel that is in contact with the highway; provide an exception for certain animal-drawn vehicles; amend KRS 189.990 to set penalty for violation at $20 to $100 for each offense. |
| | Current Status: | 4/3/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 31)
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| HB294 | DELINQUENT TAX LIENS (STALKER, SARAH; AN ACT relating to delinquent tax liens.
Amend KRS 134.490 to modify notification requirements for third-party purchasers of delinquent taxes; amend KRS 134.504 to require notice of the homestead exemption application process. |
| | Current Status: | 1/16/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB298 | KEES SCHOLARSHIPS FOR STUDENTS OF NON-CERTIFIED SCHOOLS (BAKER, SHANE; Calloway, Josh; Doan, Steven; Hodgson, John; Maddox, Savannah; Nemes, Jason; Rabourn, Felicia; Roberts, T.J.) AN ACT relating to KEES scholarships for students attending noncertified schools.
Amend KRS 164.7874, relating to KEES awards, to define terms; amend KRS 164.7879 to establish the use of a specified equivalent grade point average for eligible graduates of certain private, parochial, or church schools based on the Advanced Placement exam score, dual credit courses grade point average, or a combination of both; amend KRS 164.7881 and 164.7884 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 3/18/2026 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules
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| HB300 | CONTRACTORS (GROSSBERG, DANIEL; AN ACT relating to contractors.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 198B to define terms; establish licensing for contractors under the Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction; prohibit any persons not licensed by the department from holding himself or herself out as a contractor; allow the department to issue contractor licenses, promulgate administrative regulations, and implement disciplinary actions; establish applicant requirements and fee limitations; provide for injunctive relief; create the contractors fund; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 367 to define terms; direct that a person may cancel a real estate goods and services contract within 5 business days; establish additional items a contractor must furnish a person prior to entering into a real estate goods or services contract with a person; prohibit additional practices by contractors; provide that this Act applies to contracts entered on or after the effective date of this Act. |
| | Current Status: | 1/16/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H)
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| HB301 | SERVICE CREDIT FOR THE TEACHERS' RETIREMENT SYSTEM (GROSSBERG, DANIEL; AN ACT relating to service credit for the Teachers' Retirement System and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 161.500 to allow members of the Teachers' Retirement System to recover up to 10 unpaid days that were missed to observe religious holidays; include the recovered days in count of days worked for service credit; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 1/16/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government (H)
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| HB302 | DIAPER ACCESS PROGRAMS (GROSSL, VANESSA; Grossberg, Daniel) AN ACT relating to diaper access programs.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 200 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Diaper Access Board and its functions related to the development of a state plan for the distribution of funds from the Kentucky diaper access trust fund; establish the Kentucky diaper access trust fund and the purposes for which funds are disbursed to diaper access programs in the Commonwealth. |
| | Current Status: | 1/16/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Families & Children (H)
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| HB303 | TRANSPORTATION CABINET APPROPRIATIONS (STEVENSON, PAMELA; Burke, Lindsey; Aull, Chad; Bojanowski, Tina; Camuel, Adrielle; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Donworth, Anne; Gentry, Alan; Hancock, Erika; Lehman, Matthew; Marzian, Mary Lou; Moore, Adam; Roarx, Rachel; Stalker, Sarah; Watkins, Joshua; Willner, Lisa) AN ACT relating to appropriations providing financing and conditions for the operations, maintenance, support, and functioning of the Transportation Cabinet of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
The Governor's recommended Transportation Cabinet Budget: Detail Part I, Operating Budget; detail Part II, Capital Projects Budget; detail Part III, Funds Transfer; detail Part IV, Transportation Cabinet Budget Summary; APPROPRIATION. |
| | Current Status: | 1/16/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB304 | APPROPRIATIONS MEASURES (STEVENSON, PAMELA; Burke, Lindsey; Aull, Chad; Bojanowski, Tina; Camuel, Adrielle; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Donworth, Anne; Gentry, Alan; Hancock, Erika; Lehman, Matthew; Marzian, Mary Lou; Moore, Adam; Roarx, Rachel; Stalker, Sarah; Watkins, Joshua; Willner, Lisa) AN ACT relating to appropriations measures providing funding and establishing conditions for the operations, maintenance, support, and functioning of the government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and its various officers, cabinets, departments, boards, commissions, institutions, subdivisions, agencies, and other state-supported activities.
The Governor's recommended State/Executive Branch Budget: Detail Part I, Operating Budget; detail Part II, Capital Projects Budget; detail Part III, General Provisions; detail Part IV, State Salary/Compensation, Benefit, and Employment Policy; detail Part V, Funds Transfer; detail Part VI, General Fund Budget Reduction Plan; detail Part VII, General Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan; detail Part VIII, Road Fund Budget Reduction Plan; detail Part IX, Road Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan; detail Part X, Phase I Tobacco Settlement; and detail Part XI, Executive Branch Budget Summary; detail Part XII, Appropriations from the Budget Reserve Trust Fund; APPROPRIATION. |
| | Current Status: | 1/16/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB306 | CRIMINAL TRESSPASS (MEREDITH, MICHAEL; Grossl, Vanessa) AN ACT relating to criminal trespass.
Amend KRS 511.010 to define terms; amend KRS 511.070 to expand the elements of criminal trespass in the second degree to include knowingly entering or remaining in a workplace while engaging in disruptive or threatening behavior where notice against trespass is given; establish that a second or subsequent criminal trespass in the second degree offense within 3 years is a Class A misdemeanor; amend KRS 511.080 to establish that a second or subsequent criminal trespass in the third degree offense within 3 years is a Class B misdemeanor. |
| | Current Status: | 1/28/2026 - received in Senate
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| HB307 | POSTSECONDARY ADMISSION (TIPTON, JAMES; AN ACT relating to proactive postsecondary admission.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; establish a proactive postsecondary admissions program to be managed by the Council on Postsecondary Education; require each public postsecondary education institution in Kentucky to establish the minimum academic qualification for prospective admission to the institution and implement the common online application approved by the council by July 1, 2027; require the Kentucky Department of Education and each certified nonpublic school to submit a compiled list with designated information of all high school students who most recently completed their junior year to the council and the Kentucky Center for Statistics on or before September 1 of each year; require the KHEAA to submit the KEES award amounts of public and certified nonpublic high school students to the council on or before September 1 of each year; direct the council to send a personalized prospective admissions letter notifying each eligible high school student of each public postsecondary education institution in Kentucky where the recipient qualifies for prospective admissions, provides instructions for the recipient to apply for full admission, and of the student's KEES scholarship amount; provide that the personalized letter shall not constitute a guarantee of admission; retain the right for public postsecondary education institutions to perform a comprehensive reviews of all admissions applications internally; create a new section of KRS Chapter 151 to direct the Kentucky Center for Statistics to collaborate with the Kentucky Department of Education and the Council on Postsecondary Education to publish annual data on academic and workforce outcomes; amend KRS 164.020 to direct the Council on Postsecondary Education to establish a common online application and maintain a website for students to apply to Kentucky public postsecondary institutions through the common online application. HCS(2) Retain original provisions except remove the requirement for certified nonpublic schools to participate in the proactive postsecondary admissions program; remove the Council on Postsecondary Education's management of the proactive postsecondary admissions program; direct each public school district to annually invite each enrolled student to participate in the proactive postsecondary admissions program and notify the Kentucky Department of Education of students that opt in to notifications about the program by July 1 each year; direct the department to provide public postsecondary education institutions designated information for all students and additional information for students that opt in; transfer the responsibility for sending personalized prospective admissions letters from the council to each public institution; remove the requirement that the letter include an estimated KEES amount and replace that requirement with instructions on how to access state and federal grant opportunities; require that the letter include information on the cost of attendance and notice of institutional aid opportunities; direct the council to collaborate with public institutions to promote and report annually on the program; direct the department to collaborate with local school districts to maximize student participation in the program and to report annually on designated information related to those efforts; designate certain information that the department shall report to the Kentucky Center for Statistics; restrict the Kentucky Center for Statistics from reporting personally identifiable information; direct that each public postsecondary education institution shall provide the institution's program application form to the council by November 1, 2027; require the council to review each form and offer suggestions; require the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to begin in 2027 including a link, address, or QR code provided by the council for the common online application in the KEES eligibility notifications sent to students; direct the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to consult with the department to evaluate sending KEES eligibility notifications electronically; provide that the Act may be cited as the My Kentucky Future Act. HFA(2) Retain original provisions; add grade level to the directory student information reported to public postsecondary education institutions; direct the department to provide designated information directly to public postsecondary education institutions for students who opt in to the proactive postsecondary admissions program; remove the restriction against the department imposing additional reporting requirements to authorize the collection of information specific to the proactive postsecondary admissions program. |
| | Current Status: | 4/7/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 35)
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| HB310 | POSTSECONDARY FUNDING (WHITE, RICHARD; AN ACT relating to postsecondary funding.
Amend KRS 164.092 to remove the definition of "equilibrium" and all references to equilibrium; require that university resources shall be allocated without weighting; require the postsecondary working group to meet every odd year; make technical amendments. |
| | Current Status: | 2/26/2026 - (H) WITHDRAWN
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| HB311 | RAILROAD CROSSINGS (CALLOWAY, JOSH; Tate, Nancy; Baker, Shane; Bojanowski, Tina; Bratcher, Steve; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Decker, Jennifer; Doan, Steven; Donworth, Anne; Dossett, Myron; Duvall, Robert; Fister, Daniel; Fugate, Chris; Griffee, Peyton; Grossberg, Daniel; Hale, David; Hampton, Tony; Hart, Mark; Holloway, Kim; Jackson, Kevin; Massaroni, Candy; Moore, Adam; Riley, Steve; Roarx, Rachel; Roberts, T.J.; Sharp, Scott; Stalker, Sarah; Stevenson, Pamela; Watkins, Joshua; Williams, Wade; Willner, Lisa) AN ACT relating to railroad crossings.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 277 to require each railroad company to destroy or remove obstructive vegetation at intersections with public roads or highways; direct the Transportation Cabinet or local government to remove obstructive vegetation if the railroad company fails to do so after receiving written notice from the cabinet or local government; establish procedures for reimbursement by the railroad company for the vegetation removal. HCS(1) Retain original provisions, except change the distance of required vegetation removal from 600 feet to 250 feet in each direction upon a right-of-way at each public rail-highway grade crossing that is more than 30 inches and less than 20 feet above the height of the crossing, within 20 feet of the nearest rail, and within 200 feet of the centerline of the roadway; provide that a railroad company shall not be authorized or required to enter private property to remove obstructive vegetation; allow a railroad company to petition the Transportation Cabinet to waive or modify obstructive vegetation removal requirements when the terrain or other conditions make removed impossible, impractical, or unnecessary by written notice and allow the cabinet to deny or modify the written notice within 60 days; if a railroad fails to remove obstructive vegetation and receives written notice that vegetation must be removed within 30 days; provide that the cabinet or local government shall coordinate a mutually agreeable time to access the railroad right-of-way to remove obstructive vegetation pursuant to the railroad's safety processes and that a railroad company shall be and remain in compliance with obstructive vegetation removal by January 1, 2029. |
| | Current Status: | 4/23/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| HB317 | CREATE SECTION OF CONSTITUTION RELATING TO PROPERTY EXEMPT FROM TAXATION (GROSSBERG, DANIEL; AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to property exempt from taxation.
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to exempt homeowners who are 65 years of age or older from any increase in the valuation of their permanent residence that is assessed after the later of the year the homeowner turned 65 or the year the homeowner acquired the property; require the exemption to be in addition to the exemption provided in Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky; apply the exemption only to increases occurring until the assessed value of the property is $500,000; prohibit exempting increases occurring after the real property is assessed above $500,000; require the $500,000 to be indexed every two years; require any portion of the assessed value previously exempted under this section to retain its exempt status as long as the real property continues to be maintained as the permanent residence of the owner who is 65 years of age or older; require the exemption to be notwithstanding Sections 171, 172, and 174 of the Constitution of Kentucky; apply the exemption to increases in valuation that occur after the date the amendment is ratified by the voters; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection. |
| | Current Status: | 1/20/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
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| HB319 | LANDOWNERS AND TENANTS (GROSSBERG, DANIEL; AN ACT relating to landlords and tenants.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 383 to establish a civil cause of action for a tenant against a landlord who receives a citation for a violation of a local housing code and does not remedy the violation within 90 days; provide that if the cost of the repair exceeds 12 months' rent, the landlord may refund rent and obtain possession of the property within 30 days; establish procedure for determining cost of repair; specify recoverable damages; establish procedure for maintaining a forcible detainer action during the pendency of the tenant's civil action; require rent due during pendency of civil action to be paid into court; declare a waiver of rights to be unenforceable; provide that the Act may be cited as the Make Our Landlords Diligent (M.O.L.D) Act. |
| | Current Status: | 1/20/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
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| HB320 | COMBATING HUMAN TRAFFICKING (NEMES, JASON; Aull, Chad; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Elliott, Daniel; Fleming, Ken; Grossberg, Daniel; Moser, Kimberly Poore) AN ACT relating to combating human trafficking.
Amend KRS 529.110 to enhance the penalty for promoting human trafficking to a Class B felony unless the victim is a minor, in which case it is a Class A felony. |
| | Current Status: | 1/29/2026 - received in Senate
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| HB325 | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT INCENTIVES (LEHMAN, MATTHEW; AN ACT relating to economic development incentives.
Amend KRS 141.396, relating to the angel investor tax credit, to remove language relating to employee demographics for qualified small businesses from information required; amend KRS 154.20-234, relating to the Angel Investor Program, to remove language relating to employee demographics for qualified small businesses from information required; amend KRS 154.20-240 and 154.20-254 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 1/20/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Small Business & Information Technology (H)
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| HB326 | RESIDENTIAL SAFETY (WATKINS, JOSHUA; Meredith, Michael; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Freeland, Chris) AN ACT relating to residential safety.
Create a new section of KRS 227.200 to 227.400 to require an owner, seller, or lessor to have functional smoke detectors in all existing single-family and multifamily residential units; require a seller or lessor to verify compliance in an affidavit prior to transfer or tenancy of property; direct that seller or landlord may be subject to a civil penalty for violation; exempt real estate licensees from liability. |
| | Current Status: | 1/20/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H)
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| HB330 | JURISDICTION OF CONTRACTOR DISPUTES (GROSSBERG, DANIEL; AN ACT relating to jurisdiction of contractor disputes involving real property.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish exclusive jurisdiction for contractor dispute actions involving real property located in this state. |
| | Current Status: | 1/20/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
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| HB336 | MINIMUM WAGES (AULL, CHAD; Donworth, Anne) AN ACT relating to the establishment of minimum wages by local governments.
Amend KRS 65.016 and 337.275 to allow a local government to adopt and enforce an ordinance that requires a minimum wage at a rate higher than that found in KRS 337.275 for employers located within that government's jurisdiction. |
| | Current Status: | 1/21/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Local Government (H)
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| HB341 | LABOR STANDARDS (WILLNER, LISA; AN ACT relating to labor standards.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require every employer to establish a workplace policy that provides employees the right to disconnect from communications from the employer during nonworking hours; provide exceptions; amend KRS 337.990 to provide a penalty for violation of the lunch period requirements in KRS 337.355 and for violation by an employer of a right to disconnect workplace policy. |
| | Current Status: | 1/21/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
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| HB342 | EMPLOYMENT ADVERTISING (WILLNER, LISA; Kulkarni, Nima) AN ACT relating to employment advertising.
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. |
| | Current Status: | 1/21/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
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| HB346 | EMPLOYMENT (CAMUEL, ADRIELLE; AN ACT relating to employment.
Amend KRS 336.130 to delete references restricting rights of public employees to organize, associate collectively, or strike; amend KRS 336.180 to redefine "labor organization" and delete definitions of "candidate," "committee," "contributing organization," "contribution," "election," "electioneering communications," "employer," "fundraiser," "independent expenditure," "political activities," "public employee," "slate of candidates," and "testimonial affair"; amend KRS 336.990 to conform; amend KRS 67A.6904 to allow urban-county governments to make an agreement with a labor organization to require membership in the organization as a condition of employment; amend KRS 67C.406 to allow consolidated local governments to make an agreement with a labor organization to require membership in the organization as a condition of employment; amend KRS 70.262, 78.470, and 78.480 to remove exceptions; amend KRS 345.050 to allow public employers to make an agreement with a labor organization to require membership in the organization as a condition of employment; amend KRS 336.1341 and 336.135 to conform; repeal KRS 65.016, 336.132, and 336.134. |
| | Current Status: | 1/21/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Local Government (H)
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| HB349 | WAGES (STEVENSON, PAMELA; Chester-Burton, Beverly) AN ACT relating to wages.
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. |
| | Current Status: | 1/21/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
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| HB351 | MILITARY EDUCATION BENEFITS (STEVENSON, PAMELA; Moore, Adam; Chester-Burton, Beverly) AN ACT relating to military-connected educational benefits.
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. |
| | Current Status: | 1/21/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (H)
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| HB358 | PARAMEDIC EDUCATION (TACKETT LAFERTY, ASHLEY; Fugate, Chris; Truett, Timmy) AN ACT relating to paramedic education.
Create a new section of KRS 164.740 to 164.7891 to establish a coal county paramedic scholarship to be administered by the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority (KHEAA); define terms; establish a fund in the State Treasury to be administered by KHEAA for providing coal county paramedic scholarships. |
| | Current Status: | 1/21/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Postsecondary Education (H)
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| HB359 | HUMAN DEVELOPMENT INSTRUCTION (TATE, NANCY; Baker, Shane; Banta, Kim; Callaway, Emily; Calloway, Josh; Decker, Jennifer; Doan, Steven; Dotson, Ryan; Fister, Daniel; Freeland, Chris; Fugate, Chris; Gordon, Deanna; Griffee, Peyton; Hale, David; Hodgson, John; Holloway, Kim; Huff, Thomas; Imes, Mary Beth; Johnson, DJ; King, Kim; Maddox, Savannah; Massaroni, Candy; McCool, Bobby; Moser, Kimberly Poore; Nemes, Jason; Proctor, Marianne; Rabourn, Felicia; Roberts, T.J.; Thomas, Walker; Thompson, Aaron; Tipton, James; Wesley, Bill; White, Richard) AN ACT relating to human growth and development instruction.
Amend KRS 158.1415 to require a school district to adopt health curricula that includes human growth and development instruction that meets specific criteria; set restrictions for the instruction that grants parents an opportunity to review materials and opt their child out of instruction. |
| | Current Status: | 1/21/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB367 | INVESTOR-OWNED ELECTRIC UTILITIES (MCCOOL, BOBBY; Whitaker, Mitch; Bratcher, Steve) AN ACT relating to investor-owned electric utilities.
Amend KRS 278.160 to prohibit the collection of charges and fees for other governmental units by an investor-owned electric utility; prohibit the collection of certain surcharges and amounts that are not directly and exclusively related to the provision of electric service; require investor owned utilities to file new tariffs 90 days after December 30, 2026; EFFECTIVE December 30, 2026. |
| | Current Status: | 1/22/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Natural Resources & Energy (H)
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| HB370 | TRANSPORTATION (SMITH, TOM; White, Richard) AN ACT relating to transportation and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 138.220 to set a single excise tax on gasoline and special fuels; set initial base rate at 29.6 cents per gallon (cpg); subject tax to annual adjustment; eliminate references to taxation on the average wholesale price of gasoline and the supplemental tax on gasoline and special fuels; require annual notification to motor fuel dealers of the adjusted rate of the excise tax on gasoline and special fuels for each upcoming fiscal year; amend KRS 138.660 to set the initial base rate for the heavy equipment motor carrier surtax for gasoline at 2.2 cpg for fiscal year 26-27 and 4.3 cpg for fiscal year 27-28 and set the rate for special fuels at 3.6 cpg for fiscal year 26-27 and 7.2 cpg for fiscal 27-28; subject the surtax to annual adjustment; create a new section of KRS Chapter 138 to define "taxes"; provide a mechanism for annual adjustment of the excise tax on gasoline and special fuels and the heavy equipment motor carrier surtax based on changes in the National Highway Construction Cost Index 2.0; allow these taxes to increase or decrease no more than 5% from one year to the next, subject to the statutory minimums; amend KRS 186.018 to increase the fee for a driving history record from $3 to $6; amend KRS 186.020 to eliminate the requirement to present a vehicle's registration receipt when renewing the vehicle registration and allow mail or online registration renewal with no additional fee; amend KRS 186.040 to eliminate the $30 county clerk fee for motor carrier registrations on vehicles in excess of 44,000 pounds; increase the county clerk fee for motor vehicle registrations from $6 to $8; amend KRS 186.050 to increase to state fee for motor vehicle registrations from $11.50 to $22; increase other state registration fees; provide for a $10 late charge for vehicle registrations not renewed within 30 days of expiration; make technical correction; amend KRS 186.162, 186.180, and 186.240 to conform; amend 186.531 to set the reinstatement fee for a suspended operator's license at $100 and provide for distribution of funds; amend KRS 281A.150 to increase reinstatement fees for suspended CDLs from $50 to $100; amend KRS 186A.130 and 186A.245 to set the fee for an initial title at $25, the fee for a duplicate or replacement title at $10, and the fee for a speed title at $40, and adjust the distribution of fees between the Transportation Cabinet and the county clerk; amend KRS 189.574 to increase to fee for state traffic school from $15 to $50; create a new section of KRS Chapter 174 to create the multimodal transportation fund, specify allowable uses for moneys in the fund; amend KRS 177.320 and 177.365, regarding allocation of a portion of fuel tax revenue to county road aid funds and municipal road aid funds; change the revenue-sharing formula on the portion of fuel tax revenue available for revenue sharing which exceeds $825 million in any year from 18.3% to counties and 7.7% to cities to 13% for each fund; amend KRS 176.080 to establish limitations and awarding of single bid construction contracts the exceed, engineer's estimates, require reporting of such contracts; amend KRS 176.210 to prohibit the Department of Highways from revealing the identities of eligible bidders on a project until the project bid letting; amend KRS 138.210 to delete the definitions for "average wholesale price," "average wholesale floor price," and "quarterly survey value"; amend KRS 138.695, 138.270, 42.409, 234.320, and 234.380, and 186A.035 to conform; repeal KRS 138.228, regarding the calculation of average wholesale price of gasoline, KRS 138.4602, regarding determination of total consideration on vehicles purchased between 2009 and 2014, and KRS 175.505, regarding the debt payment acceleration fund for turnpike authority debt; EFFECTIVE, January 1, 2027; EFFECTIVE, in part, July 1, 2026; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 3/31/2026 - (H) WITHDRAWN
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| HB373 | VICTIMS OF HUMAN TRAFFICKING (AULL, CHAD; AN ACT relating to victims of human trafficking.
Amend KRS 529.160 to allow a person charged with or convicted of certain offenses to petition the court in which the charges were filed to vacate the judgment of conviction, expunge all records of the offense, or both, when the person's participation in the offense is determined to be the result of being a victim of human trafficking; restore voting rights to a person whose felony conviction is vacated; RETROACTIVE. |
| | Current Status: | 1/22/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
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| HB374 | LICENSED PROFESSIONALS (DIETZ, STEPHANIE; AN ACT relating to licensed professionals.
Amend KRS 317.450 and 317A.050 to require that all licensed barbers and Board of Cosmetology licensees receive up to 1 hour of anitdomestic violence training at no cost to the applicant or licensee; require the respective board to make training available online; provide civil and criminal immunity to licensees and employers. |
| | Current Status: | 1/22/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H)
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| HB376 | PUBLIC POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS (BANTA, KIM; Callaway, Emily) AN ACT relating to public postsecondary education institutions.
Amend KRS 164.020 to prohibit the Council on Postsecondary Education from raising tuition for a postsecondary education institution more than 5% a year for Kentucky resident students and 7% a year for non-Kentucky resident students; provide a 4-year tuition freeze for an enrolled Kentucky resident student; require an institution to notify a student before expiration of a tuition freeze; require any increase in tuition or fees to be approved before March 1; provide that the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Student Tuition Protection and Accountability Act; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2029. |
| | Current Status: | 1/22/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB378 | METERING OF ELECTRIC SERVICE (MASSARONI, CANDY; Banta, Kim) AN ACT relating to the metering of electric service.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to allow a customer of an electric retail electric supplier to opt out of having a smart meter installed if the customer owns the premises where the meter will be installed; require the retail electric supplier to give the customer 30 days' notice and give the customer 30 days to respond; prohibit the retail electric supplier for charging the customer for the installation of the meter or imposing a surcharge or fee for opting out of having the smart meter installed. |
| | Current Status: | 1/22/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Natural Resources & Energy (H)
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| HB379 | POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION (BAKER, SHANE; Tipton, James) AN ACT relating to postsecondary education.
Amend KRS 164.001 to remove the definition of "committee," "P-16 council," and "remedial education" amend KRS 164.013 to conform; amend KRS 164.0211 to attach the Board of Student Body Presidents to the Council on Postsecondary Education for administration and organization purposes; create a new section of KRS 164 to codify the existing Commonwealth Education Continuum, establish governance and membership of the continuum; establish the duties of the continuum; provide that the administrative and support staff of the continuum shall be provided by the council; direct the continuum to submit an annual report and establish the contents of the report; amend KRS 164.330 to remove requirement for board of regents meetings to be held within 30 days of an appointment; amend various KRS sections to conform; repeal KRS 164.003, 164.004, 164.0285, 164.0286, 164.0287, 164.0268, 164.033. HCS(1) Retain provisions, except remove KRS 164.0211 and changes to the Board of Student Body Presidents; remove the creation of the Commonwealth Education Continuum; amend KRS 164.321 to provide that governing board members' attendance at mandatory orientation or training does not constitute a meeting under the Open Meetings Act; amend KRS 164.7919 to provide that the Department of Revenue shall not return enrollment-related debt or liquidated debt to a public postsecondary education institution unless certain requirements are met; provide that the Department of Revenue shall retain statutory collection fees but the remainder shall go to the institution; amend KRS 45.241 to define "enrollment-related debt"; authorize the Department of Revenue to collect enrollment-related debts and liquidated debts pursuant to a memorandum of agreement with a public postsecondary education institution; limit the authority of the Department of Revenue to refuse to collect enrollment-related debts and liquidated debts referred by a public postsecondary education institution; amend KRS 131.130 to require the Department of Revenue and each public postsecondary education institutions to enter into an annual memorandum of agreement for the collection of enrollment-related debts and liquidated debts and allow a contract for collection of unliquidated debts; amend KRS 164.525 to require that the Center for Mathematics be administered by Northern Kentucky University and require an annual report to designated entities; amend KRS 164.230, 164.360, and 164.830 to provide that preliminary discussions by a postsecondary governing board relating to productivity and performance evaluations of presidents may occur in closed session and that the summative evaluation report shall be presented in an open meeting; amend KRS 164.131 to provide that University of Kentucky Board of Trustees' attendance at an orientation and education program is not a meeting under the Open Meetings Act. |
| | Current Status: | 4/14/2026 - delivered to Secretary of State
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| HB383 | CHILDREN OF MILLITARY FAMILIES (GROSSL, VANESSA; AN ACT relating to children of military families.
Amend KRS 159.075 to require a school district to take the necessary steps to ensure that a child of a military family who has an individualized education program or section 504 plan shall recieve comparable services when the child begins school; amend KRS 200.664 to require a point of entry to take the necessary steps to ensure that a child with an individualized family services plan shall recieve comparable services prior to the child's arrival to their new location. |
| | Current Status: | 2/26/2026 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules
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| HB389 | READING AND WRITING IN SCHOOLS (HEAVRIN, SAMARA; Bojanowski, Tina; Aull, Chad; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Donworth, Anne; Duvall, Robert; Gentry, Alan; Grossberg, Daniel; Jackson, Kevin; Lewis, Chris; Lewis, Scott ; Lewis, Derek; McPherson, Shawn; Riley, Steve; Stalker, Sarah; Stevenson, Pamela; Tipton, James; Truett, Timmy) AN ACT relating to reading and writing in schools.
Amend KRS 158.307 to define "dysgraphia"; require the department to annually update the dyslexia toolkit; require the toolkit to include guidance on dysgraphia and strategies and other resources to be used for students displaying dyslexia and dysgraphia; require universal screeners and diagnostic tools be approved by the department; require each district to use evidence-based instructional strategies to provide intervention services; require school districts to report data to the department; amend KRS 164.304 to require postsecondary institutions offering teacher preparation programs include instruction on the application and implementation of a multitiered system of supports by the 2027-2028 school year. HCS (1) Retain original provisions; provide that evidence-based strategies that have been proven effective by the department shall be used in intervention services; make technical changes. |
| | Current Status: | 3/18/2026 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education (S)
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| HB390 | EDUCATION (RABOURN, FELICIA; AN ACT relating to education.
Amend KRS 161.030 to specify the Education Professional Standards Board has authority only over educators hired by public schools; amend KRS 199.894 to define "learning pod" and exclude learning pods from the definition of "child-care center" and "family child-care home"; amend KRS 194A.381 to exclude learning pods from certain youth camp requirements. |
| | Current Status: | 1/23/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB391 | ELEMENTARY LITERACY (STEVENSON, PAMELA; Chester-Burton, Beverly) AN ACT relating to elementary literacy and making an appropriation therefor.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 171 to establish the Kids Love to Read Program; specify the program is for children in kindergarten through grade five; require books to be sent to children's homes; require the Department for Libraries and Archives to promulgate administrative regulations necessary to administer the program; appropriate $500,000 in fiscal year 2027-2028 to support the program; APPROPRIATION. |
| | Current Status: | 1/23/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB392 | PUBLIC AGENCY TRANSACTIONS (MEREDITH, MICHAEL; AN ACT relating to local public agency transactions.
Amend KRS 45A.345, relating to local procurement, to define "best value" and redefine "evaluated bid price" as "economic efficiency"; amend KRS 45A.365 to require invitations for bids to state that awards be made on the best value rather than the lowest evaluated bid price; delete requirement for the inclusion of a reciprocal preference for resident bidders; require awards to the best value bid rather than the bid that is lowest evaluated bid price remove reference to reciprocal preference; amend KRS 45A.370 to allow purchases through competitive negotiation using the best value bid rather than the lowest evaluated bid; remove references to reciprocal preference; amend KRS 45A.375, relating to competitive negotiation to allow awards to be made upon the best value rather than lowest evaluated bid, and remove reference to reciprocal preference; amend KRS 45A.385, relating to small purchase procedures, to increase the small purchase maximum amount to $60,000 from $40,000; index the maximum amount by $10,000 every 5 years beginning in 2030; require the Finance and Administration Cabinet to publicize the current amount; amend KRS 45A.420, relating to cooperative purchasing, to allow local public agencies to make agreements using an established discount, quote, formula, or other pricing method as established by the Commonwealth when an agreement does not establish a fixed unit price; amend KRS 82.083, relating to the disposition of property owned by a city, to amend the definition of "independent appraisal" as it relates to personal property for which there is no applicable nationally published valuation standard, to include a generally accepted method to determine a good-faith estimate; amend KRS 82.084 to add law enforcement vehicles and equipment to the exclusions from KRS 45A.345 to 45A.460 and 424.260; amend KRS 424.260 to increase the limit for making advertisements for purchases to $60,000 from $40,000; index the small purchase maximum amount by $10,000 every 5 years beginning in 2030; amend KRS 157.420 and 157.440 to conform; repeal KRS 65.027, relating to reciprocal preference to resident bidders. HCS(1) Retain original provisions of draft, except delete KRS 45A.345 and 45A.365 containing the definition of "best value" and conforming language related thereto and remove references to "best value" throughout the bill; delete the repeal of KRS 65.027 and restore references to reciprocal preference throughout bill; reduce the adjusted maximum small purchase amount from $60,000 to $50,000; delete other sections to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 4/7/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 39)
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| HB394 | PROHIBITED USES OF TAX DOLLARS (RABOURN, FELICIA; Roberts, T.J.; Baker, Shane; Calloway, Josh; Doan, Steven; Grossl, Vanessa; Hart, Mark; Holloway, Kim; Huff, Thomas; Maddox, Savannah; Massaroni, Candy; Proctor, Marianne) AN ACT relating to prohibited uses of tax dollars.
Amend KRS 65.013 to create a cause of action for violations of the use of tax dollars to advocate for or against public questions on the ballot or to lobby or participate in executive agency lobbying; establish time limitation to commence suit and appropriate venue; provide damages recoverable per violation; allow for a class action; prohibit persons held civilly liable from holding a position of public trust or profit for 10 years; create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to establish a criminal penalty and a prohibition against holding a position of public trust or profit for 10 years for individuals found guilty of a violation. |
| | Current Status: | 1/23/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
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| HB395 | CURRICULUM (AULL, CHAD; AN ACT relating to curriculum.
Amend KRS 156.160 to require public middle and high school curriculum to include instruction on the history of racism. |
| | Current Status: | 1/23/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB404 | EMPLOYMENT (GENTRY, ALAN; Grossberg, Daniel; Roarx, Rachel) AN ACT relating to employment.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to prohibit all employers of 75 or more employees from demoting, dismissing, disciplining, or discriminating against an employee who misses work because of duties related to being a candidate, member-elect, or member of the General Assembly or legislative body of certain local governments; require an employer to grant a leave of absence if the employee requests it, not to exceed 3 terms for a member of the House of Representatives, or 2 terms for a member of the Senate or a member of a specified legislative body of a local government; amend KRS 336.990 to provide a penalty for employers who violate Section 1 of the Act. |
| | Current Status: | 1/23/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
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| HB406 | SUPPLEMENTAL PENSION PAYMENT (TIPTON, JAMES; Blanton, John; Bivens, Ryan; Callaway, Emily; Calloway, Josh; Clines, Mike; Decker, Jennifer; Donworth, Anne; Duvall, Robert; Fister, Daniel; Flannery, Patrick; Freeland, Chris; Fugate, Chris; Gentry, Alan; Gordon, Deanna; Grossberg, Daniel; Hale, David; Hampton, Tony; Hancock, Erika; Holloway, Kim; Huff, Thomas; Imes, Mary Beth; Jackson, Kevin; Kulkarni, Nima; Lawrence, William; Lehman, Matthew; Lewis, Chris; Lewis, Derek; Lewis, Scott ; Lockett, Matt; Maddox, Savannah; Marzian, Mary Lou; Massaroni, Candy; McCool, Bobby; McPherson, Shawn; Moore, Adam; Pollock, Michael Sarge; Riley, Steve; Roarx, Rachel; Smith, Tom; Stalker, Sarah; Tate, Nancy; Thompson, Aaron; Truett, Timmy; Wesley, Bill; White, Richard; Williams, Wade; Wilson, Nick) AN ACT relating to a supplemental payment for recipients of a monthly retirement allowance from the systems administered by the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Appropriate $96 million from the Kentucky Permanent Pension Fund in fiscal year 2026-2027 to the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority to fund 1-time supplemental payments on July 1, 2026, to recipients of a retirement allowance who have been retired for at least 12 months from the Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS) and the State Police Retirement System (SPRS); allow the Board of Trustees of the County Employees Retirement System to, by board decision, provide a one-time supplemental payment to recipients of a retirement allowance who have been retired at least 12 months by increasing employer contribution rates over a one-year or two-year period; specify that the 1-time supplemental payment shall be equal to the monthly payment received by the recipient in the month of June 2026; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 1/23/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB415 | EDUCATORS (CLINES, MIKE; AN ACT relating to educators.
Amend KRS 161.120 to modify disclosure requirements for certain complaints; remove requirement for a conference between the staff of the Education Professional Standards Board (EPSB) and a certificate holder after a determination of sufficient evidence; restructure provisions concerning written admonishments by EPSB and referrals to hearings; provide a timeline for EPSB hearings; modify the right of a certificate holder to request an expedited hearing; require the hearing to be conducted before a hearing officer who is a licensed attorney secured from the Office of the Attorney General; change the timeline for a superintendent's duty to report; amend KRS 160.380 to allow a superintendent to contact a prior employers and the EPSB concerning an applicant for a certified position; establish information that shall be provided to a requesting superintendent; provide record retention requirements; grant liability protections for qualifying disclosures. HCS(1) Retain original provisions and establish a transition process for the hearing officer to be selected from the Office of the Attorney General; include knowledge of a report being filed pursuant to KRS 620.030 on a certificate holder in the duty for superintendents to report to the Education Professional Standards Board; require that board to provide notice to a superintendent when the board has determined that credible evidence warrants further investigation of a certificate holder employed by the district; establish requirement for the notice; amend KRS 156.095 to require Kentucky Department of Education to develop training for school district employees about appropriate relationships and communication with students and establish district employee training requirements; replace file transfers with authorization for a superintendent to submit an open records request to an applicant's previous school district employers and to the board for records concerning disciplinary actions or professional misconduct; require district employees to notify the superintendent within 10 business days of being charged with a felony; amend KRS 156.492 and 160.380 to make conforming changes. |
| | Current Status: | 2/26/2026 - received in Senate
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| HB416 | EDUCATORS (CLINES, MIKE; Grossberg, Daniel; Lawrence, William) AN ACT relating to educators.
Amend KRS 161.028 to preclude the Education Professional Standards Board from requiring a minimum score on any assessment; require applicants to submit proof of completion of a formative basic skills assessment at the time of application; require applicants to submit results of a formative basic skills assessment prior to their first day of attendance; require the postsecondary institution provide supports for candidates aligned with their formative assessment performance; amend KRS 161.030 to require the Education Professional Standards Board to narrowly tailor content assessments to the area in which an applicant is seeking certification. HFA (1) Retain original provisions, except amend KRS 161.028 to remove requirement for all students to submit formative assessment results and permit a passing score of a college admissions examination as an alternative pathway for application; amend KRS 161.030 to specify the assessments required by the Education Professional Standards Board for certification shall include a narrowly tailored content assessment and a teaching pedagogy assessment. |
| | Current Status: | 1/30/2026 - received in Senate
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| HB421 | INTERSCHOLASTIC EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES (DOTSON, RYAN; Rabourn, Felicia; Callaway, Emily; Calloway, Josh; Doan, Steven; Grossberg, Daniel; Hodgson, John; Maddox, Savannah; Nemes, Jason; Roberts, T.J.) AN ACT relating to interscholastic extracurricular activities.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to authorize participation in a public school interscholastic extracurricular activity by an at-home private school student; establish criteria for participation; require a parent, guardian, or teacher of an at-home private school student participating in a public school interscholastic activity to verify the student's academic progress; declare a public school student who does not make academic progress at a public school and withdraws and enters an at-home private school program ineligible for participation in an interscholastic activity for the remainder of the school year; provide that the Act may be cited as the Play Fair Kentucky Act. |
| | Current Status: | 1/27/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB424 | SOCIAL WORK (HEAVRIN, SAMARA; Chester-Burton, Beverly) AN ACT relating to social work.
Amend KRS 335.010 to exempt student interns or trainees from social work licensure requirements; direct the Kentucky Board of Social Work to promulgate administrative regulations to define standards for student involvement in clinical social work; amend KRS 335.020 to define terms; amend KRS 335.030, 335.070, 335.080, 335.090, 335.100, 335.150, and 335.158 to establish licensure standards, including use of a multistate license, criminal background checks, and telehealth; amend KRS 335.050 to require that at least 1 licensee member of the board is a teacher actively engaged in social work education; amend KRS 387.610 and 457.090 to conform. HCS(1) Retain original provisions; exempt employees and applicants of child-caring facilities or child-placing agencies from social worker licensure requirements if the facility or agency is contracted with the state for foster care services; exclude the practice of clinical social work by a certified social worker or licensed clinical social worker from the licensure exemption. SCS (1) Retain original provisions, except remove existing criminal background check requirements; create a new section of KRS 335.010 to 335.160 to require a national and state criminal background check for social worker applicants seeking an initial license, reinstatement of a license, or authorization to practice in another state under a compact; prohibit board distribution of the results of a national and state criminal background check except to the requesting applicant or as evidence in a legal proceeding; limit the fee charged by the Department of Kentucky State Police to an amount no greater than the actual cost of processing the request and conducting the background check; require the board to review criminal background checks for every Kentucky licensee seeking to practice in another state before granting the person compact privileges; forbid the board from requiring a criminal background check solely for the purpose of renewing a license; require the board to promulgate implementing administrative regulations. |
| | Current Status: | 4/10/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 77)
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| HB426 | TAX CREDIT FOR RENTERS (STEVENSON, PAMELA; Gentry, Alan; Chester-Burton, Beverly) AN ACT relating to a tax credit for renters.
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, 2027, but before January 1, 2031, in the amount of 25% 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. |
| | Current Status: | 1/27/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB429 | NICOTINE PRODUCTS (DOSSETT, MYRON; Donworth, Anne) AN ACT relating to nicotine products.
Create a new section of KRS 438.305 to 438.350 to require a retailer to verify that a recipient of a shipment or delivery of tobacco products, alternative nicotine products, or vapor products is at least 21 years old; require visual examination or use of age verification technology to verify the recipient's identity at delivery; establish penalties for a retailer or common or private carrier in violation; establish penalties for a consumer who intentionally causes an unlawful delivery; require products to be returned to the retailer if the common or private carrier cannot complete delivery. |
| | Current Status: | 1/28/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H)
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| HB430 | ELECTIONS (AULL, CHAD; AN ACT relating to elections.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 117 to define "large public university campus"; require county boards of elections to conduct election day and no-excuse in-person absentee voting on large public university campuses; provide that this Act shall be known as the Right to Vote at College Campuses Act. |
| | Current Status: | 1/28/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
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| HB435 | INHERITANCE TAX (GROSSL, VANESSA; AN ACT relating to inheritance tax.
Amend KRS 140.070 and 140.080 to include a foster child as a Class A beneficiary and to delete language that only applies to deaths occurring prior to July 1, 1995, or between July 1, 1995, and June 30, 1998; apply to estates of decedents who die on or after August 1, 2026. |
| | Current Status: | 1/28/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB437 | UNEMPLOYMENT BENEFITS (MASSARONI, CANDY; Aull, Chad; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Gentry, Alan; Kulkarni, Nima; Massaroni, Candy) AN ACT relating to unemployment benefits.
Amend KRS 341.350 to eliminate the 1 week waiting period for unemployment benefits; amend KRS 341.090 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 1/28/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
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| HB438 | CIVIC EDUCATION (GROSSL, VANESSA; AN ACT relating to civics education, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 158.196 to require the incorporation of instruction on the Civil Rights movement in the social studies academic standards for elementary through high school; specify minimum requirements; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 1/28/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB445 | RETIREMENT BENEFIT COST OF LIVING INCREASE (HANCOCK, ERIKA; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Lawrence, William) AN ACT relating to a cost-of-living increase to the retirement benefits for retired state employees, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Appropriate $221.4 million, $18.7 million, and $16 million in fiscal year 2026-2027 for the Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS) nonhazardous pension fund, the KERS hazardous pension fund, and the State Police Retirement System pension fund, respectively, to provide a one-time 2% COLA effective July 1, 2026; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 1/29/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government (H)
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| HB449 | MISSCLASSIFICATION OF EMPLOYEES (STALKER, SARAH; AN ACT relating to misclassification of employees.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to provide a remedy for employees misclassified as independent contractors; amend KRS 337.010 to define "independent contractor" and "misclassified"; repeal KRS 336.137, relating to marketplace contractors. |
| | Current Status: | 1/29/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House BR Sub. on Econ. Dev., Public Pro., Tour., and Energy (H)
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| HB450 | UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (STALKER, SARAH; AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance.
Amend KRS 341.350, relating to unemployment insurance benefits, to reduce the required weekly verifiable work search activities from 5 to 3 and the required formal submitting of applications or interviewing for employment from 3 to 1. |
| | Current Status: | 1/29/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House BR Sub. on Econ. Dev., Public Pro., Tour., and Energy (H)
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| HB451 | LIMITED LIABILITY ENTITY TAX (FLANNERY, PATRICK; AN ACT relating to the limited liability entity tax.
Amend KRS 141.0401 to exempt entities doing business in Kentucky with gross receipts of less than $100,000 from paying the limited liability entity tax for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2027. |
| | Current Status: | 1/29/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB452 | TAX ON QUALIFIED TIPS AND OVERTIME (FLANNERY, PATRICK; Gentry, Alan; Gordon, Deanna; Griffee, Peyton; Grossl, Vanessa; Hodgson, John; Huff, Thomas; Roberts, T.J.; Sharp, Scott; Whitaker, Mitch; White, Richard) AN ACT relating to individual income tax and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 141.010 to define "qualified tips" and "qualified overtime compensation"; amend KRS 141.019 to allow the same treatment of qualified tips in accordance with 26 U.S.C. sec. 224 and qualified overtime compensation in accordance with 26 U.S.C. sec. 225; RETROACTIVE; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 1/29/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB454 | ELECTIONS (HODGSON, JOHN; Banta, Kim; King, Kim) AN ACT relating to elections.
Amend KRS 67.060, 83A.040, 160.180, and 262.240, to require candidates for county commissioner, mayor, legislative bodys, local board of education member, and soil and water commissioner at the time of their elections or appointments and for the duration of their term in office to be a citizen of the United States, a citizen of the United States for 18 years immediately preceding election or appointment, citizen or national of only the United States and no other foreign state or country, and a citizen or national of only the United States and no other foreign state or country for 18 years immediately preceding election or appointment in order to hold each respective office. |
| | Current Status: | 1/29/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
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| HB461 | HUMAN SEXUALITY INSTRUCTION IN PUBLIC SCHOOLS (CAMUEL, ADRIELLE; AN ACT relating to human sexuality instruction in public schools.
Amend KRS 158.1415 to exclude puberty instruction from the prohibition of human sexuality instruction for students in the fifth grade and below; make human sexuality instruction opt-out for parents instead of opt-in. |
| | Current Status: | 1/29/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB463 | FISCAL RESPONSIBILITY IN EDUCATION TECHNOLOGY PLANNING (GROSSL, VANESSA; AN ACT relating to fiscal responsibility in education technology planning.
Amend KRS 156.660 to define terms; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to require the Kentucky Department of Education to develop a model education technology fiscal policy; state requirements of policy; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to require local school districts to adopt a model education technology fiscal policy; require local school districts and the Kentucky Department of Education to annually report on technology status for the prior school year; amend KRS 156.670 to move the responsibilities of the Council for Education Technology to the Kentucky Department of Education; amend KRS 156.160, KRS 157.615, 157.660, and 157.655 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 1/29/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB469 | BOARDS OF EDUCATION (BIVENS, RYAN; Hodgson, John; Jackson, Kevin; Truett, Timmy) AN ACT relating to local boards of education.
Amend KRS 160.180 to require that members of a local board of education not be ineligible for employment in the school district pursuant to KRS 160.380(5); create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to require candidates or nominees for membership on a local board to hold a certificate issued by the Kentucky Department of Education certifying that the candidate or nominee is eligible for membership on the board to appear on the ballot, be certified as a write-in candidate, or be appointed; require individuals applying for a certificate to submit to and pay for a national and state criminal background check, submit a CA/N check and provide other supporting documentation to establish eligibility; provide that records collected pursuant to this section shall be used for the sole purpose of determining a candidate's qualification and shall be exempt from KRS 61.870 to 61.884; direct the department to issue a certificate to individuals that apply for a certificate and are eligible for membership on a board of education; amend KRS 160.190 to remove the requirement that evidence of twelfth grade completion be filed with an application for appointment to the membership on a board of education and instead require that appointed members hold a certificate of qualification issued by the department; amend KRS 117.265 to require a certificate of qualification issued by the department to be filed with a declaration of intent to be a write-in candidate; create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to direct the Kentucky Board of Education to adopt a code of ethics for members of boards of education; establish a complaint investigation and resolution process for allegations of violations of the code of ethics; require a determination by the Kentucky Board of Education of clear and convincing evidence that a violation occurred to issue a written public reprimand; require written public reprimands to be entered into the minutes of the next local board of education meeting; direct the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate necessary administrative regulations; provide that existing members shall not be subject to removal on the basis of ineligibility for employment in a school district during their current terms; provide that Sections 1 to 4 of this Act take effect on January 1, 2027. HCS(1) Delete original provisions; amend KRS 160.180 to require that members of a local board of education not be ineligible for employment in the school district pursuant to KRS 160.380(5); create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to require the county clerk to receive from candidates or nominees for membership on a local board a national and state criminal background check, a clear CA/N check, and other supporting documentation to establish eligibility; provide that records collected be used for the sole purpose of determining a candidate's qualification and shall be exempt from the Open Records Act; amend KRS 160.190 to remove the requirement that evidence of twelfth grade completion be filed with an application for appointment to the membership on a board of education and instead require that appointed members meet the qualifications for office; amend KRS 117.265 to require write-in candidate to prove qualification for office; provide that existing members shall not be subject to removal on the basis of ineligibility for employment in a school district during their current terms; provide that Sections 1 to 4 of this Act take effect on January 1, 2027. |
| | Current Status: | 3/5/2026 - received in Senate
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| HB471 | MEDICAID COVERAGE (WILLNER, LISA; Moser, Kimberly Poore) AN ACT relating to Medicaid coverage for doula services.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services and any managed care organization with whom the department contracts for the delivery of Medicaid services to provide coverage for doula services; create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to establish the Doula Advisory Council, council membership, and council duties; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to seek federal approval if they determine that such approval is necessary; provide authorization from the General Assembly to make changes to the Medicaid program as required under KRS 205.5372(1). |
| | Current Status: | 1/30/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health Services (H)
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| HB472 | PUBLIC CONTRACTS (FLANNERY, PATRICK; Bauman, Jared; Blanton, John; Callaway, Emily; Gentry, Alan; Kulkarni, Nima; Nemes, Jason; Roarx, Rachel; Sharp, Scott; Thompson, Aaron; White, Richard; Willner, Lisa) AN ACT relating to public contracts.
Create new sections of KRS Chapters 45A, 56, and 65 to require that state and local contracts contain a provision that any iron, steel, or aluminum used in all state and local projects be manufactured in the United States unless a waiver is granted; amend KRS 45A.343, 45A.352, 65.027, 162.070, 164A.575, 176.070, 176.080, and 424.260 to conform; provide that Section 1 to 3 of the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Buy American Act. |
| | Current Status: | 1/30/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
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| HB488 | MEDICAID HOME AND COMMUNITY BASED WAIVER PROGRAM (GORDON, DEANNA; Tate, Nancy) AN ACT relating to the Medicaid home and community based waiver program.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to define terms; direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to prepare and submit a waiver amendment application to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to amend the 1915(c) HCB waiver program to include coverage for assisted living services; establish coverage limits; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; require the cabinet or the Department for Medicaid Services to seek federal approval if it is determined that such approval is necessary; provide authorization from the General Assembly to make changes in the Medicaid program as required under KRS 205.5372(1). |
| | Current Status: | 3/9/2026 - Statutory Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Board, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing); Time & Location: 11:00 AM, Annex 154
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| HB489 | ELIGIBLE CHILD TAX CREDIT (DOAN, STEVEN; Calloway, Josh; Roberts, T.J.) AN ACT relating to an eligible child tax credit.
Create a new section in KRS Chapter 141 to establish a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for an eligible child; define "eligible child"; allow credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2027, but before January 1, 2031; establish that the credit amount is equal to $4,000 per eligible child, not to exceed $8,000 per return, per taxable year; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the credit. |
| | Current Status: | 2/3/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB490 | EMPLOYMENT AT POSTSECONDARY INSTITUTIONS (THOMPSON, AARON; Tipton, James) AN ACT relating to employment at public postsecondary education institutions and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 164.360, 164.230, and 164.830 to allow for the removal of faculty members at public postsecondary education institutions for bona fide financial reasons; require the boards of regents and trustees of the institutions to establish the process for removal based on financial reasons with specified parameters; EMERGENCY. HFA (1) Retain original provisions; require establishment of the process for removal and notice to all faculty October 1, 2026, instead of July 1, 2026. |
| | Current Status: | 4/14/2026 - delivered to Secretary of State
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| HB491 | LONG-TERM CARE FACILITIES (JOHNSON, DJ; AN ACT relating to long-term care facilities.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to define terms; permit a resident of a long-term care facility to install an electronic monitoring device; require a resident to give consent to install an electronic monitoring device; establish the actions that a resident and a facility may take if consent is granted or if consent is not granted; require the cabinet to create a form to authorize the installation and use of an electronic monitoring device and set requirements; establish installation, use, and retention requirements for devices and recordings; require a long-term care facility to post a notice that an electronic monitoring device is used in a room; prohibit a resident from being discriminated or retaliated against because of the decision to authorize and use an electronic monitoring device; establish guidelines on who can view or listen to the images displaced by the monitoring device; prohibit unauthorized individuals from destroying the device or recordings; establish limits on liability and liability defenses; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations; exempt specific provisions if a monitoring device is installed by a law enforcement agency; establish penalties. |
| | Current Status: | 2/3/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health Services (H)
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| HB495 | LOCAL OCCUPATIONAL LICENSE FEES (DIETZ, STEPHANIE; Banta, Kim; Roberts, T.J.; White, Richard) AN ACT relating to local occupational license fees.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 91A to define terms; require 100% of the wages of an employee associated with the corporate office to be apportioned to the local government where the corporate office is located; exclude wages for work performed at a satellite office; require 100% of the wages of an employee assigned to a state government office to be apportioned to the local government where the state government office is located; allow a refund claim for occupational license fees paid for work physically performed outside of the local government's jurisdiction; establish requirements for refunds; amend KRS 67.780 to conform; apply the apportionment and refund requirements to incentive agreements entered into or amended on or after the effective date of the Act. |
| | Current Status: | 2/20/2026 - (H) WITHDRAWN
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| HB496 | OUTDOOR NATURE-BASED EARLY LEARNING AND CHILDCARE PROGRAMS (GROSSL, VANESSA; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Grossberg, Daniel) AN ACT relating to outdoor, nature–based early learning and child care programs.
Amend KRS 199.894 to define "outdoor nature-based early learning and child-care program"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to establish the licensure and operations requirements of outdoor nature-based early learning and child-care programs; establish the Outdoor, Nature–Based Early Learning and Child Care Program Advisory Committee; establish the membership and duties of the committee. |
| | Current Status: | 2/4/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Families & Children (H)
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| HB497 | POSTSECONDARY TUITION WAIVERS (TIPTON, JAMES; Branscum, Joshua) AN ACT relating to postsecondary tuition waivers.
Amend KRS 164.515 to make the amount of tuition waived for the spouse or child of designated permanently disabled veterans a last-dollar scholarship that shall not exceed the cost of tuition and mandatory fees less any state or federal grants; amend KRS 164.2841 to make the amount tuition waived for the survivor of police officer, firefighter, or volunteer firefighter killed in line of duty last-dollar scholarship that shall not exceed the cost of tuition and mandatory fees less any state or federal grants; amend KRS 164.2842 to make the amount of tuition waived for the survivor of police officer, firefighter, or volunteer firefighter permanently and totally disabled in line of duty a last-dollar scholarship that shall not exceed the cost of tuition and mandatory fees less any state or federal grants; amend KRS 164.507 to make the amount of tuition waived for the non-married spouse or child of a deceased veteran a last-dollar scholarship that shall not exceed the cost of tuition and mandatory fees less any state or federal grants; amend KRS 164.020 to delete the tuition waiver for employees and faculty of state and locally operated secondary area technology center staff. HCS(1) Retain original provisions, except remove changes to KRS 164.020 that would have eliminated the tuition waiver for employees and faculty of state and locally operated secondary area technology center staff; amend KRS 164.515 to waive up to 128 credit hours of undergraduate instruction for a spouse, child, stepchild, or orphan of a disabled member of the Kentucky National Guard or Reserve Component; include expiration of the benefit for a child, stepchild, or orphan upon expiration of 5 years following high school graduation, with exceptions; amend KRS 164.284 to waive up to 128 credit hours of undergraduate instruction for a Kentuckian 65 years of age or older; require the benefit to be a last-dollar scholarship that shall not exceed the cost of tuition and mandatory fees less any state or federal grants; amend KRS 164.2841 to include a child or nonmarried widow or widower of emergency medical services personnel in the waiver benefit; waive up to 128 credit hours of undergraduate instruction; include expiration of the benefit for a child upon expiration of 5 years following high school graduation, with exceptions; KRS 164.2842 to include a spouse or child of emergency medical services personnel in the waiver benefit; waive up to 128 credit hours of undergraduate instruction; include expiration of the benefit for a child upon expiration of 5 years following high school graduation, with exceptions; amend KRS 164.507 to waive up to 128 credit hours of undergraduate instruction for the nonmarried spouse and child of a deceased verteran; include expiration of the benefit for a child upon expiration of 5 years following high school graduation, with exceptions. HFA(3) Delete all provisions; amend KRS 164.515 to make the amount of tuition waived for the spouse or child of designated permanently disabled veterans a last-dollar scholarship that is prohibited from exceeding the cost of tuition and mandatory fees less any state or federal grants; limit the benefit to 128 hours of undergraduate credit hours; limit the benefit for a student under the age of 26, but extend the age restriction for each month the student served in the United States Armed Forces, as an officer in the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service, the Peace Corps, or AmeriCorps; amend KRS 164.284 to restrict the tuition waiver for persons over 65 to 8 credit hours per semester, require FAFSA completion, and require the amount waived to not exceed the cost of tuition and mandatory fees less any state or federal grants; amend KRS 164.2841 to make the amount of tuition waived for the survivor of a police officer, firefighter, or volunteer firefighter killed in line of duty a last-dollar scholarship that is prohibited from exceeding the cost of tuition and mandatory fees less any state or federal grants; limit the benefit to 128 hours of undergraduate credit hours; limit the benefit for a student under the age of 26, but extend the age restriction for each month the student served in the United States Armed Forces, as an officer in the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service, the Peace Corps, or AmeriCorps; amend KRS 164.2842 to make the amount of tuition waived for the survivor of police officer, firefighter, volunteer firefighter, or emergency medical services personnel permanently and totally disabled in line of duty a last-dollar scholarship that is prohibited from exceeding the cost of tuition and mandatory fees less any state or federal grants; limit the benefit to 128 hours of undergraduate credit hours; limit the benefit for student under the age of 26, but extend the age restriction for each month the student served in the United States Armed Forces, as an officer in the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service, the Peace Corps, or AmeriCorps; amend KRS 164.507 to make the amount of tuition waived for the non-married spouse or child of a deceased veteran a last-dollar scholarship that shall not exceed the cost of tuition and mandatory fees less any state or federal grants; limit the benefit to 128 hours of undergraduate credit hours; limit the benefit for student under the age of 26 but extend the age restriction for each month the student served in the United States Armed Forces, as an officer in the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service, the Peace Corps, or AmeriCorps; amend KRS 164.2847 to require a Kentucky foster or adopted child to complete a FAFSA to benefit from a tuition waiver; limit the benefit to 128 hours of undergraduate credit hours; limit the benefit to students under the age of 26 unless the student served in the United States Armed Forces, as an officer in the Commissioned Corps of the United States Public Health Service. |
| | Current Status: | 2/26/2026 - received in Senate
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| HB498 | ADULT WORKFORCE DIPLOMA PILOT PROGRAM (DUVALL, ROBERT; Bratcher, Steve) AN ACT establishing the Adult Workforce Diploma Pilot Program.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to establish the Adult Workforce Diploma Pilot Program; define terms; establish the Adult Workforce Diploma Pilot Program fund; establish eligibility criteria for the program; direct the Education and Labor Cabinet to administer the program; provide payments to program providers for students who complete specified milestones; require program result reporting to the Kentucky Board of Education, the Secretary of State, and the Legislative Research Commission; specify a program end date of July 1, 2029. |
| | Current Status: | 3/26/2026 - (H) recommitted to committee House Rules (H)
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| HB499 | MOTOR VEHICLE USAGE TAX (GRIFFEE, PEYTON; King, Kim) AN ACT relating to motor vehicle usage tax.
Amend KRS 138.470 to exempt from motor vehicle usage tax any motor vehicle purchased by current members of the Kentucky National Guard or reserve component, motor vehicles brought into the Commonwealth that were sold by a dealer in another state to a member of the Armed Forces on duty in the Commonwealth while that person was on temporary duty in another state, and motor vehicles registered outside the state by a veteran or member of the United States Armed Forces that were purchased while that person was a member of the Armed Forces. |
| | Current Status: | 2/4/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Transportation (H)
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| HB500 | EXECUTIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS (PETRIE, JASON; Banta, Kim; Bowling, Adam; Bray, Josh) AN ACT relating to appropriations measures providing funding and establishing conditions for the operations, maintenance, support, and functioning of the government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and its various officers, cabinets, departments, boards, commissions, institutions, subdivisions, agencies, and other state-supported activities.
The State/Executive Branch Budget: Details Part I, Operating Budget; details Part II, Capital Projects Budget; details Part III, General Provisions; details Part IV, State Salary/Compensation, Benefit, and Employment Policy; details Part V, Funds Transfer; details Part VI, General Fund Budget Reduction Plan; details Part VII, General Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan; details Part VIII, Road Fund Budget Reduction Plan; details Part IX, Road Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan; details Part X, Phase I Tobacco Settlement; and details Part XI, Executive Branch Budget Summary; APPROPRIATION. HCS (1) The State/Executive Branch Budget: Retain, delete, and add to original provisions; details Part I, Operating Budget; details Part II, Capital Projects Budget; details Part III, General Provisions; details Part IV, State Salary/Compensation, Benefit, and Employment Policy; details Part V, Funds Transfer; details Part VI, General Fund Budget Reduction Plan; details Part VII, General Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan; details Part VIII, Road Fund Budget Reduction Plan; details Part IX, Road Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan; details Part X, Phase I Tobacco Settlement; and details Part XI, Executive Branch Budget Summary; APPROPRIATION. SCS (1) The State/Executive Branch Budget: Retain, delete, and add to original provisions; detail Part I, Operating Budget; detail Part II, Capital Projects Budget; detail Part III, General Provisions; detail Part IV, State Salary/Compensation, Benefit, and Employment Policy; detail Part V, Funds Transfer; detail Part VI, General Fund Budget Reduction Plan; detail Part VII, General Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan; detail Part VIII, Road Fund Budget Reduction Plan; detail Part IX, Road Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan; detail Part X, Phase I Tobacco Settlement; and detail Part XI, Executive Branch Budget Summary; APPROPRIATION. FCCR (1) The State/Executive Branch Budget: Retain, delete, and add to original provisions; detail Part I, Operating Budget; detail Part II, Capital Projects Budget; detail Part III, General Provisions; detail Part IV, State Salary/Compensation, Benefit, and Employment Policy; detail Part V, Funds Transfer; detail Part VI, General Fund Budget Reduction Plan; detail Part VII, General Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan; detail Part VIII, Road Fund Budget Reduction Plan; detail Part IX, Road Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan; detail Part X, Phase I Tobacco Settlement; and detail Part XI, Executive Branch Budget Summary; APPROPRIATION. |
| | Current Status: | 4/14/2026 - delivered to Secretary of State
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| HB501 | TRANSPORTATION CABINET APPROPRIATIONS (PETRIE, JASON; Bowling, Adam; Bray, Josh; Upchurch, Ken) AN ACT relating to appropriations providing financing and conditions for the operations, maintenance, support, and functioning of the Transportation Cabinet of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
The Transportation Cabinet Budget: Detail Part I, Operating Budget; detail Part II, Capital Projects Budget; detail Part III, Funds Transfer; detail Part IV, Transportation Cabinet Budget Summary; APPROPRIATION. HCS (1) The Transportation Cabinet Budget: Retain, delete, and add to original provisions; detail Part I, Operating Budget; detail Part II, Capital Projects Budget; detail Part III, Funds Transfer; detail Part IV, Transportation Cabinet Budget Summary; APPROPRIATION. SCS (1) The Transportation Cabinet Budget: Retain, delete, and add to original provisions; detail Part I, Operating Budget; detail Part II, Capital Projects Budget; detail Part III, Funds Transfer; detail Part IV, Transportation Cabinet Budget Summary; APPROPRIATION. |
| | Current Status: | 4/14/2026 - delivered to Secretary of State
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| HB503 | LEGISLATIVE BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS (PETRIE, JASON; Rudy, Steven; Bowling, Adam; Bray, Josh) AN ACT making appropriations for the operations, maintenance, and support of the Legislative Branch of the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
The Legislative Branch Budget: Detail Part I, Operating Budget; detail Part II, General Provisions; detail Part III, Budget Reduction or Surplus Expenditure Plan; APPROPRIATION. HCS(1) The Legislative Branch Budget: Retain, delete, and add to original provisions; detail Part I, Operating Budget; detail Part II, General Provisions; detail Part III, Budget Reduction or Surplus Expenditure Plan; APPROPRIATION. SCS (1) The Legislative Branch Budget: Retain, delete, and add to original provisions; detail Part I, Operating Budget; detail Part II, General Provisions; detail Part III, Budget Reduction or Surplus Expenditure Plan; APPROPRIATION. FCCR (1) The Legislative Branch Budget: Retain, delete, and add to original provisions, detail Part I, Operating Budget; detail Part II, General Provisions; detail Part III, Budget Reduction or Surplus Expenditure Plan; APPROPRIATION. |
| | Current Status: | 4/14/2026 - delivered to Secretary of State
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| HB504 | JUDICIAL BRANCH APPROPRIATIONS (PETRIE, JASON; Bowling, Adam; Bray, Josh) AN ACT making appropriations for the operations, maintenance, support, and functioning of the Judicial Branch of the government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and its various officers, boards, commissions, subdivisions, and other state-supported activities.
The Judicial Branch Budget: Detail Part I, Operating Budget; detail Part II, Capital Projects Budget; detail Part III, General Provisions; detail Part IV, Budget Reduction or Surplus Expenditure Plan; APPROPRIATION. HCS (1) The Judicial Branch Budget: Retain, delete, and add to original provisions; detail Part I, Operating Budget; detail Part II, Capital Projects Budget; detail Part III, General Provisions; detail Part IV, Budget Reduction or Surplus Expenditure Plan; APPROPRIATION. SCS (1) The Judicial Branch Budget: Retain, delete, and add to original provisions; detail Part I, Operating Budget; detail Part II, Capital Projects Budget; detail Part III, General Provisions; detail Part IV, Budget Reduction or Surplus Expenditure Plan; APPROPRIATION. FCCR (1) The Judicial Branch Budget: Retain, delete, and add to original provisions; detail Part I, Operating Budget; detail Part II, Capital Projects Budget; detail Part III, General Provisions; detail Part IV, Budget Reduction or Surplus Expenditure Plan; APPROPRIATION. |
| | Current Status: | 4/14/2026 - delivered to Secretary of State
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| HB508 | PROTECTION OF VERTERANS' BENEFITS (KOCH, MATTHEW; Bratcher, Steve; Fleming, Ken; Freeland, Chris; Grossberg, Daniel; Massaroni, Candy; McCool, Bobby; Miles, Suzanne; Sharp, Scott; Stevenson, Pamela; Thomas, Walker; Wesley, Bill) AN ACT relating to the protection of veterans' benefits.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 40 to limit the compensation for advising or assisting with veterans' benefits; prohibit persons seeking compensation for advising, assisting, or consulting on a veterans' benefits matter from utilizing international call or data centers, directly or aggressively soliciting business, gaining access to personal medical, financial, or benefits log-in or password information, charging interest, and utilizing a doctor with whom they have an employment or business relationship; limit the fee for representation; require any person receiving compensation for assisting on a veterans' benefits matter to report to the Kentucky Department of Veterans' Affairs (KDVA) annually; allow KDVA to promulgate form for the report and display it on their website; establish that violators constitute a violation of the Consumer Protection Act; provide that attorneys and law firms seeking to receive compensation for advising, assisting, or consulting any individual with any veterans' benefits matter shall be governed federal regulations. |
| | Current Status: | 4/14/2026 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Committee on Committees (S)
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| HB509 | CABINET FOR HEATLH AND FAMILY SERVICES (HEAVRIN, SAMARA; AN ACT relating to operations within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.
Amend KRS 199.430 to insert gender-neutral language. |
| | Current Status: | 3/13/2026 - (H) Returned to Committee House Families & Children (H)
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| HB515 | REVENUE (PETRIE, JASON; AN ACT relating to revenue.
Amend KRS 141.068 to make a technical correction. |
| | Current Status: | 3/20/2026 - (H) Returned to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB523 | FAMILIES AND CHILDREN (HEAVRIN, SAMARA; AN ACT relating to families and children.
Amend KRS 200.470 to insert gender-neutral language. |
| | Current Status: | 3/13/2026 - (H) Returned to Committee House Families & Children (H)
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| HB524 | CHILDREN (HEAVRIN, SAMARA; AN ACT relating to children.
Amend KRS 610.050 to insert gender-neutral language. |
| | Current Status: | 2/5/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Families & Children (H)
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| HB526 | MEMBERS OF THE BAR (DOAN, STEVEN; Decker, Jennifer; Griffee, Peyton; Nemes, Jason; Petrie, Jason; Roberts, T.J.; Whitaker, Mitch; Wilson, Nick) AN ACT relating to members of the bar.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 21A to establish parameters for compulsory dues for members of the bar; define who is a member of the bar for purposes of the section; amend KRS 21A.300 and 21A.310 to conform; repeal KRS 21A.160, relating to organization and control of State bar being vested in the Supreme Court. HFA(3) Delete original provisions; declare that the United States and Kentucky Constitutions protect individual freedoms, including the right to refrain from compelled speech or compelled association; state that the General Assembly finds that requiring membership or dues for a professional association as a condition for holding a professional or occupational license compels association and financial support; prohibit a member of the bar from being required to conduct activities with a professional association to practice law; create a new section of KRS Chapter 21A to establish parameters for compulsory dues for members of the bar; define who is a member of the bar for purposes of the section; amend KRS 21A.300 and 21A.310 to conform; repeal KRS 21A.160, relating to organization and control of the State bar being vested in the Supreme Court; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2027. |
| | Current Status: | 2/17/2026 - received in Senate
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| HB533 | ROAD PROJECTS (STEVENSON, PAMELA; AN ACT relating to road projects and declaring an emergency.
Set out the Governor's recommended 2026-2028 Biennial Highway Construction Plan; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 2/9/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB535 | INVESTOR OWNED ELECTRIC UTILITIES (FLANNERY, PATRICK; Lewis, Scott ; Lewis, Derek; Lewis, Chris; Grossl, Vanessa; Hampton, Tony; McCool, Bobby; Sharp, Scott; Truett, Timmy; Wesley, Bill; Whitaker, Mitch; White, Richard) AN ACT relating to investor-owned electric utilities and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 278.670 to define "environmental control" and "underpreciated extra-state generation utility plant balances," amend various definitions, and make technical changes; amend KRS 278.672 to remove the deadline date for calculating the value of the regulatory asset associated with the undepreciated extra-state generation utility plant balances, deferred storm costs, and other regulatory assets approved by the Public Service Commission (PSC) remove the dollar amount thresholds for qualifying for a financing order; remove the submittals associated with securitization of deferred costs for retried electric generation greater than 50%; add additional submittals for an application for a financing order; remove the requirement that the comparison standard must demonstrate that the securitization will provide quantifiable net present value benefits to customer; add requirement for a utility to acquire in-state dispatchable generation and agree to a freeze on base rates for a period of 2 years; define "dispatchable"; amend KRS 278.674 to prohibit the PSC from requiring securitized bonds to be marketed as a specific type of security or that an assignee be formed as a specific type of entity; provide a price cap for costs associated with retaining counsel, advisors, or other consultants; remove PSC authority to address how the securities are marketed; add a template issuance advice letter to be included in the financing order; direct that the PSC must approve sales or transfer of assets including extra-state generation facilities even if the balances are securitized; amend KRS 278.678 to make technical changes; amend KRS 278.682 to remove the requirement that the securitized surcharge be listed as a separate item on the customer bill; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 3/26/2026 - (H) recommitted to committee House Rules (H)
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| HB536 | HOUSING DEVELOPMENT DISTRICTS (BRAY, JOSH; McPherson, Shawn; Bowling, Adam; Petrie, Jason) AN ACT relating to housing development districts.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define terms; permit a local government to establish a housing development district and a Housing Incentive Payment Program; allow a local government to exempt housing developments within a district from planning and zoning following a public hearing; permit other local taxing authorities to participate in a district; allow a local government to accept applications from developers to undertake projects within a district; allow a local government to negotiate with a developer whose application it has accepted regarding rates associated with incentive payments to the developer; establish a means by which a developer shall be paid incentive payments by a local government; require area development districts to provide assistance to a local government in establishing a district; require the Cabinet for Economic Development to promote awareness of the district and incentive program and the Certified Child Care Community Designation program set out in KRS 199.891; require the cabinet to post information including a list of local governments that have established a district and have obtained the certified child care community designation to its website; require local governments that have established a district to provide information to the Department for Local Government regarding the district and utilization of the incentive program; require the Department for Local Government to submit a report to LRC summarizing information received from local governments regarding districts; provide that the Act shall not be construed to prohibit a local government from establishing any other program for housing development. |
| | Current Status: | 2/9/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Local Government (H)
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| HB538 | MEDICAID MANAGED CARE ORGANIZATIONS (MOSER, KIMBERLY POORE; Grossl, Vanessa) AN ACT relating to Medicaid managed care organizations.
Amend KRS 205.533 to require Medicaid managed care organizations to include certain information for providers on their websites; amend KRS 205.534 to require managed care organizations to allow providers 120 days to file an appeal or grievance related to a reduction or denial of a claim; establish penalties for a managed care organization's failure to ensure the timely disposition of any appeal or grievance; require payment of any amount owed to a provider following an appeal to be paid within 30 days; require payments made following an appeal to include interest in accordance with KRS 304.17A-730 and reasonable attorney's fees; establish standards and requirements for provider audits; require the inclusion of additional information in the monthly report filed by managed care organizations; require the Department for Medicaid Services to submit an annual report to the Legislative Research Commission related to Medicaid claims, appeals, and grievances for the previous state fiscal year; authorize the Department for Medicaid Services to promulgate administrative regulations; require Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to seek federal approval if they determine that such approval is necessary. |
| | Current Status: | 2/9/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health Services (H)
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| HB545 | ALTERNATIVE JET FUEL (MEADE, DAVID; Bivens, Ryan; Clines, Mike; Dietz, Stephanie; Dossett, Myron; Fister, Daniel; Freeland, Chris; Gordon, Deanna; Hale, David; Hart, Mark; Holloway, Kim; King, Kim; Neighbors, Amy; Pollock, Michael Sarge; Roberts, T.J.; Thomas, Walker; Tipton, James) AN ACT relating to a tax credit for alternative jet fuel.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a nonrefundable income tax credit for alternative jet fuel producers; require the Department of Revenue, in conjunction with the Department of Agriculture and the Energy and Environment Cabinet, to promulgate administrative regulations; require the department to report on the credit to the Legislative Research Commission; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the credit. |
| | Current Status: | 2/10/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB546 | TAXATION (PETRIE, JASON; AN ACT relating to taxation.
Amend KRS 131.150 to insert gender neutral language. |
| | Current Status: | 3/20/2026 - (H) Returned to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB554 | RETIREE HEALTH PROVISIONS (FUGATE, CHRIS; King, Kim; Truett, Timmy) AN ACT relating to retiree health provisions of the Kentucky Retirement Systems.
Amend KRS 61.702, relating to the Kentucky Employees Retirement System and the State Police Retirement System, to increase the hazardous duty under age 65 retiree health subsidy to $50 per month for each year of service, respectively, for those members who meet the "career threshold" who began participating in the system on or after July 1, 2003, and who are eligible for a fixed-dollar retiree health subsidy not tied to the premium; extend the employee contribution used to fund retiree health benefits to include hazardous duty members who began participating in the system on or after July 1, 2003, and increase the current hazardous employee contribution rate to 2% of pay for those eligible for the fixed-dollar retiree health subsidy; make technical amendments regarding the retiree health premium reimbursement program to conform to current policy; provide that the amendments to the employee contributions shall be effective July 1, 2027; for calculation of the retiree health subsidy increase, provide that the change shall apply to service earned prior to the effective date of this Act by eligible members, including retirees, and shall prospectively be adjusted annually by the 1.5% increase currently provided in statute; provide that subsidies payable to impacted retirees shall begin on or after January 1, 2027, to coincide with the next health plan year; direct the Public Pension Oversight Board to continue to review the retiree health fund actuarial data and evaluate potential legislative options to address any future continued improvements in the funds. |
| | Current Status: | 2/10/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government (H)
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| HB555 | SCHOOL FOODS (POLLOCK, MICHAEL SARGE; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Dossett, Myron; Thomas, Walker) AN ACT relating to school foods.
Amend KRS 158.854 to define “student-based enterprise”; authorize local school boards to permit student-based enterprises within their district to sell competitive foods throughout the school day; authorize local school boards to establish policies regarding the operation of and revenue generated by student-based enterprises; amend KRS 165.160 to exempt student-based enterprises from the penalties. SCS (1) Retain original provisions; specify that competitive foods sold by a student-based enterprise shall comply with minimum nutritional standards. |
| | Current Status: | 4/10/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 81)
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| HB560 | FUNDING SCHOOL DISTRICTS (HANCOCK, ERIKA; AN ACT relating to funding school districts that have a high percentage of tax-exempt property.
Amend KRS 45.021 to require the Finance and Administration Cabinet to contract with each local board of education of a district that has 65% or more in tax-exempt real property and that does not receive financial relief from other sources for the tax revenue lost from the tax-exempt property, to provide for recoupment to the board of at least 25% of the local board of education's lost tax revenue from the tax-exempt properties. |
| | Current Status: | 2/11/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB561 | MEDICAIRE COVERAGE (GROSSBERG, DANIEL; AN ACT relating to Medicaid coverage for adult day health care and in-home attendant care services.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services to include coverage for adult day health care and in-home attendant services in all 1915(c) waiver programs that enroll adults; require coverage of at least 40 hours per week separately for adult day health care and in-home attendant services; prohibit aggregating coverage limits for adult day health care and in-home attendant services; require the department to promulgate administrative regulations; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the department to seek federal approval if they determine that such approval is necessary; provide authorization from the General Assembly to make changes to the Medicaid program as required under KRS 205.5372(1). |
| | Current Status: | 2/11/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health Services (H)
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| HB562 | ALTERNATIVE HIGH SCHOOL DIPLOMAS (TRUETT, TIMMY; Fugate, Chris; Aull, Chad; Baker, Shane; Bivens, Ryan; Blanton, John; Bojanowski, Tina; Branscum, Joshua; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Dossett, Myron; Fister, Daniel; Flannery, Patrick; Gentry, Alan; Gordon, Deanna; Grossberg, Daniel; Grossl, Vanessa; Hale, David; Huff, Thomas; Jackson, Kevin; Lawrence, William; Lewis, Derek; Lewis, Scott ; Lewis, Chris; McPherson, Shawn; Moser, Kimberly Poore; Pollock, Michael Sarge; Smith, Tom; Wesley, Bill) AN ACT relating to alternative high school diplomas.
Amend KRS 156.160 to require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations for an alternate high school diploma and a modified high school diploma; specify requirements for alternate and modified high school diplomas; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require the Department of Workforce Development to identify, compile, and publish a list of employers willing to employ individuals possessing an alternate high school diploma; amend KRS 158.140, 164.787, and 164.7882 to conform. SCS (1) Retain original provisions; establish that a modified high school diploma satisfies scholarship requirements in the same manner as an alternate high school diploma. |
| | Current Status: | 4/3/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 15)
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| HB563 | DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE (FLANNERY, PATRICK; King, Kim; Whitaker, Mitch) AN ACT relating to driving under the influence.
Amend KRS 189A.010 to provide that a person who is convicted of a fourth or subsequent violation of this section shall be prohibited from purchasing alcohol for his or her period of license suspension and for 2 years after; make technical corrections; create a new section of KRS Chapter 189A to require that any ignition interlock license or hardship license issued to a person who has been convicted of a fourth or subsequent offense of driving under the influence contain the language "No Alcohol Sale" and a prominent red stripe; create a new section of KRS Chapter 507 to provide that any person who is convicted of an offense in which a death resulted from the person's operation of a motor vehicle while under the influence shall be prohibited from purchasing alcohol during any period of supervision and for 2 years following any period of supervision; require the defendant to surrender his or her license; require the court to notify the Transportation Cabinet; create a new section of KRS 186.400 to 186.640 to require that any operator's license issued to a person convicted of a fourth or subsequent offense of driving under the influence or of an offense in which a death resulted from the person's operation of a motor vehicle while under the influence contain the language "No Alcohol Sale" and a prominent red stripe; create a new section of KRS Chapter 244 to prohibit the sale or distribution of alcohol to any person who is prohibited from purchasing alcohol issued to a person convicted of a fourth or subsequent offense of driving under the influence or of an offense in which a death resulted from the person's operation of a motor vehicle while under the influence. |
| | Current Status: | 3/5/2026 - floor amendment (1) filed
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| HB564 | TEACHER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT (AULL, CHAD; AN ACT relating to teacher professional development.
Amend KRS 158.070 to provide that certified school personnel shall be compensated for professional development activities required outside of the days scheduled in the school calendar or regularly scheduled hours in the school work day. |
| | Current Status: | 2/12/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB570 | ELECTION OF JUSTICES (DIETZ, STEPHANIE; AN ACT relating to the election of Justices of the Supreme Court.
Amend KRS 118A.020 to establish that Justices of the Supreme Court shall be elected on a statewide basis; EFFECTIVE January 2, 2029. |
| | Current Status: | 2/12/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
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| HB572 | PRESCHOOL EDUCATION PROGRAMS (BOJANOWSKI, TINA; Donworth, Anne; Aull, Chad; Burke, Lindsey; Camuel, Adrielle; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Gentry, Alan; Hancock, Erika; Lawrence, William; Lehman, Matthew; Marzian, Mary Lou; Moore, Adam; Roarx, Rachel; Stalker, Sarah; Stevenson, Pamela; Watkins, Joshua; Willner, Lisa) AN ACT relating to preschool education programs.
Amend KRS 157.320 to define "at risk" and "teaming partner"; amend KRS 157.3175 to require each local school district to provide preschool to 4 year olds who reside in a household with an income at or below 160% of the poverty level until the end of the 2030-2031 school year and beginning with the 2031-2032 school year, require each local school district to provide preschool to each 4 year old who is at risk; provide requirements for program guidelines; require the Kentucky Department of Education to establish and maintain a statewide unified data system; create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to require local school districts to maintain certification from the Head Start director that Head Start is fully utilized; provide penalties; require local school districts to prepare and submit preschool expansion plans to the deparment; require the department to promulgate administrative regulations regarding preschool expansion; require the department to submit a report the the Legislative Research Commission annually regarding preschool expansion. |
| | Current Status: | 2/12/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB573 | CAMPAIGN FINANCE (JOHNSON, DJ; AN ACT relating to campaign finance.
Amend KRS 121.015 to define "executive committee of a political party"; amend KRS 121.150 to specify that a qualified political party committee, including a state or county executive committee, may endorse, support, oppose, and make contributions or expenditures to nonpartisan candidates. |
| | Current Status: | 3/13/2026 - (H) Returned to Committee House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
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| HB574 | PRESCHOOL EDUCATION PROGRAMS (DONWORTH, ANNE; Bojanowski, Tina; Aull, Chad; Burke, Lindsey; Camuel, Adrielle; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Gentry, Alan; Hancock, Erika; Lehman, Matthew; Marzian, Mary Lou; Moore, Adam; Roarx, Rachel; Stalker, Sarah; Stevenson, Pamela; Watkins, Joshua) AN ACT relating to preschool education programs.
Amend KRS 157.320 to define "eligible child" and "teaming partner"; amend KRS 157.3175 to require each local school district to provide preschool to 4 year olds who reside in a household with an income at or below 160% of the poverty level until the end of the 2033-2034 school year, and beginning with the 2034-2035 school year require each local school district to provide preschool to each eligible child; provide requirements for program guidelines; require the Kentucky Department of Education to establish and maintain a statewide unified data system; create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to require local school districts to maintain certification from the Head Start director that Head Start is fully utilized; provide penalties; require local school districts to prepare and submit preschool expansion plans to the deparment; require the department to promulgate administrative regulations regarding preschool expansion; require the department to submit a report the the Legislative Research Commission annually regarding preschool expansion. |
| | Current Status: | 2/12/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB575 | TAX DEDUCTIONS (HART, MARK; AN ACT relating to inheritance tax deductions.
Amend KRS 140.090, relating to the inheritance tax, to increase the funeral expense deduction for decedents with date of death on or after August 1, 2026. |
| | Current Status: | 2/12/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB576 | WORKFORCE INVESTMENT (DUVALL, ROBERT; AN ACT relating to workforce investment.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 154.12 to establish the Kentucky Talent Recruitment Grant Program under the Cabinet for Economic Development; define terms; establish the duties of the cabinet in implementation of the program subject to approval of the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority; establish eligible grant applicants' duties and program reporting requirements; establish the Kentucky Talent Recruitment Grant Program fund; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY. HCS (1) Retain original provisions, except delete the appropriation and the emergency clause. HFA (1) Retain original provisions; delete disbursement provision of 50% upon execution of grant agreement and 50% upon household goal being met; amend the grant application provisions and the reporting requirements for eligible grant applicants. SCS (1) Retain original provisions, except add the definition of "retention goal"; add a 50% disbursement provision for eligible projects that plan to relocate employees or households outside of Kentucky or to retain Kentucky students upon execution of the grant agreement, with the remaining 50% being disbursed upon achieving applicable household or retention goals; add a provision for the Cabinet for Economic Development to use up to 5% of the fund for administration of the program. |
| | Current Status: | 4/10/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 82)
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| HB578 | UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (AULL, CHAD; Bivens, Ryan; Dotson, Ryan; Grossl, Vanessa; Hodgson, John; Rabourn, Felicia; Roberts, T.J.; Thompson, Aaron; Truett, Timmy) AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance.
Amend KRS 341.005 to define "certified mail," "multi-factor authentication," and "notice"; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 341 to require any notice from the secretary of the Education and Labor Cabinet or any employer to employers or employees to be in writing and delivered by any method of governmental, commercial, or electronic delivery; require the secretary to provide employers and employees the option to receive only electronic notices; require the electronic notice system to utilize effective privacy controls, including multi-factor authentication procedures. |
| | Current Status: | 2/13/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
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| HB579 | UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (AULL, CHAD; AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance.
Amend KRS 341.350 to eliminate the 1 week waiting period for unemployment benefits; amend KRS 341.090 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 2/13/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
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| HB583 | SCHOOL-BASED MEDICAID PROGRAM (RILEY, STEVE; Duvall, Robert; Flannery, Patrick; Grossl, Vanessa; Jackson, Kevin; Lewis, Derek; Lewis, Scott ; Lewis, Chris; McPherson, Shawn; Tate, Nancy; Thomas, Walker; Willner, Lisa) AN ACT relating to the school-based Medicaid program.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to require school districts that elect to provide health care services through a school nurse to bill the school-based Medicaid program for medically necessary services provided to a student enrolled in Medicaid; establish requirements for third-party Medicaid billing vendors contracted by school districts; permit school nurses to receive preventative dental services training from the Department for Public Health; permit the school district to bill the school-based Medicaid program for preventative dental services that are within a school nurse's scope of practice. HFA (1) Replace reference to "dental" services with "oral health" services; establish that preventative oral health services provided in a school-based setting shall be limited to services within the scope of practice for school nurses; require that preventative oral health services provided in a school-based setting be provided in accordance with protocols developed by the Department for Public Health; establish that this Act does not modify or supersede school health requirements established in KRS 156.160; exempt schools that utilize federal funds to employ healthcare providers. |
| | Current Status: | 3/25/2026 - received in Senate
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| HB585 | EMPLOYMENT (CAMUEL, ADRIELLE; Aull, Chad; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Donworth, Anne; Gentry, Alan; Roarx, Rachel) AN ACT relating to employment.
Amend KRS 336.130 to delete references prohibiting employees becoming a member of a labor or organization as a condition of employment; amend KRS 336.990 to conform; amend KRS 67A.6904, 67C.406, 70.262, 78.470, 78.480, and 345.050 to remove exceptions; amend KRS 336.1341 and 336.135 to conform; repeal KRS 65.016, 336.132, and 336.134. |
| | Current Status: | 2/13/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
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| HB587 | AMEND CONSTITUTION RELATING TO PROPERTY EXEMPT FROM TAXATION (MOORE, ADAM; AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to exempting property from taxation.
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to allow the General Assembly to provide by law a property tax exemption for the permanent residence of an owner who is a veteran with a service-connected disability; require the law to specify the amount of the exemption, the qualifications for claiming the exemption, and whether the exemption transfers to the veteran's surviving spouse; prohibit more than 1 exemption per permanent residence; disallow the exemption to be combined with an exemption under Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection. |
| | Current Status: | 2/13/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
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| HB596 | DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE (AULL, CHAD; AN ACT relating to driving under the influence.
Amend KRS 189A.010 to create enhanced penalties for a person under the age of 21 who operates a motor vehicle with an alcohol concentration of 0.02 or more; amend KRS 189A.070 to create enhanced periods of license suspenion for a person under the age of 21 who operates a motor vehicle with an alcohol concentration of 0.02 or more; amend KRS 189A.340 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 2/17/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
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| HB597 | RETIREMENT INCOME SAVINGS PLANS (GORDON, DEANNA; AN ACT relating to retirement income savings plans for private sector employees.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 41 to establish the Commonwealth Retirement Savings Plan as a voluntary payroll-deduction Roth IRA savings program for employees of private employers with fewer than 50 employees; define terms; create a governing board of trustees and specify responsibilities of the board in plan design and oversight; require the board to contract with a third-party administrator for plan administration; establish that the plan shall be implemented and enrollment of employees shall begin on July 1, 2028, if adequate funds to administer the plan are available; amend KRS 154.12-330 to authorize the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority to lend funds to help implement the plan; require the State Treasurer, on or before July 1, 2027, to provide the Legislative Research Commission with a written update on the plan's implementation status. |
| | Current Status: | 2/17/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Small Business & Information Technology (H)
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| HB600 | COLLECTION OF DELINQUENT TAX BILLS (IMES, MARY BETH; AN ACT relating to the collection of delinquent tax bills.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 68 to authorize a county to utilize a consolidated procedure in the collection of delinquent tax bills; amend KRS 134.504 to require the allowance of a consolidated procedure for the collection of delinquent taxes in the terms of a contract between the Department of Revenue and a county attorney; amend the fees a county attorney may receive in the process of litigation for the collection of a certificate of delinquency; amend KRS 91.481, 91.484, 91.487, 91.488, 91.4882, 91.4883, 91.4884, 91.4885, 91.494, 91.501, 91.504, 91.507, 91.511, 91.514, 91.517, 91.521, 91.527, 91.550, and 92.810 to make technical corrections. |
| | Current Status: | 4/7/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 48)
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| HB601 | HIGHWAY ACCESS (DECKER, JENNIFER; Nemes, Jason; Hampton, Tony; Lockett, Matt) AN ACT relating to highway access.
Amend KRS 177.240 to prohibit the Transportation Cabinet or any county or city that maintains a limited access facility from requiring a property owner to pay compensation for any increase in property value attributable to the new access as a condition of allowing a property owner access. |
| | Current Status: | 3/20/2026 - received in Senate
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| HB604 | VETERANS (STEVENSON, PAMELA; AN ACT relating to veterans.
Amend KRS 40.050 to insert gender-neutral language. |
| | Current Status: | 2/17/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (H)
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| HB609 | CLASSROOM LIBRARIES (JACKSON, KEVIN; Fugate, Chris; Lewis, Scott ; Lewis, Derek; Lewis, Chris; Neighbors, Amy; Riley, Steve; Truett, Timmy; Willner, Lisa) AN ACT relating to classroom libraries and making an appropriation therefor.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; establish the Classroom Library Grant Program; provide that the Kentucky Department of Education to implement the grant program through selection of a program administrator; establish the qualifications and duties of the program administrator; appropriate $5,000,000 from the General Fund to implement the Classroom Library Grant Program; APPROPRIATION. |
| | Current Status: | 3/25/2026 - House Primary and Secondary Education (H), (Bill Scheduled for Hearing); Time & Location: 8:30 AM, Annex 149
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| HB610 | TEACHERS (MASSARONI, CANDY; AN ACT relating to teachers.
Amend KRS 158.060 to require teachers to be compensated for noninstructional planning time within their school day during which they are required to supervise or instruct students. |
| | Current Status: | 2/18/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB631 | SCHOOL CALENDARS (DOSSETT, MYRON; Chester-Burton, Beverly) AN ACT relating to school district calendars and declaring an emergency.
Provide 10 additional disaster relief student attendance days to provide instruction using alternate settings; allow local school districts to make up days missed by adding instructional time to student attendance days; require local boards of education seeking to revise its calendar to submit a plan for approval to the Department of Education; allow instructional time made up to count as employee contracted days; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 2/20/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB634 | MENTAL HEALTH EXAMINATIONS (CAMUEL, ADRIELLE; Burke, Lindsey) AN ACT relating to coverage of mental health wellness examinations.
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms; require health plans to provide coverage for an annual mental health wellness examination provided by a mental health professional; 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 be subject to any cost-sharing requirements; amend KRS 304.17C-125, 164.2871, and 18A.225 to require limited health service benefit plans, self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution, and the state employee health plan to comply with the mental health wellness examination coverage requirement; state purpose of the Act; direct that provisions apply to health plans issued or renewed on or after the effective date of the Act; provide that Section 1 of the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Mental Health Wellness Act; EFFECTIVE, January 1, 2027. |
| | Current Status: | 2/20/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Banking & Insurance (H)
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| HB635 | EDUCATION (TRUETT, TIMMY; Aull, Chad; Blanton, John; Fugate, Chris; Lewis, Chris; Lewis, Scott ; Lewis, Derek; Smith, Tom; White, Richard) AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 158.070 to permit a local board of education to amend its school calendar by adding time to the school day to reach the required 1,062 hours of instructional time; for the 2025-2026 school year, allow local school districts to make up days missed by adding instructional time to student attendance days; notwithstand the requirement for the student instructional year to have 170 student attendance days; allow waiver of up to 5 student attendance days if a school district is unable to provide the required 1,062 hours of instruction by June 10, 2026; require a local board of education seeking to revise its calendar to submit a plan for approval to the Department of Education; allow instructional time made up and days waived to count as employee contracted days; provide that districts that used 10 or fewer nontraditional instruction days and choose not to use any waived days shall have the district's average daily attendance calculated by deducting 5 low attendance days in addition to the 5 days deducted under KRS 157.320(2); EFFECTIVE, in part, July 1, 2026; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 2/20/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB640 | TAXATION (PETRIE, JASON; AN ACT relating to taxation.
Amend KRS 131.170 to make a technical correction. |
| | Current Status: | 3/20/2026 - (H) Returned to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB641 | MENTAL HEALTH CHATBOTS (GROSSL, VANESSA; AN ACT relating to mental health chatbots.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to protect consumers using mental health chatbots; define terms; establish prohibitions and exceptions for how suppliers are to handle individually identifiable health information; prohibit supplier from advertising a specific product or service unless that product or service is clearly and conspicuously disclosed; require supplier to clearly and conspicuously disclose that the mental health chatbot is artificial intelligence and provide when this disclosure should appear; provide an affirmative defense to liability and list requirements to achieve that defense; grant enforcement authority to the Attorney General; include severability provision; provide that the Act may be cited as the Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health Act. |
| | Current Status: | 2/23/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Small Business & Information Technology (H)
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| HB642 | KENTUCKY TEACHERS' RETIREMENT SYSTEM (TIPTON, JAMES; Chester-Burton, Beverly) AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System.
Amend KRS 161.520 to remove the requirement for dependent children over the age of 18 to have their mental or physical condition approved by a majority of a medical review committee to receive survivor benefits; amend KRS 161.605 to raise the minimum amount a retired reemployed member may earn per day from $170 to $200, remove the provision for returning to work 1 month earlier if the member forfeits 1 month of their retirement benefit, reinstate the pension waiver program and prohibit members returning to work under its provisions from returning to work as administrators, and make technical changes; amend KRS 161.608 to clarify that the Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) will acknowledge a member's earliest participation date in another state administered retirement system to determine benefit tier; amend KRS 161.620 to allow a member who is a parent to apply for and manage payments to a disabled child without necessity of a court order or other legal authority; amend KRS 161.635 and 161.636 to allow TRS to offer index fund investment options to university and nonuniversity members, to annuitize the investment return on the supplemental benefit applied to the index funds not to exceed 6.1% if there is no COLA in a given year or 4.6% if there is a COLA in the given year, allow TRS to promulgate administrative regulations to establish procedures for disbursements from the supplemental benefit component, and establish that neither the TRS board or staff shall be liable for any losses or claims due to a member's election of an index fund and state that members have the sole responsibility for their investment decisions. HCS(1) Retain original provisions, except amend the requirement in KRS 161.605 regarding medical insurance coverage for a retired reemployed member; adjust provisions for a member retired by reason of service to waive the annuity and return to full-time work; remove KRS 161.635 and 161.636, relating to supplemental components for nonuniversity members, from the bill. |
| | Current Status: | 4/7/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 34)
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| HB643 | SCHOOL SAFETY (JACKSON, KEVIN; Aull, Chad; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Fister, Daniel; Grossberg, Daniel; Hale, David; Lewis, Scott ; Lewis, Derek; Lewis, Chris; McPherson, Shawn; Roberts, T.J.; Truett, Timmy) AN ACT relating to school safety.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to allow school districts to implement a wearable panic alert system; establish system criteria; require the Department of Education to provide a list of approved wearable panic alert systems; require the Center for School Safety to establish the Wearable Panic Alert Grant Program; amend KRS 158.446 to allow the Center for School Safety to distribute wearable panic alert grants using funds appropriated in the biennial budget to support school safety; provide that the Act may be cited as Alyssa's Law. |
| | Current Status: | 3/18/2026 - received in Senate
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| HB645 | KENTUCKY TAX TRIBUNAL (FLANNERY, PATRICK; Nemes, Jason) AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Tax Tribunal.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 142 to establish the Kentucky Tax Tribunal within the executive branch to be the single form for all tax litigation; establish judges, forums, processes, and methods of appeal; amend various statutes to conform; repeal sections of KRS Chapter 49 which constituted the Board of Tax Appeals; amend various sections of KRS to conform; EFFECTIVE, in part, July 1, 2027, and in part, January 1, 2028. |
| | Current Status: | 2/23/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB648 | MOTOR VEHICLE DEALERS (BLANTON, JOHN; Smith, Tom) AN ACT relating to motor vehicle dealers.
Amend KRS 190.046 to establish conditions for reimbursement of motor vehicle dealers by manufacturers, component manufacturers, and distributors for parts and warranty or recall work on motor vehicles with a classification of 7 or higher as established in 49 C.F.R. sec. 565.15; define "component manufacturer"; expand the time frame for a dealer to submit a claim for warranty work from 30 days to 90 days. SFA (1) Prohibit manufacturers, component manufactures, and distributors from requiring unreasonable proof or an unduly burdensome process to establish reasonable compensation; allow dealers of class 7 or higher vehicles 90 days from the completion of warranty work to file for reimbursement. |
| | Current Status: | 4/10/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 83)
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| HB649 | EDUCATION (LEWIS, SCOTT ; Truett, Timmy) AN ACT relating to education.
Amend KRS 160.210 to require a county school district having reached an end-of-year enrollment of 25,000 or more students to add 2 board members appointed by the Auditor of Public Accounts; require the appointed members to reside in the district, hold bachelor's degrees, and have at least 5 years of finance experience; specify that appointed members shall not serve more than 2 consecutive terms; amend KRS 156.132 to authorize the commissioner of education to remove an appointed local board member for malfeasance, misfeasance, incompetence, or gross neglect of duty; amend KRS 160.160, 160.170, 160.180, and 160.190 to conform; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2027 |
| | Current Status: | 3/17/2026 - (H) Returned to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB654 | SCHOOL DISTRICT REPORTING (BAKER, SHANE; AN ACT relating to school district reporting and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 160.345 to remove the Kentucky Department of Education's reporting requirement on school physical activity, prohibit the department or the Kentucky Board of Education from requiring a school to complete any component of a comprehensive school improvement plan that is not expressly required from that specific school by federal law or state statute; amend KRS 156.101 to remove superintendents' reporting requirement on instructional leaders who fail to complete required training; amend KRS 160.380 to remove superintendents' annual reporting requirement on a district's minority teacher recruitment process; amend KRS 158.1413 to remove superintendents' reporting requirement on school districts' essential workplace ethics programs; repeal KRS 158.867, relating to minimum requirements for summer learning camps; authorize the Kentucky Department of Education and Kentucky Board of Education to continue to collect designated existing reports; prohibit the Kentucky Department of Education and Kentucky Board of Education from requiring designated reports; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2026. HCS (1) Retain original provisions, except remove KRS 156.101 and the amendments to it; amend KRS 158.647 to allow the Education Assessment and Accountability Review Subcommittee to tentatively authorize the Kentucky Department of Education and Kentucky Board of Education to require a new report not expressly authorized by state statute or federal law when the General Assembly is not in session; provide that tentative authorization expires upon sine die adjournment of the following regular session; expand the type of reports that the Kentucky Department of Education and Kentucky Board of Education are authorized to require to include designated new reports. HFA (1) Make technical correction. |
| | Current Status: | 3/12/2026 - received in Senate
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| HB655 | LIMITED HEALTH SERVICE BENEFIT PLANS (LEWIS, DEREK; AN ACT relating to limited health service benefit plans.
Amend KRS 304.17C-085 to modify the definition of "covered services" to exclude services and materials for which reimbursement would be available but for the application of the enrollee's contractual limitation of an annual maximum benefit; prohibit contractual waivers; make technical amendments; direct that the Act applies to contracts issued or renewed on or after the effective date of the Act. |
| | Current Status: | 2/25/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Banking & Insurance (H)
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| HB657 | PROFESSIONAL LICENSING BACKGROUND CHECKS (DIETZ, STEPHANIE; AN ACT relating to professional licensing background checks.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 319, 319A, 334A, 335.010 to 335.160, and 335.500 to 335.599, relating to psychologists, occupational therapists, speech-language pathologists and audiologists, social workers, and professional counselors, to require a national and state background check for applicants seeking an initial license, reinstatement of a license, or authorization to practice in another state in accordance with a compact; provide that the results of a national and state criminal background check shall not be distributed by the board except to any applicant upon request or as evidence in a legal proceeding; provide that the fee charged by the Department of Kentucky State Police shall be an amount no greater than the actual cost of processing the request and conducting the background check; require the boards to review criminal background checks for every Kentucky licensee seeking to practice in another state before the board makes a determination on whether the person is eligible to apply for compact privileges; provide that boards shall not require a criminal background check solely for the purpose of renewing a license; and require boards to promulgate administrative regulations to implement this Act. |
| | Current Status: | 3/27/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 6)
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| HB658 | IDENTITY DOCUMENTS (RABOURN, FELICIA; Bivens, Ryan; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Dossett, Myron) AN ACT relating to identity documents.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 281A to regulate the cabinet to promulgate emergency and ordinary administrative regulations to extend the allowable time length a limited CDL in accordance with the maximum length allowed under 49 C.F.R sec. 383.3; EMERGENCY. HCS(1) Amend the cite to the Code of Federal Regulations to specifically reference 49 C.F.R sec. 383.3(f)(3)(ii) as it existed on the effective date of the Act; specify the CDLs are for certain drivers in farm-related service industries. |
| | Current Status: | 4/15/2026 - (H) PLACED IN THE ORDERS OF THE DAY; for Concurrence in SCS 1 and SCA t1
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| HB660 | HIGHWAYS (DOAN, STEVEN; Roberts, T.J.) AN ACT relating to highways.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 176 to define "resurfacing project'; require the Department of Highways to notify cities where resurfacing projects are located at least 60 days prior to the project letting date; specify contents of the notice; allow any affected city to submit comments on the project; require city to consider feedback from the city and issue a response. |
| | Current Status: | 3/19/2026 - received in Senate
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| HB661 | SCHOOL PROPERTY (CLINES, MIKE; AN ACT relating to school property.
Amend KRS 162.055 to allow public school property to be utilized for employee housing; create a new section of KRS Chapter 162 to allow school boards or school district finance corporations to use property currently owned or newly leased to provide housing options for employees upon a determination that the use of land serves the educational purposes of the school district; make technical changes. |
| | Current Status: | 3/18/2026 - House Primary and Secondary Education (H), (Bill Scheduled for Hearing); Time & Location: 8:00 AM, Annex 149
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| HB663 | PROPERTY TAX INSTALLMENT PAYMENT PROGRAM (WILLNER, LISA; Chester-Burton, Beverly) AN ACT relating to a property tax installment payment program.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 134, relating to collection of taxes to establish a quarterly installment payment program; define terms; provide installment payment calculation guidelines; require specific property tax information to be sent to the taxpayer through notifications or made accessible through an electronic system; allow an administrative fee up to 3%; disallow 2% discount for early payment of taxes if taxes paid under quarterly installment payment program; prohibit collection of penalties and interest on installment payments; require the Department of Revenue to promulgate administrative regulations; establish penalties for noncompliance; amend KRS 133.220 to require the sheriff or collector to include specific tax payment information on tax notices; amend KRS 134.015 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 2/25/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB666 | TAXATION (RUDY, STEVEN; AN ACT relating to taxation.
Amend KRS 132.027 to make a technical correction. |
| | Current Status: | 3/16/2026 - (H) Returned to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB670 | DISPLAY OF TEN COMMANDMENTS IN SCHOOLS (CALLOWAY, JOSH; White, Richard; Baker, Shane; Callaway, Emily; Decker, Jennifer; Doan, Steven; Dotson, Ryan; Elliott, Daniel; Fugate, Chris; Hale, David; Hart, Mark; Hodgson, John; Huff, Thomas; Johnson, DJ; Massaroni, Candy; Proctor, Marianne; Rabourn, Felicia; Roberts, T.J.; Wesley, Bill) AN ACT relating to the display of the Ten Commandments in schools.
Repeal and reenact KRS 158.178 to require that a public school or public charter school conspicuously display a copy of the Ten Commandments accompanied by text providing historical context in each elementary and secondary classroom; set requirements for the display; require private donations to be used to acquire copies; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations for enforcement; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require that public postsecondary education institutions conspicuously display a copy of the Ten Commandments in each classroom; set requirements for the display; require private donations to be used to acquire copies; require the Council on Postsecondary Education to promulgate administrative regulations for enforcement; amend KRS 158.195 to allow teachers and administrators to read or post the Ten Commandments in a public school building, classroom, or event. |
| | Current Status: | 2/25/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB672 | BRANCH BUDGET BILLS (PETRIE, JASON; AN ACT relating to branch budget bills.
Amend KRS 48.210, relating to branch budget bills, to require the Transportation Cabinet to provide assistance to the General Assembly during the budgeting process. |
| | Current Status: | 3/17/2026 - (H) Returned to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB673 | BRANCH BUDGET BILLS (PETRIE, JASON; AN ACT relating to branch budget bills.
Amend KRS 48.160, relating to branch budget bills, to make a technical correction. |
| | Current Status: | 3/17/2026 - (H) Returned to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB674 | BRANCH BUDGET RECOMENDATIONS (PETRIE, JASON; AN ACT relating to branch budget recommendations.
Amend KRS 48.165, relating to branch budget recommendations, to make technical corrections. |
| | Current Status: | 3/20/2026 - (H) Returned to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB676 | STATEWIDE HEALTH DATA UTILITY (RAYMER, REBECCA; AN ACT relating to the Kentucky statewide health data utility.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 194A to establish the Kentucky statewide health data utility; define terms; establish purposes and a restricted fund for the utility; require the executive director of the Office of Data Analytics to be responsible for the development, implementation, operation, and maintenance of the utility, contract with a consortium of public health colleges to operate and govern the utility, and promulgate administrative regulations to carry out those duties; establish functions and content of utility; create a consortium of public health colleges; establish duties of consortium in operating and governing the utility; establish administration and operation requirements for the consortium; establish the Kentucky Health Information Technology Board; require the board to establish policies and procedures for the sharing and submission of health information, approve data control, governance, and privacy practices, and advise the executive director and the consortium; require the utility's participants to comply with health information sharing and submission requirements within certain timeframes; require the secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to enforce the mandatory reporting requirements for the utility's participants; establish enforcement powers of secretary including civil penalty assessment; require the consortium and the executive director to make annual reports relating to the utility; amend KRS 194A.030, 194A.101, 194A.103, 194A.095, 205.640, 205.6489, 211.474, 214.375, and 311A.190 to conform; repeal KRS 216.2920, 216.2921, 216.2923, 216.2925, 216.2927, and 216.2929, relating to health data collection; establish timeframe for making initial appointments, and provide for staggered appointments to the board; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to seek federal approval if it is determined that such approval is necessary; provide authorization from the General Assembly to make changes in the Medicaid program as required under KRS 205.5372(1); EFFECTIVE, in part, July 1, 2028. HFA (3) Delete original provisions; require the Legislative Research Commission (Commission) to conduct a study on the development of a Kentucky statewide health data utility; provide authority to the Commission in carrying out the study; require a written report to be submitted to the Commission for referral to the Interim Joint Committee on Health Services by December 1, 2026. |
| | Current Status: | 4/14/2026 - BECAME LAW WITHOUT GOVERNOR'S SIGNATURE
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| HB681 | POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION (WATKINS, JOSHUA; Chester-Burton, Beverly) AN ACT relating to postsecondary education.
Amend KRS 164.020 to direct the Council on Postsecondary Education to postpone the approval of any new program at a state postsecondary educational institution if the institution has met its equal educational opportunity goals; amend KRS 164.011, 164.131, 164.321, 164.821, and 335B.010 to conform; repeal KRS 164.2894, 164.2895, 164.2896, 164.2897, 164.2898. 164.2899, and 335B.035; provide that the Act may be cited as the Restoration of Postsecondary Inclusion and Student Success Programs Act. |
| | Current Status: | 2/26/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Postsecondary Education (H)
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| HB685 | PROFESSIONAL CREDENTIALS (RILEY, STEVE; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Flannery, Patrick; Fugate, Chris; Grossberg, Daniel; Grossl, Vanessa; Jackson, Kevin; Lewis, Chris; Lewis, Scott ; Lewis, Derek; McPherson, Shawn; Pollock, Michael Sarge; Truett, Timmy; Willner, Lisa) AN ACT relating to professional credentials.
Amend KRS 161.030 to require the Education Professional Standards Board to issue a 5 year teaching certificate to eligible applicants. HCS(1) Retain original provisions; create a new section of KRS Chapter 161 to enact and enter into the School Psychologist Interstate Licensure Compact; declare purpose; define terms; set requirements for member states and for school psychologists to participate in the compact; establish provisions for active duty military members or their spouses; designate procedures for adverse actions against a school psychologist; create the School Psychologist Interstate Licensure Compact Commission and establish its internal procedures; provide for the commission to facilitate the exchange of information; establish rulemaking procedures, oversight, financing, dispute resolution, and enforcement provisions of the compact; create member state compact withdrawal procedures; provide for amendments to the compact; specify applicability of the compact to certain Kentucky state law. HFA(1) Retain all provisions, provide that the immunity of the commission may not exceed the immunity of the limits of liability set forth under the constitution and laws of that state for state officials, employees, and agents. |
| | Current Status: | 3/18/2026 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education (S)
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| HB688 | INCOME TAX LIABILITY CONTRIBUTED TO A POLITICAL PARTY (MADDOX, SAVANNAH; AN ACT relating to the portion of income tax liability contributed to a political party.
Amend KRS 141.071 and 141.072 to sunset the option to contribute to a political party from an individual's tax liability, effective for taxable years beginning January 1, 2026; amend KRS 121.180 and 121.230 to make conforming changes, repeal KRS 141.073, relating to rules and regulations for the administration of KRS 141.071 and 141.072. |
| | Current Status: | 2/27/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB689 | ESTABLISHMENT OF A MEDICAID STATE DIRECTED PAYMENT PROGRAM (NEIGHBORS, AMY; Banta, Kim; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Clines, Mike; Dietz, Stephanie; Duvall, Robert; Jackson, Kevin; Johnson, DJ; King, Kim; Lewis, Scott ; Lewis, Derek; Lewis, Chris; McPherson, Shawn; Meredith, Michael; Moser, Kimberly Poore; Riley, Steve) AN ACT relating to the establishment of a Medicaid state-directed payment program.
Amend KRS 205.6412 to require the Department for Medicaid Services to seek authorization from the United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to implement a state-directed payment for physician and nonphysician professional services provided to a Medicaid beneficiary by a qualifying hospital's affiliated physician groups or physicians and other professionals employed or contracted by the qualified hospital; require the Department of Medicaid Services to direct Medicaid managed care organizations to issue payments back to January 1, 2026, upon federal approval; RETROACTIVE. HFA(1) Establish that the nonfederal share, or state match, required for the state-directed payment shall not be from state funds including the general fund or state restricted funds; require the Department for Medicaid Services to terminate a state-directed payment program for which an appropriate source of funding for the nonfederal share is unavailable; establish that the state shall not be liable for providing reimbursement to the federal government if the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services seeks to recoup funds associated with a state-directed payment program; establish that the qualifying hospitals that receive state-directed payments shall be jointly and severally liable for reimbursement. SCS (1) Retain original provisions, except delete prohibition on use of state funds other than the general fund; revise provisions related to the possible recoupment of funds by a federal agency; make technical corrections. |
| | Current Status: | 4/13/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 117)
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| HB694 | INCOME TAX CREDIT FOR QUALIFIED EMPLOYERS (AULL, CHAD; AN ACT relating to an income tax credit for qualified employers.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to define terms; establish a nonrefundable income tax credit for an employer that hires an eligible employee who holds a certificate of employability; provide that the credit is equal to the amount of wages paid to the eligible employee subject to certain limitations; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the credit. |
| | Current Status: | 3/2/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB699 | PAID LEAVE FOR STATE EMPLOYEES (BURKE, LINDSEY; Camuel, Adrielle) AN ACT relating to paid leave for state employees.
Create a new section of KRS 18A.005 to 18A.200 to define "child," "family medical leave," "fictive kin," "foster care placement," "kinship care placement," and "parent"; provide classified and unclassified employees family medical leave of up to 6 weeks for the birth or adoption of a child, placement of a child in foster care or kinship care, or a serious health condition that would render the employee unable to perform his or her job functions; require the employee to complete 30 days of service before he or she is eligible for family medical leave; require the leave be used within 1 year of the birth, adoption, foster or kinship care placement, or serious health condition; require any leave which involves the birth of more than 1 child during a particular pregnancy or the adoption or placement of more than 1 child with an employee to be taken concurrently and used as 1 adoption or placement; allow the employee to use the leave as a block or intermittently; allow both parents to use the leave concurrently or consecutively under certain conditions; require the employee to use family medical leave before using any other accrued leave; limit use of family medical leave to 2 times during a 60-month period; provide that once an employee leaves the position eligible for family medical leave, any unused balance shall lapse; require an employee who returns to a position in state service that provides family medical leave to complete 30 days of service before becoming eligible for the leave; prohibit an employee from converting any unused balance of family medical leave to any other type of paid leave, benefit, or compensation; require the employee to submit written verification of the birth, placement of a child, or serious health condition; amend KRS 18A.025 to conform; amend KRS 18A.110 to authorize the secretary of the Personnel Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations pertaining to the family medical leave program. |
| | Current Status: | 3/2/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee Interim State Government
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| HB710 | VETERANS (MCCOOL, BOBBY; AN ACT relating to veterans.
Amend KRS 40.050 to include gender-neutral language. |
| | Current Status: | 3/3/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (H)
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| HB711 | MILITARY AFFAIRS (MCCOOL, BOBBY; AN ACT relating to military affairs.
Amend KRS 36.230 to include gender-neutral language. |
| | Current Status: | 3/3/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (H)
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| HB713 | VIOLENCE AGAINST HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS (NEMES, JASON; Bratcher, Steve; Fleming, Ken) AN ACT relating to workplace violence against health care professionals.
Amend various sections of KRS 216.701 to 216.709 to define terms; require health facilities to display a notice in a prominent location advising of possible consequences of threatening or aggressive behavior toward health care workers; require health facilities to notify health care workers of changes to policies, procedures, or the workplace safety plan based on a health facility's required annual review; require that any health facility procedure for incidents of workplace violence shall require certain notifications for the victim. HCS(1) Retain original provisions, except amend KRS 216.703 relating to the requirement that health facilities display a notice in a prominent location advising of possible consequences of threatening or aggressive behavior toward health care workers, to provide that the notice need not follow a specific quotation. |
| | Current Status: | 3/16/2026 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Health Services (S)
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| HB716 | SCHOOL BOARD STUDENT REPRESENTATIVES (WILLNER, LISA; AN ACT relating to local school board student representatives.
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. |
| | Current Status: | 3/3/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB717 | HEALTH EDUCATION (WILLNER, LISA; AN ACT relating to health education.
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. |
| | Current Status: | 3/3/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB718 | EXPUNGEMENT (LAWRENCE, WILLIAM; Grossberg, Daniel) AN ACT relating to expungement.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to establish an automatic nonviolent felony expungement process for eligible convictions. |
| | Current Status: | 3/3/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
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| HB719 | EDUCATION (LEWIS, SCOTT ; AN ACT relating to education.
Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language. |
| | Current Status: | 3/3/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB720 | EDUCATION (LEWIS, SCOTT ; AN ACT relating to education.
Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language. |
| | Current Status: | 3/3/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB722 | TRANSPORTATION (BLANTON, JOHN; AN ACT relating to transportation.
Amend KRS 186.230 and 186.120 to conform to gender-neutral language. |
| | Current Status: | 3/3/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Transportation (H)
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| HB723 | SALES AND USE TAX (WHITAKER, MITCH; AN ACT relating to sales and use tax.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 139 to annually transfer 80% of the sales and use taxes, interest, and penalties collected during the preceding fiscal year from sporting goods retailers from the general fund to the Kentucky Heritage Land Conservation fund. |
| | Current Status: | 3/3/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB724 | TRANSPORTATION (UPCHURCH, KEN; AN ACT relating to transportation.
Amend KRS 186.230 and 186.120 to conform to gender-neutral language. |
| | Current Status: | 3/3/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Transportation (H)
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| HB725 | DEDUCTION FOR PROFESSIONAL FEES (KULKARNI, NIMA; Hart, Mark; Blanton, John; Gentry, Alan; Lewis, Derek; Lewis, Chris; Lewis, Scott ; Willner, Lisa) AN ACT relating to a deduction for professional membership dues.
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. |
| | Current Status: | 3/3/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB727 | EDUCATION (RILEY, STEVE; Jackson, Kevin; Lewis, Chris; Lewis, Scott ; Lewis, Derek) AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 161.028 to authorize the Education Professional Standards Board to use proceeds from certification fees for the development and maintenance of the Kentucky Educator Placement Service System (KEPS); amend KRS 160.152 to require KEPS to allow a potential applicant to create and submit applications to multiple school districts; make technical changes. SCS (1) Retain original provisions; amend KRS 161.030 to require the Education Professional Standards Board to issue a 5-year teaching certificate to eligible applicants; amend KRS 157.220 to require the Kentucky Department of Education to promulgate administrative regulations in accordance with the maximum class sizes and caseloads specified for exceptional children and youth; make technical corrections; amend KRS 157.200 to define "caseload" and "special classes"; amend KRS 157.230, 157.3175, and 159.990 to conform; amend KRS 156.161 to provide that certain school district facility project waivers shall not expire unless the Kentucky Board of Education provides for expiration when granting the waiver; require the state board to consider waivers no later than 30 calendar days after submission; amend KRS 157.360 to provide for a temporary exemption from maximum class sizes; require the state board to review the exemption issued by the Kentucky Department of Education within 45 days; amend KRS 156.029 to rotate nonvoting member appointments by Supreme Court district instead of congressional district; provide that the nonvoting student member on the state board shall be classified as a sophomore at the time of appointment; amend KRS 156.160, 156.670, 157.615, and 157.655 to remove references to the Council for Education Technology and place the council's responsibilities with the Kentucky Department of Education; amend KRS 156.802 to direct that the department have administrative responsibility for the Kentucky FFA Leadership Training Center; amend KRS 160.180 to require that the annual in-service trainings for school board members include ethics, open meetings and open records, and finance training; create additional training timeline requirements for board members who begin their initial service on or after January 1, 2015, and require 1 hour of superintendent evaluation for those members; direct the Kentucky Board of Education to identify criteria for school board members to fulfill all training requirements; amend KRS 160.160 to direct each board of education to review the procedures and responsibilities of the board and district employees regarding the school district budget; establish that the review will not count toward annual in-service training requirements; amend KRS 156.808 to require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations governing maternity leave for certified and equivalent staff in the Office of Career and Technical Education; create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to allow for an adjustment to support education excellence in Kentucky (SEEK) program funding if the impact of amended real and personal property is equal to or greater than 1% of a school district's net general fund allotment; amend KRS 160.380 to remove superintendents' annual reporting requirement on a district's minority teacher recruitment process; amend KRS 158.1413 to remove superintendents' reporting requirement on school districts' essential workplace ethics programs; amend KRS 158.647 to allow the Education Assessment and Accountability Review Subcommittee to temporarily authorize the Kentucky Department of Education and Kentucky Board of Education to require a new report not expressly authorized by state statute or federal law when the General Assembly is not in session; provide that temporary authorization expires upon sine die adjournment of the following regular session; authorize the Kentucky Department of Education and Kentucky Board of Education to continue to collect designated existing reports; repeal KRS 156.660, relating to definitions, 156.690, relating to teachers' computer purchase system, 157.077, relating to summer programs, 158.865, relating to legislative findings, 158.866, relating to definitions, and 158.867, relating to minimum requirements for summer learning camps; provide procedures for the initial appointment of the nonvoting teacher and student representatives representing Supreme Court districts; EMERGENCY, in part, July 1, 2026. SCA (1T) Make title amendment. |
| | Current Status: | 4/23/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| HB732 | WORKER BENEFITS (GORDON, DEANNA; Roberts, T.J.) AN ACT relating to worker benefits.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to define terms; allow a public or private entity to contribute funds to a portable benefit plan as a form of compensation to a self-employed worker; prohibit using contributions to determine a worker's classification. |
| | Current Status: | 3/31/2026 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Committee on Committees (S)
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| HB734 | OCCUPATIONS AND PROFESSIONS (KOCH, MATTHEW; AN ACT relating to occupations and professions.
Amend KRS 322.330 to make a technical correction. |
| | Current Status: | 3/4/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H)
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| HB735 | REGULATION OF PHARMACISTS (KOCH, MATTHEW; AN ACT relating to the regulation of pharmacists.
Amend KRS 315.408, relating to pharmacists, to make a technical correction. |
| | Current Status: | 3/4/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H)
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| HB737 | TRANSPORTATION OF FORESTRY PRODUCTS (WHITE, RICHARD; AN ACT relating to transportation of forestry products.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to define "primary forest products"; allow the transportation of primary forest products on state-maintained highways within 100 miles of their point of origin at increased weight limits of 90,000 pounds for dual rear axle trucks and 100,000 pounds for tri-axle trucks; specify that the increased weight limits do not apply on the interstate highway system or on any road with a posted bridge weight limit; amend KRS 189.990 to set penalties for violations. |
| | Current Status: | 3/4/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Transportation (H)
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| HB738 | UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (GENTRY, ALAN; Chester-Burton, Beverly) AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance.
Amend KRS 341.350, relating to unemployment insurance, to lengthen the verified definite return-to-work or recall-to-work period from 16 weeks to 12 months and add protections for employees whose place of employment can reasonably be expected to resume operations within 12 months following a natural disaster. |
| | Current Status: | 3/4/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
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| HB755 | ASSOCIATIONS AND INDIVIDUAL REPRESENTATION RIGHTS (NEMES, JASON; Flannery, Patrick; Aull, Chad; Bauman, Jared; Bivens, Ryan; Blanton, John; Burke, Lindsey; Callaway, Emily; Camuel, Adrielle; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Donworth, Anne; Fleming, Ken; Gentry, Alan; Griffee, Peyton; Grossl, Vanessa; Hodgson, John; Kulkarni, Nima; Lehman, Matthew; Lewis, Chris; Lewis, Derek; Lewis, Scott ; McCool, Bobby; Moore, Adam; Roarx, Rachel; Smith, Tom; Stalker, Sarah; Stevenson, Pamela; Watkins, Joshua; Witten, Susan) AN ACT relating to associations and individual representation rights.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to allow public employee collective bargaining organizations to represent only dues-paying members; allow nonmember employees to be represented by counsel of their choosing, subject to reasonable employer procedures; grant the labor organization the right to represent a nonmember employee in an action involving the interpretation or enforcement of a collective bargaining agreement; allow nonmember employees to enter into a written agreement with the labor organization for representation for a reasonable fee; apply to agreements entered into or renewed on or after the effective date of the Act. |
| | Current Status: | 3/17/2026 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules
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| HB758 | OCCUPATIONAL LICENSE FEES (DIETZ, STEPHANIE; AN ACT relating to occupational license fees.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 91A to define terms; require 100% of the wages of an employee associated with the corporate office to be apportioned to the local government where the corporate office is located; exclude wages for work performed at a satellite office; require 100% of the wages of an employee assigned to a state government office to be apportioned to the local government where the state government office is located; allow a refund claim for occupational license fees paid for work physically performed outside of the local government's jurisdiction; establish requirements for refunds; apply the apportionment and refund requirements to incentive agreements entered into on or after January 1, 2001; amend KRS 67.780 to conform; provide that the Act may be cited as the Economic Development Incentive Retention Act. |
| | Current Status: | 3/4/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Local Government (H)
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| HB759 | TEACHER CERTIFICATION (PAYNE, J. T.; AN ACT relating to teacher certification.
Amend KRS 161.048 to modify and reestablish alternative teacher certification options as alternative routes; establish the eligibility requirements of alternative routes; delete Option 2 certification; establish a route for current professional certificate holders to expand certification and the eligibility requirements; require the Education Professional Standards Board to maintain and publish a list of academic majors, academic minors, and graduate degree academic content areas and the corresponding areas for which they shall satisfy certification requirements; make current professional certificate holders eligible to expand certification through any alternative route; require holders of professional certificates under specific routes complete training requirements to be eligible for the first renewal of the certificate; provide that the Education Professional Standards Board may require a passing score on a professional skills assessment; amend KRS 161.032 and 164.757 to conform; repeal KRS 161.049. |
| | Current Status: | 3/31/2026 - (S) recommitted to committee Senate Rules (S)
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| HB790 | TEACHER SCHOLARSHIPS (DUVALL, ROBERT; Jackson, Kevin; Willner, Lisa) AN ACT relating to teacher scholarships, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 164.769 to establish a pilot program to provide scholarships to students pursuing a teaching career in a math- or science-related discipline to be administered by the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority; establish scholarship recipient selection, award, and repayment process; appropriate $4,175,000 in each fiscal year of the 2026-2028 fiscal biennium to support the program; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 3/9/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Postsecondary Education (H)
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| HB813 | CONTRACTS (STEVENSON, PAMELA; AN ACT relating to contracts.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to define "covenant not to compete" and "covered employee"; prohibit an employer from requiring a covered employee to enter into a covenant not to compete; set forth civil remedy, damages that can be recovered, and limitations to bring claim; require that provisions to be posted by the employer; prohibit an employer from retaliating against an employee for bringing a civil action; establish application of provisions; amend KRS 336.990 to provide civil penalties. |
| | Current Status: | 3/9/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
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| HB814 | EMPLOYMENT (STEVENSON, PAMELA; AN ACT relating to employment.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to define terms and make the termination of employment without cause unlawful; establish amount that may be recovered for wrongful discharge; specify when the employers' internal procedures are to be used. |
| | Current Status: | 3/9/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
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| HB823 | DIGITAL ASSET WALLETS (SMITH, TOM; AN ACT relating to digital asset wallets.
Create a new section of KRS 369.130 to 369.139 to define "wallet provider"; require wallet providers to provide live customer service during operating hours and to provide a mechanism for, and assistance with, resetting any password, pin, seed phrase, or other similar information necessary to access the contents of a wallet; provide that a violation of the section is an unfair, false, misleading, or deceptive trade practices in violation of KRS 367.170; provide that the remedies and penalties are cumulative; authorize the Attorney General to promulgate administrative regulations for the proper enforcement of the section. |
| | Current Status: | 3/10/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Banking & Insurance (H)
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| HB825 | DIGITAL ASSETS (SMITH, TOM; AN ACT relating to digital assets.
Amend KRS 369.130 to make technical amendments. |
| | Current Status: | 3/10/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Banking & Insurance (H)
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| HB826 | EDUCATION (TIPTON, JAMES; Stalker, Sarah; Chester-Burton, Beverly) AN ACT relating to education.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 151B to require no less than 85% of general fund appropriations to the Office of Adult Education to be used for programs fulfilling the adult education mission and goals of the office; amend KRS 151B.403 to require a qualifying test to obtain a High School Equivalency Diploma to offer a written or paper test administration. SCS (1) Retain original provisions; repeal Section 15 of 2026 RS SB 4 relating to the McConnell Center; amend Section 16 of 2026 RS SB 4 to conform. SCS (1) Retain original provisions; repeal Section 15 of 2026 RS SB 4 relating to the McConnell Center; amend Section 16 of 2026 RS SB 4 to conform. SCA (1) Make title amendment. |
| | Current Status: | 4/23/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| HB827 | SCHOOL DISTRICTS (TIPTON, JAMES; AN ACT relating to school districts.
Amend KRS 160.020 to modify the minimum enrollment requirements for independent school districts to continue to operate; establish criteria for the Kentucky Board of Education to consider in an appeal of that requirement; amend KRS 160.041 to provide a merger process for any contiguous school districts; require the Kentucky Board of Education to determine the terms of merger for an insolvent district if no agreement between the school districts can be reached, and to promulgate administrative regulations regarding mergers due to insolvency. |
| | Current Status: | 3/10/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB828 | CONSUMER PROTECTION (HART, MARK; AN ACT relating to consumer protection.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 367, relating to consumer protection, to define terms; establish standards for solar energy contractors, and solar energy system solicitation, installation, and contracts; establish cause of action to enjoin a violation of the standards and set damages; provide for Attorney General enforcement; amend KRS 227.480 to require that local standards and fees for solar energy system inspections must be applied in a nondiscriminatory manner. |
| | Current Status: | 3/10/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Natural Resources & Energy (H)
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| HB829 | MORAL INSTRUCTION (BAKER, SHANE; Petrie, Jason; Doan, Steven; Fister, Daniel; Roberts, T.J.) AN ACT relating to moral instruction.
Amend KRS 158.200 to require the board of education of a local school district to allow students to attend moral instruction when the moral instruction offering complies with the requirements enumerated; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to authorize the Attorney General to bring an action for a writ of mandamus to compel a board of education to comply; create a cause of action to permit a qualified individual to file a civil action against a board of education for injunctive relief arising from a violation of this Act; permit recovery of monetary damages for a willful and intentional violation; waive sovereign, governmental, and qualified immunity; prohibit retaliation. |
| | Current Status: | 3/10/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB830 | FARM TAX EXEMPTION (THOMPSON, AARON; AN ACT relating to the farm implements and farm machinery ad valorem tax exemption.
Amend KRS 132.096 relating to the exemption from state and local property taxes for farm implements and farm machinery, to remove ownership and use requirements; make technical changes. |
| | Current Status: | 3/10/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB832 | TRANSIENT ROOM TAX (BURKE, LINDSEY; AN ACT relating to transient room tax.
Amend KRS 142.400 to impose a 1% statewide surtax on the rental of accommodations when charged by the owner of the property or by a person facilitating the rental of the property and deposit the receipts from the surtax into the affordable housing trust fund; amend KRS 142.402, 142.404, 142.406, and 198A.190 to conform; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2026. |
| | Current Status: | 3/10/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB833 | STUDENT EXPULSION (BANTA, KIM; AN ACT relating to student expulsion.
Amend KRS 158.150 to allow a student to be placed in an alternative program or setting indefinitely; require annual review if a student is placed in an alternative program or setting for longer than 1 calendar year; provide for appeal to the local board of education of any decision of the appeals committee. |
| | Current Status: | 3/10/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB834 | SCHOOL DISTRICT FINANCES (CLINES, MIKE; AN ACT relating to school district finances.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to establish the calendar and procedures for a district superintendent and local board of education to adopt a school district budget; require that a budget must include a reserve of not less than 2%; amend KRS 156.200 to authorize the commissioner of education to examine the expenditures, business methods, accounts, financial accounts, and educational records of a local board of education to enforce state law, and to take certain actions upon reason to suspect waste, fraud, fiscal mismanagement, or inaccurate accounts; establish parameters for the commissioner of education when considering an examination; authorize the commissioner of education to require additional training or financial reports to correct issues; provide for oversight by the Kentucky Board of Education; amend KRS 157.440, 160.390, 160.460, 160.470, 160.473, 160.530, 160.550, and 424.250 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 3/10/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB835 | NEW MARKETS DEVELOPMENT TAX CREDIT (PAYNE, J. T.; AN ACT relating to the New Markets Development Program tax credit.
Amend KRS 141.433 to allow amounts received as repayment on a qualified low-income community investment and reinvested in another qualified low-income community investment during the same calendar year to be considered continuously held; amend KRS 141.434 to increase the cap on total New Markets Development Program tax credits from $10 million to $20 million in each fiscal year. |
| | Current Status: | 3/10/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB837 | HEALTH SERVICES (MOSER, KIMBERLY POORE; Moser, Kimberly Poore) AN ACT relating to health services.
Amend KRS 216.313 to insert gender-neutral language. |
| | Current Status: | 3/10/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health Services (H)
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| HB838 | HEALTH SERVICES (MOSER, KIMBERLY POORE; AN ACT relating to health services.
Amend KRS 205.010 to insert gender-neutral language. |
| | Current Status: | 3/10/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health Services (H)
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| HB839 | HEALTH SERVICES (MOSER, KIMBERLY POORE; AN ACT relating to health services.
Amend KRS 216.315 to add gender-neutral language. |
| | Current Status: | 3/10/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health Services (H)
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| HB840 | HEALTH SERVICES (MOSER, KIMBERLY POORE; AN ACT relating to health services.
Amend KRS 216.313 to add gender-neutral language. |
| | Current Status: | 3/10/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Health Services (H)
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| HB842 | INTERROGATION OF CHILDREN (WATKINS, JOSHUA; AN ACT relating to interrogation of children.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 610 to define terms; prohibit the use of deceptive methods when a child is being interrogated; create a new rule of evidence to limit the admissibility of statements made during the interrogation of a child in violation of statute. |
| | Current Status: | 3/10/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
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| HB843 | COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT DISTRICTS (WATKINS, JOSHUA; AN ACT relating to community improvement districts.
Amend KRS 107.310, relating to community improvement districts, to define "green infrastructure", "green bond", and "social impact bond"; amend KRS 107.330 to increase the scope of community improvement districts to include public infrastructure, housing, public safety and health, and economic development tools; amend KRS 107.340 to require county judges/executive to ensure community improvement district board membership does not represent one particular interest; amend KRS 107.350 to allow community improvement districts to use green bonds and social impact bonds; amend KRS 107.380 to increase reporting requirements of community improvement districts; amend KRS 65.7043, 65.7045, and 65.7049 to allow community improvement districts to access moneys from tax increment financing levied by local governments; create new sections of KRS 107.310 to 107.500 to allow community improvement districts to request cities and counties to use special assessments imposed under KRS 91A.200 to 91A.290; allow community improvement districts to receive moneys from private partners; establish the Community Improvement District Grant Program to provide state grants for community improvement district projects and require the Department for Local Government to administer the program; create the Community Improvement District Grant Program fund to be administered by the Department for Local Government; require projects undertaken by community improvement districts to be reapproved by property owners within the boundaries of the district on a 10 year basis. |
| | Current Status: | 3/10/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Local Government (H)
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| HB845 | ABOLISHMENT OF IMMANENT DOMAIN (ROBERTS, T.J.; Lawrence, William; Banta, Kim; Calloway, Josh; Holloway, Kim; Massaroni, Candy; Tate, Nancy) AN ACT relating to the abolition of eminent domain.
Amend Sections 13 and 195 and repeal Sections 211 and 242 of the Constitution of Kentucky to eliminate the power of eminent domain in the Commonwealth. |
| | Current Status: | 3/10/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
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| HB846 | SCHOOL DISTRICT SUPERINTENDENTS (MASSARONI, CANDY; Roberts, T.J.) AN ACT relating to school district superintendents.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to establish a process to recall a superintendent of a school district; amend KRS 160.350 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 3/10/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB847 | TAXATION (MASSARONI, CANDY; AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to taxation.
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. |
| | Current Status: | 3/10/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
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| HB852 | EDUCATION (FLEMING, KEN; AN ACT relating to education.
Amend KRS 160.463 to make technical corrections. |
| | Current Status: | 3/17/2026 - (H) Returned to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB855 | PERSONS ENTITLED TO VOTE (ROARX, RACHEL; Donworth, Anne; Chester-Burton, Beverly; Stalker, Sarah) AN ACT relating to persons entitled to vote.
Amend KRS 116.025 to permit voters 16 and 17 years of age to vote in local school board elections upon local approval by a school board; create a new section of KRS Chapter 116 to require county clerks to administer the registration and voting of persons 16 and 17 years of age; allow voters who are 16 and 17 years of age to receive ballots limited to school board contests; require the State Board of Elections to promulgate administrative regulations to establish the procedure for persons 16 and 17 years of age to register and vote for school board elections. |
| | Current Status: | 3/10/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
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| HB860 | MOTOR VEHICLE LICENSE PLATES (BAUMAN, JARED; AN ACT relating to motor vehicle license plates.
Amend KRS 186.240 to require the Transportation Cabinet to produce an optional noncommercial standard license plate, available to individuals 65 years of age or older, that is of a distinct design and color than other standard plates; require the Transportation Cabinet to publish educational and public service materials regard the availability and meaning of the plate; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2027. |
| | Current Status: | 3/10/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Transportation (H)
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| HB861 | RESTORATION OF RIGHTS (BAUMAN, JARED; AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to restoration of rights.
Propose to amend Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky to automatically restore the voting rights and civil rights of persons convicted of certain felonies upon completion of their imprisonment, probation, and parole; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection. |
| | Current Status: | 3/10/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
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| HB862 | MATERIALS HARMFUL TO MINORS (CALLOWAY, JOSH; Hodgson, John) AN ACT relating to materials, programs, or events alleged to be harmful to minors.
Amend KRS 158.192 to require a local board of education to allow parents and guardians an opportunity to orally recite passages from materials, programs, or events that are 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. |
| | Current Status: | 3/10/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB863 | UNIFORM CITATION REPORTS (CALLOWAY, JOSH; AN ACT relating to uniform citation reports.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 17 to prohibit the public disclosure of uniform citation reports created in response to a motor vehicle accident where law enforcement suspects that the use of drugs or alcohol contributed to the accident until the law enforcement agency receives the results of the any test for drugs or alcohol. |
| | Current Status: | 3/10/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
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| HB864 | ELECTIONS (CALLOWAY, JOSH; AN ACT relating to elections.
Amend KRS 118.125, relating to primary elections, to remove the requirement that 2 registered voters from a candidate's party and district or jurisdiction must sign the candidate's notification and declaration; amend KRS 118A.060 to remove the requirement that 2 registered voters from a judicial candidate's district or circuit must sign the candidate's petition for nomination; amend KRS 118A.100 to remove the requirement that 2 registered voters from a judicial candidate's district or circuit must sign the candidate's petition for nomination; amend KRS 118.155 to conform, make retroactive effective as of November 1, 2025; RETROACTIVE. |
| | Current Status: | 3/10/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
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| HB865 | TAX EXCEPTION FOR DIAPERS (CALLOWAY, JOSH; Roberts, T.J.; Burke, Lindsey) AN ACT relating to a sales and use tax exemption for diapers.
Amend KRS 139.010 to define "diaper"; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt all diapers from the sales and use tax; make technical corrections; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2026. |
| | Current Status: | 3/10/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB867 | PRIVATE SPACES (WESLEY, BILL; Roberts, T.J.; Baker, Shane; Bivens, Ryan; Calloway, Josh; Doan, Steven; Dotson, Ryan; Fister, Daniel; Fugate, Chris; Hodgson, John; King, Kim; Lawrence, William; Massaroni, Candy; McPherson, Shawn; Proctor, Marianne; Sharp, Scott; Smith, Tom; Tate, Nancy; Truett, Timmy; Williams, Wade) AN ACT relating to private spaces.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to ensure that privacy exists in public building multi-occupancy private spaces; identify consequences for using multi-occupancy private spaces designated for the opposite biological sex; identify exceptions for using multi-occupancy private space designated for the opposite biological sex; create cause of action for discrimination and retaliation against a person who makes a good-faith report. |
| | Current Status: | 3/10/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government (H)
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| HB869 | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (BOWLING, ADAM; Petrie, Jason) AN ACT relating to economic development and declaring an emergency.
HCS (1) Retain original provisions, except remove the rural building and job creation revolving fund and related uses of the fund for the New Markets Tax Credits Program; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to define "approved company," "authority," and "credit"; create a refundable economic development credit against taxes imposed under KRS 141.020 or 141.040 and 141.0401; set requirements for the Department of Revenue to administer the credit; require the Department of Revenue to report to the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority on the credit; prohibit the information reported to be considered confidential; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the credit; amend KRS 154.12-204 to include the cost of equipment in approved costs; define "heritage county"; increase the minimum base hourly wage amount for the Bluegrass State Skills Program; amend KRS 154.12-207 to increase the skills training investment credit cap; create a separate skills training investment credit cap for trainees located in a heritage county; increase the timeframe that an approved company has to complete training programs under a Bluegrass State Skills Program; amend KRS 154.21-015 to define "heritage county"; amend KRS 154.21-017 to set a higher grant funding cap for approved projects located in a heritage county under the Kentucky Product Development Initiative Program; amend KRS 154.21-035 to include propane in the list of required utilities for a property that an eligible project occupies or is proposed to occupy under the Kentucky Product Development Initiative Program; amend KRS 154.25-010 to define "heritage county"; set a lower threshold for required jobs and eligible costs for projects located in a heritage county under the Kentucky Jobs Retention Act Program; amend KRS 154.25-030 to allow the extension of a tax incentive agreement for a jobs retention project when an approved company demonstrates that less than 75% of the incentives awarded will be claimed during the term of the agreement; allow a refundable credit of up to 1.5% of the wages paid to full-time employees maintained at a jobs retention project located in a heritage county; set a cap for the total refundable credits awarded to all approved companies under the Kentucky Jobs Retention Act Program and the Kentucky Business Investment Program at $2,000,000 per taxable year; amend KRS 154.25-040 to require reporting by the Department of Revenue and the Cabinet for Economic Development on the refundable credits claimed under the Kentucky Jobs Retention Act Program; amend KRS 154.32-010 to include research and development as an eligible company for the Kentucky Business Investment Program; expand the types of start-up costs and lease agreements allowed for economic development projects under the Kentucky Business Investment Program; define "heritage county"; increase the wage target thresholds and set a separate threshold for jobs located in a heritage county; amend KRS 154.32-020 to increase the required minimum pay for jobs created as a result of the economic development project under the Kentucky Business Investment Program; amend KRS 154.32-030 to allow the recovery of eligible costs incurred 90 days prior to receipt of preliminary approval for an economic development project under the Kentucky Business Investment Program; amend KRS 154.32-040 to allow a one-time extension for approved companies that received preliminary approval of an economic development project prior to January 1, 2023 under the Kentucky Business Investment Program; set requirements for the extension; amend KRS 154.32-070 to allow a refundable credit of up to 1.5% of the wages paid to full-time employees maintained at an economic development project located in a heritage county under the Kentucky Business Investment Program; set a cap for the total refundable credits awarded to all approved companies under the Kentucky Jobs Retention Act Program and the Kentucky Business Investment Program at $2,000,000 per taxable year; amend KRS 154.32-100 to require reporting by the Department of Revenue and the Cabient for Economic Development on the refundable credits claimed under the Kentucky Business Investment Program; amend various other sections to conform; repeal KRS 154.32-050, relating to certifcation of enhanced incentive counties; EMERGENCY. SCS (1) Delete original provisions; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to create a refundable economic development credit for the Kentucky Product Development Initiative and the Kentucky Business Investment Program subject to the approval of the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority; amend KRS 141.0205 to add the refundable economic development credit to the priority of tax credits taken by a taxpayer; create a new section of Subchapter 12 of KRS Chapter 154 to create the heritage community revolving fund to provide financial assistance to support New Markets Development Program Tax Credit applications to be administered by the Cabinet for Economic Development and subject to the approval of the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority; amend KRS 154.12-204 to add the definition of "heritage county" and amend the definition of "minimum base hourly wage" from 150% to 200% for a company in a heritage county and to 300% for a company in any other county; amend KRS 154.12-207 to change the Bluegrass State Skills Corporation's occupational upgrade training or skills upgrade training credit amount not to exceed $5,000 per trainee for an approved company in a heritage county and $4,000 per trainee for an approved company in any other county and to change the 1 year to 3 year limit on completing training from the date of approval by the Bluegrass State Skills Corporation; amend KRS 154.21-015 to add the definition of "heritage county"; amend KRS 154.21-017 to increase maximum funding available to $2,500,000 for an approved project in a heritage county under the Kentucky Product Development Initiative; amend KRS 154.21-035 to include propane in the assessment of adequate utilities; amend KRS 154.25-010 to change definition of "eligible company" to include a minimum of 250 full-time persons for a project located in a heritage county and add the definition of "heritage county" under the Kentucky Jobs Retention Act; amend KRS 154.25-030 to allow an extension of the 10 year time period if less than 75% of the incentives will be claimed under the term of the agreement and to provide a refundable tax credit based on a tiering system ranking all of Kentucky's counties into 4 tiers; amend KRS 154.25-040 to add new reporting requirements for the Department of Revenue to the Cabinet for Economic Development and for the cabinet to annually report to the Governor and the Legislative Research Commission on the economic development wage credits received; amend KRS 154.25-050 to conform; amend KRS 154.32-010 to add "heritage county", amend "start-up costs" to include certain software; and "wage target" from 125% to 200% for a company in a heritage county and from 150% to 300% for a company in any other county under the Kentucky Business Incentives program; include research and development companies or out of state companies involved in economic development projects near Tier IV counties, with another state that has reciprocal provisions with Kentucky, with a minimum 250 full-time jobs, and meets other criteria as the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority may require; amend KRS 154.32-020 to increase the percentage of federal minimum wage paid to 90% of new full-time employees from 125% to 200% in heritage counties and from 150% to 300% in other counties and to provide a refundable economic development credit based on a tiering system ranking all of Kentucky's counties into 4 tiers; amend KRS 154.32-030 to allow recovery of eligible costs incurred 90 days prior to receiving preliminary approval; amend KRS 154.32-040 |
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| HB870 | PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION (WATKINS, JOSHUA; AN ACT relating to public transportation, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 96A.096 to include voluntary contributions by a Kentucky employer up to 0.05% of the Kentucky employer's total payroll in the Kentucky public transportation development fund; require the fund to be administered by the Transportation Cabinet; require the moneys received from the voluntary contributions to be used for providing public transit for workforce mobility needs; specify how the moneys in the fund for public transit are distributed; require annual reporting to the Transportation Cabinet from each public transit system that receives money from the fund; require annual reporting from the Transportation Cabinet to the Legislative Research Commission; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to define "public transportation contribution," "Kentucky public transportation development fund," and "transit authority"; establish the public transportation contribution credit for taxes imposed in KRS 141.020 or 141.040 and 141.0401 for public transportation contributions provided by a Kentucky employer; limit the credit to 50% of the total amount of the public transportation contribution made for the taxable year by the employer; require annual reporting by the Department of Revenue on the credits claimed; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credits; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the credit; appropriate $30 million in general fund moneys in each fiscal year of the 2026-2028 biennium to the Kentucky public transportation development fund; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 3/10/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB871 | SCHOOL NUTRITION PROGRAMS (BIVENS, RYAN; Burke, Lindsey) AN ACT relating to school nutrition programs.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Farm to School Program and program fund; direct the Department of Agriculture to reimburse an eligible school district for every eligible meal as funds become available; require a school district that receives a reimbursement to develop and implement a Kentucky Farm to School Program plan to identify and purchase available Kentucky-grown agricultural products and to optimize food usage; direct the Department of Agriculture to promulgate administrative regulations necessary to carry out this section; provide that the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Farm to School Act. |
| | Current Status: | 3/10/2026 - floor amendment (1) filed
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| HB875 | INTERSCHOLASTIC ATHLETICS (RAYMER, REBECCA; AN ACT relating to interscholastic athletics.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to define terms; establish a nonpublic school student's eligibility for participation in interscholastic athletics at the public school to which the student would be assigned in the student's district of residence; establish requirements, conditions, and procedures for the nonpublic school student's participation in interscholastic athletics. |
| | Current Status: | 3/11/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB877 | AMENDMENT RELATING TO EXEMPTING PROPERTY FROM TAXATION (MASSARONI, CANDY; Calloway, Josh) AN ACT proposing to amend section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky exempting property from taxation.
Propose to amend Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky to exempt property owned by seniors who are 65 years of age or older and property owned by a former member of the United States Armed Forces, including the National Guard, who is 100% service-connected combat-related disabled and, upon his death, property owned by his or her surviving spouse; apply to property assessed on or after January 1, 2027; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection. |
| | Current Status: | 3/11/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
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| HB878 | ABOLISHMENT OF EMINENT DOMAIN (ROBERTS, T.J.; Massaroni, Candy) AN ACT relating to the abolishment of eminent domain.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 416 abolishing the power of eminent domain within the Commonwealth; amend various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to remove powers granted to entities to exercise the power of eminent domain; amend various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to remove references to the power of eminent domain; repeal various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to remove powers of eminent domain and references to that power; make technical corrections. |
| | Current Status: | 3/11/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
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| HB880 | INTERSTATE DENTAL AND DENTAL LICENSURE COMPACT (RILEY, STEVE; AN ACT relating to the Interstate Dental and Dental Hygiene Licensure Compact.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 313 to adopt the Interstate Dental and Dental Hygiene Licensure Compact; declare the intent and purpose of the compact; define terms; establish conditions under which an individual can practice in a remote state; authorize a home state to impose adverse action against an individual's license issued by the home state; authorize a member state's licensing authority to issue subpoenas for hearings and investigations as well as cease and desist orders to restrict, suspend, or revoke an individual's privilege to practice in the state; establish the Interstate Dental and Dental Hygiene Licensure Compact Commission; provide immunity from suit and liability for members, officers, executive director, employees, and representatives of the commission who act in accordance with the provisions of the compact; authorize the executive, judicial, and legislative branches of state government to enforce the provisions of the compact; establish rulemaking procedures; authorize the commission to attempt to resolve disputes related to the compact that arise among member states and between member and nonmember states; require provisions of the compact to become effective on the date the compact is enacted into law in the fifth compact state; establish withdrawal provisions for a member state that wishes to withdraw from the compact; provide for severability for any provision in the compact that is contrary to the constitution of any member state or of the United States or the applicability thereof to any government, agency, person, or circumstance. |
| | Current Status: | 3/11/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H)
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| HB881 | EDUCATION (RILEY, STEVE; AN ACT relating to education.
Amend KRS 160.463 to make technical corrections. |
| | Current Status: | 3/11/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB882 | DISCIPLINE OF STUDENTS (TRUETT, TIMMY; King, Kim) AN ACT relating to discipline of students.
Amend KRS 158.150 to permit a teacher to remove from the classroom a student that violates a school behavior policy and is disruptive to the classroom environment and education process; require teacher and principal or assistant principal agreement before student may return to the classroom on the same school day as removal. |
| | Current Status: | 3/11/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB883 | VIRTUAL SCHOOLS (TRUETT, TIMMY; AN ACT relating to virtual schools and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 158.120 to place a districtwide enrollment cap on nonresident pupil enrollment in virtual programs; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 3/11/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB885 | COSMETOLOGY (GORDON, DEANNA; AN ACT relating to cosmetology.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 317A to prohibit a licensee from performing services that go beyond the stratum germinativum layer unless practicing under the immediate supervision of a licensed physician; prohibit a licensee from performing any service regulated by another agency without the appropriate licensing for that service; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 317A to define "fixed salon" and "mobile salon"; change "limited beauty salon" to "limited facility" throughout; require any person who attempts to practice cosmetology or shampoo styling without being licensed to pay an administrative penalty to the board in an amount not to exceed $1,500 for each offense; authorize the board to investigate any and all unlicensed activity of services licensed under KRS Chapter 317A; prohibit a licensee from holding clinics if the clinics are not sponsored by a beauty specialty group for a service that require a license or permit under KRS Chapter 317A; require any person who applies for an esthetician license to have completed 750 hours of instruction in a licensed school within 5 years of submitting an application for licensure; establish licensing for mobile salons and limited facilities; exclude completion of 50 hours of esthetics or nail technology training within the last 2 years from licensure requirements for teaching esthetic practices or nail technology; establish license and renewal periods by administrative regulations promulgated by the board; establish a permit for natural hair braiding; exempt a person practicing natural hair brading from being required to have a salon license if working out of their home, a limited facility license if only working with other natural hair braiders, or obtaining cosmetology instruction hours beyond a sanitation course; require the board to promulgate administrative regulations to set standards for mobile salons and limited facilities; establish a code of professional conduct for persons licensed and permitted by the board; establish the inspection criteria for fixed and mobile salons; require the board to hold hearings in accordance with KRS Chapter 13B upon the request of an unlicensed party facing penalties; require schools to follow the student-teacher ratio listed in administrative regulations; allow the board to take immediate remedial measures to help a school operate according to standards if a complaint or concern has been validated through an inspection; prohibit a licensee from failing to follow sanitation standards prescribed by administrative regulations; allow the board to investigate all complaints concerning any person that is performing regulated services without a license; establish a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $1,500 per violation for any person who provides regulated services without a license. HFA(1) Create a new section of KRS Chapter 317A to prohibit a licensee from performing any service that goes beyond the stratum germinativum layer unless practicing under the direct supervision of a licensed physician or an advanced practice registered nurse; prohibit a licensee from performing any service regulated by another state board or agency without the appropriate licensing for that service, including but not limited to permanent makeup, microblading, or piercing. |
| | Current Status: | 3/27/2026 - received in Senate
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| HB887 | OFFICE SPACE LEASES FOR THE KENTUCKY PUBLIC PENSIONS AUTHORITY (JOHNSON, DJ; AN ACT relating to office space leases for the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 61.505 to exempt the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority from KRS Chapter 56 regarding the purchase or lease of office space necessary to operate the retirement systems; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 3/13/2026 - (H) Returned to Committee House State Government (H)
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| HB888 | COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS (BRAY, JOSH; Roberts, T.J.) AN ACT relating to collective bargaining agreements and declaring an emergency.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to prohibit any local government from entering into any future collective bargaining agreement; grandfather existing collective bargaining rights; amend KRS 160.160, relating to local boards of education, to prohibit any board of education from entering into any future collective bargaining agreement; grandfather existing collective bargaining rights; amend KRS 304.48-250 and 304.50-055 to make technical changes; amend various other sections to remove references to collective bargaining; repeal various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes; amend various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to conform; provide that the Act may be cited as the Taxpayer Protection Act; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 3/25/2026 - (H) Returned to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB890 | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (BRANSCUM, JOSHUA; AN ACT relating to economic development.
Create a new section of Subchapter 20 of KRS Chapter 154 to establish the high-growth loan program and high-growth loan fund to be administered by the Cabinet for Economic Development; Define terms; specify the program requirements and eligible uses of fund moneys. |
| | Current Status: | 3/13/2026 - (H) Returned to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
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| HB891 | PRORATION OF MOTOR VEHICLE PROPERTY TAXES (WHITE, RICHARD; AN ACT relating to the proration of motor vehicle property taxes.
Amend KRS 134.810 to require the proration of motor vehicle property taxes when a motor vehicle is transferred between private parties; set requirements for the proration; require any overpayments created from the proration requirements to be refunded without written request; apply to motor vehicle transfers occurring on or after January 1, 2027. |
| | Current Status: | 3/11/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB898 | COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS (AULL, CHAD; AN ACT relating to collective bargaining agreements.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to define terms; require local boards of education and local associations to bargain collectively; provide that a party who violates the duty to bargain collectively is required to pay to the aggrieved party no more than $500. |
| | Current Status: | 3/11/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
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| HB899 | SCHOOL VIOLENCE (AULL, CHAD; AN ACT relating to school violence.
Amend KRS 456.010 to define "school violence"; amend KRS 456.030 to allow a victim of school violence to file a petition for an interpersonal protective order; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 456 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 3/11/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
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| HB901 | HAZARDOUS POSITIONS IN THE COUNTY EMPLOYEES RETIREMENT SYSTEM (LEHMAN, MATTHEW; Clines, Mike) AN ACT relating to retirement benefits for employees participating in hazardous positions in the County Employees Retirement System.
Create a new section of KRS 78.510 to 78.852 to change benefits for members participating in a hazardous position in the County Employees Retirement System (CERS) who are hired on or after January 1, 2014, but prior to July 1, 2027, so that, in lieu of continued participation in the hybrid cash balance plan (Tier III benefits), these members receive the benefits provided to members in a hazardous position who began participating immediately prior to January 1, 2014 (Tier II benefits); allow for employers in CERS to make a one-time election to opt in to the benefit change by July 1, 2027; allow members who are employed by an employer that makes a one-time election to make a one-time election to opt into the benefit change within 30 days of the employer election and allow a member to pay the costs to convert any other Tier III benefit service in a hazardous position to Tier II benefit service; provide that all new hires after July 1, 2027, in hazardous positions for any employer that makes a one-time election receive Tier II benefits; require that accumulated contributions in the hybrid cash balance plan remain in the member's account; provide that any member eligible to make a one-time irrevocable election to change their benefits shall not have the option to change or make a new election under any circumstances relating to a change in employment or reemployment with a participating employer; amend KRS 61.5955 to exempt members who are participating in Tier II benefits based upon an election of an employer pursuant to this Act; amend KRS 61.680 to allow members who have Tier II and Tier III service to consolidate that service for the purpose of determining eligibility and amount of benefits; amend KRS 78.510 to add December 31, 2013, to the definition of "membership date" for members whose benefit tier changes pursuant to this Act; amend KRS 78.5520 to allow members to pay the cost of converting any other Tier III service in a hazardous position to Tier II service and allow employers to pay the cost of converting any Tier III service that could be converted to Tier II service on behalf of the employee; amend KRS 78.635 to require employers who make a one-time irrevocable election to pay an additional actuarially accrued liability contribution that is sufficient to fund the conversion of benefits; amend KRS 78.640 to allow a member's accumulated employer credit attributable to service converted to Tier II benefits to be transferred to the retirement allowance account; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2027. |
| | Current Status: | 3/11/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House State Government (H)
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| HB902 | SUPPLEMENTAL PAYMENT FOR RETIRED STATE EMPLOYEES (HANCOCK, ERIKA; AN ACT relating to supplemental payment for retired state employees, making an appropriation therefore, and declaring an emergency.
Appropriate $43,827,000 from the budget reserve trust fund account in fiscal year 2026-2027 to the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority to fund one-time supplemental payments on July 1, 2026, to recipients of a retirement allowance who have been retired for at least 12 months from the Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS) and the State Police Retirement System (SPRS); specify that the one-time supplemental payment shall be equal to the monthly payment received by the recipient in the month of June 2026, not to exceed $1,000; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 3/11/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB903 | BARBER APPRENTICESHIPS (GRIFFEE, PEYTON; AN ACT relating to barber apprenticeships.
Amend KRS 317.410 to define "direct supervision" and "shop training program"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 317 to establish a shop training program and establish program requirements; amend KRS 317.420 to exempt individuals who participate in the shop training program from KRS Chapter 317; amend KRS 317.450 to require the Kentucky Board of Barbering to issue an apprentice license to a person who has completed 1,200 hours in a shop training program; require 9 months of participation in a shop training program. |
| | Current Status: | 3/11/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H)
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| HB906 | STUDENT HEALTH AND SAFETY (MOSER, KIMBERLY POORE; Baker, Shane) AN ACT relating to student health and safety.
Amend KRS 158.162 to define "critical incident," require investigations in emergency plans for critical incidents and state the goals of the investigations; amend KRS 158.4410 to task the state school security marshal with investigating serious physical injury or death incidents that occur on school property, at school-sanctioned events, or during interscholastic athletic events; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to outline the parameters of the investigation, require referral of potential criminal charges, and require necessary administrative regulations; amend KRS 72.025 to require the coroner conduct an autopsy in deaths occurring on public or nonpublic school property or during a school-sanctioned event. |
| | Current Status: | 3/11/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB907 | EDUCATION (SHARP, SCOTT; AN ACT relating to education.
Amend KRS 160.463 to make technical corrections. |
| | Current Status: | 3/11/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB914 | PROTECTION OF CHILDREN (CALLOWAY, JOSH; Massaroni, Candy) AN ACT relating to the protection of children.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 620 to require social service workers to wear body-worn cameras when interacting with children during investigations; require recordings to be stored for at least 5 years and be made available to parents or guardians, their counsel, and the court; establish a civil cause of action against employees of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services who knowingly submit a false statement, withhold exculpatory evidence, or violate a person's constitutional rights; waive qualified immunity; create a new section of KRS Chapter 605 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to submit an annual report to the Legislative Research Commission on the number of children removed from their homes and the average caseload of social service workers; create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to establish the family preservation fund; amend KRS 600.010 to provide that KRS Chapters 600 to 645 shall be interpreted consistently with federal law and that statutes in conflict with federal law are void to the extent of the conflict; require courts to apply strict scrutiny when reviewing state action that interferes with the fundamental rights of a parent relating to the parent-child relationship; amend KRS 610.070 to require audio and video recording of dependency, neglect, and abuse hearings; amend KRS 620.060 and KRS 620.080 to require clear and convincing evidence of neglect or abuse before removing a child from the home; amend KRS 620.090 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to provide a written explanation to the court in cases where placement is not made with relatives or fictive kin; amend KRS 620.155 to require appeals of removal orders to be heard within 24 hours of the order; amend KRS 625.090 to prohibit termination of parental rights if the Cabinet for Health and Family Services has not made reasonable efforts to reunite the child with the parents, unless reasonable efforts are not required under KRS 610.127; provide that the Act may be cited as the Protection of the Children Act; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2027. |
| | Current Status: | 3/11/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Families & Children (H)
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| HB916 | AD VALOREM EXEMPTION TAX FOR MOTOR VEHICLES (MADDOX, SAVANNAH; Calloway, Josh) AN ACT relating to an ad valorem tax exemption for motor vehicles.
Amend KRS 132.4851 to exempt motor vehicles assessed under KRS 132.485 from state property taxes beginning on or after January 1, 2027; amend KRS 132.020 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 3/11/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB920 | LARGE GROUP HEALTH INSURANCE (POLLOCK, MICHAEL SARGE; AN ACT relating to large group health insurance.
Amend KRS 91A.080 to exempt large group health insurance policies newly offered on or after January 1, 2027, from the local government license fee or tax imposed upon insurance companies. |
| | Current Status: | 3/11/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Banking & Insurance (H)
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| HB921 | TEACHER OF EXCEPTIONAL CHILDREN (GROSSBERG, DANIEL; AN ACT relating to teachers of exceptional children.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to establish a $10,000 salary supplement for certified teachers of exceptional children; provide the terms and requirements of the salary supplement. |
| | Current Status: | 3/11/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB922 | MEDICAL SCHOOL LOAN REPAYMENT (GROSSBERG, DANIEL; AN ACT relating to medical school loan repayment.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to create the physician recruitment and retention program to provide loan repayment to eligible medical students; define terms; specify the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority may provide awards to eligible students; require 10 years of qualified medical service; require repayment if services are not rendered; specify that failure to meet repayment obligations may be cause for revocation of a medical license at the discretion of the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure. |
| | Current Status: | 3/11/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Postsecondary Education (H)
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| HB924 | PUBLIC STUDENT LOAN FORGIVENESS PROGRAM (WATKINS, JOSHUA; Bojanowski, Tina; Donworth, Anne; Marzian, Mary Lou; Willner, Lisa) AN ACT relating to the Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness Program, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Kentucky Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness Program fund; require the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to administer the fund; require the authority to disburse funds for student loan repayment to recruit and retain eligible public service employees that live and work in Kentucky; specify terms and process; establish criteria for the program and applicant evaluation for awards; appropriate $30,000,000 from the budget reserve trust fund account for initial implementation of the student loan forgiveness program; appropriate $30,000,000 from the general fund for support of the student loan forgiveness program; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY, EFFECTIVE July 1, 2026. |
| | Current Status: | 3/11/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HB926 | ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT (MILES, SUZANNE; Johnson, DJ) AN ACT relating to economic development.
Amend KRS 154.12-280 to change the Kentucky Film Office to the Kentucky Entertainment Commission; require the commission to promote film and television, music recording and production, live performances, workforce development, and regional entertainment industry incentives; amend KRS 154.12-282 to change the Kentucky Film Leadership Council to the Kentucky Entertainment Leadership Council and change the membership of the council; amend KRS 12.020, 141.383, and 154.61-010 to conform; require the council to create and implement the Kentucky Music Cities Together Pilot Program and report findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2028. |
| | Current Status: | 3/16/2026 - (H) Returned to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
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| HB927 | DISABILITY RETIREMENT BENEFITS (TACKETT LAFERTY, ASHLEY; AN ACT relating to disability retirement benefits in the County Employees Retirement System.
Amend KRS 78.5522 to allow for the 5 year service requirement for disability retirement to be waived for a person who works in a nonhazardous position that could be certified as a hazardous position who is injured in line of duty resulting in an incapacity to continue as an employee in the position that could be certified as hazardous; allow certain persons whose last day of paid employment was on or after January 1, 2022, but prior to the effective date of this Act to apply for disability benefits; RETROACTIVE. |
| | Current Status: | 3/11/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Local Government (H)
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| HB932 | TEACHERS (CHESTER-BURTON, BEVERLY; AN ACT relating to teachers.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to make legislative findings, provide a teacher bill of rights, and require each local school board to provide a copy of the teacher bill of rights to all teachers and post the teacher bill of rights in all public school buildings containing instructional space for students. |
| | Current Status: | 3/11/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| HB935 | WORKERS' COMPENSATION (RUDY, STEVEN; AN ACT relating to workers' compensation.
Amend KRS 342.260 to include a written notice of rejection or withdrawal of that rejection within the Insurance Coverage Look-up database; amend KRS 342.395 to require the commissioner of the Department of Workers' Claims to provide an online portal through which as employee's rejection or withdrawal may be electronically submitted to the department. |
| | Current Status: | 3/13/2026 - (H) Returned to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
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| HB936 | KENTUCKY BUSINESS INVESTMENT PROGRAM (RUDY, STEVEN; AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Business Investment Program.
Amend KRS 154.32-010, relating to the Kentucky Business Investment Program, to add laboratory equipment, computer servers, software, capitalized leases, and leasehold improvements directly related to research and development, headquarters, high-technology operations, or service sector facilities to the definitions of "eligible costs" and "start-up costs," respectively. |
| | Current Status: | 3/13/2026 - (H) Returned to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
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| HB938 | OCCUPATION HEALTH AND SAFETY (CHESTER-BURTON, BEVERLY; AN ACT relating to occupational health and safety.
Amend KRS 338.991 to increase the civil penalties for employers who have violated any provision of KRS Chapter 338, received a citation for a violation of the requirements of KRS Chapter 338, or failed to correct a violation for which a citation has been issued; require the secretary for the Education and Labor Cabinet to annually adjust the maximum civil penalties beginning in 2026 by the percentage increase, if any, in the Consumer Price Index for all Urban Customers (CPI-U); direct the secretary to begin a 3 year phase-in for penalty adjustments beginning August 1, 2026. |
| | Current Status: | 3/11/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
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| HCR16 | AVIATION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TASK FORCE (DIETZ, STEPHANIE; A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION continuing the work of the Air Mobility and Aviation Economic Development Task Force by establishing the Aviation Economic Development Task Force.
Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Aviation Economic Development Task Force and direct it to study and make recommendations; establish membership and meetings; direct the task force to submit its findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2026. |
| | Current Status: | 2/13/2026 - (H) SECOND READING, to Rules
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| HCR23 | PROPTERY TAXATION TASK FORCE (BAKER, SHANE; Thompson, Aaron) A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the establishment of the Property Taxation Task Force.
Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Property Taxation Task Force to study, review, and provide policy recommendations on how to address local property taxation increases; require the task force to meet monthly during the 2026 legislative interim; outline task force membership; require the task force to submit its findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2026. |
| | Current Status: | 2/4/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HJR17 | CERULEAN VETERANS MEMORIAL BRIDGE (THOMAS, WALKER; Imes, Mary Beth) A JOINT RESOLUTION designating the Cerulean Veterans Memorial Bridge in Trigg County.
Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the bridge located on Kentucky Route 124 in Trigg County as the Cerulean Veterans Memorial Bridge. |
| | Current Status: | 1/20/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Transportation (H)
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| HJR18 | ELMER CARMON MILLINER AND PFC CLARENCE OZBERT MILLINER MEMORIAL BRIDGES (HEAVRIN, SAMARA; A JOINT RESOLUTION designating the Elmer Carmon Milliner and PFC Clarence Ozbert Milliner Memorial Bridges in Grayson County.
Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate 2 bridges on Kentucky Route 920 in Grayson County as the Elmer Carmon Milliner Memorial Bridge and the PFC Clarence Ozbert Milliner Memorial Bridge. |
| | Current Status: | 1/20/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Transportation (H)
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| HJR22 | EFFICACY OF PLANTING MINT TO MITIGATE COLLISIONS WITH WILDLIFE (GORDON, DEANNA; A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet to study the efficacy of planting mint along highways to mitigate motor vehicle collisions with wildlife.
Direct the Transportation Cabinet study the efficacy and potential drawbacks of planting mint along highways to mitigate motor vehicle collisions with deer and other wildlife and report the results of its study to the Legislative Research Commission by October 31, 2026. |
| | Current Status: | 1/20/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Transportation (H)
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| HJR52 | ROAD PROJECTS (STEVENSON, PAMELA; A JOINT RESOLUTION relating to road projects.
Set out the last 4 years of the Governor's recommended Six-Year Road Plan. |
| | Current Status: | 2/10/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| HR63 | RECOGNIZING RURAL ELECTRIC COOPERATIVE UTILITY WORKERS (LEWIS, DEREK; King, Kim) A RESOLUTION adjourning the House of Representatives in honor of Kentucky's rural electric cooperative utility workers who provided vital support during the deadly tornado that devastated Kentucky on May 16, 2025.
Adjourn in honor of Kentucky's rural electric cooperative utility workers who worked to restore power during and after the deadly storm on May 16, 2025. |
| | Current Status: | 3/25/2026 - To House Floor
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| SB1 | EDUCATION (GIVENS, DAVID P.; West, Stephen; Douglas, Donald; Tichenor, Lindsey; Wilson, Mike) AN ACT relating to education.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to provide the findings of the General Assembly relating to Jefferson County Public Schools; provide the General Assembly's determinations based on those findings; repeal and reenact KRS 160.370, relating to duties of superintendents and local boards of education. HFA(2) Retain original provisions, except place the legislative findings in a preamble instead of KRS Chapter 160; amend KRS 160.370 to include a school district with 500,000 or more inhabitants; remove the limitation that the board not meet more than once every 4 weeks; change the rolling 3-year strategic plan to a 5-year plan; require the board to review and approve a rolling 3-year projection of expenses and revenues; limit the amount of transfers the superintendent is authorized to make to $250,000 per quarter; require the superintendent to report to the board any purchases and transfers to the board at the next regularly scheduled meeting. |
| | Current Status: | 4/14/2026 - delivered to Secretary of State
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| SB2 | SCHOOL ADMINISTRATORS (ADAMS, JULIE RAQUE; Douglas, Donald; Tichenor, Lindsey) "AN ACT relating to school administrators and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 157.350 to provide that in order to be eligible to receive support education excellence in Kentucky funds a school district shall not provide the superintendent or any administrator a percentage pay increase greater than the average percentage pay increase provided to classroom teachers within the district; amend KRS 156.070 to conform. HFA (1) Retain original provisions; amend KRS 157.350 to specify that superintendent contracts entered into on or after July 1, 2026, shall not provide a percentage pay increase greater than the percentage pay increase provided to classroom teachers within the district; specify that an administrator shall not receive a percentage pay increase greater than that given to classroom teachers unless the increase is due to a professional advancement that imposes a significant change in job duties and responsibilities or is to uniformly increase the pay for a job category; authorize the commissioner of education to waive these provisions upon request; specify that if the commissioner denies a request, a waiver may be requested in accordance with KRS 156.161; amend KRS 160.350 to require each local board of education to submit to the Kentucky Department of Education copies of superintendent contracts, amendments, renewals, extensions, and addendums; require the local board and the department to publish the documents to their websites; amend KRS 160.346 to authorize a superintendent to remove a principal if the school has been identified for targeted support and improvement or comprehensive support and improvement for 2 or more consecutive years; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 3/27/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 9)
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| SB3 | SCHOOL DISTRICT FINANCES (TICHENOR, LINDSEY; Douglas, Donald; Elkins, Greg; Wilson, Mike) AN ACT relating to school district finances.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to establish the calendar and procedures for a district superintendent and local board of education to adopt a school district budget; require that a budget must include a reserve of not less than 2%; amend KRS 160.431 to require the annual financial report and the Kentucky Department of Education's written report be published on the district financial disclosure website; amend KRS 160.463 to require a school district to maintain a district financial disclosure website; identify the information that shall be published on the website; amend KRS 157.440, 160.390, 160.460, 160.470, 160.473, 160.530 and 160.550 to conform; require districts to publish the most recent information available on the district financial disclosure website upon the effective date of the Act. SCA (1) Make technical corrections to conform. SFA (2) Retain original provisions; require posting of superintendent contracts and separation pay to the district financial disclosure website. |
| | Current Status: | 2/3/2026 - received in House
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| SB4 | EDUCATION (WEST, STEPHEN; Givens, David P.; Deneen, Matthew; Douglas, Donald; Mills, Robby; Neal, Gerald A.; Tichenor, Lindsey; Wilson, Mike; Wise, Max) AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to define "department" and "principal"; establish the principal leadership development practicum; require the Kentucky Department of Education to develop and operate the practicum and outline the required components of the practicum; allow for substitution of practicum hours for hours of instruction required by the effective instructional leadership program; begin the practicum requirements with the 2027-2028 school year; authorize the promulgation of administrative regulations for the operation of the practicum; amend KRS 156.101 to conform; amend KRS 161.207 to remove references to the principal internship program and make conforming changes to initial principal certification process; amend KRS 156.492 to remove an outdated reference; require the Kentucky Department of Education to submit a report to the Legislative Research Commission by November 1, 2026, setting out the implementation plan for the practicum. SCS (1) Retain original provisions; change requirement for the Kentucky Department of Education to partner with the Kentucky Chamber Foundation instead of the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce for the fourth year of the practicum. HCS(1) Retain original provisions; change the principal practicum from 5 to 3 years and establish elements of the practicum for those years; create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to require a local board of education with more than 4 schools identified for comprehensive support and improvement to establish a critical school improvement advisory committee; establish the membership and duties of the committee; amend KRS 160.160 to define "large school district"; require boards of education of large school districts to conduct ongoing evaluation of board performance; amend KRS 160.180 to establish board of education member eligibility requirements limiting employment of members under boards of education; amend KRS 160.210 to establish elected and appointed membership of boards of education of large school districts; create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to establish the election divisions for the board of education for Jefferson County; amend KRS 156.132, 160.042, 160.170, 160.190, 160.200, 160.240, 304.48-250, and 304.50-055 to conform; provide for the initial appointment of appointed members of boards of education in large school districts; provide for the possible transition of membership of large school districts from 7 to 5 elected members; provide for the transition to 5 board members from 7 in certain large school districts; provide for the temporary eligibility of current board of education members notwithstanding new eligibility requirements; EMERGENCY. HFA(1) Modify the duties of the critical school improvement advisory committee; make only elected members of a board of education eligible to selection as chair or vice chair; make the use by boards of education of large school districts of the ongoing evaluation tool optional; modify eligibility requirements of appointed and elected members of a board of education; establish a 2 term limit for appointed members of a board of education; establish the limits of precinct boundaries for the school district; establish the transition of board of education composition for large school districts transitioning from 7 to 5 elected members; establish requirements for the initial appointments for appointed members of boards of education of large school districts. FCCR (1) Retain original provisions; modify the length of the practicum to 4 years; modify the components of the practicum; amend KRS 160.160 to define "large school district"; amend KRS 160.180 to establish board of education member eligibility requirements for large school districts limiting employment of members under boards of education; amend KRS 160.210 to establish 5 elected members of boards of education of large school districts; create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to establish the election divisions for the board of education for the Jefferson County School District; amend KRS 160.042, 160.200, 160.240, 304.48-250, and 304.50-055 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish a center of American Civics at the University of Kentucky and requirements for the center; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to redesignate the McConnel Center at the University of Louisville as an independent academic unit and establish the requirements for the center; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require the McConnel Center and the Center of American Civics to develop materials and curricula for a course of instruction in American government or history; provide for the transition to 5 board members from 7 in certain large school districts; provide for the temporary eligibility of current board of education members notwithstanding new eligibility requirements; EMERGENCY; make title amendment. |
| | Current Status: | 4/14/2026 - delivered to Secretary of State
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| SB5 | KENTUCKY-GROWN AGRICULTURAL PRODUCT PROCUREMENT (HOWELL, JASON; Boswell, Gary; Deneen, Matthew; Neal, Gerald A.; Tichenor, Lindsey) AN ACT relating to Kentucky-grown agricultural product procurement and declaring an emergency.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define "agricultural product" and "Kentucky-grown agricultural product"; allow a local school board or local school district participating in any of the United States Department of Agriculture Child Nutrition Programs to purchase Kentucky-grown agricultural products in accordance with federal law. HCS(1) Retain original provisions; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 3/27/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 8)
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| SB6 | ENDOWED RESEARCH FUND (STIVERS, ROBERT; AN ACT relating to the endowed research fund, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Appropriate General Fund moneys in the amount of $150,000,000 in fiscal year 2026-2027 to the endowed research fund; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 3/12/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| SB9 | HOUSING DISTRICTS (MILLS, ROBBY; Higdon, Jimmy; Deneen, Matthew) AN ACT relating to housing districts.
SCS (1) Retain original provisions, except require a developer or property owner to obtain approval from a mortgage or lien holder, if applicable, for a parcel of property to be included within a residential infrastructure development district; limit a housing development district to no more than 20% agricultural use land upon the establishment of the district; require a local government to provide notice to each property owner of property to be included in a district relating to the right to exclude the property from the district. HCS (1) Retain original provisions, except require a local government to provide written notice of a public hearing regarding an exemption to planning and zoning for a housing development district; create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define terms; establish that an applicant has a vested right to the development standards in place at the time of application for a building permit, development plan, or subdivision plat upon the submission of the application to a relevant authority; establish vesting periods; allow for extensions to the vesting period; establish that the relevant authority may terminate the vested rights under specified circumstances; establish enforcement authority; amend KRS 100.347 to limit entities which have standing to challenge a final action of a planning and zoning authority; create a new section of KRS Chapter 198B to define terms; require regulatory authorities to provide information to prospective applicants regarding requirements to apply for a permit; require a regulatory authority to inform an applicant of whether the application is complete within 5 days and include whether the regulatory authority is able to perform plan review and inspection within specified time limits; require a regulatory authority to conduct plan review within 10 days of receipt of a complete application and inspections within 5 days of any request for an inspection being made; permit an applicant to use a qualifying third-party inspector; set out circumstances under which a regulatory authority may collect fees depending on use of a third-party inspector; set out what a third-party inspector may review and set out qualifications and requirements the third-party inspector must meet; require a regulatory authority to issue a permit within 3 business days of the completion of required plan reviews and inspections associated with an otherwise complete application; state that any ordinance, rule, or regulation contrary is void and unenforceable; state that a regulatory authority may issue a stop-work order if a condition of a project constitute an immediate threat to public safety and welfare; establish immunity for the regulatory authority for action of an applicant or third-party inspector; amend KRS 198B.060 to conform; amend KRS 381.785 to exclude from the definition of "planned community" groups with 4 or fewer residential lots; amend KRS 381.794 to exempt planned communities with 15 or fewer units from financial reporting and document retention requirements; amend KRS 381.9197 to exempt condominiums with 15 or fewer units from financial reporting and document retention requirements; create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 prohibiting a local government from adopting or enforcing certain restrictions on the occupancy of dwelling units; state that the prohibition does not affect a local government's ability to enforce safety codes including the state building code or any uniform code or administrative regulation related to fire safety or the construction or safety of buildings; create a new section of KRS Chapter 100 to prohibit a planning unit from adopting or enforcing certain ordinances related to vehicle parking; state that the prohibition does not alleviate obligations to provide accessible parking; create a new section of KRS Chapter 100 to define "commercial zone," "mixed-use residential development," and "multifamily residential development"; direct that mixed-use and multifamily developments are a permitted use in commercial zones; prohibit a planning unit from imposing certain requirements on those residential developments; create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define terms relating to short-term rentals; prohibit a local government from adopting or enforcing specific ordinances restricting the operation of a short-term rental; allow a planning unit to require registration for the operation of short-term rentals and enumerate the contents of a registration, procedures for registration, revocation of registration, and penalties for operating without registration when planning unit has adopted a registration ordinance; state that ordinances generally applicable to all dwellings that are necessary for public health or safety and do not treat short-term rentals differently than other residential properties are unaffected; state that any ordinance that conflicts with provisions of the section is void and unenforceable and that a party aggrieved by a violation of the section may be awarded attorney's fees and costs; state that the section shall not be construed to affect regulations of a homeowner's association or other similar property owner association; amend KRS 198B.030 to require the Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction to consider the effects of any proposed new or amended regulation on residential construction by conducting a cost-benefit analysis and an analysis to determine the impacts on the amount of residential construction; require the analyses to be submitted to the Housing, Buildings and Construction Advisory Committee and the Legislative Research Commission; amend KRS 211.203 to exempt pools that share a plat with a single-family residence that are rented to guests by the owner of the residence from regulation as public pools; create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define "local government," "low voltage battery-charged security fence," and "nonelectric perimeter barrier"; allow low voltage battery-charged security fences to be installed and operated on property that is not used as or exclusively zoned for residential purposes without the need to obtain any local government permit, approval, or other authorization, except for an alarm permit when required; specify that the bill does not impede a local government's usage of safety codes and generally applicable setback, height, and lot coverage requirements for nonelectric perimeter barriers; create new sections of KRS 383.200 to 383.285 to provide for expungement of records in eviction proceedings that are dismissed; prohibit minors from being named in an action for forcible detainer unless the minor is a leaseholder; provide for expungement of a minor's name from an order; amend KRS 383.240 to require the court to give notice to the parties that records will be expunged; amend KRS 383.250 to provide for sealing of records; amend KRS 367.310 to prohibit consumer reporting agencies from maintaining information in their files relating to dismissed eviction actions; provide that the expungement of dismissed eviction actions applies to actions initiated on or after the effective date of the Act. HCA (1) Make title amendment. |
| | Current Status: | 4/15/2026 - Free Conference Committee Appointed in House Rep. Osborne, Chair; Rep. Flannery; Rep. Meade; Rep. Kulkarni; Rep. Witten
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| SB12 | MEDICAL PROVIDER COVERAGE (MEREDITH, STEPHEN; Boswell, Gary; Madon, Scott) AN ACT relating to medical provider coverage in Level IV trauma centers.
Amend KRS 211.492 to define "advanced practice provider"; amend KRS 211.494 to allow Level IV verified trauma centers to utilize physician assistants and advanced practice registered nurses who are supervised by physicians to cover emergency departments; require the Department for Public Health to promulgate administrative regulations to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 2/6/2026 - received in House
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| SB14 | PAID MATERNITY LEAVE (DENEEN, MATTHEW; Adams, Julie Raque; Douglas, Donald; Elkins, Greg; Neal, Gerald A.; Richardson, Craig; Thomas, Reginald) AN ACT relating to paid maternity leave for state employees.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to define "full-time position" and "qualifying employee"; permit a qualifying employee paid leave of absence of up to 30 days for the birth of a child; require leave of more than 1 child during a singular pregnancy to be taken concurrently; require the employee to use the leave within one year of the child's birth; require the employee to use the leave as a continuous 30-day block or as a 20-day block with the remainder to be used intermittently as full days; require the employee to request advance approval before using the leave; require the employee to use the paid leave before other types of accrued leave; require compliance with the Family and Medical Leave Act; specify that any other type of leave not specified does not qualify for paid maternity leave; prohibit an employee from converting the unused balance of paid maternity leave to other types of paid leave, benefits, or compensation; require any administrative regulation in conflict with this Act to be amended, withdrawn, or repealed within 90 days of the effective date of the Act. |
| | Current Status: | 1/6/2026 - Introduced
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| SB16 | WAGES (THOMAS, REGINALD; Herron, Keturah; Armstrong, Cassie Chambers ; Berg, Karen; Clemons , Gary; Neal, Gerald A.) AN ACT relating to wages.
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 for employers to $15.00 an hour; include anti-preemption language permitting local governments to establish minimum wage ordinances in excess of the state minimum wage. |
| | Current Status: | 1/6/2026 - Introduced
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| SB21 | MUSIC THERAPY (NEAL, GERALD A.; Adams, Julie Raque; Thomas, Reginald; Armstrong, Cassie Chambers ; Berg, Karen; Clemons , Gary; Herron, Keturah) AN ACT relating to music therapy.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 309 to define terms; establish a licensing board for professional music therapists; require 3 members of the board to have engaged in the practice or teaching of music therapy for at least 3 years; prohibit any persons not licensed by the board from holding himself or herself out as a licensed professional music therapist; authorize the board to promulgate administrative regulations; authorize the board to issue a license to practice music therapy; establish the process for license renewal, suspension, and revocation; establish fees for licensure; establish fee limitations; authorize the board to implement disciplinary actions; require a licensed professional music therapist to collaborate with a client's physician or other professional involved in the treatment of the client; require a licensed professional music therapist to collaborate with a client's mental health or substance use disorder professional involved in the treatment of the client; prohibit a licensed professional music therapist from replacing services provided by an audiologist or a speech-language pathologist; create the Kentucky Board of Licensure for Professional Music Therapists fund; establish a fine for violations; provide for initial board appointments. |
| | Current Status: | 1/6/2026 - Introduced
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| SB22 | DUAL CREDIT SCHOLARSHIP PROGRAM (HIGDON, JIMMY; West, Stephen; Carroll, Danny; Deneen, Matthew; Girdler, Rick; Meredith, Stephen; Mills, Robby; Tichenor, Lindsey; Wheeler, Phillip; Wilson, Mike; Wise, Max) AN ACT relating to the dual credit scholarship program.
Amend KRS 164.786 to define "eligible high school apprentice" and "eligible registered teacher apprenticeship program"; include eligible registered teacher apprenticeship programs in the dual credit scholarship program; establish student and school district eligibility and participation requirements in the eligible registered teacher apprenticeship scholarship program. SFA (2) Maintain all original provisions except remove the requirement that a student enrolled in the program achieve a grade of "C" or higher in all courses paid for by the program and require that a student maintain a high school grade point average of 2.75 or higher. |
| | Current Status: | 4/1/2026 - floor amendment (3) filed to Committee Substitute , floor amendments (1) and (2-title) filed to bill
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| SB23 | HEIRS PROPERTY (THOMAS, REGINALD; AN ACT relating to heirs property.
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. |
| | Current Status: | 1/6/2026 - Introduced
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| SB24 | TRAFFIC CONTROL (THOMAS, REGINALD; AN ACT relating to traffic control signal monitoring systems.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 189 to define "agency," "owner," "recorded images," and "traffic control signal monitoring system"; establish a civil penalty of $50 if a motor vehicle is recorded failing to obey the instructions of a traffic control device; set forth forms and procedures; outline defenses for citations for failing to obey a traffic control device; mandate that the Transportation Cabinet shall suspend the registration of the motor vehicle when a person refuses to pay the civil penalty and does not appear to contest the citation; mandate that civil penalties shall not result in points against the driving record of the operator of the motor vehicle in violation; amend KRS 189.231 and 189.990 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 1/6/2026 - Introduced
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| SB25 | GEOENGINEERING (RAWLINGS, STEVE; Boswell, Gary; Deneen, Matthew; Douglas, Donald; Elkins, Greg; Madon, Scott; Reed, Aaron; Tichenor, Lindsey; Williams, Gex) AN ACT relating to geoengineering.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 512 to 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 prohibition on criminal atmospheric pollution; require an arresting officer to issue a notice to any federal agency that approved the action that those activities cannot be lawfully carried out in the Commonwealth. |
| | Current Status: | 1/6/2026 - Introduced
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| SB26 | DISCRIMINATION IN EDUCATIONAL SETTINGS (TICHENOR, LINDSEY; West, Stephen; Boswell, Gary; Deneen, Matthew; Douglas, Donald; Elkins, Greg; Girdler, Rick; Madon, Scott; Meredith, Stephen; Nunn, Matt; Rawlings, Steve; Reed, Aaron; Wheeler, Phillip; Williams, Gex; Wilson, Mike) AN ACT relating to discrimination in educational settings and declaring an emergency.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; prohibit a school district, public school, or cooperative board from providing differential treatment or benefits on the basis of an individual's religion, race, sex, color, or national origin; prohibit the Kentucky Department of Education, a school district, a public school, or a cooperative board from expending any resources on diversity, equity, and inclusion; prohibit the department, a school district, a public school, or a cooperative board from soliciting statements on an applicant's experience with or views on religion, race, sex, color, or national origin, from providing differential treatment or benefits to an individual based on the individual's participation in diversity, equity, and inclusion training, and from disseminating or profiting from any research, work product, or material that promotes or justifies discriminatory concepts of diversity, equity, and inclusion; establish exclusions; authorize the Attorney General to bring an action for a writ of mandamus to compel the department, a school district, a public school or a cooperative board to comply; create a cause of action to permit a qualified individual to file a civil action against a the department, a school district, a cooperative board, or a public school for injunctive relief arising from a violation of this Act; permit recovery of monetary damages for a willful and intentional violation; waive sovereign, governmental, and qualified immunity; prohibit retaliation; require each public school district and cooperative board to provide the State Treasurer the name, job title, duty station, and compensation information of each employee of the school district or cooperative board each month for publication; amend KRS 161.030 to require certain certification applicants to complete an approved professional development program on Kentucky education law; amend KRS 158.4416 and 158.4414 to conform; amend KRS 160.380 to remove language requiting targeted minority recruitment; amend various KRS sections to conform; repeal KRS 156.500 and 161.165; require school districts and cooperative boards to follow designated procedures when implementing this Act including termination or transfer of certain employees; require the Kentucky Department of Education to eliminate the Division of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging and follow designated procedures when implementing this Act including termination or transfer of certain employees; EFFECTIVE, in part, February 1, 2027; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 1/6/2026 - Introduced
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| SB28 | OPERATING A MOTOR VEHICLE (HIGDON, JIMMY; Boswell, Gary; Douglas, Donald; Girdler, Rick) AN ACT relating to operating a motor vehicle.
Repeal and reenact KRS 189.292 to define "mobile electronic device"; prohibit the use of a mobile electronic device while operating a motor vehicle; establish exceptions; amend KRS 189.294 to define "mobile electronic device"; amend KRS 189.990 to establish penalties for violation of KRS 189.292 and 189.294; require that money from fines be deposited into the traumatic brain injury trust fund, the Kentucky trauma care system fund, and the veterans' program trust fund; provide that a courtesy warning and not a uniform citation shall be issued by a peace officer until October 31, 2026; provide that the Act may be cited as the Phone-Down Kentucky Act. |
| | Current Status: | 3/9/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Transportation (H)
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| SB30 | MOTOR VEHICLE COMMISSION (HIGDON, JIMMY; Girdler, Rick) AN ACT relating to the Motor Vehicle Commission.
Amend KRS 190.058 to establish the motor vehicle commission fund; direct all license fees collected under KRS Chapter 190 to be deposited into the fund; set forth uses of the fund; provide that fund amounts not expended at the end of a fiscal year not lapse but instead be carried forward to the next fiscal year. HFA (1) Amend KRS 189.222 to allow vehicles with a gross weight of up to 90,000 pounds transporting fluid milk from a farm to the first market to operate on any state highway; allow for a 10% weight tolerance; establish exceptions and limitations; amend KRS 189.010 to include fluid milk products in the definition of "nondivisible load" as it pertains to the roads that are a part of the national truck network; amend KRS 189.270 to allow overweight permits for the transportation of fluid milk products up to a gross weight of 100,000 pounds; amend KRS 189.2717 to allow annual overweight permits along a specified route for the transportation of fluid milk products up to a gross weight of 100,000 pounds; amend KRS 189.221 to conform. HFA (2) Make title amendment. |
| | Current Status: | 4/13/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 133)
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| SB32 | STRENGTHEN ECONOMIC INFRASTRUCTURE (RAWLINGS, STEVE; Tichenor, Lindsey; Reed, Aaron) AN ACT relating to measures to strengthen Kentucky's economic infrastructure.
Amend KRS 369.130 to add and modify various definitions; create a new section of KRS 369.130 to 369.139 to prohibit the Commonwealth of Kentucky and governing authorities from issuing, recognizing as legal tender, accepting or requiring as payment, or participating in any test of central bank digital currency; create new sections of KRS 369.130 to 369.139 and KRS Chapter 393 to prohibit ownership of digital asset mining businesses by prohibited foreign parties; provide for enforcement by Attorney General and penalties for violation of prohibited foreign party prohibition; establish distribution of proceeds if digital asset mining business property is escheated due to a violation; amend KRS 45.345 to conform; amend KRS 42.500 to make technical corrections; permit the State Investment Commission to invest up to 10% of excess funds in bullion; prohibit State Investment Commission from investing in central bank digital currency; amend KRS 42.525 to make technical corrections; authorize the State Investment Commission to promulgate administrative regulations to carry out and effectuate certain authorized investments; establish Subtitle 13 of KRS Chapter 286 and create new sections thereof to regulate virtual currency kiosks; establish definitions; provide for enforcement by the commissioner of the Department of Financial Institutions; establish license requirements for virtual currency kiosks; require regulatory filings to be submitted to a nationwide licensing system registry; establish initial and renewal application processes and requirements, reporting, surety bond and tangible net worth, and change of control requirements for virtual currency kiosk operators; require the commissioner to promulgate administrative regulations to establish format, document submission, fee, and trade practice requirements for virtual currency kiosk operators; establish record retention requirements for persons required to be licensed as virtual currency kiosk operators; establish trade practice requirements relating to protection of resident assets, virtual currency kiosk transactions, prohibited practices, and fraud and information security compliance procedures; authorize the commissioner to conduct investigations and examinations; provide for the confidentiality of certain documents provided to the commissioner; authorize the commissioner to share, disclose, and report information and take other actions to assist in the commissioner's duties; require the commissioner to submit an annual licensing report to the Legislative Research Commission; establish due process requirements for adverse actions taken by the commissioner against licensees and other persons; establish requirements for the denial, suspension, or revocation of a license; authorize the commissioner to enter cease and desist orders and emergency orders; authorize the commissioner to order civil penalties against persons that violate the subtitle; create a new section of KRS Chapter 41 to define terms; recognize gold specie and silver specie as legal tender in Kentucky; provide for use of gold specie and silver specie as legal tender; require the State Treasurer to promulgate administrative regulations in accordance with KRS Chapter 13A to designate or establish a bullion depository and authorize 1 or more electronic payment systems to facilitate electronic payment transactions; establish requirements for system participants, transaction information, and bullion deposits; require the State Treasurer to submit an annual report to the Legislative Research Commission and to implement the system within 1 year; provide that Section 32 of the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Transactional Gold and Silver Act; require the commissioner of the Department of Financial Institutions to promulgate any required emergency and ordinary administrative regulations on or before January 1, 2027; EFFECTIVE, in part, March 31, 2027. |
| | Current Status: | 2/18/2026 - (S) WITHDRAWN
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| SB34 | TRANSFER OF PROPERTY UPON DEATH (RAWLINGS, STEVE; Neal, Gerald A.; Reed, Aaron; Tichenor, Lindsey) AN ACT relating to the transfer of property upon death.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 391 to establish the Kentucky Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act to codify provisions for the creation, administration, modification, termination, and validity of transfer on death deeds; define terms; specify that a transfer on death deed is not an inter vivos transfer and that the transfer occurs at the time of the transferor's death; specify that the transferor retains the power to revoke a transfer on death deed; establish that a transfer on death deed is nontestamentary; establish requirements for a transfer on death deed and specify the process of recording a transfer on death deed; specify that a transfer on death deed is effective without acceptance by the beneficiary during the transferor's lifetime; establish provisions for the revocation of a transfer on death deed by instrument or act; establish the effect of a transfer on death deed during the transferor's life; allow a beneficiary to disclaim the property interest in the deed; establish a form for creating at transfer on death deed; establish a form for revocation of a transfer on death deed; require the Department of Revenue to provide the established forms; specify the applicability of KRS Chapter 391; conform to federal requirements related to electronic signatures and records; amend KRS 64.012 to provide the recording fee for a transfer on death deed or revocation; require the Department of Medicaid Services to prescribe and provide a form requiring information related to any Medicaid lien; provide that Sections 1 to 14 of this Act may be cited as the Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act; Amend KRS 381.280, 382.110, 382.135, 391.360, 392.020, 392.070, and 403.190 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 186A to define terms; establish requirements for a transfer of a vehicle's title to a named beneficiary upon the death of the owner; direct the Transportation Cabinet to develop a form for transfer; amend KRS 395.455 to dispense with administration of an estate and transfer property under certain circumstances relating to minors and payment of preferred claims. SFA (2) Retain original provisions; remove the provision relating to the commencement of an action to contest the capacity of the transferor; specify that failure to file a transfer on death deed prior to the death of the transferor renders the deed void; specify that any subsequent deed transferring an interest in the property revokes the transfer on death deed; remove permitted authorization of a power of attorney to revoke a transfer on death deed; remove apportionment provision among properties if the probate estate is insufficient to satisfy a claim; remove the requirement that the beneficiary provide proof of death of the transferor to the county clerk; remove the requirement that the county clerk make a transfer on death deed form and revocation form available in the office of the county clerk; establish that the beneficiary designation form for the transfer on death of a motor vehicle shall name only 1 beneficiary; require the beneficiary of a motor vehicle transfer on death to provide the county clerk with a copy of the death certificate of the owner of the vehicle when requesting a new title of ownership in the beneficiary's name. |
| | Current Status: | 3/24/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Local Government (H)
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| SB36 | PARENTAGE FRAUD (DOUGLAS, DONALD; AN ACT relating to parentage fraud.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 530 to establish the crime of parentage fraud as a Class B misdemeanor. |
| | Current Status: | 1/7/2026 - Introduced
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| SB38 | REIMBURSEMENTS FOR PHARMACIST SERVICES (RICHARDSON, CRAIG; Boswell, Gary; Deneen, Matthew; Douglas, Donald; Girdler, Rick; Madon, Scott; Meredith, Stephen; Nunn, Matt) AN ACT relating to reimbursements for pharmacist services.
Amend KRS 205.522 and 205.6485 to require Medicaid and KCHIP to comply with pharmacy reimbursement requirements established in KRS 304.12-237; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid to seek federal approval if it is determined that such approval is necessary; provide authorization from the General Assembly to make changes to the Medicaid program as required under KRS 205.5372(1). |
| | Current Status: | 3/5/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Banking & Insurance (H)
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| SB41 | AD VALOREM TAX RATE (BOSWELL, GARY; AN ACT relating to the levy of an ad valorem tax rate.
Amend KRS 132.017, relating to the process for a recall of a local ad valorem tax rate, to define "school nickel tax rate"; require a petition process for recalling the levy of a school nickel tax rate; remove other taxes levied by local governmental entities from the petition process requirements; require an ad valorem tax levied by a local governmental entity and a general tax rate levied by a local board of education to be voted upon by the voters if the tax rate produces more than 4% in revenues over the revenues produced by the compensating tax rate; require the suspension of the ordinance, order, resolution, or motion levying the tax rate until after the required election; allow a local governmental entity or a local board of education to cancel a required recall election by reconsidering the levy and instead levying a tax rate that produces no more than 4% in revenues over the revenues produced by the compensating tax rate; specify ballot and public notification requirements for the election; provide that if a tax rate is recalled, the compensating tax rate shall be levied; amend KRS 68.245, 75A.050, 132.018, 132.023, 132.027, and 160.470 to conform; make technical changes; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2027. |
| | Current Status: | 3/10/2026 - received in House
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| SB46 | SCHOOL TRANSPORTATION (DENEEN, MATTHEW; Elkins, Greg; Girdler, Rick; Madon, Scott; Nunn, Matt; Reed, Aaron; Smith, Brandon) AN ACT relating to school transportation and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 156.153 to permit schools to use non-school bus passenger vehicles designed for 10, instead of 9, or fewer passengers; limit statewide driver qualification, training, and drug testing requirements to drivers of non-school bus passenger vehicles along regular bus routes and permit local school boards to adopt district policies on the use of those vehicles to and from approved school activities; exclude parents transporting students to and from school pursuant to a compensation agreement from the requirements of the section; amend KRS 160.380 to conform; EMERGENCY. SCS (1) Retain original provisions except amend KRS 156.153 to require an individual to submit to drug testing consistent with federal drug testing requirements in order to be authorized to transport any student using a non-school bus passenger vehicle to transport students to and from approved school activities; amend KRS 160.380 to direct a superintendent to require the driver of any non-school bus passenger vehicle authorized to transport students to and from approved school activities who does not hold a school bus CDL license to submit to background check every 5 years, submit to drug testing, and immediately notify the superintendent of certain criminal charges or violations. HCS(1) Retain original provisions, except amend KRS 160.380 to direct a superintendent to require the driver of any non-school bus passenger vehicle authorized to transport students who does not hold a school bus CDL license to submit to an annual background check. HFA(2) Retain original provisions, except authorize the Kentucky Department of Education to establish minimum qualifications, training, and drug-testing requirements for any individual to be authorized to transport any student in a non-school bus passenger vehicle regardless of whether they are driving along a regular bus route or to and from approved school activities; require the minimum qualifications to designate a list of moving violations that would disqualify an individual from such authorization; require superintendents to collect a copy of a valid driver's license from individuals seeking such authorization; require individuals seeking authorization to exclusively transport students to and from approved school activities to provide a driving history record check; require all driving history records checks for individuals seeking any such authorization to not include a disqualifying moving violation. |
| | Current Status: | 3/27/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 7)
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| SB47 | IN THE LINE OF DUTY DEATH BENEFITS (DENEEN, MATTHEW; Elkins, Greg; Herron, Keturah; Madon, Scott; Meredith, Stephen; Neal, Gerald A.; Nunn, Matt; Rawlings, Steve; Storm, Brandon J.; Tichenor, Lindsey; Wheeler, Phillip; Williams, Gex) AN ACT relating to in the line of duty death benefits.
Amend KRS 61.315 to define "rescue squad personnel"; expand eligibility for in the line of duty death benefits to rescue squad personnel; require the Division of Emergency Management to promulgate administrative regulations establishing necessary criteria and procedures; amend KRS 164.2841 to define "rescue squad personnel"; expand eligibility for tuition and fee exemption to dependents of rescue squad personnel who died in the line of duty; amend KRS 342.316 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 2/19/2026 - received in House
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| SB51 | CREATE A NEW SECTION OF THE CONSTITUTION RELATING TO PROPERTY EXEMPT FROM TAXATION (NEMES, MICHAEL J.; Wilson, Mike; Adams, Julie Raque; Carpenter, Jared; Deneen, Matthew; Douglas, Donald; Girdler, Rick; Higdon, Jimmy; Madon, Scott; Meredith, Stephen; Mills, Robby; Nunn, Matt; Reed, Aaron; Smith, Brandon; Thomas, Reginald; Tichenor, Lindsey; Wise, Max) AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to property exempt from taxation.
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to exempt homeowners who are 65 years of age or older from any increase in the valuation of their permanent residence that is assessed after the later of the year the homeowner turned 65 or the year the homeowner acquired the property; require the exemption to be in addition to the exemption provided in Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky and notwithstanding Sections 171, 172, and 174 of the Constitution of Kentucky; apply the exemption to increases in valuation that occur after the date the amendment is ratified by the voters; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection. |
| | Current Status: | 3/6/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Appropriations & Revenue (H)
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| SB52 | FAIR PERMITTING AND LICENSING PRACTICES (RAWLINGS, STEVE; Elkins, Greg; Deneen, Matthew; Douglas, Donald; Madon, Scott; Nunn, Matt; Smith, Brandon; Tichenor, Lindsey; Williams, Gex) AN ACT relating to ensuring fair permitting and licensing practices.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 61 to prohibit public agencies from denying permits or licenses for reasons not specified by law; implement a 30-day timeframe for ruling on applications for a permit or license if no time frame is otherwise specified by law; establish procedures for applications for a permit or license which are not ruled upon during the applicable timeframe or are denied; for appeal process. SCS (1) Retain original provisions; modify definition of state agency; allow a state agency to have an additional 30-day extension if needed based on a substantial and demonstrable interest in protecting public welfare; remove provision for jury trial; establish right for applicant to a preliminary conference; remove provision allowing for new evidence to be introduced on judicial review; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2027. |
| | Current Status: | 4/15/2026 - floor amendment (3) filed
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| SB53 | PLANNING AND ZONING (THOMAS, REGINALD; AN ACT relating to planning and zoning.
Amend KRS 100.275 to affirm that planning units and commissions and boards thereof may hold public hearings and accept public comments concerning the approval of subdivision plats and development plans. |
| | Current Status: | 3/25/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Local Government (H)
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| SB54 | SHORT-TERM RENTALS (THOMAS, REGINALD; Neal, Gerald A.) AN ACT relating to short-term rentals.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define terms; allow local governments to regulate short-term rentals. |
| | Current Status: | 1/9/2026 - Introduced
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| SB55 | WATER FLOURIDATION PROGRAMS (ELKINS, GREG; Rawlings, Steve; Douglas, Donald; Madon, Scott; Tichenor, Lindsey; West, Stephen; Wheeler, Phillip) AN ACT relating to water fluoridation programs.
Amend KRS 211.190 to make water fluoridation programs optional; allow the governing bodies of water systems subject to regulation by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to decide whether they participate in water fluoridation programs; provide that a water fluoridation program in place on the effective date of the Act continues until action is taken by its governing body to end its participation; provide that any decision regarding participation in a water fluoridation program made by the governing body of a water system shall be binding on all water systems it supplies; provide that a governing body, a member or employee of a governing body, or any public or private entity that may be held liable for the actions of a governing body that makes any decision regarding its participation in an optional water fluoridation program shall be immune from civil or criminal liability for acts carried out reasonably and in good faith regarding its decision of whether to participate in the water fluoridation program. |
| | Current Status: | 1/9/2026 - Introduced
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| SB56 | SUBSTANCE ABUSE (NEAL, GERALD A.; Elkins, Greg; Madon, Scott; Thomas, Reginald) AN ACT relating to substance abuse.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to prohibit the Department for Medicaid Services, any Medicaid managed care organization contracted by the department, and the Medicaid state pharmacy benefit manager from denying coverage for a nonopioid analgesic in favor of opioid analgesic or establishing more restrictive or more extensive utilization controls for nonopioid analgesics than the least restrictive or extensive utilization controls for any opioid or narcotic analgesic; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid to seek federal approval if it is determined that such approval is necessary; provide authorization from the General Assembly to make changes to the Medicaid program as required under KRS 205.5372(1). HFA(1) Amend KRS 222.504 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to notify local governments when a recovery residence initiates the certification process with a certifying organization, becomes certified, or receives disciplinary action from the cabinet; require the cabinet to provide the recovery residence contact; amend KRS 222.510 to permit local governments to maintain a registry of recovery residences and consider the information a public record; make technical corrections. |
| | Current Status: | 4/15/2026 - (S) placed in the Orders of the Day for Concurrence for Wednesday, April 15, 2026
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| SB57 | NUCLEAR ENERGY DEVELOPMENT (CARROLL, DANNY; Deneen, Matthew; Elkins, Greg; Mills, Robby; Neal, Gerald A.; West, Stephen; Wheeler, Phillip; Wise, Max) AN ACT relating to nuclear energy development.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Nuclear Reactor Site Readiness Pilot Program; define terms; require the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority (authority) to annually submit recommendations to the General Assembly for awarding grant funding to eligible applicants for up to 1/3 of the actual costs incurred in applying for and procuring an early site permit, construction permit, or combined operating license from the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission, not to exceed $25,000,000; establish eligibility requirements and scoring criteria for applications; require the authority to make eligibility determinations and objectively score grant applications; require that applicants procure a surety bond or other similar security to guarantee the repayment of the grant amounts in the event of forfeiture for eligibility; provide for forfeiture and repayment of grant funding if certain permitting, licensure, or commencement of construction timelines are not met; establish the Kentucky nuclear reactor site readiness pilot program fund; create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to allow a regulated utility to apply to the Public Service Commission for the recovery of costs not covered in its existing rates incurred in applying for and procuring an early site permit, construction permit, or combined operating license from the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission; prohibit the recovery of costs for any amounts that have been offset by grant funding from the Nuclear Reactor Site Readiness Pilot Program; amend KRS 164.2802 to require 12 hours of nuclear-related training for new and existing at-large voting members of the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority; allow the director or the chair of the authority to waive the training requirement for any member who can demonstrate adequate knowledge of nuclear-related issues; require that the authority include its evaluations, scores, and funding recommendations for the Nuclear Reactor Site Readiness Pilot Program with its annual report to the Governor and the Legislative Research Commission; amend KRS 164.2803 to allow fusion-related nuclear energy projects to be eligible for grant funding from the Nuclear Energy Development Grant Program. SCS (1) Retain original provisions; add a definition for "affiliate" and amend the definitions for "combined operating license," "eligible applicant," and "utility"; provide that the grant cap of $25,000,000 is per project; provide that application materials submitted to the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority are confidential and not subject to disclosure under KRS 61.870 to 61.884; delete the prohibition on eligibility for applicants who have already received grant funding under the section; require that the community where the nuclear energy generating facility will be located apply for a nuclear-ready community designation prior to the grant application and be awarded the designation prior to the eligible applicant receiving grant funds; increase the deadline to 5 years for applying for a construction or combined operating license and allow the authority to extend the deadline in 1 year increments for good cause; reference the application of licenses that are part of frameworks adopted in federal regulations by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission; increase the deadline to 10 years for commencing construction of a nuclear energy generating facility once all necessary permits and licenses have been obtained and allow the authority to extend the deadline in 1 year increments for good cause; delete the language establishing the Kentucky nuclear reactor site pilot program fund; provide that the Public Service Commission may allow a utility to recover costs associated with procuring and maintaining the surety bond or other similar security required to receive grant funding; amend KRS 154.32-010 to allow nuclear energy development project to be eligible for economic development funding through the Kentucky Business Investment Program; beginning January 1, 2027, require the authority to provide 20 hours of nuclear-related training each year to its advisory board members; allow the authority to employ third-party consultants to assist with the discharge of its duties. SCS (2) Retain original provisions; add a definition for "affiliate" and amend the definitions for "combined operating license," "eligible applicant," and "utility"; provide that the grant cap of $25,000,000 is per project; provide that application materials submitted to the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority are confidential and not subject to disclosure under KRS 61.870 to 61.884; delete the prohibition on eligibility for applicants who have already received grant funding under the section; require that the community where the nuclear energy generating facility will be located apply for a nuclear-ready community designation prior to the grant application and be awarded the designation prior to the eligible applicant receiving grant funds; provide that grant funding shall be forfeited and repaid if the grant recipient has not applied for an early site permit within 1 year of receiving any grant funding under the section; increase the deadline to 5 years for applying for a construction or combined operating license and allow the authority to extend the deadline in 1 year increments for good cause; reference the application of licenses that are part of frameworks adopted in federal regulations by the United States Nuclear Regulatory Commission; increase the deadline to 10 years for commencing construction of a nuclear energy generating facility once all necessary permits and licenses have been obtained and allow the authority to extend the deadline in 1 year increments for good cause; delete the language establishing the Kentucky nuclear reactor site pilot program fund; amend KRS 154.32-010 to allow nuclear energy development project to be eligible for economic development funding through the Kentucky Business Investment Program; beginning January 1, 2027, require the authority to provide 20 hours of nuclear-related training each year to its advisory board members; allow the authority to employ third-party consultants to assist with the discharge of its duties. |
| | Current Status: | 4/8/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 56)
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| SB58 | DIAPER ACCESS PROGRAMS (ARMSTRONG, CASSIE CHAMBERS ; Neal, Gerald A.; Thomas, Reginald) AN ACT relating to diaper access programs.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 200 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Diaper Access Board and its functions related to the development of a state plan for the distribution of funds from the Kentucky diaper access trust fund; establish the Kentucky diaper access trust fund and the purposes for which funds are disbursed to diaper access programs in the Commonwealth. |
| | Current Status: | 1/9/2026 - Introduced
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| SB59 | PROHIBITED USES OF TAX DOLLARS AND RESOURCES (RAWLINGS, STEVE; Elkins, Greg; Deneen, Matthew; Douglas, Donald; Reed, Aaron; Tichenor, Lindsey) AN ACT relating to prohibited uses of tax dollars and resources.
Amend KRS 65.013 to define terms; expand the prohibition on using tax dollars to advocate for or against a public question on the ballot to prohibit using any resources, and to explicitly apply prohibition to school districts, regional educational cooperatives, and recalls on a ballot; establish a criminal penalty and a prohibition against holding a position of public trust or profit for 10 years for a person found guilty of violating the prohibition; create a cause of action for a citizen aggrieved by a violation of the prohibition; establish a statute of limitations to commence suit and the appropriate venue; provide when the suit accrues; specify damages recoverable per violation; allow for class action; include a prohibition against holding a position of public trust or profit for 10 years for a person held civilly liable; amend KRS 48.025 and 132.017 to conform. SCS (1) Retain original provisions, except remove original criminal penalties and establish new fines and classify a third or subsequent violation as a Class A misdemeanor; exclude volunteers as resources; remove provisions creating a private cause of action and the related waiver of immunity; remove provisions related to recall petitions; include provision exempting educational television; include exemption for advocating on public employees' own time and with their own resources. HCS(1) Retain original provisions; provide an exception from the advocacy restrictions for associations advocating on behalf of its members. HFA(2) Remove sections 1, 2, and 3 and replace with substantially similar language in all sections; remove "school district" definition from KRS 65.013 section and insert in KRS 48.025; remove "in partial or impartial terms, for or against" from all sections. |
| | Current Status: | 4/14/2026 - delivered to Secretary of State
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| SB60 | WASTE TIRES (ARMSTRONG, CASSIE CHAMBERS ; AN ACT relating to waste tires.
Amend KRS 224.50-854 to remove the exemption for a person who stores waste tires for resale from the requirements of the waste tire program; amend KRS 224.50-856 to allow a person making retail sales of used motor vehicles tires to be eligible for the same accumulator registration exemption as sellers of new motor vehicle tires; amend KRS 224.50-858 to require nonexempt sellers of new or used motor vehicle tires to register and be subject to the requirements of the waste tire program. |
| | Current Status: | 1/9/2026 - Introduced
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| SB61 | KENTUCKY EDUCATIONAL EXCELLENCE SCHOLARSHIPS (ARMSTRONG, CASSIE CHAMBERS ; AN ACT relating to Kentucky educational excellence scholarships and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 164.7879 to increase the Kentucky educational excellence scholarship base amount for each eligible grade point average; increase the supplemental award amounts; require a supplemental award for eligible Cambridge Advanced International scores; amend KRS 164.7882 to increase the award amount for an eligible student enrolled in a comprehensive transition and postsecondary program; amend KRS 164.7874, 164.7881, 164.7884, and 164.7885 to conform; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2026. |
| | Current Status: | 1/9/2026 - Introduced
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| SB62 | EVICTIONS DURING EXTREME WEATHER CONDITIONS (ARMSTRONG, CASSIE CHAMBERS ; AN ACT relating to evictions during extreme weather conditions.
Create a new section of KRS 383.200 to 383.285 to prohibit evictions of residential tenants during extreme weather conditions; amend KRS 383.245 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 1/12/2026 - Introduced
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| SB66 | OPERATION OF A MOTOR VEHICLE (STORM, BRANDON J.; Carroll, Danny) AN ACT relating to the operation of a motor vehicle.
Amend KRS 189A.010 to expand the list of controlled substances to include clonazepam, cyclobenzaprine, and fentanyl; amend KRS 189A.105 to provide a person shall be informed at the time blood test is requested that the fact of a refusal to submit to the blood test will result in suspension of his or her driver's license and if the person is convicted of a violation of KRS 189A.010, his or her license will be suspended; amend KRS 186.018 to require the Transportation Cabinet to destroy records of moving traffic convictions that are more than 10 years old. SCS (1) Retain original provisions, except amend KRS 189A.100 to provide that a person's refusal to take a preliminary breath test shall not result in the suspension of the person's license; require law enforcement to inform the person suspected of driving under the influence of the fact that his or her refusal to take a preliminary breath test shall not be used against him or her in court or result in the suspension of his or her license and of the results of refusing to a breath test under KRS 189A.103; provide that if a law enforcement officer does not make the required disclosure then the person suspected of driving under the influence shall not have his or her refusal to take a breath test under KRS 189A.103 used against him or her in court, as an aggravating circumstance, or result in the suspension of his or her license; amend KRS 189A.105 to remove urine tests. SFA (1) Retain original provisions, except amend KRS 189A.100 to remove the requirement for a law enforcement officer to disclose information about a blood or breath test administered under KRS 189A.103; amend KRS 189A.105 to provide that if a law enforcement officer does not inform a person suspected of violating KRS 189A.010 of his or her rights relating to blood or breath tests, a refusal to take a blood or breath test shall not be used against that person. HCS(1) Retain original provisions, except amend KRS 189A.010 to remove refusal of a blood test as an aggravating circumstance; amend KRS 189A.105 to provide that if a person refuses to submit to a blood test, the fact of this refusal shall not be used against him or her in court as evidence of driving under the influence. |
| | Current Status: | 4/23/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| SB70 | PUBLIC PENSION OVERSIGHT BOARD (HIGDON, JIMMY; Elkins, Greg; Mills, Robby) AN ACT relating to the Public Pension Oversight Board.
Amend KRS 7A.220 to amend the membership and membership qualifications of the Public Pension Oversight Board by adding the chairs or vice chairs of the Senate State & Local Government Standing Committee and House State Government Standing Committee to the board, adding the State Treasurer to the membership, removing 1 of the gubernatorial appointees from the membership, and amending "retirement experience" requirements for appointed members to include experience in retirement plan management or policy by a former elected official; make technical and conforming changes; amend KRS 7A.255 to require the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority to annually report line of duty death benefit payments to the Public Pension Oversight Board in addition to line of duty disability benefit payments; make technical amendments; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2027. |
| | Current Status: | 4/23/2026 - VETOED BY GOVERNOR
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| SB71 | TRAINING REQUIREMENTS FOR LOCAL BOARDS OF EDUCATION (DENEEN, MATTHEW; Elkins, Greg; Neal, Gerald A.; West, Stephen; Wilson, Mike) AN ACT relating to training requirements for local boards of education.
Amend KRS 160.180 to require all local school board members to receive 6 hours of in-service finance training every 2 years. SCS (1) Delete original provisions; amend KRS 160.180 to require that the annual in-service trainings for school board members include ethics, open meetings and open records, and finance training; create additional training timeline requirements for board members who begin their initial service on or after January 1, 2015, and require 1 hour of superintendent evaluation for those members; direct the Kentucky Board of Education to identify criteria for school board members to fulfill all training requirements; amend KRS 160.160 to direct each board of education to review the procedures and responsibilities of the board and district employees regarding the school district budget; establish that the review will not count toward annual in-service training requirements. |
| | Current Status: | 3/9/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
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| SB72 | RECRUITMENT OF HEALTH CARE PROFESSIONALS (DOUGLAS, DONALD; Boswell, Gary; Elkins, Greg; Mills, Robby; Nunn, Matt; Rawlings, Steve; Williams, Gex; Wise, Max) AN ACT relating to the recruitment and retention of health care professionals and declaring an emergency.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 344 to ensure federal law relating to emergency medical treatment and the collection of evidence is not overridden; define terms; prohibit discrimination against health care professionals who decline to perform procedures that violate their conscience; grant health care professionals the right not to participate in services that violate their conscience; exempt health care professionals from liability for exercising these rights; prohibit hiring or licensing authorities from reprimanding health care professionals; require hiring or licensing authorities to provide complaints it has received to health care professionals; establish a civil cause of action for persons injured by violations; provide that the Act may be cited as the Health Care Heroes Recruitment and Retention Act; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 2/17/2026 - received in House
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| SB80 | AMEND CONSTITUTION RELATING TO RESTORATION OF RIGHTS (HIGDON, JIMMY; Herron, Keturah; Neal, Gerald A.; Thomas, Reginald) AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to restoration of rights.
Propose to amend Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky to restore the voting rights of persons convicted of certain felonies after completion of imprisonment, probation, or parole; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection. |
| | Current Status: | 3/13/2026 - (H) Referred to Committee House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
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| SB82 | MEDICATIONS FOR SUBSTANCE USE DISORDER (ADAMS, JULIE RAQUE; Madon, Scott; Nemes, Michael J.; Rawlings, Steve; Reed, Aaron; Tichenor, Lindsey) AN ACT relating to administrative regulations for medications for substance use disorder and declaring an emergency.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 13A to find 201 KAR 9:270 and 201 KAR 20:065 deficient and void; create new sections of KRS Chapters 311, 313, 314, and 315 to establish that the State Board of Medical Licensure, Board of Dentistry, Kentucky Board of Nursing, and Kentucky Board of Pharmacy shall not promulgate administrative regulations that restrict or limit the prescribing, dispensing, or administering of buprenorphine-mono-product, buprenorphine-combined-with-naloxone, or any other Schedule III, IV, or V medication approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of a substance use disorder; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 1/13/2026 - Introduced
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| SB88 | PROTECTION FROM EXTREME WEATHER CONDITIONS (ARMSTRONG, CASSIE CHAMBERS ; AN ACT relating to protection from extreme weather conditions.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to define terms and require a utility to submit a disconnection plan to the Public Service Commission that prohibits the utility from suspending residential service during extreme weather conditions; make the disconnection plan available on both the commission and the utility's website. |
| | Current Status: | 1/14/2026 - Introduced
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| SB90 | BEHAVIORAL HEALTH (STORM, BRANDON J.; Carroll, Danny; Deneen, Matthew) AN ACT relating to behavioral health.
Amend KRS 533.272 to extend the behavioral health conditional dismissal program pilot project until January 1, 2031; amend KRS 533.288 to extend the Behavioral Health Conditional Dismissal Program Implementation Council until December 31, 2031; amend 2022 Ky. Acts ch. 230, sec. 13, to establish that moneys appropriated for the behavioral health conditional dismissal program through June 30, 2026, shall not lapse and shall be carried forward. HCS (1) Retain original provisions, except limit the number of participating counties in the pilot program to 20; extend existing reporting requirements on recidivism to include information based upon 3, 4, and 5 years of data; extend reporting requirements on recidivism to include information of defendants charged with a qualifying offense in counties that are not participating in the program based upon similar size and general location of a county that is participating in the program; amend KRS 210.040 to replace the term "institutions" with "facilities"; establish that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services is responsible to provide care that includes emergency and other medical care provided outside of a state facility for patients in state-operated mental health facilities. |
| | Current Status: | 4/13/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 122)
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| SB91 | STANDARDIZING REAL PROPERTY TAX BILLS (RAWLINGS, STEVE; Tichenor, Lindsey; Douglas, Donald; Williams, Gex) AN ACT relating to standardizing real property tax bills.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 134 to require use of a standardized form for all real property tax bills; require the Department of Revenue to prescribe the form and make it available to all taxing districts that levy a property tax on real property; specify provisions to be included on the form; exempt certificates of delinquency and third-party purchasers from the form requirements. |
| | Current Status: | 1/8/2026 - Introduced
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| SB92 | MEDICAID COVERAGE FOR PALLIATIVE CARE (ADAMS, JULIE RAQUE; Carroll, Danny; Deneen, Matthew; Neal, Gerald A.) AN ACT relating to Medicaid coverage for palliative care.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require Medicaid coverage for palliative care services; establish eligibility criteria and service requirements; require the Department for Medicaid Services to promulgate administrative regulations; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to seek federal approval if it is determined that such approval is necessary; provide authorization from the General Assembly to make changes to the Medicaid program as required under KRS 205.5372(1). |
| | Current Status: | 1/8/2026 - Introduced
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| SB93 | CREATE SECTION OF CONSTITUTION RELATING TO MEDICAID EXPANSION (ARMSTRONG, CASSIE CHAMBERS ; AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to Medicaid expansion.
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to enshrine Medicaid expansion coverage; direct the Secretary of State to advertise the proposed constitutional amendment prior to a general election vote; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection. |
| | Current Status: | 1/8/2026 - Introduced
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| SB94 | MOTOR VEHICLE DEALERS (WILSON, MIKE; Reed, Aaron; Deneen, Matthew; Douglas, Donald; Elkins, Greg; Givens, David P.; Madon, Scott; Nemes, Michael J.; Smith, Brandon; Storm, Brandon J.; Wheeler, Phillip; Williams, Gex; Wise, Max) AN ACT relating to motor vehicle dealers.
Amend KRS 190.046 to define "parts," "qualifying repair," "qualifying repair order," "repair order," "warranty," and "warranty work"; establish requirements for dealer performance of warranty work, including time allowances, labor rates, parts markups, and payment procedures and terms. SCS (1) Retain original provisions, with the following exceptions: delete definition for "parts"; prohibit a manufacturer from establishing an unduly burdensome process for submission of repair orders or providing payment; establish that requiring receipts and customer signatures is not unduly burdensome; set forth time frames for manufacturers and distributors to respond to properly submitted dealer claims and conditions under which a manufacturer or distributor are exempt from those time frames; establish procedures by which dealers' labor rates are calculated; make technical corrections. |
| | Current Status: | 4/15/2026 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/ HFA1 HFA2
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| SB95 | SCHOOL TRANSPORTATION (MADON, SCOTT; Nunn, Matt; Wheeler, Phillip) AN ACT relating to school transportation and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 156.153 to permit schools to use non-school bus passenger vehicles designed for 10, instead of 9, or fewer passengers; limit statewide driver qualification, training, and drug testing requirements to drivers of non-school bus passenger vehicles along regular bus routes; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 3/6/2026 - (S) WITHDRAWN
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| SB98 | WELDING SAFETY (WHEELER, PHILLIP; Clemons , Gary; Madon, Scott; Neal, Gerald A.; Williams, Gex) AN ACT relating to welding safety.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198B to establish requirements for projects using structural steel welding, such as hiring a certified welder and meeting national welding standards; define terms; exempt welding projects performed or requested on the premises of a homeowner or farmer; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2027. HFA(4) Limit welding certification standards to projects occurring pursuant to state government contracts when those standards are requested by the contracting state government entity. |
| | Current Status: | 4/27/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| SB101 | CHILDREN (NUNN, MATT; Madon, Scott; Boswell, Gary; Deneen, Matthew; Douglas, Donald; Elkins, Greg; Mills, Robby; Rawlings, Steve; Reed, Aaron; Richardson, Craig; Smith, Brandon; Tichenor, Lindsey; Wheeler, Phillip; Williams, Gex; Wise, Max) AN ACT relating to children.
Amend KRS 158.150 to require a local board of education to expel a student for at least 12 months if the student intentionally causes physical injury to educational personnel at a school or school function; amend KRS 158.155 to require that school employees report attempted assault of any school employee to law enforcement; amend KRS 158.990 to provide for penalties for any person who intentionally violates KRS 158.155; amend KRS 610.200 to provide that a peace officer is not required to retain custody of a child for a felony violation of assault in the third degree; amend KRS 635.020 to provide that a child 14 years of age or older who is charged with a felony violation of assault in the third degree may be tried as an adult. SCS (1) Retain original provisions except amend KRS 158.150 to require a local board of education to expel a student in grade 6 to 12 for at least 12 months if the student physically assaults, batters, or abuses school personnel without just cause or provocation on school property or at a school function; amend KRS 158.155 to require that school employees report intentional assault or intentional attempted assault of any school employee and intentional assault resulting in physical injury and to law enforcement unless the school employee has cause to believe a student's disability interfered with his or her ability to conform to the student code of conduct, amend penalty under KRS 158.990 to Class B and Class A misdemeanors; delete amendments to KRS 610.200 and KRS 635.020 from the bill. HCS(1) Retain original provisions; amend KRS 158.150 to require a local board of education to expel a student who recklessly or intentionally caused or attempted to cause physical injury to a district employee; define terms; specify alternative program requirements and restrictions for expelling students; amend KRS 158.155 to require a school employee to report acts of intentional physical injury, or intentional attempted physical injury, and intentional or wanton damage to property; amend KRS 159.170 to require information regarding expulsions to be entered into the student information system within 5 days. HFA(3) Permit a board of education to refer an expelled student for evaluation to state and community agencies; establish a pathway for an expelled student to return to a school district prior to the end of the expulsion. HFA(5) Retain original provisions; amend KRS 158.155(10) to require the reporting of an individual who has made threats of violence toward a school or student or knows that a firearm is present on school property to a law enforcement agency created by the board of education, not created by the board of education, or the Department of Kentucky State Police; require a law enforcement agency created by the board of education to submit a weekly report to a local law enforcement agency designated by the board of education of the reports received by the law enforcement agency created by the board. HFA(2) Define "bus stop" and add bus stops to locations where student misconduct may trigger expulsions. |
| | Current Status: | 4/7/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 50)
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| SB105 | READING AND WRITING IN SCHOOLS (THOMAS, REGINALD; AN ACT relating to reading and writing in schools.
Amend KRS 158.307 to define "dysgraphia"; require the department to annually update the dyslexia toolkit; require the toolkit to include guidance on dysgraphia and strategies and other resources to be used for students displaying dyslexia and dysgraphia; require universal screeners and diagnostic tools be approved by the department; require each district to use evidence-based instructional strategies to provide intervention services; require school districts to report data to the department; amend KRS 164.304 to require postsecondary institutions offering teacher preparation programs include instruction on the application and implementation of a multitiered system of supports by the 2027-2028 school year. |
| | Current Status: | 1/16/2026 - Introduced
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| SB106 | KENTUCKY EDUCATION EXCELLENCE SCHOLARSHIP (MADON, SCOTT; Nunn, Matt; Tichenor, Lindsey; Wheeler, Phillip) AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Education Excellence Scholarship.
Amend KRS 164.7874 to include the United States Air Force Academy, the United States Military Academy, the United States Naval Academy, the United States Coast Guard Academy, or the United States Merchant Marine Academy to the definition of "participating institution" under the Kentucky Education Excellence Scholarship program if the academy enters into the necessary agreements with the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority. |
| | Current Status: | 1/20/2026 - Introduced
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| SB108 | CONDITIONS OF EMPLOYMENT (WEST, STEPHEN; Tichenor, Lindsey; Boswell, Gary; Deneen, Matthew; Douglas, Donald; Elkins, Greg; Girdler, Rick; Madon, Scott; Meredith, Stephen; Mills, Robby; Nemes, Michael J.; Nunn, Matt; Rawlings, Steve; Reed, Aaron; Richardson, Craig; Storm, Brandon J.; Wheeler, Phillip; Williams, Gex; Wilson, Mike; Wise, Max) AN ACT relating to conditions of employment.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 344 to require employers that mandate employee immunization to allow exceptions based on religious belief or medical contraindication; provide sample form for employee affirmation; establish which health care providers can support a medical exemption; require notice of exemptions; establish civil cause of action for violations and a claim under workers' compensation; amend KRS 344.030 to define term; amend KRS 344.040 to make it an unlawful practice for employers to require immunizations as a condition of employment from employees who hold sincere religious beliefs against immunization or for whom immunization would be harmful to his or her health; make technical corrections. |
| | Current Status: | 1/20/2026 - Introduced
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| SB110 | MOTOR VEHICLES (HOWELL, JASON; AN ACT relating to motor vehicles and declaring an emergency.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 186A to require that beginning July 1, 2027, lienholders and motor vehicle dealers use the electronic title application and registration system to submit title, registration, and lien documents; provide exemptions; require the Transportation Cabinet to ensure the electronic title application and registration system and the centralized lien management system are operational by January 1, 2027; create a new section of KRS Chapter 186A to provide that beginning July 1, 2027, titles will not automatically be printed and mailed to the vehicle owner, but kept electronically in the automated vehicle information system; establish procedures to obtain a printed title; amend KRS 186A.130 to set fees for obtaining a printed title; amend KRS 134.805 to allow the notices for ad valorem taxes and registration renewal to be sent by email or text message, rather than by mail; amend KRS 64.012 to establish the fee for the filing of a renewal of a security interest on a motor vehicle; amend KRS 186A.005 to define "termination statement"; amend KRS 186A.200 to eliminate the fee for late filing of a title lien statement; create a new section of KRS Chapter 186 to allow county clerks to accept alternative forms of payment for motor vehicle taxes and fees; collect convenience fees on alternative payments, and transmit funds via automated clearing house debit; amend KRS 186.230 to eliminate the requirement that the county clerk send duplicate receipt to the Transportation Cabinet and to make technical corrections; amend KRS 138.464 to eliminate the requirement that the county clerk send duplicate receipts to the Department of Revenue; amend KRS 186A.035 to allow joint owners of a vehicle who are not spouses to designate a transfer of ownership upon death and to conform; amend KRS 186A.060 to allow an individual to use a Kentucky personal identification card when registering a motor vehicle; amend KRS 186.050 to establish that registration of a motor vehicle as a farm truck excludes the use of the vehicle in for-hire operation; amend KRS 186.077 to establish that by renewing the registration of a street-legal special purpose vehicle, the owner is certifying that the vehicle continues to meet all equipment requirements; amend KRS 186.170 to eliminate the use of a decal on the license to cover the trademark of a private corporation; amend KRS 142.010 to allow county clerks to report and remit taxes on the notation of a security interest on a certificate of title through AVIS and the Transportation Cabinet; amend KRS 186.020, 186.045, and 235.066 to conform. SCS (1) Retain original provisions with the following changes: eliminate changes to KRS 186.050; add new language in Section 2 of the Act to require the Transportation Cabinet to test the electronic titling and registration system in a pilot project of at least 10 counties prior to July 1, 2027; create a new section of KRS Chapter 186 to require the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to establish fees for county clerk duties involving the titling and registration of motor vehicles; amend KRS 189.010 to define "weigh station bypass system"; amend KRS 189.231 to require vehicle operators to comply with instructions from state-approved weigh station bypass systems; amend KRS 186.416 to eliminate the requirement for an operator's license holder to obtain a new license within 90 days of the license holder's 21st birthday; amend KRS 186A.555 to set the fee for a sheriff's inspection for a hail damaged vehicle at $15; remove the requirement for the clerk to physically stamp the titles of a motor vehicle with a hail damaged brand and instead require the clerk to input that brand into AVIS; amend various other sections to conform; repeal KRS 189.271, relating to special permits for hauling industrial materials; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2027. SFA (2) Eliminate references to a pilot project for the electronic title application and registration system and the centralized lien management system; set forth that any fee imposed under Section 11 of the Act shall, for the payor be deemed as an additional amount of taxes, state fees, or clerk's fees, and not a collection fee or separate charge. HCS(1) Retain original provisions; amend various sections to include manufactured homes in the electronic title and registration system and the electronic lien system; amend KRS 186A.060 to expand the allowable identification that may be used when registering a manufactured home; amend KRS 132.096 to exempt registered street-legal special purpose vehicles from state and local ad valorem taxation; amend KRS 132.485 and 186.077 to conform; amend KRS 186A.530 to prohibit a vehicle manufacturer from prohibiting or restricting the installation of vehicle software on a vehicle with a rebuilt title; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2028. HFA(2) Amend Section 2 to authorize owners of vehicles without a lien to request printed titles at any time; amend Section 5 to eliminate references to manufactured homes; amend Section 14 to eliminate language regarding transfer upon death for motor vehicles; create a new section of KRS Chapter 186A to establish procedures for transfer of vehicles on death; amend KRS 138.470 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 281A to require the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate emergency and ordinary administrative regulations to extend the allowable time length for a limited CDL in accordance with the maximum length allowed under 49 C.F.R sec. 383.3; EMERGENCY, in part. FCCR (1) Adopt the provisions of the House Committee Substitute, except eliminate language allowing an applicant for a title on a manufactured home to use alternate identification allowed by federal law to qualify for a loan on a manufactured home; adopt House Floor Amendment 2; make title amendment. |
| | Current Status: | 4/13/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 135)
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| SB111 | PHYSICAL ACTIVITY IN SCHOOLS (REED, AARON; Tichenor, Lindsey; Adams, Julie Raque; Douglas, Donald; Girdler, Rick; Webb, Robin L.; West, Stephen) AN ACT relating to physical activity in schools.
Amend KRS 160.345 to define "recess"; require each school council to develop and implement a wellness policy that includes 30 minutes of recess for students in kindergarten through grade 5 to be included as part of each full instructional day and 15 minutes of recess on each early dismissal day allows between 15 and 30 minutes of recess per instructional say for students in grades 6 through 12; allows appropriate supervised physical exercise to be used as a student discipline tool during recess; and prohibits the denial of recess unless participation poses an immediate threat to physical safety; require the wellness policy to be adopted and implemented prior to the first student attendance day of the 2026-27 school year. |
| | Current Status: | 1/20/2026 - Introduced
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| SB114 | EDUCATION (GIVENS, DAVID P.; AN ACT relating to education.
Amend KRS 160.210 to require a county school district having reached an end-of-year enrollment of 25,000 or more students have 7 divisions with 1 board member appointed from each division and 4 members appointed from the county at large; require board members to be appointed by the chief executive officer of the county and confirmed by the legislative body of the county; require appointments to the board reflect no less than the proportional representation of the 2 leading political parties; amend KRS 160.160 to define "chief executive officer"; require school districts having reached 25,000 or more students to be under the management and control of a board of education consisting of 11 members; amend KRS 160.170 to require every person appointed to a board of education to take the board oath; amend KRS 160.190 require a board vacancy in a county school district having reached an end-of-year enrollment of 25,000 or more students be filled by the chief executive officer of the county; amend KRS 160.180 to require an appointed member of a board of education be subject to removal pursuant to KRS 156.132; amend KRS 156.132 require the chief state school officer recommend removal of appointed county board of education members guilty of immorality, misconduct, incompetency, willful neglect of duty, or nonfeasance; authorize the chief executive officer to remove an appointed member for cause in accordance with KRS 160.210; amend KRS 160.240, 304.48-250, and 304.50-055 to conform; allow elected members of county boards of education in districts having reached an enrollment of 25,000 to serve out the terms elected for; require initial appointments of 2 at large members to be for 2 years and 2 appointments to be for 4 years; require boards that require additional divisions to have accomplished those divisions by January 1, 2027; require additional positions not represented by an elected member to be filled by January 1, 2027; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2027. |
| | Current Status: | 1/22/2026 - Introduced
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| SB117 | WORKER FAIRNESS IN THE CONSTRUCTION INDUSTRY (WHEELER, PHILLIP; AN ACT relating to worker fairness in the construction industry.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to prohibit subcontractors from misclassifying employees on capital projects as independent contractors; define terms; establish criteria for classifying workers as employees or independent contractors; provide a complaint and appeal process for misclassification violations; provide that no prime contractor or subcontractor, nor any agent thereof shall retaliate against any person for taking action or providing information to investigators for violations; provide that a complaint shall be dismissed without prejudice if the Department of Workplace Standards fails to take action within 180 days after filing a complaint; provide that prime contractors or subcontractors shall post a notice for filing complaints or inquiries with the commissioner of the Department of Workplace standards; require each contract for a capital project shall require a prime contractor and any subcontractors to enroll and verify the work eligibility of all employees through the E-Verify program; require the department to promulgate administrative regulations; require the commissioner to provide any order or decision that a subcontractor has misclassified an employee as an independent contractor to the Department of Worker's Claims, the Department of Revenue, and the Office of Unemployment Insurance no later than 60 days after the order or decision; amend KRS 337.990 to establish penalties for violations; amend KRS 45A.145 to prohibit subcontractors or any corporate officer or shareholder that owns at least 10% of the outstanding stock of the corporation with 2 or more violations in 5 years from contracting with the state for 2 years; create new sections of KRS Chapters 341 and 342 and amend KRS 131.190 to require the Department of Revenue, the Office of Unemployment Insurance, and the Department of Workers' Claims to provide one another with any assessment or orders arising out of the misclassification of an employee; create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require the secretary of the Education and Labor Cabinet to develop a training program relating to employee misclassification; provide that Sections 1 to 8, 13, and 14 of this Act may be cited as the Kentucky Workers Fairness Act; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2027. |
| | Current Status: | 1/22/2026 - Introduced
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| SB120 | KENTUCKY BOARD OF EDUCATION (WILLIAMS, GEX; Tichenor, Lindsey) AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Board of Education and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 156.029 to make members on the Kentucky Board of Education who represent each of the Supreme Court districts be elected in partisan elections instead of appointed; provide that the term of office will be 4 years from the first Monday in January following the election; provide that the initial term of a member elected to represent an even-numbered Supreme Court District will be 2 years and the initial term of a member elected to represent an odd-numbered Supreme Court District will be 4 years; remove language regarding the requirement to balance the demographic composition of the board; require the members elected to represent a Supreme Court district to reside in the district for at least 12 months prior to the election and for the duration of their terms; provide that general election laws apply and that removal is in accordance with KRS 415.050 and KRS 415.060; permit the board to appoint the student member of the board in April of the student's sophomore year, rotate nonvoting member appointments by Supreme Court district instead of congressional district; povide that a vacancy shall be filled in accordance with Section 152 of the Constitution of Kentucky; amend KRS 156.040, 118.105, 118.165, 118.305, 118.315, 118.325, 118.356, 118.365, and 160.220 to conform; repeal KRS 156.031, 156.147, and 156.1475; provide that the terms of members appointed between the effective date of this Act and January 3, 2028, expire on that date; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 1/23/2026 - Introduced
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| SB121 | EDUCATION (WILLIAMS, GEX; AN ACT relating to education.
Amend KRS 156.161 to provide that certain school district facility project waivers shall not expire unless the Kentucky Board of Education provides for expiration when granting the waiver; require the state board to consider waivers no later than 45 calendar days after submission; amend KRS 157.360 to provide for a temporary exemption from maximum class sizes; require the state board to review the exemption issued by the Kentucky Department of Education within 45 days; amend KRS 156.029 to rotate nonvoting member appointments by Supreme Court district instead of congressional district; provide that the nonvoting student member on the state board shall be classified as a sophomore at the time of appointment; amend KRS 161.028 to require the Education Professional Standards Board to use a portion of the proceeds of certification fees towards the Kentucky Educator Placement Service System; amend KRS 156.160, 156.670, 157.615, and 157.655 to remove references to the Council for Education Technology and place the council's responsibilities with the Kentucky Department of Education; amend KRS 156.802 to direct that the department have administrative responsibility for the Kentucky FFA Leadership Training Center; repeal KRS 156.660, relating to definitions, and 156.690, relating to teachers' computer purchase system; provide procedures for the initial appointment of the nonvoting teacher and student representatives representing Supreme Court districts. |
| | Current Status: | 1/23/2026 - Introduced
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| SB124 | SICK LEAVE FOR SCHOOL DISTRICT PERSONNEL (NUNN, MATT; Higdon, Jimmy; Douglas, Donald; Reed, Aaron; Tichenor, Lindsey; Williams, Gex) AN ACT relating to sick leave for school district personnel.
Amend KRS 161.155 to allow school district employees to use sick leave for observance of religious holidays not otherwise included on the school's calendar if the employee submits a personal statement verifying the observance and gives advance notice to the district; permit local school districts to compensate teachers and employees prior to retirement for accrued accumulated sick leave above 15 days at up to 30% of the teacher's or employee's daily wage; provide that compensation for sick leave compensated prior to retirement shall not impact retirement benefits or contributions to the Teachers' Retirement System or County Employees Retirement System and shall be considered as payment for services rendered; require the Kentucky Department of Education to annually report to the Legislative Research Commission on school districts who have established a program to compensate unused sick leave prior to retirement; amend KRS 78.616 and 161.220 to conform and to make technical amendments. |
| | Current Status: | 4/15/2026 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/ HFA1 HFA2
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| SB127 | TEACHERS' RETIREMENT SYSTEM (HIGDON, JIMMY; Mills, Robby) AN ACT relating to actuarial costs of annual leave payments in the Teachers' Retirement System.
Amend KRS 161.540 to specify payment obligations for the inclusion of annual leave payments in a retiring member's pension benefits from the Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) by requiring the state to pay the actuarial costs for annual leave accrued through July 31, 2026, and the last employer pay the actuarial costs for annual leave accrued on or after August 1, 2026. SCS (1) Retain original provisions, except specify the state shall pay actuarial costs to the Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) for annual leave accrued on or after August 1, 2026, for school employees not to exceed 5 days annually; provide that only those employees earning annual leave prior to August 1, 2026, with an employer participating in the TRS annual leave program prior to August 1, 2026, may have annual leave payments included in TRS retirement benefit calculations; amend KRS 160.220 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 4/15/2026 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day; w/ HFA1 HFA2(T)
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| SB129 | UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (NEMES, MICHAEL J.; Williams, Gex) AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance.
Amend KRS 341.243 to change the employer's contribution rate to the service capacity upgrade fund; of the rate subtracting .075% until December 31, 2026; provide that beginning January 1 2027, the rates shall be adjusted by subtracting 0.0115%; require the secretary of the Education and Labor Cabinet to set the adjustment percentage annually to be effective January 1 of each subsequent year, not to exceed 1.025%. SFA (2) Retain original provisions; amend KRS 341.243 to require the Secretary for the Education and Labor Cabinet to annually set the adjustment percentage to be effective January 1 of the subsequent year, not to exceed 0.025% and to suspend the subtraction from each rate if the service capacity upgrade fund balance is $15,000,000 or more, or the unemployment insurance trust fund exceeds the balance of the trust fund as of December 31, 2022. |
| | Current Status: | 4/17/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 189)
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| SB130 | POSTSECONDARY EDUCATION (NEMES, MICHAEL J.; AN ACT relating to postsecondary education.
Create a new section of KRS 164.6941 to 164.6951 to define terms; require an intercollegiate athletics enterprise that provides a cumulative sum of more than $1,000 to coaches and student-athletes to register for a license with the Council on Postsecondary Education; provide for the terms of the license, require the reporting of contracts and amounts of intercollegiate athletics compensation; set the license fee at 10% of all compensation provided to student-athletes and coaches during the previous year; deposit fees into restricted scholarships account; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to distribute moneys to postsecondary institutions proportionally to the intercollegiate athletics compensation received by the institution's student-athletes and coaches; require postsecondary institutions to establish a scholarship program with funds received, set requirements for scholarship program, EFFECTIVE January 1, 2027. |
| | Current Status: | 2/13/2026 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate State & Local Government (S)
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| SB133 | FISCAL REPORTING OF LOCAL ENTITIES (NUNN, MATT; AN ACT relating to the fiscal reporting of local entities.
Amend KRS 65A.030 to increase the fiscal reporting levels of special purpose governmental entities; allow entities conducting yearly audits to move to an audit every 4 years if the entity receives 2 sequential audit reports with unqualified opinions and report the fact that the entity is operating under the alternative audit schedule to the Department for Local Government; require an entity to have yearly audits if the entity receives anything but an unqualified audit opinion at a subsequent audit; amend KRS 147.635, relating to area planning commissions, to align their audit requirements to those in KRS 65A.030; amend KRS 220.280, relating to sanitation districts, to align their audit requirements to those in KRS 65A.030; amend KRS 43.070 and 186.240 to combine the county clerks' independent audits of motor vehicle and motorboat registration fees and licenses, motor vehicle usage taxes, and ad valorem taxes on motor vehicles and motorboats into the county clerks' regular periodic audit; require the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet to bear the cost of the portion of the audit attributed to receipts from motor vehicles and motorboats; amend KRS 64.830, relating to final settlements of outgoing county officials, to make the settlement to be complete within 60 days of the expiration of the term of office or the date a vacancy is otherwise created to account for unexpected vacancies in office; require that if an official's vacancy does not coincide with the end of the calendar year or end of the official's term, the outgoing county official is to remit any remaining funds to the fiscal court as excess fees and require the fiscal court to provide an amount equal to the excess fees remitted by the outgoing official to the outgoing county official's successor for official use; repeal KRS 43.071, relating to the annual audit of county clerk's motor vehicle and motorboat tax receipts; EFFECTIVE, in part, July 1, 2027. SCS (1) Retain original provisions, except require the Auditor of Public Accounts to determine certain procedures that specified special purpose governmental entities shall follow rather than the Department for Local Government; create a new section of KRS Chapter 65A to allow qualifying entities to perform an agreed-upon procedures engagement and set out process; amend KRS 65A.010 to remove from the definition of "special purpose governmental entity" a local industrial development authority established pursuant to KRS 154.50-301 to 154.50-346 if the funds of the authority are audited as part of the budget of the establishing entity for the authority; make technical corrections. HFA(3) Amend KRS 64.012 to change the reporting deadline for county clerks from July 1 to August 1 for permanent storage of records fee reports. |
| | Current Status: | 4/27/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| SB134 | RETIREMENT (NEMES, MICHAEL J.; AN ACT relating to retirement.
Amend KRS 61.530 to insert gender-neutral language. |
| | Current Status: | 1/28/2026 - Introduced
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| SB136 | UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (FUNKE FROMMEYER, SHELLEY; AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 341.416, relating to suspected unemployment insurance fraud, to require the Education and Labor Cabinet to refer suspected fraud cases to the United States Department of Labor and to remove the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet and the United States Department of Justice from the required referral. HCS (1) Retain original provisions, except amend KRS 341.350 to include an exemption to the work search requirements for employees with a bona fide return-to-work or recall-to-work prospect that is no longer than 1 year from the filing date of the initial or reopened claim; define "bona fide return-to-work or recall-to-work prospect"; require the secretary of the Education and Labor Cabinet to deny or rescind confirmation of a prospect if it does not comply with federal law; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 4/13/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 123)
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| SB151 | EVALUATIONS OF CERTIFIED EDUCATORS (REED, AARON; West, Stephen; Carroll, Danny; Higdon, Jimmy; Howell, Jason; Meredith, Stephen; Rawlings, Steve; Richardson, Craig; Tichenor, Lindsey; Williams, Gex; Wilson, Mike) AN ACT relating to evaluations of certified educators.
Amend KRS 156.557 to permit a superintendent to initiate summative evaluations; require that summative evaluations be provided to the local board of education. |
| | Current Status: | 2/2/2026 - Introduced
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| SB152 | EDUCATION (REED, AARON; West, Stephen; Douglas, Donald; Givens, David P.; Meredith, Stephen; Tichenor, Lindsey; Williams, Gex) AN ACT relating to education.
Amend KRS 160.345 to define "school-based policy"; require that principals provide monthly and annual reports to the local board of education; set notice requirements for school advisory council elections; establish that a superintendent selects the principals for the school district; require that all school-based policies be reviewed and approved by the local board before implementation and provide exceptions; amend KRS 160.370 to permit county school districts with more than 15,000 students to delegate the approval of school-based policies; amend KRS 158.1415 to permit a local school board to adopt a curriculum for human sexuality; amend various sections of KRS Chapters 7, 156, 157, 158, 160, 161, 164, and 605 to transfer duties of school-based decision making councils to advisory councils and principals and to conform. SCS (1) Retain original provisions, except remove requirement that principals provide monthly reports to the local board of education; remove requirement for a superintendent to approve all school employee hires; remove requirement that a principal must consult with the school advisory council before employing the spouse of a superintendent; remove requirement that all school-based policies must be reviewed and approved by the local board of education before implementation; remove amendment to KRS 160.370 permitting county school districts with more than 15,000 students to delegate the approval of school-based policies; require that a school advisory council shall provide a nonbinding nomination for a principal candidate to the superintendent; make technical corrections. |
| | Current Status: | 2/20/2026 - received in House
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| SB161 | EMPLOYMENT (CLEMONS , GARY; Armstrong, Cassie Chambers ; Berg, Karen; Herron, Keturah; Neal, Gerald A.; Thomas, Reginald; Webb, Robin L.) AN ACT relating to employment.
Amend KRS 336.130 to delete references restricting rights of public employees to organize, associate collectively, or strike; amend KRS 336.180 to redefine "labor organization" and delete definitions of "candidate," "committee," "contributing organization," "contribution," "election," "electioneering communications," "employer," "fundraiser," "independent expenditure," "political activities," "public employee," "slate of candidates," and "testimonial affair"; amend KRS 336.990 to conform; amend KRS 67A.6904 to allow urban-county governments to make an agreement with a labor organization to require membership in the organization as a condition of employment; amend KRS 67C.406 to allow consolidated local governments to make an agreement with a labor organization to require membership in the organization as a condition of employment; amend KRS 70.262, 78.470, and 78.480 to remove exceptions; amend KRS 345.050 to allow public employers to make an agreement with a labor organization to require membership in the organization as a condition of employment; amend KRS 336.1341 and 336.135 to conform; repeal KRS 65.016, 336.132, and 336.134. |
| | Current Status: | 2/3/2026 - Introduced
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| SB163 | UNEMPLOYMENT INSURANCE (WHEELER, PHILLIP; Clemons , Gary; Herron, Keturah; Nemes, Michael J.; Webb, Robin L.) AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance.
Amend KRS 341.350, relating to unemployment insurance, to lengthen the verified definite return-to-work or recall-to-work period from 16 weeks to 12 months and add protections for employees whose place of employment can reasonably be expected to resume operations within 12 months following a natural disaster. |
| | Current Status: | 3/17/2026 - (S) Returned to Committee Senate Committee on Committees (S)
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| SB165 | PRESCHOOL EDUCATION PROGRAMS (NEAL, GERALD A.; Thomas, Reginald; Berg, Karen; Clemons , Gary; Herron, Keturah) AN ACT relating to preschool education programs.
Amend KRS 157.320 to define "eligible child" and "teaming partner"; amend KRS 157.3175 to require each local school district to provide preschool to 4 year olds who reside in a household with an income at or below 160% of the poverty level until the end of the 2033-2034 school year, and beginning with the 2034-2035 school year require each local school district to provide preschool to each eligible child; provide requirements for program guidelines; require the Kentucky Department of Education to establish and maintain a statewide unified data system; create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to require local school districts to maintain certification from the Head Start director that Head Start is fully utilized; provide penalties; require local school districts to prepare and submit preschool expansion plans to the deparment; require the department to promulgate administrative regulations regarding preschool expansion; require the department to submit a report the the Legislative Research Commission annually regarding preschool expansion. |
| | Current Status: | 2/5/2026 - Introduced
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| SB166 | PRESCHOOL EDUCATION PROGRAMS (ARMSTRONG, CASSIE CHAMBERS ; Neal, Gerald A.; Berg, Karen; Clemons , Gary; Herron, Keturah; Thomas, Reginald) AN ACT relating to preschool education programs.
Amend KRS 157.320 to define "at risk" and "teaming partner"; amend KRS 157.3175 to require each local school district to provide preschool to 4 year olds who reside in a household with an income at or below 160% of the poverty level until the end of the 2030-2031 school year and beginning with the 2031-2032 school year, require each local school district to provide preschool to each 4 year old who is at risk; provide requirements for program guidelines; require the Kentucky Department of Education to establish and maintain a statewide unified data system; create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to require local school districts to maintain certification from the Head Start director that Head Start is fully utilized; provide penalties; require local school districts to prepare and submit preschool expansion plans to the deparment; require the department to promulgate administrative regulations regarding preschool expansion; require the department to submit a report the the Legislative Research Commission annually regarding preschool expansion. |
| | Current Status: | 2/5/2026 - Introduced
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| SB167 | INCOME TAX DEDUCTION (CLEMONS , GARY; Armstrong, Cassie Chambers ; Berg, Karen; Thomas, Reginald) AN ACT relating to an income tax deduction for union and professional dues.
Amend KRS 141.019, relating to income tax, to define terms; allow a deduction from gross income for union dues and 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. |
| | Current Status: | 2/17/2026 - (S) WITHDRAWN
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| SB169 | AMEND CONSTITUTION RELATING TO PROPERTY EXEMPT FROM TAXATION (REED, AARON; Higdon, Jimmy; Madon, Scott; Nunn, Matt; Thomas, Reginald; West, Stephen) AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to property exempt from taxation.
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to exempt disabled United States Armed Forces veterans and unremarried surviving spouses of United States Armed Forces service members killed in action while performing active military duty from property taxation of property owned and maintained as a primary residence and a primary motor vehicle owned and maintained as their primary vehicle after calendar year 2027; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection. |
| | Current Status: | 2/5/2026 - Introduced
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| SB170 | STATUS OFFENSES (STORM, BRANDON J.; Carroll, Danny; Nunn, Matt) AN ACT relating to status offenses.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 610 to establish a pilot program to be known as the Supporting Opportunities for Accountability and Restoration Program for children who are truant; require the pilot program to be established in no less than 10 public school districts; establish the responsive interventions to support and empower teams; establish criteria for participation and procedure for the program; create a new section of KRS Chapter 159 to establish the duties of the director of pupil personnel in school districts that are participating in the pilot program; amend KRS 159.140 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to require schools to collect certain data relating to habitual truancy and require the Kentucky Department of Education to annually report data relating to habitual truancy to the Legislative Research Commission for referral to the Interim Joint Committee on Education and the Interim Joint Committee on Judiciary; amend KRS 610.030 to require the use of an evidence-based family screening tool to identify family strengths, needs, and risks; create family diversion plans and require a child's parent to participate; amend KRS 605.030 to require a court-designated worker to coordinate the pilot program in the school districts that participate; amend KRS 17.125 to allow responsive interventions to support and empower teams to access information on juveniles involved with the juvenile justice system; amend KRS 600.020 to amend the definition of "habitual truant" and define "Supporting Opportunities for Accountability and Restoration Program" or "SOAR Program" and "Responsive Interventions to Support and Empower Teams" or "RISE teams"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 630 to provide that a child who is alleged to be a status offender, adjudicated a status offender, or is a status offender alleged or found to have violated a valid court order shall not be detained in a secure detention facility until the child is at least 16 years old; amend various sections to conform; repeal KRS 630.100. SCS (1) Retain original provisions, except repeal KRS 605.035 regarding the creation of the family accountability, intervention, and response teams; amend various other sections to conform; provide that a child who is alleged to be a status offender, adjudicated a status offender, or is a status offender alleged or found to have violated a valid court order shall not be detained in a secure detention facility until the child is at least 14 years old; make technical changes. SFA (2) Retain original provisions, except remove the requirement for the Kentucky Department of Education to include in its annual report when a child is removed from school to be homeschooled following a complaint for habitual truancy. SFA (3) Retain original provisions, except authorize a student who has been absent without excuse for 5 or more days to participate in the Supporting Opportunities for Accountability and Restoration Program. |
| | Current Status: | 4/10/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 69)
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| SB173 | MEDICAID STATE PLAN (GIVENS, DAVID P.; AN ACT relating to legislative oversight of the Medicaid state plan and declaring an emergency.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to define terms; establish an annual Medicaid state plan and Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program state plan legislative review process; EMERGENCY. SCS (1) Retain original provisions, except remove provisions related to legislative approval of the Medicaid state plan and KCHIP state plan. |
| | Current Status: | 4/14/2026 - delivered to Secretary of State
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| SB174 | SUPERVISION OF PHARMACY TECHNICIANS (RICHARDSON, CRAIG; AN ACT relating to the supervision of pharmacy technicians.
Amend KRS 315.020 to prohibit the Kentucky Board of Pharmacy from requiring immediate supervision of pharmacy technicians stocking, retrieving, or returning products to or from pharmacy inventory in a nonretail pharmacy setting. |
| | Current Status: | 2/10/2026 - Introduced
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| SB175 | ESTABLISHMENT OF THE KENTUCKY HEALTH COMMAND (MEREDITH, STEPHEN; AN ACT relating to the establishment of the Kentucky Health Command.
Create a new section of KRS 42.720 to 42.742 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Health Command in the Commonwealth Office of Technology; require the Kentucky Health Command to contract with a private sector entity to develop and provide standards and qualifications for the utilization of an artificial intelligence-assited virtual health platform; establish a process by which rural health care providers and facilities may contract for use of the aritificial intelligence-assisted virtual health platform; establish a process for distribution of net advertising revenue; establish activities the virtual health platform may perform; prohibit the virtual health platform from engaging in the practice of medicine or diagnosing or treating any disease, illness, or medical condition; amend KRS 42.724 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 2/10/2026 - Introduced
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| SB177 | SPEECH LANGUAGE PATHOLOGISTS (GIRDLER, RICK; Adams, Julie Raque) AN ACT relating to speech-language pathologists.
Amend KRS 334A.035 to remove the requirement of needing to complete postgraduate professional experience to be completed under the supervision of a speech-language pathologist who holds a Kentucky license; amend KRS 334a.050, 334A.020, and 344A.085 to conform. SCS (1) Retain original provisions; create a pathway to licensure to practice as a speech-language pathologist that is compatible with the audiology and speech-language pathology interstate compact; require speech-language pathologists practicing through the compact to complete 3 years of postgraduate professional experience. |
| | Current Status: | 3/6/2026 - received in House
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| SB179 | SEX-BASED CLASSIFICATIONS (TICHENOR, LINDSEY; Boswell, Gary; Girdler, Rick; Higdon, Jimmy; Madon, Scott; Mills, Robby; Nunn, Matt; Rawlings, Steve; Reed, Aaron; Williams, Gex; Wilson, Mike) AN ACT relating to sex-based classifications.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 61 to define "boy," "equal," "female," "girl," "male," "man," "sex," and "woman"; prohibit any state or local law, regulation, ordinance, or policy from treating males or females unfairly from similiarly situated members of the opposite sex, but permit separation of the sexes if in the interest of maintaining safety, privacy, and fairness; provide a non-exhaustive list of examples of areas in which public entities may distinguish between the sexes; require any public school, public school district, state agency, department, local government, special district or any political subdivision of those entities that collects vital statistics to identify each person as either male or female; provide that the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Women's Bill of Rights. |
| | Current Status: | 2/10/2026 - Introduced
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| SB181 | SCHOOLS (TICHENOR, LINDSEY; Boswell, Gary; Douglas, Donald) AN ACT relating to schools and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 160.145 to expand existing definitions and define "private electronic communication" and "qualified school volunteer"; limit the scope of unauthorized electronic communication to private electronic communication and exclude designated types of communication from the scope of the requirement to obtain written parental consent prior to communicating outside of the traceable communication system; limit the scope of the school volunteers subject to this section to qualified school volunteers; specify that the requirement to obtain written parental consent only applies to students enrolled within the same school district as the school district employee or qualified school volunteer; permit a local school district more flexibility in disciplinary actions arising from a violation of this section; permit a written parental consent form to designate more than 1 school district employee or qualified school volunteer; provide that the written consent may be revoked by the parent who filed the consent; require notice of the revocation to be sent to the identified school district employee or qualified school volunteer; prohibit a school or school district from refusing to accept parental consent forms; prohibit requiring parental consent forms under this section as a requirement for a student to participate in an academic, athletic, or extracurricular opportunity; provide an emergency exception to permit a school district employee or qualified school volunteer to communicate electronically without prior written parental consent if the individual discloses the communication after the fact; permit a school district to reconsider allowing previously prohibited volunteers; create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to prohibit a public school district or public charter school from entering into a nondisclosure agreement relating to unauthorized electronic communication or misconduct involving a minor or student; amend KRS 160.380 to define "abusive conduct"; require school district applicants to disclose being the subject of any disciplinary actions in the previous 12 months relating to abusive conduct and consent to a reference check; require school districts to conduct reference checks; require nonpublic schools and public school districts to disclose any disciplinary actions related to abusive conduct of applicants; provide immunity for disclosures made about school employee conduct; require school districts to request all related information from public and nonpublic schools and the Education Professional Standards Board (ESPB); require schools and EPSB to provide the records; require requests for information to be satisfied in 10 working days; require EPSB to create and implement procedures for information requests; require all school district applicants to list all schools of previous and current employment on the application; require a school district to internally report and investigate to completion all allegations of abusive conduct; require all records relating to an allegation of abusive conduct to be retained in an employee's personnel file unless the allegation is proven false; provide that certain requirements apply to public charter schools; amend KRS 156.160 to direct the Kentucky Board of Education to include employment standards in the voluntary certification standards for private schools; make technical corrections; amend KRS 160.151 to define "certified nonpublic school"; require employees of certified nonpublic schools to submit to a national and state criminal background check and a CA/N check; require certified nonpublic school personnel to have a state criminal background check every 5 years; prohibit a certified nonpublic school from hiring a violent or felony sex crime offender; require a certified nonpublic school to conduct reference checks on all applicants; prohibit a certified nonpublic school from entering into a nondisclosure agreement related to misconduct involving a minor or student; make technical corrections; amend KRS 156.095 to require the Kentucky Department of Education to develop a training related to sexual misconduct and inappropriate relationships for employees to undergo every 5 years; make technical corrections; amend KRS 161.151 to conform; require that an allegation of abusive conduct be reported pursuant to KRS 620.030; amend KRS 158.4431, 156.492, and 158.200 to conform; provide that Section 2 may be cited as Erin's Law; EMERGENCY. SCS (1) Delete all provisions except amendments to KRS 160.145; amend definitions of "family member," "parent," "private electronic communication," "qualified school volunteer," "school district employee," and " unauthorized electronic communication"; make technical changes. SFA (1) Retain all provisions; require parental notification for all material phases of an investigation of or disciplinary actions arising from unauthorized electronic communication with students. SFA (2) Retain all provisions; exclude electronic communication between a student and a school resource officer of director of pupil personnel from the definition of unauthorized electronic communication when designated school administrators are included in the communication. |
| | Current Status: | 1/28/2026 - received in House
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| SB183 | REGULATION OF PROXY ADVISORY SERVICES (NUNN, MATT; Mills, Robby; Rawlings, Steve) AN ACT relating to the regulation of proxy advisory services.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to define terms; require proxy advisors to notify and disclose certain information to shareholders in a company doing business in Kentucky and to the company that is subject to the proxy advisory service when the proxy advisor is not acting solely in the interest of shareholders, as defined, or is providing materially different advice to shareholders regarding a proxy proposal or company proposal; declare that failure to notify or disclose required information is an unfair, false, misleading, or deceptive trade practice in violation of KRS 367.170; establish remedies including civil actions; apply to proxy advisory services provided on or after the effective date of the Act. HCS(1) Retain original provisions; define "default recommendation or policy"; amend definition of "investment advisor"; remove specific statutory reference to certain declaratory or injunctive relief sought by a recipient of proxy advisory services; specify when only the Attorney General may bring suit against a nonprofit organization under the Act; make technical corrections. |
| | Current Status: | 3/31/2026 - delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 10)
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| SB191 | KINDERGARTEN READINESS PERFORMANCE-BASED CHILDCARE PROGRAM (CARROLL, DANNY; AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Kindergarten Readiness Performance-Based Child Care Incentive Pilot Program.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 199 to define terms; create the Kentucky Kindergarten Readiness Performance-Based Child-Care Incentive Pilot Program; require the University of Kentucky to operate the pilot program; establish the purpose and directives of the pilot program; establish completion date and reporting requirements. SCS (1) Retain original provisions, specify that the Kentucky Kindergarten Readiness Performance-Based Child-Care Incentive Pilot Program will determine how to award incentive funds that could include direct payments or refundable tax credits. SFA (1) Establish reference to infant and toddler care programs; require the pilot program to begin on August 1, 2027; ensure participants in the pilot program will represent geographically and socioeconomically diverse areas of the Commonwealth; ensure compliance with federal regulations including, but not limited to the Quality Rating and Improvement Systems; require the report from the University of Kentucky to be submitted by January 1, 2030. |
| | Current Status: | 3/31/2026 - (H) Posted for Passage in Regular Orders of the Day, for Wednesday, April 1, 2026
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| SB200 | HUNTER EDUCATION (BOSWELL, GARY; Douglas, Donald; Wheeler, Phillip) AN ACT relating to hunter education.
Amend KRS 150.170 to exempt persons 18 years of age and older from the requirement to complete a hunter education course. |
| | Current Status: | 3/24/2026 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Natural Resources & Energy (S)
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| SB201 | MEDICAID COVERAGE (DOUGLAS, DONALD; AN ACT relating to Medicaid coverage for evaluation and management services.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services and Medicaid managed care organizations to cover evaluation and management services; prohibit the department or managed care organizations from limiting coverage for evaluation and management services to fewer than 2 units per physician, per recipient, per date of service; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to seek federal approval if it is determined that such approval is necessary; provide authorization from the General Assembly to make changes in the Medicaid program as required under KRS 205.5372(1). |
| | Current Status: | 3/9/2026 - Statutory Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Board, (Bill Scheduled for Hearing); Time & Location: 11:00 AM, Annex 154
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| SB202 | BOARDS OF EDUCATION (TICHENOR, LINDSEY; AN ACT relating to boards of education.
Amend KRS 160.210 to establish new numbers for membership of a local board of education based on district enrollment; require the Kentucky Board of Education to determine the required number of members every 10 years; provide for the election of additional members and for the reduction of membership; require local boards of education to report new electoral divisions to the Kentucky Board of Education and the Legislative Research Commission; amend KRS 160.200, 160.160, 160.042, and 116.200 to conform; require the Kentucky Board of Education to make initial determinations of board size by December 31, 2026, and local boards to conduct required division changes with created positions being treated as vacancies under KRS 160.190. |
| | Current Status: | 2/13/2026 - Introduced
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| SB207 | DUTY-RELATED DISABILITY BENEFITS (MADON, SCOTT; Neal, Gerald A.) AN ACT relating to duty-related disability benefits.
Amend KRS 61.621 to allow a member of a state-administered retirement system who works in a nonhazardous position that could be certified as a hazardous position and who receives a duty-related injury to be eligible for the same minimum retirement benefit provided to members who receive a hazardous disability retirement; amend KRS 61.702 to allow Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS) members working in a nonhazardous position that could be certified as a hazardous position who receive a duty-related injury to receive the same health benefit provided to members who receive a hazardous disability retirement; amend KRS 78.5536 to allow County Employees Retirement System (CERS) members working in a nonhazardous position that could be certified as a hazardous position who receive a duty-related injury to receive the same health benefit provided to members who receive a hazardous disability retirement; allow certain persons whose last day of paid employment was on or after January 1, 2022, but prior to the effective date of the Act to apply for benefits; RETROACTIVE. |
| | Current Status: | 2/25/2026 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education (S)
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| SB212 | MENTAL HEALTH COVERAGE (SMITH, BRANDON; AN ACT relating to mental health coverage and declaring an emergency.
Amend KRS 304.17A-660 to define "health professional"; amend KRS 304.17A-661 to require that annual mental health parity reports be submitted to the Legislative Research Commission on or before June 1 of each year for referral to certain committees and be published by the insurance commissioner on the Department of Insurance's website; require insurers to have an independent audit conducted to evaluate mental health parity compliance upon request of the commissioner or Attorney General; require the commissioner to establish and operate a hotline that allows health professionals and insureds to submit complaints regarding mental health parity compliance; prohibit insurers from retaliating against a health professional for submitting a complaint; authorize the Attorney General to enforce the mental health parity law; establish duties, remedies, and penalties for enforcement by the Attorney General; authorize a private cause of action by any person directly injured by a violation or likely violation of the mental health parity law; establish duties, remedies, and penalties for a private right of action under the mental health parity law; establish construction clauses; authorize the Attorney General to promulgate administrative regulations for proper enforcement of mental health parity law; create a new section of KRS 304.17A-660 to 304.17A-669 to establish requirements for review criteria used by insurers to determine the medical necessity and appropriateness of a claim submitted for the diagnosis or treatment of a mental health condition; require that the review criteria be publicly available on the insurer's website; require insurers to comply with KRS 304.17A-600 to 304.17A-633 with respect to claims submitted by health professionals for the diagnosis of treatment of mental health conditions except as provided in the section; amend KRS 304.17A-617 and 304.17A-623 to conform; amend KRS 205.522 to require the Department for Medicaid Services, Medicaid managed care organizations, and the state' medical assistance program to comply with mental health parity law; require the Department for Medicaid Services or the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to obtain federal approval, if necessary, and comply with notice requirements; provide authorization from the General Assembly to make changes as required under KRS 205.5372(1); EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2027; EMERGENCY. |
| | Current Status: | 2/19/2026 - Introduced
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| SB213 | RETAIL ELECTRIC SUPPLIERS (WHEELER, PHILLIP; Madon, Scott; Smith, Brandon; Webb, Robin L.; West, Stephen) AN ACT relating to retail electric suppliers.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 278 to declare that policy of the Commonwealth is for retail electric suppliers under the Public Service Commission (PSC) to procure electric generation sufficient to meet customer demand using an open, competitive process and at a rate that is the lowest possible; require retail electric suppliers to conduct integrated resource planning every 3 years and set forth the parameters of the integrated resource plan process; exempt elective cooperatives from the integrated resource plan process if the cooperative maintains an all-requirements contract; direct the PSC to promulgate administrative regulations within 120 days of the effective date of the Act; restrict the purchase of capacity from regional transmission organizations or independent system operators for prolonged periods as determined by the commission; require retail electric suppliers to file integrated resource plans on a triennial basis and include an assessment and acquisition plan for adequate and reliable electricity to meet customer demand at the lowest possible cost of forecasted estimates; make the privilege to serve customers in a certified territory a property right of the Commonwealth; require the PSC to allow the commission to determine an amount to be returned to customers of an electric retail supplier that is based on a calculation of the privilege to serve in a certified territory in a proceeding involving an acquisition, transfer, or sale of an electric retail supplier; allow one time, limited choice of retail electric supplier for incremental load at a single site in excess of 50 megawatts beginning June 30, 2027; require the PSC to ensure customers of affected retail electric suppliers are indifferent to the limited choice designation; amend KRS 278.010 to amend the definition of "adequate service" to include generating capacity; define "integrated resource plan"; amend KRS 278.016 to state that retail electric supplier has the privilege to provide electric service; amend KRS 278.018 to state that retail electric suppliers have the privilege rather than right to furnish retail electric service in its certified territory; and if the PSC find that a retail electric supplier is not providing adequate service the PSC may order the supplier to correct the problem; allow the commission to authorize another retail electric supplier to serve facilities located in the certified territory of another retail electric supplier; amend KRS 278.020 to determine whether public ownership of a retail electric supplier can achieve lower rates and deem cooperatives organized under KRS Chapter 279 to have public ownership; allow the PSC to consider the integrated resource planning process or the use of the contract when making a determination on a certificate of public convenience and necessity; amend 278.300 to allow the for evaluation of the integrated resource plan or use of a contract when granting certificate of public convenience and necessity. |
| | Current Status: | 3/5/2026 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules
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| SB215 | SCHOOL DISTRICTS (TICHENOR, LINDSEY; Boswell, Gary) AN ACT relating to school districts.
Amend KRS 160.290 to ensure public school curriculum, textbooks, and instructional materials, including digital learning materials, remain subject to the Open Records Act and that districts protect a resident's fair use rights; amend KRS 160.350 to require a superintendent with total annual compensation greater than the commissioner of education to be subject to confirmation by the Senate; require a majority vote instead of a four-fifths vote of local board of education members to remove a superintendent; delete requirements for approval from the commissioner of education to remove a superintendent; provide an appeal process for the superintendent; amend KRS 160.160 to establish a 1 year term for chair and vice chair of a local board of education; require superintendents to submit reports on closed personnel investigations to the local board of education for the purposes of policy oversight and evaluation of the superintendent's performance; amend KRS 160.180 to make ineligible a candidate for membership on a board of education who engages or serves as an officer or director of an organization that represents district employees in employment or legal matters against the district; require Open Records Act and Open Meetings Act training for local board of education members; make conforming changes; permit the hiring of relatives of a local board of education member; amend KRS 160.380 to prohibit a person convicted of certain specified crimes from being employed by a superintendent; require superintendents to submit reports on previous personnel investigations closed during the superintendent's contract to the local board of education within 30 days of the effective date of this Act. |
| | Current Status: | 2/19/2026 - Introduced
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| SB218 | MEDICAID STATE DIRECTED PAYMENT PROGRAM (GIVENS, DAVID P.; AN ACT relating to the establishment of a Medicaid state-directed payment program.
Amend KRS 205.6412 to require the Department for Medicaid Services to seek authorization from the United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to implement a state-directed payment for physician and nonphysician professional services provided to a Medicaid beneficiary by a qualifying hospital's affiliated physician groups or physicians and other professionals employed or contracted by the qualified hospital; require the Department of Medicaid Services to direct Medicaid managed care organizations to issue payments back to January 1, 2026, upon federal approval; RETROACTIVE. |
| | Current Status: | 3/20/2026 - (S) WITHDRAWN
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| SB225 | REGULATION OF RESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION (MILLS, ROBBY; AN ACT relating to regulation of residential construction.
Amend KRS 198B.030 to require the Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction to consider the effects of any proposed new or amended regulation on residential construction by conducting a cost-benefit analysis and an analysis to determine the impacts on the amount of residential construction; require the analyses to be submitted to the Housing, Buildings and Construction Advisory Committee and the Legislative Research Commission; establish a moratorium on the Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction altering or amending any state code in a way that would result in an increase in residential construction costs until January 1, 2029. SCS (1) Retain original provisions, except delete section establishing a moratorium on the Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction altering or amending any state code in a way that would result in an increase in residential construction costs until January 1, 2029; make technical correction. |
| | Current Status: | 3/17/2026 - received in House
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| SB227 | VETERANS (DENEEN, MATTHEW; AN ACT relating to veterans.
Amend KRS 40.050 to include gender-neutral language. |
| | Current Status: | 2/24/2026 - Introduced
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| SB232 | TRANSPORTATION (HIGDON, JIMMY; AN ACT relating to transportation.
Amend KRS 186.230 and 186.120 to conform to gender-neutral language. |
| | Current Status: | 2/24/2026 - Introduced
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| SB234 | EDUCATION (WEST, STEPHEN; AN ACT relating to education.
Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language. |
| | Current Status: | 2/24/2026 - Introduced
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| SB235 | EDUCATION (WEST, STEPHEN; AN ACT relating to education.
Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language. |
| | Current Status: | 2/24/2026 - Introduced
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| SB236 | EDUCATION (WEST, STEPHEN; AN ACT relating to education.
Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language. |
| | Current Status: | 3/3/2026 - House Postsecondary Education (H), (Bill Scheduled for Hearing); Time & Location: 8:30 AM, Annex 154
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| SB241 | DEDUCTION FOR PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIP DUES (CLEMONS , GARY; Webb, Robin L.; Berg, Karen) AN ACT relating to a deduction for professional membership dues.
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. |
| | Current Status: | 2/24/2026 - Introduced
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| SB244 | TRANSPORTATION (HIGDON, JIMMY; AN ACT relating to transportation.
Amend KRS 186.230 and 186.120 to conform to gender-neutral language. |
| | Current Status: | 2/25/2026 - Introduced
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| SB258 | SALES AND USE TAX EXEMPTION FOR DIAPERS (ARMSTRONG, CASSIE CHAMBERS ; AN ACT relating to a sales and use tax exemption for diapers.
Amend KRS 139.010 to define "diaper"; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt all diapers from the sales and use tax. |
| | Current Status: | 2/26/2026 - Introduced
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| SB260 | MIDDLE SCHOOL ADVANCED MATHEMATICS (WEST, STEPHEN; AN ACT relating to middle school advanced mathematics.
Amend KRS 158.6453 to require a local board of education to maintain a district plan on the promotion of advanced coursework in mathematics; beginning with the 2028-2029 school year, establish requirements for the plan to automatically enroll students in grade 8 into Algebra I or higher courses for high school credit with specific conditions; until the 2036-2037 school year, direct the Kentucky Department of Education to submit a report on students in grade 8 taking math courses for high school credit to the Legislative Research Commission; amend KRS 158.791 to conform; authorize local board of education to implement the plan prior to the start of the 2028-2029 school year; require superintendents to submit an implementation plan to the local board of education. |
| | Current Status: | 2/26/2026 - Introduced
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| SB261 | PEDESTRIAN SWINGING BRIDGES (STIVERS, ROBERT; AN ACT relating to pedestrian swinging bridges.
Amend KRS 67.083 to allow fiscal courts to provide for the care and maintenance of pedestrian swinging bridges that are available for recreation and public enjoyment; amend KRS 411.190 to give liability protections to owners of land leased to a local government that maintains pedestrian swinging bridges that are available for recreation and public enjoyment on the land. SCS (1) Retain original provisions; create a new section of KRS Chapter 82 to authorize cities to expend public funds for the maintenance and care of pedestrian swinging bridges that are available for recreation and public enjoyment. |
| | Current Status: | 4/23/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR
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| SB263 | EDUCATION (WEST, STEPHEN; Tichenor, Lindsey) AN ACT relating to education.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to make findings and declarations about locally driven innovation and the intent of the General Assembly to permit flexibility for school districts to improve practices; amend KRS 156.161 to modify the waiver process and the waiver authority of the Kentucky Board of Education; require the Kentucky Department of Education to assist local boards of education in the development of waiver requests; specify the analysis the department shall provide to the state board in reviewing a local board's waiver request; establish a process for a local board to submit a request for a school or program to be identified as a school of innovation with a set of waivers that operate collectively; provide protections for school districts that rely on waiver assistance from the department; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to require the state board to establish a list of expedited waivers; establish the expedited waiver process and authority; require the state board to annually review all waivers granted to determine necessary changes to administrative regulations or statutes or identify new best practices; amend KRS 157.360 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to establish the school of innovation pilot project; establish the school of innovation pilot project fund; provide procedures for the operation of the pilot project; conclude the pilot project on June 30, 2028; require the department to annually report information and findings from the pilot project to the Legislative Research Commission. SCS (1) Retain original provisions; make technical corrections; specify that the waiver authority delegated to the commissioner of education is subject to the same limitations that are applicable to the Kentucky Board of Education; modify the eligibility and operational terms of the school of innovation pilot project. HCS (1) Retain original provisions; modify the operational terms of the school of innovation pilot project. |
| | Current Status: | 4/14/2026 - delivered to Secretary of State
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| SB266 | TRAFFIC CONTROL SIGNAL MONITORING SYSTEMS (BERG, KAREN; AN ACT relating to traffic control signal monitoring systems.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 189 to define "agency," "owner," "recorded images," and "traffic control signal monitoring system"; establish a civil penalty of $50 if a motor vehicle in a consolidated local government is recorded failing to obey the instructions of a traffic control device; set forth forms and procedures; outline defenses for citations for failing to obey a traffic control device; mandate that a person who refuses to pay the civil penalty and does not appear to contest the citation shall have the vehicle's registration suspended; mandate that civil penalties shall not result in points against the violator's driving record; amend KRS 189.231 and 189.990 to conform. |
| | Current Status: | 2/26/2026 - Introduced
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| SB269 | OCCUPATIONS AND PROFESSIONS (ADAMS, JULIE RAQUE; AN ACT relating to occupations and professions.
Amend KRS 322.330 to make a technical correction. |
| | Current Status: | 2/26/2026 - Introduced
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| SB271 | PRACTICE OF OPHTHALMOLOGY (MEREDITH, STEPHEN; AN ACT relating to the practice of ophthalmology.
Amend KRS 320.410 to make technical clarification. |
| | Current Status: | 2/26/2026 - Introduced
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| SB279 | PUBLIC FUNDS AND POSTSECONDARY INSTITUTIONS (REED, AARON; Tichenor, Lindsey; Higdon, Jimmy; Richardson, Craig; West, Stephen; Williams, Gex) AN ACT relating to the efficient use of public funds in postsecondary institutions.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require the Council on Postsecondary Education to promulgate administrative regulations to prohibit the use of public funds towards a degree in a low-earning outcome program; require the council to provide an annual report on the implementation of the prohibition to the Legislative Research Commission. |
| | Current Status: | 2/26/2026 - Introduced
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| SB280 | OPERATION OF A MOTOR VEHICLE (REED, AARON; Wheeler, Phillip; Elkins, Greg; Higdon, Jimmy; Madon, Scott; Meredith, Stephen; Nemes, Michael J.; Nunn, Matt; Rawlings, Steve; Richardson, Craig; Tichenor, Lindsey; Webb, Robin L.; West, Stephen; Williams, Gex; Wilson, Mike) AN ACT relating to the operation of a motor vehicle.
Amend KRS 189.340 to restrict travel in the leftmost lane of any multilane highway at a speed lower than the posted speed limit; provide exceptions; amend KRS 189.990 to set penalties. |
| | Current Status: | 2/26/2026 - Introduced
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| SCR9 | MEDICAID DELIVERY (MEREDITH, STEPHEN; A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the Legislative Research Commission to conduct a feasibility study for an Accountable Communities for Health Medicaid delivery model pilot project.
Direct the Legislative Research Commission to procure a vendor to conduct a feasibility study for an Accountable Communities for Health Medicaid delivery model pilot project; require the results of the study to be submitted to the Legislative Research Commission by November 1, 2026; strongly encourage the Legislative Research Commission to begin the procurement process immediately upon the adoption of this Resolution; establish that a pilot project resulting from the feasibility study shall be known as the 20 by 30 Accountable Care Pilot Project. HFA(2) Delete provisions directing the Legislative Research Commission to contract with a vendor to conduct the feasibility study. HFA (3) Make title amendment. |
| | Current Status: | 4/13/2026 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 139)
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| SCR13 | AIR MOBILITY AND AVIATION ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT TASK FORCE (STORM, BRANDON J.; Deneen, Matthew) A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION continuing the work of the Air Mobility and Aviation Economic Development Task Force by establishing the Aviation Economic Development Task Force.
Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Aviation Economic Development Task Force and direct it to study and make recommendations; establish membership and meetings; direct the task force to submit its findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2026. |
| | Current Status: | 1/6/2026 - Introduced
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| SR120 | LABOR LOBBY DAY (CLEMONS , GARY; A RESOLUTION recognizing February 25, 2026 as Labor Lobby Day at the State Capitol
Recognize Labor Lobby Day on February 25, 2026. |
| | Current Status: | 3/27/2026 - ADOPTED BY SENATE
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