AN ACT relating to the individual income tax rate.

Amend KRS 141.020 to reduce the individual income tax rate from 4% to 3.5% for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/6/2025 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 1)

  NEWS STORIES

4/17/2025 - Chamber tops list of lobbying spenders in 2025 session of Kentucky legislature

3/17/2025 - Kentucky bill making it easier to cut state taxes heads to governor. Here’s how it works

3/11/2025 - Kentucky GOP quickly pushes through big changes to state tax cut triggers, incentives

2/6/2025 - Kentucky’s personal income tax rate to go down after Beshear signs GOP-sponsored cut

2/6/2025 - Kentucky governor signs GOP-backed personal income tax cut

2/5/2025 - Senate votes to slash Kentucky’s individual income tax from 4% to 3.5% in 2026

2/5/2025 - Senate passes bill to lower Kentucky state income tax as legislature reconvenes

2/4/2025 - New Ky. bill would limit governor’s pardoning power

2/4/2025 - Kentucky Senate passes tax reduction, introduces new bills

2/4/2025 - Kentucky Senate passes tax cut bill, sends to Beshear

1/28/2025 - Half percent Ky income tax cut gets final passage

1/12/2025 - Kentucky House votes to reduce the individual income tax rate, a top GOP priority

1/10/2025 - Kentucky House easily passes income tax reduction

1/10/2025 - KY tax cut moves from Senate committee as chair warns fellow Republicans against ‘stunts’

1/10/2025 - Republicans and some Dems in House charge forward to pass income tax cut

1/9/2025 - Kentucky House clears tax cut bill

1/9/2025 - Income tax cut clears Kentucky House on bipartisan vote

1/8/2025 - Ten Commandments in schools bill among several filed on first day of KY legislative session

1/7/2025 - Income tax cut expected to be a top priority as Kentucky lawmakers convene for a 30-day session

1/7/2025 - Kentucky lawmakers pass session rules, introduce income tax cut bill on opening day

AN ACT relating to state electrical standards for buildings.

Amend KRS 227.480 to expand the group of entities whose model codes may be used as a source or basis for the standards required for electrical system construction, repair, and inspection as promulgated in the Uniform State Building Code; amend KRS 198B.050, 227.450, 227.489, 227.810, and 227A.010 to conform.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/4/2025 - (H) Referred to Committee House Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H)

AN ACT relating to building trade professions.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198B to allow on-the-job training equivalencies of internship and cooperative placement hours to count toward those hours needed to obtain licensure; require that the Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction recognize and honor the agreements toward licensure in the professions regulated by the department, including electricians, plumbers, and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning. HFA (1) Retain original provisions; require on-the-job training equivalencies to be directly related; require the department to utilize current regulations governing licensure attainment to determine eligibility and applicability. HFA (2) Retain original provisions; require that on-the-job training for dual-credit students be directly to the profession.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/19/2025 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch.34)

AN ACT relating to workplace violence against drivers of public transportation.

Amend KRS 508.025 to expand assault in the third degree to include causing or attempting to cause physical injury to a driver of any form of public transportation acting in the course and scope of the driver's employment.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/4/2025 - (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)

  NEWS STORIES

2/17/2025 - Kentucky lawmakers introduce bill making assault on TARC drivers a felony

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

2/4/2025 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)

  NEWS STORIES

2/14/2025 -

2/14/2025 - Kentucky bills aim to split up JCPS, increase school board size

AN ACT relating to coal mining.

Amend KRS 351.127 to reduce the number of emergency medical or mine emergency technicians required to be on shift at every active coal mine from two to one, if the number of employees on the shift is 10 or fewer. HCS (1) Retain original provisions; establish tiers for the number of emergency medical or mine emergency technicians required based on the number of miners working on the production shift; amend KRS 351.010 to define "emergency medical technician" and "mine emergency technician."

  CURRENT STATUS

3/25/2025 - BECAME LAW WITHOUT GOVERNOR'S SIGNATURE; (Acts Ch. 80)

  NEWS STORIES

3/27/2025 - Gov. Beshear allows bill weakening coal mine safety to become law without his signature

3/12/2025 - Kentucky Senate sends bill weakening miner safety protection to governor’s desk

3/10/2025 - Mine safety offices in Kentucky and across Appalachia are on DOGE's chopping block

3/7/2025 - KY lawmakers weaken coal safety rule over protests from woman whose husband died in mine

3/6/2025 - Rollback of KY mine safety law advances even as Republicans voice concerns

3/3/2025 - A father died mining coal. His son warns KY bill would endanger other miners.

2/20/2025 - Kentucky House passes bill weakening safety protection for coal miners

2/13/2025 - Kentucky bill weakening miner safety protection gains committee approval

AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency.

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 five student attendance days if a school district is unable to provide the required 1,062 hours of instruction by June 4, 2025; 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 and days waived to count as employee contracted days; EMERGENCY. HCS (1) Retain original provisions, except provide five disaster relief student attendance days; require the commissioner of education to deny school day waiver requests for school districts that did not make up days by adding time to the student instructional day. SCS (2) Retain original provisions; include an incentive for school districts that do not use any of the five disaster relief student attendance days and the five days waivable by the commissioner of education; provide those school districts with five additional low attendance days; amend KRS 157.320 to define "virtual program"; amend KRS 157.360 to include virtual programs in the exclusion for class size loads of 150 pupil hours per day for a teacher; amend KRS 158.120 to establish nonresident pupil enrollment limitations for a district's virtual program; require that no further nonresident pupil enrollments is to occur after June 30, 2028; prohibit the commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Education, the Kentucky Board of Education, and the Kentucky Department of Education from establishing or implementing, or requiring a school district to implement, any cap, limitation, or restriction on enrollment for a virtual program; prohibit the Kentucky Department of Education and the Kentucky Board of Education from reducing or withholding any funds due to a school district from the fund to Support Education Excellence in Kentucky based on the district's operation of a virtual program; sunset prohibitions on June 30, 2028, EMERGENCY.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/27/2025 - BECAME LAW WITHOUT GOVERNOR'S SIGNATURE; (Acts Ch. 94)

  NEWS STORIES

3/28/2025 - KY legislature again excluded public via fast-track maneuvers, says League of Women Voters

3/26/2025 - Despite lawmakers’ ‘contradiction’ on virtual school, Beshear lets calamity days bill become law

3/21/2025 - KY district with large virtual school program paid management company nearly $8.6 million

3/18/2025 - Kentucky lawmakers’ education changes are now on Beshear’s desk

3/14/2025 - Final rush of Kentucky lawmaking is on before 10-day break for vetoes

3/11/2025 - KY House refuses to approve provision that would save fast-growing virtual school

3/11/2025 - House rejects Senate changes to bill granting school districts calamity days

3/7/2025 - Senate amends House bill to save failing, controversial virtual school

3/7/2025 - Kentucky legislator wants to kill bill protecting controversial virtual school

3/6/2025 - Relief for missed school days in doubt after picking up surprise addition in KY Senate

3/6/2025 - Bill to protect controversial Kentucky school merged with weather relief legislation

3/6/2025 - KY virtual school in dispute between state, lawmakers is managed by scrutinized for-profit

3/5/2025 - A controversial company is running a virtual school in KY. Lawmakers want to protect it

2/27/2025 - House bill that would give KY school districts disaster relief days moves in Senate

2/21/2025 - House passes bill to expand options for Kentucky schools to make up lost classroom time

2/19/2025 - As Kentucky kids lose more learning to weather, lawmakers ponder relief

AN ACT relating to autonomous vehicles.

Amend KRS 186.763 to prohibit school districts from operating fully autonomous vehicles for transporting students; prohibit the operation of fully autonomous vehicles if that vehicle requires an operator with a commercial driver's license; amend KRS 281.764 to conform.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/7/2025 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)

AN ACT relating to school district use of autonomous vehicles.

Amend KRS 186.763 to prohibit school districts from operating fully autonomous vehicles for transporting students.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/12/2025 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)

AN ACT relating to occupational safety and health.

Amend KRS 338.015 to define "qualified representative"; amend KRS 338.062 to prohibit the Kentucky Occupational Safety and Health Standards Board or the secretary of the Education Labor Cabinet from enforcing any occupational safety and health administrative regulation that has not been promulgated by or that is more stringent than the corresponding federal provision; amend KRS 338.091 to allow the Franklin Circuit Court to award actual expenses against the Department of Workplace Standards; amend KRS 338.111 to allow an employee's representative be present during an inspection; to allow the commissioner's representative to consult with employees if there is no employee representative available; amend KRS 338.121 to allow only current employees or qualified representatives of current employees to request an inspection; require that the alleged violation date be included in the notice and the employee's representative be notified; create time limits for filing a complaint and issuing a citation; amend KRS 338.141 to require that each citation include reference to the provision of the rule or regulation violated; require a citation or notice for any de minimus violation be issued promptly after inspection; prohibit issuance of a citation more than six months after the violation; require the correction time period be tolled until conclusion of the action. HCS (1) Retain original provisions, except prohibit the secretary's designee, the commissioner, and the commissioner's authorized representative from enforcing any occupational safety and health administrative regulation that has not been promulgated or that is more stringent than the corresponding federal provision; prohibit a notice of a de minimis violation from being filed more than six months after the alleged violation; define "de minimis violation"; amend KRS 338.141 to prohibit a citation from being classified as a repeated violation when issued more than three consecutive years from the final order date of the previous citation; amend KRS 338.991 to prohibit any employer who receives a notice of de minimis violation from being assessed a civil penalty. HFA (1) Retain original provisions, except correct a reference to the qualified representative authorized by the employee. SCS (1)

  CURRENT STATUS

3/27/2025 - delivered to Secretary of State; (Acts Ch. 105)

  NEWS STORIES

4/17/2025 - Chamber tops list of lobbying spenders in 2025 session of Kentucky legislature

3/28/2025 - Beshear says he won’t implement new bills without clear appropriations from Ky legislature

3/25/2025 - Beshear vetoes bill that would strip Kentucky worker protections

3/25/2025 - Beshear vetoes bill that would strip Kentucky worker protections

3/24/2025 - Beshear vetoes bills he says would make KY workplaces less safe, violate state Constitution

2/26/2025 - Legislation further limiting state labor protections passes House

2/21/2025 - KY House gets business-backed bill that would weaken worker safety protections

AN ACT relating to the display of child labor laws in public schools.

Amend KRS 158.195 to require each public school with students in grades six through 12 to display a printed abstract of certain child labor laws, including limited and prohibited occupations and work hour restrictions for minors; require the information to be posted on the school's website.

  CURRENT STATUS

2/14/2025 - (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)

AN ACT relating to fiscal matters.

Amend KRS 65.490 to remove the minimum square-mile requirement for a development area; amend KRS 65.494 to define "existing development area" and "new development area"; allow certain new development areas to be created within an existing development area. HCS (2) Retain original provisions; amend KRS 131.250 to require electronic filing of returns and electronic payments of tax beginning July 1, 2026, for certain brewers; amend KRS 132.010 and 136.010 to remove date limitations for certain property included within the definition of "real property"; amend KRS 132.140, 138.208 and 157.362 to require that the property tax reductions on distilled spirits be based on the assessed value instead of the applicable tax rates; amend 141.020 to allow the individual income tax rate to reduce by tenths, rather than one-half of a percentage point, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2028; amend KRS 141.381 to extend the current training incentives for 10 years to April 15, 2037; amend KRS 148.851, 148.853, 148.855, and 148.859 to allow incentives for certain tourism attractions and lodging facility projects; amend KRS 154.30-050, 91A.390, 154.30-010, and 154.30-030 to allow a revised project to reapply under certain provisions; amend KRS 241.010 to add definitions; amend KRS 243.720, 243.730, 243.790, 243.850, and 243.884 to impose an excise tax and a wholesale sales tax on cannabis-infused beverages; create a new section of KRS Chapter 246 to state that the General Assembly is committed to research and development of an alternative fuels policy; create a new section of KRS Chapter 139 to allow a sales tax refund to certain facility operators and sponsoring entities of entertainment events; amend KRS 131.190 to mandate the Department of Revenue report on certain sales tax refunds; prohibit refunds related to certain real property and apply the certain real property provisions retroactively to property assessed on or after December 31, 2022; EFFECTIVE, in part, July 1, 2025. SCS (1) Retain original provisions; amend KRS 154.60-040 to define "actively engaged farmer," "beginning farmer," "buyer," "department," "seller," and "significant contribution"; allow expanded tax credit caps for each year of the seller of $25,000 if the agricultural assets are sold to an actively engaged farmer with a lifetime cap of $100,000 or $50,000 if the agricultural assets are sold to a beginning farmer with a lifetime cap of $200,000; amend KRS 141.010 to update the Internal Revenue Code reference date; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 243 to require a license and fee to be paid by a cannabis-infused beverage manufacturer, distributor, direct shipper, and retailer; amend KRS 154.20-220 to allow incentives for certain data centers locating in areas with certain populations; amend 2025 RS HB 566/EN, Section 3, to require the first audit conducted to cover fiscal year 2024-2025; prohibit the Kentucky Horse Racing and Gaming Corporation from authorizing certain locations for play of electronic charity game tickets; allow the Kentucky Horse Racing and Gaming Corporation to promulgate administration regulations in contemplation of statutes granting authority to the corporation. SFA (4) Amends KRS 241.010 definition of "cannabis-infused beverage" to reflect the definition as passed in SB 202/EN.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/27/2025 - BECAME LAW WITHOUT GOVERNOR'S SIGNATURE; (Acts Ch. 98)

  NEWS STORIES

12/9/2025 - The AI data center boom is coming for Kentucky. What will lawmakers do about it?

8/7/2025 - Price of Partying: How Kentucky’s legislature runs on free lunches & receptions

7/29/2025 - Kentucky legislators paved the way for data center development. Will Kentuckians benefit?

5/19/2025 - ‘Hyperscale’ data center project drawing resistance in rural Oldham County

3/27/2025 - Trust the process? Kentucky GOP speeds bills through near session's end, over objections

3/17/2025 - Kentucky bill making it easier to cut state taxes heads to governor. Here’s how it works

3/15/2025 - Anti-trans bills take center stage in House as KY lawmakers work deep into the night

3/14/2025 - Final rush of Kentucky lawmaking is on before 10-day break for vetoes

3/12/2025 - New Kentucky limits on cannabis-infused drinks advance in state legislature

3/12/2025 - Bill would change how Kentucky can lower income tax. Here's how

3/12/2025 - Red River Gorge resort revived? KY bill could apply larger tax incentive to project

3/12/2025 - House Bill would make it easier to cut KY income taxes by allowing smaller increments

3/12/2025 - Bill adding regulations, restrictions on hemp beverages advances through Kentucky House

3/12/2025 - Whoa, plead Dems, as GOP supermajority pushes through extreme bill-makeovers in session’s final days

3/11/2025 - Surprise 107-page bill wins House OK, would make it easier to lower Kentucky income tax

3/11/2025 - Kentucky GOP quickly pushes through big changes to state tax cut triggers, incentives

3/5/2025 - Kentucky bill would pave way for more tax incentives for downtown Louisville developments

AN ACT relating to heat injury prevention.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 338 to define terms; require employers who provide services in agriculture, construction, landscaping, and transportation to maintain a written heat illness prevention plan informing employees of policies and procedures to be followed when an employee is suffering from a heat illness; establish a penalty for a violation.

  CURRENT STATUS

1/9/2025 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary (S)

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 for homeowners who are 65 years of age or older any increase in the valuation of their permanent residence and contiguous real property that is assessed after the later of the year the homeowner turned 65 or the year the homeowner purchased 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

2/21/2025 - received in House

  NEWS STORIES

2/17/2025 - Kenton County Mayors Group’s main topic was discussion of legislation session in Frankfort

2/12/2025 - Kentucky lawmakers advance bill that would provide property tax relief for seniors

1/17/2025 - Abortion ban exceptions among bills filed during Kentucky legislative session

1/17/2025 - Kentucky bill aims to provide property tax relief for seniors

AN ACT relating to education.

Amend KRS 156.070 to require child dependency, neglect, and abuse information to be included in any interscholastic athletics participation consent form; require any training for interscholastic athletics administrators and coaches to include information about mandatory reporting duties for child dependency, neglect, and abuse. HCS (1) Retain original language; prohibit pupils in grade seven and eight from participating in high school varsity lacrosse for boys and coed teams; amend KRS 158.195 to require each public school with students in grades six through 12 to display a printed abstract of certain child labor laws, including limited and prohibited occupations and work hour restrictions for minors; require the information to be posted on the school's website.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/24/2025 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 73)

  NEWS STORIES

8/6/2025 - New law ensures athletic administrators recognize and report suspected abuse

4/2/2025 - Two laws related to Courier Journal coach sex abuse project pass, but a third was a no-go

4/2/2025 - Lawmakers seek to raise awareness about coach sex abuse following Courier Journal report

4/2/2025 - ‘Beyond a disappointment.’ KY bill to address teacher sexual misconduct fails for 3rd year

3/24/2025 - Children Government Health Politics Violence Quick Takes Beshear signs licensing of nicotine retailers, other bills that ‘put our Kentucky families first’

3/18/2025 - Kentucky lawmakers’ education changes are now on Beshear’s desk

2/12/2025 - New Kentucky legislature aims to protect student-athletes from abuse

2/12/2025 - Lawmakers seek to raise awareness about coach sex abuse following Courier Journal report

AN ACT relating to school governance.

Amend KRS 160.350 to require a majority vote instead of a four-fifths vote of board members to remove the superintendent; delete requirements for approval from the commissioner of education to remove a superintendent; amend KRS 160.180 to remove the relative employee eligibility requirement for candidates for the local board of education; require a local board member obtain at least one hour of open records and open meetings training per term; amend KRS 160.160 to establish a one-year term for chair and vice chair of the 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 160.210 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 and 116.200 to conform; require the Kentucky Board to make initial determinations of board size by December 31, 2025 and local boards to conduct required division changes; require superintendents to submit reports on previous 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

2/13/2025 - (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education (S)

  NEWS STORIES

2/14/2025 -

2/14/2025 - Kentucky bills aim to split up JCPS, increase school board size

AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 341 to require the Education and Labor Cabinet to refer suspected unemployment insurance fraud cases to the United States Department of Justice, the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, and the county attorney or Commonwealth's attorney within 30 days of the suspected fraud determination; require that public agencies immediately terminate employees or contractors determined to have collected or attempted to collect unemployment benefits while employed by the public agency; do not require a legal disposition finding that the employee or contractor is guilty in order for public agencies to terminate employment; provide that collecting or attempting to collect unemployment benefits while employed by or under contract with the cabinet shall be a breach of any collective bargaining agreement, civil service process, or contract; amend KRS 341.370 to require that a worker be disqualified from receiving benefits for any week they are under investigation for suspected unemployment insurance fraud; require the disqualification to remain in effect until an investigation determines that a fraudulent act has not occurred; amend KRS 341.360 to conform. SCS (1) Retain original provisions, except delete the provision that made collecting or attempting to collect unemployment benefits while employed by or under contract with the cabinet a breach of any collective bargaining agreement, civil service process, or contract; make technical. SFA (1) Retain original provisions, except delete sections amending KRS 341.470 and KRS 341.360. HFA (4) Retain original provisions, except delete subsection requiring that public agencies immediately terminate employees or contractors determined to have collected or attempted to collect unemployment benefits while employed by the public agency; require a legal disposition finding an employee or contractor guilty to terminate employment.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/24/2025 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 52)

AN ACT relating to nuclear energy development, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Nuclear Energy Development Grant Program to be administered by the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority; establish the nuclear energy development grant administration subcommittee and provide for its duties; limit individual grant awards from the Nuclear Energy Development Grant Program to $2,000,000 per grant; amend KRS 164.2802 to require the director of the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority to publicize and encourage application to the Nuclear Energy Development Grant Program; require the evaluations and scores of grant applications and grant awards made from the program to be included in the annual report that the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority submits to the Legislative Research Commission; amend 2024 Kentucky Acts Chapter 173, Section 1, (207), at page 1766, to allow $10,000,000 of the amount appropriated to the University of Kentucky budget unit for the Center of Applied Energy Research's administration and support of the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Authority and the Energy Planning and Inventory Commission for fiscal year 2025-2026 to be used for the Nuclear Energy Development Grant Program; repeal KRS 154.12-340; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY. HCS (1) Retain original provisions, except amend 2024 Ky. Acts ch. 173, sec. 1 (207), to allow $8,000,000 of the amount appropriated to the University of Kentucky budget unit to be used in fiscal year 2025-2026 to support the Nuclear Energy Development Grant Program; require $2,000,000 of the amount appropriated to the University of Kentucky budget unit to be dedicated to a Laser and Photonics Technology Program at the Pigman College of Engineering in Paducah Kentucky; APPROPRIATION.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/24/2025 - SIGNED BY GOVERNOR; (Acts Ch. 51)

  NEWS STORIES

2/22/2025 - Kentucky Senate passes bill creating nuclear energy grant program

2/21/2025 - Kentucky Senate passes bill creating nuclear energy grant program

2/20/2025 - Senate bill to create nuclear energy development grant program in Ky passes committee

2/20/2025 - Senate bill to create nuclear energy development grant program in Ky passes committee

AN ACT relating to workers' compensation.

Amend KRS 342.213 to require the commissioner of the Department of Workers' Claims to certify to the Workers' Compensation Nominating Committee that filing an administrative law judge position is necessary 150 days prior to the expiration of the term, add that the nominating committee may recommend the retention of a Workers' Compensation Board member and that each newly appointed member of the board shall not assume office until 30 days after confirmation; amend KRS 342.215 to provide that any board member appointed to fill an unexpired term shall assume office immediately for the remainder of the term; amend KRS 342.230 to provide that newly appointed administrative law judge shall not assume his or her office until June 1 following Senate confirmation and that any newly appointed administrative law judge appointed to fill any unexpired term shall immediately assume the office for the remainder of the term. SFA (1) Retain original provisions, except make technical correction. HFA (1) Retain original provisions, except amend KRS 342.0011 to expand the definition of "physician" to include audiologists holding a doctorate.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/27/2025 - BECAME LAW WITHOUT GOVERNOR'S SIGNATURE; (Acts Ch. 93)

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Efficient and Effective Districts Task Force.

Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Efficient and Effective Districts Task Force; outline task force duties; require the task force to submit any recommendations and changes the task force may adopt by December 1, 2025; establish membership; require the task force to meet once per month; require the Legislative Research Commission to provide needed staff.

  CURRENT STATUS

3/12/2025 - (S) SECOND READING, to Rules

  NEWS STORIES

3/10/2025 - Task force to scrutinize Kentucky schools’ ‘effectiveness and efficiency’ passes committee