Kentucky House Bill 9

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Republican 3)
Status: Engrossed on March 11 2026 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2026-04-14 - floor amendments (1), (2) and (3) filed
Pending: Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 138 to define terms; impose a 4% state retail regulatory license fee on all alcoholic beverage and cannabis-infused beverage sales to consumers by alcoholic beverage retailers; establish procedures and duties of retailers; impose state wholesale regulatory license fees on alcoholic beverages and cannabis-infused beverages and state retail regulatory license fees on kratom, hemp-derived, and cannabinoid products; set out regulatory license fee rates, deductions for timely filing and payment, and licensee duties; amend KRS 211.285 to fund the alcohol wellness and responsibility education fund with 0.5% of the collected state retail regulatory license fees; create a new section of KRS Chapter 217 to establish Department for Public Health laboratory and testing standards and procedures; amend KRS 241.010 to define "state or national conference" and redefine "alcoholic beverages"; amend KRS 241.069 to delete outdated language; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 243 to establish state license fees for new and existing license types; limit licensee discipline to only the specific license in question; establish a souvenir package license for distillers; authorize distillers, small farm wineries, and microbreweries to allow leashed dogs on their premises; allow caterers and special temporary auction licensees at state and national conferences; modify the privileges for various licensees, including a wholesaler, Class B distiller, and special agent or solicitor; add references to the new tax structure and statutes; modify requirements for public notice of a license application; sunset existing excise, wholesale, and other taxes on July 1, 2027, as they relate to alcoholic beverages and cannabis-infused beverages; repeal and reenact KRS 243.075, relating to local regulatory license fees, to allow any moist or wet city or county to impose the fee; authorize audits of each city's or county's regulatory license fee fund by the Auditor of Public Accounts for the most recent 10 years; describe audit penalties for cities and counties that fail to substantially comply; direct cities and counties to reduce the regulatory license fee to 3% within 4 years; limit future cities and counties to a 1% regulatory license fee; amend KRS 244.080 to permanently prohibit a retail license from using a premises if the licensee sold to minors at that premises 3 or more times in 24 months; amend KRS 244.585 to establish limitations for agreements between distributors and breweries or microbreweries; amend KRS 131.250, 139.010, 243.045, 243.430, 243.790, 243.850, and 243.990 to conform; EFFECTIVE, in part, July 1, 2027; EMERGENCY.

AN ACT relating to regulated substances and declaring an emergency.

Rep. Jason Petrie [R]

Rep. Matthew Koch [R]

Rep. David Osborne [R]

2026-03-10 - House - House: Veto Override RCS# 228 (Y: 63 N: 31 NV: 0 Abs: 6) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2026-04-14	Senate	floor amendments (1), (2) and (3) filed
2026-03-31	Senate	returned to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
2026-03-31	Senate	2nd reading
2026-03-31	Senate	taken from Appropriations & Revenue (S)
2026-03-27	Senate	returned to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
2026-03-27	Senate	1st reading
2026-03-27	Senate	taken from Appropriations & Revenue (S)
2026-03-27	Senate	to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
2026-03-11	Senate	to Committee on Committees (S)
2026-03-11	Senate	received in Senate
2026-03-10	House	3rd reading, passed 63-31 with Committee Substitute (1)
2026-03-10	House	placed in the Orders of the Day
2026-03-10	House	taken from Rules
2026-03-10	House	reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1)
2026-03-09	House	returned to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
2026-03-09	House	2nd reading
2026-03-09	House	taken from Appropriations & Revenue (H)
2026-03-06	House	to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
2026-03-06	House	returned to Committee on Committees (H)
2026-03-06	House	1st reading
2026-03-06	House	taken from Committee on Committees (H)
2026-03-04	House	to Committee on Committees (H)
2026-03-04	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/26RS/hb9.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/26RS/hb9/orig_bill.pdf
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/26RS/hb9/bill.pdf
Amendment	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/26RS/HB9/HCS1.pdf
Supplement	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/26RS/hb9/HCS1LM.pdf
Amendment	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/26RS/hb9/HCS1FN.pdf
Amendment	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/26RS/HB9/SFA1.pdf
Amendment	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/26RS/HB9/SFA2.pdf
Amendment	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/26RS/HB9/SFA3.pdf
Supplement	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/26RS/hb9/LM.pdf
Roll Call	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/26RS/hb9/vote_history.pdf