| KY | HB48 | Pass | Amend KRS 156.557 to increase the time period between mandatory summative evaluations for tenured certified school staff from once every three years to once every five years; provide that additional summative evaluations may be performed at the discr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 145) |
| KY | HB4 | Pass | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; prohibit a public postsecondary education institution from providing differential treatment or benefits on the basis of an individual's religion, race, sex, color, or national origin; from influ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-28
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 120) |
| KY | HB684 | Pass | Amend KRS 117.045 to allow a lesser number of precinct officers when the State Board of Elections has approved a county board of elections' precinct consolidation plan; amend KRS 117.065 to require the county board of elections to notify local boards...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-28
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 125) |
| KY | HB136 | Pass | Amend KRS 439.3103 to require the Department of Corrections to include in its report certain data on time served by persons released from a correctional institution and on persons released from a correctional institution on parole; EFFECTIVE January ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-28
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 122) |
| KY | HJR15 | Pass | Direct the Historic Properties Advisory Commission to return to permanent display on the New State Capitol grounds the granite Ten Commandments monument given to the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1971 by the Fraternal Order of Eagles.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-27
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 96) |
| KY | HB241 | Pass | 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 atten...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-27
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 94) |
| KY | HB240 | Pass | Amend KRS 158.305 to require kindergarten students to be given a universal screener within the final 10 instructional days of the school year; beginning with the 2025-2026 school year require that a student remain in kindergarten for an additional ye...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-27
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 103) |
| KY | HB424 | Pass | Amend KRS 164.360, 164.230, and 164.830 to require the boards of each state university and the Kentucky Community and Technical College System to approve a performance and productivity evaluation process for presidents and all faculty members by Janu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-27
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 106) |
| KY | HB2 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 139 to create a violation when an official notice published by the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet or the commissioner of the Department of Revenue improperly instructs that taxpayers should con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-27
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 100) |
| KY | HB208 | Pass | Amend KRS 158.165 to require local boards of education to adopt a policy to, at a minimum, prohibit student use of a personal telecommunications device during the school day with specific exceptions; amend KRS 156.675 to include social media in prohi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-26
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 90) |
| KY | HB455 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to establish the Office of Election Investigations and Security within the Office of the Attorney General; establish powers, duties, and procedures; require an annual report to the Legislative Research Commissio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 45) |
| KY | HB19 | Pass | Amend KRS 500.130 to define terms; provide that the use of an unmanned aircraft system is not prohibited in the case of recreational or professional use if there is not intent to conduct surveillance on private property and there is no unauthorized u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-15
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 19) |
| KY | HB201 | Pass | Amend KRS 514.060, relating to theft of services, to include the conduct of a person holding the property of another under a rental agreement longer than the period agreed upon and depriving the owner of its use for future rentals.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-15
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 18) |
| KY | HB87 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 disqu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To Senate Rules Committee |
| KY | HB508 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 199.884 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish new procedures related to the Employee Child Care Assistance Partnership Program.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) |
| KY | HCR50 | Intro
Sine Die | Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Kentucky Discipline of Government Efficiency (KY DOGE) Task Force to study Executive Branch expenditures and provide recommendations for efficiency in government operations; require the task...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute |
| KY | HB711 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 164.001 to remove the definition of "committee" and "P-16 council"; amend KRS 164.013 to conform; amend KRS 164.020 to remove the Council on Postsecondary Education's ability to postpone approval of new programs due to an institution's unme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-07
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | HB16 | Engross
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | HB220 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 189A.010, relating to driving under the influence, to provide that a third or subsequent offense of driving under the influence within a 10-year period is a Class D felony; provide that if a person is convicted of a third or subsequent offe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB291 | Engross
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 533 to define terms; require the court, upon conviction of the defendant, to consider the defendant's status as a primary caretaker of a dependent child unless the defendant is a violent offender, the victim is a ch...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To Senate Families & Children Committee |
| KY | HB368 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 424.145 to remove the population restriction and make the alternative publication procedure available to all local governments as defined; stipulate that the local government must submit the advertisement to the newspaper in a timely manner...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | HCR41 | Intro
Sine Die | State the General Assembly's support for the goals of the Make America Healthy Again movement; establish the Make America Healthy Again Kentucky Task Force to integrate the principles of the Make America Healthy Again movement; establish task force m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Health Services Committee |
| KY | HB634 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 6 providing for the selection and oversight of Article V commissioners if an Article V Convention is called and the Commonwealth is a participant; define terms; require the General Assembly to pass a commissioning r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| KY | HB604 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 75.040 to increase the maximum property tax rate that can be levied by a fire protection district or a volunteer fire department district; limit any increase in the total tax levy beyond the initially approved levy to two cents per $100 of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB589 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 phys...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To House Primary and Secondary Education Committee |
| KY | HB774 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 431 to define terms; require governmental entities to submit specified data to the Office of the Kentucky Center for Statistics regarding fines and fees assessed; require the Office of the Kentucky Center for Statis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB428 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 177.420 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 conditi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Transportation Committee |
| KY | HB434 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Postsecondary Education Committee |
| KY | HB5 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 15A, relating to juvenile detention facilities, to direct that all incarcerated youth are subject to search at any time and to require separate bathrooms and sleeping quarters for males and females; create new secti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB206 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a cause of action for a person who was wrongfully convicted of a felony in the Commonwealth; specify amounts of damages that may be awarded to claimants; establish the wrongful conviction compensati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-13
To House Rules Committee |
| KY | HB386 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 pub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Local Government Committee |
| KY | HB388 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 271B.8-300 to define terms; provide that the business judgment rule shall not be an affirmative defense where the alleged damages suffered by the corporation are the result of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives or environmen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB397 | Intro
Sine Die | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Primary and Secondary Education Committee |
| KY | HB249 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 Placemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Primary and Secondary Education Committee |
| KY | HB3 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 to seek federal approval if it is dete...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Banking and Insurance Committee |
| KY | HB294 | Intro
Sine Die | 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 2026-2027 school year; require the Kentucky Board of Education to prom...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Primary and Secondary Education Committee |
| KY | HB248 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 6 to require the Legislative Research Commission to prepare a family impact statement for every bill, concurrent resolution, joint resolution, amendment, or committee substitute introduced during a regular or extra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House State Government Committee |
| KY | HB37 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 139.495 to exempt purchases and sales of tangible personal property, digital property, or services made by qualifying resident nonprofit educational, charitable, or religious institutions from state sales and use taxes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB153 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 164.295 to permit Murray State University to offer doctor's degrees required for professional practice and licensure in veterinary medicine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Postsecondary Education Committee |
| KY | HB56 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 164.295 to permit Eastern Kentucky University to offer doctor of osteopathic medicine degrees required for professional practice and licensure in osteopathic medicine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Postsecondary Education Committee |
| KY | HB98 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 439.3401 to include kidnapping in the definition of "violent offender."
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB22 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 512 to make findings and declarations regarding the dangers of atmospheric polluting activities and the Commonwealth's authority to prohibit geoengineering; define terms; make criminal atmospheric pollution a Class ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB47 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 531 to establish the crime of sexual extortion as a felony; provide for enhancements to penalties; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a civil cause of action for sexual extortion; amend KRS 17.500...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
