| KY | HB494 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; establish the English learner enhanced support program under the Department of Education to help bring English learners with little or no formal education to grade-level proficiency within thre...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Primary and Secondary Education Committee |
| KY | HB574 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 620.030 to require any person with reasonable knowledge of the matter to notify the local law enforcement agency or the Department of Kentucky State Police, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or its designated representative, the Co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB784 | Intro
25% | Define "virtual program"; place an enrollment cap on virtual programs for the remainder of the 2024-2025 school year and the entirety of the 2025-2026 school year; EMERGENCY.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Primary and Secondary Education Committee |
| KY | HB8 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 158.645 to modify language on core capacities, specify the intent of K-5 education, and define terms; amend KRS 156.070 to give the state board the responsibility for adopting or rejecting the state academic standards, adopting or rejecting...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Primary and Secondary Education Committee |
| KY | HB14 | Intro
25% | 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 Cente...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Rules Committee |
| KY | HB712 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 64.185 to establish a salary schedule for coroners and increase the minimum compensation for deputy coroners; require the Department for Local Government to certify the population group within the salary schedule and the years of service fo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To House Local Government Committee |
| KY | HB240 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2025-02-18
posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 19, 2025 |
| KY | HB636 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB637 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HR26 | Pass | Recognize February 14, 2025, as Making Our Schools Safe (MOSS) Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | HB272 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 158.307 to define "dysgraphia"; require the Department of Education to annually review and update the dyslexia toolkit; expand dyslexia toolkit required guidance and include dysgraphia and other reading and writing difficulties; require rat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 18, 2025 |
| KY | HB161 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS 186.400 to 186.640 to define "identity document" and "third-party entity"; require the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to establish procedures to allow third-party entities to apply to the T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Rules Committee |
| KY | HB118 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 164.295 to permit Western Kentucky University to offer up to five research doctoral degree programs.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Postsecondary Education Committee |
| KY | HB195 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to define terms; establish a tax deduction for contributions made to an eligible savings account by a first-time home buyer and allow an exclusion from income for any interest earned from an eligible savings ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB96 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 403.720, relating to orders of protection, to define "coercive control" and "stalking"; amend the definition of "domestic violence and abuse" to include coercive control of a family member or member of an unmarried couple; amend KRS 456.010...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB387 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to allow the Kentucky Department of Education to enter into an agreement with any building and construction trade organization to develop a training program for school counselors on building and construction t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 221) |
| KY | HB449 | Pass | Amends KRS 160.170 to amend the oath of office for local board of education members to be consistent with the requirements set forth in KRS 160.180; amends KRS 160.180 to provide alternative methods for a candidate for a board of education to evidenc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 215) |
| KY | HB169 | Pass | Amends KRS 158.162 to require that local boards of education maintain a portable automated external defibrillator in a public, readily accessible, well-marked location in all school buildings, including elementary school buildings, and at school-sanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 208) |
| KY | HB5 | Pass | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 532 to define "violent felony" and enhance sentencing for a person convicted of a third violent felony; prohibit probation, parole, or other form of release for a person who commits a crime using a weapon that is st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 174) |
| KY | HB611 | Pass | Amends KRS 159.140 to require a director of pupil personnel to report to the county attorney if a parent or guardian has allowed a child in kindergarten to grade five to be absent without an excuse for 15 or more days or if a minor in grade six throu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 163) |
| KY | HB142 | Pass | Repeals, reenacts, and amends KRS 438.345 as a new section of KRS Chapter 158; requires local boards of education to adopt policies that penalize students for possessing alternative nicotine products, tobacco products, or vapor products and lists pen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 149) |
| KY | HB444 | Pass | Amends KRS 227A.060 to modify experience and education requirements for an electrician or master electrician license, to require an electrician applicant or master electrician applicant to have 8,000 hours or 16,000 hours of verifiable experience, re...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 134) |
| KY | HB535 | Pass | Amends KRS 158.141 to require, beginning with the high school freshman class of 2025-2026, either a one-half credit course in civic literacy for graduation, including early graduation, or a score of 70 percent on a 100-question civics test, with loca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 122) |
| KY | HB782 | Pass | Creates a new section within KRS 15.530 to 15.590 to create the Public Safety Telecommunicator Work Group to develop a new delivery format for the public safety telecommunicator academy and to add training provisions for part-time telecommunicators h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 108) |
| KY | HB11 | Pass | Amends KRS 241.060 to allow the State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to conduct hearings and appeals; amends KRS 438.305 to define terms, to require the Secretary of State to create and publish a list of certain tobacco product retailers, to requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 111) |
| KY | HB30 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 40 establishing the Kentucky Service Members, Veterans, and their Families Suicide Prevention Program; and creates a new section of KRS Chapter 337 requiring the Kentucky Department of Veterans Affairs to create a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 73) |
| KY | HB88 | Pass | Repeals, reenacts, and amends KRS 286.2-685 as a new section of Subtitle 3 of KRS Chapter 286 to make technical amendments, to remove prohibition against use of financial institution names in certain marketing and solicitations, and to establish a ci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 76) |
| KY | HB258 | Pass | Amends KRS 525.135 to define “serious physical injury or infirmity” and to redefine “torture,” to provide that torture of a dog or cat is a Class D felony in every instance and that each act may constitute a separate offense, and to provide w...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 81) |
| KY | HB695 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to make legislative findings and declarations, to establish definitions, to establish the Adaptive Kindergarten Readiness Pilot Project, to establish the duration and terms of the pilot project, to require tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 65) |
| KY | HCR31 | Intro
Sine Die | Urge local governments to facilitate the creation of long-term recovery groups prior to the occurance of disasters.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB252 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to prohibit a health care provider from performing a pelvic, rectal, or prostate examination without the informed consent of the patient or the person authorized to make health care decisions for the patient; p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB225 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 158.645 to change the required learning capacities of Kentucky public school students; amend KRS 158.6451 to provide that schools shall expect a high level of academic achievement and shall develop students' ability to think critically and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB605 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to allow the Kentucky Department of Education to enter into an agreement with a building and construction trade organization to develop a training program for school counselors on building and construction trad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | HCR60 | Intro
Sine Die | Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Support Education Excellence in Kentucky (SEEK) Task Force to study the various components of the SEEK formula, evaluate whether changes are necessary to the base, tiers, or add-ons to maint...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 22, 2024 |
| KY | HCR83 | Intro
Sine Die | Establish the Teacher Red Tape Reduction Task Force; establish membership; direct the task force to study and make recommendations to identify outdated, redundant, or unnecessary mandates imposed upon teachers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 22, 2024 |
| KY | HB434 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS 186.400 to 186.640 to define "identity document" and "third-party entity"; require the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to establish procedures to allow third-party entities to apply to the T...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB490 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 315 to define terms, prohibit discrimination against 340B covered entities by pharmaceutical manufacturers, and authorize the Attorney General to investigation violations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB685 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB684 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 216.350 to add general-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB694 | Intro
Sine Die | Direct local school districts to provide a one-time payment of $2,000 to certified employees, excluding superintendents, in each year of the 2024-2026 biennium, and a one-time payment of $1,000 to classified employees in each year of the 2024-2026 bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HJR99 | Intro
Sine Die | Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of Kentucky Route 140 in Daviess County as the Captain Alan Kurre Elliott Memorial Highway.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB400 | Engross
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] | 2024-02-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | HB168 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require the Kentucky Department of Veterans' Affairs to create and distribute a veterans' benefits and services document to employers and require employers to keep copies of a veterans' benefits and services...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection Committee |
| KY | HR37 | Intro
Sine Die | Urge the United States Congress to amend Title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the government pension offset and the windfall elimination provision.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Floor Committee |
| KY | HB529 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 160.160 to authorize local boards of education to establish score requirements on appropriate assessments for applicants to certified position vacancies and adopt necessary policies; amend KRS 161.030 to remove the authority of the Educatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB341 | Engross
Sine Die | Propose to amend Sections 145 and 155 of the Constitution of Kentucky to prohibit persons who are not citizens of the United States from being allowed to vote in the Commonwealth of Kentucky; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| KY | HB33 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 277 to require a crew of at least two persons during the operation of a train; provide exceptions; amend KRS 277.990 to include penalties for crews of less than two persons.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-09
To House Transportation Committee |
| KY | HB497 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 158.080 to require any individuals teaching elementary or secondary grades at a private or at-home private school to possess a high school diploma or High School Equivalency Diploma.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HR67 | Intro
Sine Die | Honor the hard work of Kentucky teachers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB442 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 139.495 to exempt all sales made by resident nonprofit educational, charitable, or religious institutions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-31
To House Committee On Committees |
