| KY | SB52 | Engross
50% | 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 time frame for ruling on applications for a permit or license if no time frame is otherwise specif...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-15
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB156 | Engross
50% | 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 and marriages entered into in another state or countr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-15
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB558 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 456.030 to give District Courts exclusive jurisdiction over protective order petitions filed under KRS Chapter 456; amend KRS 456.140 to conform.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-15
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB598 | Intro
25% | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 15A to establish the Department of Family Representation and Advocacy and the Family Representation and Advocacy Commission to provide a state-sponsored and controlled system for training and appointing guardians ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-15
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB312 | Engross
50% | Amend KRS 70.280 to authorize certified court security officers to transport individuals being detained or in custody as ordered by the court and to go outside the immediate area of the court facility to provide the transport; authorize arrest powers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-15
To Senate Rules Committee |
| KY | HB504 | Pass | 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 183) |
| KY | SB90 | Pass | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 122) |
| KY | HB305 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 29A to establish that a person present at any part of a grand jury proceeding shall not knowingly record the proceeding or disclose any information gathered while present during a proceeding; amend KRS 29A.990 to e...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 107) |
| KY | HB566 | Pass | Amend KRS 426.522 to change the auctioneer's fee structure for judicial sales; allow advertising to be at the discretion of the master commissioner and auctioneer; allow real property to be sold at another location in the county in which the property...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 113) |
| KY | SB185 | Pass | Amend KRS 48.030, relating to branch budget recommendations, to include supporting budget documents.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 120) |
| KY | HB762 | Pass | Amend KRS 31.010 and 31.020 to make technical corrections; amend KRS 31.030 to require the annual report filed by the Department of Public Advocacy to inform the LRC and the public of the work of all divisions of the department; amend KRS 31.110 to p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 136) |
| KY | SB122 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 533 to define terms; require the court, upon conviction of the defendant, to consider the defendant's status as a caretaker of a dependent child; provide that a court's determination of a defendant's status as a ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-10
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 92) |
| KY | SB170 | Pass | 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 pub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-10
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 69) |
| KY | SB17 | Pass | Amend KRS 620.500 to add the Kentucky CASA Network to the definition of "association"; amend KRS 620.505 to decrease the minimum number of local CASA board members from 15 to 12; remove the provision that local CASA programs are required to comply wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-08
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 53) |
| KY | HB448 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 17 to define terms and require criminal justice agencies to provide criminal history records information to requesting agencies when they are conducting a basic suitability or fitness assessment for federal or cont...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-07
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 42) |
| KY | HB611 | Pass | Amend KRS 209A.122 to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to provide information regarding whether parties to a petition for an order of protection were represented by a legal counsel; to require the Department of Kentucky State Police to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-07
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 49) |
| KY | HB418 | Engross
50% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 403 to prohibit the removal from custody or the reduction in parenting time of a party solely for improvement of relationship between the child and the other party where the court has made a finding of domestic vio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-25
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | SB290 | Intro
25% | Create a new sections of KRS Chapter 431 to establish an automatic expungement process for specific eligible misdemeanor and felony convictions; allow the Commonwealth's and county attorney to object and halt the automatic expungement of certain offe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-20
To Senate Rules Committee |
| KY | HB774 | Engross
50% | 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 beginning July 31, 2027, and annually thereafter; req...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-11
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | HB914 | Intro
25% | 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 guardian...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-11
To House Families & Children Committee |
| KY | HB534 | Engross
50% | Amend KRS 30A.145 to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to prepare an all-time list each month of persons convicted of a felony, including persons whose cases are on appeal, and provide the list to the State Board of Elections; amend KRS...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-06
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | SB193 | Engross
50% | Amend KRS 533.020 to provide the court 60 days after the expiration of any period of supervision to determine if a violation of the period of supervision has occurred and any appropriate action; provide that a period of supervision shall be tolled be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-04
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB715 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 600 to enumerate the rights of incarcerated minors; provide that the Act may be cited as the Incarcerated Minor's Bill of Rights.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB718 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to establish an automatic nonviolent felony expungement process for eligible convictions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | SB350 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to abolish the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without parole for inmates presently sentenced to death; amend KRS 532.030 to remove the death penalty; amend KRS 640.040 to prohibit life impr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-02
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | SB131 | Intro
25% | 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] | 2026-02-27
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB266 | Intro
25% | 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-26
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | HB249 | Engross
50% | Amend KRS 202C.010 to include a violation of sexual abuse in the first degree to the definition of "qualifying offense"; make technical corrections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-24
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | SB229 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 405.020, relating to child custody, to insert gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-24
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | HB645 | Intro
25% | 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; rep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-23
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB485 | Engross
50% | Amend KRS 202A.011 to define "benefit from treatment," "individual with a mental illness," and "severe mental illness"; remove "mentally ill person" and redefine "danger"; amend KRS 202A.028 to allow the Commonwealth to file an emergency motion to be...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-20
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | HB637 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 17 to define terms; require the Department of Kentucky State Police to develop and operate an animal abuse offender registry; require offenders to register for 2 years for a first offense and 5 years for subsequent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB623 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 337.415, relating to court-ordered appearances by employees, to define terms; prohibit employers from discharging or retaliating against an employee who is a crime victim when the employee takes leave to attend proceedings associated with t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-19
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB608 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 372, relating to contracts against public policy, to define "act of sexual abuse"; declare as void any nondisclosure agreement, confidentiality agreement, or nondisclosure or confidentiality provision of an agreeme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-17
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB592 | Intro
25% | 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 pub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB588 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to abolish the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without parole for inmates presently sentenced to death; amend KRS 532.030, relating to authorized dispositions for felony offenses, to remove ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-13
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB539 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 446 to prohibit the recognition of adjudicative rulings or contractual provisions based in whole or in part upon Sharia or any foreign law; provide for exceptions for ecclesiastical matters, voluntary choice of law...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-10
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB548 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to define terms; 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 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-10
To House Health Services Committee |
| KY | HB329 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 620.030 to establish record keeping and process requirements for reports of alleged child dependency, neglect, or abuse.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-09
To House Families & Children Committee |
| KY | HB537 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 199.462 to prohibit an individual from being approved to provide foster care or relative caregiver services to a child, be considered a fictive kin placement for a child, or to receive a child for adoption if the individual or an adult or m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-09
To House Families & Children Committee |
| KY | SB164 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to make possession of a personal use quantity of cannabis exempt from civil or criminal penalty; amend KRS 218A.010 to define "cannabis," "personal use quantity of cannabis," and "cannabis accessory"; redefine...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-05
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | SB48 | Engross
50% | Amend KRS 439.3406 to prohibit an inmate from qualifying for mandatory reentry supervision if the inmate has previously been convicted of 2 or more offenses that would classify him or her as a violent offender under KRS 439.3401 or has been recommitt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-04
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB460 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 403.270, 403.280, 403.315, and 403.340 to remove the presumption in favor of joint custody and equal parenting time; amend KRS 403.320 to conform.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-29
To House Families & Children Committee |
| KY | HB464 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 533 to define terms; require the court, upon conviction of the defendant, to consider the defendant's status as a caretaker of a dependent child; provide that a court's determination of a defendant's status as a ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-29
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB441 | Intro
25% | Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to require candidates for Governor, Lieutenant Governor, Attorney General, Secretary of State, Auditor of Public Accounts, Treasurer, Commissioner of Agriculture, member of the General A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-28
To House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| KY | HB428 | Intro
25% | The Chief Justice's recommended 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.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB361 | Intro
25% | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 61 to define terms; prohibit state and local governmental entities from adopting sanctuary policies; require law enforcement agencies to use reasonable resources to support the enforcement of federal immigration law...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB330 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish exclusive jurisdiction for contractor dispute actions involving real property located in this state.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB327 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 431.066 to limit the use of money bail to certain high-risk defendants and create a preventive detention process for defendants of select risk levels and charge types; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to establish a preventive detent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB331 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 91.514 and create a new section of KRS Chapter 426 to establish that any residential property that is purchased at a master commissioner's sale or other court-ordered sale in a county that has a land bank authority and was occupied at any t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-20
To House Judiciary Committee |
