| KY | SB249 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS 17.500 to 17.580 to define “social media platform,” to require sex offenders who have committed a criminal offense against a victim who is a minor to display their full legal name on social media platforms, and to pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 204) |
| KY | SB16 | Pass | Amends KRS 511.100 to add commercial food manufacturing or processing facility, animal feeding operation, and concentrated animal feeding operation to the definition of “key infrastructure assets,” to penalize those who operate an unmanned aircra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 167) |
| KY | SB20 | Pass | Amends KRS 635.020 to provide that a child 15 years of age or older who is charged with a Class A, B, or C felony involving the use of a firearm shall be transferred to Circuit Court to be tried as an adult, to provide that the Commonwealth’s attor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 160) |
| KY | SB199 | Pass | Amends KRS 138.513 to correct a statutory reference; amends KRS 138.555 and 186A.520 to replace references to the National Automobile Dealers Association valuation manual with references to a vehicle valuation manual adopted by the Department of Reve...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 123) |
| KY | SB58 | Pass | Amends KRS 132.017 to reduce the number of qualified voters needed to form a petition committee, to allow each sheet of the petition to contain the names of voters from more than one voting precinct, to remove the requirement that petition signees pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-07
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 115) |
| KY | SB17 | Pass | Amends KRS 213.076 to provide that a coroner shall complete a medical certification within five working days after receiving the results of an inquiry required by KRS 72.400 to 72.475 or when the cause of death is unknown or under investigation; and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 83) |
| KY | SB188 | Pass | Amends KRS 18A.2254 to require that the state employee health plan and state agencies comply with certain pharmacy-related insurance laws; creates new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms for pharmacy-related insurance practice...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 104) |
| KY | SB111 | Pass | Amends KRS 18A.225, 164.2871, 205.522, 205.6485, and 304.17C-125 to require limited health service benefit plans, Medicaid, self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution, and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 69) |
| KY | SB71 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 31 to define “alternative sentencing worker,” “qualified treatment program,” and “treatment program,” to allow a court to issue an order for pretrial release pending an assessment for a mental health o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 68) |
| KY | SB101 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 247.801 to amend the definition of "agritourism activity"; define "working animal"; create a new section of KRS 247.800 to 247.810 to prohibit a city, town, county, or other political subdivision of the Commonwealth from restricting a perso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
placed in the Orders of the Day |
| KY | SB202 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 439.340 to allow the Parole Board to order participation in a specific violence reduction program as a condition of parole; amend KRS 533.030 to allow a court to require participation in a specific violence reduction program as a condition ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | SB147 | Engross
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 231 to express the findings of the General Assembly relating to adult-oriented businesses and the need for regulation; define terms; establish distance parameters for the location of adult-oriented businesses in pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House Rules Committee |
| KY | SB163 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 72.450 to allow a coroner who is in possession of a dead body to have the body buried or cremated; direct that the decision between burial or cremation be made by the governmental entity bearing the expense.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB233 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 96 to define terms; prohibit any utility operating under the chapter from constructing a facility that generates electricity using solar energy if constructing the facility would result in more than one percent of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Natural Resources and Energy Committee |
| KY | SB283 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new chapter of KRS Chapter 441 to require the Department of Corrections to contract with a fiscal court of a county or local or regional correctional authority to provide correctional services to state prisoners; provide that the per diem ra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB143 | Pass | Proposes 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, and provides ballot language and submission to voters for...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 7) |
| KY | SB220 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 96.171 to define "governing body" and "customer"; amend KRS 96.172 to increase the combined electric and water plant board membership from five to seven; require that vacancies on the board be filled in a manner that will bring the board me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
To Senate Rules Committee |
| KY | SB8 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 156.029 to provide that all 14 voting members of the Kentucky Board of Education are to be elected; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to establish the process by which members of the Kentucky Board of Education are elected, including ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
To House Education Committee |
| KY | SB347 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 533.270 to define terms; amend KRS 533.274 to remove a misdemeanor as a disqualifying offense; require an assessment of a homeless defendant for a behavioral health disorder and establish preference for participation in the program if an el...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
To Senate Rules Committee |
| KY | SB23 | Engross
Sine Die | Propose to amend Section 170 of the Constitution of Kentucky to include in the homestead exemption for owners who are 65 years of age or older any increase in the valuation of the real property that is assessed after the later of the year the owner t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| KY | SB126 | Engross
Sine Die | Propose to amend Section 77 of the Constitution of Kentucky to prohibit the Governor's ability to grant pardons or commute sentences beginning 30 days prior to a gubernatorial election and ending at that gubernatorial inauguration; amend Section 240 ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| KY | SB13 | Intro
Sine Die | Establish KRS Chapter 202D and create new sections thereof relating to crisis aversion and rights retention orders; provide limitations on interpretation of the Act; define terms; allow law enforcement officers to petition a court to issue orders whe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
| KY | SB380 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to define terms; establish entities that are allowed to utilize automated license plate readers (ALPRs); establish parameters for use of an ALPR including safeguards for privacy protections; authorize the Depar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| KY | SB351 | Intro
Sine Die | Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to exempt from property taxation the homesteads of veterans who were honorably discharged and certified as having a service-connected permanent and 100 percent total disability and the h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| KY | SB337 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 12.020 and 194A.030 to establish the Office of Medicinal Cannabis, the Division of Enforcement and Compliance, and the Division of Licensure and Access in the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 218A.202 require the Administra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | SB336 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 61 to define "boy," "equal," "female," "girl," "male," "man," "sex," and "woman"; prohibit any state or local law, regulation, ordinance, or policy from treating males or females unfairly from similiarly situated me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
| KY | SB379 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to require any lobbyist or lobbyist employer who engages in lobbying activity with a local government to file a registration statement with the Department for Local Government; define terms; require the Departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| KY | SB343 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 15A to require the Department of Juvenile Justice to establish a local juvenile restorative justice advisory committee in each county; set committee membership; require committees to develop and implement local juv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | SB358 | Intro
Sine Die | Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to authorize the General Assembly to provide for the educational costs of elementary and secondary school students outside of the public school system; provide ballot language for submis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| KY | SB355 | Intro
Sine Die | Propose to amend Section 32 of the Constitution of Kentucky to prevent senators from serving more than three terms of office, not including partial terms of two years or less, and to prevent members of the House of Representatives from serving more t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| KY | SB362 | Intro
Sine Die | Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to guarantee the right of an individual 21 years of age or older to possess, use, buy, or sell one ounce or less of cannabis and to cultivate, harvest, and store up to five cannabis plan...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| KY | SB367 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 194A to establish the Kentucky all-payer claims database; establish purposes, definitions, and a restricted fund for the database; require the executive director of the Office of Data Analytics to develop, implement...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB357 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 235 to create a derelict vessel removal assistance fund to be administered by the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources; require the department to submit a report on the fund beginning September 1, 202...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| KY | SB382 | Intro
Sine Die | Establish KRS Chapter 245, relating to adult use cannabis, to administer its cultivation, processing, transportation, sale, use, taxation, and licensing; define terms; establish the Adult Use Cannabis Control Board and its membership, procedures, pow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | SB300 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 117.066 to eliminate vote centers; amend KRS 117.001 and 117.383 to conform.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| KY | SB304 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 65.003 to state that an appeal from a final order issued by a person or group responsible for enforcement of a code of ethics may be taken to the Circuit Court of the county in which that person or group is located; amend KRS 65.8831 to con...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| KY | SB306 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 365 to prohibit a person, business, or agency who sells goods and services or collects fees from requiring the use of a credit or debit card or refusing cash in a face-to-face sale; amend KRS 365.990 to create a pe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor Committee |
| KY | SB323 | Intro
Sine Die | Propose to amend the Constitution of Kentucky to repeal Section 145; create a new section to establish the requirements for a person to vote; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| KY | SB314 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to prohibit any rule, regulation, tax, fee, or any other mandate issued by the World Health Organization, United Nations, World Economic Forum, or any other international organization from having jurisdiction wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| KY | SB312 | Intro
Sine Die | Create 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; amend KRS 15.530 to define "public safety telecommunicator" and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
| KY | SB296 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 342.0011 to define "medical professional"; amend KRS 342.020 to provide that failure to submit a statement for services within 45 days may render the statement for services ineligible and that denial of a claim shall toll the requirements t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor Committee |
| KY | SB234 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 100 to define terms related to short-term rentals; make owner-occupied short-term rentals a permitted residential use; permit non-owner-occupied short-term rentals to be subject to a conditional use permit or varian...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB270 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 304.17A-600 to define "health care provider" and "health care service"; make conforming amendments; create new sections of KRS 304.17A-600 to 304.17A-633 to establish eligibility criteria and requirements for prior authorization exemptions;...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| KY | SB292 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 117.085 to provide convenience of the voter as a basis for absentee voting; amend KRS 117.076 to permit any qualified voter the ability to vote in-person absentee during normal business hours on any of the 12 working days and two Saturdays ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| KY | SB284 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 381 to define terms; prohibit a foreign principal from acquiring or owning agricultural land; require a foreign principal that owns or acquires agricultural land before the effective date of this Act to register the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Agriculture Committee |
| KY | SB293 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeal and reenact KRS 532.031 to define "gender identity or expression"; list the actions that qualify as hate crimes; list the actual or perceived characteristics a person must have in order to qualify as a victim of a hate crime; outline penalties...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | SB48 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 514.030 to increase the theft aggregate timeframe from 90 days to one year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB257 | Intro
Sine Die | Propose to amend Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky to automatically restore the voting rights of persons convicted of certain felonies upon completion of their imprisonment, probation, or parole and automatically restore their civil rights ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| KY | SB262 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to prohibit the unlawful storage of a firearm; establish elements of the crime for recklessly allowing access to an unsecured firearm by a minor; establish the crime as a Class A misdemeanor unless a physical i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
| KY | SB245 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to define "lobbyist", "public agency", and "public funds"; prohibit a public agency from spending public funds to employ or contract with a lobbyist or from using public funds to pay a nonprofit association or o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
