| KY | HB160 | Pass | Amend KRS 100.348 to prohibit a local government from adopting or enforcing zoning regulations that treat manufactured homes differently from single-family homes; allow only regulation of certain architectural features of manufactured homes and requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 154) |
| KY | HB555 | Pass | Amend KRS 91A.040 to change the population thresholds for exceptions to annual municipal audits to a single exception for municipalities with less than 3,000 people; change the revenue exception from $150,000 to $500,000; allow the Department for Loc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 153) |
| KY | HB369 | Pass | Amend KRS 95.495 to stipulate that the annual leave designated for police officers subject to the section may be accrued over a year's time as established in the personnel policy of the department.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-31
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 131) |
| KY | SB25 | Pass | Amend KRS 103.200 to include multifamily housing developments of 48 units or more in the definition of "building" for sections related to industrial revenue bonds; and amend KRS 100.347 to limit who can appeal a final action concerning planning and z...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-28
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 117) |
| KY | SB59 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 100 to allow religious institutions to develop affordable housing without submission to review by a planning unit if the development is approved by a local government.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-27
To House Local Government Committee |
| KY | SB50 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 65.188 to make a technical corection.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-27
To House Local Government Committee |
| KY | HB137 | Pass | Amend KRS 77.155 and 224.20-110 to require that for purposes of determining compliance with the requirements established by an air pollution control board, the Energy and Environment Cabinet, or the federal Clean Air Act, only the most current data c...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-25
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 79) |
| KY | HB321 | Pass | Repeal, reenact and amend KRS 147A.027 as a new section of KRS Chapter 100 to require the initial orientation training that planning commissioners and board of adjustment members take to occur between one year prior to appointment and one year follow...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-25
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 83) |
| KY | HB605 | Pass | Amend KRS 154.14-020, relating to the GRANT Program, to redefine "eligible grant applicant," "eligible project," "eligible use," "GRANT program," "GRANT program fund," "regional project," and define "qualifying federal entity"; amend KRS 154.14-030 t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 71) |
| KY | HB701 | Pass | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 369 to define terms relating to blockchain technology; allow individuals to use digital assets and self-hosted wallets; prohibit local zoning changes that discriminate against a digital asset mining business; provid...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-24
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 50) |
| KY | SB10 | Pass | Amend KRS 78.5536, relating to the County Employees Retirement System, to increase the nonhazardous and hazardous duty under age 65 retiree health subsidy to $40 and $50 per month for each year of service, respectively, for those members who meet the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-19
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 37) |
| KY | HB131 | Pass | Amend KRS 95.500 to allow, absent a collective bargaining agreement, specified fire personnel to have schedules consisting of 48 hours on duty followed by 96 hours of off duty time; specify that collective bargaining agreements maintained by a city o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-17
signed by Governor (Acts Ch.24) |
| KY | HB808 | Engross
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 148 to terms; establish the Dream Big Burnside Development Authority to establish, maintain, and promote a recreational and resort park system surrounding General Burnside Lake; establish board membership and execut...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-14
To Senate Rules Committee |
| KY | HB18 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 100 to require certain development projects in zones that have traditionally been reserved for single-family homes to be treated as amendments to a zoning map and to meet the procedural requirements for approval se...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| KY | HB182 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to define "state or local government"; prohibit a state or local government from using the word "free" in a description of a benefit, product, or service financed with public funds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
To House Rules Committee |
| KY | HB290 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 172.100 and 172.200, relating to county law libraries, to ensure that law library funds can be expended for subscriptions to computer-assisted legal research, internet access, and computers and related equipment.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
To Senate Rules Committee |
| KY | HB340 | Engross
Sine Die | 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] | 2025-03-13
To Senate Rules Committee |
| KY | HB403 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 72.415 to allow the commissioner of the Department of Criminal Justice Training or his or her designee, to grant an extension to a deputy coroner to complete the required training, specify when the extension begins to toll, specify conseque...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-13
To Senate Rules Committee |
| KY | HB85 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 220.510 to establish controls for sanitation districts when charging fees, taxes, or other charges to property owners or to other persons for the provision of services; provide that the Act may be cited as the Ensuring Fair Sewer Charges Ac...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | SB117 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 64.5277 to define "excess credit hours"; amend KRS 64.5278 to allow a city to establish different base incentive amounts for different types of city officers by ordinance, remove minimum and maximum payment amounts.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To House Local Government Committee |
| KY | HB790 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 278.704 to prohibit the Kentucky State Board on Electric Generation and Transmission Siting from granting a setback deviation for an application for a solar merchant electric generating facility made after January 1, 2026, that would allow ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-12
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | HB387 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 76.090 to define "CPI"; require that any time a metropolitan sewer district proposes any change to its rates, rentals, or charges that would in aggregate generate revenue in excess of the percent increase in the CPI over the two most recent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-11
To Senate Natural Resources and Energy Committee |
| KY | SB60 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 446.350 to define terms; outline appropriate relief if the statute is violated; apply to laws adopted before or after the effective date; include severability clause; waive sovereign and governmental immunity.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | SB193 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 14 to provide for the issuance of jailer service cards by the Secretary of State to jailers who are currently serving or have previously served as jailers in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-07
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB71 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 173.490 and 173.730 to allow a county judge/executive to appoint members to a public library board of trustees and fill vacancies with the approval of the fiscal court and without consultation with the previous board members or the Departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-06
To House Local Government Committee |
| KY | HB211 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define terms; provide that local government restrictions on smoking shall not apply to cigar bars; require cigar bars to provide certain smoke-free spaces.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-06
To Senate Rules Committee |
| KY | HB635 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 42 to define terms; require the Finance and Administration Cabinet to create a grant database that will be a central repository for information on all available state or local government grants; require state and l...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-06
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | SB218 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 132 to define terms; require the Department of Revenue to ensure that taxpayers can access financial information regarding local taxing authorities, and to put that information on its website; specify the informati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-06
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB194 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS 258.095 to 258.500 to require animal control officers to receive training on recognizing child abuse; amend KRS 620.030 to add animal control officers to the list of people with a duty to report dependency, neglect, or abu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05
To House Rules Committee |
| KY | HB371 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 224.40-315 to exclude from the exemption in the definition of municipal solid waste disposal facility any waste site or facility that accepts industrial solid waste generated on or adjacent to property owned by the generator or by another f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | SB122 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 258 to define terms; prohibit retail pet shops from selling dogs or cats unless the animal was obtained from an animal shelter or qualified breeder; prohibit retail pet shops from selling a dog or cat that is less ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-05
To Senate Rules 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 | SB151 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 48 to define "illegal alien"; prohibit state tax dollars appropriated by the General Assembly from being used to compensate an illegal alien; direct the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security to assist in the impleme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-04
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB490 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 91A.390 to require a quarterly filing of local transient room taxes for a person that facilitates the rental of the accommodations by brokering, coordinating, or in any other way arranging for the rental; create new section of KRS Chapter 9...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-28
To House Local Government 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 | HB782 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 138.510 to allocate moneys to a newly created fund from the pari-mutuel racing tax distribution; create a new section of KRS Chapter 230 to establish a fund relating to local governments and administered by the Department for Local Governme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB729 | Intro
Sine Die | Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to exempt from state and local excise, sales, and use taxes food, food ingredients, prescription drugs, residential utilities, and on-farm utilities; provide ballot language; submit to v...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| KY | HB696 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 132 to exempt federally documented vessels from property taxation; create new sections of KRS Chapter 235 to establish the waterway usage fee and the distribution of revenue generated from the fee; establish the wa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB801 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to prohibit all employers of 75 or more employees from demoting, dismissing, disciplining, or discriminating against an employee who misses work because of duties related to being a candidate, candidate-elect, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB797 | Intro
Sine Die | Propose to amend Section 172B of the Constitution of Kentucky to expand the freeze on an assessment or reassessment moratorium to include the development of property and to remove the five-year expiration date for the moratorium; provide ballot langu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs Committee |
| KY | HB806 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define "backyard chicken"; allow a person to keep six or fewer backyard chickens on residential property in cities; establish requirements.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Local Government Committee |
| KY | HB698 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 224.43-500 to define "residual waste facility"; increase the environmental remediation fee from $1.75 to $2; require that the fee collected from residual waste facilities be returned to the county where the facility is located; amend KRS 22...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Natural Resources & Energy Committee |
| KY | HB722 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 67.160 to insert gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Local Government Committee |
| KY | HB768 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS 217.015 to 217.215 to define "small farms"; exempt small farms and home-based processors from any state and any city, county, urban-county government, consolidated local government, unified local government, or charter cou...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Agriculture Committee |
| KY | HB730 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 441.420 to allow for local correctional facilities to be constructed with fewer than 150 prisoner beds under certain conditions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Local Government Committee |
| KY | HB643 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS 227.200 to 227.400 to allow for the creation of a local appeals board to hear appeals from final orders of fire chiefs and state fire marshals; establish membership, procedures, and jurisdiction when no local appeals board...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations Committee |
| KY | HB657 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to define and designate the Honor and Remember flag as the state's emblem of the service and sacrifice of members of the United States Armed Forces who gave their lives in the line of duty; specify locations, dat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House State Government Committee |
| KY | HB616 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 278.160 to prohibit the collection of charges and fees for other governmental units by an investor-owned electric utility; prohibit the collection of certain surcharges and amounts that are not directly and exclusively related to the provis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Natural Resources & Energy Committee |
| KY | HB686 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237, relating to firearms, to define terms; provide that firearm suppressors manufactured in Kentucky shall not be subject to federal law or regulation; require firearm suppressors manufactured and sold in Kentucky ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB667 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237, relating to firearms, to define terms; provide that firearms manufactured in Kentucky shall not be subject to federal law or regulation; require firearms manufactured and sold in Kentucky to have the words "Mad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Judiciary Committee |
