| KY | SB133 | Pass | Amend KRS 65A.030 to increase the fiscal reporting levels of special purpose governmental entities; allow entities conducting yearly audits to move to an audit every 4 years if the entity receives 2 sequential audit reports with unqualified opinions ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-27
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 199) |
| KY | SB197 | Pass | Create a new section of Subchapter 32 of KRS Chapter 154 to establish a tiered county system for eligible companies to receive incentives under the Kentucky Business Investment Program; amends KRS 154.32-010 to define "tier"; amends KRS 154.32-020 an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-27
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 202) |
| KY | SB261 | Pass | Amend KRS 67.083 to allow fiscal courts to provide for the care and maintenance of pedestrian swinging bridges that are available for recreation and public enjoyment; amend KRS 411.190 to give liability protections to owners of land leased to a local...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-23
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 192) |
| KY | SJR54 | Engross
Sine Die | Direct the Department for Libraries and Archives and the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to cooperate in exploring ways to increase enrollment in Dolly Parton's Imagination Library Program; direct the department and the cabinet to submit a rep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-15
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SJR62 | Engross
Sine Die | Direct the Energy and Environment Cabinet's Division of Water to prepare and submit a report to the Legislative Research Commission by December 15, 2026, on recommendations for state and local governments to more easily access public waterways after ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-15
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB567 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 61.870 to change the definition of "resident of the Commonwealth"; amend KRS 61.872 to allow the official custodian of public records to require government-issued photo identification that includes an address from an applicant requesting to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-15
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB141 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 424.110 to define "advertisement" and "published statement of ownership"; amend KRS 424.120 to determine where newspaper advertisements shall be placed when 2 or more newspapers meet the initial qualifications; determine when alternative pu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-15
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB9 | Engross
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 65 to define terms; establish the process for a local government to establish a residential infrastructure development district and for dissolution of a district; authorize a local government to issue bonds and othe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-15
Conference Committee report (1) filed in House and Senate |
| KY | HB613 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 75.040 to establish conditions under which a fire protection district or volunteer fire department district may exceed the maximum established tax rate; create a new section of KRS Chapter 75 to establish the procedure by which a fire prote...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-15
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB59 | Pass | Amend KRS 65.013 to define terms; expand the prohibition on using tax dollars to advocate for or against a public question on the ballot to prohibit using any resources, and to explicitly apply prohibition to school districts, regional educational co...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 155) |
| KY | HB500 | Pass | The State/Executive Branch Budget: Details Part I, Operating Budget; details Part II, Capital Projects Budget; details Part III, General Provisions; details Part IV, State Salary/Compensation, Benefit, and Employment Policy; details Part V, Funds Tra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 168) |
| KY | HB6 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 related to the quality-based graduated early care and education rating system program to establish the intent of the General Assembly related to the program; establish processes and procedures for how the progr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 146) |
| KY | HB757 | Pass | Amend KRS 139.340 to redefine the sales and use tax nexus standard for remote retailers and marketplace providers to include a sales volume threshold only; amend KRS 131.383 and 141.044 to allow the Department of Revenue to refund an estimated tax pa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 161) |
| KY | HB607 | Pass | Amend KRS 65.003, relating to local ethics, to specify the composition of the commission in a consolidated local government and allow the commission to use the county attorney's office for legal council by procurement methods; amend KRS 67C.103 to pl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 165) |
| KY | HB676 | Pass | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 194A to establish the Kentucky statewide health data utility; define terms; establish purposes and a restricted fund for the utility; require the executive director of the Office of Data Analytics to be responsible ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 150) |
| KY | HB9 | Engross
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 138 to define terms; impose a 4% state retail regulatory license fee on all alcoholic beverage and cannabis-infused beverage sales to consumers by alcoholic beverage retailers; establish procedures and duties of ret...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB27 | Pass | Amend KRS 72.450 to allow a coroner who is in possession of an unclaimed 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; require a coroner to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 127) |
| KY | SB149 | Pass | Amend KRS 68.010, relating to the office of county treasurer, to time the appointment of county treasurer to the election of county officer's; require the county treasurer's bond be corporate surety; stipulate that an acting county treasurer may be a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 128) |
| KY | HB647 | Pass | Amend KRS 154.14-020, relating to the GRANT Program, to include the United States Department of Justice and the United States Department of Defense as eligible agencies; amend KRS 154.14-030 to push the sunset date of the program from December 31, 20...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 115) |
| KY | SB29 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 109 to prohibit the imposition of fees or permitting requirements on a solid waste management facility that is handling solid waste that was generated outside of the county or waste management district where the so...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-10
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 86) |
| KY | SB20 | Pass | 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] | 2026-04-10
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 90) |
| KY | HB290 | Pass | 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] | 2026-04-10
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 76) |
| KY | HB576 | Pass | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 154.12 to establish the Kentucky Talent Recruitment Grant Program under the Cabinet for Economic Development; define terms; establish the duties of the cabinet in implementation of the program subject to approval of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-10
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 82) |
| KY | SB192 | Pass | Amend KRS 91A.020 to allow cities bringing in or expending less than $15 million to conform to cash, modified accrual, or budgetary basis of accounting rather than generally accepted governmental accounting principles; amend KRS 91A.040 to allow citi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-10
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 91) |
| KY | SB153 | Pass | Amend KRS 367.620 to exclude certain activity from the definition of "goods or services relating to real estate"; amend KRS 367.624 to require contractors to furnish a notice relating to assignment of benefits prior to entering into a real estate goo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-08
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 54) |
| KY | HB333 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 100 to define terms; make affordable housing developed by a religious developer a permitted use and require only a ministerial review by a planning unit for compliance with the section; include requirements that an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-07
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 37) |
| 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 | HB392 | Pass | Amend KRS 45A.345, relating to local procurement, to define "best value" and redefine "evaluated bid price" as "economic efficiency"; amend KRS 45A.365 to require invitations for bids to state that awards be made on the best value rather than the low...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-07
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 39) |
| KY | HB518 | Pass | Amend KRS 67.767 to require the Secretary of State to prescribe standard forms for net profits, gross receipts, and payroll occupational tax returns; form an advisory committee to develop the forms; require the advisory committee to file the form wit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-07
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 44) |
| KY | HB189 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to define terms; prohibit a person from remaining on any portion of a state-maintained right-of-way that is not designated for pedestrian use; provide exemptions and authorize local governmental exceptions; all...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-05
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 32) |
| KY | HB188 | Pass | Amend KRS 508.025 to expand assault in the third degree to include causing or attempting to cause physical injury to a healthcare provider in a jail, penitentiary, or local or state correctional or detention facility; amend KRS 65.1591 to add jailers...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-03
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 28) |
| KY | HB43 | Pass | Amend KRS 72.415 to allow the commissioner of the Department of Criminal Justice Training to grant an extension to a deputy coroner to complete the required training; specify when the extension begins to toll; specify consequences for failure to comp...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-03
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 20) |
| KY | SB155 | Pass | Amend KRS 39A.020 to define "animal health emergency"; amend KRS 39A.100 to authorize the Commissioner of Agriculture, in consultation with the state veterinarian, to declare an animal health emergency; grant the Commissioner of Agriculture emergency...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-03
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 17) |
| KY | SB40 | Pass | Amend KRS 173.490 and 173.730 to allow a county judge/executive to fill vacancies on a library board, with the approval of the fiscal court, without being required to consider recommendations made the board or the state librarian if the county has ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-02
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 13) |
| KY | HB283 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 39G to define "center," "executive director," "foreign enterprise," and "resident of the Commonwealth"; prohibit a resident of the Commonwealth from engaging in a transaction with a foreign enterprise if the transa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor Committee |
| KY | SB33 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 222.504 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to notify local governments when a recovery residence initiates the certification process with a certifying organization, becomes certified, or receives disciplinary action from ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-25
To House Health Services Committee |
| KY | SB53 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 100.275 to affirm that planning units and commissions and boards thereof may hold public hearings and accept public comments concerning the approval of subdivision plats and development plans.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-25
To House Local Government Committee |
| KY | HB780 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 382.110 to establish that a municipal government may initiate a cause of action to compel the filing of a commissioner's deed if more than 30 business days have passed since the grantee's receipt of the deed from the commissioner; establish...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-24
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB601 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 177.240 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] | 2026-03-20
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | HB851 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 64.012 to change the reporting deadline for fiscal courts and county clerks from July 1 to August 1.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-20
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | HB683 | Engross
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 148 to define terms; establish the Burnside Island Development Authority to develop, finance, maintain, and improve lodging and restaurant facilities on General Burnside Island State Park and surrounding area; requi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-18
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | SB224 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define terms; establish that an applicant has a vested right to the development standards in place at the time of application for a building permit, development plan, or subdivision plat upon the submission o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-17
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB66 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 12.070 to permit a board, commission, or similar administrative body to conduct video teleconference meetings to allow public participation; allow members of a board, commission, or similar administrative body to attend meetings virtually u...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-16
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| KY | HB380 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend various sections and create new sections of Subtitle 11 of KRS Chapter 286 to expand the scope of the subtitle to include virtual currency kiosk business; define terms; require licensure for virtual currency kiosk business in this state; requir...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-16
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | HB682 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 75.031 to require all trustees of a fire district to personally reside in the fire district and declare a vacancy if a trustee moves outside the district during his or her term; amend KRS 273.207 to require all board members of a fire depar...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-16
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | HB911 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 100.326 to define terms; prohibit planning units from adopting or enforcing certain specified ordinances or regulations concerning aspects of commercial uses; state that a single principal structure or building on a single lot in a commerci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-16
To House Local Government Committee |
| KY | SB45 | 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] | 2026-03-13
To House Agriculture Committee |
| KY | HB492 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 70.260, 70.261, 70.262, 70.263, 70.267, 70.270 and 70.273 to include certified court security officers employed by sheriffs within the purview of deputy sheriff merit boards.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-13
To House Local Government Committee |
| KY | HB530 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 61 to require a permitting authority to issue a decision on any permit application within 60 days; automatically grant any permit if a permitting authority fails to render a decision within 60 days; require any deni...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-13
To House Local Government Committee |
| KY | HB703 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 100.283, relating to the approval of subdivision plats, to make a technical correction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-13
To House Local Government Committee |
