| KY | HB437 | Pass | Amend KRS 241.090, relating to the police powers of state Alcoholic Beverage Control administrators and investigators, to provide that a state administrator shall not have the power to make arrests unless he or she is certified in accordance with KRS...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-04-01
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 143) |
| 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 | HB546 | Pass | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 176 to define terms relating to Local Assistance Road Program funding; require the Transportation Cabinet to establish procedures whereby cities and counties can submit projects for consideration in the Local Assist...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-27
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 108) |
| KY | HB552 | Pass | Amend KRS Chapter 91A.360 to allow the appropriate chief executive officer or officers of a local tourist and convention center to appoint to the commission persons representing local restaurants, hotels, or motels residing within the city or county ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-03-27
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 109) |
| 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB693 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 116.035 to provide that a voter shall be deemed a resident of a city within the county of his or her habitation if the voter has at least a 50 percent ownership in a property located within the city precinct.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-27
To House Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs 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 | 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 | 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 | 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 | HB646 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to define "medical product"; prohibit any a public or government entity or any agency or division thereof, from requiring an individual to take, receive, or disclose whether a medical product has been taken or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Health Services Committee |
| KY | HB707 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define terms; allow two or more local governments to form a regional industrial taxing district; establish requirements for an economic development project in a regional industrial taxing district; allow the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-26
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB564 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 337.010 to increase the applicable threshold of employees of retail stores and service industries from $95,000 to $500,000 average annual gross volume of sales for the employer; amend KRS 337.275 to incrementally raise minimum wage of hourl...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB562 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 381.697 to require the governing authority of a city to mandate the proper care of a burial ground.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To House Local Government Committee |
| KY | HB582 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 154.14-020, relating to the Government Resources Accelerating Needed Transformation Program of 2024, to include a nonprofit corporation created by a governmental agency as created under KRS 58.180 in the definition of "eligible grant recipi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-25
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB525 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 15.530 to define terms; amend KRS 15.552 to remove hiring date restriction and allow a fully-trained part-time telecommunicator credit toward the full-time training academy if conditions are met; amend KRS 15.560 to require all part-time te...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection Committee |
| KY | HB492 | Intro
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] | 2025-02-21
To House Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection Committee |
| KY | HB538 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 67C.111 to decrease the size requirement to establish a new city in a county containing a consolidated local government from 6,000 persons to 3,000 persons; amend KRS 65.003, relating to local ethics, to specify the composition of the commi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Local Government Committee |
| KY | HB639 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 132, relating to state and local property taxes, to establish a new homestead exemption for veterans with a service-connected disability; establish requirements for the exemption; allow the permanent residence of a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB774 | Intro
Sine Die | 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; require the Office of the Kentucky Center for Statis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-21
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | SJR72 | Intro
Sine Die | Direct the Kentucky Office of the Attorney General to create a Threat Response and Accountability Task Force to determine the chain of command and accountability matrix for a critical incident; establish task force membership; require the task force ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
| KY | SB229 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to allow owners of buildings to offer temporary shelter in times of emergency; require local governments to put notification procedures in place.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-20
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| KY | SB186 | Intro
Sine Die | Repeal and reenact KRS 132.017 to require the portion of a property tax rate which will produce revenue from real property, exclusive of revenue from new property, more than four percent over the amount of revenue produced by the compensating tax rat...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-19
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB160 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 37.170 to create the Kentucky Emergency Volunteer Corps (KEV Corps) within the Kentucky State Defense Force; create a new section of KRS Chapter 37 to detail KEV Corps eligibility, supervision, training requirements, uniform details, and pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-18
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB419 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to establish reproductive rights and define terms; amend KRS 18A.225 to remove the prohibition of insurance coverage for abortion; amend KRS 39A.180 to allow the Governor to suspend statutes related to abortion ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB489 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 65.2005 to establish that a local government is not required to provide a legal defense for an employee and may refuse to pay a settlement or judgment against an employee if the employee refuses to cooperate or has been convicted or pled gu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB386 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 424.260 to make a technical correction and to increase the expenditure threshold for the advertising requirement from $40,000 to $60,000; exempt vehicles and installed vehicle equipment from the bidding requirement; allow an alternative pub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-12
To House Local Government Committee |
| KY | HB297 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 160.041 to provide a merger process for any contiguous school districts; require the Kentucky Board of Education to determine the terms of merger for an insolvent district if no agreement between the school districts can be reached, and to ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Primary and Secondary Education Committee |
| KY | HB215 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 82 to define "city," "project labor agreement," and "public construction project"; permit a city to establish a mandatory preference for awarding public construction project contracts to unions through a negotiated...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Local Government Committee |
| KY | HB253 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 41 to define "occupational license fee" and "system"; require the Office of the State Treasurer to develop and maintain a web-based system for the centralized reporting, collection, and distribution of occupational ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB347 | Intro
Sine Die | 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] | 2025-02-07
To House Local Government Committee |
| KY | HB322 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 164.2841 to include tuition benefits for spouses and children of emergency medical services personnel who have died in the course of their duties on or after July 1, 2000; amend KRS 164.2842 to include tuition benefits for spouses and child...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Postsecondary Education Committee |
| KY | HB329 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 65.870 to allow local governments to enact ordinances regulating firearms; amend KRS 65.1591 and 237.115 to conform.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Local Government Committee |
| KY | HB353 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS 99.700 to 99.730 to allow a commission or alternative government entity to obtain an administrative warrant to inspect blighted or abandoned properties; require commissions and alternative government entities to exercise th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-07
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB41 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 37.170 to create the Kentucky Emergency Volunteer Corps (KEV Corps) within the Kentucky State Defense Force; create a new section of KRS Chapter 37 to detail KEV Corps eligibility, supervision, training requirements, uniform details, and pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection Committee |
| KY | HB143 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 411.100, relating to a city's liability for damage done during the course of a riot, to provide that any form of local government shall be liable for damage done during the course of a riot if they could have prevented the damage; amend KRS...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB162 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 160 to establish a process for the creation of new independent school districts; define terms; establish a petition process for voters of a qualifying city to place the question of creating a new independent distric...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Primary and Secondary Education Committee |
| KY | HB177 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 446.350 to define "government" and "substantially burden"; outline procedures and relief that may be sought if statute is violated; outline procedures and relief for any inmate who alleges a violation of this statute; establish duties and a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2025-02-04
To House Judiciary Committee |
