| KY | SB147 | Engross
50% | Amend KRS 213.136 to establish processes and procedures for requesing vital statistics records from the state or county registrar; amend KRS 213.141 to increase the fee for a certified copy of a vital statistic record to $10; establish fee exceptions...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-15
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| 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 | SB251 | Pass | Amend KRS 197.020 to establish that the Department of Corrections shall not be required to promulgate administrative regulations regarding the death penalty; establish that execution protocols and procedures may be prescribed by internal policy, memo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 181) |
| 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 | HB510 | Pass | Create a new section of Chapter 311 to define terms; establish conditions and processes for pause in procedure for an organ donation; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to implement and enforce...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-07
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 43) |
| KY | SB34 | Engross
50% | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 391 to establish the Kentucky Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act to codify provisions for the creation, administration, modification, termination, and validity of transfer on death deeds; define terms; spec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-24
To House Local Government Committee |
| KY | HB848 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 72.425 to require the state medical examiner to perform an autopsy on a decedent when the death of the person is not a coroner's case if a request is made by written consent by the decedent's spouse, the next of kin, or the person who assum...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-10
To House Health Services Committee |
| KY | HB784 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 507A.010 to allow prosecution under KRS Chapter 507A, relating to fetal homicide, of a pregnant woman and of acts committed during an abortion.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-06
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB709 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 314A to allow an advanced practice respiratory therapist employed by a health facility to declare a patient death and sign the provisional report of death; repeal and reenact KRS 314A.010, 314A.110, and 314A.220 to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-03
To House Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations 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 | HB764 | Fail | Amend KRS 507A.010 to allow prosecution of a pregnant woman under KRS Chapter 507A, relating to fetal homicide.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-27
WITHDRAWN |
| KY | HB168 | Engross
50% | Amend KRS 235.240 to require that when a motorboat or vessel is involved in an accident that results in a fatality or serious physical injury, the investigating law enforcement officer shall seek a search warrant for blood testing of the operator of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-24
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | SB47 | Engross
50% | Amend KRS 61.315 to define "rescue squad personnel"; expand eligibility for in the line of duty death benefits to rescue squad personnel; require the Division of Emergency Management to promulgate administrative regulations establishing necessary cri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-19
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB208 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 72.025 to require a post-mortem examination in deaths that occur during an arrest; create a new section of KRS Chapter 72 to require coroners to notify the Kentucky State Medical Examiner of arrest-related deaths; require publication of an ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-18
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| 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 | HB575 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 140.090, relating to the inheritance tax, to increase the funeral expense deduction for decedents with date of death on or after August 1, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-12
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HCR26 | Intro
25% | Establish the Infant Mortality Task Force; list duties and members of the task force; require the task force to meet monthly during the 2026 Interim of the General Assembly and to submit a report by December 1, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-04
To House Health Services Committee |
| KY | HB34 | Engross
50% | Amend KRS 61.315 to include additional cancers which, when they are the cause of death of a firefighter, would make the firefighter eligible for death benefits; make a technical correction.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-28
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | HB434 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 401.010 to allow a family member of a deceased person to posthumously change the deceased person's name if the name is the result of marriage to a person arrested for or charged with committing an offense intentionally, knowingly, or wanton...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-28
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB435 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 140.070 and 140.080 to include a foster child as a Class A beneficiary and to delete language that only applies to deaths occurring prior to July 1, 1995, or between July 1, 1995, and June 30, 1998; apply to estates of decedents who die on ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-28
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB408 | Intro
25% | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to define terms; establish a qualified terminally ill patient's right to voluntarily request medication to self-administer to cause death; establish conditions required to make request; permit patient to rescind...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-23
To House Health Services Committee |
| KY | HB147 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 140.160, relating to the inheritance and estate taxes, to extend the deadline for filing a tax return from 18 months to 36 months for deaths on or after August 1, 2026; amend KRS 140.210 to correspondingly extend the due date for payment of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-14
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB46 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 140.080 to exempt Class B beneficiaries from inheritance taxation when receiving property from a decedent who died on or after January 1, 2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-14
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB106 | Intro
25% | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311A to create the EMS Professionals Foundation Program fund; specify the ambulance services and EMS professionals that are eligible to share in the distribution of the fund; provide that the Board of Emergency Medi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-14
To House Local Government Committee |
