| KY | HB109 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 403.044 to establish that the 60-day waiting period for the presentation of testimony in a divorce proceeding involving minor children shall not apply where the parties have completed the collaborative law process or family mediation that h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-15
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HCR36 | Intro
Sine Die | Establish the Child Welfare and Family Court Reform Task Force; establish duties and membership; require the task force to meet monthly during the 2026 Interim of the General Assembly and submit a report to the Legislative Research Commission by Dece...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-15
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB156 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 402.020 to prohibit marriage with a person under 18 years of age; exclude from being prohibited and void, marriages entered into in the Commonwealth before the effective date of this Act and marriages entered into in another state or countr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-15
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB558 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 456.030 to give District Courts exclusive jurisdiction over protective order petitions filed under KRS Chapter 456; amend KRS 456.140 to conform.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-15
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB281 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 405.021 to establish a clear and convincing standard of evidence in determining grandparent visitation; establish factors the court may consider in determining the best interests of the child; remove rebuttable presumption standard; amend K...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-15
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB521 | Pass | Amend KRS 508.130 to define "course of conduct" and "social media platform"; establish elements of the crime of stalking and penalize as a Class D felony unless certain aggravating circumstances are met, in which case it is a Class C felony; provide ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-10
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 67) |
| KY | HB611 | Pass | Amend KRS 209A.122 to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to provide information regarding whether parties to a petition for an order of protection were represented by a legal counsel; to require the Department of Kentucky State Police to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-07
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 49) |
| KY | SB198 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS 15.800 to 15.876 to require staff in the Department of Law with access to or use of federal tax information to submit to a criminal background check to be provided to the Attorney General; create a new section of KRS Chapt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
Conference Committee appointed in House and Senate |
| KY | HB418 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 403 to prohibit the removal from custody or the reduction in parenting time of a party solely for improvement of relationship between the child and the other party where the court has made a finding of domestic vio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-25
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | HB915 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 625.080 to allow a parent to request a jury trial for a termination of parental rights determination; require jurors to take an oath of confidentiality under penalty of contempt of court; allow jury to make findings of fact and recommendati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB886 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 392.020 to provide that the dower interest in a 1/3 life estate for real estate owned during marriage shall not apply to any property acquired by a spouse by inheritance during the marriage if it is not the primary residence of the married ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB930 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 635, relating to public offenders, to provide that a court that commits a child to the Department of Juvenile Justice shall require the child's caregiver to reimburse the department for the costs of the child's com...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-11
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB773 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 17 to define terms; require the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet to establish and maintain a domestic violence offender registry; limit the registry to persistent domestic violence offenders; require registrants t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-05
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB707 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 403.211 to prohibit a child from initiating, intervening in, or otherwise becoming a party to an action to enforce or establish child support or in any related dissolution of marriage proceeding; prohibit a child from receiving child suppor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-03
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB701 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 403 to provide that postnuptial agreements are void and unenforceable unless the document meets certain requirements and 60 days have elapsed between initial receipt of the document and its execution.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-02
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | SB329 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 407.440 relating to the right of the Attorney General to appeal a support order to make technical corrections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-02
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | SB89 | Fail | Amend KRS 405.021 to establish factors for a court to consider in determining the visitation rights of grandparents; amend KRS 620.090 to conform; make technical changes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-27
WITHDRAWN |
| KY | SB259 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 17 to define terms; require the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet to establish and maintain a domestic violence offender registry; limit the registry to persistent domestic violence offenders; require registrants t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-26
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | HB537 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 199.462 to prohibit an individual from being approved to provide foster care or relative caregiver services to a child, be considered a fictive kin placement for a child, or to receive a child for adoption if the individual or an adult or m...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-09
To House Families & Children Committee |
| KY | HB484 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 403.240 to establish additional periods of visitation or parenting time when visitation or parenting time has been denied without good cause or temporarily suspended based upon an unsubstantiated allegation of abuse or neglect; provide that...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-02-02
To House Families & Children Committee |
| KY | HB460 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 403.270, 403.280, 403.315, and 403.340 to remove the presumption in favor of joint custody and equal parenting time; amend KRS 403.320 to conform.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-29
To House Families & Children Committee |
| KY | HB174 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 402.020 to prohibit marriage with a person under 18 years of age; exclude from being prohibited and void, marriages entered into in the Commonwealth before the effective date of this Act if both parties are 18 or older and marriages entered...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-14
To House Families & Children Committee |
| KY | HB200 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 341.370 to prohibit disqualification from benefits for workers unemployed as a result of domestic violence and abuse, dating violence and abuse, sexual assault, or stalking; create a new section of KRS Chapter 341 to direct the secretary of...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-14
To House Economic Development & Workforce Investment Committee |
| KY | HB77 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS 237.060 to 237.090 to prohibit ex parte orders that restrict the ability of a person to possess firearms and ammunition, firearm accessories, holsters, or firearm storage devices; amend KRS 403.730 and 456.040 to prohibit ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB116 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to define "assault weapon," "large capacity ammunition feeding device," and "seller of ammunition"; require background checks for private firearms sales; require reporting to law enforcement of firearm and ammun...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB110 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 199.470 to prohibit an unmarried couple from jointly adopting any child; amend KRS 199.520 to provide that an adoption of a child shall not terminate the legal relationship between the adopted child and the biological parent when the adopti...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-14
To House Families & Children Committee |
| KY | HB125 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 527.010 to define "domestic abuse offense," "domestic violence protective order," and "physical force"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 527 to create the crimes of possession of a firearm by a convicted domestic abuser and possession of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB64 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to define terms; establish limitations on the introduction of identification devices on or within the human body; create a new section of KRS Chapter 413 to establish a statute of limitations for an action file...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-01-14
To House Judiciary Committee |
