While you think these Bills impact your or not, some of the Bills cover things like: Fairness Bill, Anti Fairness Bill, Abortion Exceptions, State employees being able to work from home, the Right to Protest, and much more.
Per Senator Gerald Neal’s post this week: Several bills advancing this week with full bipartisan support include: SB 25, SB 50, SB 27, SB 121, SB 65, SB 83, SB 120, SB 178, SJR 28, SJR 55, SB 169, SB 57, SCR 61, SB 174, SB 176, and SB 245.
These are currently just some of the proposed bills, this is not a complete list. You can find the current complete list at https://legislature.ky.gov/Legislation/Pages/default.aspx
I will update the list throughout the term. Also, I will also update the Bills listed.
The list will be added to during the legislative session. You can call your legislators and leave a message at the Legislative Message Line at 1-800-372-7181.
If something is labeled as “Emergency”, it means if it becomes the Law, it goes into effect immediately. While I have been updated the Bills for years, and generally do not comment on them, there are some statements have pulled from other sources, as many times a Bill may read one way, but the impact is completely different.
This year is a “short session” which means that the legislators only meet for 30 days this year (unless a special session is called).
HB=House Bill SB=Senate Bill
There are 313 Senate Bills and 814 House Bills proposed as of today
If you haven’t read the proposed Bills before, you should know that in some cases the name of the Bill has no relation to what the Bill would actually do. For example, some of the Bills labeled as “parental rights” actually would override what the parent wants if it is contrary to the language of the Bill.
Also, as some of the terminology isn’t clear, so some of the proposed Bills have descriptions with them, from various sources.
HB 1 to lower Kentucky’s state income tax from 4% to 3.5% Retain original provisions; and create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to allow a school employee qualified wage exclusion and establish a school employee tax credit for wages earned in excess of $100,000 per taxable year; amend KRS 141.019 to include the exemption; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the tax credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the exemption and tax credit. (there have already been 12 amendments filed on this Bill)
| 02/06/25 | signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 1) |
HB 4 POSTSECONDARY INSTITUTIONS : ANTI DEI Bill Create new sections of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; prohibit a public postsecondary education institution from providing differential treatment or benefits on the basis of an individual’s religion, race, sex, color, or national origin; from influencing the composition of the student body or scholarship recipients on the basis of religion, race, sex, color, or national origin; from implementing a student housing assignment plan on the basis of religion, race, color, or national origin with designated exceptions; from expending any resources on diversity, equity, and inclusion, the promotion of discriminatory topics, or bias incident investigations; from soliciting statements on an applicant’s experience with or views on religion, race, sex, color, or national origin; from requiring a course dedicated to discriminatory concepts; or disseminating or profiting from any research, work product, or material that promotes or justifies discriminatory concepts; prohibit a public postsecondary education institution from requiring any individual to endorse or condemn a specific ideology or viewpoint; prohibit the Council on Postsecondary Education from providing differential treatment or benefits on the basis of an individual’s religion, race, sex, color, or national origin or from expending any resources on diversity, equity, and inclusion or discriminatory topics; establish exclusions for legal compliance; require each governing board of a public postsecondary education institution to ensure compliance with specific sections of this Act no later than June 30, 2025; authorize the Attorney General to bring an action for a writ of mandamus to compel the council or a public postsecondary education institution to comply; create a cause of action to permit a qualified individual to file a civil action against council or a public postsecondary education institution for injunctive relief and limited damages arising from a violation of certain sections of this Act; waive sovereign and governmental immunity for the limited purpose of bringing this claim; prohibit retaliation; require each public postsecondary education institution to submit and publish a certified annual report on governmentally mandated discrimination to the Legislative Research Commission by October 1 each year; provide that a public postsecondary education institution or the council cannot claim a federal, state, judicial, contractual, or accreditation mandate as a defense to a civil action filed under this Act unless the policy, practice, or procedure upon which the complaint is founded is listed and clearly and accurately described in the public institution’s annual report filed in accordance with this Act; require each public postsecondary education institution to provide the Personnel Cabinet and State Treasurer the name, job title, duty station, and salary or wages of each employee each month beginning January 1, 2025, and to post its itemized annual budget; amend KRS 164.020 to prohibit the Council on Postsecondary Education from approving a degree, certificate, or diploma program that includes discriminatory concepts or diversity, equity, and inclusion iniatives; amend KRS 164.011, 164.131, 164.321, and 164.821 to conform; direct the Council on Postsecondary Education to consider certain enumerated conditions when considering the elimination of an existing program; direct each public postsecondary education institution and the Council on Postsecondary Education to discontinue designated programs and follow designated procedures when implementing this Act; provide specific instructions for public postsecondary education institutions and the Council on Postsecondary Education to follow in implementing this Act; direct public postsecondary education institutions and the council to submit a report on implementation of this Act.
02/28/25: returned to Postsecondary Education (H)
HB 5 Bill related to trans inmates. Anti trans bill
02/14/25: to Judiciary (H)
HB 10 RIGHTS OF REAL PROPERTY OWNERS: Create a new section of KRS Chapter 383 to allow a property owner or his or her authorized agent to request a law enforcement officer immediately remove a person unlawfully occupying real property under certain circumstances; provide criminal and civil immunity to law enforcement officers and property owners acting in good faith; create a civil cause of action for wrongful removal; require the Department of Kentucky State Police to create a form for the petition to remove unlawful occupants; amend KRS 512.010 to define “squatter”; amend KRS 512.020 and 512.030 to specifically include damage to real property caused by squatters in the offense of criminal mischief.
| 02/27/25 | posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 28, 2025 |
HB16 Water fluoridation, to amend water fluoridation programs optional throughout the state. 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 that a water fluoridation program in place on the effective date of the Act continues until action is taken by its governing body to end its participation; provide that any decision regarding participation in a water fluoridation program made by the governing body of a water system shall be binding on all water systems it supplies.
02/27/25: to Committee on Committees (S)
HB 19 about drones: Amend KRS 500.130 to define terms; provide that the use of an unmanned aircraft system is not prohibited in the case of recreational or professional use if there is not intent to conduct surveillance on private property and there is no unauthorized use or publication of images of individuals or areas of private property, or in the case of an insurance company for purposes of underwriting a risk or investigating damage; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a civil action; create a new section of KRS Chapter 413 to establish a statute of limitations for the civil action. HCS (1) Retain original provisions, except add streaming services to the definition of “communications service” and limit a cause of action to violations of specific provisions of Section 1
02/27/25: to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S)
HB 20 license plate readers and tracking devices on cars:
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to define terms related to automated license plate readers; establish limitations on use and sale of data captured by automated license plate readers; provide that captured license plate data may be retained longer than 60 days only if it is being used in a criminal or insurance investigation or has become subject to a preservation of evidence notification; provide that any recorded images or data captured by an ALPR may be made available to the National Insurance Crime Bureau or its successor organization; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to define terms and 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 filed for introduction of an identification device; amend KRS 508.152, relating to the unlawful use of tracking devices, to include the installation of a tracking device on the person or property of another without their consent and exempt parental tracking of minors from the prohibition.
| 02/25/25 | received in Senate to Committee on Committees (S) |
| 02/27/25 | to Judiciary (S) |
HB 21 “deep fakes” : Create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to define terms and establish limitations on “deep fakes”; create a new section of KRS Chapter 413 to establish a statute of limitations for an action filed for the unlawful dissemination of a deep fake; create a new section of KRS Chapter 519 to establish a criminal penalty for illegally disseminating a deep fake.
2/4/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Small Business & Information Technology (H)
HB 23 Sex Crimes: Required treatment for some sex crimes that would require medroxyprogesterone acetate treatment for any person who is convicted, pleaded guilty or entered an Alford plea to a sex crime involving a victim under 12 years old. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to provide that any person who has been convicted of, pled guilty to, or entered an Alford plea to a sex crime in which the victim was under the age of 12 shall undergo medroxyprogesterone acetate treatment; provide that treatment shall begin no later than one month before the person is released from custody; provide that treatment shall continue until the person is released from probation, parole, or post-incarceration supervision; provide that the person shall be evaluated by a licensed physician prior to treatment to determine if the person is an appropriate candidate for treatment; provide that the Department of Corrections shall administer the treatment; authorize the Department of Corrections to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the requirements.
2/4/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
HB 34 driving while under the influence of marijuana:
Amend KRS 189A.010 to create a per se limit for a blood level of tetrahydrocannabinol signifying intoxication; amend various sections of the KRS to conform.
2/4/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
HB 36 Misconduct in Schools : Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to prohibit a public school district or public charter school from entering into a nondisclosure agreement relating to misconduct involving a minor or student; amend KRS 160.380 to define “abusive conduct”; require school district applicants to disclose being the subject of any investigations or disciplinary actions in the previous 12 months relating to abusive conduct and consent to a reference check; require school districts to conduct reference checks; require nonpublic schools and public school districts to disclose any investigations or disciplinary actions related to abusive conduct of applicants; provide immunity for disclosures made about school employee conduct; require school districts to request all related information from public and nonpublic schools and the Education Professional Standards Board (ESPB); require schools and EPSB to provide the records; require requests for information to be satisfied in 10 working days; require EPSB to create and implement procedures for information requests; require all school district applicants to list all schools of previous and current employment on the application; require a school district to internally report and investigate to completion all allegations of abusive conduct; require all records relating to an allegation of abusive conduct to be retained in an employee’s personnel file unless the allegation is proven false; provide that that certain requirements apply to public charter schools; amend KRS 156.160 to direct the Kentucky Board of Education to include employment standards in the voluntary certification standards for private schools; make technical corrections; amend KRS 160.151 to define “certified nonpublic school”; require employees of certified nonpublic schools to submit to a national and state criminal background check and a CA/N check; require certified nonpublic school personnel to have a state criminal background check every five years; prohibit a certified nonpublic school from hiring a violent or felony sex crime offender; require a certified nonpublic school to conduct reference checks on all applicants; prohibit a certified nonpublic school from entering into a nondisclosure agreement related to misconduct involving a minor or student; make technical corrections; amend KRS 156.095 to require the Kentucky Department of Education to develop a training related to sexual misconduct and inappropriate relationships for employees to undergo every five years; make technical corrections; amend KRS 161.151 to conform; require that an allegation of abusive conduct be reported pursuant to KRS 620.030; amend KRS 158.4431 and 156.492 to make conforming changes.
2/4/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
HB 38 Orders of Protection: Amend KRS 403.763 and 456.180 to enhance criminal penalties for repeated violations of an order of protection; establish what constitutes a repeated violation.
2/21/2025 – (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary (S)
HB 42 Sex offenders and Halloween activities: Create a new section of KRS 17.500 to 17.580, relating to the sex offender registry, to define “costume” and “Halloween-related activity”; prohibit sex offenders who have committed a criminal offense against a victim who is a minor from participating in any Halloween-related activity; establish penalties. Violations would result in a Class A misdemeanor on first offense before upgrading to a Class D felony on subsequent violations.
2/4/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
HB 44 “Anti-choking devices” in schools: Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define “anti-choking device”; require school cafeteria personnel and other expected users of the device to be trained if a school obtains an anti-choking device; provide immunity from civil liability for rendering emergency care or treatment with an anti-choking device or the Heimlich maneuver at a public or private school; provide that the Act may be cited as Landon’s Law.
2/18/2025 – (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education (S)
HB 47 Sexual Extortion: Create a new section of KRS Chapter 531 to establish the crime of sexual extortion as a felony; provide for enhancements to penalties; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a civil cause of action for sexual extortion; amend KRS 17.500 to include sexual extortion in the definition of “sex crime”; create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to require superintendents of local school districts to notify students in grades six and above and parents and guardians of all students of the crime of sexual extortion; require local school boards to display posters with the definition of sexual extortion and contact information for entities offering assistance to victims in secondary schools; amend KRS 164.2518 to require postsecondary institutions to display posters with the definition of sexual extortion and contact information for entities offering assistance to victims in residential facilities and buildings containing instructional spaces, student services, and academic support services.
2/4/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
HB 50 Sex offenders’ closeness to facilities: Amend KRS 17.545 to prohibit a registrant from residing within 3,000 feet of a high school, middle school, elementary school, preschool, publicly owned or leased playground, or licensed daycare facility; provide that the 3,000 feet restriction applies to any person who becomes a registrant after the effective date of the Act.
2/4/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
HB 51 Post incarceration supervision: Amend KRS 532.043 to provide that a person convicted of felony attempt to commit a felony offense under KRS Chapter 510, KRS 529.100, 529.110, or a felony offense under KRS 531.310 to 531.370 relating to the sexual exploitation of minors, shall be subject to postincarceration supervision; amend KRS 532.060 to provide that a person convicted of felony attempt to commit a felony offense specified in KRS Chapter 510 or KRS 531.310 to 531.370 shall be subject to postincarceration supervision.
2/4/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
HB 53: Unlawful release of balloons: This Bill would make it a Class A misdemeanor to intentionally release, organize the release or cause the release of 10 or more balloons inflated with helium or gas lighter than air, unless the balloons are released with governmental approval. Hot air balloons and balloons released indoors are exempt. balloons can harm animals who mistake them for food or become entangled in their strings.
02/04/25: to Judiciary (H)
HB 55 Civil liability of a parent or guardian: Create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish civil liability against a parent, guardian, or other person legally responsible for a minor if the minor causes the injury or death of another by the use of a destructive device, explosive, firearm, or other deadly weapon; provide limited exemptions; amend KRS 411.155 to conform.
2/4/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
HB 63: Vaping regulations repeal A group of Republican lawmakers in the House want to repeal regulations around vaping products that were passed during the last legislative session.
02/04/25: to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H)
HB 64: Conversion therapy: This bill would roll back Gov. Andy Beshear’s executive order, signed about four months ago, that bans conversion therapy on minors.
What is states is: Invalidate Executive Order 2024-632 relating to the prohibition of state and federal funds being used for the practice of conversion therapy; EMERGENCY.
(as conversion therapy is not legal in Kentucky, there is no funding being used for this)
02/04/25: to State Government (H)
HB 65: Ten Commandments in schools: that would require school districts display a “durable, permanent copy of the Ten Commandments” in each public elementary and secondary school classroom in the state. What is states is “Repeal and reenact KRS 158.178, relating to the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools.”
02/04/25: to Primary and Secondary Education (H)
HB 68 Hate Crimes: Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to provide an enhanced term of imprisonment for any defendant convicted of certain crimes when the defendant intentionally committed the offense because of a person’s actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, mental or physical disability, gender identity or expression, or sexual orientation; amend KRS 15.334 and 17.1523 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 508 to create the offense of using hate symbols to intimidate; repeal KRS 49.320 and 532.031.
2/4/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
HB 75 Undesignated glucagon: Create new sections of KRS Chapter 217 to define terms; permit health care practitioners to prescribe and dispense undesignated glucagon in the name of a school or to a trained individual; permit trained individuals to receive, possess, and administer undesignated glucagon during diabetic medical emergencies; permit schools to stock undesignated glucagon; provide for immunity from civil liability for any personal injury resulting from good faith actions to use undesignated glucagon to treat diabetic medical emergencies.
2/4/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Health Services (H)
HB 84: Kentucky and the World Health Organization: , which would bar the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services from promoting regulations or enforcing directives from the World Health Organization, with felony charges awaiting anyone who violates that law. What is states is: ” Create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to provide that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall not promulgate any administrative regulation that implements or enforces any directives from the World Health Organization; amend KRS 211.990 to establish that any violation shall be a Class D felony.”
02/04/25: to Judiciary (H)
HB 90 Freestanding Birthing Centers: Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define “freestanding birthing center”; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to establish licensure standards for freestanding birthing centers; establish criteria for a medical director; establish requirements for obtaining written informed consent; require a written patient transfer agreement with a hospital that provides obstetric services; require a written patient transfer agreement with an emergency medical transportation service; exempt a center with no more than four beds from certificate-of-need requirements for establishing and licensing a freestanding birthing center; state intent not to limit or expand liability of a center or health care provider or facility; require medical malpractice insurance for freestanding birthing centers; prohibit abortions in freestanding birthing centers; amend KRS 216B.015 to include freestanding birthing centers in the definition of “health facility”; amend KRS 216B.020, 196.173, 211.122, 211.647, 211.660, 213.046, 214.155, 214.565, 214.567, 214.569, 216.2920, 216.2921, 216.2923, 216.2925, 216.2927, and 216.2970 to conform; require the cabinet to promulgate updated administrative regulations by December 1, 2025; provide that the Act may be cited as the Mary Carol Akers Birth Centers Act.
| 02/28/25 | taken from Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H) 1st reading returned to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H) |
HB 92 Matter portraying sexual performance by a minor: Amend KRS 531.335, relating to possession or viewing of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor, to provide that the sexual performance may be by a computer-generated image of a minor; provide that any person convicted of possession or viewing of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor shall not be released on probation or parole without serving 85 percent of the sentence imposed.
2/4/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
HB 93 Target Shooting: Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to define terms; provide that a person shall not target shoot carelessly, recklessly, or without regard for the safety of any person, or in a manner that endangers or is likely to endanger any person, pet, livestock, wildlife, or property; provide exceptions for target shooting at a recreation facility or in an area with an earthen backstop; establish a violation as a Class A misdemeanor.
2/4/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
HB 96 Coercive Control: To expand who you can get a protective order over. Amend KRS 403.720, relating to orders of protection, to define “coercive control” and “stalking”; amend the definition of “domestic violence and abuse” to include coercive control of a family member or member of an unmarried couple; amend KRS 456.010 to define “coercive control”; amend the definition of “dating violence and abuse” to include coercive control of a person with whom the perpetrator is or has been in a dating relationship; amend KRS 209A.122 to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to provide information on petitions for orders of protection where the basis of the petition is coercive control and whether parties to a petition for an order of protection were represented by a legal representative.
| 02/26/25 | reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) |
| 02/27/25 | 2nd reading, to Rules |
HB 97: People coming into Kentucky to commit a sexual offense: Create a new section of KRS Chapter 510 to establish the offense of traveling into the Commonwealth to commit a sexual offense; provide that no person shall be convicted of this offense and any offense specified in KRS 506.010, 506.030, 506.040, or 506.080 for a single course of conduct; provide that this section is intended to be a separate offense and shall be punished in addition to violations of sex crimes; provide that traveling into the Commonwealth to commit a sexual offense shall be punished at the same felony classification level as the underlying offense.
2/4/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
HB 98 To include kidnapping in the definition of a “violent offender”.
2/4/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
HB 99 Sex crimes to prohibit sexual intercourse with anyone in custody, anyone prosecuting those individuals and attorney who represent these with pending criminal charges (other than if they were already in that type of relationship. Amend KRS 510.060, relating to rape in the third degree, to prohibit a person from engaging in sexual intercourse with another person who is incarcerated by the Department of Corrections, Department of Juvenile Justice, or a detention facility; to prohibit a Commonwealth’s attorney, assistant Commonwealth’s attorney, county attorney, or assistant county attorney from engaging in sexual intercourse with another person who the attorney is prosecuting unless a prior sexual relationship exists; to prohibit an attorney for a criminal defendant from engaging in sexual intercourse with the criminal defendant unless a prior sexual relationship exists; amend KRS 510.090, relating to sodomy in the third degree, to prohibit a person from engaging in deviate sexual intercourse with another person who is incarcerated by the Department of Corrections, Department of Juvenile Justice, or a detention facility; to prohibit a Commonwealth’s attorney, assistant Commonwealth’s attorney, county attorney, or assistant county attorney from engaging in deviate sexual intercourse with another person who the attorney is prosecuting unless a prior sexual relationship exists; to prohibit an attorney for a criminal defendant from engaging in deviate sexual intercourse with the criminal defendant unless a prior sexual relationship exists; amend KRS 510.120, relating to sexual abuse in the second degree, to prohibit a person from subjecting another person who is incarcerated by the Department of Corrections, Department of Juvenile Justice, or a detention facility to sexual contact; to prohibit a Commonwealth’s attorney, assistant Commonwealth’s attorney, county attorney, or assistant county attorney from subjecting another person who the attorney is prosecuting to sexual contact, unless a prior sexual relationship exists; to prohibit an attorney for a criminal defendant from subjecting the criminal defendant to sexual contact, unless a prior sexual relationship exists.
2/4/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
HB 101 Assault on a peace officer: Amend KRS 508.025, relating to assault in the third degree, to enhance the punishment to a Class D felony if a person intentionally causes a peace officer to come into contact with bodily fluids; enhance assault in the third degree to a Class C felony if the person who causes a peace officer to come into contact with bodily fluids has a serious communicable disease and the contact is likely to cause transmission of the disease; enhance assault in the third degree to a Class C felony for a second or subsequent offense.
2/4/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
HB 102 “forever substances” : Create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to establish a PFAS Working Group, create new sections of Subchapter 10 of KRS Chapter 224 to define terms; establish a reporting requirement for manufacturers that intentionally include PFAS in products manufactured for sale or distribution in the Commonwealth; establish a reporting requirement for PFAS release in the Commonwealth by manufacturers that intentionally include PFAS in manufactured products; amend KRS 224.99-030 to establish penalty for noncompliance with reporting requirements.
2/4/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Natural Resources & Energy (H)
HB 104 Pretrial release: Amend KRS 431.066 to limit the use of money bail to certain high-risk defendants and create a preventive detention process for defendants of select risk levels and charge types; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to establish a preventive detention hearing process and define the limited circumstances in which money bail can be imposed; amend various statutes to conform; repeal KRS 431.021, relating to guaranteed arrest bond certificates.
2/4/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
HB 106 Cannabis: Create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to make possession of a personal use quantity of cannabis exempt from civil or criminal penalty; amend KRS 218A.010 to define “cannabis,” “personal use quantity of cannabis,” and “cannabis accessory”; amend KRS 218A.1422, regarding cannabis possession, to conform; amend KRS 218A.1423, regarding cannabis cultivation, to conform; amend KRS 218A.500, regarding drug paraphernalia, to exempt personal use cannabis accessories; amend KRS 218A.1421, regarding cannabis trafficking, to exempt personal use quantities; amend KRS 138.872 to exclude personal use quantities from the cannabis stamp tax; amend KRS 218A.410 and 533.030 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to allow expungement of certain convictions relating to cannabis and to apply expungement retroactively; RETROACTIVE, in part.
2/4/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
HB 107 Unemployment Insurance employees: 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 the Education and Labor Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; amend KRS 341.125 to require the secretary to provide training to personnel who process claims related to domestic or dating violence and abuse, sexual assault, or stalking and to report to the Legislative Research Commission annually the number of claims paid involving domestic or dating violence and abuse, sexual assault, or stalking; amend KRS 341.360 to conform; amend KRS 341.530 to charge benefits to pooled account for workers displaced from employment through domestic or dating violence and abuse, sexual assault, or stalking; amend KRS 341.550 to prevent benefit payments from pooled account from impacting an employer’s experience rating.
2/4/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
HB 110 Peace officers would be required to stop other officers from using too much force: Create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to define terms; impose a duty on peace officers to intervene to prevent or stop another officer from using physical force that will cause unlawful serious physical injury, death, or deprivation of civil rights; impose a duty to provide or obtain emergency medical assistance; require reporting of intervention; provide administrative and legal protections; amend KRS 15.330 to require the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council to prescribe minimum standards for use of force by officer, an officer’s duty to intervene, and reporting of police officer misconduct; amend KRS 413.115 to require that an action for retaliatory personnel actions to be commenced within three years.
2/4/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (H)
HB 120 Gun safety for children: Amend KRS 527.010 to define “securely locked container” and make technical corrections; create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to prohibit unlawful storage of a firearm; establish elements of the crime as recklessly allowing access to an unsecured firearm by a minor; establish the crime as a Class B misdemeanor unless a physical injury or death results, in which case it is a Class A misdemeanor; provide that an affirmative defense exists if a minor obtained the firearm through the minor’s unlawful entry; provide that the Act may be cited as the Baby Dre Gun Safety Act.
2/4/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
HB 124 Firearm regulations: 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 ammunition thefts and losses; require the safe storage of firearms; require the Department of Kentucky State Police to promulgate administrative regulations relating to the licensing of persons to possess handguns and assault weapons, the registration of handguns and assault weapons, and the logging of firearms and ammunition sales effective January 1, 2026; amend KRS 237.990 to establish penalties; create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to create the offense of criminal purchase or disposal of a weapon; amend KRS 395.250 to require an estate’s inventory to list each firearm; amend KRS 403.735 to require judges, when issuing an order of protection, to consider whether a person against whom the order is entered should be prohibited from possessing an firearm; amend KRS 504.030 to require judges in criminal cases where a person is found not guilty by reason of insanity to demand the surrender of the defendant’s firearms; amend KRS 506.080 to add that the offense of facilitation includes assistance in providing firearms; amend KRS 508.020 to include physical injury to a minor by virtue of the intentional discharge of a firearm within the offense of assault in the second degree; amend KRS 527.040 to require that the sentence for a felon in possession of a firearm be served consecutively to any other felony sentence; amend KRS 527.070 to include postsecondary education facilities within the existing ban on firearms in schools; amend KRS 532.030 to require the judge pronouncing a defendant guilty but mentally ill to demand the surrender of the person’s firearms; amend KRS 65.1591, 237.104, 237.115, and 532.025 to conform; repeal KRS 65.870, relating to the prohibition of local firearm control ordinances; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2026; EMERGENCY.
2/4/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
HB 125 “CROWN Act” : Amend KRS 344.010 to provide definitions of “protective hairstyle” and “race” that include traits historically associated with race; amend KRS 158.148 to provide that school disciplinary codes shall prohibit discrimination on the basis of race; provide that the Act may be cited as the C.R.O.W.N. Act.
2/4/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
HB 128 “Ban the Box” : Create a new section of KRS Chapter 344 to prohibit employers from considering or requiring disclosure of prior criminal history as part of the initial job application; provide that the Act may be cited as the Ban the Box – The Criminal Record Employment Discrimination Act.
2/4/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
HB 135 Workplace Violence Against Drivers: Amend KRS 508.025 to expand assault in the third degree to include causing or attempting to cause physical injury to a driver of any form of public transportation acting in the course and scope of the driver’s employment.
2/4/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
HB 142 Real property rights and “squatters”: Amend KRS 511.010 and 512.010 to define “squatter”; amend KRS 511.090 to allow a property owner or his or her authorized agent to request a peace officer to immediately remove any squatter occupying a dwelling or commercial building under certain circumstances; provide criminal and civil immunity to peace officers acting in good faith; amend KRS 512.020 and 512.030 to specifically include damage to residential or commercial property caused by squatters in the offense of criminal mischief; create a new section of KRS Chapter 514 to establish the offense of fraudulent sale or lease of real property.
2/4/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
HB 154 anti trans health care . What is does it mean that insurance will not be allowed to cover any gender related services. Including mental health care and medications
02/04/25: to Health Services (H)
HB 163 “bathroom policy” Create a new section of KRS Chapter 162 to define terms; require at least 95% of restroom facilities in a specified school building be designated for a specific biological sex; amend KRS 156.160 to conform.
02/04/25: to Primary and Secondary Education (H)
HB 173 Lead testing in rental properties: To get rid of lead testing requirements by governments over landlords
02/04/25: to Local Government (H)
HB 177 Anti Fairness Bill.
02/04/25: to Judiciary (H)
HB 199 SEXUAL OFFENSES AGAINST CHILDREN. Amend KRS 510.040, 510.070, and 510.110 to provide that rape in the first degree, sodomy in the first degree, and sexual abuse in the first degree shall be capital offenses when the victim is under 12 years old; amend KRS 532.025 to conform.
2/4/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
HB 201 THEFT BY FAILURE TO MAKE REQUIRED DISPOSITION OF PROPERTY. Amend KRS 514.060, relating to theft of services, to include the conduct of a person holding the property of another under a rental agreement longer than the period agreed upon and depriving the owner of its use for future rentals. HCS (1) Delete original provisions; amend KRS 514.070, relating to theft by failure to make required disposition of property, to include the conduct of a person holding the property of another under a rental agreement longer than the period agreed upon and depriving the owner of its use for future rentals.
| 02/25/25 | received in Senate to Committee on Committees (S) |
| 02/27/25 | to Judiciary (S) |
HB 206 WRONGFUL CONVICTION COMPENSATION. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a cause of action for a person who was wrongfully convicted of a felony in the Commonwealth; specify amounts of damages that may be awarded to claimants; establish the wrongful conviction compensation fund.
2/13/2025 – floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute
2/13/2025 – (H) SECOND READING, to Rules
2/12/2025 – (H) FIRST READING
HB 209 ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY. 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 the death penalty; amend KRS 533.010, relating to probation, to prohibit probation for a person sentenced to life without parole or life without parole for 25 years; amend KRS 640.010 to define terms; amend KRS 640.040, relating to penalties for juveniles convicted of felony offenses, to prohibit life imprisonment without benefit of parole for a capital offense; amend KRS 422.285, 532.050, and 532.100 to conform; repeal KRS 431.213, 431.2135, 431.218, 431.220, 431.223, 431.224, 431.240, 431.250, 431.260, 431.270, 507A.060, 532.025, 532.075, 532.130, 532.135, 532.140, 532.300, 532.305, and 532.309.
2/4/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
HB 213 Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to define terms; prohibit local governments and local government personnel from enacting, adopting, or otherwise enforcing any sanctuary policy; allow civil actions against local governments or local law enforcement agencies for damages, costs, and attorney’s fees if a person subject to a detainer is released from custody as a result of a sanctuary policy of the local government or local law enforcement agency and commits a violent crime; withdraw immunities afforded local governments and local law enforcement agencies.
| 02/04/25 | to Local Government (H) |
HB 220 DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE. Amend KRS 189A.010, relating to driving under the influence, to provide that a third or subsequent offense of driving under the influence within a 10-year period is a Class D felony; provide that if a person is convicted of a third or subsequent offense of driving under the influence the minimum term of imprisonment shall be 120 days; amend KRS 189A.040, 189A.200, 189A.240, and 281A.2102 to conform.
| 02/27/25 | received in Senate to Committee on Committees (S) |
HB 227 Sodomy. Amend KRS 413.249 to remove the statute of limitations for civil actions arising from childhood sexual assault or abuse.
2/7/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
HB 235 Civil Rights, Fairness Bill .
2/7/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
HB 252 AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES. Amend KRS 186.763 to prohibit school districts from operating fully autonomous vehicles for transporting students; prohibit the operation of fully autonomous vehicles if that vehicle requires an operator with a commercial driver’s license; amend KRS 281.764 to conform.
2/7/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Primary and Secondary Education (H)
HB 257 Expungement. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to create an automatic felony expungement process for eligible convictions.
2/7/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
HB 258 Camera at School Bus Stops. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to define “bus stop camera system,” “school bus stop,” and “qualifying school district”; require the installation of video cameras at each school bus stop in a qualifying school district; require the unit of government responsible for maintaining the road where the bus stop is located to install the cameras and retain the video images; specify the allowable uses of the video images and provide for retention timeframes; require school districts to notify the Transpiration Cabinet and all local governments that maintain roads in the district of the location of school bus stops.
2/7/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Transportation (H)
HB 270 Bill to have gender neutral bathrooms in Kentucky Schools.
02/07/25: to Primary and Secondary Education (H)
HB 287 Leave from work, due to Court attendance. Amend KRS 337.415, relating to court-ordered appearances by employees, to define terms; prohibit employers from discharging or retaliating against an employee who is a crime victim when the employee takes leave to attend proceedings associated with a crime; require an employee to give an employer reasonable notice to take leave when practicable; provide guidelines for use of paid leave; require the employer to maintain confidentiality of records and communication with employee crime victim; create a private right of action for improper discharge, discrimination, retaliation, and failing to maintain confidentiality; amend KRS 337.990 to establish penalties for employer violations.
2/7/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
HB 289 WAGES FOR EMPLOYMENT. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to make it a discriminatory employment action if an employer asks questions about previous salary or wages, relies on previous salary when setting a new salary, or refuses to hire if an applicant does not provide previous salary, except to allow a request for information voluntarily provided in response to an offer of employment; allow previous salary to be considered when required by law, for internal transfers, and for public employee positions; require notice to be posted for employees; amend KRS 337.990 to assess a civil penalty for a violation.
2/7/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
HB 291 CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS . Create new sections of KRS Chapter 533 to define terms; require the court, upon conviction of the defendant, to consider the defendant’s status as a primary caretaker of a dependent child unless the defendant is a violent offender, the victim is a child, or a statute prohibits an alternative sentence; require the court, upon a finding that the defendant is a primary caretaker of a dependent child, to consider an alternative sentence; provide that the defendant shall have the right to present an alternative sentencing plan and a family impact statement to the court; provide that in issuing an alternative sentence, the court may require the defendant to participate in programs and services that support the parent-child relationship; provide that the court may modify or revoke the alternative sentence and commit the defendant to an institution if the defendant fails to adhere to or complete the conditions of an alternative sentence; require the Administrative Office of the Court to report annually, beginning in 2026, to the Kentucky State Corrections Commission and to the Legislative Research Commission on the number, percentage, and demographics of parents and children impacted under this Act; provide that the Act may be cited as the Primary Caretaker Consideration Act.
| 02/27/25 | received in Senate to Committee on Committees (S) |
HB 307 PATERNITY IN DOMESTIC VIOLENCE ACTION. Amend KRS 403.725 to grant a court authority to make a determination of paternity when issuing orders of protection in domestic violence cases; amend KRS 403.740 to grant a court authority to include a determination of paternity when issuing domestic violence orders.
2/7/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
HB 316 Crime to give someone Plan B or something similar. Amend KRS 311.772, relating to the intentional termination of life of an unborn human being, to define terms; establish criminal penalties and fines for a foreign sender who provides an abortifacient or abortion-inducing drug; establish a civil cause of action that is available to a woman who receives an abortifacient; establish available relief; amend KRS 218A.100 to include abortifacients and abortion-inducing drugs as Schedule IV controlled substance.
2/7/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
HB 330 FIREARM POSSESSION BY DOMESTIC ABUSERS. 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 a firearm by the subject of a domestic violence protective order; require the surrender of firearm by individuals subject to protective orders or convicted of specified crimes; amend KRS 403.740 and 456.060 to require courts to inform the subject of a domestic violence order or an interpersonal protective order of the firearm possession prohibition.
2/7/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
HB 349 Hate Crimes. Repeal and reenact KRS 532.031 to define “gender identity or expression”; list the actions that qualify as hate crimes; list the actual or perceived characteristics a person must have in order to qualify as a victim of a hate crime; outline penalties for a person guilty of a hate crime; set forth criteria for seeking an enhanced sentence; amend KRS 15.334 to add characteristics of a victim to be considered when determining the cause of a crime; add requirement that officers receive training on hate crimes; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to permit a civil action where the victim of a hate crime suffers damages regardless of the outcome of any criminal proceeding; establish recovery for the victim; amend KRS 17.1523 to add characteristics of a victim to be considered when determining the cause of a crime; amend KRS 15.440 to require that a unit of government shall possess a written policy and procedures manual related to hate crimes in order to receive funds from the Law Enforcement Foundation Program fund; repeal KRS 49.320, relating to victim of hate crime deemed victim of criminally injurious conduct.
2/7/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
HB 351 SMASH AND GRAB BURGLARY. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 511 to create the offense of smash and grab burglary.
2/7/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
HB 352 Bill to state that “no alien illegally present in the United States shall be classified as having Kentucky residency for the purpose of public postsecondary education institution tuition.” The Bill also requires that colleges have to report to ICE/INS of the students immigration status.
2/7/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Postsecondary Education (H)
HB 366 ORDERS OF PROTECTION. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to define specified felony offenses that are a “qualifying offense”; allow lifetime orders of protection for victims of qualifying offenses; allow a court to vacate a lifetime order of protection if the conviction for the qualifying offense is expunged.
2/7/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
HB 395 Birth Certificates . Amend KRS 199.570 to allow the names of adopted parents and deceased biological parents to appear on a new birth certificate issued upon adoption if it is requested by the court, adopted parents, or adopted child; direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to create a birth certificate form that complies with this section through the promulgation of administrative regulations.
2/12/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Families & Children (H)
HB 396 Name Changes After Death. 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 wantonly, which resulted in the death of the deceased; provide that the order of priority of family members is the same as in KRS 367.93117.
2/12/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
HB 399 INTERFERENCE WITH A LEGISLATIVE PROCEEDING, Really an anti-protesting law. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 519 to define terms; create the crime of interference with a legislative proceeding in the first degree; create the crime of interference with a legislative proceeding in the second degree; amend KRS 431.015 to require a peace officer to make an arrest for a violation of interference with a legislative proceeding in the first or second degree.
| 02/27/25 | 2nd reading, to Rules floor amendments (2) and (3) filed to Committee Substitute posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 28, 2025 |
HB 420 WORKERS’ COMPENSATION FOR FIRST RESPONDERS. Amend KRS 342.0011, relating to workers’ compensation, to expand the definition of “injury” to include psychological injuries for police officers, firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, front-line staff members, or members of the National Guard; create a new section of KRS Chapter 342 to establish when psychological injuries are valid workers’ compensation claims when not a direct result of a physical injury.
2/14/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
HB 426 Bill to Ban Conversion Therapy. EMERGENCY.
02/14/25: to Health Services (H)
HB 446 Assault on Judge or Justice. Amend KRS 508.025 to expand assault in the third degree to include causing or attempting to cause physical injury to a justice or judge of the Court of Justice.
| 02/27/25 | 2nd reading, to Rules posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 28, 2025 |
HB 456 DUI. Amend KRS 189A.010 to provide that operating a motor vehicle while the person’s operator’s license is suspended for a previous violation of driving under the influence or KRS 189A.090 is an aggravating circumstance; expand the list of controlled substances; amend KRS 189A.070 to extend the period of license suspension for a person who is issued an ignition interlock license for a first offense from four months to six months; require each person who is issued an ignition interlock license to comply with the consecutive day requirements in KRS 189A.340 within the last 90 or 120 days of the suspension period, and provide that if the person does not comply the period of suspension will continue until the consecutive day requirements are fulfilled; require that any period of license suspension be tolled during any sentence of imprisonment for a violation of KRS 189A.010; amend KRS 189A.340 to require a person whose license is suspended for a violation of KRS 189A.010(1)(a), (b), (e), or (f) to apply for an ignition interlock license; reduce the ignition interlock device installation fee to $100 and require installation to not exceed three hours.
| 02/26/25 | reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) |
| 02/27/25 | 2nd reading, to Rules posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 28, 2025 |
HB 465 Car Racing. Amend KRS 189.993 to establish enhanced penalties for a violation of KRS 189.505, including increased fines, vehicle impoudment for up to six months for the first offense, and vehicle forfeiture for the second or subsequent offense.
| 02/28/25 | floor amendments (1) and (2) filed to Committee Substitute |
HB 467 WORKERS’ COMPENSATION FOR EDUCATORS. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 342, relating to workers’ compensation, to define “educator;” set out when psychological injuries are valid workers’ compensation claims for educators when no physical injury exists; amend KRS 342.0011 to modify definition of “injury” to include certain psychological injuries experienced by educators.
2/14/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Economic Development & Workforce Investment (H)
HB 489 nondefense of employees of local government. 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 guilty to a crime arising from an action that led to the claim being filed; establish that a local government may file a claim against the employee to recover the amount paid by the local government, including costs and attorneys’ fees, under specified circumstances including lack of cooperation and entry of a guilty plea or conviction for an action that led to the claim against the employee; establish a statute of limitations for the initiation of a claim by the local government.
2/14/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
HB 495 Bill to permit conversion therapy. EMERGENCY.
02/28/25: posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 04, 2025
HB 496 Phone-Down Kentucky Act. Amend KRS 189.292 to define “operating a motor vehicle,” “stand-alone electronic device,” and “use”; prohibit the use of a personal communication device or stand-alone electronic device while operating a motor vehicle; exempt school bus operators who are instead subject to KRS 281A.205; set forth exceptions; amend KRS 189.294 to provide that persons under 18 years of age shall not use a personal communication device or stand-alone electronic device in any manner while driving; amend KRS 189.990 to set forth penalties; create a new section of KRS Chapter 281A to apply these provisions to commercial motor vehicle drivers; amend KRS 189.2327 to conform; provide that the Act may be cited as the Phone-Down Kentucky Act
2/21/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Transportation (H)
HB 523 This Bill would allow for a mother to be prosecuted (and others) if she charged with intentional homicide. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 507, relating to criminal homicide, to allow a prosecution where the victim is an unborn child; provide exceptions for spontaneous miscarriages and lawful medical procedures; amend KRS 507.010 to define terms; create new sections of KRS Chapter 508, relating to assault, to define terms; allow a prosecution where the victim is an unborn child; provide exceptions for spontaneous miscarriages and lawful medical procedures; amend KRS 501.090 to allow the defense of duress in a prosecution of intentional homicide where the victim is an unborn child and the defendant is the child’s mother; create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to give the Attorney General concurrent jurisdiction with Commonwealth’s and county attorneys; repeal KRS 507A.010, 507A.020, 507A.030, 507A.040, 507A.050, and 507A.060, relating to fetal homicide; amend KRS 311.732, 402.205, and 439.265 to conform; provide that the Act may be cited as the Prenatal Equal Protection Act.
2/21/2025 – (H) Referred to Committee House Judiciary (H)
HB 574 Baby Miya’s Law. Amend KRS 620.030 to require any person with reasonable knowledge of the matter to notify the local law enforcement agency or the Department of Kentucky State Police, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or its designated representative, the Commonwealth’s attorney, or the county attorney that a child has been born to a parent who has another child in the care, custody, or control of the cabinet or other person as a result of removal pursuant to KRS Chapter 620; amend KRS 620.040 to require the local law enforcement agency or the Department of Kentucky State Police, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or its designated representative, the Commonwealth’s attorney, or the county attorney to be notified a child has been born to a parent who has another child in the care, custody, or control of the cabinet or other person as a result of removal pursuant to KRS Chapter 620; establish a rebuttable presumption that a child born to a parent who has another child in the care, custody, or control of the cabinet or other person as a result of removal pursuant to this chapter is in immediate danger of dependency, neglect, or abuse; amend KRS 620.050 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to investigate when it receives notice that a child has been born to a parent who has another child in the care, custody, or control of the cabinet or other person as a result of removal pursuant to KRS Chapter 620; amend KRS 620.060 to establish that ex parte emergency custody order may be issued when a parent or other person exercising custodial control or supervision has another child in the care, custody, or control of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or other person as a result a removal pursuant to this chapter, creating a rebuttable presumption that the child is in immediate danger of dependency, neglect, or abuse; amend KRS 620.080 to establish a rebuttable presumption that the child would be dependent, neglected, or abused if returned to or left in the custody of his or her parent or other person exercising custodial control or supervision if the parent or other person exercising custodial control or supervision has another child in the care, custody, or control of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or other person as a result a removal pursuant to this chapter; provide that the Act may be cited as Baby Miya’s Law.
02/21/25: recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
HB 592 NAME CHANGE OF A MINOR. Amend KRS 401.020 to require the establishment of a legal relationship between a parent and child in proceedings involving a name change for the child. (Which one does before filing a name change for a minor currently.)
| 02/25/25 | to Families & Children (H) |
HB 646 “medical products”, but really just an anti vax or anti mask bill.
02/26/25: to Health Services (H)
HB 647 Anti Vax bills that will not allow schools to ask about or have any vaccine protocols.
02/26/25: to Health Services (H)
HB 652 Bill to not allow any convictions, pardons, etc., related to January 6, 2021 used for cases in Kentucky.
02/26/25: to Judiciary (H)
HB 720 Wills, Trusts, Property. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 394 to enact the Uniform Electronic Wills Act; define terms; establish the applicability of electronic wills; address the effect of a will electronically executed in another jurisdiction; establish requirements for executing and revoking an electronic will; address records that are not executed in compliance with the requirements for an electronic will; provide requirements for an electronic will to be self-proving; allow for certified paper copies of an electronic will; create new sections of KRS Chapter 394 to enact the Uniform Electronic Estate Planning Documents Act; define terms; establish that a non-testamentary estate planning document or a signature on a non-testamentary estate planning document may not be denied legal effect or enforceability solely because it is in electronic form; provide that an electronic record of a document satisfies a requirement for a non-testamentary estate planning document to be in writing; establish notarization, acknowledgment, and verification requirements; create new sections of KRS Chapter 386 to enact the Kentucky Qualified Dispositions in Trust Act; define terms; establish requirements for qualified affidavit; prohibit claims by creditors against property subject to a qualified disposition to a qualified trust except under limited circumstances; provide that limitations on actions by creditors do not apply to past due child support, past due maintenance to a spouse or former spouse, or a written agreement, judgment, or order of a court for division of marital property of a spouse or former spouse; limit powers and rights of transferor to those conferred by the qualified trust; establish rules for avoiding a qualified disposition to a qualified trust; address rights of trustee and beneficiary when a qualified disposition has been avoided; provide that a spendthrift provision acts as a restriction on the transferor’s beneficial interest in the trust under law other than bankruptcy law; enumerate persons who may not act as a qualified trustee; allow a transferor to appoint trust advisors; provide for the appointment of a successor trustee in certain circumstances; provide that the inclusion of certain provisions in the qualified trust instrument does not deem the trust to be revocable; application to trusts and dispositions of property on or after effective date of Act; establish a new subchapter of KRS Chapter 386B and create new sections to enact the Uniform Directed Trust Act; define terms; establish that Act does not apply to powers of appointment; subject trust directors to same rules, liabilities, and fiduciary duties as trustees; enumerate powers of trust director and responsibilities of trustee in a trust under direction; provide for liability of trust director for breach of trust; time limitation for breach of trust action; require communication of information between trustees and trust directors; establish a new subchapter of KRS Chapter 386B and create new sections to enact the Uniform Trust Decanting Act; define terms; applicability of provisions; require fiduciaries to act in accordance with fiduciary duties in exercising trust decanting power; specify notice requirements prior to exercise of the decanting power; address authority to represent and bind or another person under a first-trust instrument; allow court intervention in disputes regarding the exercise of the decanting power; require an exercise of the decanting power to be made in a record signed by an authorized fiduciary; allow an authorized fiduciary with expanded distributive discretion over the principal of a first trust to exercise decanting power over the principal of the first trust; specify trust provisions and actions permissible when property is decanted to a second trust by such a fiduciary; allow an authorized fiduciary with limited distributive discretion over the principal of a first trust to exercising decanting power over the principal of the first rust; specify trust provisions and actions permissible when property is decanted to a second trust by such a fiduciary; establish rules for decanting to a special needs trust; establish rules to protect charitable trust interests; provide for limitations on decanting power through restrictions in a first-trust instrument; prohibit decanting to a second trust to increase fiduciary compensation unless beneficiaries of the second trust agree to the increase or it is approved by a court; address fiduciary compensation and liability in a second-trust instrument; provide for limitations on authority of authorized fiduciary to exercise decanting power to modify provisions relating to removal or replacement of the fiduciary; set limitations for exercise of the decanting power with respect to transfers of property affecting tax liability; specify requirements for duration of a second trust; allow authorized fiduciary to exercise decanting power regardless of whether the fiduciary could have made or would have been compelled to make a discretionary distribution under discretionary distribution standard of the first trust; provide for circumstances where decanting power is effective even if second trust does not comply in part with the provisions of the Act; provide for decanting powers to an animal trust; provide that a settlor of a first trust is deemed to be settlor of first trust; establish rules for disposition of later-discovered property; provide that obligations enforceable against first trust are enforceable to same extent against second trust; require provisions to be applied and construed so as to promote uniformity among states; conform to federal requirements related to electronic signatures and records; amend and repeal various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to conform; establish short titles.
02/27/25: to Judiciary (H)
HB 734, Would limit sales of henp (non-alcoholic) products to liquor stores, instead of being able to buy hemp drinks at hemp stores.
02/28/25: returned to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H)
HB 753 CREATE A NEW SECTION OF CONSTITUTION OF KENTUCKY. Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to prohibit child pornography and any form of federally defined racketeering in this state and establish penalties for violations; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
02/27/25: to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
HB 754 “Funding Lawsuits”, Really just to keep the Governor from having a different legal stand than the Attorney General. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 48 to prohibit an executive branch official from expending any appropriations or funds, including the use of state time or resources to challenge any action of the federal government without the written consent of the Attorney General; require the Attorney General to represent the Commonwealth in all litigation pertaining to federal government actions; prohibit the Governor from taking a position on legal actions against the federal government without the written consent of the Attorney General; allow the Attorney General to bring a civil action to enjoin the Governor or an executive branch official alleged to have violated this Act; require the office of the Governor or an executive branch official reimburse the Attorney General for any costs involving the lawsuit if the Governor or an executive branch official is found to have violated this Act; allow for removal of an executive branch official found to have violated this Act; waive immunity under certain conditions.
02/27/25: to State Government (H)
HB 773 AMENDMENT TO SECTION 145 OF THE CONSTITUTION OF KENTUCKY and Voting Rights. Propose to amend Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky to automatically restore the voting rights of persons convicted of certain felonies upon completion of their imprisonment, probation, or parole and automatically restore their civil rights five years after completion of their imprisonment, probation, or parole; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
02/27/25: to Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (H)
SB 2 Anti trans bill related to inmates.
| 02/18/25 | posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 18, 2025 3rd reading, passed 31-6 floor amendment (1) filed |
| 02/19/25 | received in House to Committee on Committees (H) |
SB 7 PROPERTY RIGHTS TO THE USE OF AN INDIVDUAL’S IMAGE. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 365 to define terms; establish that every individual has property rights to images of his or her unclothed body; establish how those property rights may be transferred or terminated; provide for liability, enforcement, and damages resulting from a violation of those property rights.
02/27/25: posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 05, 2025
SB 17: Freestanding Birthing Centers: Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define “freestanding birthing center”; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to establish licensure standards for freestanding birthing centers; establish criteria for a medical director; establish requirements for obtaining written informed consent; require a written patient transfer agreement with a hospital that provides obstetric services; require a written patient transfer agreement with an emergency medical transportation service; exempt a center with no more than four beds from certificate-of-need requirements for establishing and licensing a freestanding birthing center; state intent not to limit or expand liability of a center or health care provider or facility; require medical malpractice insurance for freestanding birthing centers; prohibit abortions in freestanding birthing centers; amend KRS 216B.015 to include freestanding birthing centers in the definition of “health facility”; amend KRS 216B.020, 196.173, 211.122, 211.647, 211.660, 213.046, 214.155, 214.565, 214.567, 214.569, 216.2920, 216.2921, 216.2923, 216.2925, 216.2927, and 216.2970 to conform; require the cabinet to promulgate updated administrative regulations by December 1, 2025; provide that the Act may be cited as the Mary Carol Akers Birth Centers Act.
| 02/12/25 | received in House to Committee on Committees (H) |
| 02/28/25 | taken from Committee on Committees (H) 1st reading returned to Committee on Committees (H) |
SB 19: Moment of silence: bill that would require public schools in the state to hold a moment of silence or reflection to not exceed two minutes before classes begin each morning.
02/28/25: floor amendment (1) filed
SB 21 Traffic Control Signal Monitoring Systems and tickets: Create new sections of KRS Chapter 189 to define “agency,” “owner,” “recorded images,” and “traffic control signal monitoring system”; establish a civil penalty of $50 if a motor vehicle is recorded failing to obey the instructions of a traffic control device; set forth forms and procedures; outline defenses for citations for failing to obey a traffic control device; mandate that a person who refuses to pay the civil penalty and does not appear to contest the citation shall have the vehicle’s registration suspended; mandate that civil penalties shall not result in points against the violator’s driving record; amend KRS 189.231 and 189.990 to conform.
1/9/2025 – (S) Referred to Committee Senate Transportation (S)
SB 26 Parental Rights and Disability Amend KRS 199.011 to define “disability”; amend KRS 199.471 to establish that no petition for placement or adoption of children shall be denied on the sole basis of a disability of the adoptive applicant and enhance procedures for determination of placement or adoption; amend KRS 199.473 to require the secretary review any refusal of a placement of a child due to a disability; that targeted adaptive or support services be offered; and that the cabinet retain all documentation for two years; amend KRS 625.050 to establish that no petition for involuntary termination of parental rights shall be ordered on the sole basis of a disability of the parent; amend KRS 625.090 regarding procedures for an involuntary termination of parental rights involving a parent with a disability.
2/14/2025 – received in House
02/28/25: 2nd reading, to Rules
SB 27 Parkinson’s Disease Registry: Create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Parkinson’s Disease Research Registry within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; direct the secretary of the cabinet to establish the Kentucky Parkinson’s Disease Research Registry Advisory Committee and make appointments; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to designate Parkinson’s disease and the identified Parkinsonisms as diseases that are required to be reported to the cabinet, establish a system of collection and dissemination of information on the incidence and prevalence of Parkinson’s disease in Kentucky through the registry, identify data points to be collected, establish a coding system to safeguard patients’ privacy, and develop guidelines for sharing registry data for research purposes; require the cabinet to collect and receive data for the registry; authorize the cabinet to enter into data-sharing contracts; require all health facilities and licensed health care providers to submit Parkinson’s disease reports to the cabinet beginning on January 1, 2026; require facilities and providers to provide patients with notice of the submission of data to the registry and an opportunity to opt out of having their information shared; require the cabinet to make the registry data available to researchers in compliance with the Federal Policy for the Protection of Human Subjects and other federal and state privacy laws and regulations; authorize the sharing of data with other registries, agencies, and officers if confidentiality requirements are followed; provide that sharing of information in accordance with security and privacy requirements does not expose a person to liability; direct the cabinet to maintain an accurate record of all persons who have been granted access to registry data and make the record available to the public; state that nothing compels an individual to submit to any medical examination; prohibit researchers from contacting a patient or patient’s family unless the cabinet has first obtained the patient’s permission; require the cabinet to submit a yearly program summary update to the Interim Joint Committee on Health Services and establish a registry website where the public can access the report and other information on Parkinson’s disease.
02/28/25: 3rd reading, passed 34-0 with Committee Substitute (1)
SB 31 Bus Safety: Amend KRS 156.153 to define “danger zone”; direct the Department of Education to consider requiring the installation of school bus sensors and interior cameras on new school buses purchased on or after July 1, 2026; direct the department to promulgate administrative regulations; require the department to submit a report on the availability and effectiveness of school bus sensors to the Legislative Research Commission by June 30, 2026; amend KRS 156.990, 160.380, and 189.540 to conform; amend KRS 281.635 to encourage cities to install safety sensors in city buses; provide that part of the Act may be cited as Ally’s Law.
1/9/2025 – (S) Referred to Committee Senate Transportation (S)
SB 33 Expungement of some marijuana convictions: Amend KRS 218A.1421, 218A.1422, and 218A.1423 to remove penalties for possession, cultivation, or trafficking of up to eight ounces or five plants of marijuana; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to allow expungement of certain convictions relating to cannabis; amend KRS 218A.276 to conform, RETROACTIVE, in part.
1/9/2025 – (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary (S)
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SB 35: Abortion exceptions: allow abortions in cases of rape or incest as well as “when there is a lethal fetal anomaly or the fetus is incompatible with sustained life outside the womb.” Amend KRS 311.720, 311.7701, 311.781, and 311.787 to define terms; amend KRS 311.723, 311.727, 311.732, 311.735, 311.7706, and 311.782 to allow an abortion when there is a lethal fetal anomaly or the fetus is incompatible with sustained life outside the womb, or when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest and the fetus has not reached viability as determined in the good-faith medical judgment of the physician; amend KRS 311.782 to establish a rebuttable presumption that the physician complied with the requirements of the section; amend KRS 311.7735 to provide an exception to the time requirement for consent when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest; amend KRS 216B.400 to provide an exception for abortion counseling when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest; amend KRS 311.715 to authorize the use of public funds for abortion when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest; amend KRS 213.101, 311.725, 311.760, 311.7706, 311.772, 311.7735, 311.780, 311.783, 311.787, and 311.800 to conform; make technical corrections; provide that the Act may be cited as Hadley’s Law.
01/07/25: to Committee on Committees (S)
SB 38 School Bus Safety: Create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; allow the use of camera monitoring systems on school buses operated by a school district, and allow the enforcement of a civil penalty for stop arm camera violations recorded by a camera monitoring system; set the amount of the civil penalty; provide that the revenue generated from a civil penalty shall be retained by the school district; allow a law enforcement agency to charge a fee of $25 from every civil penalty enforced by the law enforcement agency; require specific notice for a stop arm camera violation; establish defenses to a violation; establish procedures for a contest to a violation; allow for suspension of motor vehicle registration for failure to timely pay a penalty; require a school district or law enforcement agency to notify the Transportation Cabinet of the need to release a motor vehicle registration suspension within one business day of payment; amend KRS 189.990 to increase the maximum fines for failing to stop for a school or church bus that is receiving or discharging passengers; amend KRS 189.370 to require traffic in the opposite direction of a school or church bus to stop for the bus on a highway that is not divided by an elevated barrier or unpaved median.
02/28/25: posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 05, 2025
SB 43 Driver’s license and disability: Amend KRS 186.444 to create a medical review board for the purpose of considering a person’s ability to drive due to a physical or mental disability; establish the number and qualifications of members; require the Transportation Cabinet consult with a medical professional licensed in the area relevant to the case; require the medical review board to accept the statement of a person’s medical professional that the person does not have a condition that impairs his or her ability to operate a motor vehicle; amend KRS 186.570 to conform; amend KRS 131.1817 to remove the possible suspension of an operator’s license for a person found to be a delinquent taxpayer.
| 02/12/25 | received in House to Committee on Committees (H) |
| 02/26/25 | to Transportation (H) |
SB 46 Protective Orders: Amend KRS 403.730, relating to petitions for orders of protection, to allow for service in accordance with Rule 4.05 of the Kentucky Rules of Civil Procedure in addition to personal service; amend KRS 403.745, relating to the effective date of protective orders, to allow for service in accordance with Rule 4.05 of the Kentucky Rules of Civil Procedure in addition to personal service; amend KRS 453.060 to direct that attorney’s fees for a warning order attorney shall be paid by the Finance and Administration Cabinet; amend KRS 456.040, relating to petitions for interpersonal protective orders, to allow for service in accordance with Rule 4.05 of the Kentucky Rules of Civil Procedure in addition to personal service; amend KRS 456.070, relating to the effective date of interpersonal protective orders, to allow for service in accordance with Rule 4.05 of the Kentucky Rules of Civil Procedure in addition to personal service.
1/9/2025 – (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary (S)
SB 51 Workplace Harassment: Create a new section of KRS Chapter 338 to define “political matters” and “religious matters”; require an employer to post notice of employees’ rights; provide an employer shall not subject or threaten to subject any employee to discipline or discharge for refusal to attend employer-sponsored meetings to communicate employer’s opinion concerning religious or political matters or listen to speech or view communications of which the primary purpose of which is to communicate the employer’s religious or political matters; permit an employee to bring a civil action to enforce the provisions of this Act.
1/9/2025 – (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary (S)
SB 53 Court fees for Indigent persons: Amend KRS 453.060 to require the court to order the Finance and Administration Cabinet to pay guardian ad litem and warning order attorney fees on behalf of an indigent person; amend KRS 23A.200 and 24A.170 to require the court to order the Finance and Administration Cabinet to pay domestic relations commissioner fees on behalf of an indigent person.
1/9/2025 – (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations & Revenue (S)
SB 54 Act related to end of expiration of protective orders: Amend KRS 209A.122, relating to data tracking and dissemination, to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to provide the Criminal Justice Statistical Analysis Center the number of protective orders rescinded under KRS 403.735 and 456.050; amend KRS 403.735 and 456.050, relating to the continuance of protective orders, to extend the time period for expiration from 6 months to 12 months.
1/9/2025 – (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary (S)
SB 57 Funding Health Care services from fees from “super speeders”: Amend KRS 189.010 to define “super speeder”; create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to assess a fee of $200 to any person convicted as a super speeder; assess a fee of $50 and require the suspension of driving privileges for not making a timely payment of fee imposed; require that money from fees be deposited into the Kentucky trauma care system fund, the emergency medical services education grant fund, the school AED fund, and the Bentley rural hospital preservation fund; require the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations relating to the fees; create a new section of KRS Chapter 311A to establish an emergency medical services education grant fund and program; allow the Kentucky Board of Emergency Medical Services to promulgate administrative regulations relating to the grant fund; amend KRS 211.496 to set forth how money from the trauma care system fund is to be used; amend KRS 154.20-190 to rename the rural hospital operations and facilities revolving loan fund the Bentley rural hospital preservation fund and require priority be given to providing loans to hospitals in counties that lack a rural hospital; amend KRS 158.1622 to provide that the school AED fund receives money from super speeder fees; amend KRS 186.440 and 189.394 to conform.
| 02/27/25 | received in House to Committee on Committees (H) |
SB 60 Anti-Fairness Law.
| 02/21/25 | 2nd reading, to Rules floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 25, 2025 |
| 02/25/25 | passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day |
| 02/26/25 | 3rd reading floor amendment defeated Floor Amendment (1) passed 29-7 with Committee Substitute (1) |
SB 73 Sexual Extortion: Create a new section of KRS Chapter 531 to establish the crime of sexual extortion as a felony; provide for enhancements to penalties; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a civil cause of action for sexual extortion; amend KRS 17.500 to include sexual extortion in the definition of “sex crime”; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require superintendents of local school districts to notify students in grades four and above and parents and guardians of all students of the crime of sexual extortion; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require local school boards to display posters in schools with the definition of sexual extortion and contact information for entities offering assistance to victims; amend KRS 164.2518 to require postsecondary institutions to display posters with the definition of sexual extortion and contact information for entities offering assistance to victims in residential facilities and buildings containing instructional spaces, student services, or academic support services.
| 02/13/25 | received in House to Committee on Committees (H) |
| 02/28/25 | to Judiciary (H) |
SB 79 AN ACT relating to state personnel., with an amendment to not let any State employee work from home.
| 02/20/25 | 3rd reading, passed 25-10 with Floor Amendment (1) |
| 02/21/25 | received in House to Committee on Committees (H) |
| 02/25/25 | floor amendment (1) filed |
SB 94 Bill to Ban Conversion Therapy
02/06/25: to Health Services (S)
SB 98 ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PEANLTY. 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 imprisonment without benefit of parole for a juvenile offender convicted of a capital offense; amend KRS 640.010 to define “serious intellectual disability” and “significant subaverage general intellectual functioning”; amend KRS 422.285, 532.050, 532.100, and 533.010 to conform; repeal KRS 431.213, 431.2135, 431.218, 431.220, 431.223, 431.224, 431.240, 431.250, 431.260, 431.270, 507A.060, 532.025, 532.075, 532.130, 532.135, 532.140, 532.300, 532.305, and 532.309.
2/6/2025 – (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary (S)
SB 99 Cell phone will driving, minors. Amend KRS 189.292 to define “operating a motor vehicle” and “use” or “uses”; prohibit the use of a personal communication device while operating a motor vehicle; establish exceptions; amend KRS 189.294 to prohibit persons under 18 years of age from using a personal communication device while operating a motor vehicle; amend KRS 189.990 to establish penalties for violation of KRS 189.292 and 189.294; amend KRS 186.560 to set forth a 90-day revocation period for a violation of KRS 189.294; amend KRS 189.2327 to conform.
2/13/2025 – (S) SECOND READING, to Rules\
| 02/21/25 | floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute |
| 02/26/25 | floor amendment (2) filed to Committee Substitute |
SB 101 ABOLITION OF THE DEALTH PEANALTY. 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 imprisonment without benefit of parole for a juvenile offender convicted of a capital offense; amend KRS 640.010 to define “serious intellectual disability” and “significant subaverage general intellectual functioning”; amend KRS 422.285, 532.050, 532.100, and 533.010 to conform; repeal KRS 431.213, 431.2135, 431.218, 431.220, 431.223, 431.224, 43
2/6/2025 – (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary (S)
SB 102 Fairness Bill. Amend KRS 344.010 to define terms; amend KRS 344.020, relating to the purpose of the Kentucky’s civil rights chapter, to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.025, 344.040, 344.050, 344.060, 344.070, and 344.080, relating to prohibited discrimination in various labor and employment practices, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.100 and 344.110 to conform; amend KRS 344.120 and 344.140, relating to prohibited discrimination in places of public accommodation, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.170, 344.180, 344.190, 344.300, and 344.310, relating to the state and local human rights commissions, to include prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in the scope of their powers and duties; amend KRS 344.360, 344.370, 344.380, and 344.680, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain housing, real estate, and other financial transactions, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.367, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain insurance sales, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.400, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain credit transactions, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; make various technical amendments; amend KRS 18A.095 to conform.
2/6/2025 – (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary (S)
SB 106 a civil cause to allow a women to sue the person who sends her abortion medication and for that person who sent them to criminal liable for sending them.
2/5/2025 – Introduced
SB 116 Anti Trans bill. AN ACT relating to sex-based classifications. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 61 to define “boy,” “equal,” “female,” “girl,” “male,” “man,” “sex,” and “woman”; prohibit any state or local law, regulation, ordinance, or policy from treating males or females unfairly from similiarly situated members of the opposite sex, but permit separation of the sexes if in the interest of maintaining safety, privacy, and fairness; provide a non-exhaustive list of examples of areas in which public entities may distinguish between the sexes; require any public school, public school district, state agency, department, local government, special district or any political subdivision of those entities that collects vital statistics to identify each person as either male or female; provide that the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Women’s Bill of Rights.
02/11/25: to Education (S)
SB 126 Ability of the Governor to grant pardons and commute services:
Propose to amend Section 77 of the Constitution of Kentucky to prohibit the Governor’s ability to grant pardons or commute sentences beginning 30 days prior to a gubernatorial election and ending at that gubernatorial inauguration; amend Section 240 of the Constitution of Kentucky to conform; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
2/12/2025 – received in House
SB 129 seeks to address the housing shortage in Jefferson County by allowing local governments to hold blighted, tax-delinquent properties for up to five years before offering them for sale. This program is designed to encourage responsible redevelopment and revitalize struggling neighborhoods
| 02/26/25 | received in House to Committee on Committees (H) |
SB 132 Bill to allow healthcare providers to not treated patients due to their personal beliefs. EMERGENCY.
02/13/25: to Health Services (S)
SB 164 anti DEI Bill in hiring of Government employees. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 61 to prohibit a state or local government or public agency from providing preferential treatment to individuals or entities on the basis of religion, race, sex, color, or national origin when they contract or seek employment with the state or local government; define terms; prohibit a state or local government from requiring or incentivizing a person to attend a diversity, equity, and inclusion training or provide any differential treatment or benefits to an individual based on the individual’s participation in diversity, equity, and inclusion training; prohibit a public agency from providing resources or funds to establish or maintain diversity, equity, and inclusion offices, trainings, or related initiatives; allow an exemption to provide preferential consideration for businesses owned by individuals who are residents of Kentucky or the United States; allow the Attorney General to bring civil action to enforce provisions of this Act; allow a qualified individual to bring a civil action for injunctive relief and to recover attorney’s fees and litigation costs if a state or local government or public agency is found to have violated this Act; waive immunity under certain conditions; prevent an employee or agent of a public agency or a state or local government from using their authority to influence, discourage, interfere, or retaliate against a person who in good faith participates in a civil action in accordance with this Act; amend KRS 12.020 to rename the “Office of Diversity, Equality, and Training” to “Office of Employee Training”; amend KRS 18A.025 to deline the responsibilities of the Office of Employee Training; EMERGENCY.
2/18/2025 – (S) Referred to Committee Senate State & Local Government (S)
SB 165 Anti Bill in education. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; prohibit a school district, public school, or cooperative board from providing differential treatment or benefits on the basis of an individual’s religion, race, sex, color, or national origin; prohibit the Kentucky Department of Education, a school district, a public school, or a cooperative board from expending any resources on diversity, equity, and inclusion; prohibit the department, a school district, a public school, or a cooperative board from soliciting statements on an applicant’s experience with or views on religion, race, sex, color, or national origin, from providing differential treatment or benefits to an individual based on the individual’s participation in diversity, equity, and inclusion training, and from disseminating or profiting from any research, work product, or material that promotes or justifies discriminatory concepts of diversity, equity, and inclusion; establish exclusions; authorize the Attorney General to bring an action for a writ of mandamus to compel the department, a school district, a public school or a cooperative board to comply; create a cause of action to permit a qualified individual to file a civil action against a the department, a school district, a cooperative board, or a public school for injunctive relief arising from a violation of this Act; permit recovery of monetary damages for a willful and intentional violation; waive sovereign, governmental, and qualified immunity; prohibit retaliation; require each public school district and cooperative board to provide the State Treasurer the name, job title, duty station, and compensation information of each employee of the school district or cooperative board each month for publication; amend KRS 161.030 to require certain certification applicants to complete an approved professional development program on Kentucky education law; amend KRS 158.4416 and 158.4414 to conform; require school districts and cooperative boards to follow designated procedures when implementing this Act including termination or transfer of certain employees; require the Kentucky Department of Education to eliminate the Division of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Belonging and follow designated procedures when implementing this Act including termination or transfer of certain employees; EFFECTIVE, in part, February 1, 2026; EMERGENCY.
2/18/2025 – (S) Referred to Committee Senate Education (S)
SB 225 AMEND SECTION 145 OF KY CONSTITUTION RELATING TO VOTING RIGHTS. Propose to amend Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky to automatically restore the voting rights of persons convicted of certain felonies upon completion of their imprisonment, probation, or parole and automatically restore their civil rights five years after completion of their imprisonment, probation, or parole; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
2/20/2025 – (S) Referred to Committee Senate State & Local Government (S)
SB 230 DRIVING UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF MARIJUANA. Amend KRS 189A.010 to create a per se limit for a blood level of tetrahydrocannabinol signifying intoxication; amend various sections of the KRS to conform.
2/20/2025 – (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary (S)
SB 262 WRONGFUL CONVICTION COMPENSATION. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a cause of action for a person who was wrongfully convicted of a felony in the Commonwealth; specify amounts of damages that may be awarded to claimants; establish the wrongful conviction compensation fund.
2/20/2025 – (S) Referred to Committee Senate Appropriations & Revenue (S)
SB 264 INTERROGATION OF CHILDREN. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 610 to define terms; prohibit a child from being interrogated using deceptive methods; create a new rule of evidence to limit the admissibility of statements made in the interrogation of a child in violation of statute..
2/20/2025 – (S) Referred to Committee Senate Judiciary (S)