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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to falsely reporting an incident. [HB-755]
Amend KRS 519.040 to enhance the offense classification and penalty for giving false information to a law enforcement officer with the intent to implicate someone else under specified circumstances.
Sponsored by: Rep. T.J. Roberts
To Judiciary (h) on 02/27/2025
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AN ACT relating to cervids. [HB-700]
Amend KRS 150.740 and 257.550 to prohibit the export of a cervid carcass or wild cervid outside of a chronic wasting disease surveillance zone; prohibit the export of a captive cervid outside of a 10-mile radius of a chronic wasting disease positive captive cervid facility; establish exemptions to the movement of cervid parts; allow breeding of captive cervids inside the facility in which the cervid is housed; require that the chronic wasting disease surveillance zone remain disease free for a period of five years; exempt prior chronic wasting disease
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Hale
Floor Amendment (1) Filed To Committee Substitute on 03/06/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to temporary motor vehicle tags. [HB-783]
Amend KRS 186A.100, 186A.105, and 186A.110 to amend the processes for motor vehicle dealers' applications for and use of temporary tags for motor vehicles sold by the dealer; allow county clerks to keep logs of temporary tags in electronic format; enumerate prohibited activities on the part of a dealer in relation to the application and issuance of temporary tags; amend KRS 186A.990 to set the penalty for theft, fraudulent production or copying, or improper use of a temporary tag at a Class D felony; subject motor vehicle dealers, salespersons,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Meredith
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 70) on 03/24/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the fraudulent sale or lease of real property. [HB-747]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 514 to establish the offense of fraudulent sale or lease of real property.
Sponsored by: Rep. David Meade
To Judiciary (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to pregnant inmates. [HB-798]
Amend KRS 196.175 to allow an inmate who is known to be pregnant or who has given birth in the last six weeks access to reasonable accommodations for the provision of available certified professional midwifery services or doula services.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nima Kulkarni
To Judiciary (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sex offender registration. [HB-716]
Amend KRS 17.500 to include various forms of identification in the definition of "registrant information"; amend KRS 17.510 to reduce the amount of time allowed for a registrant to notify probation and parole of a registrant's change of address from five days to three days; require a registrant to report to probation and parole in-person on a semiannual or quarterly basis; requires the Commonwealth to recognize offenses committed by a person in the District of Columbia or on land recognized as belonging to an Indian tribe; amend KRS 17.520 to include
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Sponsored by: Rep. Stephanie Dietz
To Judiciary (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to abortion. [HB-759]
Amend KRS 311.720, 311.7701, and 311.781 to define terms; amend KRS 311.723, 311.725, 311.727, 311.732, 311.7706, 311.772, 311.780, and 311.782 to allow an abortion when the unborn child has a lethal fetal anomaly and delineate additional medical circumstances for the performance of an abortion; allow an abortion when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest and the gestational age of the fetus is 22 weeks or less; amend KRS 311.800 to provide for an abortion in a publicly owned hospital under certain circumstances; amend KRS 213.101 to add
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Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Grossberg
To Judiciary (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to crime victim notification and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-740]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 27A to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to establish and maintain a crime victim notification system; establish requirements of the system; establish authority to contract with a third-party vendor if required in compliance with the procurement process of the Administrative Office of the Courts; APPROPRIATION.
Sponsored by: Rep. Susan Tyler Witten
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the rights of real property owners. [HB-10]
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
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor on 03/24/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to fantasy contests. [HB-742]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 230 to authorize the corporation to regulate the conduct of fantasy contest operators; require the use of geolocation technology; require fantasy contest operators to implement procedures to prevent fraud, abuse, and money laundering; require notification to the corporation for a confirmed breach of a sport's governing body's internal rules and codes of conduct, conduct that corrupts any outcome, and confirmed illegal activities; establish licensing requirements for a fantasy contest operator; allow the corporation
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Meredith
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to property theft. [SB-194]
Amend KRS 514.020 to include alteration, falsification, forgery, or misrepresentation of any instrument involving the conveyance or financing or real property as prima facie evidence of intent to commit theft by unlawful taking; amend KRS 514.030 to establish the penalty for theft of immovable property or real property; amend KRS 15.113 to direct the Attorney General to create notices and publications designed to inform and educate the public regarding the risks posed by deed fraud; amend KRS 15.231 to establish concurrent jurisdiction of the Attorney
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Sponsored by: Sen. Rick Girdler
To Judiciary (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to licensed and certified professions. [HB-689]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 335B to create the offense of holding oneself out to be a member of a licensed or certified profession and set a penalty.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Grossberg
To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to bench warrants. [SB-236]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 455 to limit the duration of bench warrants for failure to appear on a misdemeanor or violation.
Sponsored by: Sen. Brandon Smith
2nd Reading, To Rules on 02/28/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to children. [HB-621]
Create new section of KRS Chapter 635 to establish penalties for children who violate KRS 508.075, 508.078, or 508.080; amend KRS 159.170 to prohibit transfer of a student to an at-home private school while certain proceedings are pending.
Sponsored by: Rep. Walker Thomas
Floor Amendment (1) Filed To Committee Substitute on 03/06/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to crisis aversion and rights retention orders. [SB-235]
Establish KRS Chapter 202D and create new sections thereof relating to crisis aversion and rights retention orders; provide limitations on interpretation of the Act; define terms; allow law enforcement officers to petition a court to issue orders when a respondent presents an immediate and present danger of causing serious physical injury to themselves or others through purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm; establish procedures for the filing, review, hearing, service of process, termination, or renewal of the petition and orders; provide
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Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To Judiciary (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to driving under the influence of marijuana. [SB-230]
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.
Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To Judiciary (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to pregnant inmates. [SB-226]
Amend KRS 196.173 to allow an inmate who is known to be pregnant or who has given birth in the last six weeks access to reasonable accommodations for the provision of available certified professional midwifery services or doula services.
Sponsored by: Sen. Keturah Herron
To Judiciary (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to campaign finance. [SB-206]
Amend KRS 121.015, relating to campaign finance, to define terms; create new sections of KRS Chapter 121 to establish reporting and record retention requirements for political issues committees and persons making independent expenditures; prohibit political issues committees from knowingly and willfully soliciting or accepting contributions from prohibited sources; establish certification requirements for treasurers of political issues committees and donors making contributions and independent expenditures; define activity that creates a presumption
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Sponsored by: Sen. Steve Rawlings
To State & Local Government (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to wrongful conviction compensation. [SB-262]
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.
Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to grand jury service. [HB-623]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 29A to provide that a person present at any part of a grand jury proceeding shall not knowingly record the proceeding or disclose any information they gather while present during a proceeding; amend KRS 29A.990 to establish the penalty for knowingly recording or disclosing information gathered at a grand jury proceeding as a Class A misdemeanor unless the defendant is a public servant as defined in KRS 519.010, in which case it is a Class D felony; amend KRS 500.050 to provide that a misdemeanor violation of knowingly
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Sponsored by: Rep. Candy Massaroni
To Judiciary (h) on 02/26/2025