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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to employment. [HB-801]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to prohibit all employers of 75 or more employees from demoting, dismissing, disciplining, or discriminating against an employee who misses work because of duties related to being a candidate, candidate-elect, or member of the General Assembly or legislative body of a local government; require an employer grant a leave of absence if the employee requests it, not to exceed three terms for a member of the House of Representatives, two terms for a member of the Senate or a member of a legislative body of a local
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Sponsored by: Rep. Alan Gentry
To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (h) on 02/27/2025
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AN ACT relating to the compensation of coroners and deputy corners. [HB-712]
Amend KRS 64.185 to establish a salary schedule for coroners and increase the minimum compensation for deputy coroners; require the Department for Local Government to certify the population group within the salary schedule and the years of service for each coroner assuming office; provide for adjustments to compensation for part-time employment and the consumer price index; allow additional compensation for training courses completed; require an annual cost of living adjustment to be granted to each deputy coroner's salary; require the fiscal court
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Hale
To Local Government (h) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to small farms and home-based processors. [HB-768]
Create a new section of KRS 217.015 to 217.215 to define "small farms"; exempt small farms and home-based processors from any state and any city, county, urban-county government, consolidated local government, unified local government, or charter county government and any health department thereof from any rule, administrative regulation, certification, or licensing requirement that is not required by federal law; Repeal KRS 217.136, relating to home-based food processors.
Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
To Agriculture (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to nonsubstantive review of certificate of need. [SB-192]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B allowing certain local governments to request nonsubstantive review for certificate of need for provision of services; mandate 30 days for approval; repeal KRS 216B.010, relating to the legislative findings and purpose of KRS Chapter 216B.
Sponsored by: Sen. Steve Rawlings
To Health Services (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages. [HB-437]
Amend KRS 241.090, relating to the police powers of state Alcoholic Beverage Control administrators and investigators, to provide that a state administrator shall not have the power to make arrests unless he or she is certified in accordance with KRS 15.380 to 15.404; amend KRS 241.110, relating to the appointment of county Alcoholic Beverage Control administrators and investigators, to provide that a county investigator shall not have the power to make arrests unless he or she is certified in accordance with KRS 15.380 to 15.404; amend KRS 241.170,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Tony Hampton
Delivered To Governor on 03/28/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the defense of employees of a local government. [HB-489]
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
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Nemes
To Judiciary (h) on 02/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to police department members. [HB-369]
Amend KRS 95.495 to stipulate that the annual leave designated for police officers subject to the section may be accrued over a year's time as established in the personnel policy of the department.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Hart
Delivered To Governor on 03/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to juvenile justice. [SB-111]
Create a new section in KRS Chapter 200 to define terms; establish procedures for a child charged with a public offense to determine if the child is a high acuity youth; establish procedures for securing a treatment plan and dispute resolution through a review process and the court if the parties cannot agree to a plan; require a 24-hour protocol for health facilities, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, the Department of Juvenile Justice, and the courts to direct care; establish reimbursement rates for inpatient and outpatient psychiatric
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Sponsored by: Sen. Danny Carroll
Returned To Judiciary (h) on 03/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to real property purchased at a master commissioner's sale. [HB-347]
Amend KRS 91.514 and create a new section of KRS Chapter 426 to establish that any residential property that is purchased at a master commissioner's sale or other court-ordered sale in a county that has a land bank authority and was occupied at any time within the two years prior to the sale must undergo renovations within six months of obtaining the title to the property and must be returned to a state of occupancy within specified time periods; define terms; establish a fine of $100 per day payable to the local government for noncompliance.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Grossberg
To Local Government (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Urban Youth Agriculture Initiative. [HB-356]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 247 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Urban Farming Youth Initiative to promote farming to youth in urban counties in at least one urban University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service office beginning August 1, 2025, and others by August 1, 2026; set each program term to one year in duration beginning in January; establish guidelines for participant eligibility.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Agriculture (s) on 03/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to local regulatory actions. [HB-215]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 82 to define "city," "project labor agreement," and "public construction project"; permit a city to establish a mandatory preference for awarding public construction project contracts to unions through a negotiated project labor agreement; permit cities to negotiate wages that are higher than the state or federal minimum wage as a condition of the project labor agreement; create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to define "city," "prevailing wage," "prevailing wage rate," and "public works project"; permit a city
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Sponsored by: Rep. Alan Gentry
To Local Government (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sanctuary policies. [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
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Sponsored by: Rep. Thomas Huff
To Local Government (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to government services. [HB-182]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to define "state or local government"; prohibit a state or local government from using the word "free" in a description of a benefit, product, or service financed with public funds.
Sponsored by: Rep. Deanna Frazier Gordon
Floor Amendment (2) Filed on 03/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to restoring religious liberty. [HB-177]
Amend KRS 446.350 to define "government" and "substantially burden"; outline procedures and relief that may be sought if statute is violated; outline procedures and relief for any inmate who alleges a violation of this statute; establish duties and authority of the Attorney General; apply to laws adopted before or after the effective date of this statute; include severability clause; waive sovereign, judicial, and governmental immunity; waive qualified immunity under specified circumstances.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Hart
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to restoring religious liberty. [SB-60]
Amend KRS 446.350 to define terms; outline appropriate relief if the statute is violated; apply to laws adopted before or after the effective date; include severability clause; waive sovereign and governmental immunity.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Mills
To Judiciary (h) on 03/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to firefighters' work schedules. [HB-131]
Amend KRS 95.500 to allow, absent a collective bargaining agreement, specified fire personnel to have schedules consisting of 48 hours on duty followed by 96 hours of off duty time; specify that collective bargaining agreements maintained by a city or urban-county government may control work hours in lieu of the specified schedules.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Meredith
Signed By Governor (acts Ch.24) on 03/17/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to legal liability for local governments. [HB-143]
Amend KRS 411.100, relating to a city's liability for damage done during the course of a riot, to provide that any form of local government shall be liable for damage done during the course of a riot if they could have prevented the damage; amend KRS 411.110, relating to a city's liability for any injury that results from any defect of any bridge, street, sidewalk, or other public thoroughfare, to provide that any form of local government shall be liable for any injury that results from any defect of any bridge, street, sidewalk, or other public
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Nemes
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to local taxation. [HB-724]
Amend KRS 67.083 to allow a fiscal court of any county to levy all taxes not in conflict with the Constitution of Kentucky, provided that the fee or tax is authorized by the statutes of this state; amend KRS 67A.070 to allow urban-county governments county to levy all taxes not in conflict with the Constitution of Kentucky, provided that the fee or tax is authorized by the statutes of this state; amend KRS 67C.101 to allow consolidated local government to levy all taxes not in conflict with the Constitution of Kentucky, provided that the fee or
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jonathan Dixon
Reassigned To Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs (h) on 03/21/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to local fiscal administration. [HB-492]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define “qualified local government,” to require that each employee of a qualified local government who has access to federal tax information submit to a criminal background check by the Department of Kentucky State Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation, to require that the fee charged by the Department of Kentucky State Police be no more than the actual cost of processing the background check, and to authorize the Department of Kentucky State Police to promulgate administrative regulations necessary
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Fleming
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 48) on 04/04/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to residential planned communities. [HB-472]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 381 to allow the appointment of a receiver for a planned community when it fails to maintain the infrastructure, common area, storm water detention or retention area, or other facility that it is legally obligated to maintain, and to allow a city to recover funds expended to repair, renovate, maintain, or otherwise bring violations up to code.
Sponsored by: Rep. Chris Freeland
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 150) on 04/09/2024