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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to elections. [HB-699]
Amend KRS 118.176 to require the county board of elections or the State Board of Elections to notify a candidate and the appropriate certifying authority that the candidate fails to meet the jurisdictional or party affiliation requirements for the office sought; require that the notification be made by the first Friday after the candidate filing deadline; require that the certifying authority shall not certify any candidate that fails to meet requirements; provide that a candidate whose bona fides are questioned may appeal a certifying authority's
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AN ACT relating to sibling visitation. [HB-702]
Amend KRS 405.021 to allow a sibling to petition for reasonable visitation rights.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to fire prevention and protection. [HB-643]
Create a new section of KRS 227.200 to 227.400 to allow for the creation of a local appeals board to hear appeals from final orders of fire chiefs and state fire marshals; establish membership, procedures, and jurisdiction when no local appeals board is established; provide for appeal to Circuit Court of jurisdiction; amend KRS 227.200 to define terms; amend KRS 227.210, 227.335, 227.380, and 227.390 to conform.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to protection of information and declaring an emergency. [HB-672]
Amend KRS 42.722 to define terms relating to artificial intelligence; amend KRS 42.726 to require the Commonwealth Office of Technology to establish and implement policy standards for the use of artificial intelligence; create a new section of KRS 42.720 to 42.742to create the Artificial Intelligence Governance Committee; task the committee with the establishment of responsible, ethical, and transparent procedures for the allowable use, development, and approval of artificial intelligence for any department, program, cabinet, agency, and administrative
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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.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to codes of ethics for local governments. [SB-231]
Amend KRS 65.003 to state that an appeal from a final order issued by a person or group responsible for enforcement of a code of ethics may be taken to the Circuit Court of the county in which that person or group is located; amend KRS 65.8831 to conform.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to protection of information and declaring an emergency. [SB-4]
Amend KRS 42.722 to define terms relating to artificial intelligence; amend KRS 42.726 to require the Commonwealth Office of Technology to establish and implement policy standards for the use of artificial intelligence; create a new section of KRS 42.720 to 42.742 to create the Artificial Intelligence Governance Committee; task the committee with the establishment of responsible, ethical, and transparent procedures for the allowable use, development, and approval of artificial intelligence for any department, program, cabinet, agency, and administrative
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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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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.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to name change of a minor. [HB-592]
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.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to use of artificial intelligence by courts. [HB-498]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 21A to request that the Supreme Court establish a pilot project to permit participating courts to use artificial intelligence for court transcription services; establish guidelines.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to assault in the third degree. [HB-446]
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.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to birth certificates. [HB-395]
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.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to elections. [HB-341]
Amend KRS 118.125 to require that the notification and declaration form prescribed by the State Board of Elections shall include four signature lines; require that candidates provide documentation verifying that the two voters signing the notification and declaration form are from the same party and district or jurisdiction as the candidate seeking nomination; amend KRS 118.165 to direct that the Secretary of State and the county clerk shall not certify any notification and declaration form that does not include proper registration documentation;
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to orders of protection. [HB-366]
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.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to certificate of need. [HB-354]
Amend KRS 216B.040 to require that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services conduct public hearings on certificate of need applications as requested by applicants for, or holders of, certificates of need and licenses; amend KRS 216B.062 to require that notice be given on the right of only applicants to request a hearing; amend KRS 216B.085 to require that only the applicant may request a public hearing within 15 days of a cabinet decision regarding an application; require that notice of the public hearing be given only to the applicant; require
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to county law libraries. [HB-290]
Amend KRS 172.100 and 172.200, relating to county law libraries, to ensure that law library funds can be expended for subscriptions to computer-assisted legal research, internet access, and computers and related equipment.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to judicial review of state agency action. [SB-84]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 446 to establish the legal standard for judicial review of agency action; amend KRS 13B.150 to conform.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to wrongful conviction compensation. [HB-206]
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.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to adoption. [HB-164]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to authorize posthumous adoption; provide that the Act may be cited as Braylon's Law.