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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to reproductive health services. [HB-793]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to define terms; provide rights related to access to contraception; create private right of action; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for contraception; amend KRS 304.17A-099 to exclude contraception from cost defrayal requirements; require health benefit plans to provide coverage for long-acting reversible contraception administered during a postpartum hospital stay; amend KRS 164.2871, 205.522, 205.6485, and 18A.225 to require self-insured
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sarah Stalker
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/27/2025
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AN ACT relating to coverage for the care of children. [HB-691]
Amend KRS 304.17A-258 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for certain formulas; to suspend the the coverage requirement for certain formulas as applied to qualified health plans if cost defrayment required by the state; amend KRS 304.17A-145 to require coverage for breastfeeding and lactation services without a prescription and in conjunction with the birth of each child; amend KRS 205.522 to require Medicaid to comply with the coverage requirements for formulas and breastfeeding support and equipment; amend KRS 205.560 to conform;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Pamela Stevenson
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to motorboats. [HB-696]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 132 to exempt federally documented vessels from property taxation; create new sections of KRS Chapter 235 to establish the waterway usage fee and the distribution of revenue generated from the fee; establish the waterway usage fund; create a new section of KRS Chapter 148 to establish the Kentucky lakes and rivers tourism fund; require grants of money from the fund to go to marinas qualifying through an application process; amend KRS 235.990 to establish a penalty for nonpayment of the waterway usage fee; amend
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Upchurch
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to a sales and use tax holiday. [HB-804]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 139 to establish a 10-day sales and use tax holiday from April 5 to April 15 each year to exempt firearm safety devices and firearm storage devices; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. Chris Fugate
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public health and safety. [HB-745]
Amend KRS 214.450 to define "autologous donation" and "directed donation"; amend KRS 214.452 to require blood establishments to test for spike proteins, antibodies to the nucleocapsid protein on the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and synthetic mRNA; provide that a person shall not be compelled to donate blood; require blood establishments to inform donors of the potential uses for donations; require blood to be sold to hospitals before any other entity; prohibit blood from sale for pharmaceutical production if there is a hospital blood shortage; amend KRS 214.454
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josh Calloway
To Health Services (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the reporting of fines and fees. [HB-774]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 431 to define terms; require governmental entities to submit specified data to the Office of the Kentucky Center for Statistics regarding fines and fees assessed; require the Office of the Kentucky Center for Statistics to make disaggregated data available on its website; publish an annual report and submit the report to the Legislative Research Commission, the director of the Administrative Office of the Courts, and the Governor by November 30 of each year beginning November 30, 2026; amend KRS 151B.133 to establish
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Judiciary (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sales tax rebates for entertainment events. [HB-739]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 139 to define terms; establish a sales tax rebate and process for venues which have entertainment events that are qualifying attractions; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2025.
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 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 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 commercial financing. [HB-680]
Establish Subtitle 13 of KRS Chapter 286, and create new sections thereof, to define terms; establish exemptions; require certain commercial financing providers to register with the commissioner of the Department of Financial Institutions to engage in business; establish commercial financing trade practice standards and disclosure requirements for commercial financing transactions; establish penalties and exclusive enforcement by the financial institutions commissioner; provide that Subtitle 13 of KRS Chapter 286 may be cited as the Kentucky Commercial
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Pollock
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Office of the Auditor of Public Accounts. [SB-257]
Retain original provisions, except, make technical changes to provisions regarding funds available to the Auditor; amend KRS 43.010 to expand the definition of "state agency"; amend KRS 43.030 to rename the assistant auditor the deputy auditor and revise qualifications; amend KRS 43.050 to revise duties of the Auditor to make special audits and investigations if requested; amend KRS 43.080 to include gender-neutral language and expand the auditor's authority regarding investigations; amend KRS 43.990 to include agency premises as an area subject
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Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Mills
Received In House on 03/06/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to charitable gaming. [SB-190]
Amend KRS 238.540 to allow a charitable gaming volunteer to serve at up to six charitable gaming events or sessions per week; amend KRS 238.545 to allow a licensed charitable organization to conduct up to three bingo sessions per week over the course of up to 15 total hours per week; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Sen. Michael Nemes
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 28) on 03/18/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to investor-owned electric utilities. [HB-616]
Amend KRS 278.160 to prohibit the collection of charges and fees for other governmental units by an investor-owned electric utility; prohibit the collection of certain surcharges and amounts that are not directly and exclusively related to the provision of electric service; require investor owned utilities to file new tariffs 90 days after December 30, 2025; EFFECTIVE December 30, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. Bobby McCool
To Natural Resources & Energy (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to scholarships. [SB-253]
Amend KRS 164.769 to remove repayment obligations from the teacher scholarship program; amend scholorship terms; provide that the scholarship amount shall not exceed the highest in-state tuition rate for a teacher preparation program at a Kentucky public university; amend KRS 164.786 to add eligibility for high school freshmen and sophomores to the dual credit scholarship program; require an approved dual credit course to be in the statewide general education core; permit up to 20 dual credit courses in a teacher and learning career pathway; provide
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jimmy Higdon
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the operations of the Department of Law. [SB-244]
Amend KRS 15.010 to establish the Department of Child Support Services and the Office of Data Privacy in the Department of Law; amend KRS 15.111 to conform to existing law and recognize that the Office of Administrative Hearings is created under the Department of Law; amend KRS 15.802, 44.030, 156A.060, 186.570, 237.110, 248.664, and 403.135 and various sections of KRS Chapters 405, 406, and 407 to conform with the transfer of child support enforcement programs to the Department of Child Support Services in the Department of Law; amend various sections
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jason Howell
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 59) on 03/24/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for the treatment of postpartum mood disorders. [HB-683]
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for FDA-approved prescription drugs for the treatment of postpartum mood disorders; allow the suspension of the coverage requirement for FDA-approved prescription drugs for the treatment of postpartum mood disorders under qualified health plans if cost defrayment required by the state; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485, 18A.225, and 164.2871 to require Medicaid, Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program, the state health employee health plan,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Chad Aull
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to property tax rates for emergency services. [HB-604]
Amend KRS 75.040 to increase the maximum property tax rate that can be levied by a fire protection district or a volunteer fire department district; limit any increase in the total tax levy beyond the initially approved levy to two cents per $100 of assessed valuation a year; require a public hearing and notification to the public for rate levy; exempt the rates from the provisions of KRS 132.023; amend KRS 75A.050 to increase the maximum property tax rate that can be levied by a district that provides fire services, emergency medical services,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Hart
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the taxation of breast pumps and related supplies. [HB-642]
Amend KRS 139.472 to define and exempt from sales and use tax breast pumps, breast pump storage and collection supplies, and breast pump kits from July 1, 2025, to June 30, 2029, and require the Department of Revenue to report the exemption each September 1; amend KRS 131.190 to authorize the department to report the exemption to the Legislative Research Commission; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. Tina Bojanowski
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to employment of unauthorized aliens. [HB-673]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 336 to define terms; prohibit employment of unauthorized aliens; require business entities and employers to enroll in E-Verify and verify employment eligibility of all employees; establish penalties for violations; provide guidelines for verification of employment eligibility by employers seeking economic incentives from the state; create a new section of KRS Chapter 45A to require enrollment and use of E-Verify to receive contracts, grants, or incentives from the state, a political subdivision, or state-funded
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Sponsored by: Rep. Steven Doan
To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders screenings. [HB-627]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to allow perinatal mood and anxiety disorders screenings to be claimed as a service for the child as part of the early and periodic, diagnostic and treatment benefit; amend KRS 205.6497 to require the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program to cover perinatal mood and anxiety disorders screenings; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require a health plan to cover perinatal mood and anxiety disorders screenings as part of a well-child or well-baby visit; to suspend the coverage requirement
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Sponsored by: Rep. Chad Aull
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/26/2025