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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to virtual programs and declaring an emergency. [HB-784]
Define "virtual program"; place an enrollment cap on virtual programs for the remainder of the 2024-2025 school year and the entirety of the 2025-2026 school year; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. James Tipton
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/21/2025
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AN ACT relating to mental health parity and declaring an emergency. [HB-748]
Amend KRS 304.17A-661 to require that annual mental health parity reports be submitted to the Legislative Research Commission on or before June 1 of each year for referral to certain committees and be published by the insurance commissioner on the Department of Insurance's website; authorize the Attorney General to enforce the mental health parity law; establish duties, remedies, and penalties for enforcement by the Attorney General; authorize a private cause of action by any person directly injured by a violation or likely violation of the mental
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Sponsored by: Rep. Vanessa Grossl
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Medicaid program and declaring an emergency. [HB-695]
Retain original provisions, except delete Medicaid coverage limitations for psychoeducational services; establish that changes to the Medicaid program necessitated by requirements imposed by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services or related to payment programs for university hospitals shall be exempt from the requirement that the change be authorized by the General Assembly; amend KRS 205.5371 to establish that the community engagement program shall be a mandatory waiver program; locate the Kentucky Medicaid pharmaceutical rebate
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 110) on 03/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to mental health parity and declaring an emergency. [HB-725]
Amend KRS 304.17A-661 to require insurers to submit the annual report relating to mental health parity requirements to the Legislative Research Commission for referral to the Interim Joint Committee on Health Services; require the annual report be submitted by June 1; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jared Bauman
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to boards of the Kentucky General Assembly and declaring an emergency. [HB-9]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 7A to define terms; establish the Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Board of the Kentucky General Assembly to review, analyze, study, evaluate, provide legislative oversight, and make recommendations to the General Assembly regarding any aspect of the Kentucky Medicaid program; establish board membership, authority, and duties; amend KRS 7A.010, 7A.140, 7A.150, and 7A.180 to conform; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Fleming
To Rules (h) on 03/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to disaster recovery, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-727]
Appropriate necessary funds from the Budget Reserve Trust Fund to the WKSAFE Fund to be distributed to the Graves County Fiscal Court to support the replacement of the Graves County Jail; stipulate that the funding shall be reimbursed to the Commonwealth should the recipient receive moneys from any other source; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Steven Rudy
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT amending the 2024-2026 State/Executive Branch biennial budget, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-811]
Amend the 2024-2026 State/Executive Branch biennial budget to stipulate that no unbudgeted Federal Funds can be allotted or expended without the express authority of the General Assembly and that no unanticipated, unappropriated Federal Funds received after January 1, 2025, can be expended without the express authority of the General Assembly; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. James Tipton
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to liability shield products and declaring an emergency. [HB-648]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 217 to define terms; require a manufacturer of a liability shield product to subject the product to a placebo-controlled study before it is manufactured, marketed, distributed, or administered in Kentucky; establish requirements for the placebo-controlled study; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to monitor and track adverse outcomes of liability shield products; require manufacturers of liability shield products to submit documentation to the cabinet of the placebo-controlled study and results
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Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
To Health Services (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to professional dispensing fees for prescription drugs and declaring an emergency. [HB-614]
Amend KRS 304.17A-595 to remove requirement for certain health insurance contracts to provide a temporary minimum dispensing fee to retail independent pharmacies.
Sponsored by: Rep. Myron Dossett
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/26/2025
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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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Sponsored by: Rep. Josh Bray
To State Government (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to economic relief for local communities of the Commonwealth and declaring an emergency. [HB-605]
Amend KRS 154.14-020, relating to the GRANT Program, to redefine "eligible grant applicant," "eligible project," "eligible use," "GRANT program," "GRANT program fund," "regional project," and define "qualifying federal entity"; amend KRS 154.14-030 to make technical changes; amend KRS 154.14-040 to modify the dates of the Cabinet for Economic Development's review of grant applications and provide that obligation of funds shall be no more than 12 months with a possible six month extension; amend KRS 154.14-050 to make technical changes and allow
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 71) on 03/24/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to teacher benefit provisions and declaring an emergency. [SB-9]
Amend KRS 161.155 to require school districts to establish a policy by July 1, 2030, to provide up to 30 days maternity leave to each teacher and employee who gives birth; require school districts to pay the actuarial costs of sick leave to the Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) for future sick leave accruals in excess of 12 days each year; provide that the state will pay the actuarial costs for sick leave accrued as of June 30, 2025, plus up to 12 days accrued each year after June 30, 2025; provide that actuarial costs for sick leave for associations
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jimmy Higdon
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 138) on 03/31/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to student-athletes and declaring an emergency. [SB-3]
Amend KRS 164.6941 to define terms; amend KRS 164.6943 to allow the limitation of earning compensation through a NIL agreement through an institutional agreement between the student-athlete and the institution or affiliated organization; permit an institution or association to require compensation be consistent with the prevailing range of compensation; amend KRS 164.6945 to conform and authorize a student-athlete to receive compensation from an institution or its affiliated corporation through a written institutional agreement; authorize an institution
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Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 10) on 03/13/2025
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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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Sponsored by: Sen. Brandon Storm
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 66) on 03/24/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to a sales and use tax holiday. [HB-649]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 139 to establish a three-day sales and use tax holiday during the first weekend in August each year to exempt clothing, which includes diapers, school supplies, school art supplies, computers, school computer supplies, and menstrual discharge collection devices; EMERGENCY; EFFECTIVE May 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
Floor Amendment (1) Filed on 03/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to statutory interpretation. [HB-665]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 446 to include construction of specified terms in the title of an act of the General Assembly.
Sponsored by: Rep. T.J. Roberts
To State Government (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency. [HB-653]
Amend KRS 158.192 to change the definition of "harmful to minors" and define terms; deem material, performances, events, or programs that are obscene, harmful to minors, or contain obscene imagery representing minors as educationally unsuitable and not age appropriate; require principals to remove student access to materials, programs, or events deemed educationally unsuitable or not age appropriate; modify complaint and appeals timelines; require that principal or local board of education report that a material, program, or event was educationally
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josh Calloway
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to student attendance days and declaring an emergency. [HB-669]
Establish a waiver process and eligibility requirements for school districts to be granted credit for student attendance days missed during September 2024 due to dangers posed by criminal activity; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Tom Smith
3rd Reading, Passed 85-9 on 03/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Kentucky Office of the Attorney General to create the Threat Response and Accountability Task Force to determine the chain of command and accountability matrix for a critical incident and declaring an emergency. [SJR-72]
Direct the Kentucky Office of the Attorney General to create a Threat Response and Accountability Task Force to determine the chain of command and accountability matrix for a critical incident; establish task force membership; require the task force to submit a report to the Legislative Research Commission by January 1, 2026; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Brandon Smith
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to evaluate and report on the repair or replacement of the Great Crossing Dam and declaring an emergency. [HJR-51]
Direct the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to delay the demolition of the Great Crossing Dam in Georgetown, Kentucky, until after December 31, 2027; direct the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to hold periodic meetings regarding the demolition, repair, or reconstruction of the Great Crossing Dam; direct the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to conduct a study on the repair or reconstruction of the Great Crossing Dam; require a report to be submitted to the Scott County Fiscal Court, the Georgetown City Council, the Interim
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Sponsored by: Rep. Vanessa Grossl
To Tourism & Outdoor Recreation (h) on 02/27/2025