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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB259

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Amend KRS 161.155 to provide 20 maternity days to district employees who give birth; establish the terms and conditions for use of maternity days.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB254

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Amend KRS 65.013 to create a cause of action for violations of the use of tax dollars to advocate for or against public questions on ballot or to lobby or participate in executive agency lobbying; establish time limitation to commence suit and appropriate venue; provide damages recoverable per violation; allow for a class action; prohibit holding a position of public trust or profit for 10 years for individuals held civilly liable; create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to establish criminal penalty and a prohibition against holding a position of public trust or profit for 10 years for individuals found guilty for a violation.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SJR26

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Report Pass
2/12/25  
Engrossed
2/18/25  
Refer
2/18/25  
Refer
2/25/25  
Report Pass
3/11/25  
Enrolled
3/12/25  
Enrolled
3/13/25  
Chaptered
3/17/25  
Direct the Department for Medicaid Services to provide the Legislative Research Commission with a report regarding pharmacist payment parity.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB287

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Amend KRS 337.415, relating to court-ordered appearances by employees, to define terms; prohibit employers from discharging or retaliating against an employee who is a crime victim when the employee takes leave to attend proceedings associated with a crime; require an employee to give an employer reasonable notice to take leave when practicable; provide guidelines for use of paid leave; require the employer to maintain confidentiality of records and communication with employee crime victim; create a private right of action for improper discharge, discrimination, retaliation, and failing to maintain confidentiality; amend KRS 337.990 to establish penalties for employer violations.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB235

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Repeal and reenact KRS 344.010 to define terms; amend KRS 344.020, relating to the purpose of the Kentucky's civil rights chapter, to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.025, 344.040, 344.050, 344.060, 344.070, and 344.080, relating to prohibited discrimination in various labor and employment practices, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 210.033, 344.030, 344.100 and 344.110 to conform; amend KRS 344.120 and 342.140, relating to prohibited discrimination in places of public accommodation and advertisements therefor, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.170, 344.180, 344.190, 344.300, and 344.310, relating to the state and local human rights commissions, to include prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in the scope of their powers and duties; amend KRS 344.360, 344.370, 344.380, and 344.680, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain housing, real estate, and other financial transactions, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.367, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain insurance sales, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.400, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain credit transactions, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 18A.095 to conform; make technical corrections.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB215

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
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 to enact prevailing wage ordinances; amend KRS 65.016 to grant local governments the authority to adopt and enforce ordinances that require employers in their jurisdiction to provide leave to employees and set a higher minimum wage than state and federal rates; amend KRS 383.210 and 383.215, relating to forcible entry and detainer, to allow a local government to set an alternative time period from the date of the service of the warrant and the date of the hearing to more than the minimum of three days; require the local government to notify the sheriff, the court of jurisdiction, and the administrative office of the courts of that action; and amend KRS 65.1591 to conform.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB306

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Report Pass
2/12/25  
Engrossed
2/28/25  
Refer
2/28/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Report Pass
3/11/25  
Enrolled
3/14/25  
Enrolled
3/14/25  
Chaptered
3/24/25  
Amend KRS 322.040 to allow an individual to qualify for licensure as a professional engineer if he or she has graduated from a fire protection engineering technology program of four years or more accredited by the Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB257

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to create an automatic felony expungement process for eligible convictions.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB249

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Amend KRS 164.7874, relating to KEES awards, to define terms; amend KRS 164.7879 to establish the use of a specified equivalent grade point average for eligible graduates of certain private, parochial, or church schools based on the Advanced Placement exam score, dual credit courses grade point average, or a combination of both; amend KRS 164.7881 and 164.7884 to conform.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB266

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Create a new section of Subchapter 12 of KRS Chapter 154 to define "in-demand industry sector" and "in-demand occupation"; require the Cabinet for Economic Development to create annual lists of in-demand industry sectors and in-demand occupations and transmit the lists to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services for use in determining eligibility criteria for the Child Care Assistance Program; amend KRS 199.894 to define "Child Care and Development Fund" and "Child Care Assistance Program"; make technical corrections; create a new section of KRS 199.892 to 199.896 to exempt applicants whose occupation or industry sector has been designated as in-demand from the income guidelines and copayment requirements for the Child Care Assistance Program.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB227

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Repeal KRS 510.100, relating to sodomy in the fourth degree; amend KRS 194A.380 and 532.031 to conform.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB270

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 162 to define "single-user toilet facility"; require the chief state school officer not approve plans for specific new school buildings or alterations to school buildings unless the plans provide sufficient single-user toilet facilities, with a minimum requirement of one; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations regarding the required number of single-user toilet facilities in school buildings; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require a school where more that 25 percent of the school's restroom facilities are single-user restroom facilities to develop a plan to assist students needing additional privacy due to urgent medical or biological needs to use facilities that provide additional privacy and provide possible aspects of the plan.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SB95

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to require law enforcement agencies to transmit information to national law enforcement databases about firearms collected during criminal investigations.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB300

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Amend KRS 157.3175 to require school districts provide a full-day preschool education program for eligible three and four-year-olds; establish eligibility for the program; require that preschool for three year old children continue to be funded through a grant process and preschool programs for four-year-old children be funded under KRS 157.310 to 157.440; require preschool programs to operate on the school district calendar; require transportation be provided; amend KRS 158.031 to include preschool education programs for four-year-old children in the primary school program; amend KRS 157.320 to remove the definition of "kindergarten full-time equivalent pupil in average daily attendance"; amend KRS 157.360 to remove a reference to the kindergarten full-time equivalent; amend KRS 158.030 to include a preschool education program for four-year-old children in the definition of "common school"; remove language allowing kindergarten to operate for less than six hours on a school day; amend KRS 158.060 and 160.1596 to conform.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB297

Introduced
2/4/25  
Refer
2/4/25  
Amend KRS 160.041 to provide a merger process for any contiguous school districts; require the Kentucky Board of Education to determine the terms of merger for an insolvent district if no agreement between the school districts can be reached, and to promulgate administrative regulations regarding mergers due to insolvency.