Kentucky 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 36)

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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SB195

Introduced
2/18/25  
Refer
2/18/25  
Amend KRS 218B.020 to remove the requirement that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services collaborate with the University of Kentucky College of Medicine and the Kentucky Center for Cannabis in compiling an annual medicinal cannabis report.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB684

Introduced
2/18/25  
Refer
2/18/25  
Refer
2/26/25  
Report Pass
2/27/25  
Engrossed
3/7/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Refer
3/11/25  
Report Pass
3/12/25  
Enrolled
3/14/25  
Enrolled
3/14/25  
Vetoed
3/25/25  
Refer
3/27/25  
Override
3/27/25  
Refer
3/27/25  
Override
3/27/25  
Enrolled
3/28/25  
Enrolled
3/28/25  
Chaptered
3/28/25  
Amend KRS 117.045 to allow a lesser number of precinct officers when the State Board of Elections has approved a county board of elections' precinct consolidation plan; amend KRS 117.065 to require the county board of elections to notify local boards of education of its intent to use school buildings as voting places by December 1 of each year; require the county board of elections to specify which school buildings will be used; amend KRS 117.066 to conform; allow a county board of elections to request an amendment to its previously submitted precinct consolidation plan if it is at least 56 days before a special election; amend KRS 117.076 to allow caregivers of voters qualified to cast an excused in-person absentee ballot due to age, disability, or illness to cast an excused in-person absentee ballot; amend KRS 117.085 to allow the county clerk to issue voters a mail-in absentee ballot; allow county clerks to issue another mail-in absentee ballot to voters; amend KRS 117.086 to allow the county clerk to dispose of video surveillance of ballot drop-boxes or receptacles after 60 days, upon compliance with the Kentucky Open Records Act, or the completion of an investigation or pending litigation; amend KRS 117.255 to remove the requirement that the county board of elections make the determination of whether a voter requires permanent voting assistance; require that voters requesting assistance on a permanent basis swear an oath; amend KRS 117.265 to change the deadline to file to run as a write-in candidate to the same deadline as the certification of candidates; prohibit certified lists of write-in candidates from being posted; allow voters to review a copy of the certified list of write-in candidates; amend KRS 117.275 to remove language regarding voting equipment that is no longer in use; amend KRS 117.355 to conform; amend KRS 117.383 to allow the video surveillance of hand-to-eye audits to be disposed after 60 days, upon compliance with the Kentucky Open Records Act, or the completion of an investigation or pending litigation; amend KRS 118.125 to require that the two voters signing a candidate's notification and declaration are of the same party and from the same district or jurisdiction as the candidate at the time of signing; amend KRS 118.165 to clarify when candidates shall file nomination papers; amend KRS 118.205 to require that a candidate's district number be listed with the Secretary of State rather than his or her residence; amend KRS 118.212 to conform; amend KRS 118.215 to require that a candidate's office and district number be provided to the county clerks rather than his or her residence; amend KRS 118.315 to clarify that a petitioner for the nomination of a candidate can sign more than one nominating form for the same office; amend KRS 118.387 to require the county clerk and Secretary of State to display a candidate's office and district number rather than his or her residence on their website; clarify that political affiliations shall only be listed online for partisan candidates; amend KRS 118.425 to establish the deadline for the certification of the total number of votes to the Secretary of State following the hand-to-eye audit; amend KRS 118A.140 to require the Secretary of State to record a candidate's office and district number rather than his or her residence; amend KRS 119.165 to clarify that any person who has been convicted of a felony and knowingly votes or attempts to vote shall be guilty of a Class D felony; amend KRS 158.070 to establish that school districts are not required to close if school buildings are used as voting places.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SB263

Introduced
2/18/25  
Refer
2/18/25  
Amend KRS 341.350, relating to unemployment insurance benefits, to reduce the required weekly work search activites from five to three and to state that applications to and interviews with different locations of the same franchise constitute separate work searches.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB678

Introduced
2/18/25  
Refer
2/18/25  
Amend KRS 502.060 to insert gender-neutral language.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB633

Introduced
2/18/25  
Refer
2/18/25  
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms; require health benefit plans to provide coverage for counseling interventions for pregnant and postpartum persons at increased risk of perinatal depression, including persons who have suffered a miscarriage or stillbirth; suspend the coverage requirement's application to qualified health plans if the state would be required to make cost defrayal payments; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485, 18A.225, and 164.2871 to require Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program, self-insured employer plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution, and the state employee health plan to comply with the coverage requirement for counseling interventions; provide that certain provisions apply to health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2026; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to seek federal approval, if necessary, and comply with notice requirements; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2026.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB638

Introduced
2/18/25  
Refer
2/18/25  
Amend KRS 161.220 to add certain employees of WeLeadCS to the definition of "member"; allow the Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) to promulgate administrative regulations to facilitate payment and collection for purchased service credit, and make technical changes; amend KRS 161.230 to allow TRS to establish a title holding company for certain investments; amend KRS 161.250 to specify the deadline for a written appeal of a TRS decision is not subject to the jurisdiction of any court or appeal process; amend KRS 161.430 to allow agreements for commingled investments or real property to be made in or governed by laws outside of the Commonwealth; amend KRS 161.470 to cease interest accrual on the retirement account of members convicted of a felony related to employment after the date of conviction; amend KRS 161.585 to allow a member appealing denial of disability and the member's legal counsel to have access to all written material submitted by the medical review committee to TRS and make technical changes; amend KRS 161.600 to specify the deadline for changes to a member's retirement application is not subject to the jurisdiction of any court or appeal process; amend KRS 161.624 to add filing and other deadlines for information the member or beneficiary is responsible for obtaining; amend KRS 161.630 to specify the deadline for electing a new optional plan of payment or for a change of beneficiary shall not be subject to the jurisdiction of any court or appeal process; amend KRS 161.635 to make a technical change; amend KRS 161.636 to make a technical change; amend KRS 161.661 to clarify the deadline for filing an application for disability benefits is not subject to the jurisdiction of any court or appeal process, that failure to provide income and employment verification documentation or submission of false or fraudulent documentation will result in suspension or disqualification from disability benefits, to allow a member and the member's counsel to be entitled to all written recommendations and reports submitted by the medical review committee, and make technical changes; amend KRS 161.680 to allow determination of errors resulting in over or underpayment to be determined by the TRS board or staff; repeal KRS 161.553, relating to the funding of past statutory benefits; amend KRS 56.8605, 58.868, and 161.550 to conform.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HJR31

Introduced
2/18/25  
Refer
2/18/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Report Pass
3/4/25  
Engrossed
3/7/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Refer
3/11/25  
Report Pass
3/14/25  
Enrolled
3/14/25  
Enrolled
3/14/25  
Chaptered
3/19/25  
Express the General Assembly's consideration of program-specific funding to the Department of Agriculture.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB654

Introduced
2/18/25  
Refer
2/18/25  
Amend KRS 6.072 to require witnesses appearing before a committee, interim committee, statutory committee, subcommittee, commission, or task force of the General Assembly to take an oath prior to giving testimony and that any oath administered is video recorded.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB596

Introduced
2/18/25  
Refer
2/18/25  
Amend KRS 403.725 and 456.030 to require the court of justice to create protocols to allow law enforcement officers to assist victims in filing a petition for an order of protection.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SB202

Introduced
2/18/25  
Refer
2/18/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Report Pass
3/6/25  
Engrossed
3/7/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Report Pass
3/12/25  
Refer
3/12/25  
Enrolled
3/13/25  
Enrolled
3/13/25  
Chaptered
3/25/25  
Amend KRS 13A.220 to make technical corrections.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB656

Introduced
2/18/25  
Refer
2/18/25  
Amend KRS 344.040, 344.050, 344.060, 344.070, 344.080, 344.100, and 344.110 to add protections against discrimination based on weight.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SB249

Introduced
2/18/25  
Refer
2/18/25  
Amend KRS 278.546 to make technical corrections.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB691

Introduced
2/19/25  
Refer
2/19/25  
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; amend KRS 205.6485, 164.2871, and 18A.225 to require KCHIP, self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution, and the state employee health plan to comply with the coverage requirements for formulas and breastfeeding support and equipment; provide that certain provisions apply to health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2026; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to seek federal approval, if necessary, and to comply with notice requirements; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2026.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB793

Introduced
2/19/25  
Refer
2/19/25  
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 employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary institution to its employees, Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program, and the state employee health plan to comply with the new section on contraceptive coverage; amend KRS 446.350 to provide that nothing in the new section on contraceptive coverage shall be construed to violate section; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to apply for a Medicaid waiver to offer family planning services to certain low-income individuals; require the cabinet to report annually; create a new section of KRS Chapter 315 to allow pharmacists to prescribe and dispense hormonal contraceptives; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to seek federal approval if they determine that such approval is necessary; include provisions for cost defrayal requirements; direct that provisions apply to health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2026; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2026.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB696

Introduced
2/19/25  
Refer
2/19/25  
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 KRS 235.999 and 150.160 to distribute the money collected from the penalty; amend KRS 132.020 and 132.200 to make conforming changes; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2026.