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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SB13

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Refer
1/9/25  
Report Pass
2/12/25  
Engrossed
2/19/25  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to limit the number of managed care organizations contracted by the Department for Medicaid Services to no more than three; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2026.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HR2

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Adopt the Rules of Procedure for the 2025 Regular Session of the House of Representatives.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB42

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Create a new section of KRS 17.500 to 17.580, relating to the sex offender registry, to define "costume" and "Halloween-related activity"; prohibit sex offenders who have committed a criminal offense against a victim who is a minor from participating in any Halloween-related activity; establish penalties.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HJR8

Introduced
1/7/25  
Refer
1/7/25  
Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of Kentucky Route 18 in Boone County as the President Donald J. Trump Highway.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB463

Introduced
2/12/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Amend KRS 40.050 to insert gender-neutral language.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB491

Introduced
2/12/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Report Pass
3/6/25  
Engrossed
3/12/25  
Amend KRS 45.750 to redefine "equipment" to include electronic equipment that incorporates advanced computing, including smart medical, scientific, and research equipment; increase the threshold required for a lease of real property to qualify as a capital project from $200,000 annually to $500,000 annually; increase the threshold required for equipment to qualify as a capital project from $200,000 to $500,000; increase the threshold required for a lease of movable equipment to qualify as a capital project from $200,000 annually to $500,000 annually; increase the threshold for a new acquisition, upgrade, or replacement of an information technology system to qualify as a capital project from $1,000,000 to $5,000,000; amend KRS 164A.585 to permit employees of an institution or inviduals hired specifically for that project to perform work on capital construction projects costing up to $500,000; remove the requirement for a specific invoice form if a personal service contract invoice contains the information required by that form; amand KRS 45A.695 to make a technical correction; amend KRS 164.330 to remove the requirement that a public postsecondary board of regents meet within 30 days of each appointment of new members; amend KRS 61.661 to require the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority to release account information to the employer or other state or federal agency upon request; amend KRS 61.880 to establish a 60-day timeframe to appeal an agency's denial of a request to inspect a public record; amend KRS 164.952 to remove the limitations on the number of retired police officers a public postsecondary education institution may employ without paying into the retirement system.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB484

Introduced
2/12/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Amend KRS 164.321 to conform the size of the University of Louisville and University of Kentucky boards to the size and authority of the governing boards of all other state universities; replace the other state universities' boards of regents with boards of trustees and designate the board of trustees as the successor board; remove language regarding KCTCS; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to create the KCTCS board of regents; amend KRS 164.290 to bring the University of Kentucky and University of Louisville's establishment language into the same section as all other state universities; amend KRS 164.295 to provide all public universities the same program authority; amend KRS 164.001 to define terms and remove the distinction of a "comprehensive university"; amend KRS 164.420 to require the treasurer of all governing boards to have the same duties; amend KRS 164.350, 154.24-090; 164.005, 164.0053, 164.0057, 164.011, 164.013, 164.020, 164.0203, 164.021, 164.0211, 164.0283, 164.0284, 164.030, 164.036, 164.037, 164.092, 164.2843, 164.287, 164.291, 164.2951, 164.296, 164.297, 164.325, 164.330, 164.335, 164.352, 164.360, 164.365, 164.370, 164.375, 164.380, 164.400, 164.440, 164.450, 164.465, 164.475, 164.7894, 164.7919, 164.7911, 164.800, 63.080, 160.15911, 161.565, 161.568, 183.132, 164A.550, 164.945, 164.870, 151.010, 177.377, 1518.408, and 164.7917 to conform; repeal KRS 164.003, 164.004, 164.100,164.125, 164.131, 164.140, 164.150, 164.160, 164.170, 164.180, 164.190, 164.200, 164.210, 164.220, 164.225, 164.230, 164.240, 164.250, 164.260, 164.280, 164.810, 164.815, 164.821, and 164.830; state that the University of Kentucky and University of Louisville shall be governed by KRS 164.290 to 164.475, state that the existing members of the University of Louisville and University of Kentucky Board of Trustees will be permitted to finish the remainder of their unexpired terms but shall not be replaced until the size of the board conforms to this Act; provide that the Act may be cited as the University Fairness Act.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB466

Introduced
2/12/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Amend KRS 338.991 to increase the civil penalties for employers who have violated any provision of KRS Chapter 338, received a citation for a violation of the requirements of KRS Chapter 338, or failed to correct a violation for which a citation has been issued; require the secretary for the Education and Labor Cabinet to annually adjust the maximum civil penalties beginning in 2025 by the percentage increase, if any, in the United State Average Consumer Price Index for all Urban Customers (CPI-U); direct the secretary to begin a three year phase-in for penalty adjustments beginning August 1, 2025.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB4

Introduced
2/12/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Report Pass
3/4/25  
Engrossed
3/6/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Report Pass
3/11/25  
Refer
3/13/25  
Enrolled
3/13/25  
Enrolled
3/13/25  
Vetoed
3/20/25  
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  
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; prohibit a public postsecondary education institution from providing differential treatment or benefits on the basis of an individual's religion, race, sex, color, or national origin; from influencing the composition of the student body or scholarship recipients on the basis of religion, race, sex, color, or national origin; from implementing a student housing assignment plan on the basis of religion, race, color, or national origin with designated exceptions; from expending any resources on diversity, equity, and inclusion, the promotion of discriminatory topics, or bias incident investigations; from soliciting statements on an applicant's experience with or views on religion, race, sex, color, or national origin; from requiring a course dedicated to discriminatory concepts; or disseminating or profiting from any research, work product, or material that promotes or justifies discriminatory concepts; prohibit a public postsecondary education institution from requiring any individual to endorse or condemn a specific ideology or viewpoint; prohibit the Council on Postsecondary Education from providing differential treatment or benefits on the basis of an individual's religion, race, sex, color, or national origin or from expending any resources on diversity, equity, and inclusion or discriminatory topics; establish exclusions for legal compliance; require each governing board of a public postsecondary education institution to ensure compliance with specific sections of this Act no later than June 30, 2025; authorize the Attorney General to bring an action for a writ of mandamus to compel the council or a public postsecondary education institution to comply; create a cause of action to permit a qualified individual to file a civil action against council or a public postsecondary education institution for injunctive relief and limited damages arising from a violation of certain sections of this Act; waive sovereign and governmental immunity for the limited purpose of bringing this claim; prohibit retaliation; require each public postsecondary education institution to submit and publish a certified annual report on governmentally mandated discrimination to the Legislative Research Commission by October 1 each year; provide that a public postsecondary education institution or the council cannot claim a federal, state, judicial, contractual, or accreditation mandate as a defense to a civil action filed under this Act unless the policy, practice, or procedure upon which the complaint is founded is listed and clearly and accurately described in the public institution's annual report filed in accordance with this Act; require each public postsecondary education institution to provide the Personnel Cabinet and State Treasurer the name, job title, duty station, and salary or wages of each employee each month beginning January 1, 2025, and to post its itemized annual budget; amend KRS 164.020 to prohibit the Council on Postsecondary Education from approving a degree, certificate, or diploma program that includes discriminatory concepts or diversity, equity, and inclusion iniatives; amend KRS 164.011, 164.131, 164.321, and 164.821 to conform; direct the Council on Postsecondary Education to consider certain enumerated conditions when considering the elimination of an existing program; direct each public postsecondary education institution and the Council on Postsecondary Education to discontinue designated programs and follow designated procedures when implementing this Act; provide specific instructions for public postsecondary education institutions and the Council on Postsecondary Education to follow in implementing this Act; direct public postsecondary education institutions and the council to submit a report on implementation of this Act.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB465

Introduced
2/12/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Report Pass
2/26/25  
Engrossed
3/6/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Amend KRS 189.993 to establish enhanced penalties for a violation of KRS 189.505, including increased fines, vehicle impoudment for up to six months for the first offense, and vehicle forfeiture for the second or subsequent offense.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB446

Introduced
2/12/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Report Pass
2/26/25  
Engrossed
3/7/25  
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

Kentucky House Bill HB454

Introduced
2/12/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 161 to require school districts and public charter schools to employ a chaplain or accept a chaplain as a volunteer; set eligibility for employed and volunteer chaplains; require that employed and volunteer chaplains submit background checks; amend KRS 160.380 to include a volunteer chaplain as an adult who is required to have a background check; provide that the Act may be cited as the Teachers and School Chaplains Act.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SB144

Introduced
2/12/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Refer
2/14/25  
Report Pass
2/27/25  
Engrossed
3/6/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Amend KRS 16.220, relating to firearms confiscated by law enforcement, to provide that firearms which were used in a homicide be destroyed; provide that firearms in the possession of the Department of Kentucky State Police may be destroyed if they have been defaced, are contaminated by hazardous material, unsafe to discharge, or upon request of an innocent owner; amend KRS 500.090, relating to forfeiture of property in criminal cases, to require local law enforcement agencies to destroy firearms that have been used in a homicide; require that all firearms that are transferred to the Department of Kentucky State Police not be intentionally damaged, modified, or disabled by the agency having custody, except as may be necessary for forensic testing; amend KRS 15.440, to require law enforcement agencies to have a written policy and procedures manual relating to the destruction of firearms used in homicides by January 1, 2026.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB489

Introduced
2/12/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Amend KRS 65.2005 to establish that a local government is not required to provide a legal defense for an employee and may refuse to pay a settlement or judgment against an employee if the employee refuses to cooperate or has been convicted or pled guilty to a crime arising from an action that led to the claim being filed; establish that a local government may file a claim against the employee to recover the amount paid by the local government, including costs and attorneys' fees, under specified circumstances including lack of cooperation and entry of a guilty plea or conviction for an action that led to the claim against the employee; establish a statute of limitations for the initiation of a claim by the local government.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB439

Introduced
2/12/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Amend KRS 158.850 to define terms; ban schools from selling or providing ultra-processed foods during the school day.