Kentucky 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 69)

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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB373

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Report Pass
2/20/25  
Engrossed
2/27/25  
Refer
2/27/25  
Amend KRS 121.175 to allow the use of campaign funds to pay for the reasonable costs of security measures for a state candidate, officeholder, his or her family, and employees of the candidate's campaign or the officeholder's office; define "security measure" and "usual and normal charge."
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB385

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to name and designate as the official pets of Kentucky domestic cats and dogs that reside in or have been adopted from Kentucky animal shelters or rescue organizations.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB382

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Amend KRS 158.1415 to exclude age-appropriate child sexual abuse instruction from the prohibition of human sexuality instruction for students in the fifth grade or lower.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SB2

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Report Pass
2/13/25  
Engrossed
2/19/25  
Refer
2/19/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Report Pass
3/12/25  
Enrolled
3/14/25  
Enrolled
3/14/25  
Chaptered
3/27/25  
Create new section of KRS Chapter 197 to define terms; prohibit hormone treatment or elective surgery for gender reassignment.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB371

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Report Pass
2/25/25  
Engrossed
3/5/25  
Amend KRS 224.40-315 to exclude from the exemption in the definition of municipal solid waste disposal facility any waste site or facility that accepts industrial solid waste generated on or adjacent to property owned by the generator or by another facility owned by the generator or wholly-owned subsidiary; amend KRS 224.43-345 to require a description in the solid waste management plan of capacity expansions for residual waste sites or facilities, including amounts of wastes from areas outside of the solid waste management area.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SB113

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Amend KRS 164.295 to permit Murray State University to offer doctor's degrees required for professional practice and licensure in veterinary medicine.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB397

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Amend KRS 158.1415 to require a school district to adopt health curricula that includes human growth and development instruction that meets specific criteria; set restrictions for the instruction that grants parents an opportunity to review materials and opt their child out of instruction; provide that the Act may be cited as the Baby Olivia Act.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB376

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Amend KRS 42.500 to authorize the State Investment Commission to make investments in certain digital assets and bullion; define terms; establish requirements for investments; prohibit investments in central bank digital currency; make technical corrections; amend KRS 42.525 to specify administrative regulation authority of commission regarding investment powers and requirements; create a new section of KRS Chapter 42 to authorize state retirement funds and state deferred compensation fund participants to invest in exchange traded products; amend KRS 45.345 to authorize state agencies to accept digital assets and bullion as a method of payment; prohibit acceptance of central bank digital currency as a method of payment; create a new section of KRS Chapter 131 to establish authorized payment methods for any tax bill issued by the Department of Revenue; require the Department of Revenue to accept digital assets and bullion as a method of payment; amend KRS 41.070 to require the State Treasurer to transfer certain digital asset deposits to the budget reserve trust fund; require the State Treasurer to convert receipts of other digital assets to United States currency; prohibit the State Treasurer from accepting central bank digital currency or converting receipts to central bank digital currency; amend KRS 48.705, 16.642, 18A.255, 21.550, 61.650, 78.790, and 161.430 to conform; provide that the Act may be cited as the Inflation Protection Act of 2025.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SB111

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Report Pass
2/13/25  
Engrossed
2/20/25  
Refer
2/20/25  
Create a new section in KRS Chapter 200 to define terms; establish procedures for a child charged with a public offense to determine if the child is a high acuity youth; establish procedures for securing a treatment plan and dispute resolution through a review process and the court if the parties cannot agree to a plan; require a 24-hour protocol for health facilities, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, the Department of Juvenile Justice, and the courts to direct care; establish reimbursement rates for inpatient and outpatient psychiatric care of a child by psychiatric hospitals and pediatric teaching hospitals; establish procedures for discharge and transfer of the child from an inpatient admission under specific circumstances; amend KRS 15A.305 to include a mental health facility operated by the Department of Juvenile Justice as an identified facility for the detention and treatment of children; direct the operation of two female-only facilities with authority to increase as population increases; direct reimbursement rates for local governments lodging juveniles to be set by administrative regulation; amend KRS 600.020 to remove and add defined terms; amend KRS 610.265 to remove beginning date that is past; amend KRS 610.340 to enable release of information and use of records in specific circumstances; authorize the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet to construct a high acuity health facility to be completed by February 1, 2026, subject to funding; direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to provide clinical services; direct the Department of Juvenile Justice to continue to implement the plan to return to a regional model of detention; direct the Finance and Administration Cabinet to report to the Legislative Research Commission by July 1, 2025 the status of the transfer of the Jefferson County Youth Detention Center property; amend various sections of KRS to conform.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB386

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Amend KRS 424.260 to make a technical correction and to increase the expenditure threshold for the advertising requirement from $40,000 to $60,000; exempt vehicles and installed vehicle equipment from the bidding requirement; allow an alternative publication procedure for the advertisement; amend KRS 424.145 to remove the population restriction and allow any city, special district, school district, or special purpose governmental entity to use the alternative publication procedures.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB387

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Report Pass
2/27/25  
Engrossed
3/6/25  
Refer
3/6/25  
Amend KRS 76.090 to define "CPI"; require that any time a metropolitan sewer district proposes any change to its rates, rentals, or charges that would in aggregate generate revenue in excess of the percent increase in the CPI over the two most recent calendar years, the legislative body of the city or consolidated local government containing the district must approve of the change before it can go into effect; prohibit the expenditure of metropolitan sewer district funds for certain purposes.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB392

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Report Pass
2/20/25  
Engrossed
2/27/25  
Refer
2/27/25  
Refer
3/4/25  
Report Pass
3/12/25  
Amend KRS 210.040 to replace the term "institutions" with "facilities"; establish that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services is responsible to provide care that includes emergency and other medical care provided outside of a state facility for patients in state-operated mental health facilities.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SB115

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Propose to amend Section 29 of the Constitution of Kentucky to establish the initiative power of the people to propose laws and to enact or reject proposed initiatives at an election; establish procedures for initiatives, effect of adopted initiatives, and parameters for the subject of any initiative; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB388

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Amend KRS 271B.8-300 to define terms; provide that the business judgment rule shall not be an affirmative defense where the alleged damages suffered by the corporation are the result of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives or environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing; provide that a director shall not be considered to be acting in good faith if he or she takes any action to implement or maintain DEI initiatives or ESG investing; provide that actions taken as a director, or failure to take action as a director, regarding the implementation or maintenance of DEI initiatives or ESG investing may provide the basis for monetary damages or injunctive relief; amend KRS 271B.7-400 to require the court to award attorney's fees, costs, and expert witness fees and expenses to a plaintiff who prevails in a derivative action where the damages suffered by the corporation were the result of DEI initiatives or ESG investing; allow the court to award compensatory and punitive damages.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB375

Introduced
2/6/25  
Refer
2/6/25  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to define terms; allow enumerated persons to petition a District Court to issue an order prohibiting a person from purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm if the person is or has been diagnosed with or treated for a mental condition that causes or is likely to cause impairment in judgment, perception, or impulse control to an extent that presents an unreasonable risk to public health, safety, or welfare if the person were in possession or control of a firearm; establish that a violation of an order is a Class A misdemeanor; amend KRS 237.104 to conform; provide that the Act may be cited as Diego's Law.