Kentucky 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 9)
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB102
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
Amend 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 344.100 and 344.110 to conform; amend KRS 344.120 and 344.140, relating to prohibited discrimination in places of public accommodation, 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; make various technical amendments; amend KRS 18A.095 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB295
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amend KRS 224.50-585 to define terms; prohibit the intentional release of more than 25 plastic balloons; establish a ban on plastic, single-use carryout bags by July 1, 2030; establish a ban on the provision of single-use plastic straws and Styrofoam food and beverage containers by retail food and beverage establishments by July 1, 2028; establish civil penalty of $100 per day for violations.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB250
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 383 to allow a property owner or his or her authorized agent to request a law enforcement officer to immediately remove a person unlawfully occupying a residential dwelling or other structure under certain circumstances; provide criminal and civil immunity to law enforcement officers and property owners acting in good faith; create a civil cause of action for wrongful removal; create a new section of KRS Chapter 523 to establish the offense of making a false statement to detain real property.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB244
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Create new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms; require health plans to provide coverage for eating or feeding disorder treatment; prohibit health plans from using certain standards, including body mass index, when determining medical necessity or the appropriate level of care for an individual diagnosed with a feeding or eating disorder; amend KRS 304.17C-125, 205.522, 205.6485, 164.2871, and 18A.225 to require limited health services benefit plans, Medicaid, KCHIP, self-insured employer group plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution, and the state employee health plan to comply with the prohibition from using certain standards when determining medical necessity and the coverage requirement for eating or feeding disorder treatment; provide that various sections apply to health plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2026; require the Department for Medicaid Services or the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to obtain federal approval, if necessary, and comply with notice requirements; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2026.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SR33
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
Passed
2/27/25
Recognize and honor Kentucky American Water for its contributions to the prosperity of Kentucky upon its 140th anniversary.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB220
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Report Pass
2/19/25
Engrossed
2/27/25
Refer
2/27/25
Refer
3/4/25
Amend KRS 189A.010, relating to driving under the influence, to provide that a third or subsequent offense of driving under the influence within a 10-year period is a Class D felony; provide that if a person is convicted of a third or subsequent offense of driving under the influence the minimum term of imprisonment shall be 120 days; amend KRS 189A.040, 189A.200, 189A.240, and 281A.2102 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB231
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require each public school that includes any of grades six through 12 to provide free menstrual discharge collection devices to students; require each local board of education to adopt policies for the distribution of free menstrual discharge collection devices; define "menstrual discharge collection devices"; amend KRS 139.010 to define "menstrual discharge collection devices"; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt from sales and use tax the sale or purchase of menstrual discharge collection devices; APPROPRIATION; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2025.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB299
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 67 to require county governments to operate at least one emergency shelter for persons experiencing homelessness or to otherwise contract with an operator of an emergency shelter; require an adequate number of beds in the emergency shelter; require the emergency shelter to conform to applicable federal and state law; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to provide standards for emergency shelters.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB256
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Report Pass
2/18/25
Engrossed
2/21/25
Refer
2/21/25
Refer
2/26/25
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 381 to define terms; establish what constitutes an unbroken chain of title; establish the interests and rights to which a marketable title is subject; include the procedure for preserving an interest in land; delineate protected interests; establish that the provisions are to be liberally construed.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB255
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Report Pass
2/26/25
Engrossed
3/4/25
Refer
3/4/25
Refer
3/6/25
Report Pass
3/27/25
Amend various sections of KRS Chapter 327, relating to the practice and regulation of physical therapy, to state legislative findings; allow a physical therapist to refer a patient for tests or examination; require a practitioner or employer to report a physical therapist or physical therapist assistant who has been convicted of a misdemeanor; require potential board members to not have been under any disciplinary action in the past five years; permit the Board of Physical Therapy to purchase professional liability insurance; authorize the board to convene committees and task forces to review and advise the board on pertinent issues; authorize the board to promulgate administrative regulations to establish fee amounts, issue advisory opinions and declaratory rulings related to this chapter, and issue a license to a physical therapist assistant applicant; prohibit physical therapists and physical therapist assistants from engaging in sexual contact with any active patient of record or parent or legal guardian of the active patient of record; require the board to develop guidelines to follow upon receipt of an allegation of sexual misconduct by a physical therapist or physical therapist assistant; allow the board to receive periodic education on issues affecting the practice of physical therapy and public protection; allow the board to determine which disciplinary records may be expunged; authorize the board to establish the amounts, limits, or ranges for any fines imposed; repeal and reenact KRS 327.010 to define terms; repeal and reenact KRS 327.080 to deposit to the credit of a revolving fund for the use of the board; require all expenses of the board to be paid from the revolving fund.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB218
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to create the vaping settlement trust fund to be administered by the Office of the Attorney General; direct the deposit of certain litigation proceeds into the fund; direct the allowable uses of fund moneys for certain vaping cessation and enforcement efforts.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB216
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Report Pass
2/12/25
Engrossed
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/21/25
Report Pass
3/4/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Enrolled
3/7/25
Vetoed
3/19/25
Refer
3/27/25
Override
3/27/25
Refer
3/27/25
Override
3/27/25
Enrolled
3/27/25
Enrolled
3/27/25
Chaptered
3/27/25
Passed
3/27/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 246 to allow employees of the Department of Agriculture, except those employed within the Kentucky Office of Agricultural Policy, to participate in, apply for, or receive funds, awards, or contracts administered by the department's Kentucky Office of Agricultural Policy; amend KRS 11A.040 to conform; RETROACTIVE; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB241
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Report Pass
2/19/25
Engrossed
2/25/25
Refer
2/25/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
2/27/25
Report Pass
3/6/25
Refer
3/7/25
Refer
3/11/25
Refer
3/14/25
Enrolled
3/14/25
Enrolled
3/14/25
Chaptered
3/27/25
Passed
3/27/25
Allow local school districts to make up days missed by adding instructional time to student attendance days; notwithstand the requirement for the student instructional year to have 170 student attendance days; allow waiver of up to five student attendance days if a school district is unable to provide the required 1,062 hours of instruction by June 4, 2025; require local boards of education seeking to revise its calendar to submit a plan for approval to the Department of Education; allow instructional time made up and days waived to count as employee contracted days; EMERGENCY.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB282
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amend KRS 139.010 to define "diaper"; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt all diapers from the sales and use tax; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2025.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB217
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Failed
2/6/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to define "rapid whole genome sequencing"; require the Department for Medicaid Services and Medicaid managed care organizations to provide coverage for rapid whole genome sequencing; establish conditions for coverage; amend KRS 205.6485 to require the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program to provide coverage for rapid whole genome sequencing; require the Department for Medicaid Services (department) to promulgate administrative regulations; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the department to seek federal approval if it is determined that such approval is necessary, and to comply with KRS 205.525.