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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SB13

Introduced
1/6/26  
Refer
1/6/26  
Refer
1/14/26  
Report Pass
1/15/26  
Engrossed
1/23/26  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 100 to define terms; amend KRS 100.133 and 100.137 to allow the inclusion of a nonvoting ex officio member of a planning unit to be a representative of a military installation to advise on matters relating to national security and other concerns for the military installation; provide that the Act may be cited as the Military Installation Protection Act.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HR6

Introduced
1/6/26  
Honor and support law enforcement officers in Kentucky and throughout the United States.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SR15

Introduced
1/6/26  
Refer
1/6/26  
Refer
1/9/26  
Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Joyce Laverne Johnson.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB13

Introduced
1/6/26  
Refer
1/6/26  
Amend KRS 141.020 to establish a graduated tax rate for net income of $300,000 or less; establish a flat tax rate of 6% for net incomes in excess of $300,000; and remove provisions relating to tax rate reduction procedures.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SB34

Introduced
1/6/26  
Refer
1/6/26  
Refer
1/20/26  
Report Pass
1/22/26  
Engrossed
3/13/26  
Refer
3/13/26  
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 391 to establish the Kentucky Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act to codify provisions for the creation, administration, modification, termination, and validity of transfer on death deeds; define terms; specify that a transfer on death deed is not an inter vivos transfer and that the transfer occurs at the time of the transferor's death; specify that the transferor retains the power to revoke a transfer on death deed; establish that a transfer on death deed is nontestamentary; establish requirements for a transfer on death deed and specify the process of recording a transfer on death deed; specify that a transfer on death deed is effective without acceptance by the beneficiary during the transferor's lifetime; establish provisions for the revocation of a transfer on death deed by instrument or act; establish the effect of a transfer on death deed during the transferor's life; allow a beneficiary to disclaim the property interest in the deed; establish a form for creating at transfer on death deed; establish a form for revocation of a transfer on death deed; require the Department of Revenue to provide the established forms; specify the applicability of KRS Chapter 391; conform to federal requirements related to electronic signatures and records; amend KRS 64.012 to provide the recording fee for a transfer on death deed or revocation; require the Department of Medicaid Services to prescribe and provide a form requiring information related to any Medicaid lien; provide that Sections 1 to 14 of this Act may be cited as the Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act; Amend KRS 381.280, 382.110, 382.135, 391.360, 392.020, 392.070, and 403.190 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 186A to define terms; establish requirements for a transfer of a vehicle's title to a named beneficiary upon the death of the owner; direct the Transportation Cabinet to develop a form for transfer; amend KRS 395.455 to dispense with administration of an estate and transfer property under certain circumstances relating to minors and payment of preferred claims.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SCR13

Introduced
1/6/26  
Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Aviation Economic Development Task Force and direct it to study and make recommendations; establish membership and meetings; direct the task force to submit its findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2026.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SR10

Introduced
1/6/26  
Refer
1/6/26  
Refer
1/12/26  
Adjourn in honor and loving memory of the victims of UPS Airlines Flight 2976, and recognize the efforts of first responders and other agencies that responded to the crash.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SB90

Introduced
1/6/26  
Refer
1/6/26  
Refer
1/14/26  
Report Pass
1/15/26  
Engrossed
1/23/26  
Refer
1/23/26  
Refer
3/6/26  
Report Pass
3/27/26  
Refer
3/31/26  
Enrolled
4/1/26  
Enrolled
4/1/26  
Chaptered
4/13/26  
Amend KRS 533.272 to extend the behavioral health conditional dismissal program pilot project until January 1, 2031; amend KRS 533.288 to extend the Behavioral Health Conditional Dismissal Program Implementation Council until December 31, 2031; amend 2022 Ky. Acts ch. 230, sec. 13, to establish that moneys appropriated for the behavioral health conditional dismissal program through June 30, 2026, shall not lapse and shall be carried forward.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB177

Introduced
1/7/26  
Refer
1/7/26  
Amend KRS 314.041, relating to registered nurse licensure, and KRS 314.051, relating to licensed practical nurse licensure, to add credential requirements; amend KRS 314.042 to require physicians collaborating with an advanced practice registered nurse to have an active and unrestricted license in Kentucky; amend KRS 314.109 to reduce the time from 90 to 30 days for a person under the jurisdiction of the board to notify the board of a conviction of certain misdemeanors or felonies; amend KRS 209.032, relating to employees of vulnerable adult service providers, to permit a state licensing board to query the cabinet for a validated substantiated finding of adult abuse, neglect, or exploitation against an individual under the licensing board's jurisdiction; create a new section of KRS 158.830 to 158.838 to define terms; permit health care practitioners to prescribe and dispense undesignated glucagon in the name of a school or to a trained individual; permit trained individuals to receive, possess, and administer undesignated glucagon during diabetic medical emergencies; permit schools to stock undesignated glucagon; provide for immunity from civil liability for any personal injury resulting from good-faith actions to use undesignated glucagon to treat diabetic medical emergencies; amend KRS 158.832 to add definition of "documented medical conditions" and medications to the definition of "medications"; amend KRS 158.834 to add medical conditions and medications that may be self-administered in schools with parental authorization and a prescription; amend KRS 158.836 to require students to permit bronchodilator rescue inhalers, nebulizers, glucagon, Solu-Cortef, or other prescribed medications in their possession or in the possession of school personnel; encourage schools to stock undesignated glucagon; and require policies and Good Samaritan protection for the good-faith administration of glucagon, Solu-Cortef, or other prescribed medications for authorized school employees.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB172

Introduced
1/7/26  
Refer
1/7/26  
Amend KRS 121.015 to define "expenditure"; amend KRS 121.150 to prohibit candidates, slates of candidates, committees, contributing organizations, or anyone on their behalf from making an expenditure to an intermediary, including subcontractors, for the purpose of making a payment to another person; require that expenditures be made directly to the provider of goods or personal services.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB169

Introduced
1/7/26  
Refer
1/7/26  
Refer
1/14/26  
Report Pass
1/28/26  
Engrossed
2/4/26  
Refer
2/4/26  
Refer
3/20/26  
Report Pass
3/24/26  
Enrolled
4/1/26  
Enrolled
4/1/26  
Chaptered
4/13/26  
Create new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms; require health plans to provide coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of feeding or eating disorders; prohibit insurers from using certain standards, including body mass index, to deny, limit, or restrict coverage; authorize insurers to consider certain factors 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, 304.38A-115, 205.522, 205.6485, 164.2871, and 18A.225 to require limited health services benefit plans, limited health service organizations, 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 coverage requirements for feeding or eating disorders; provide that various sections apply to health plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2027; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to seek federal approval if it is determined that such approval is necessary; provide authorization from the General Assembly to make changes in the Medicaid program as required under KRS 205.5372(1); EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2027.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB90

Introduced
1/7/26  
Refer
1/7/26  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to define "lobbying" and "public school or school district"; prohibit a public school or school district from expending any moneys to compensate an external individual or entity to lobby; permit employees of public schools or school districts to engage in lobbying services; permit schools to compensate external individuals or entities to represent their interest before the executive or legislative branch of the federal government; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to prohibit a public postsecondary education institution from expending moneys to compensate an external individual or entity to engage in lobbying services; permit employees of public postsecondary education institutions to engage in lobbying services; permit public postsecondary education institutions to compensate external individuals or entities to represent their interest before the executive or legislative branch of the federal government.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB218

Introduced
1/7/26  
Refer
1/7/26  
Amend KRS 61.510 to change the current definition of "membership date" in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System to remove date restrictions regarding educational contracts and allow any member who entered into an educational contract as a conditional employee of the state of Kentucky to have their system membership date, for purposes of retirement benefits determination, be based upon the earliest date of the contract.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB174

Introduced
1/7/26  
Refer
1/7/26  
Amend KRS 402.020 to prohibit marriage with a person under 18 years of age; exclude from being prohibited and void, marriages entered into in the Commonwealth before the effective date of this Act if both parties are 18 or older and marriages entered into in another state or country if both parties are 18 at time residency is established; amend KRS 402.030 to require courts to declare any marriage void if a person is under 18 years of age at the time of the petition; amend KRS 402.080 and 402.210 to prohibit the issuance of marriage licenses to persons under 18 years of age; repeal KRS 402.205, relating to petitions to courts filed by minors aged 17 years seeking permission to marry.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB81

Introduced
1/7/26  
Refer
1/7/26  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 38 to restrict the use of the Kentucky National Guard outside of state active duty unless Congress officially declares war or has taken official action pursuant to the Constitution of the United States and has satisfied any outstanding balance to the Kentucky National Guard; allow the Governor to deploy the National Guard under Title 32 of the United States Code to assist in border protection, for not more than 30 days, when the governor of a state or territory has declared an invasion; provide that the Act may be cited as the Defend the Guard Act.