Kentucky 2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 36)

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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB349

Introduced
1/13/26  
Refer
1/13/26  
Amend KRS 337.010 to increase the applicable threshold of employees of retail stores and service industries from $95,000 to $500,000 average annual gross volume of sales for the employer; amend KRS 337.275 to incrementally raise minimum wage of hourly and tipped employees and require adherence to any future federal increase in excess of the new state wage rates; include anti-preemption language permitting local governments to establish minimum wage ordinances in excess of the state minimum wage.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB334

Introduced
1/13/26  
Refer
1/13/26  
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 61 to define "boy," "equal," "female," "girl," "male," "man," "sex," and "woman"; prohibit any state or local law, regulation, ordinance, or policy from treating males or females unfairly from similiarly situated members of the opposite sex, but permit separation of the sexes if in the interest of maintaining safety, privacy, and fairness; provide a non-exhaustive list of examples of areas in which public entities may distinguish between the sexes; require any public school, public school district, state agency, department, local government, special district or any political subdivision of those entities that collects vital statistics to identify each person as either male or female; provide that the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Women's Bill of Rights.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB354

Introduced
1/13/26  
Refer
1/13/26  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to create the homelessness prevention fund to be administered by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services for continuum of care funds; specify eligible uses and eligible entities; amend KRS 198A.027 to allow appropriations to be used for homeless initiatives; appropriate $2,000,000 from the budget reserve trust fund to the homelessness prevention fund; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB364

Introduced
1/13/26  
Refer
1/13/26  
Refer
1/21/26  
Report Pass
2/17/26  
Engrossed
3/6/26  
Refer
3/6/26  
Refer
3/9/26  
Amend KRS 38.030 to define "Commonwealth emergency response pay" and entitle Kentucky National Guard members to receive Commonwealth emergency response pay when called to state active duty service when an emergency is declared by the Governor; amend KRS 38.010 to conform.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB339

Introduced
1/13/26  
Refer
1/13/26  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 36 to define "employee"; and "employer" provide employment protections for members of the Civil Air Patrol in private businesses and local governments; amend KRS 61.394 to extend state government employment protections to members of the Civil Air Patrol.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB332

Introduced
1/13/26  
Refer
1/13/26  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 186 to define "local governmental entity" and "local official"; require the Transportation Cabinet to expand driver licensing services by setting up a system between the Transportation Cabinet and 1 local official or local governmental entity in each county to issue operator's licenses and personal identification cards; require the Transportation Cabinet to identify a local official or local governmental entity in each county that will participate in the system by July 1, 2027; allow a local offical or local governmental entity to charge a convenience fee for any document issued by a local official or local governmental entity; require the Transportation Cabinet report the number of documents issued by local officials and local governmental entities and any effect on wait times at regional licensing offices; amend KRS 186.531 to conform; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2027.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB353

Introduced
1/13/26  
Refer
1/13/26  
Amend KRS 40.050 to include gender-neutral language.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB358

Introduced
1/13/26  
Refer
1/13/26  
Create a new section of KRS 164.740 to 164.7891 to establish a coal county paramedic scholarship to be administered by the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority (KHEAA); define terms; establish a fund in the State Treasury to be administered by KHEAA for providing coal county paramedic scholarships.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB360

Introduced
1/13/26  
Refer
1/13/26  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 525 to define "adult performance"; establish the offense of engaging in an adult performance; establish penalties; EMERGENCY.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB356

Introduced
1/13/26  
Refer
1/13/26  
Refer
1/21/26  
Report Pass
1/29/26  
Amend KRS 132.380 to require the examination of candidates for the office of property valuation administrator to be offered by the Kentucky Community and Technical College System (KCTCS); require the Department of Revenue to provide KCTCS with examination questions and other relevant examination information; establish the examination period; require KCTCS to work with the department to promulgate administrative regulations for the examination registration and establishment of fees; require KCTCS to provide the Department of Revenue information from a candidate's examination for purposes of determining if the candidate passed the examination; establish a deadline for the Department of Revenue to issue a certificate of fitness and qualification to candidates who passed the examination; make technical corrections.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB362

Introduced
1/13/26  
Refer
1/13/26  
Amend KRS 238.545 to increase the maximum prize for an individual charity game ticket to $2,000.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SCR140

Introduced
3/2/26  
Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Performance-Based Education Task Force to review and provide recommendations relating to the expansion of performance-based credit; outline task force membership; require the task force to meet monthly during the 2026 Interim of the General Assembly; require 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 House Bill HB805

Introduced
3/2/26  
Refer
3/2/26  
Amend KRS 304.48-080 to replace a reference to the executive director with the commissioner.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB8

Introduced
3/3/26  
Refer
3/3/26  
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to establish that the General Assembly shall determine the date a regular session shall end unless another date is agreed upon by 3/5 of the membership of each House; establish that the General Assembly may be convened upon a Joint Proclamation of the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House for 2 additional sessions of no more than 12 total legislative days annually; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB868

Introduced
3/3/26  
Refer
3/3/26  
Amend KRS 17.500 to expand the definition of "registrant information"; amend KRS 17.510 to allow a sex offender registration form to be submitted electronically; require a registrant to update any registrant information within 3 days; amend KRS 17.520 to expand those offenses eligible for lifetime registration; increase the 20 year registration for all other offenses to 25 years; amend KRS 17.580 to require the Department of Kentucky State Police to display additional information on the sex offender registry website beginning on or before July 1, 2027; amend KRS 17.165, 160.130, 160.151, and 161.185 to conform; make technical corrections.