Kentucky 2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 68)
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB152
Introduced
2/2/26
Refer
2/2/26
Refer
2/11/26
Report Pass
2/12/26
Engrossed
2/20/26
Refer
2/20/26
Amend KRS 160.345 to define "school-based policy"; require that principals provide monthly and annual reports to the local board of education; set notice requirements for school advisory council elections; establish that a superintendent selects the principals for the school district; require that all school-based policies be reviewed and approved by the local board before implementation and provide exceptions; amend KRS 160.370 to permit county school districts with more than 15,000 students to delegate the approval of school-based policies; amend KRS 158.1415 to permit a local school board to adopt a curriculum for human sexuality; amend various sections of KRS Chapters 7, 156, 157, 158, 160, 161, 164, and 605 to transfer duties of school-based decision making councils to advisory councils and principals and to conform.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HR54
Introduced
2/3/26
Refer
2/3/26
Refer
3/12/26
Passed
3/16/26
Recognize March 16 to 20, 2026, as Neurodiversity Celebration Week in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB161
Introduced
2/3/26
Refer
2/3/26
Amend KRS 336.130 to delete references restricting rights of public employees to organize, associate collectively, or strike; amend KRS 336.180 to redefine "labor organization" and delete definitions of "candidate," "committee," "contributing organization," "contribution," "election," "electioneering communications," "employer," "fundraiser," "independent expenditure," "political activities," "public employee," "slate of candidates," and "testimonial affair"; amend KRS 336.990 to conform; amend KRS 67A.6904 to allow urban-county governments to make an agreement with a labor organization to require membership in the organization as a condition of employment; amend KRS 67C.406 to allow consolidated local governments to make an agreement with a labor organization to require membership in the organization as a condition of employment; amend KRS 70.262, 78.470, and 78.480 to remove exceptions; amend KRS 345.050 to allow public employers to make an agreement with a labor organization to require membership in the organization as a condition of employment; amend KRS 336.1341 and 336.135 to conform; repeal KRS 65.016, 336.132, and 336.134.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SR76
Introduced
2/3/26
Refer
2/3/26
Refer
2/5/26
Passed
2/18/26
Honor Frank Riherd, founder of the Riherd's Scoreboard, for his contributions to Kentucky high school athletics.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SJR75
Introduced
2/3/26
Refer
2/3/26
Refer
2/25/26
Report Pass
3/11/26
Engrossed
3/17/26
Refer
3/17/26
Refer
3/19/26
Report Pass
3/24/26
Direct the Public Service Commission to open 1 or more administrative cases to investigate and identify measures to improve the affordability of utility service for low- and fixed-income individuals; direct that the PSC report to the Legislative Research Commission by September 1, 2027; EMERGENCY.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB545
Introduced
2/3/26
Refer
2/3/26
Refer
2/10/26
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a nonrefundable income tax credit for alternative jet fuel producers; require the Department of Revenue, in conjunction with the Department of Agriculture and the Energy and Environment Cabinet, to promulgate administrative regulations; require the department to report on the credit to the Legislative Research Commission; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the credit.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HJR52
Introduced
2/3/26
Refer
2/3/26
Refer
2/10/26
Set out the last 4 years of the Governor's recommended Six-Year Road Plan.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB539
Introduced
2/3/26
Refer
2/3/26
Refer
2/10/26
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 446 to prohibit the recognition of adjudicative rulings or contractual provisions based in whole or in part upon Sharia or any foreign law; provide for exceptions for ecclesiastical matters, voluntary choice of law for corporate entities, or where federal preemption applies.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB155
Introduced
2/3/26
Refer
2/3/26
Refer
2/6/26
Report Pass
2/10/26
Engrossed
2/13/26
Refer
2/13/26
Refer
3/12/26
Report Pass
3/18/26
Refer
3/25/26
Enrolled
3/25/26
Enrolled
3/25/26
Chaptered
4/3/26
Passed
4/3/26
Amend KRS 39A.020 to define "animal health emergency"; amend KRS 39A.100 to authorize the Commissioner of Agriculture, in consultation with the state veterinarian, to declare an animal health emergency; grant the Commissioner of Agriculture emergency powers to order veterinary or veterinary technician services, request that the secretary of the Transportation Cabinet waive regulatory requirements relating to the transportation of animal feed stock or medicine; order the quarantine of any livestock, poultry, domesticated animal, article, or equipment serving as a vector of communicable disease; authorize the Commissioner of Agriculture to establish roadblocks with the assistance of state and local law enforcement and game wardens employed by the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to prevent the transportation of animals, articles, or equipment ordered quarantined; authorize the Commissioner of Agriculture to purchase goods and services needed to stop the spread of the communicable disease without regard to the Model Procurement Code established in KRS Chapter 45A; authorize the Commissioner of Agriculture to request emergency assistance from any local government or special district, state agency, and the Governor in order to initiate any request for federal assistance.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB533
Introduced
2/3/26
Refer
2/3/26
Refer
2/9/26
Set out the Governor's recommended 2026-2028 Biennial Highway Construction Plan; EMERGENCY.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB550
Introduced
2/3/26
Refer
2/3/26
Refer
2/10/26
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to define terms; provide rights related to access to contraception; create private right of action; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for contraception; amend KRS 304.17A-099 to exclude contraception from cost defrayal requirements; require health benefit plans to provide coverage for long-acting reversible contraception administered during a postpartum hospital stay; amend KRS 164.2871, 205.522, 205.6485, and 18A.225 to require self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary institution to its employees, Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program, and the state employee health plan to comply with the new section on contraceptive coverage; amend KRS 446.350 to provide that nothing in the new section on contraceptive coverage shall be construed to violate section; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to apply for a Medicaid waiver to offer family planning services to certain low-income individuals; require the cabinet to report annually; create a new section of KRS Chapter 315 to allow pharmacists to prescribe and dispense hormonal contraceptives; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to seek federal approval if they determine that such approval is necessary; provide authorization from the General Assembly to make changes as required under KRS 205.5372(1); include provisions for cost defrayal requirements; direct that provisions apply to health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2027; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2027.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SR77
Introduced
2/3/26
Refer
2/3/26
Refer
2/5/26
Passed
3/16/26
Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Norma June Evans.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB159
Introduced
2/3/26
Refer
2/3/26
Refer
2/11/26
Report Pass
2/12/26
Engrossed
2/19/26
Refer
2/19/26
Amend KRS 15.440, relating to eligibility for Law Enforcement Foundation Program funds, to require units of government to possess a written policy and procedures manual that requires local police departments to submit missing and unidentified persons case information to the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System according to specified criteria.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB544
Introduced
2/3/26
Refer
2/3/26
Refer
2/10/26
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to define terms; prohibit a retail electric supplier from providing service to a data center customer that has a total aggregated customer contract capacity of greater than 100 megawatts unless the Public Service Commission has approved a tariff or contract for the service that includes certain minimum requirements; exempt a data center customer that has an electric service agreement for more than 100 megawatts of existing load prior to the effective date of the Act; prohibit the commission from approving a tariff unless all capital and operating costs for new infrastructure to serve the data center are assigned to the data center customer and that the costs for shared benefits for the new facilities are allocated proportionally and will not have any greater adverse impact on other customer classes than if the data center had not connected to the system; provide that the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Ratepayer Protection Act.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB543
Introduced
2/3/26
Refer
2/3/26
Refer
2/10/26
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 217 to define terms; permit a manufacturer operating within an eligible facility to make available to an eligible patient an individualized investigational drug, biological product, or device; permit the manufacturer to provide the individualized investigational drug, biological product, or device or require the patient to cover the costs; provide that if a patient dies while being treated his or her heirs are not liable for costs; provide that health care provider licensing boards may not take actions against licensees for their recommendations relating to an individualized investigational drug, biological product, or device; provide that official attempts shall not be made to block an eligible patient's access to an individualized investigational drug, biological product, or device; prohibit private actions against a manufacturer of an individualized investigational drug, biological product, or device that has exercised reasonable care in accordance with this section; preclude any conclusion that health insurance coverage is required or that hospitals are required to provide new or additional services.