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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB594
Introduced
2/9/26
Refer
2/9/26
Refer
2/17/26
Create a new section of KRS 17.500 to 17.580, relating to the sex offender registry, to define "costume" and "Halloween-related activity"; prohibit sex offenders who have committed a criminal offense against a victim who is a minor from participating in any Halloween-related activity; establish penalties.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB178
Introduced
2/10/26
Refer
2/10/26
Refer
2/17/26
Report Pass
2/25/26
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 13A to define various terms; prohibit an administrative regulation setting an environmental requirement under KRS Chapter 39E, 109, 146, 151, 211, 224, or 350 from being more stringent or extensive in scope than any federal law or regulation regarding the same or a similar topic; require any administrative regulation setting an environmental requirement to be based upon the best available science and the weight of scientific evidence; establish exemptions.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HJR68
Introduced
2/10/26
Refer
2/10/26
Refer
2/18/26
Direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to authorize the sharing of information between third-party SNAP benefit processors and the USDA.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB179
Introduced
2/10/26
Refer
2/10/26
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 Senate Bill SR95
Introduced
2/10/26
Refer
2/10/26
Refer
3/31/26
Urge United States Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate and prosecute individuals implicated in criminal activities related to the Jeffrey Epstein files; recognize the efforts of Representative Thomas Massie in securing the public release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SR92
Introduced
2/10/26
Refer
2/10/26
Refer
2/12/26
Passed
3/16/26
Adjourn in honor of Steven D. Doolittle.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB176
Introduced
2/10/26
Refer
2/10/26
Amend KRS 121.180 to allow any member of the General Assembly who has a remaining balance in his or her campaign account to transfer those funds to a campaign account to seek election to statewide constitutional office.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HJR65
Introduced
2/10/26
Refer
2/10/26
Refer
2/18/26
Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of Kentucky Route 88 in Hart County as the Representative Dottie Sims Memorial Highway.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB613
Introduced
2/10/26
Refer
2/10/26
Refer
2/18/26
Report Pass
2/24/26
Amend KRS 75.040 to establish conditions under which a fire protection district or volunteer fire department district may exceed the maximum established tax rate; create a new section of KRS Chapter 75 to establish the procedure by which a fire protection district or volunteer fire department district may exceed the maximum tax rate set in KRS 75.040 by requiring a public hearing and notification to the public; establish the methods by which the public may recall the portion of the levy that increases the tax beyond the previous year's rate; exempt the rates from the provisions of KRS 132.023; amend KRS 75A.050 to establish conditions under which a fire district may exceed the maximum established tax rate; create a new section of KRS Chapter 75A to establish the procedure by which a fire district may exceed the maximum tax rate set out in KRS 75A.050 by requiring a public hearing and notification to the public; establish the methods by which the public may recall the portion of the levy that increases the tax beyond the previous year's rate; exempt the rates from the provisions of KRS 132.023; amend KRS 75.015 to conform; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2027.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HJR64
Introduced
2/10/26
Refer
2/10/26
Refer
2/18/26
Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of Kentucky Route 2057 in Leslie County as the PFC Denver Wells Memorial Highway.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB174
Introduced
2/10/26
Refer
2/10/26
Amend KRS 315.020 to prohibit the Kentucky Board of Pharmacy from requiring immediate supervision of pharmacy technicians stocking, retrieving, or returning products to or from pharmacy inventory in a nonretail pharmacy setting.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SR93
Introduced
2/10/26
Refer
2/10/26
Refer
2/12/26
Passed
3/27/26
Recognize Terry Martin on being awarded the 2026 Truck Dealer of the Year Award.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB614
Introduced
2/10/26
Refer
2/10/26
Refer
2/18/26
Amend KRS 131.140 to make technical corrections.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB611
Introduced
2/10/26
Refer
2/10/26
Refer
2/18/26
Report Pass
2/26/26
Engrossed
3/9/26
Refer
3/9/26
Refer
3/13/26
Report Pass
3/17/26
Enrolled
3/26/26
Enrolled
3/26/26
Chaptered
4/7/26
Passed
4/7/26
Amend KRS 209A.122 to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to provide information regarding whether parties to a petition for an order of protection were represented by a legal counsel; to require the Department of Kentucky State Police to provide all statistical information from all JC-3 forms and all fields on a JC-3 form, relating to domestic violence or abuse or dating violence or abuse; remove the number of orders of protection in LINK; amend KRS 15A.190 to require JC-3 forms to be electronic.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB612
Introduced
2/10/26
Refer
2/10/26
Refer
2/18/26
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 138 to define terms; impose a 4% state retail regulatory license fee on all alcoholic beverage sales to consumers by alcoholic beverage retailers; establish procedures and duties of retailers; establish KRS Chapter 243A and create new sections thereof to impose state wholesale regulatory license fees on alcoholic beverages, state retail regulatory license fees on kratom, hemp-derived, and cannabinoid products, and penalties for violations; set out regulatory license fee rates, deductions for timely filing and payment, and licensee duties; amend KRS 211.285 to fund the alcohol wellness and responsibility education fund with 0.5% of the collected state retail regulatory license fees; amend KRS 241.010 to define "state or national conference" and redefine "alcoholic beverages"; amend KRS 241.069 to delete outdated language; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 243 to establish state license fees for new and existing license types; limit licensee discipline to only the specific license in question; establish a souvenir package license for distillers; authorize distillers, small farm wineries, and microbreweries to allow leashed dogs on their premises; allow caterers and special temporary auction licensees at state and national conferences; modify the privileges for various licensees, including a limited golf course, wholesaler, Class B distiller, and special agent or solicitor; allow a qualified historic site to sell alcoholic beverages by the package under a limited nonquota package license; add references to the new tax structure and statutes; modify requirements for public notice of a license application; sunset existing excise, wholesale, and other taxes on July 1, 2027, as they relate to alcoholic beverages; repeal and reenact KRS 243.075, relating to local regulatory license fees, to allow any moist or wet city or county to impose the fee; authorize audits of each city's or county's regulatory license fee fund by the Auditor of Public Accounts for the most recent 10 years; describe audit penalties for cities and counties that fail to substantially comply; establish the regulatory license fee audit fund; direct cities and counties to reduce the regulatory license fee to 3% within 4 years; limit future cities and counties to a 1% regulatory license fee; amend KRS 244.080 to permanently prohibit a retail license from using a premises if the licensee sold to minors at that premises 3 or more times in 24 months; amend KRS 244.585 to establish limitations for agreements between distributors and breweries or microbreweries; amend KRS 131.250, 139.010, 243.045, 243.430, 243.790, 243.850, and 243.990 to conform; EFFECTIVE, in part, July 1, 2027; EMERGENCY.