Kentucky 2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 94)

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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HJR42

Introduced
1/27/26  
Refer
1/27/26  
Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the 2 bridges on Interstate 264 over United States Route 31W in Jefferson County as the Detective John Robert Weiss Memorial Overpass and the Officer Armand VanCleave, Sr., Memorial Overpass.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB491

Introduced
1/27/26  
Refer
1/27/26  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to define terms; permit a resident of a long-term care facility to install an electronic monitoring device; require a resident to give consent to install an electronic monitoring device; establish the actions that a resident and a facility may take if consent is granted or if consent is not granted; require the cabinet to create a form to authorize the installation and use of an electronic monitoring device and set requirements; establish installation, use, and retention requirements for devices and recordings; require a long-term care facility to post a notice that an electronic monitoring device is used in a room; prohibit a resident from being discriminated or retaliated against because of the decision to authorize and use an electronic monitoring device; establish guidelines on who can view or listen to the images displaced by the monitoring device; prohibit unauthorized individuals from destroying the device or recordings; establish limits on liability and liability defenses; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations; exempt specific provisions if a monitoring device is installed by a law enforcement agency; establish penalties.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB504

Introduced
1/27/26  
Refer
1/27/26  
Refer
2/3/26  
Report Pass
2/26/26  
Engrossed
2/27/26  
Refer
2/27/26  
Refer
3/2/26  
Report Pass
3/18/26  
Refer
3/19/26  
Refer
3/19/26  
Refer
4/1/26  
Enrolled
4/1/26  
Enrolled
4/1/26  
Vetoed
4/13/26  
Refer
4/14/26  
Refer
4/14/26  
Enrolled
4/14/26  
Enrolled
4/14/26  
Chaptered
4/14/26  
The Judicial Branch Budget: Detail Part I, Operating Budget; detail Part II, Capital Projects Budget; detail Part III, General Provisions; detail Part IV, Budget Reduction or Surplus Expenditure Plan; APPROPRIATION.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SB128

Introduced
1/27/26  
Amend KRS 304.17A-164 to define and redefine terms; establish cost-sharing requirements for prescription drugs; require rebates to be passed through; establish confidentiality requirements for the rebate information; create a new section of KRS 365.880 to 365.900 to provide that the actual amount of rebates received is a trade secret; provide that compliance with prescription drug cost-sharing and rebate requirements shall not be in violation of the Uniform Trade Secrets Act; amend KRS 304.17C-125, 304.38A-115, 18A.225, and 164.2871 to apply the cost-sharing and rebate requirements for prescription drugs to limited health service benefit plans, limited health service organizations, the state employee health plan, and self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution; apply provisions to health plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2027; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2027.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB509

Introduced
1/28/26  
Refer
1/28/26  
Amend KRS 199.430 to insert gender-neutral language.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SB6

Introduced
1/28/26  
Refer
1/28/26  
Refer
2/25/26  
Report Pass
3/4/26  
Engrossed
3/11/26  
Refer
3/11/26  
Appropriate General Fund moneys in the amount of $150,000,000 in fiscal year 2026-2027 to the endowed research fund; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SB132

Introduced
1/28/26  
Refer
1/28/26  
Refer
2/2/26  
Report Pass
2/4/26  
Engrossed
2/9/26  
Refer
2/9/26  
Amend KRS 309.364 to confer authority on local governments to regulate massage therapy buinesses relating to zoning requirements, occupational licensing or fees, and inspections, advertising, hours of operation, and sanitation; amend KRS 309.3535 to increase violation penalty from a Class B misdemeanor to Class A misdemeanor for each massage performed without a license.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB505

Introduced
1/28/26  
Refer
1/28/26  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 43 to require the Auditor of Public Accounts to conduct a biennial audit of the contract procurement systems of the Department of Highways; enumerate issues to be examined in the audit; allow the Auditor to contract for professional services; require the Department of Highways to reimburse the Auditor for the cost of the audit; require submission of the audit to the LRC by October 31st of each odd numbered year; amend KRS 176.050 to require the Department of Highways to reimburse the Auditor for the biennial audit of contract procurement procedures; require the department to promulgate administrative regulations regarding the advertisement and award of bids for highway construction; amend KRS 176.210 to prohibit the Department of Highways from making public the identity of a qualified bidder on a particular project prior to the bid letting on that project.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SB131

Introduced
1/28/26  
Refer
1/28/26  
Refer
2/25/26  
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a cause of action for a person who was wrongfully convicted of a felony in the Commonwealth; specify amounts of damages that may be awarded to claimants; establish the wrongful conviction compensation fund.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB508

Introduced
1/28/26  
Refer
1/28/26  
Refer
2/4/26  
Report Pass
2/10/26  
Engrossed
2/13/26  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 40 to limit the compensation for advising or assisting with veterans' benefits; prohibit persons seeking compensation for advising, assisting, or consulting on a veterans' benefits matter from utilizing international call or data centers, directly or aggressively soliciting business, gaining access to personal medical, financial, or benefits log-in or password information, charging interest, and utilizing a doctor with whom they have an employment or business relationship; limit the fee for representation; require any person receiving compensation for assisting on a veterans' benefits matter to report to the Kentucky Department of Veterans' Affairs (KDVA) annually; allow KDVA to promulgate form for the report and display it on their website; establish that violators constitute a violation of the Consumer Protection Act; provide that attorneys and law firms seeking to receive compensation for advising, assisting, or consulting any individual with any veterans' benefits matter shall be governed federal regulations.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB510

Introduced
1/28/26  
Refer
1/28/26  
Refer
2/4/26  
Report Pass
2/19/26  
Engrossed
2/26/26  
Refer
2/26/26  
Refer
3/16/26  
Report Pass
3/18/26  
Enrolled
3/26/26  
Enrolled
3/26/26  
Chaptered
4/7/26  
Create a new section of Chapter 311 to define terms; establish conditions and processes for pause in procedure for an organ donation; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to implement and enforce the pause in procedure requirements; establish that the provisions should not be construed to conflict with KRS 446.400, discourage ethical organ donation, interfere with independent end-of-life decision making, conflict with the Revised Uniform Anatomical Gift Act, or authorize the Commonwealth to affect the federal certification, designation, or service area of an organ procurement organization; require the cabinet to submit report on pause in procedures to the Legislative Research Commission.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB507

Introduced
1/28/26  
Refer
1/28/26  
Amend KRS 199.575 to insert gender-neutral language.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB496

Introduced
1/28/26  
Refer
1/28/26  
Amend KRS 199.894 to define "outdoor nature-based early learning and child-care program"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to establish the licensure and operations requirements of outdoor nature-based early learning and child-care programs; establish the Outdoor, Nature–Based Early Learning and Child Care Program Advisory Committee; establish the membership and duties of the committee.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB498

Introduced
1/28/26  
Refer
1/28/26  
Refer
2/4/26  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to establish the Adult Workforce Diploma Pilot Program; define terms; establish the Adult Workforce Diploma Pilot Program fund; establish eligibility criteria for the program; direct the Education and Labor Cabinet to administer the program; provide payments to program providers for students who complete specified milestones; require program result reporting to the Kentucky Board of Education, the Secretary of State, and the Legislative Research Commission; specify a program end date of July 1, 2029.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB511

Introduced
1/28/26  
Refer
1/28/26  
Amend KRS 532.031, relating to hate crimes, to include offenses committed against an individual because of political creed; amend KRS 15.334 and 17.1523 to conform.