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State Representative
John Blanton
(R) - Kentucky
Kentucky House District 092
In Office - Started: 01/01/2017

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702 Capital Ave.
Frankfort, KY 40601
Phone: 502-564-8100

Bill Bill Name Summary Progress
HB664 AN ACT relating to the operation of a motor vehicle and declaring an emergency. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 189 to define "automated speed enforcement device," "owner," "program," and "recorded images"; direct the Transportation Cabinet to establish a pilot program for automated speed enforcement in highway work zones and issue a civil citation to an operator of a motor vehicle traveling more than 10 miles per hour over the posted speed limit when a bona fide worker is present; establish procedures for citation issuance; direct the Transportation Cabinet to install signage with lights that are flashing when an automated speed enforcement device is active; specify that courtesy warnings shall be given for the first 30 days following the date on which the system is active in any part of the work zone; establish when an image recorded by an automated speed enforcement device is to be destroyed; establish to whom an image recorded by an automated speed enforcement device may be disclosed; direct the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the program; establish civil fines for violations issued under the program; specify that all fines and penalties assessed be deposited into the automated speed enforcement fund; require the Transportation Cabinet to annually report to the Legislative Research Commission the status of the program and the number of vehicle accidents, injuries, and fatalities occurring in highway work zones; establish the automated speed enforcement fund; specify that moneys collected be used to defray the costs of administering the program; specify that any moneys collected in excess of program costs be deposited into the highway work zone safety fund and used for the purposes of that fund; provide that the provisions be repealed effective July 1, 2029; provide that the Act may be cited as the Jared Lee Helton Act of 2025. Signed/Enacted/Adopted
HB662 AN ACT relating to personally identifiable information. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to define terms; prohibit the disclosure of personally identifiable information of judicial officers or their immediate family members by a government agency if a written request not to disclose the information has been made; require a government agency to remove personally identifiable information of a judicial officer or immediate family member within 72 hours of receiving a written request for its removal; establish a civil cause of action for injunctive or declaratory relief for unauthorized disclosure. Signed/Enacted/Adopted
HCR22 A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION declaring that nuclear power generation is a clean and dispatchable means of providing baseload electricity to the residents and businesses of the Commonwealth. A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION declaring that nuclear power generation is a clean and dispatchable means of providing baseload electricity to the residents and businesses of the Commonwealth. Signed/Enacted/Adopted
HB444 AN ACT relating to commercial driver's licenses. Amend KRS 281A.185, relating to commercial driver's licenses, to establish a reporting requirement for the court to the licensing agency when a conviction occurs to be recorded on the driver's record and to trigger any disqualifying action. Signed/Enacted/Adopted
HB399 AN ACT relating to interference with a legislative proceeding. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 519 to define terms; create the crime of interference with a legislative proceeding in the first degree; create the crime of interference with a legislative proceeding in the second degree; amend KRS 431.015 to require a peace officer to make an arrest for a violation of interference with a legislative proceeding in the first or second degree. Signed/Enacted/Adopted
HB136 AN ACT relating to corrections. Amend KRS 439.3103 to require the Department of Corrections to include in its report certain data on time served by persons released from a correctional institution and on persons released from a correctional institution on parole; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2026. Signed/Enacted/Adopted
HB241 AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency. Allow local school districts to make up days missed by adding instructional time to student attendance days; notwithstand the requirement for the student instructional year to have 170 student attendance days; allow waiver of up to five student attendance days if a school district is unable to provide the required 1,062 hours of instruction by June 4, 2025; require local boards of education seeking to revise its calendar to submit a plan for approval to the Department of Education; allow instructional time made up and days waived to count as employee contracted days; EMERGENCY. Signed/Enacted/Adopted
HJR15 A JOINT RESOLUTION to return for permanent display on the New State Capitol grounds the granite Ten Commandments monument given to the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1971 by the Fraternal Order of Eagles. A JOINT RESOLUTION to return for permanent display on the New State Capitol grounds the granite Ten Commandments monument given to the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1971 by the Fraternal Order of Eagles. Signed/Enacted/Adopted
HB520 AN ACT relating to law enforcement records. Amend KRS 61.878, relating to open records, to provide that law enforcement records shall be exempt from public inspection if the disclosure of the information could pose an articulable risk of harm to the law enforcement agency or its investigtion by revealing the identity of informants or witnesses not otherwise known. Signed/Enacted/Adopted
HB15 AN ACT relating to instruction permits and declaring an emergency. Amend KRS 186.450 to allow persons who are at least 15 years of age to apply for a motor vehicle instruction permit; establish that an instruction permit is valid for four years; amend KRS 186.410, 186.452 and 159.051 to conform; EMERGENCY. Signed/Enacted/Adopted
HB196 AN ACT relating to coal mining. Amend KRS 351.127 to reduce the number of emergency medical or mine emergency technicians required to be on shift at every active coal mine from two to one, if the number of employees on the shift is 10 or fewer. Signed/Enacted/Adopted
HB30 AN ACT relating to public employee benefits. Amend KRS 61.598 to exempt from the pension spiking provisions any increases in rates of pay authorized or funded by the legislative or administrative body of an employer or mandated in a collective bargaining agreement approved by the legislative body of the employer that are provided to members of the Kentucky Employees Retirement System, County Employees Retirement System, or State Police Retirement System. Signed/Enacted/Adopted
HB443 AN ACT relating to the Hal Rogers Parkway. Amend KRS 177.317 to direct the Transportation Cabinet to include Kentucky Route 80 in the counties of Perry, Knott, and Floyd as part of the Hal Rogers Parkway; establish timeline for updating maps and signage. Signed/Enacted/Adopted
HB19 AN ACT relating to privacy protection. Amend KRS 500.130 to define terms; provide that the use of an unmanned aircraft system is not prohibited in the case of recreational or professional use if there is not intent to conduct surveillance on private property and there is no unauthorized use or publication of images of individuals or areas of private property, or in the case of an insurance company for purposes of underwriting a risk or investigating damage; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a civil action; create a new section of KRS Chapter 413 to establish a statute of limitations for the civil action. Signed/Enacted/Adopted
HB236 AN ACT relating to coverage for epinephrine devices. Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to cover epinephrine devices for covered persons; limit a covered person's cost-sharing amount to $100 annually; amend KRS 304.17A-099 to exempt the epinephrine device coverage requirement from being suspended under state law due to the triggering of federal cost defrayment requirements; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485,164.2871, and 18A.225 to require Medicaid, KCHIP, self-insured employer group health plans offered by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution, and the state employee health plan to comply with the epinephrine device coverage requirement; provide that various sections apply to health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2026; require the Department of Insurance to determine whether the epinephrine devices coverage requirement would be in addition to essential health benefits required under federal law; require the Department of Insurance to obtain federal approval, if necessary; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to obtain federal approval, if necessary, and comply with notice requirements; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2026. Dead
HCR78 A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Disaster Prevention and Resiliency Task Force to study disaster mitigation, risk assessment, infrastructure resilience, and planning for natural disasters that impact the Commonwealth. A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Disaster Prevention and Resiliency Task Force to study disaster mitigation, risk assessment, infrastructure resilience, and planning for natural disasters that impact the Commonwealth. Dead
HB16 AN ACT relating to water fluoridation programs. Amend KRS 211.190 to make water fluoridation programs optional; allow the governing bodies of water systems subject to regulation by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to decide whether they participate in water fluoridation programs; provide that a water fluoridation program in place on the effective date of the Act continues until action is taken by its governing body to end its participation; provide that any decision regarding participation in a water fluoridation program made by the governing body of a water system shall be binding on all water systems it supplies. Dead
HJR70 A JOINT RESOLUTION designating the BB and Larry King Memorial Bridge in Knott County. A JOINT RESOLUTION designating the BB and Larry King Memorial Bridge in Knott County. Dead
HB663 AN ACT relating to recyclers. Repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 177.905, 177.910, 177.912, 177.915, 177.920, 177.925, 177.395, 177.940, and 177.950 as new sections of KRS Chapter 190 to place the licensing of recyclers under the Motor Vehicle Commission. Dead
HJR63 A JOINT RESOLUTION designating the Robert Ritchie Memorial Highway in Magoffin County. A JOINT RESOLUTION designating the Robert Ritchie Memorial Highway in Magoffin County. Dead
HB535 AN ACT relating to motor vehicles. Amend KRS 186.032 to define "communication disorder"; allow the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to identify other communication disorders; establish that information may be included in the Kentucky vehicle registration system database indicating that a regular passenger of the vehicle may be deaf or hard of hearing or have a communication disorder. Dead
HB277 AN ACT relating to the mental health of first responders. Amend KRS 95A.292 to allow rescue squad members to participate in the Alan "Chip" Terry Professional Development and Wellness Program; create a new section of KRS Chapter 39F to direct the Division of Emergency Management and the Kentucky Fire Commission to enter into an agreement to ensure that rescue squad members have access to the program. Dead
HB206 AN ACT relating to wrongful conviction compensation. 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. Dead
HB445 AN ACT relating to membership dates in the Kentucky Employees Retirement System. 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. Dead
HB345 AN ACT relating to public contracts. Create new sections of KRS Chapters 45A, 56, and 65 to require that state and local contracts contain a provision that any iron, steel, aluminum, or manufactured goods used in all state and local projects be manufactured in the United States unless a waiver is granted; amend KRS Chapters 45A.343, 45A.352, 65.027, 162.070, 164A.575, 176.070, 176.080, and 424.260 to conform; provide that Sections 1 to 3 of the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Buy American Act. Dead
HB41 AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Emergency Volunteer Corps. Amend KRS 37.170 to create the Kentucky Emergency Volunteer Corps (KEV Corps) within the Kentucky State Defense Force; create a new section of KRS Chapter 37 to detail KEV Corps eligibility, supervision, training requirements, uniform details, and prohibitions and to create the KEV Corps fund; amend KRS 39B.030 to permit the local emergency management director to use the KEV Corps during a local disaster or emergency; amend KRS 39B.050 to include the KEV Corps as a part of the local disaster and emergency services organization; amend KRS 39B.070 to permit each city, urban-county government, or charter county government the use of the KEV Corps. Dead
HB37 AN ACT relating to an exemption from sales and use tax for certain nonprofit institutions. Amend KRS 139.495 to exempt purchases and sales of tangible personal property, digital property, or services made by qualifying resident nonprofit educational, charitable, or religious institutions from state sales and use taxes. Dead
Bill Bill Name Motion Vote Date Vote
HB24 AN ACT relating to conservation. House: Third Reading RCS# 358 03/28/2025 Yea
HB48 AN ACT relating to education. House: Third Reading RCS# 355 03/28/2025 Yea
HJR5 A JOINT RESOLUTION designating names for various roads and bridges. House: Third Reading RCS# 345 03/28/2025 Yea
HB160 AN ACT relating to manufactured housing. House: Third Reading RCS# 346 03/28/2025 Absent
HB188 AN ACT relating to motor vehicle driveaway plates. House: Third Reading RCS# 350 03/28/2025 Yea
SB76 AN ACT relating to contracts for the improvement of real estate. House: Third Reading RCS# 348 03/28/2025 Yea
HB305 AN ACT relating to health care. House: Third Reading RCS# 353 03/28/2025 Yea
SB104 AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Public Employees' Deferred Compensation Authority. House: Third Reading RCS# 347 03/28/2025 Yea
HB430 AN ACT relating to school transportation and declaring an emergency. House: Third Reading RCS# 343 03/28/2025 Yea
HB437 AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages. House: Third Reading RCS# 344 03/28/2025 Yea
HB441 AN ACT relating to reemployment after retirement in the Teachers' Retirement System. House: Third Reading RCS# 362 03/28/2025 Yea
SJR55 A JOINT RESOLUTION directing Kentucky's public postsecondary institutions to combat antisemitism. House: Third Reading RCS# 364 03/28/2025 Yea
HB501 AN ACT relating to pharmaceutical drugs. House: Third Reading RCS# 359 03/28/2025 Yea
HB493 AN ACT relating to the towing and storage of motor vehicles. House: Third Reading RCS# 352 03/28/2025 Yea
HB544 AN ACT relating to disaster relief, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. House: Third Reading RCS# 351 03/28/2025 Yea
SB181 AN ACT relating to children. House: Third Reading RCS# 356 03/28/2025 Yea
HB555 AN ACT relating to local government financial practices. House: Third Reading RCS# 349 03/28/2025 Yea
HB664 AN ACT relating to the operation of a motor vehicle and declaring an emergency. House: Third Reading RCS# 365 03/28/2025 Yea
HB622 AN ACT relating to fiscal matters and declaring an emergency. House: Third Reading RCS# 360 03/28/2025 Yea
HB606 AN ACT relating to economic development. House: Third Reading RCS# 361 03/28/2025 Yea
HB618 AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages. House: Third Reading RCS# 363 03/28/2025 Absent
SB9 AN ACT relating to teacher benefit provisions and declaring an emergency. House: Third Reading RCS# 357 03/28/2025 Yea
HB662 AN ACT relating to personally identifiable information. House: Third Reading RCS# 354 03/28/2025 Yea
HB90 AN ACT relating to maternal health and declaring an emergency. House: Third Reading RCS# 326 03/27/2025 Yea
SB19 AN ACT relating to permitted uses of time during the school day. House: Third Reading RCS# 337 03/27/2025 Yea
SB28 AN ACT relating to agricultural economic development and declaring an emergency. House: Third Reading RCS# 341 03/27/2025 Yea
HB136 AN ACT relating to corrections. House: Third Reading RCS# 327 03/27/2025 Yea
HB2 AN ACT relating to the taxation of currency and bullion currency and declaring an emergency. House: Third Reading RCS# 315 03/27/2025 Yea
SB65 AN ACT relating to deficient administrative regulations and declaring an emergency. House: Third Reading RCS# 334 03/27/2025 Yea
SB65 AN ACT relating to deficient administrative regulations and declaring an emergency. House: Veto Override RCS# 333 03/27/2025 Yea
SB65 AN ACT relating to deficient administrative regulations and declaring an emergency. House: Third Reading RCS# 331 03/27/2025 Yea
HB216 AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Office of Agricultural Policy and declaring an emergency. House: Third Reading RCS# 313 03/27/2025 Yea
SB89 AN ACT relating to environmental protection and declaring an emergency. House: Third Reading RCS# 339 03/27/2025 Yea
HB240 AN ACT relating to primary school. House: Third Reading RCS# 314 03/27/2025 Yea
SB84 AN ACT relating to judicial review of state agency action. House: Third Reading RCS# 336 03/27/2025 Yea
HB346 AN ACT relating to air quality programs and declaring an emergency. House: Third Reading RCS# 312 03/27/2025 Yea
HB399 AN ACT relating to interference with a legislative proceeding. House: Third Reading RCS# 329 03/27/2025 Yea
HB398 AN ACT relating to occupational safety and health. House: Third Reading RCS# 318 03/27/2025 Yea
HB424 AN ACT relating to employment at public postsecondary education institutions. House: Third Reading RCS# 319 03/27/2025 Yea
HB4 AN ACT relating to initiatives regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion. House: Third Reading RCS# 330 03/27/2025 Yea
HB495 AN ACT relating to healthcare services and declaring an emergency. House: Third Reading RCS# 311 03/27/2025 Yea
HB546 AN ACT relating to transportation, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. House: Third Reading RCS# 325 03/27/2025 Yea
SB183 AN ACT relating to the fiduciary duties owed to the state-administered retirement systems. House: Third Reading RCS# 332 03/27/2025 Yea
HB566 AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Horse Racing and Gaming Corporation and declaring an emergency. House: Third Reading RCS# 320 03/27/2025 Yea
HB552 AN ACT relating to economic development. House: Third Reading RCS# 322 03/27/2025 Yea
HB6 AN ACT relating to administrative regulations and declaring an emergency. House: Third Reading RCS# 317 03/27/2025 Yea
HJR46 A JOINT RESOLUTION relating to road projects and declaring an emergency. House: Third Reading RCS# 324 03/27/2025 Yea
HJR30 A JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the release of funds. House: Third Reading RCS# 323 03/27/2025 Yea
HB684 AN ACT relating to elections. House: Third Reading RCS# 321 03/27/2025 Yea
SB207 AN ACT relating to education. House: Third Reading RCS# 338 03/27/2025 Yea
SB245 AN ACT relating to the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission and declaring an emergency. House: Third Reading RCS# 335 03/27/2025 Yea
SB25 AN ACT relating to oversight of government operations and declaring an emergency. House: Third Reading RCS# 340 03/27/2025 Yea
HB695 AN ACT relating to the Medicaid program and declaring an emergency. House: Third Reading RCS# 316 03/27/2025 Yea
HB694 AN ACT relating to Teachers' Retirement System benefit funding. House: Third Reading RCS# 328 03/27/2025 Absent
SB27 AN ACT relating to health care. House: Third Reading RCS# 289 03/14/2025 Yea
HB45 AN ACT relating to campaign finance. House: Third Reading RCS# 292 03/14/2025 Yea
HB38 AN ACT relating to orders of protection. House: Third Reading RCS# 266 03/14/2025 Yea
SB22 AN ACT relating to licensed professionals. House: Third Reading RCS# 278 03/14/2025 Yea
HB30 AN ACT relating to public employee benefits. House: Third Reading RCS# 269 03/14/2025 Yea
SB61 AN ACT relating to swimming pools. House: Third Reading RCS# 276 03/14/2025 Yea
SB68 AN ACT relating to education. House: Third Reading RCS# 281 03/14/2025 Yea
SB69 AN ACT relating to allied animal health professional licenses. House: Third Reading RCS# 282 03/14/2025 Yea
HB184 AN ACT relating to insurance. House: Third Reading RCS# 284 03/14/2025 Yea
HB241 AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency. House: Third Reading RCS# 267 03/14/2025 Yea
HB240 AN ACT relating to primary school. House: Third Reading RCS# 291 03/14/2025 Yea
HB321 AN ACT relating to planning and zoning. House: Third Reading RCS# 302 03/14/2025 Yea
HB315 AN ACT relating to the acquisition of agricultural land. House: Third Reading RCS# 293 03/14/2025 Yea
HB346 AN ACT relating to air quality programs and declaring an emergency. House: Third Reading RCS# 294 03/14/2025 Yea
HB342 AN ACT relating to financial literacy. House: Third Reading RCS# 301 03/14/2025 Yea
SB2 AN ACT relating to correctional facilities. House: Third Reading RCS# 309 03/14/2025 Yea
SB2 AN ACT relating to correctional facilities. House: Veto Override RCS# 308 03/14/2025 Yea
HB369 AN ACT relating to police department members. House: Adopt SCS 1 RCS# 303 03/14/2025 Nay
SB133 AN ACT relating to sanctioning bodies for boxing and wrestling exhibitions. House: Third Reading RCS# 287 03/14/2025 Yea
SB129 AN ACT relating to property. House: Third Reading RCS# 273 03/14/2025 Yea
SB120 AN ACT relating to education. House: Veto Override RCS# 283 03/14/2025 Yea
SB120 AN ACT relating to education. House: Third Reading RCS# 280 03/14/2025 Yea
SB120 AN ACT relating to education. House: Adopt HFA 1 RCS# 279 03/14/2025 Nay
SB145 AN ACT relating to retail installment contracts. House: Third Reading RCS# 285 03/14/2025 Yea
HB455 AN ACT relating to elections. House: Third Reading RCS# 295 03/14/2025 Yea
SB169 AN ACT relating to administrative subpoenas. House: Third Reading RCS# 268 03/14/2025 Yea
HB495 AN ACT relating to healthcare services and declaring an emergency. House: Third Reading RCS# 305 03/14/2025 Yea
HB495 AN ACT relating to healthcare services and declaring an emergency. House: Veto Override RCS# 304 03/14/2025 Yea
HB546 AN ACT relating to transportation, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. House: Third Reading RCS# 298 03/14/2025 Yea
SB183 AN ACT relating to the fiduciary duties owed to the state-administered retirement systems. House: Third Reading RCS# 265 03/14/2025 Yea
HB552 AN ACT relating to economic development. House: Third Reading RCS# 297 03/14/2025 Yea
HJR46 A JOINT RESOLUTION relating to road projects and declaring an emergency. House: Third Reading RCS# 264 03/14/2025 Yea
SB201 AN ACT relating to workers' compensation. House: Third Reading RCS# 290 03/14/2025 Yea
HJR30 A JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the release of funds. House: Third Reading RCS# 286 03/14/2025 Yea
HB682 AN ACT relating to utility relocation. House: Third Reading RCS# 299 03/14/2025 Yea
SB207 AN ACT relating to education. House: Third Reading RCS# 275 03/14/2025 Yea
SB207 AN ACT relating to education. House: Adopt HFA 3 RCS# 274 03/14/2025 Nay
SB25 AN ACT relating to oversight of government operations and declaring an emergency. House: Third Reading RCS# 272 03/14/2025 Yea
SB25 AN ACT relating to oversight of government operations and declaring an emergency. House: Adopt HFA 3 RCS# 271 03/14/2025 Yea
SB25 AN ACT relating to oversight of government operations and declaring an emergency. House: Suspend the Rules RCS# 270 03/14/2025 Absent
SB1 AN ACT relating to the film industry. House: Third Reading RCS# 277 03/14/2025 Yea
SB244 AN ACT relating to the operations of the Department of Law. House: Third Reading RCS# 300 03/14/2025 Yea
HB695 AN ACT relating to the Medicaid program and declaring an emergency. House: Third Reading RCS# 307 03/14/2025 Yea
HB695 AN ACT relating to the Medicaid program and declaring an emergency. House: Veto Override RCS# 306 03/14/2025 Yea
HB13 AN ACT relating to revenue and declaring an emergency. House: Third Reading RCS# 288 03/14/2025 Yea
HB775 AN ACT relating to fiscal matters. House: Third Reading RCS# 296 03/14/2025 Yea
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Detail Kentucky House Judiciary Committee 5
Detail Kentucky House Natural Resources and Energy Committee 5
Detail Kentucky House Transportation Committee Chair 1
Detail Kentucky House Veterans, Military Affairs and Public Protection Committee 4
Detail Kentucky Joint Disaster Prevention and Resiliency Task Force 2
Detail Kentucky Joint Judiciary Committee 4
Detail Kentucky Joint Legislative Oversight and Investigations Committee 2
Detail Kentucky Joint Natural Resources and Energy Committee 4
Detail Kentucky Joint Transportation Committee Co-Chair 1
Detail Kentucky Joint Veterans, Military Affairs and Public Protection Committee 2
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KY Kentucky House District 092 House Republican In Office 01/01/2017