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Legislator > Bobby McCool

State Representative
Bobby McCool
(R) - Kentucky
Kentucky House District 097
In Office - Started: 01/01/2019
contact info
Capitol Address
702 Capital Ave.
Frankfort, KY 40601
Frankfort, KY 40601
Phone: 502-564-8100
Bill | Bill Name | Summary | Progress |
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HB240 | AN ACT relating to primary school. | Amend KRS 158.305 to require kindergarten students to be given a universal screener within the final 10 instructional days of the school year; beginning with the 2025-2026 school year require that a student remain in kindergarten for an additional year if he or she did not make adequate progress in kindergarten; prohibit a school from requiring a student who turns seven by August 1 to remain in kindergarten; require the school to reevaluate the reading improvement plan of any student remaining in kindergarten; allow a student provided an additional year in kindergarten to advance through the primary program when it is determined to be in the student's best interest. | 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 |
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 |
HR81 | A RESOLUTION urging the United States Congress and the United States Army Corps of Engineers to assist with the prevention and mitigation of flood damage in Kentucky. | A RESOLUTION urging the United States Congress and the United States Army Corps of Engineers to assist with the prevention and mitigation of flood damage in Kentucky. | Dead |
HB758 | AN ACT relating to career and technical education. | Amend KRS 157.069 to apportion supplemental funds for career and technical education to be 75 percent for enrollment-based funding and 25 percent for incentive-based funding; modify incentives to permit two incentives per student; require "concentrator" status as the first incentive before eligibility for a second incentive. | 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 |
HB643 | AN ACT relating to fire prevention and protection. | Create a new section of KRS 227.200 to 227.400 to allow for the creation of a local appeals board to hear appeals from final orders of fire chiefs and state fire marshals; establish membership, procedures, and jurisdiction when no local appeals board is established; provide for appeal to Circuit Court of jurisdiction; amend KRS 227.200 to define terms; amend KRS 227.210, 227.335, 227.380, and 227.390 to conform. | Dead |
HB615 | AN ACT relating to electric utilities. | Amend KRS 278.684 to make technical changes. | Dead |
HB616 | AN ACT relating to investor-owned electric utilities. | Amend KRS 278.160 to prohibit the collection of charges and fees for other governmental units by an investor-owned electric utility; prohibit the collection of certain surcharges and amounts that are not directly and exclusively related to the provision of electric service; require investor owned utilities to file new tariffs 90 days after December 30, 2025; EFFECTIVE December 30, 2025. | Dead |
HB529 | AN ACT relating to the Work Ready Kentucky Scholarship Program. | Amend KRS 164.787 to define "adjusted gross income" and limit eligibility for the Work Ready Kentucky Scholarship Program to a workforce student with an adjusted gross income of less than 250% of the median household income in Kentucky. | Dead |
HB464 | AN ACT relating to public protection. | Amend KRS 75.160 , relating to fire chiefs, to include gender-neutral language. | Dead |
HB463 | AN ACT relating to veterans. | Amend KRS 40.050 to insert gender-neutral language. | Dead |
HB457 | AN ACT relating to the display of child labor laws in public schools. | Amend KRS 158.195 to require each public school with students in grades six through 12 to display a printed abstract of certain child labor laws, including limited and prohibited occupations and work hour restrictions for minors; require the information to be posted on the school's website. | Dead |
HB397 | AN ACT relating to human growth and development instruction. | Amend KRS 158.1415 to require a school district to adopt health curricula that includes human growth and development instruction that meets specific criteria; set restrictions for the instruction that grants parents an opportunity to review materials and opt their child out of instruction; provide that the Act may be cited as the Baby Olivia Act. | Dead |
HB1 | AN ACT relating to the individual income tax rate. | Amend KRS 141.020 to reduce the individual income tax rate from 4% to 3.5% for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
HB153 | AN ACT relating to a veterinary medicine program at Murray State University. | Amend KRS 164.295 to permit Murray State University to offer doctor's degrees required for professional practice and licensure in veterinary medicine. | 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 |
HB56 | AN ACT relating to comprehensive universities. | Amend KRS 164.295 to permit Eastern Kentucky University to offer doctor of osteopathic medicine degrees required for professional practice and licensure in osteopathic medicine. | Dead |
Bill | Bill Name | Motion | Vote Date | Vote |
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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 | Yea |
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 | Nay |
HB618 | AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages. | House: Third Reading RCS# 363 | 03/28/2025 | Nay |
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 | Nay |
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 | Yea |
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 | Absent |
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 | Absent |
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 | Absent |
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 | Absent |
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 | Nay |
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 | Yea |
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 |
Committee | Position | Rank | |
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Detail | Kentucky House Natural Resources and Energy Committee | 14 | |
Detail | Kentucky House Postsecondary Education Committee | 10 | |
Detail | Kentucky House Transportation Committee | 15 | |
Detail | Kentucky House Veterans, Military Affairs and Public Protection Committee | Chair | 1 |
Detail | Kentucky Joint Education Committee | 20 | |
Detail | Kentucky Joint Government Contract Review Committee | 3 | |
Detail | Kentucky Joint Natural Resources and Energy Committee | 13 | |
Detail | Kentucky Joint Transportation Committee | 15 | |
Detail | Kentucky Joint Veterans, Military Affairs and Public Protection Committee | Co-Chair | 1 |
State | District | Chamber | Party | Status | Start Date | End Date |
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KY | Kentucky House District 097 | House | Republican | In Office | 01/01/2019 |