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State Representative
Dan Fister
(R) - Kentucky
Kentucky House District 056
In Office - Started: 01/01/2021

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

Bill Bill Name Summary Progress
HB160 AN ACT relating to manufactured housing. Amend KRS 100.348 to prohibit a local government from adopting or enforcing zoning regulations that treat manufactured homes differently from single-family homes; allow only regulation of certain architectural features of manufactured homes and require that those same standards be applied to single family homes; permit placement of manufactured home with smaller dimensions if a larger manufactured home could not be situated on the lot; remove language regarding legislative purpose of statute; add noncodified statement of the intent of the General Assembly. Signed/Enacted/Adopted
HB24 AN ACT relating to conservation. Amend KRS 65A.010 to add specificity to the definition of "special purpose governmental entity" to include soil and water conservation services; amend KRS 262.097 to conform; amend KRS 262.280 to exempt a soil and water conservation district from the requirements set forth in KRS 65A.030; amend KRS 262.763 to exempt a watershed conservancy district from the requirements set forth in KRS 65A.030. Signed/Enacted/Adopted
HB4 AN ACT relating to initiatives regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; prohibit a public postsecondary education institution from providing differential treatment or benefits on the basis of an individual's religion, race, sex, color, or national origin; from influencing the composition of the student body or scholarship recipients on the basis of religion, race, sex, color, or national origin; from implementing a student housing assignment plan on the basis of religion, race, color, or national origin with designated exceptions; from expending any resources on diversity, equity, and inclusion, the promotion of discriminatory topics, or bias incident investigations; from soliciting statements on an applicant's experience with or views on religion, race, sex, color, or national origin; from requiring a course dedicated to discriminatory concepts; or disseminating or profiting from any research, work product, or material that promotes or justifies discriminatory concepts; prohibit a public postsecondary education institution from requiring any individual to endorse or condemn a specific ideology or viewpoint; prohibit the Council on Postsecondary Education from providing differential treatment or benefits on the basis of an individual's religion, race, sex, color, or national origin or from expending any resources on diversity, equity, and inclusion or discriminatory topics; establish exclusions for legal compliance; require each governing board of a public postsecondary education institution to ensure compliance with specific sections of this Act no later than June 30, 2025; authorize the Attorney General to bring an action for a writ of mandamus to compel the council or a public postsecondary education institution to comply; create a cause of action to permit a qualified individual to file a civil action against council or a public postsecondary education institution for injunctive relief and limited damages arising from a violation of certain sections of this Act; waive sovereign and governmental immunity for the limited purpose of bringing this claim; prohibit retaliation; require each public postsecondary education institution to submit and publish a certified annual report on governmentally mandated discrimination to the Legislative Research Commission by October 1 each year; provide that a public postsecondary education institution or the council cannot claim a federal, state, judicial, contractual, or accreditation mandate as a defense to a civil action filed under this Act unless the policy, practice, or procedure upon which the complaint is founded is listed and clearly and accurately described in the public institution's annual report filed in accordance with this Act; require each public postsecondary education institution to provide the Personnel Cabinet and State Treasurer the name, job title, duty station, and salary or wages of each employee each month beginning January 1, 2025, and to post its itemized annual budget; amend KRS 164.020 to prohibit the Council on Postsecondary Education from approving a degree, certificate, or diploma program that includes discriminatory concepts or diversity, equity, and inclusion iniatives; amend KRS 164.011, 164.131, 164.321, and 164.821 to conform; direct the Council on Postsecondary Education to consider certain enumerated conditions when considering the elimination of an existing program; direct each public postsecondary education institution and the Council on Postsecondary Education to discontinue designated programs and follow designated procedures when implementing this Act; provide specific instructions for public postsecondary education institutions and the Council on Postsecondary Education to follow in implementing this Act; direct public postsecondary education institutions and the council to submit a report on implementation of this Act. 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
HB306 AN ACT relating to the licensing of professional engineers. Amend KRS 322.040 to allow an individual to qualify for licensure as a professional engineer if he or she has graduated from a fire protection engineering technology program of four years or more accredited by the Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. Signed/Enacted/Adopted
HB70 AN ACT relating to dietitians. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 310 to enact and enter into the Dietitian Licensure Compact with all other jurisdictions that legally join in the compact; declare the purpose of the compact; define terms; establish participation requirements for states that wish to participate in the compact; recognize a licensure privilege and establish requirements; set requirements for transferring a home state license; designate home state licensure for active members of the military; establish penalties and adverse actions against a licensee; establish a joint government agency, create membership rules, establish voting requirements, and permit the government agency to establish rules and perform duties; require the compact commission to create a data system and outline the requirements; permit the executive and judicial branches within each state to enforce the compact; establish dispute resolution and outline termination procedures. Dead
HCR50 A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Kentucky Discipline of Government Efficiency Task Force. A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Kentucky Discipline of Government Efficiency Task Force. Dead
HR80 A RESOLUTION recognizing March 2025 as Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month. A RESOLUTION recognizing March 2025 as Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month. Signed/Enacted/Adopted
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
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
HB161 AN ACT relating to identity documents. Create a new section of KRS 186.400 to 186.640 to define "identity document" and "third-party entity"; require the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to establish procedures to allow third-party entities to apply to the Transportation Cabinet to be approved to accept applications for certain identity documents; set forth minimum standards for third-party issuance; and allow third-party entities to charge a fee for services provided. Dead
HB310 AN ACT relating to a Doctor of Philosophy in Integrated Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture program at Kentucky State University. Amend KRS 164.295 to permit Kentucky State University to offer a Doctor of Philosophy in Integrated Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture. Dead
HB316 AN ACT relating to the protection of unborn children. Amend KRS 311.772, relating to the intentional termination of life of an unborn human being, to define terms; establish criminal penalties and fines for a foreign sender who provides an abortifacient or abortion-inducing drug; establish a civil cause of action that is available to a woman who receives an abortifacient; establish available relief; amend KRS 218A.100 to include abortifacients and abortion-inducing drugs as Schedule IV controlled substance. Dead
HB253 AN ACT relating to the collection of local business taxes and fees. Create new sections of KRS Chapter 41 to define "occupational license fee" and "system"; require the Office of the State Treasurer to develop and maintain a web-based system for the centralized reporting, collection, and distribution of occupational license fees; establish requirements for the system; allow the State Treasurer to assess a fee on businesses using the system; establish requirements related to the web-based system for the State Treasurer and local taxing jurisdictions; create a working group to be chaired by the State Treasurer; require the working group to provide recommendations on creating a centralized system for modernizing the reporting, collection, and distribution of local business taxes and fees. Dead
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
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
HB192 AN ACT relating to income taxation of military pensions. Amend KRS 141.019 to exclude all distributions from military pension plans received by retired members of the United States military and National Guard and their surviving spouse or former spouse under a survivor benefit plan from income taxation for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, but before January 1, 2030; require reporting by the Department of Revenue; amend KRS 131.190 to conform. Dead
HB25 AN ACT relating to moments of silence and reflection. Amend KRS 158.175 to require moments of silence or reflection at the start of each school day and establish guidelines. 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
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
HB187 AN ACT relating to investment in youth vaping prevention. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to create the vaping settlement trust fund to be administered by the Office of the Attorney General; direct the deposit of certain litigation proceeds into the fund; direct the allowable use of fund moneys for certain youth vaping prevention and cessation efforts. 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 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 Yea
HB618 AN ACT relating to alcoholic beverages. House: Third Reading RCS# 363 03/28/2025 Yea
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 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 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 Yea
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 Absent
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 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
Detail Kentucky House Agriculture Committee Vice Chair 2
Detail Kentucky House Licensing, Occupations and Administrative Regulations Committee 9
Detail Kentucky House Small Business and Information Technology Committee 4
Detail Kentucky Joint Agriculture Committee 5
Detail Kentucky Joint Licensing, Occupations and Administrative Regulations Committee 8
Detail Kentucky Joint Tobacco Settlement Agreement Fund Oversight Committee 2
Detail Kentucky Joint Tourism, Small Business and Information Technology Committee 6
State District Chamber Party Status Start Date End Date
KY Kentucky House District 056 House Republican In Office 01/01/2021