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Legislator > Beverly Chester-Burton
State Representative
Beverly Chester-Burton
(D) - Kentucky
Kentucky House District 044
In Office - Started: 01/01/2023
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Capitol Address
702 Capital Ave.
Frankfort, KY 40601
Frankfort, KY 40601
Phone: 502-564-8100
| Bill | Bill Name | Summary | Progress |
|---|---|---|---|
| HB622 | AN ACT relating to fiscal matters and declaring an emergency. | Amend KRS 45A.030 to expand the definition of "contract"; amend KRS 45A.035 to require promulgation of administrative regulations to establish policies regarding timely payments under contracts; create a new section of KRS Chapter 45A to establish timely payment penalty and procedures; require the Finance and Administration Cabinet to submit a detailed report of interest penalties and reimbursement payments every six months due to payments not timely made to the Legislative Research Commission; EMERGENCY. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB421 | AN ACT relating to colorectal cancer screenings. | Amend KRS 304.17A-257 to require coverage for all colorectal cancer examinations and laboratory tests specified in the United States Multi-Society Task Force on Colorectal Cancer guidelines for certain covered persons; require coverage for all United States Food and Drug Administration-approved bowel preparation prescribed in connection with a colorectal cancer examination or test; prohibit prior authorization requirements for colorectal cancer examinations and laboratory tests; provide an exemption from the cost sharing prohibition for Health Savings Account-qualified High Deductible Health Plans under certain circumstances; provide that the colorectal cancer examination and laboratory test coverage section applies to health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2026; establish construction of certain provisions for purposes of federal law and require state officials to comply; 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. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB441 | AN ACT relating to reemployment after retirement in the Teachers' Retirement System. | Amend KRS 161.605, relating to the Teachers' Retirement System, to remove language requiring superintendents to make every reasonable effort to hire qualified applicants for teaching and nonteaching positions, increase the percentage of retired members that an employer can employ full-time from three percent to 10 percent, increase the number of retired members that a local school district may employ under the critical shortage provision from one percent of total active members employed by the school district or two members to 10 percent or four members, remove Kentucky Virtual High School the list of schools the Department of Education operates, remove the pension waiver program, and make technical changes; amend KRS 156.106 to remove language requiring superintendents to make every reasonable effort to hire qualified applicants for critical shortage areas; direct that current participants in the pension waiver program may continue to participate. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB493 | AN ACT relating to the towing and storage of motor vehicles. | Amend KRS 281.630 to establish a towing and storage facility certificate and require applicants for a towing and storage facility certificate to file a rate sheet with the application and renewal for the certificate; amend KRS 281.631 to set a fee of $10 for motor carrier plates for tow trucks; amend KRS 281.928 to require an entity requesting a vehicle in a storage facility to be held pending a civil or criminal investigation to notify the owner, lienholder, and insurer of a vehicle with 24 hours of a hold being initiated or released; amend KRS 281.930 to set limits on charges for storage on vehicles held for civil or criminal investigation; amend KRS 281.926 to require towing companies and storage facilities to have one rate sheet that is applicable to all customers and to establish that statements that misrepresent the scope of damages associated with a property, casualty, or property and casualty insurance claim are fraudulent insurance acts; make technical amendments; amend KRS 281.010 to define "towing and storage facility certificate"; amend KRS 281.990 to set penalties for violations of KRS 281.920 to 281.936. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB430 | AN ACT relating to school transportation and declaring an emergency. | Amend KRS 189.540 to authorize the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to require regular instruction of pupils in school bus safety; allow a school district to obtain an exemption from any school bus safety instruction requirement if the district transports 48 or fewer pupils in the district's gross average daily attendance of transported pupils; require exempted districts to develop and implement a school bus safety instruction policy. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB48 | AN ACT relating to education. | Amend KRS 156.557 to increase the time period between mandatory summative evaluations for tenured certified school staff from once every three years to once every five years; provide that additional summative evaluations may be performed at the discretion of the individual's immediate supervisor but shall not be imposed as a uniform requirement across the system; amend KRS 158.060 to provide teachers access to their employment contract upon request; amend KRS 156.095 to require the Department of Education to create and local school districts to implement a four year recurring professional development training schedule that includes all required professional development trainings; provide that all certified school employees shall complete designated trainings within 12 months of initial hire and at least once every four years thereafter; consolidate state-required certified school personnel trainings; create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to relocate language currently contained in KRS 158.060 related to the display of designated hotline information and the publication of and school lessons on evidence-based suicide prevention awareness information; amend KRS 158.070 to remove language regarding professional development trainings consolidated elsewhere; amend KRS 160.346 to prohibit the Department of Education from requiring comprehensive school improvement plans and comprehensive district improvement plans not expressly required by federal law; amend KRS 156.492, 157.360, and 158.4416 to conform; amend KRS 161.031 to remove the mandate for an induction program for new teachers; require a report identifying school districts that do not implement an induction program for new teachers; require the Department of Education to conduct a review of the reporting requirements imposed upon public schools and public school districts; eliminate all reporting requirements not expressly required by state statute or federal law; submit a report on the remaining reporting requirements; provide that the Act may be cited as the Red Tape Reduction Act. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB72 | AN ACT relating to limited X-ray machine operators. | Amend KRS 311B.020 to redefine "limited X-ray machine operator" and "medical imaging technologist"; allow a limited X-ray machine operator to only perform limited diagnostic radiography. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB462 | AN ACT relating to the correction of marriage documents. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 402 to allow a county clerk to correct a marriage application or marriage license upon receipt of an affidavit executed by both parties to the marriage; provide examples of errors and omissions that a clerk may correct upon receipt of the affidavit; allow persons to obtain a corrected marriage license by court order if they choose; make a person who intentionally submits a material false statement subject to the penalties in KRS 523.030; amend KRS 209A.045 to permit any funds collected from amending marriage licenses to be remitted to the domestic violence shelter fund. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB423 | AN ACT relating to prior authorization. | Create new sections of KRS 304.17A-600 to 304.17A-633 to define terms; prohibit insurers of health benefit plans from requiring prior authorization for a health care service for which the provider has an exemption; require insurers of health benefit plans to establish a program under which participating providers may qualify for exemptions from prior authorization; establish mandatory and permitted provisions of an insurer's prior authorization exemption program; establish requirements for sending forms and notices; require the commissioner of the Department of Insurance to submit an annual report relating to prior authorization, provide a detailed briefing upon request, and promulgate administrative regulations; amend KRS 304.17A-605 to conform; amend KRS 304.17A-611 to prohibit conducting a retrospective review that is based solely on a participating provider having a prior authorization exemption; provide that certain utilization review timeframes do not apply to retrospective reviews conducted for the purposes of determining eligibility for a prior authorization exemption; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the commissioner of the Department for Medicaid Services to submit an annual report relating to prior authorization, provide a detailed briefing upon request, and promulgate administrative regulations; apply the provisions to contracts delivered, entered, renewed, extended, or amended on or after January 1, 2027; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2026, and January 1, 2027. | Dead |
| HB805 | AN ACT relating to children. | Amend KRS 600.020 to change the definition of "safety plan" to reference risks to a child's safety; amend KRS 620.032 related to child welfare data reporting; amend KRS 620.040 to include children who are alleged victims of domestic violence and abuse or sexual assault for automatic acceptance for investigation of reports of child dependency, neglect, or abuse; amend KRS 620.048 related to negotiated safety plans in child protective services investigations. | Dead |
| HB90 | AN ACT relating to maternal health and declaring an emergency. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "freestanding birthing center"; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to establish licensure standards for freestanding birthing centers; establish criteria for a medical director; establish requirements for obtaining written informed consent; require a written patient transfer agreement with a hospital that provides obstetric services; require a written patient transfer agreement with an emergency medical transportation service; exempt a center with no more than four beds from certificate-of-need requirements for establishing and licensing a freestanding birthing center; state intent not to limit or expand liability of a center or health care provider or facility; require medical malpractice insurance for freestanding birthing centers; prohibit abortions in freestanding birthing centers; amend KRS 216B.015 to include freestanding birthing centers in the definition of "health facility"; amend KRS 216B.020, 196.173, 211.122, 211.647, 211.660, 213.046, 214.155, 214.565, 214.567, 214.569, 216.2920, 216.2921, 216.2923, 216.2925, 216.2927, and 216.2970 to conform; require the cabinet to promulgate updated administrative regulations by December 1, 2025; provide that the Act may be cited as the Mary Carol Akers Birth Centers Act. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB255 | AN ACT relating to physical therapy. | Amend various sections of KRS Chapter 327, relating to the practice and regulation of physical therapy, to state legislative findings; allow a physical therapist to refer a patient for tests or examination; require a practitioner or employer to report a physical therapist or physical therapist assistant who has been convicted of a misdemeanor; require potential board members to not have been under any disciplinary action in the past five years; permit the Board of Physical Therapy to purchase professional liability insurance; authorize the board to convene committees and task forces to review and advise the board on pertinent issues; authorize the board to promulgate administrative regulations to establish fee amounts, issue advisory opinions and declaratory rulings related to this chapter, and issue a license to a physical therapist assistant applicant; prohibit physical therapists and physical therapist assistants from engaging in sexual contact with any active patient of record or parent or legal guardian of the active patient of record; require the board to develop guidelines to follow upon receipt of an allegation of sexual misconduct by a physical therapist or physical therapist assistant; allow the board to receive periodic education on issues affecting the practice of physical therapy and public protection; allow the board to determine which disciplinary records may be expunged; authorize the board to establish the amounts, limits, or ranges for any fines imposed; repeal and reenact KRS 327.010 to define terms; repeal and reenact KRS 327.080 to deposit to the credit of a revolving fund for the use of the board; require all expenses of the board to be paid from the revolving fund. | Dead |
| 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 |
| HB321 | AN ACT relating to planning and zoning. | Repeal, reenact and amend KRS 147A.027 as a new section of KRS Chapter 100 to require the initial orientation training that planning commissioners and board of adjustment members take to occur between one year prior to appointment and one year following appointment and include at least one hour of training on the impact of planning and zoning policies and procedures on housing supply and accessibility; require planning professionals, zoning administrators, administrative officials, and each planning professional's deputies and assistants to take at least one hour of the same initial orientation training relating to housing; require all officials to report that orientation training within 30 days of completion; require planning commissioners, board of adjustment members and planning professionals, zoning administrators, administrative officials, and each planning professional's deputies and assistants to take one hour of continuing education each cycle relating to housing; require all officials to report that continuing education training within 30 days of completion. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB342 | AN ACT relating to financial literacy. | Amend KRS 158.1411 to require one credit in financial literacy during the eleventh or twelfth grade for students entering grade nine during or after the 2026-2027 school year; direct minimum topics to be covered in the course; direct that the financial literacy course be accepted as a math, social studies, or elective course graduation requirement; require the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Kentucky Financial Empowerment Commission, to determine which courses meet the financial literacy course requirement. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB10 | AN ACT relating to the rights of real property owners. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 383 to allow a property owner or his or her authorized agent to request a law enforcement officer immediately remove a person unlawfully occupying real property under certain circumstances; provide criminal and civil immunity to law enforcement officers and property owners acting in good faith; create a civil cause of action for wrongful removal; require the Department of Kentucky State Police to create a form for the petition to remove unlawful occupants; amend KRS 512.010 to define "squatter"; amend KRS 512.020 and 512.030 to specifically include damage to real property caused by squatters in the offense of criminal mischief. | 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 |
| HB263 | AN ACT relating to teacher scholarships. | Amend KRS 164.773, relating to the Student Teacher Stipend Program, to specify that an eligible student is a Kentucky resident as determined by the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority (authority) and is student teaching at a Kentucky public school or certified nonpublic school; specify that the authority shall disburse stipend funds to eligible students directly or through the participating institution; allow the authority to establish criteria for an eligible student who is student teaching outside of Kentucky but is otherwise eligible. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB193 | AN ACT relating to dual credit scholarships. | Amend KRS 164.786 to require an "approved dual credit course" to be in the statewide general education core; provide that scholarships shall be awarded in order of application date; delete the requirement for 50 percent return of funds upon unsuccessful course completion; revise scholarship to include career and technical dual credit courses contained in KRS 164.787; amend KRS 164.787 to conform. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB132 | AN ACT relating to home and hospital instruction. | Amend KRS 158.033 to allow a student admitted to an inpatient facility to receive home and hospital services effective on the day of admittance. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB27 | AN ACT relating to planned communities. | Amend KRS 381.800 to establish that the provisions apply to all planned communities and any provision in an existing document to the contrary is void. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB131 | AN ACT relating to firefighters' work schedules. | Amend KRS 95.500 to allow, absent a collective bargaining agreement, specified fire personnel to have schedules consisting of 48 hours on duty followed by 96 hours of off duty time; specify that collective bargaining agreements maintained by a city or urban-county government may control work hours in lieu of the specified schedules. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB251 | AN ACT relating to the evaluation of educator preparation programs. | Amend KRS 158.840 to require the Education Professional Standards Board, rather than the Council on Postsecondary Education, to ensure teacher education programs provide highly skilled teachers; require the board to report to the Legislative Research Commission every three years and regularly report program data to an external evaluator. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB87 | AN ACT relating to employment. | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 335B.010 to 335B.070 to require hiring or licensing authorities to establish an application process that gives persons convicted of a crime an opportunity to obtain a determination about whether the crime will disqualify the individual from a position of public employment or occupational license before pursuing training; require hiring or licensing authorities to formulate policies and procedures for the application process by promulgating regulations no later than January 1, 2026; and provide an annual report to the Legislative Research Commission by November 1, 2026; amend KRS 335B.020 to add criteria for hiring and licensing authorities to consider when determining if a conviction directly relates to the position of public employment or occupational license sought; amend KRS 335B.030 to require hiring or licensing authorities to request information; allow an applicant a hearing before making a determination of hiring for a position of public employment or granting an occupational license; and provide written findings of fact to the applicant upon determination. | Dead |
| 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 |
| HB20 | AN ACT relating to privacy protection. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to define terms related to automated license plate readers; establish limitations on use and sale of data captured by automated license plate readers; provide that captured license plate data may be retained longer than 60 days only if it is being used in a criminal or insurance investigation or has become subject to a preservation of evidence notification; provide that any recorded images or data captured by an ALPR may be made available to the National Insurance Crime Bureau or its successor organization; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to define terms and establish limitations on the introduction of identification devices on or within the human body; create a new section of KRS Chapter 413 to establish a statute of limitations for an action filed for introduction of an identification device; amend KRS 508.152, relating to the unlawful use of tracking devices, to include the installation of a tracking device on the person or property of another without their consent and exempt parental tracking of minors from the prohibition. | Dead |
| HCR67 | A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the establishment of the Kentucky Restoration of Voting Rights Task Force. | A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the establishment of the Kentucky Restoration of Voting Rights Task Force. | Dead |
| HB465 | AN ACT relating to motor vehicle racing. | Amend KRS 189.993 to establish enhanced penalties for a violation of KRS 189.505, including increased fines, vehicle impoudment for up to six months for the first offense, and vehicle forfeiture for the second or subsequent offense. | Dead |
| HB61 | AN ACT relating to Medicaid-covered nonemergency medical transportation. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to establish the Cabinet for Health and Family Services' responsibilities with regard to the administration of nonemergency medical transportation services for Medicaid beneficiaries; require the Cabinet or the Department for Medicaid Services to seek federal approval if it is determined that such approval is necessary; require the cabinet to comply with KRS 205.525. | Dead |
| HB46 | AN ACT relating to the identification of lottery winners. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 154A to allow the winner of a lottery prize with a gross value that exceeds $1,000,000 to elect to have his or her identifying information withheld from public record for one year; amend KRS 154A.040 to conform; amend KRS 61.878 to exempt the identifying information of the winner of a lottery prize with a gross value that exceeds $1,000,000 from the Open Records Act for one year unless confidentiality has been waived. | Dead |
| 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 |
| HB324 | AN ACT relating to educators. | Amend KRS 160.160 to authorize a local board of education to establish minimum score requirements for certified positions within the district on specific assessments related to content knowledge, competency in educational practices, or both; require the district include minimum score information in any posts or notices for a related certified vacancy; amend KRS 161.030 to remove successful completion of assessments prior to receiving a teacher certification; amend KRS 161.048, 161.010, and 161.053 to conform. | Dead |
| HB479 | AN ACT relating to dementia training. | Amend KRS 194A.545 to require the Department for Community Based Services (DCBS) to require a one-hour dementia training and continuing education course using available training at no cost; require dementia training for DCBS supervisory, direct services, and adult protective services staff. | Dead |
| HB219 | AN ACT relating to sexual assault emergency response training. | Amend KRS 216B.400 to require hospitals that offer emergency services to develop and provide training for emergency department staff on sexual assault emergency response requirements, protocols, and resources; amend KRS 314.011 and 403.707 to conform. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB186 | AN ACT relating to the donation of food. | Amend KRS 217.127 to define " charitable food donor" as a nonprofit or religious organization that is recognized as tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or home-based processor, which produces food for distribution to a homeless shelter or to individuals displaced due to a declared natural disaster; exempt a charitable food donor from the licensing requirements of KRS 217.005 to 217.215 and application of State Plumbing Code requirements; amend KRS 217.218 to conform; amend KRS 411.241 to exempt a nonprofit or religious organization that is recognized as tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or a home-based processor from civil or criminal liability arising from the production or donation of food to a homeless shelter or to individuals displaced due to a declared natural disaster. | Dead |
| HB387 | AN ACT relating to metropolitan sewer districts. | Amend KRS 76.090 to define "CPI"; require that any time a metropolitan sewer district proposes any change to its rates, rentals, or charges that would in aggregate generate revenue in excess of the percent increase in the CPI over the two most recent calendar years, the legislative body of the city or consolidated local government containing the district must approve of the change before it can go into effect; prohibit the expenditure of metropolitan sewer district funds for certain purposes. | Dead |
| HB234 | AN ACT relating to airport police. | Amend KRS 16.220, relating to confiscated firearms sold at public auction, to add airport safety and security department to the list of agencies that are eligible to receive grant funds from the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security for purchasing body armor and other necessary equipment. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB356 | AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Urban Youth Agriculture Initiative. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 247 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Urban Farming Youth Initiative to promote farming to youth in urban counties in at least one urban University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service office beginning August 1, 2025, and others by August 1, 2026; set each program term to one year in duration beginning in January; establish guidelines for participant eligibility. | Dead |
| HB14 | AN ACT relating to school safety. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to allow school districts to implement a wearable panic alert system; establish system criteria; require the Department of Education to provide a list of approved wearable panic alert systems; require the Center for School Safety to establish the Wearable Panic Alert Grant Program; amend KRS 158.446 to allow the Center for School Safety to distribute wearable panic alert grants using funds appropriated in the biennial budget to support school safety. | Dead |
| HB373 | AN ACT relating to campaign finance. | Amend KRS 121.175 to allow the use of campaign funds to pay for the reasonable costs of security measures for a state candidate, officeholder, his or her family, and employees of the candidate's campaign or the officeholder's office; define "security measure" and "usual and normal charge." | Dead |
| HB635 | AN ACT relating to the establishment of a grant database. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 42 to define terms; require the Finance and Administration Cabinet to create a grant database that will be a central repository for information on all available state or local government grants; require state and local agencies to report grant opportunities to the Finance and Administration Cabinet for inclusion in the grant database. | Dead |
| HB220 | AN ACT relating to driving under the influence. | Amend KRS 189A.010, relating to driving under the influence, to provide that a third or subsequent offense of driving under the influence within a 10-year period is a Class D felony; provide that if a person is convicted of a third or subsequent offense of driving under the influence the minimum term of imprisonment shall be 120 days; amend KRS 189A.040, 189A.200, 189A.240, and 281A.2102 to conform. | Dead |
| HB211 | AN ACT relating to cigar bars. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define terms; provide that local government restrictions on smoking shall not apply to cigar bars; require cigar bars to provide certain smoke-free spaces. | Dead |
| HR25 | A RESOLUTION recognizing the last day of February, the day connecting Black and Women's History Months, as a day to honor Black women. | A RESOLUTION recognizing the last day of February, the day connecting Black and Women's History Months, as a day to honor Black women. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB272 | AN ACT relating to reading and writing in schools. | Amend KRS 158.307 to define "dysgraphia"; require the Department of Education to annually review and update the dyslexia toolkit; expand dyslexia toolkit required guidance and include dysgraphia and other reading and writing difficulties; require rather than allow local boards of education to develop a policy on dyslexia; require rather than allow the policy to include certain items; require the department to compile and maintain data on dyslexia reported by local school districts; require the department to report dyslexia data to the appropriate Interim Joint Committee on Education; amend KRS 164.304 to require postsecondary institutions offering teacher preparation programs to include instruction on dyslexia by the 2026-2027 school year, rather than the instruction being contingent on availability of funding. | Dead |
| HB368 | AN ACT relating to publication. | Amend KRS 424.145 to remove the population restriction and make the alternative publication procedure available to all local governments as defined; stipulate that the local government must submit the advertisement to the newspaper in a timely manner for publication within the prescribed limits; make technical corrections. | Dead |
| HB814 | AN ACT relating to Medicaid coverage for doula services. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services and any managed care organization with which the department contracts for the delivery of Medicaid services to provide coverage for doula services; establish training and education requirements for doulas; require the department to promulgate administrative regulations; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to seek federal approval if they determine that such approval is necessary and comply with KRS 205.525. | Dead |
| HB803 | AN ACT relating to occupational safety and health. | Repeal KRS 338.062, relating to occupational safety and health standards. | Dead |
| HB779 | AN ACT relating to school personnel. | Amend KRS 161.155 to require school districts to provide a teacher or other employee leave with no loss of income or benefits for 60 school days following an assault against the teacher or employee that results in a physical injury; specify the terms of the leave; require the school district to pay for mental health services of the teacher or employee's choosing during the leave period; amend KRS 158.150 to require a local board of education to adopt a policy requiring expulsion when a student physically assaults or batters school personnel; provide that the policy may permit case-by-case modifications with the consent of the victim; permit the safety of school personnel to be a factor in issuing suspensions and expulsions of primary school students; amend KRS 158.155 to require school employees to report threats or plans of violence towards school personnel; include battery and abuse resulting in injury as acts to be reported; remove the requirement that a physical injury be serious to be reported; remove penalties; amend KRS 158.990 to provide penalties for intentional violations of KRS 158.155. | Dead |
| HB757 | AN ACT relating to prevailing wage. | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to require the Office of Kentucky Center for Statistics to establish a certified living wage based on occupation type and geographic area utilizing data from the Occupational Employment and Wage Statistics if the employer receives certain financial incentives from local, state, or federal agencies; amend KRS 151B.133 to require the Office of Kentucky Center for Statistics to establish a certified living wage by July 1 and every year thereafter; amend KRS 337.990 to establish civil penalties. | Dead |
| HB778 | AN ACT relating to occupational health and safety. | Amend KRS 338.991 to increase the civil penalties for employers who have violated any provision of KRS Chapter 338, received a citation for a violation of the requirements of KRS Chapter 338, or failed to correct a violation for which a citation has been issued; require the secretary for the Education and Labor Cabinet to annually adjust the maximum civil penalties beginning in 2025 by the percentage increase, if any, in the United State Average Consumer Price Index for all Urban Customers (CPI-U); direct the secretary to begin a three year phase-in for penalty adjustments beginning August 1, 2025. | Dead |
| HB773 | AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to voting rights. | Propose to amend Section 145 of the Constitution of Kentucky to automatically restore the voting rights of persons convicted of certain felonies upon completion of their imprisonment, probation, or parole and automatically restore their civil rights five years after completion of their imprisonment, probation, or parole; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection. | Dead |
| HB223 | AN ACT relating to licensed dental hygienists. | Amend KRS 313.040 to expand the locations where a licensed dental hygienist may practice as a public health hygienist and provide dental hygiene services to include federally qualified health centers. | Dead |
| HB706 | AN ACT relating to health education. | Repeal and reenact KRS 158.1415 to require each school district to provide healthy relationship education instruction to all public school students; establish minimum requirements for the instruction; establish minimum requirements for the healthy relationship curricula and instructional materials; prohibit a school or school district from restricting the ability of an instructor to answer a question related to the instruction; require that a school make the healthy relationship curricula and instructional materials available upon the request of a parent or guardian and establish a procedure for a parent or guardian to opt a student out of the instruction; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations necessary to implement, administer, and enforce this section; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations requiring that each school district submit a report on healthy relationship instruction in the district biennially; require the Kentucky Department of Education to maintain a list of recommended healthy relationship curricula and instructional materials; permit a parent or guardian to file an enforcement action in Circuit Court; provide that the Act may be cited as the Education for Healthy Youth Act. | Dead |
| HB683 | AN ACT relating to coverage for the treatment of postpartum mood disorders. | Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for FDA-approved prescription drugs for the treatment of postpartum mood disorders; allow the suspension of the coverage requirement for FDA-approved prescription drugs for the treatment of postpartum mood disorders under qualified health plans if cost defrayment required by the state; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485, 18A.225, and 164.2871 to require Medicaid, Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program, the state health employee health plan, and a self-insured employer group health plan provided by a state postsecondary education institution to its employees to comply; direct that provisions apply to health benefit plans issued on or after January 1, 2026; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2026. | Dead |
| HB656 | AN ACT relating to employment discrimination. | Amend KRS 344.040, 344.050, 344.060, 344.070, 344.080, 344.100, and 344.110 to add protections against discrimination based on weight. | Dead |
| HB654 | AN ACT relating to oaths. | Amend KRS 6.072 to require witnesses appearing before a committee, interim committee, statutory committee, subcommittee, commission, or task force of the General Assembly to take an oath prior to giving testimony and that any oath administered is video recorded. | Dead |
| HB655 | AN ACT relating to teachers. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; establish the future Kentucky teacher scholarship; define eligibility for the program; direct the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to administer the program; provide monetary awards for student loan repayment for eligible students who complete qualified teaching service; establish the future Kentucky teacher scholarship fund. | Dead |
| HB587 | AN ACT relating to the regulation of recovery residences and declaring an emergency. | Amend KRS 222.504 and 222.506 to require that recovery residences be inspected at least annually by state or local officials capable of ensuring compliance with all state and local zoning, building code, and fire safety laws, administrative regulations, and ordinances and establish maximum occupancy standards for recovery residences; amend KRS 222.510 to permit local governments to require an individual or entity seeking to establish a recovery residence to provide notice up to six months in advance to all property owners within 1,000 feet of the property on which the recovery residence will be located; EMERGENCY. | Dead |
| HB581 | AN ACT relating to firearms. | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to define "safe storage depository" and require an owner or custodian of a firearm to store the firearm in a safe storage depository or render the firearm incapable of being fired using a gun-locking device; require an owner or other person lawfully in possession of a firearm or any person who sells ammunition to report the loss or theft of the firearm or ammunition to a law enforcement agency; amend KRS 237.990 to establish penalties for violations. | Dead |
| HB562 | AN ACT relating to cemeteries. | Amend KRS 381.697 to require the governing authority of a city to mandate the proper care of a burial ground. | Dead |
| HB558 | AN ACT relating to Kentucky educational excellence scholarships. | Amend KRS 164.7881 to extend the expiration of KEES eligibility from five to eight years from high school graduation; amend KRS 164.7884 to conform. | Dead |
| HB557 | AN ACT relating to elementary literacy and making an appropriation therefor. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 171 to establish the Kids Love to Read Program; specify the program is for children in kindergarten through grade five; require books to be sent to children's homes; require the Department for Libraries and Archives to promulgate administrative regulations necessary to administer the program; appropriate $500,000 in fiscal year 2025-2026 to support the program; APPROPRIATION. | Dead |
| HB563 | AN ACT relating to veterans. | Amend KRS 40.050 to include gender-neutral language. | Dead |
| HB565 | AN ACT relating to state benefits for veterans. | Amend KRS 12.245, 12.354, 14A.1-070, 16.040, 40.010, 40.310, 40.650, 42.0146, 148.0211, 158.105, 158.140, 161.048, 164.512, 164.515, 186.041, 186.163, and 186.416 to make certain LGBTQ and qualifying veterans, as defined, eligible for state veterans' benefits. | Dead |
| HB553 | AN ACT relating to Medicaid coverage for doula services. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services and any managed care organization with whom the department contracts for the delivery of Medicaid services to provide coverage for doula services; create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to establish the Doula Advisory Council, council membership, and council duties; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to seek federal approval if they determine that such approval is necessary and comply with KRS 205.525. | Dead |
| HJR60 | A JOINT RESOLUTION designating the Mae Street Kidd Memorial Highway in Jefferson County. | A JOINT RESOLUTION designating the Mae Street Kidd Memorial Highway in Jefferson County. | Dead |
| HB516 | AN ACT relating to interrogation of children. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 610 to define terms; prohibit a child from being interrogated using deceptive methods; create a new rule of evidence to limit the admissibility of statements made in the interrogation of a child in violation of statute. | Dead |
| HB497 | AN ACT relating to cosmetology, esthetics, and nail technology. | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 317A to allow reciprocal licensing for cosmetologists, estheticians, and nail technicians; include work experience as a basis for licensure; explicitly include military personnel and spouses; repeal KRS 317A.100, relating to reciprocal licensing and continuing education. | Dead |
| HB513 | AN ACT relating to children and declaring an emergency. | Amend KRS 158.1415 to remove provisions related to parental rights and courses, curriculums, or programs on human sexuality, provide for a process for parents to opt out of their child receiving instruction on the subject of human sexuality; amend KRS 158.191 to remove provisions requiring a school obtain parental consent prior to providing health services or mental health services to students; remove language concerning policies to encourage or facilitate conversations between parents and students; remove language limiting Kentucky Board of Education or Department of Education policies regarding student confidential information and the use of pronouns; require a local school district to use pronouns for students that the student requests; amend KRS 158.189 to remove findings and requirements that a local board of education adopt a policy on privacy and the use of student facilities; require a school to provide an accommodation to a students who asserts to school officials that their gender is different from their biological sex that includes the use of facilities designated for the gender of which the students identify; permit alternate accommodations upon the student's request; repeal KRS 311.372, which prohibits treatments to a minor for purposes of attempting to alter the appearance or perception of the minor's sex; EMERGENCY. | Dead |
| HB515 | AN ACT relating to the Office of Safer Communities, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 12 to establish the Office of Safer Communities within the Office of the Governor; amend KRS 12.020 and KRS 12.023 to conform; appropriate $3,000,000 in fiscal year 2025-2026 to fund the office; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY. | Dead |
| HB514 | AN ACT relating to affordable housing developed on property owned by religious institutions. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 100 to define terms; allow religious institutions to develop affordable housing with only a ministerial submission to review by a planning unit for compliance with the provisions of the section if the development is on land owned by a religious institution, exclusively contains affordable housing for a period of 10 years, and contains fewer than 25 units; require compliance with design standards of the planning unit with the option to obtain a variance; require continuing compliance with the section; allow for religious institutions to propose an affordable housing development exceeding 25 units but require a public meeting and approval by the planning commission; allow the Kentucky Housing Corporation to provide technical and advisory resources to a religious developer. | Dead |
| HB507 | AN ACT relating to service credit for the Teachers' Retirement System and declaring an emergency. | Amend KRS 161.500 to allow members of the Teachers' Retirement System to recover up to 10 unpaid days that were missed to observe religious holidays; include the recovered days in count of days worked for service credit; EMERGENCY. | Dead |
| HB583 | AN ACT relating to housing and making an appropriation therefor. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198A to create the affordable housing loan pool fund to be administered by the Kentucky Housing Corporation to provide rehabilitation and construction loans to eligible entities; specify terms and process; create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to create the homelessness prevention fund to be administered by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services for continuum of care funds; specify eligible uses and eligible entities; amend KRS 198A.080 to modify criteria for housing development loan fund, require notice of eligible funds, and allow expenditure of funds for technical and administrative costs; create new section of KRS Chapter 198A to establish parameters by which the Kentucky Housing Corporation shall review and approve the affordable housing credit; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish the affordable housing credit; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the credits; repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 141.437 to reinstate the ENERGY STAR home credit to allow, in addition to prior credits, credit for the construction of an ENERGY STAR multifamily building; repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 141.435 to define terms; repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 141.436 to establish updated requirements for an energy efficiency credit; amend KRS 141.0205 to conform; amend KRS 131.190 to conform; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt the sale or purchase of new modular homes and new manufactured homes from sales and use tax on and after July 1, 2025 and before July 1, 2036 if they are to be used as a single-family residence and permanently affixed to real estate; amend KRS 142.400 to impose a 1% statewide surtax on the rental of accommodations when charged by the owner of the property or by a person facilitating the rental of the property and deposit the receipts from the surtax into the Kentucky affordable housing trust fund; amend KRS 42.580, 142.402, 142.404, 142.406, and 198A.190 to conform; amend KRS 132.810 to increase the frequency of the property tax homestead exemption cost of living adjustment to annually instead of biennially; create a new section of KRS Chapter 100 to define terms; allow religious institutions to develop affordable housing with only a ministerial submission to review by a planning unit for compliance with the provisions of the section if the development is on land owned by a religious institution, exclusively contains affordable housing for a period of 10 years, and contains fewer than 25 units; allow for religious institutions to propose an affordable housing development exceeding 25 units but require a public meeting and approval by the planning commission; allow the Kentucky Housing Corporation to provide technical and advisory resources to a religious developer; create a new section of KRS Chapter 383 to provide automatic expungement of records in actions for forcible entry and detainer; amend KRS 383.250 to provide for sealing of records; amend KRS 198A.027 to allow appropriations to be used for homeless initiatives; appropriate $104 million from the Budget Reserve Trust Fund account for various affordable housing initiatives; repeal KRS 65.874 and 383.198; APPROPRIATION. | Dead |
| HB3 | AN ACT relating to reimbursement for pharmacist services. | Amend KRS 205.522 and 205.6485 to require Medicaid and KCHIP to comply with pharmacy reimbursement requirements established in KRS 304.12-237; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the department to seek federal approval if it is determined that such approval is necessary; and require the cabinet to comply with KRS 205.525. | Dead |
| HR59 | A RESOLUTION recognizing August 21, 2025, as Kentucky Senior Citizens Day in the Commonwealth. | A RESOLUTION recognizing August 21, 2025, as Kentucky Senior Citizens Day in the Commonwealth. | Dead |
| HR58 | A RESOLUTION recognizing March 2025 to be Kentucky Maternal and Infant Mortality and Disparities Awareness Month. | A RESOLUTION recognizing March 2025 to be Kentucky Maternal and Infant Mortality and Disparities Awareness Month. | Dead |
| HB44 | AN ACT relating to choking prevention in schools. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define "anti-choking device"; require school cafeteria personnel and other expected users of the device to be trained if a school obtains an anti-choking device; provide immunity from civil liability for rendering emergency care or treatment with an anti-choking device or the Heimlich maneuver at a public or private school; provide that the Act may be cited as Landon's Law. | Dead |
| HR45 | A RESOLUTION designating May 5 to 11, 2025, as Postpartum Depression Awareness Week in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. | A RESOLUTION designating May 5 to 11, 2025, as Postpartum Depression Awareness Week in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. | Dead |
| HB466 | AN ACT relating to occupational health and safety. | Amend KRS 338.991 to increase the civil penalties for employers who have violated any provision of KRS Chapter 338, received a citation for a violation of the requirements of KRS Chapter 338, or failed to correct a violation for which a citation has been issued; require the secretary for the Education and Labor Cabinet to annually adjust the maximum civil penalties beginning in 2025 by the percentage increase, if any, in the United State Average Consumer Price Index for all Urban Customers (CPI-U); direct the secretary to begin a three year phase-in for penalty adjustments beginning August 1, 2025. | Dead |
| HB420 | AN ACT relating to workers' compensation for first responders. | Amend KRS 342.0011, relating to workers' compensation, to expand the definition of "injury" to include psychological injuries for police officers, firefighters, emergency medical services personnel, front-line staff members, or members of the National Guard; create a new section of KRS Chapter 342 to establish when psychological injuries are valid workers' compensation claims when not a direct result of a physical injury. | Dead |
| HB467 | AN ACT relating to workers' compensation for educators. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 342, relating to workers' compensation, to define "educator;" set out when psychological injuries are valid workers' compensation claims for educators when no physical injury exists; amend KRS 342.0011 to modify definition of "injury" to include certain psychological injuries experienced by educators. | Dead |
| HB460 | AN ACT relating to preschool and kindergarten education. | Amend KRS 157.3175 to require school districts provide a full-day preschool education program for eligible three and four-year-olds; establish eligibility for the program; require that preschool for three year old children continue to be funded through a grant process and preschool programs for four-year-old children be funded under KRS 157.310 to 157.440; require preschool programs to operate on the school district calendar; require transportation be provided; amend KRS 158.031 to include preschool education programs for four-year-old children in the primary school program; amend KRS 157.320 to remove the definition of "kindergarten full-time equivalent pupil in average daily attendance"; amend KRS 157.360 to remove a reference to the kindergarten full-time equivalent; amend KRS 158.030 to include a preschool education program for four-year-old children in the definition of "common school"; remove language allowing kindergarten to operate for less than six hours on a school day; amend KRS 158.060 and 160.1596 to conform. | Dead |
| HB429 | AN ACT relating to legislative ethics. | Amend KRS 6.691 to allow Legislative Ethics Commission to increase the potential penalty imposed from $2,000 to $10,000. | 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 |
| HB435 | AN ACT relating to teachers. | Amend KRS 158.060 to require teachers to be compensated for noninstructional planning time within their school day during which they are required to supervise or instruct students. | Dead |
| HB418 | AN ACT relating to reproductive health care. | Create a new section of KRS 311.710 to 311.820 to define terms; establish privacy protections for a woman seeking reproductive health care outside of the Commonwealth; establish protections for any person or entity assisting a woman seeking reproductive health care out of the Commonwealth; establish a civil cause of action for violations; waive sovereign immunity protections of the Commonwealth. | Dead |
| HB332 | AN ACT relating to gun safety for children. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to make it a crime to unlawfully store a firearm; establish elements of the crime for recklessly allowing access to an unsecured firearm by a minor; establish the crime as a Class A misdemeanor unless a physical injury or death results, in which case it is a Class D felony; provide that the Act may be cited as the Baby Dre Gun Safety Act. | Dead |
| HR23 | A RESOLUTION recognizing February 13, 2025, as Kentucky Arts Day. | A RESOLUTION recognizing February 13, 2025, as Kentucky Arts Day. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB375 | AN ACT relating to risk protection orders. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to define terms; allow enumerated persons to petition a District Court to issue an order prohibiting a person from purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm if the person is or has been diagnosed with or treated for a mental condition that causes or is likely to cause impairment in judgment, perception, or impulse control to an extent that presents an unreasonable risk to public health, safety, or welfare if the person were in possession or control of a firearm; establish that a violation of an order is a Class A misdemeanor; amend KRS 237.104 to conform; provide that the Act may be cited as Diego's Law. | Dead |
| HB378 | AN ACT relating to a tax credit for qualified home modifications. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish the qualified home modification credit against the tax imposed in KRS 141.020; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the credit. | Dead |
| HB271 | AN ACT relating to school district employees and making an appropriation therefor. | Appropriate necessary funds for local school districts to provide a five percent salary increase to eligible employees in fiscal year 2025-2026; APPROPRIATION. | Dead |
| HB337 | AN ACT relating to a supplemental payment for retired state employees, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. | Appropriate $95 million from the budget reserve trust fund in fiscal year 2024-2025 to the Kentucky Public Pension Authority to fund one-time supplemental payments on July 1, 2025, to recipients of a retirement allowance from the Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS) and the State Police Retirement System (SPRS); specify that the one-time supplemental payment shall be equal to the monthly payment received by the recipient in the month of June 2025; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY. | Dead |
| HB329 | AN ACT relating to local firearms control ordinances. | Amend KRS 65.870 to allow local governments to enact ordinances regulating firearms; amend KRS 65.1591 and 237.115 to conform. | Dead |
| HB230 | AN ACT relating to teacher professional development. | Amend KRS 156.095 to require the Kentucky Department of Education to create a professional development training schedule for certified personnel; require each local district to implement the schedule; require an additional day to be added to the school calendar if required training cannot be completed in a single calendar day; require school districts to submit a report to the department on the status of professional development training. | Dead |
| HB229 | AN ACT relating to labor standards. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require every employer to establish a workplace policy that provides employees the right to disconnect from communications from the employer during nonworking hours; amend KRS 337.990 to provide a penalty for violation of the lunch period requirements in KRS 337.355 and for violation by an employer of a right to disconnect workplace policy. | Dead |
| HB252 | AN ACT relating to autonomous vehicles. | Amend KRS 186.763 to prohibit school districts from operating fully autonomous vehicles for transporting students; prohibit the operation of fully autonomous vehicles if that vehicle requires an operator with a commercial driver's license; amend KRS 281.764 to conform. | Dead |
| HB295 | AN ACT relating to plastic waste. | Amend KRS 224.50-585 to define terms; prohibit the intentional release of more than 25 plastic balloons; establish a ban on plastic, single-use carryout bags by July 1, 2030; establish a ban on the provision of single-use plastic straws and Styrofoam food and beverage containers by retail food and beverage establishments by July 1, 2028; establish civil penalty of $100 per day for violations. | Dead |
| HB333 | AN ACT relating to offender reentry. | Amend KRS 186.417 to require that felony offenders released from county jails and local correctional facilities be issued personal identification cards or operator's licenses under certain conditions. | Dead |
| HB330 | AN ACT relating to firearms possession by domestic abusers. | Amend KRS 527.010 to define "domestic abuse offense," "domestic violence protective order," and "physical force"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 527 to create the crimes of possession of a firearm by a convicted domestic abuser and possession of a firearm by the subject of a domestic violence protective order; require the surrender of firearm by individuals subject to protective orders or convicted of specified crimes; amend KRS 403.740 and 456.060 to require courts to inform the subject of a domestic violence order or an interpersonal protective order of the firearm possession prohibition. | Dead |
| HB334 | AN ACT relating to the destruction of confiscated firearms. | Amend KRS 16.220 to require the destruction of confiscated firearms; amend KRS 45.777, 147A.002, 500.090, and 500.093 to conform. | Dead |
| HB235 | AN ACT relating to civil rights. | Repeal and reenact KRS 344.010 to define terms; amend KRS 344.020, relating to the purpose of the Kentucky's civil rights chapter, to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.025, 344.040, 344.050, 344.060, 344.070, and 344.080, relating to prohibited discrimination in various labor and employment practices, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 210.033, 344.030, 344.100 and 344.110 to conform; amend KRS 344.120 and 342.140, relating to prohibited discrimination in places of public accommodation and advertisements therefor, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.170, 344.180, 344.190, 344.300, and 344.310, relating to the state and local human rights commissions, to include prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity in the scope of their powers and duties; amend KRS 344.360, 344.370, 344.380, and 344.680, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain housing, real estate, and other financial transactions, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.367, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain insurance sales, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.400, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain credit transactions, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 18A.095 to conform; make technical corrections. | Dead |
| HB259 | AN ACT providing maternity leave for public school employees. | Amend KRS 161.155 to provide 20 maternity days to district employees who give birth; establish the terms and conditions for use of maternity days. | Dead |
| HB300 | AN ACT relating to preschool and kindergarten education. | Amend KRS 157.3175 to require school districts provide a full-day preschool education program for eligible three and four-year-olds; establish eligibility for the program; require that preschool for three year old children continue to be funded through a grant process and preschool programs for four-year-old children be funded under KRS 157.310 to 157.440; require preschool programs to operate on the school district calendar; require transportation be provided; amend KRS 158.031 to include preschool education programs for four-year-old children in the primary school program; amend KRS 157.320 to remove the definition of "kindergarten full-time equivalent pupil in average daily attendance"; amend KRS 157.360 to remove a reference to the kindergarten full-time equivalent; amend KRS 158.030 to include a preschool education program for four-year-old children in the definition of "common school"; remove language allowing kindergarten to operate for less than six hours on a school day; amend KRS 158.060 and 160.1596 to conform. | Dead |
| HB258 | AN ACT relating to school bus stops. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to define "bus stop camera system," "school bus stop," and "qualifying school district"; require the installation of video cameras at each school bus stop in a qualifying school district; require the unit of government responsible for maintaining the road where the bus stop is located to install the cameras and retain the video images; specify the allowable uses of the video images and provide for retention timeframes; require school districts to notify the Transpiration Cabinet and all local governments that maintain roads in the district of the location of school bus stops. | Dead |
| HB257 | AN ACT relating to expungement. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to create an automatic felony expungement process for eligible convictions. | Dead |
| HB228 | AN ACT relating to the rights of incarcerated children. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 600 to enumerate the rights of incarcerated children; provide that the Act may be cited as the Incarcerated Children's Bill of Rights. | Dead |
| HB299 | AN ACT relating to emergency shelters. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 67 to require county governments to operate at least one emergency shelter for persons experiencing homelessness or to otherwise contract with an operator of an emergency shelter; require an adequate number of beds in the emergency shelter; require the emergency shelter to conform to applicable federal and state law; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to provide standards for emergency shelters. | Dead |
| HB312 | AN ACT relating to motor vehicle racing. | Amend KRS 189.993 to establish enhanced penalties for a violation of KRS 189.505, including vehicle impoundment and increased fines. | Dead |
| HB331 | AN ACT relating to background checks on the sale or transfer of firearms. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to require background checks for private firearms sales and transfers; amend KRS 237.990 to establish a penalty for violations. | Dead |
| HB231 | AN ACT relating to menstrual discharge collection devices and making an appropriation therefor. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require each public school that includes any of grades six through 12 to provide free menstrual discharge collection devices to students; require each local board of education to adopt policies for the distribution of free menstrual discharge collection devices; define "menstrual discharge collection devices"; amend KRS 139.010 to define "menstrual discharge collection devices"; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt from sales and use tax the sale or purchase of menstrual discharge collection devices; APPROPRIATION; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2025. | Dead |
| HB336 | AN ACT relating to a cost-of-living increase to the retirement benefits for retired state employees, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. | Appropriate $224 million, $17 million, and $16 million in fiscal year 2025-2026 to the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority to fund a one-time two percent cost-of-living adjustment effective July 1, 2025, for Kentucky Employees Retirement System nonhazardous and hazardous duty recipients, and for State Police Retirement System recipients, respectively; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY. | Dead |
| HB226 | AN ACT relating to an eligible caregiver tax credit. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish an eligible caregiver tax credit against the tax imposed in KRS 141.020; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the credit. | Dead |
| HB270 | AN ACT relating to public school restroom facilities. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 162 to define "single-user toilet facility"; require the chief state school officer not approve plans for specific new school buildings or alterations to school buildings unless the plans provide sufficient single-user toilet facilities, with a minimum requirement of one; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations regarding the required number of single-user toilet facilities in school buildings; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require a school where more that 25 percent of the school's restroom facilities are single-user restroom facilities to develop a plan to assist students needing additional privacy due to urgent medical or biological needs to use facilities that provide additional privacy and provide possible aspects of the plan. | Dead |
| HB288 | AN ACT relating to interest on medical debt. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 360 to establish a maximum interest rate of three percent on medical debt; amend KRS 360.020 to expand the civil penalty for excessive interest on medical debt; amend KRS 360.040 to establish a maximum interest rate of three percent on judgments rendered in an action to collect medical debt; make technical amendments; amend KRS 216B.250 to conform. | Dead |
| HB327 | AN ACT relating to utility service disconnection reports by retail electric suppliers. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to require retail electric suppliers to file monthly disconnection reports with the Public Service Commission; identify the contents of the monthly disconnection reports; and make those reports available to the public on the Public Service Commission's website. | Dead |
| HB326 | AN ACT relating to utility disconnection protections. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 278 to create winter and summer temperature standards for disconnection of service by retail electric and gas utilities; allow resumption of disconnection only after a 72-hour period during which the temperature standard is exceeded; establish a certificate of need for persons who are at risk if utility service is disconnected that can be provided by a physician, physician assistant, community-based service organization, or faith-based service organization; prohibit disconnection of service on holidays and weekends, including Friday, and before 8 a.m. and after 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday; allow for reconnection of service for partial payment with a payment plan; require waiver of termination fees, reconnection fees, and late fees for customers having obtained a certificate of need; require utility to make reasonable effort towards reestablishing service for a customer terminated after having obtained a certificate of need but no more than 24 hours after repayment is commenced; require separate, written notice 14 days prior to a disconnection to residential household; require that notice be distinguishable from the regular billing notices; establish font size and typeset for material to be printed on the notice; require a hardship reconnection order for persons at risk who have had service terminated by the utility after meeting specific repayment requirements; require the Public Service Commission to promulgate administrative regulations and issue an order setting forth any applicable rules and procedures. | Dead |
| HR14 | A RESOLUTION recognizing February 6, 2025, as Kentucky Nurses Day in the Commonwealth. | A RESOLUTION recognizing February 6, 2025, as Kentucky Nurses Day in the Commonwealth. | Signed/Enacted/Adopted |
| HB55 | AN ACT relating to civil liability of a parent or guardian. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish civil liability against a parent, guardian, or other person legally responsible for a minor if the minor causes the injury or death of another by the use of a destructive device, explosive, firearm, or other deadly weapon; provide limited exemptions; amend KRS 411.155 to conform. | Dead |
| HB123 | AN ACT relating to sales and use tax exemptions for menstrual discharge collection devices. | Amend KRS 139.010, relating to the sales and use taxes, to define "menstrual discharge collection devices"; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt from sales and use tax the sale or purchase of menstrual discharge collection devices; apply to sales or purchases made on or after July 1, 2025, but before July 1, 2029; require the Department of Revenue to report annually to the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue the total exemptions claimed for the previous fiscal year; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report to the Legislative Research Commission. | Dead |
| HB125 | AN ACT relating to discriminatory practices against a person. | Amend KRS 344.010 to provide definitions of "protective hairstyle" and "race" that include traits historically associated with race; amend KRS 158.148 to provide that school disciplinary codes shall prohibit discrimination on the basis of race; provide that the Act may be cited as the C.R.O.W.N. Act. | Dead |
| HB124 | AN ACT relating to firearms and declaring an emergency. | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to define "assault weapon," "large capacity ammunition feeding device," and "seller of ammunition"; require background checks for private firearms sales; require reporting to law enforcement of firearm and ammunition thefts and losses; require the safe storage of firearms; require the Department of Kentucky State Police to promulgate administrative regulations relating to the licensing of persons to possess handguns and assault weapons, the registration of handguns and assault weapons, and the logging of firearms and ammunition sales effective January 1, 2026; amend KRS 237.990 to establish penalties; create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to create the offense of criminal purchase or disposal of a weapon; amend KRS 395.250 to require an estate's inventory to list each firearm; amend KRS 403.735 to require judges, when issuing an order of protection, to consider whether a person against whom the order is entered should be prohibited from possessing an firearm; amend KRS 504.030 to require judges in criminal cases where a person is found not guilty by reason of insanity to demand the surrender of the defendant's firearms; amend KRS 506.080 to add that the offense of facilitation includes assistance in providing firearms; amend KRS 508.020 to include physical injury to a minor by virtue of the intentional discharge of a firearm within the offense of assault in the second degree; amend KRS 527.040 to require that the sentence for a felon in possession of a firearm be served consecutively to any other felony sentence; amend KRS 527.070 to include postsecondary education facilities within the existing ban on firearms in schools; amend KRS 532.030 to require the judge pronouncing a defendant guilty but mentally ill to demand the surrender of the person's firearms; amend KRS 65.1591, 237.104, 237.115, and 532.025 to conform; repeal KRS 65.870, relating to the prohibition of local firearm control ordinances; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2026; EMERGENCY. | Dead |
| HB130 | AN ACT relating to cosmetology. | Amend KRS 317A.010 to allow fixed or mobile beauty salons, esthetic salons, nail salons, and limited beauty salons; amend KRS 317A.020 and 317A.145 to consider any type of mobile salon a "facility" and a "premises"; amend KRS 317A.060 to require the cosmetology board to set the standards for mobile and fixed salons and establish inspection schedules; direct any administrative regulations to balance licensee and public interests; amend KRS 317A.050 and 317A.155 to conform. | Dead |
| HB104 | AN ACT relating to pretrial release. | Amend KRS 431.066 to limit the use of money bail to certain high-risk defendants and create a preventive detention process for defendants of select risk levels and charge types; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to establish a preventive detention hearing process and define the limited circumstances in which money bail can be imposed; amend various statutes to conform; repeal KRS 431.021, relating to guaranteed arrest bond certificates. | Dead |
| HB43 | AN ACT relating to maternal health disparities in perinatal care. | Amend KRS 211.680 to expand the scope of the legislative intent and findings; create new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to define terms; require licensed health facilities under KRS Chapter 216B to provide each patient with written information regarding the patient's rights and implement an evidence-based maternal health disparities program for all health providers involved in the perinatal care of patients within those facilities; require the Department for Public Health to track data on pregnancy-related and severe morbidity. | Dead |
| HB126 | AN ACT relating to state holidays. | Amend KRS 2.110 to add the nineteenth day of June as a state holiday commemorating Juneteenth National Freedom Day. | Dead |
| HB129 | AN ACT relating to a living wage. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require any employer doing business in Kentucky that receives governmental incentives or subsidies to pay its employees a living wage. | Dead |
| HB212 | AN ACT relating to the Teachers' Retirement System and declaring an emergency. | Amend various sections of KRS Chapter 161 to remove provisions of HB 258 enacted during the 2021 Regular Session that created and adjusted benefits for individuals who become members of the Teachers' Retirement System on or after January 1, 2022; repeal KRS 161.633, 161.634, 161.635, and 161.636, relating to university and nonuniversity members; provide that these members shall be eligible for the benefits applicable to members who entered the system immediately prior to January 1, 2022; EMERGENCY. | Dead |
| HB205 | AN ACT relating to teachers. | Amend KRS 161.030 to remove the authority of the Education Professional Standards Board to require successful completion of assessments prior to teacher certification; amend KRS 161.048 and 161.053 to conform. | Dead |
| HB138 | AN ACT relating to earned paid sick leave. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require employers to provide earned paid sick leave to employees; provide that employees earn paid sick leave upon the date of hire and can use the leave after being employed for 90 days; set forth allowable uses of accrued earned paid sick leave; designate how notice of need to use earned paid sick leave is provided by employees; amend KRS 337.990 to establish the penalty for employers that fail to follow earned paid sick leave requirements. | Dead |
| HB128 | AN ACT relating to criminal histories of job applicants. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 344 to prohibit employers from considering or requiring disclosure of prior criminal history as part of the initial job application; provide that the Act may be cited as the Ban the Box - The Criminal Record Employment Discrimination Act. | Dead |
| HB127 | AN ACT relating to Black History Season. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to designate January 15 to April 4 of each year as Black History Season; require the Governor to proclaim Black History Season and to encourage Kentuckians to acknowledge its significance. | Dead |
| HB32 | AN ACT relating to outdoor recreation. | Create a new section of subchapter 12 of KRS Chapter 154 to establish the Office of Outdoor Recreation Industry within the Cabinet for Economic Development; establish the office duties and responsiblities; amend KRS 12.020 to conform. | Dead |
| HB52 | AN ACT relating to the property tax homestead exemption. | Amend KRS 132.810 to increase the frequency of the property tax homestead exemption cost of living adjustment to annually instead of biennially. | Dead |
| HB50 | AN ACT relating to sex offenders. | Amend KRS 17.545 to prohibit a registrant from residing within 3,000 feet of a high school, middle school, elementary school, preschool, publicly owned or leased playground, or licensed daycare facility; provide that the 3,000 feet restriction applies to any person who becomes a registrant after the effective date of the Act. | Dead |
| HB106 | AN ACT relating to cannabis. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to make possession of a personal use quantity of cannabis exempt from civil or criminal penalty; amend KRS 218A.010 to define "cannabis," "personal use quantity of cannabis," and "cannabis accessory"; amend KRS 218A.1422, regarding cannabis possession, to conform; amend KRS 218A.1423, regarding cannabis cultivation, to conform; amend KRS 218A.500, regarding drug paraphernalia, to exempt personal use cannabis accessories; amend KRS 218A.1421, regarding cannabis trafficking, to exempt personal use quantities; amend KRS 138.872 to exclude personal use quantities from the cannabis stamp tax; amend KRS 218A.410 and 533.030 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to allow expungement of certain convictions relating to cannabis and to apply expungement retroactively; RETROACTIVE, in part. | 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 |
| HB120 | AN ACT relating to gun safety for children. | Amend KRS 527.010 to define "securely locked container" and make technical corrections; create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to prohibit unlawful storage of a firearm; establish elements of the crime as recklessly allowing access to an unsecured firearm by a minor; establish the crime as a Class B misdemeanor unless a physical injury or death results, in which case it is a Class A misdemeanor; provide that an affirmative defense exists if a minor obtained the firearm through the minor's unlawful entry; provide that the Act may be cited as the Baby Dre Gun Safety Act. | Dead |
| HB58 | AN ACT relating to termination of residential leases. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 383 to permit a tenant to terminate a lease or rental agreement if he or she is seeking relocation due to a recent mental or physical health emergency; require the tenant to pay any rent due prorated to the effective date of termination; relieve the tenant from liability for any other rent or fees resulting from the termination. | Dead |
| HB119 | AN ACT relating to historical instruction. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require African history instruction in certain middle and high school world history and civilization courses; require Native American history instruction in certain middle and high school United States history courses; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations establishing academic standards for the required historical instructions; require superintendents to adopt curricula for required instruction; require the Department of Education to collaborate with the Kentucky Center for African-American Heritage and the Kentucky Native American Heritage Commission to develop recommended curricula and instruction guidelines for the required historical instruction, elective high school course offerings in African history and Native American history, and relevant professional development materials. | Dead |
| HB67 | AN ACT relating to wages. | Amend KRS 337.275 to raise minimum wage for employers to $9.50 an hour on the effective date of this Act and incrementally thereafter to $15 an hour on July 1, 2029; raise the state minimum wage for tipped employees to five dollars an hour on the effective date of this Act. | Dead |
| HB42 | AN ACT relating to sex offenders. | 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. | Dead |
| HB76 | AN ACT relating to retirement benefits for state and county employees in hazardous positions. | Create a new section of KRS 16.505 to 16.652 to change the retirement benefits for members participating in the State Police Retirement System (SPRS) or in a hazardous position in either the Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS) or County Employees Retirement System (CERS) who are hired after January 1, 2014, but before January 1, 2026, so that, in lieu of continued participation in the hybrid cash balance plan (Tier 3 benefits), these members receive the benefits provided to members in a hazardous position who began participating immediately prior to January 1, 2014 (Tier 2 benefits); for those eligible hazardous employees, create a presumption that service credit in a hazardous position earned after January 1, 2014, is service credit earned immediately prior to January 1, 2014; for eligible hazardous members transitioning to Tier 2, require that accumulated contributions in the hybrid cash balance plan remain in the member’s account, but any employer credit be transferred to the retirement allowance account; allow a member in a hazardous position subject to a change from Tier 3 to Tier 2 benefits to make a one-time election to opt out of the change of benefits within 30 days; establish exclusions; amend KRS 16.576, 16.577, 16.578, 16.582, 61.546, 61.552, 61.597, 61.615, 78.5512, 78.5514, 78.5524, 78.5528, and 78.616 to grant to members in a hazardous position who begin participating after January 1, 2026, or whose participation is presumed under Section1of this Act to begin immediately prior to January 1, 2014, the same benefits provided to members whose participation began immediately prior to January 1, 2014 (Tier 2 benefits), including death and disability benefits, benefit factors and service credit that includes service credit for unused sick leave, and eligibility for early retirement and service purchases; make technical corrections; amend KRS 16.583 and 78.5516 to limit the hybrid cash balance plan (Tier 3 benefits) only to members participating in SPRS or in hazardous positions in KERS or CERS who make an election to opt out of Tier 2 benefits under Section 1 of this Act or who make an election, prior to the effective date of the Act, under KRS 61.5955; amend KRS 61.5955 to provide that only a member in a nonhazardous position who began participating in KERS or CERS as a Tier 2 member may elect to receive Tier 3 benefits in the hybrid cash balance plan in lieu of Tier 2 benefits; amend KRS 16.505, 61.510, and 78.510 to amend definitions of various terms to conform and make technical changes; amend KRS 16.560, 61.575, and 78.640 to allow interest credited on the accounts of members participating in SPRS or in a hazardous position in KERS or CERS to be adjusted to conform; amend KRS 61.592 and 78.5520 to exempt only hazardous members who opt out of receiving Tier 2 benefits from eligibility for an employer payment to convert nonhazardous service to hazardous service; amend KRS 61.680 to require that a member who is eligible under Section 1 of this Act and who has nonhazardous service credit as a Tier 3 member of either KERS or CERS to have his or her nonhazardous and hazardous service consolidated to determine eligibility and benefits; amend KRS 78.545 to add Section 1 of this Act as one of the provisions that shall be administered for the CERS in the same manner as for the KERS. | Dead |
| HB146 | AN ACT relating to the taxation of retirement distributions. | Amend KRS 141.019 to increase the retirement distribution exclusion from $31,110 to $41,110 for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026. | Dead |
| HB147 | AN ACT relating to railroad operations. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 277 to require a crew of at least two persons during operation of a train or light engine; amend KRS 277.990 to include penalties for crews of less than two persons. | Dead |
| HB121 | AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 25 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to slavery and involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime. | Propose to amend Section 25 of the Constitution of Kentucky to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude in all circumstances, including as punishment for a crime; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection. | Dead |
| HB122 | AN ACT relating to sales and use tax exemptions for baby and personal care products. | Amend KRS 139.010, relating to the sales and use taxes, to define terms; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt from sales and use tax the sale or purchase of baby bottles, baby wipes, breast pumps, breast pump collection and storage supplies, breast pump kits, diapers, menstrual discharge collection devices, and incontinence products; apply to sales or purchases made on or after July 1, 2025, but before July 1, 2029; require the Department of Revenue to report annually to the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue the total exemptions claimed for the previous fiscal year; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report to the Legislative Research Commission. | Dead |
| HB149 | AN ACT relating to paramedic education. | Create a new section of KRS 164.740 to 164.7891 to establish a coal-county paramedic scholarship to be administered by the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority (KHEAA); define terms; establish a fund in the State Treasury to be administered by KHEAA for providing coal county paramedic scholarships. | Dead |
| HB80 | AN ACT relating to the presession filing of bills. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 6 to allow members and members-elect of the General Assembly to prefile bills and resolutions for introduction at the next succeeding regular legislative session; require the prefiled bills and resolutions to be published on the Legislative Research Commission's website. | Dead |
| HB109 | AN ACT relating to abandoned property. | Amend KRS 383.020 to specify duties of landlord with respect to abandoned personal property. | Dead |
| HB151 | AN ACT relating to a tax credit for volunteer firefighters. | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a refundable income tax credit for certain volunteer firefighters; declare the purpose of the credit; require annual reporting to the Legislative Research Commission and the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue to evaluate the impact of the credit; amend KRS 141.0205 to provide the ordering of the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow confidential tax return information to be shared with the Legislative Research Commission and Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue. | 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 | Absent |
| HB501 | AN ACT relating to pharmaceutical drugs. | House: Third Reading RCS# 359 | 03/28/2025 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 | 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 | Nay |
| HB90 | AN ACT relating to maternal health and declaring an emergency. | House: Third Reading RCS# 326 | 03/27/2025 | Nay |
| SB19 | AN ACT relating to permitted uses of time during the school day. | House: Third Reading RCS# 337 | 03/27/2025 | Absent |
| SB28 | AN ACT relating to agricultural economic development and declaring an emergency. | House: Third Reading RCS# 341 | 03/27/2025 | Absent |
| HB136 | AN ACT relating to corrections. | House: Third Reading RCS# 327 | 03/27/2025 | Nay |
| HB2 | AN ACT relating to the taxation of currency and bullion currency and declaring an emergency. | House: Third Reading RCS# 315 | 03/27/2025 | Nay |
| SB65 | AN ACT relating to deficient administrative regulations and declaring an emergency. | House: Third Reading RCS# 334 | 03/27/2025 | Absent |
| SB65 | AN ACT relating to deficient administrative regulations and declaring an emergency. | House: Veto Override RCS# 333 | 03/27/2025 | Absent |
| SB65 | AN ACT relating to deficient administrative regulations and declaring an emergency. | House: Third Reading RCS# 331 | 03/27/2025 | Absent |
| HB216 | AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Office of Agricultural Policy and declaring an emergency. | House: Third Reading RCS# 313 | 03/27/2025 | Nay |
| 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 | Absent |
| HB346 | AN ACT relating to air quality programs and declaring an emergency. | House: Third Reading RCS# 312 | 03/27/2025 | Nay |
| HB399 | AN ACT relating to interference with a legislative proceeding. | House: Third Reading RCS# 329 | 03/27/2025 | Nay |
| HB398 | AN ACT relating to occupational safety and health. | House: Third Reading RCS# 318 | 03/27/2025 | Nay |
| HB424 | AN ACT relating to employment at public postsecondary education institutions. | House: Third Reading RCS# 319 | 03/27/2025 | Nay |
| HB4 | AN ACT relating to initiatives regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion. | House: Third Reading RCS# 330 | 03/27/2025 | Nay |
| HB495 | AN ACT relating to healthcare services and declaring an emergency. | House: Third Reading RCS# 311 | 03/27/2025 | Nay |
| HB546 | AN ACT relating to transportation, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. | House: Third Reading RCS# 325 | 03/27/2025 | Nay |
| SB183 | AN ACT relating to the fiduciary duties owed to the state-administered retirement systems. | House: Third Reading RCS# 332 | 03/27/2025 | Absent |
| HB566 | AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Horse Racing and Gaming Corporation and declaring an emergency. | House: Third Reading RCS# 320 | 03/27/2025 | Nay |
| HB552 | AN ACT relating to economic development. | House: Third Reading RCS# 322 | 03/27/2025 | Absent |
| HB6 | AN ACT relating to administrative regulations and declaring an emergency. | House: Third Reading RCS# 317 | 03/27/2025 | Nay |
| HJR46 | A JOINT RESOLUTION relating to road projects and declaring an emergency. | House: Third Reading RCS# 324 | 03/27/2025 | Nay |
| HJR30 | A JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the release of funds. | House: Third Reading RCS# 323 | 03/27/2025 | Nay |
| HB684 | AN ACT relating to elections. | House: Third Reading RCS# 321 | 03/27/2025 | Nay |
| SB207 | AN ACT relating to education. | House: Third Reading RCS# 338 | 03/27/2025 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| SB25 | AN ACT relating to oversight of government operations and declaring an emergency. | House: Third Reading RCS# 340 | 03/27/2025 | Nay |
| HB695 | AN ACT relating to the Medicaid program and declaring an emergency. | House: Third Reading RCS# 316 | 03/27/2025 | Nay |
| HB694 | AN ACT relating to Teachers' Retirement System benefit funding. | House: Third Reading RCS# 328 | 03/27/2025 | Nay |
| SB27 | AN ACT relating to health care. | House: Third Reading RCS# 289 | 03/14/2025 | Absent |
| HB45 | AN ACT relating to campaign finance. | House: Third Reading RCS# 292 | 03/14/2025 | Nay |
| HB38 | AN ACT relating to orders of protection. | House: Third Reading RCS# 266 | 03/14/2025 | Absent |
| 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 | Nay |
| 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 | Absent |
| 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 | Nay |
| SB2 | AN ACT relating to correctional facilities. | House: Veto Override RCS# 308 | 03/14/2025 | Nay |
| 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 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| HB455 | AN ACT relating to elections. | House: Third Reading RCS# 295 | 03/14/2025 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| HB495 | AN ACT relating to healthcare services and declaring an emergency. | House: Veto Override RCS# 304 | 03/14/2025 | Nay |
| HB546 | AN ACT relating to transportation, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. | House: Third Reading RCS# 298 | 03/14/2025 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| 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 | Absent |
| 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 | Nay |
| SB207 | AN ACT relating to education. | House: Adopt HFA 3 RCS# 274 | 03/14/2025 | Yea |
| SB25 | AN ACT relating to oversight of government operations and declaring an emergency. | House: Third Reading RCS# 272 | 03/14/2025 | Nay |
| SB25 | AN ACT relating to oversight of government operations and declaring an emergency. | House: Adopt HFA 3 RCS# 271 | 03/14/2025 | Nay |
| SB25 | AN ACT relating to oversight of government operations and declaring an emergency. | House: Suspend the Rules RCS# 270 | 03/14/2025 | Nay |
| 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 | Nay |
| HB695 | AN ACT relating to the Medicaid program and declaring an emergency. | House: Veto Override RCS# 306 | 03/14/2025 | Nay |
| HB13 | AN ACT relating to revenue and declaring an emergency. | House: Third Reading RCS# 288 | 03/14/2025 | Absent |
| HB775 | AN ACT relating to fiscal matters. | House: Third Reading RCS# 296 | 03/14/2025 | Nay |
| Committee | Position | Rank | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Detail | Kentucky House Elections, Constitutional Amendments and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee | 7 | |
| Detail | Kentucky House Local Government Committee | 6 | |
| Detail | Kentucky House Natural Resources and Energy Committee | 8 | |
| Detail | Kentucky House Tourism and Outdoor Recreation Committee | 4 | |
| Detail | Kentucky Joint Local Government Committee | 5 | |
| Detail | Kentucky Joint Natural Resources and Energy Committee | 7 | |
| Detail | Kentucky Joint State Government Committee | 7 | |
| Detail | Kentucky Joint Tourism, Small Business and Information Technology Committee | 4 |
| State | District | Chamber | Party | Status | Start Date | End Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KY | Kentucky House District 044 | House | Democrat | In Office | 01/01/2023 |