Kentucky 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 132)
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB268
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/19/25
Report Pass
2/27/25
Prohibit the commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Education, the Kentucky Board of Education, and the Kentucky Department of Education from establishing or implementing, or requiring a school district to implement, any cap, limitation, or restriction on enrollment for a virtual program; prohibit the Kentucky Department of Education and the Kentucky Board of Education from reducing or withholding any funds due to a school district from the fund to Support Education Excellence in Kentucky based on the district's operation of a virtual program; sunset prohibitions on June 30, 2026.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB269
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/20/25
Suspend KRS 241.060, 438.305, 438.306, 438.307, 438.308, 438.309, 438.310, 438.312, 438.313, 438.316, and 438.331 that were enacted in 2024 Ky. Acts ch. 111 until April 15, 2026; RETROACTIVE to January 1, 2025; EMERGENCY.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB253
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/20/25
Amend KRS 164.769 to remove repayment obligations from the teacher scholarship program; amend scholorship terms; provide that the scholarship amount shall not exceed the highest in-state tuition rate for a teacher preparation program at a Kentucky public university; amend KRS 164.786 to add eligibility for high school freshmen and sophomores to the dual credit scholarship program; require an approved dual credit course to be in the statewide general education core; permit up to 20 dual credit courses in a teacher and learning career pathway; provide that scholarships shall be awarded in order of application date; revise scholarship to allow two career and technical dual credit courses in each academic year of high school and two general education dual credit courses in the grades 11 and 12; amend KRS 164.787 to conform; repeal KRS 164.771, relating to the Teacher Recruitment Student Loan Forgiveness Pilot Program, effective June 30, 2026; provide that funds appropriated to the Teacher Recruitment Student Loan Forgiveness Pilot Program shall be disbursed through the teacher scholarship program on and after June 30, 2026; EFFECTIVE, in part, June 30, 2026.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB632
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/26/25
Amend KRS 337.415 to define terms "crime," "immediate family," and "victim"; prohibit employers from discharging or retaliating against an employee who is a crime victim when the employee takes leave to attend proceedings associated with the prosecution of a crime; require an employee to give an employer reasonable notice to take leave when practicable; provide guidelines for use of paid leave; require the employer to maintain confidentiality of records and communication with employee crime victim; create a private right of action for improper discharge, discrimination, retaliation, and failing to maintain confidentiality; amend KRS 337.990 to establish penalties for violations by an employer.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB601
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/26/25
Amend KRS 214.452 to add receipt of a COVID -19 vaccine to the blood donor risk factor statement collected by a blood establishment; amend KRS 214.458 to add donor receipt of a COVID-19 vaccine to the donor identification information affixed to a unit of donated blood; add that except in an emergency, a patient be informed if the donor of the blood to be transfused had received a COVID-19 vaccine.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB230
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/20/25
Amend KRS 189A.010 to create a per se limit for a blood level of tetrahydrocannabinol signifying intoxication; amend various sections of the KRS to conform.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB206
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/20/25
Amend KRS 121.015, relating to campaign finance, to define terms; create new sections of KRS Chapter 121 to establish reporting and record retention requirements for political issues committees and persons making independent expenditures; prohibit political issues committees from knowingly and willfully soliciting or accepting contributions from prohibited sources; establish certification requirements for treasurers of political issues committees and donors making contributions and independent expenditures; define activity that creates a presumption of a violation; prohibit foreign nationals from making a donation, contribution, or expenditure, soliciting another person to make a donation, contribution, or expenditure, or participating in another person's decision to influence a ballot measure; establish a cause of action for accepting or soliciting contributions from prohibited sources and failing to certify, report, or retain records; establish a right of privacy in donations to tax-exempt organizations; establish a penalty for a state or local governmental entity, court, or officer of the court that violates the right of privacy; amend KRS 121.190 to require a "paid for by" disclosure for advertisements advocating or opposing a ballot measure.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HJR32
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/20/25
Report Pass
2/25/25
Engrossed
2/28/25
Refer
2/28/25
Refer
3/4/25
Report Pass
3/11/25
Refer
3/11/25
Refer
3/27/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Chaptered
4/1/25
Passed
4/1/25
Authorize the Office of State Budget Director to release certain awards from the School Facility Assistance Fund.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HJR30
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/20/25
Report Pass
2/25/25
Engrossed
2/28/25
Refer
2/28/25
Refer
3/4/25
Report Pass
3/11/25
Refer
3/11/25
Enrolled
3/14/25
Enrolled
3/14/25
Vetoed
3/25/25
Refer
3/27/25
Override
3/27/25
Refer
3/27/25
Override
3/27/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Chaptered
3/28/25
Passed
3/28/25
Authorize the Office of State Budget Director to release a portion of the moneys appropriated for the Kentucky Water or Wastewater Assistance for Troubled or Economically Restrained Systems Fund.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB204
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/20/25
Amend KRS 353.804 and 353.812 to make technical corrections and update committee references.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB245
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/20/25
Report Pass
2/26/25
Engrossed
3/4/25
Refer
3/4/25
Refer
3/5/25
Report Pass
3/6/25
Enrolled
3/13/25
Enrolled
3/13/25
Vetoed
3/21/25
Refer
3/27/25
Override
3/27/25
Refer
3/27/25
Override
3/27/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Enrolled
3/28/25
Chaptered
3/28/25
Passed
3/28/25
Amend KRS 150.022 to require that a Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission member whose reappointment confirmation is declined by the Senate shall vacate his or her seat upon the date of sine die adjournment of the session in which the confirmation was declined.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB7
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/21/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define terms; permit a local government to establish a housing development district by following specified procedure; allow a local government to exempt housing developments within the district from planning and zoning following a public hearing; permit other local taxing authorities to participate in the district; allow a local government to accept applications from developers to construct residential homes within the district; allow a local government to negotiate with a developer whose application it has accepted regarding rates associated with incentive payments to the developer; establish a means by which a developer shall be paid incentive payments by a local government; require area development districts to provide assistance to a local government in establishing a district; require the Cabinet for Economic Development to promote awareness of the district and incentive program and to provide a report to the LRC regarding utilization of the program.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HJR40
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/25/25
Designate a portion of United States Route 27 in Campbell County as the Patrick J. Crowley Memorial Parkway.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB647
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/26/25
Create a new of section KRS Chapter 164 to allow a student, staff, or faculty member to opt out of a postsecondary school's immunization policy for specified reasons; create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to prohibit a public entity from creating standardized documentation with the purpose of certifying vaccination status; create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to require written notice of vaccination exemptions for a sincerely held religious belief or medical contraindication; establish which health care providers can support a medical exemption; require notice of federal mandates and exemptions; establish civil cause of action for violations; amend KRS 214.015 to prohibit the Department for Public Health from releasing personally identifiable information from immunization reports to another public agency or third party; amend KRS 214.034 to prohibit public and private primary and secondary schools and preschool programs from promulgating a new immunization policy and mandating compliance during a school year that has already commenced; and amend KRS 214.036 to allow objection to immunization on the basis of conscientiously held beliefs.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB50
Introduced
2/18/25
Refer
2/18/25
Refer
2/20/25
Report Pass
2/27/25
Engrossed
3/4/25
Refer
3/4/25
Refer
3/4/25
Amend KRS 65.188 to make a technical corection.