Kentucky 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 72)
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB392
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
Report Pass
2/20/25
Engrossed
2/27/25
Refer
2/27/25
Refer
3/4/25
Report Pass
3/12/25
Refer
3/14/25
Amend KRS 210.040 to replace the term "institutions" with "facilities"; establish that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services is responsible to provide care that includes emergency and other medical care provided outside of a state facility for patients in state-operated mental health facilities.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB375
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
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.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB388
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
Amend KRS 271B.8-300 to define terms; provide that the business judgment rule shall not be an affirmative defense where the alleged damages suffered by the corporation are the result of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives or environmental, social, and governance (ESG) investing; provide that a director shall not be considered to be acting in good faith if he or she takes any action to implement or maintain DEI initiatives or ESG investing; provide that actions taken as a director, or failure to take action as a director, regarding the implementation or maintenance of DEI initiatives or ESG investing may provide the basis for monetary damages or injunctive relief; amend KRS 271B.7-400 to require the court to award attorney's fees, costs, and expert witness fees and expenses to a plaintiff who prevails in a derivative action where the damages suffered by the corporation were the result of DEI initiatives or ESG investing; allow the court to award compensatory and punitive damages.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB115
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/6/25
Refer
2/11/25
Propose to amend Section 29 of the Constitution of Kentucky to establish the initiative power of the people to propose laws and to enact or reject proposed initiatives at an election; establish procedures for initiatives, effect of adopted initiatives, and parameters for the subject of any initiative; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB377
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
Amend KRS 41.070 and 45.345 and create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to prohibit state and local governments from requiring use or payment of central bank digital currency; establish KRS Chapter 355A and create new sections thereof to define terms, establish property classifications for digital assets, and prohibit KRS Chapter 355A from applying to central bank digital currency; supplement and modify provisions of the Uniform Commercial Code, KRS Chapter 355, relating to the classification, perfection, and priority of digital assets; allow debtors located in Kentucky to file a financial statement with the Secretary of State to perfect a security interest in a digital asset; establish when a transferee takes a digital asset free of any security interest perfected by filing; for purposes of Article 9 of KRS Chapter 355, establish when digital assets are located in Kentucky; classify open blockchain tokens with certain characteristics as intangible personal property; require developers and sellers of certain open blockchain tokens to file a notice of intent with the Secretary of State, and pay a filing fee, prior to sale in this state; require the Secretary of State to promulgate forms and make the forms accessible to filers; require facilitators of certain open blockchain tokens in the resale market to comply with certain requirements; establish penalties for violation of the section; provide that the Secretary of State may make referrals to law enforcement agencies; provide that the section may be cited as the Kentucky Utility Token Act; create a new section of Subtitle 2 of KRS Chapter 286 to permit certain Kentucky financial institutions to elect to provide custodial services of customer currency and digital assets in accordance with the provisions of the section; establish internal control and customer contracting requirements for providing custodial services under the section; provide that digital assets held in custody under the section are not depository liabilities or assets of the financial institution; require the commissioner of the Department of Financial Institutions to establish a supervision fee; create a new section of Article 1 of KRS Chapter 355 to conform; amend KRS 369.103 to include transactions involving digital assets; amend KRS 355.1-102 to prohibit the Uniform Commercial Code from applying to central bank digital currency; provide that the Secretary of State and the commissioner of the Department of the Financial Institutions shall promulgate administrative regulations to implement the Kentucky Utility Token Act and optional custodial services requirements on or before October 1, 2025; EFFECTIVE, in part, October 1, 2025.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB384
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
Amend KRS 158.832 to include intranasal epinephrine to list of medications used to treat anaphylaxis; amend KRS 158.836 to include intranasal epinephrine as permissible for schools to keep.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB394
Introduced
2/6/25
Refer
2/6/25
Refer
2/12/25
Propose to amend Section 77 of the Constitution of Kentucky to prohibit the Governor from pardoning persons that have not been convicted of a crime, unless the person is currently being investigated or prosecuted in connection to a crime; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB214
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to define terms; establish a refundable credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, but before January 1, 2030, for individuals who enroll in a firearm safety course during the taxable year; amend KRS 141.0205 to provide for the ordering of the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the credit.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB243
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 7A to establish the Financial Incentive Review Committee; define terms; specify committee membership, authority, powers and duties; establish requirements for meetings; establish requirements for how the General Assembly shall enact new financial incentives; require agencies to assign a unique identification number for purposes of reporting financial incentives; amend KRS 11.068 to require the annual production of a detailed estimate of the revenue loss resulting from each tax expenditure from the general fund and road fund; amend KRS 131.020 to require the Department of Revenue to collect, report, and provide data to the committee; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to provide confidential data to the committee; amend KRS 148.522 to require the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet to collect, report, and provide data to the committee; amend KRS 154.12-210 to require the Cabinet for Economic Development to collect, report, coordinate, and provide data to the committee; amend KRS 246.030 to require the Department of Agriculture to collect, report, coordinate, and provide data to the committee.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SCR34
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
Engrossed
3/27/25
Refer
3/27/25
Adjourn in honor of Patrick "Pat" J. Crowley.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB221
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amend KRS 199.896 to establish square footage requirements for child-care centers.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB226
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
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.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB269
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amend KRS 45A.110 to require the bidder or offeror to attest to not receiving two or more civil penalties under KRS Chapter 337, 338, 339, or 341 in order to be eligible to receive the written determination of responsibility.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB280
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amend KRS 7A.180 to rename the Investments in Information Technology Improvement and Modernization Projects Oversight Board to the Information Technology Oversight Committee; define "application," "cybersecurity system," and "legacy system"; amend KRS 7A.185 to conform; amend KRS 7A.190 to require state agencies to report on information technology systems or applications not later than July 15, 2025, and not later than April 15, 2027, and biennially thereafter; EMERGENCY.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB236
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Report Pass
3/5/25
Engrossed
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Refer
3/12/25
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.