Kentucky 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 73)
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SR29
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Passed
2/27/25
Commemorating Senator Keturah Herron on being the second African American woman to serve in the Kentucky Senate.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB250
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
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 to immediately remove a person unlawfully occupying a residential dwelling or other structure 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; create a new section of KRS Chapter 523 to establish the offense of making a false statement to detain real property.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SR33
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
Passed
2/27/25
Recognize and honor Kentucky American Water for its contributions to the prosperity of Kentucky upon its 140th anniversary.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB101
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/6/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to abolish the death penalty and replace it with life imprisonment without parole for inmates presently sentenced to death; amend KRS 532.030 to remove the death penalty; amend KRS 640.040 to prohibit life imprisonment without benefit of parole for a juvenile offender convicted of a capital offense; amend KRS 640.010 to define "serious intellectual disability" and "significant subaverage general intellectual functioning"; amend KRS 422.285, 532.050, 532.100, and 533.010 to conform; repeal KRS 431.213, 431.2135, 431.218, 431.220, 431.223, 431.224, 431.240, 431.250, 431.260, 431.270, 507A.060, 532.025, 532.075, 532.130, 532.135, 532.140, 532.300, 532.305, and 532.309.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB279
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Failed
2/25/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to define terms; require the secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to request a waiver from the United States Department of Agriculture to exclude certain foods from being purchased using Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits; require the request to be submitted annually until a waiver is granted if instructed by the General Assembly.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB310
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amend KRS 164.295 to permit Kentucky State University to offer a Doctor of Philosophy in Integrated Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB235
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
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.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB215
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 82 to define "city," "project labor agreement," and "public construction project"; permit a city to establish a mandatory preference for awarding public construction project contracts to unions through a negotiated project labor agreement; permit cities to negotiate wages that are higher than the state or federal minimum wage as a condition of the project labor agreement; create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to define "city," "prevailing wage," "prevailing wage rate," and "public works project"; permit a city to enact prevailing wage ordinances; amend KRS 65.016 to grant local governments the authority to adopt and enforce ordinances that require employers in their jurisdiction to provide leave to employees and set a higher minimum wage than state and federal rates; amend KRS 383.210 and 383.215, relating to forcible entry and detainer, to allow a local government to set an alternative time period from the date of the service of the warrant and the date of the hearing to more than the minimum of three days; require the local government to notify the sheriff, the court of jurisdiction, and the administrative office of the courts of that action; and amend KRS 65.1591 to conform.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB254
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amend KRS 65.013 to create a cause of action for violations of the use of tax dollars to advocate for or against public questions on ballot or to lobby or participate in executive agency lobbying; establish time limitation to commence suit and appropriate venue; provide damages recoverable per violation; allow for a class action; prohibit holding a position of public trust or profit for 10 years for individuals held civilly liable; create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to establish criminal penalty and a prohibition against holding a position of public trust or profit for 10 years for individuals found guilty for a violation.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB287
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amend KRS 337.415, relating to court-ordered appearances by employees, to define terms; prohibit employers from discharging or retaliating against an employee who is a crime victim when the employee takes leave to attend proceedings associated with 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 employer violations.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB362
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amend KRS 337.010 to define "job posting" and "wage range"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require all employers to include the wages or wage range for the advertised position in any job posting; amend KRS 95A.250 and 337.020 to conform.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB349
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/5/25
Refer
2/7/25
Repeal and reenact KRS 532.031 to define "gender identity or expression"; list the actions that qualify as hate crimes; list the actual or perceived characteristics a person must have in order to qualify as a victim of a hate crime; outline penalties for a person guilty of a hate crime; set forth criteria for seeking an enhanced sentence; amend KRS 15.334 to add characteristics of a victim to be considered when determining the cause of a crime; add requirement that officers receive training on hate crimes; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to permit a civil action where the victim of a hate crime suffers damages regardless of the outcome of any criminal proceeding; establish recovery for the victim; amend KRS 17.1523 to add characteristics of a victim to be considered when determining the cause of a crime; amend KRS 15.440 to require that a unit of government shall possess a written policy and procedures manual related to hate crimes in order to receive funds from the Law Enforcement Foundation Program fund; repeal KRS 49.320, relating to victim of hate crime deemed victim of criminally injurious conduct.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB106
Introduced
2/5/25
Refer
2/5/25
Amend KRS 311.772, relating to the intentional termination of life of an unborn human being, to define terms; establish criminal penalties and fines for a foreign sender who provides an abortifacient or abortion-inducing drug; establish a civil cause of action that is available to a woman who receives an abortifacient; establish available relief; amend KRS 218A.100 to include abortifacients and abortion-inducing drugs as Schedule IV controlled substance.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HR16
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Passed
3/28/25
Recognize May 2025 as Myositis Awareness Month.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB292
Introduced
2/4/25
Refer
2/4/25
Refer
2/7/25
Amend KRS 156.070 to establish an interscholastic varsity athletics eligibility rule for transfers between member schools.