Kentucky 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 79)

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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SB118

Introduced
2/7/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 533 to define terms; require the court, upon conviction of the defendant, to consider the defendant's status as a primary caretaker of a dependent child unless the defendant is a violent offender, the victim is a child, or a statute prohibits an alternative sentence; require the court, upon a finding that the defendant is a primary caretaker of a dependent child, to consider an alternative sentence; provide that the defendant shall have the right to present an alternative sentencing plan and a family impact statement to the court; provide that in issuing an alternative sentence, the court may require the defendant to participate in programs and services that support the parent-child relationship; provide that the court may modify or revoke the alternative sentence and commit the defendant to an institution if the defendant fails to adhere to or complete the conditions of an alternative sentence; require the Administrative Office of the Court to report annually, beginning in 2026, to the Kentucky State Corrections Commission and to the Legislative Research Commission on the number, percentage, and demographics of parents and children impacted under this Act; provide that the Act may be cited as the Primary Caretaker Consideration Act.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB405

Introduced
2/7/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Amend KRS 117.076 to allow caregivers of voters qualified to cast an excused in-person absentee ballot due to age, disability, or illness to cast an excused in-person absentee ballot.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB409

Introduced
2/7/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to require a waiting period of five business days between the sale and transfer of a firearm; amend KRS 237.990 to establish a penalty for a violation.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB414

Introduced
2/7/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to require all hospitals offering obstetric services and alternative birthing centers to provide or make referrals for perinatal palliative care; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for perinatal palliative care; amend KRS 164.2871, 205.522, 205.6485, and 18A.225 to require self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary institution to its employees, Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program, and the state employee health plan to comply with the new section on perinatal palliative care; make technical corrections; provide that the Act may be cited as the Love Them Both Act of 2025; direct that certain provisions apply to health benefit plans issued, renewed, effective, or delivered on or after January 1, 2026; 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.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB403

Introduced
2/7/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Report Pass
2/25/25  
Engrossed
3/5/25  
Refer
3/5/25  
Refer
3/7/25  
Amend KRS 72.415 to allow the commissioner of the Department of Criminal Justice Training or his or her designee, to grant an extension to a deputy coroner to complete the required training, specify when the extension begins to toll, specify consequences for failure to complete the training within the time period of the extension; delete existing provisions relating to reinstatement and pay modification of deputy coroners who fail to complete the required training.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB407

Introduced
2/7/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 277 to require that every railroad company destroy or remove obstructive vegetation at intersections with public roads or highways; direct the Transportation Cabinet or local government to remove obstructive vegetation if the railroad company fails to do so and establish procedures for reimbursement by the railroad company for the vegetation removal.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB402

Introduced
2/7/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Amend KRS 154.12-223 to establish two positions in the Department for Business and Community Development within the Cabinet for Economic Development to be tasked with industry recruitment and job creation in the Eastern and Western Coal Field areas.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB404

Introduced
2/7/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB406

Introduced
2/7/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Amend KRS 311A.155 to add training and education to uses of grant funds; change grant fund amounts that may be awarded; delete discretion for a county to hold unspent funds for two years; require all grants to be used during the fiscal year for authorized purposes; amend KRS 311A.055 to delete transfer of complaints regarding ambulance services to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; repeal KRS 216B.106 relating to ambulance service investigations and hearings.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB412

Introduced
2/7/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
Amend KRS 121.015 to define "expenditure"; amend KRS 121.150 to prohibit candidates, slates of candidates, committees, contributing organizations, or anyone on their behalf from making an expenditure to an intermediary, including subcontractors, for the purpose of making a payment to another person; require that expenditures be made directly to the provider of goods or personal services.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SB119

Introduced
2/7/25  
Refer
2/7/25  
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.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HR23

Introduced
2/11/25  
Refer
2/11/25  
Refer
2/12/25  
Recognize February 13, 2025, as Kentucky Arts Day.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SR257

Introduced
3/27/25  
Refer
3/27/25  
Refer
3/27/25  
Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Charles Larry Elswick.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SR245

Introduced
3/27/25  
Refer
3/27/25  
Refer
3/27/25  
Recognize the 25th anniversary of the Somernites Cruise.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session

Kentucky Senate Bill SR270

Introduced
3/27/25  
Refer
3/27/25  
Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Anthony "Tony" McCoart.