Kentucky 2025 Regular Session All Bills (Page 95)
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB713
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Amend KRS 61.592 to redefine "hazardous position" to include Department of Kentucky State Police forensic lab and crime scene personnel.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB778
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
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.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB726
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Amend KRS 140.080 to exempt Class B beneficiaries from inheritance taxation when receiving property from a decendent who died on or after January 1, 2026.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SR83
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/21/25
Passed
2/28/25
Recognize and commend Marie Fleeman Courts for her exceptional service to her community and family and for 75 years of active membership in homemakers clubs.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB772
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Amend KRS 315.400 to amend the definition of "transaction" to include pharmaceutical manufacturers.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB10
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/21/25
Report Pass
2/26/25
Engrossed
3/5/25
Refer
3/5/25
Refer
3/7/25
Report Pass
3/12/25
Enrolled
3/14/25
Enrolled
3/14/25
Chaptered
3/24/25
Passed
3/24/25
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 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.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB745
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Amend KRS 214.450 to define "autologous donation" and "directed donation"; amend KRS 214.452 to require blood establishments to test for spike proteins, antibodies to the nucleocapsid protein on the SARS-CoV-2 virus, and synthetic mRNA; provide that a person shall not be compelled to donate blood; require blood establishments to inform donors of the potential uses for donations; require blood to be sold to hospitals before any other entity; prohibit blood from sale for pharmaceutical production if there is a hospital blood shortage; amend KRS 214.454 to conform and make technical corrections; amend KRS 214.456 to permit any person to make an autologous or a directed donation of blood; prohibit restrictions on making autologous or directed donations; amend KRS 214.458 to add the mRNA status of blood and treatment or therapy received to the label of blood donated; add requirements for health facilities, health services, and health care providers to provide patient information on donated blood; amend KRS 214.464 to include additional tests that a patient is required to be notified about in an emergency transfusion; create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to prohibit state agencies from acquiring or maintaining a list of the vaccination status of citizens; create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to require hospitals to invest in blood transfusion prevention strategies and to establish a task force for bloodless medicine and surgery by January 1, 2026; create a new section of Subchapter 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require all health benefit plans to cover any autologous or directed transfusion of blood; amend KRS 205.522 to require Medicaid coverage of any autologous or a directed transfusion of blood; amend KRS 18A.225 to require state health benefit plans coverage of any autologous or directed transfusion of blood; apply coverage mandates to health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2026; require the Department for Medicaid Services or the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to request any necessary federal approval for coverage within 90 days of the effective date of this Act; require a copy of any federal approval requested to the Legislative Research Commission; require appropriate infrastructure to be established by health facilities, services, and providers within 90 days of the effective date of the applicable section of the Act; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2026.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB771
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to provide an employee of the Commonwealth in the judicial or legislative branch of the state government a paid leave of absence of up to six weeks for the birth, adoption, foster care placement, or serious health condition of a child; establish requirements; create a new section of KRS 18A.005 to 18A.200 to provide the paid leave benefits to classified employees in the executive branch of state government; amend KRS 18A.025 and 18A.110 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB759
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Amend KRS 311.720, 311.7701, and 311.781 to define terms; amend KRS 311.723, 311.725, 311.727, 311.732, 311.7706, 311.772, 311.780, and 311.782 to allow an abortion when the unborn child has a lethal fetal anomaly and delineate additional medical circumstances for the performance of an abortion; allow an abortion when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest and the gestational age of the fetus is 22 weeks or less; amend KRS 311.800 to provide for an abortion in a publicly owned hospital under certain circumstances; amend KRS 213.101 to add rape or incest to the reporting requirement; amend KRS 311.990 to conform; repeal KRS 311.735, relating to notice to a spouse; provide that the Act may be cited as the Compassionate Care Act.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB736
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 40 to limit the compensation for advising or assisting with veterans' benefits; prohibit persons seeking compensation for advising, assisting, or consulting on a veterans' benefits matter from utilizing international call or data centers, directly or aggressively soliciting business, gaining access to personal medical, financial, or benefits log-in or password information, charging late fees, and utilizing a doctor with whom they have an employment or business relationship; limit the fee for representation; provide that attorneys and law firms seeking to receive compensation for advising, assisting, or consulting any individual with any veterans' benefits matter shall be governed by limitations set forth in 38 C.F.R. sec. 14.636.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HJR64
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Limit the Governor and Lieutenant Governor to participate in litigation only pertaining to the interests of his or her office; declare that only the Attorney General may bring or participate in litigation in federal court on behalf of the Commonwealth; authorize the Attorney General to enforce this Resolution.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB728
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Amend KRS 158.4414 to provide up to $20,000 to school districts for each school that employs an on-site full-time certified school resource officer; amend KRS 158.4431 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB805
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/26/25
Report Pass
2/27/25
Engrossed
3/7/25
Refer
3/7/25
Refer
3/11/25
Report Pass
3/13/25
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.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB692
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/26/25
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to define terms and make the termination of employment without cause unlawful; establish amount that may be recovered for wrongful discharge; specify when the employers' internal procedures are to be used.
KY
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB787
Introduced
2/19/25
Refer
2/19/25
Refer
2/27/25
Amend KRS 205.533 to require Medicaid managed care organizations to include certain information for providers on their websites; amend KRS 205.534 to require managed care organizations to allow providers 120 days to file an appeal or grievance related to a reduction of denial of a claim; establish penalties for a managed care organization's failure to ensure the timely disposition of any appeal or grievance; require payment of any amount owed to a provider following an appeal to be paid within 30 days; require payments made following an appeal to include 12% interest and reasonable attorney's fees; establish standards and requirements for provider audits; require the inclusion of additional information in the monthly report filed by managed care organizations; require the Department for Medicaid Services to submit an annual report to the Legislative Research Commission related to Medicaid claims, appeals, and grievances; authorize the Department for Medicaid Services to promulgate administrative regulations.