Kentucky 2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 13)

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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB521

Introduced
1/27/26  
Refer
1/27/26  
Refer
2/3/26  
Report Pass
2/18/26  
Engrossed
2/26/26  
Refer
2/26/26  
Refer
3/16/26  
Report Pass
3/26/26  
Refer
3/31/26  
Enrolled
4/1/26  
Enrolled
4/1/26  
Chaptered
4/10/26  
Amend KRS 508.130 to define "course of conduct" and "social media platform"; establish elements of the crime of stalking and penalize as a Class D felony unless certain aggravating circumstances are met, in which case it is a Class C felony; provide that the Act shall not affect the validity of restraining orders, interpersonal protective orders, or domestic violence orders in place prior to the effective date of the Act; repeal KRS 508.140 and 508.150, relating to stalking in the first and second degrees; amend KRS 14.300, 23A.208, 24A.178, 431.005, 411.220, 456.010, 500.092, 500.120, 506.160, 508.155, and 532.080 to conform.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB523

Introduced
1/29/26  
Refer
1/29/26  
Amend KRS 200.470 to insert gender-neutral language.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB524

Introduced
1/29/26  
Refer
1/29/26  
Amend KRS 610.050 to insert gender-neutral language.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB525

Introduced
1/29/26  
Refer
1/29/26  
Amend KRS 186.577 to remove the vison testing requirement on operator's license renewal for all drivers; require vison testing for renewal of an operator's license if the applicant is 65 years of age or older; EMERGENCY.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB486

Introduced
1/23/26  
Refer
1/23/26  
Refer
2/2/26  
Report Pass
2/17/26  
Engrossed
2/26/26  
Amend KRS 95A.292 to allow rescue squad members to participate in the Alan "Chip" Terry Professional Development and Wellness Program; create a new section of KRS Chapter 39F to direct the Division of Emergency Management and the Kentucky Fire Commission to enter into an agreement to ensure that rescue squad members have access to the program; provide that the Act may be cited as Gavin's Rights.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB487

Introduced
1/27/26  
Refer
1/27/26  
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 314 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Advisory Council of Licensed Lactation Consultants under the Board of Nursing and list the powers and duties of the council; require the board to promulgate administrative regulations relating to licensed lactation consultants; permit the board to require a criminal background investigation of an applicant for a license as a licensed lactation consultant by means of a criminal background check; establish provisions for penalties.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB488

Introduced
1/27/26  
Refer
1/27/26  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to define terms; direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to prepare and submit a waiver amendment application to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to amend the 1915(c) HCB waiver program to include coverage for assisted living services; establish coverage limits; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; require the cabinet or the Department for Medicaid Services to seek federal approval if it is determined that such approval is necessary; provide authorization from the General Assembly to make changes in the Medicaid program as required under KRS 205.5372(1).
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB489

Introduced
1/27/26  
Refer
1/27/26  
Create a new section in KRS Chapter 141 to establish a nonrefundable individual income tax credit for an eligible child; define "eligible child"; allow credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2027, but before January 1, 2031; establish that the credit amount is equal to $4,000 per eligible child, not to exceed $8,000 per return, per taxable year; 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 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB49

Introduced
1/7/26  
Refer
1/7/26  
Refer
1/14/26  
Report Pass
2/4/26  
Engrossed
2/11/26  
Refer
2/11/26  
Refer
3/13/26  
Report Pass
3/17/26  
Enrolled
3/26/26  
Enrolled
3/26/26  
Chaptered
4/3/26  
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 322 to establish and grant scholarships through the Kentucky professional engineer and professional land surveyor incentive scholarship fund; declare legislative intent to address engineer and land surveyor development and needs by providing Kentucky residents with postsecondary scholarships; establish the Kentucky professional engineer and professional land surveyor incentive scholarship fund as a trust and agency accounts direct the engineer and land surveyor board to administer the fund and award scholarships to qualified applicants; require a written contract between the board and the recipient where the recipient agrees to obtain engineer or land surveyor licensure within 6 years of graduation and practice in Kentucky for at least 1 year for each year of scholarships granted; acquire moneys for the fund through penalties and fines, assessments from license renewals, and the board's budgeted funds; make the applicant's failure to complete the terms of the contract subject to recovery of the fund assistance, attorney's fees, and 8% annual interest; require the board to annually report its scholarship data to the Legislative Research Commission for referral to the Interim Joint Committee on Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB490

Introduced
1/27/26  
Refer
1/27/26  
Refer
2/3/26  
Report Pass
2/10/26  
Engrossed
2/18/26  
Refer
2/18/26  
Refer
3/24/26  
Report Pass
3/26/26  
Refer
3/31/26  
Enrolled
4/1/26  
Enrolled
4/1/26  
Vetoed
4/13/26  
Refer
4/14/26  
Override
4/14/26  
Refer
4/14/26  
Override
4/14/26  
Enrolled
4/14/26  
Enrolled
4/14/26  
Chaptered
4/14/26  
Amend KRS 164.360, 164.230, and 164.830 to allow for the removal of faculty members at public postsecondary education institutions for bona fide financial reasons; require the boards of regents and trustees of the institutions to establish the process for removal based on financial reasons with specified parameters; EMERGENCY.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB491

Introduced
1/27/26  
Refer
1/27/26  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to define terms; permit a resident of a long-term care facility to install an electronic monitoring device; require a resident to give consent to install an electronic monitoring device; establish the actions that a resident and a facility may take if consent is granted or if consent is not granted; require the cabinet to create a form to authorize the installation and use of an electronic monitoring device and set requirements; establish installation, use, and retention requirements for devices and recordings; require a long-term care facility to post a notice that an electronic monitoring device is used in a room; prohibit a resident from being discriminated or retaliated against because of the decision to authorize and use an electronic monitoring device; establish guidelines on who can view or listen to the images displaced by the monitoring device; prohibit unauthorized individuals from destroying the device or recordings; establish limits on liability and liability defenses; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations; exempt specific provisions if a monitoring device is installed by a law enforcement agency; establish penalties.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB492

Introduced
1/27/26  
Refer
1/27/26  
Amend KRS 70.260, 70.261, 70.262, 70.263, 70.267, 70.270 and 70.273 to include certified court security officers employed by sheriffs within the purview of deputy sheriff merit boards.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB493

Introduced
1/27/26  
Refer
1/27/26  
Amend KRS 519.070 to include tampering with video recording or video monitoring devices in a correctional facility.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB494

Introduced
1/27/26  
Refer
1/27/26  
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 13A to establish a process for final legislative approval or disapproval of administrative regulations promulgated by designated administrative bodies; indicate that approved administrative regulations will be considered ratified by the General Assembly only after enactment of legislation that specifically approves the section, range, chapter, or title; delay the effective date of an affected regulation until the ratification process is complete; allow regulations necessary to prevent a loss of federal or state funding to go into effect sooner but remain subject to final approval; deem a disapproved ordinary regulation void or emergency regulation expired; require the regulations compiler to submit an eligible regulation list to the Committee on Committees of each chamber; establish session procedures and rules for the regulation review process in the legislature; require each administrative body to submit a list of its ratified regulations to the regulations compiler; authorize the General Assembly to prepare an omnibus bill to cover approved and disapproved regulations; amend KRS 13A.010 to define "final legislative approval" and "ratified"; amend KRS 13A.040 to require the regulations compiler to maintain a ratification status list for all regulations; amend KRS 13A.3102 to make regulation ratification apply to the 7-year certification process; amend KRS 13A.331 to make the ratification status of a regulation supersede its traditional adoption and effective status; amend KRS 13A.190 to conform.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB495

Introduced
1/28/26  
Refer
1/28/26  
Refer
2/4/26  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 91A to define terms; require 100% of the wages of an employee associated with the corporate office to be apportioned to the local government where the corporate office is located; exclude wages for work performed at a satellite office; require 100% of the wages of an employee assigned to a state government office to be apportioned to the local government where the state government office is located; allow a refund claim for occupational license fees paid for work physically performed outside of the local government's jurisdiction; establish requirements for refunds; amend KRS 67.780 to conform; apply the apportionment and refund requirements to incentive agreements entered into or amended on or after the effective date of the Act.