Kentucky 2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 16)

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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB731

Introduced
2/25/26  
Refer
2/25/26  
Refer
3/2/26  
Report Pass
3/10/26  
Engrossed
3/17/26  
Amend KRS 42.740 to reduce the number of candidates submitted by the Kentucky League of Cities and Kentucky Association of Counties from 6 persons to 3 persons for consideration of the Governor to be appointed to the Geographic Information Advisory Council.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB732

Introduced
2/25/26  
Refer
2/25/26  
Refer
3/4/26  
Report Pass
3/19/26  
Engrossed
3/25/26  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to define terms; allow a public or private entity to contribute funds to a portable benefit plan as a form of compensation to a self-employed worker; prohibit using contributions to determine a worker's classification.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB733

Introduced
2/25/26  
Refer
2/25/26  
Amend KRS 243.100 to make a technical correction.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB693

Introduced
2/23/26  
Refer
2/23/26  
Amend KRS 96.150 to provide that when a city extends its water supply or sanitary sewer system into the service territory of another water supply or sanitary sewer system and it fails to provide utility service to its new customers within the agreed upon time to do so, the affected customers may elect to receive their utility service from their previous provider for as long as the service is available; RETROACTIVE.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB692

Introduced
2/23/26  
Refer
2/23/26  
Refer
3/2/26  
Report Pass
3/11/26  
Engrossed
3/16/26  
Refer
3/16/26  
Refer
3/24/26  
Report Pass
3/26/26  
Refer
3/31/26  
Enrolled
4/1/26  
Enrolled
4/1/26  
Chaptered
4/13/26  
Amend KRS 367.3611, relating to the Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act, to define "automatic content recognition" and "smart monitor" and to include automatic content recognition data in the definition of "sensitive data"; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2027.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB694

Introduced
2/23/26  
Refer
2/23/26  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to define terms; establish a nonrefundable income tax credit for an employer that hires an eligible employee who holds a certificate of employability; provide that the credit is equal to the amount of wages paid to the eligible employee subject to certain limitations; 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 HB695

Introduced
2/23/26  
Refer
2/23/26  
Amend KRS 121.120 to require that the city and state of contributors to candidates for the General Assembly and statewide office be available to the public online.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB696

Introduced
2/23/26  
Refer
2/23/26  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to require the Department for Public Health to make educational material available on its website regarding the recognition and warning signs of infantile seizure disorder; require a health facility or health care provider to provide the material; amend KRS 311.601, 311.844, and 314.073 to require pediatricians, family practitioners, advanced practice registered nurses, and physician assistants who regularly provide care to infants to demonstrate completion of a 1 time course of a least 1 hour of continuing education that covers the recognition and warning signs of infantile seizure disorder.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB697

Introduced
2/23/26  
Refer
2/23/26  
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 199 to define terms; establish that it is unlawful to offer commercial surrogacy services or enter into commercial surrogacy agreements in the Commonwealth or with a resident of the Commonwealth; establish that the penalties established do not apply to altruistic surrogacy, a woman acting as a surrogate, or a child born as a result of a prohibited commercial surrogacy arrangement; amend KRS 199.990 to establish that a violation of the prohibitions regarding commercial surrogacy is a Class D felony for the first offense and a Class C felony for any subsequent offense; establish an additional civil penalty of not less than $10,000 for each violation with continued violations resulting in a forfeiture of the right to do business in this state; establish that any commercial surrogacy agreement is void and unenforceable as against public policy; amend KRS 199.590 to conform; establish that the penalties created shall apply to all contracts or agreements entered into after the effective date of the Act; make technical corrections.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB698

Introduced
2/23/26  
Refer
2/23/26  
Amend KRS 313.020, relating to the Kentucky Board of Dentistry, to require general dentists for at least 3 of the 7 voting dentist members of the board; direct the nonvoting ex officio representatives of dental schools and hygiene degree programs to come from Commission on Dental Accreditation accredited programs; make the hygiene program seats rotate on a staggered, biennial basis.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB699

Introduced
2/23/26  
Refer
2/23/26  
Create a new section of KRS 18A.005 to 18A.200 to define "child," "family medical leave," "fictive kin," "foster care placement," "kinship care placement," and "parent"; provide classified and unclassified employees family medical leave of up to 6 weeks for the birth or adoption of a child, placement of a child in foster care or kinship care, or a serious health condition that would render the employee unable to perform his or her job functions; require the employee to complete 30 days of service before he or she is eligible for family medical leave; require the leave be used within 1 year of the birth, adoption, foster or kinship care placement, or serious health condition; require any leave which involves the birth of more than 1 child during a particular pregnancy or the adoption or placement of more than 1 child with an employee to be taken concurrently and used as 1 adoption or placement; allow the employee to use the leave as a block or intermittently; allow both parents to use the leave concurrently or consecutively under certain conditions; require the employee to use family medical leave before using any other accrued leave; limit use of family medical leave to 2 times during a 60-month period; provide that once an employee leaves the position eligible for family medical leave, any unused balance shall lapse; require an employee who returns to a position in state service that provides family medical leave to complete 30 days of service before becoming eligible for the leave; prohibit an employee from converting any unused balance of family medical leave to any other type of paid leave, benefit, or compensation; require the employee to submit written verification of the birth, placement of a child, or serious health condition; amend KRS 18A.025 to conform; amend KRS 18A.110 to authorize the secretary of the Personnel Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations pertaining to the family medical leave program.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB7

Introduced
1/15/26  
Refer
1/15/26  
Refer
1/23/26  
Report Pass
2/3/26  
Engrossed
2/10/26  
Refer
2/10/26  
Refer
3/16/26  
Report Pass
3/19/26  
Refer
3/26/26  
Enrolled
3/31/26  
Enrolled
3/31/26  
Chaptered
4/9/26  
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; allow the use of camera monitoring systems on school buses operated by a school district and allow the enforcement of a civil penalty for stop arm camera violations recorded by a camera monitoring system; establish the amount of the civil penalty; require that the revenue generated from a civil penalty be retained by the school district; allow a law enforcement agency to charge a fee of $25 from every civil penalty enforced by the law enforcement agency; require specific notice for a stop arm camera violation; establish defenses to a violation; establish procedures for a contest to a violation; allow for suspension of motor vehicle registration for failure to timely pay a penalty; require a school district or law enforcement agency to notify the Transportation Cabinet of the need to release a motor vehicle registration suspension within 1 business day of payment; amend KRS 189.370 to require traffic in the opposite direction of a school or church bus to stop for the bus on a highway that is not divided by an elevated barrier or unpaved median;amend KRS 189.990 to increase the maximum fines for failing to stop for a school or church bus that is receiving or discharging passengers.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB70

Introduced
1/7/26  
Refer
1/7/26  
Amend KRS 186.4102 and 281A.170 to require the Transportation Cabinet to place a denotation on every new or renewal identity document issued after January 1, 2027, that indicates the status of the document holder as a citizen of the United States or a noncitizen authorized to be in the United States; amend KRS 186.531 to conform.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB700

Introduced
2/23/26  
Refer
2/23/26  
Amend KRS 507.060 to establish the crime of vehicular homicide when a person is traveling in excess of 25 miles per hour over the speed limit resulting in the death of another; establish the crime of vehicular homicide for a violation of KRS 189.580(1)(a) resulting in the death of another; provide that the Act may be cited as Daniels Law.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB701

Introduced
2/23/26  
Refer
2/23/26  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 403 to provide that postnuptial agreements are void and unenforceable unless the document meets certain requirements and 60 days have elapsed between initial receipt of the document and its execution.