Kentucky 2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 18)
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB737
Introduced
2/25/26
Refer
2/25/26
Refer
3/4/26
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to define "primary forest products"; allow the transportation of primary forest products on state-maintained highways within 100 miles of their point of origin at increased weight limits of 90,000 pounds for dual rear axle trucks and 100,000 pounds for tri-axle trucks; specify that the increased weight limits do not apply on the interstate highway system or on any road with a posted bridge weight limit; amend KRS 189.990 to set penalties for violations.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB738
Introduced
2/25/26
Refer
2/25/26
Refer
3/4/26
Amend KRS 341.350, relating to unemployment insurance, to lengthen the verified definite return-to-work or recall-to-work period from 16 weeks to 12 months and add protections for employees whose place of employment can reasonably be expected to resume operations within 12 months following a natural disaster.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB739
Introduced
2/25/26
Refer
2/25/26
Refer
3/4/26
Amend KRS 138.510 to allocate moneys from the pari-mutuel racing excise tax distribution to the local government support fund; create a new section of KRS Chapter 230 to establish the pari-mutuel racing local government support fund to be administered by the Department for Local Government; establish parameters for use of fund moneys; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to share information relating to the calculation of the new fund distribution.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB74
Introduced
1/7/26
Refer
1/7/26
Refer
1/14/26
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to create spending limits and restrictions on imposing new taxes, tax rate increases, fees, or extension of expiring taxes; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB689
Introduced
2/20/26
Refer
2/20/26
Refer
2/27/26
Report Pass
3/5/26
Engrossed
3/19/26
Refer
3/19/26
Refer
3/24/26
Report Pass
3/25/26
Refer
3/31/26
Enrolled
4/1/26
Enrolled
4/1/26
Chaptered
4/13/26
Passed
4/13/26
Amend KRS 205.6412 to require the Department for Medicaid Services to seek authorization from the United States Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services to implement a state-directed payment for physician and nonphysician professional services provided to a Medicaid beneficiary by a qualifying hospital's affiliated physician groups or physicians and other professionals employed or contracted by the qualified hospital; require the Department of Medicaid Services to direct Medicaid managed care organizations to issue payments back to January 1, 2026, upon federal approval; RETROACTIVE.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB69
Introduced
1/7/26
Refer
1/7/26
Refer
1/14/26
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198A, relating to affordable housing, to define terms; require agencies that expend state or federal affordable housing funds to expend at least 90% of those funds on single-family detached housing and no more than 10% of those funds on multifamily housing in any given fiscal year; EMERGENCY.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB690
Introduced
2/20/26
Refer
2/20/26
Failed
2/23/26
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 507, relating to criminal homicide, to allow a prosecution where the victim is an unborn child; provide exceptions for spontaneous miscarriages and life-saving medical procedures; amend KRS 507.010 to define terms; create new sections of KRS Chapter 508, relating to assault, to define terms; allow a prosecution where the victim is an unborn child; provide exceptions for spontaneous miscarriages and life-saving medical procedures; create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to give the Attorney General concurrent jurisdiction with Commonwealth's and county attorneys when the victim is an unborn child; repeal KRS 507A.010, 507A.020, 507A.030, 507A.040, 507A.050, and 507A.060, relating to fetal homicide; amend KRS 311.732, 402.205, and 439.265 to conform; provide that the Act may be cited as the Prenatal Equal Protection Act.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB691
Introduced
2/23/26
Refer
2/23/26
Refer
3/2/26
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 200 to define terms; establish procedures for a child charged with a public offense or subject to a court order to determine if the child is a high acuity youth; establish procedures for securing a treatment plan, and dispute resolution through a review process and the court if the parties cannot agree to a plan; require a 24-hour protocol for health facilities, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, the Department of Juvenile Justice, and the courts to direct care; establish reimbursement rates for inpatient and outpatient psychiatric care of a child by psychiatric hospitals and pediatric teaching hospitals; establish procedures for discharge of the child from inpatient admission under specific circumstances.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB716
Introduced
2/24/26
Refer
2/24/26
Refer
3/3/26
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to require each local school board to include at least 1 student representative; require each local school board to adopt a school board student representative policy with certain requirements.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB717
Introduced
2/24/26
Refer
2/24/26
Refer
3/3/26
Repeal and reenact KRS 158.1415 to require each school district to provide healthy relationship education instruction to all public school students; establish minimum requirements for the instruction; establish minimum requirements for the healthy relationship curricula and instructional materials; prohibit a school or school district from restricting the ability of an instructor to answer a question related to the instruction; require that a school make the healthy relationship curricula and instructional materials available upon the request of a parent or guardian and establish a procedure for a parent or guardian to opt a student out of the instruction; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations necessary to implement, administer, and enforce this section; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations requiring that each school district submit a report on healthy relationship instruction in the district biennially; require the Kentucky Department of Education to maintain a list of recommended healthy relationship curricula and instructional materials; permit a parent or guardian to file an enforcement action in Circuit Court; provide that the Act may be cited as the Education for Healthy Youth Act.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB718
Introduced
2/24/26
Refer
2/24/26
Refer
3/3/26
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to establish an automatic nonviolent felony expungement process for eligible convictions.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB719
Introduced
2/24/26
Refer
2/24/26
Refer
3/3/26
Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB72
Introduced
1/7/26
Refer
1/7/26
Refer
1/14/26
Amend KRS 78.5520 to redefine "hazardous position" to include code enforcement and zoning inspection personnel employed by a consolidated local government for the purposes of benefits of the County Employees Retirement System.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB720
Introduced
2/24/26
Refer
2/24/26
Refer
3/3/26
Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB721
Introduced
2/24/26
Refer
2/24/26
Refer
3/3/26
Failed
3/10/26
Amend KRS 205.558 to insert gender-neutral language; make technical corrections.