Kentucky 2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 23)
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB601
Introduced
2/9/26
Refer
2/9/26
Refer
2/17/26
Report Pass
3/17/26
Engrossed
3/20/26
Refer
3/20/26
Amend KRS 177.240 to prohibit the Transportation Cabinet or any county or city that maintains a limited access facility from requiring a property owner to pay compensation for any increase in property value attributable to the new access as a condition of allowing a property owner access.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB602
Introduced
2/9/26
Refer
2/9/26
Refer
2/17/26
Amend KRS 501.030 to insert gender-neutral language.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB603
Introduced
2/9/26
Refer
2/9/26
Refer
2/17/26
Amend KRS 45.760, relating to the state capital construction program, to insert gender-neutral language.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB604
Introduced
2/9/26
Refer
2/9/26
Refer
2/17/26
Amend KRS 40.050 to insert gender-neutral language.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB605
Introduced
2/9/26
Refer
2/9/26
Refer
2/17/26
Amend KRS 141.160 to insert gender-neutral language.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB589
Introduced
2/6/26
Refer
2/6/26
Refer
2/13/26
Report Pass
2/19/26
Engrossed
2/26/26
Refer
2/26/26
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 95 to define "city" and "firefighter"; provide that cities may employ retired firefighters provided the firefighter participated in the Firefighters Foundation Program Fund or retired pursuant to KRS Chapter 95, retired with at least 20 years of service credit with no administrative charges pending, and met the separation of employment requirements so that retirement benefits from the systems administered by the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority (KPPA) were not voided; provide that retired firefighters employed by a city shall continue to receive the benefits they were eligible to receive upon retirement, but shall not accrue any additional retirement or health benefits during reemployment except that a city may authorize health coverage by taking legislative action; provide that retirement and any health contributions shall not be paid by the city to the KPPA on a retired firefighter who is reemployed under the Act; provide that individuals employed under the Act may be employed for a term not to exceed 1 year, which may be renewed at the discretion and need of the city; establish limits on the number of reemployed firefighters a city may hire under the program; make technical corrections; amend KRS 61.637, 61.702, 78.5536, and 78.5540 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB59
Introduced
1/7/26
Refer
1/7/26
Refer
1/14/26
Repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 216B.250 as a new section of KRS Chapter 367 to define terms; require health facilities and other health care providers to provide itemized health care statements in certain circumstances; specify the contents of the health care statements; require that health care statements contain information about price classifications and claims made with third-party payors; prohibit health facilities and providers from charging for the health care statements; establish means by which patients may request a health care statement to be furnished; require health facilities and providers to make public postings and have appropriate staff available to respond to questions and resolve disputes; make conforming amendments; prohibit health facilities and other providers from requesting or accepting a total payment for health care services that exceeds an agreed-upon price or the amount the facility or provider is entitled to receive under state or federal law; authorize the Attorney General to enforce certain state and federal laws regulating health care prices; allow a violation to be cured for good-faith errors; establish causes of action and penalties for violation of health care billing requirements; authorize the Attorney General to enforce health care billing requirements; specify that remedies and penalties are cumulative; authorize the Attorney General to promulgate administrative regulations to effectuate or aid in the effectuation of health care billing requirements; amend KRS 304.14-410, 304.32-1551, 214.556, 216B.990, and 216B.300 to conform; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2027.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB590
Introduced
2/6/26
Refer
2/6/26
Refer
2/13/26
Amend KRS 164.5161 to define "spouse"; rename the National Guard Tuition Award Program the National Guard Tuition Scholarship Program; allow current National Guard members and their spouses up to 130 total credit hours at a postsecondary institution; allow the total number of credit hours to be transferrable between the member and his or her spouse; grant authority to the adjutant general to award up to 45 additional nontransferable credit hours within the program; amend KRS 164.5165 and 164.5169 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB591
Introduced
2/6/26
Refer
2/6/26
Refer
2/13/26
Amend KRS 158.814 to require the Kentucky Department of Education to develop a career and technical education program or pathway in performing arts.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB592
Introduced
2/6/26
Refer
2/6/26
Refer
2/13/26
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 610 to establish a pilot program to be known as the Supporting Opportunities for Accountability and Restoration Program for children who are truant; require the pilot program to be established in no less than 10 public school districts; establish the responsive interventions to support and empower teams; establish criteria for participation and procedure for the program; create a new section of KRS Chapter 159 to establish the duties of the director of pupil personnel in school districts that are participating in the pilot program; amend KRS 159.140 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to require schools to collect certain data relating to habitual truancy and require the Kentucky Department of Education to annually report data relating to habitual truancy to the Legislative Research Commission for referral to the Interim Joint Committee on Education and the Interim Joint Committee on Judiciary; amend KRS 610.030 to require the use of an evidence-based family screening tool to identify family strengths, needs, and risks; create family diversion plans and require a child's parent to participate; amend KRS 605.030 to require a court-designated worker to coordinate the pilot program in the school districts that participate; amend KRS 17.125 to allow responsive interventions to support and empower teams to access information on juveniles involved with the juvenile justice system; amend KRS 600.020 to amend the definition of "habitual truant" and define "Supporting Opportunities for Accountability and Restoration Program" or "SOAR Program" and "Responsive Interventions to Support and Empower Teams" or "RISE teams"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 630 to provide that a child who is alleged to be a status offender, adjudicated a status offender, or is a status offender alleged or found to have violated a valid court order shall not be detained in a secure detention facility until the child is at least 16 years old; amend various sections to conform; repeal KRS 630.100.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB593
Introduced
2/6/26
Refer
2/6/26
Refer
2/10/26
Report Pass
2/26/26
Engrossed
3/5/26
Refer
3/5/26
Refer
3/27/26
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 96 relating to municipal utilities and KRS Chapter 278 relating to Public Service Commission-regulated utilities to: define terms; only allow for the provision of electric service to a data center through a contract that conforms to the requirements of the Act; require that within 90 days of the effective date of the Act, the electric service provider issue or file a tariff setting forth the process for a data center customer to apply for service; require the payment of a nonrefundable service application fee; require the preparation of studies to determine the manner in which the electric service provider can safely and efficiently serve the data center in a way that does not have negative service or rate impacts to their non-data center customers; establish the minimum contract requirements between the electric service provider and the data center customer; provide that requirements of the Act that are conflict with the Tennessee Valley Authority's requirements for the distribution of electricity that it supplies shall not apply; prohibit the charging or allocating of any costs associated with serving or constructing new infrastructure to serve a data center to any other customers served by natural gas, water, or wastewater utilities; amend KRS 154.20-229 to require that a qualified data center project that has been preliminarily approved for a certificate of exemption under KRS 139.499 include in its memorandum of agreement with the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority a certification that the data center project complies or will comply with all applicable local requirements and the applicable requirements of the Act.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB594
Introduced
2/9/26
Refer
2/9/26
Refer
2/17/26
Create a new section of KRS 17.500 to 17.580, relating to the sex offender registry, to define "costume" and "Halloween-related activity"; prohibit sex offenders who have committed a criminal offense against a victim who is a minor from participating in any Halloween-related activity; establish penalties.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB595
Introduced
2/9/26
Refer
2/9/26
Refer
2/17/26
Amend KRS 413.249 to remove the statute of limitations for civil actions arising from childhood sexual assault or abuse.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB596
Introduced
2/9/26
Refer
2/9/26
Refer
2/17/26
Amend KRS 189A.010 to create enhanced penalties for a person under the age of 21 who operates a motor vehicle with an alcohol concentration of 0.02 or more; amend KRS 189A.070 to create enhanced periods of license suspenion for a person under the age of 21 who operates a motor vehicle with an alcohol concentration of 0.02 or more; amend KRS 189A.340 to conform.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB597
Introduced
2/9/26
Refer
2/9/26
Refer
2/17/26
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 41 to establish the Commonwealth Retirement Savings Plan as a voluntary payroll-deduction Roth IRA savings program for employees of private employers with fewer than 50 employees; define terms; create a governing board of trustees and specify responsibilities of the board in plan design and oversight; require the board to contract with a third-party administrator for plan administration; establish that the plan shall be implemented and enrollment of employees shall begin on July 1, 2028, if adequate funds to administer the plan are available; amend KRS 154.12-330 to authorize the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority to lend funds to help implement the plan; require the State Treasurer, on or before July 1, 2027, to provide the Legislative Research Commission with a written update on the plan's implementation status.