Kentucky 2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 27)

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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB64

Introduced
1/7/26  
Refer
1/7/26  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to define terms; establish limitations on the introduction of identification devices on or within the human body; create a new section of KRS Chapter 413 to establish a statute of limitations for an action filed for introduction of an identification device; amend KRS 508.152, relating to the unlawful use of tracking devices, to include the installation of a tracking device on the person or property of another without their consent and exempt parental tracking of minors from the prohibition.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB640

Introduced
2/12/26  
Refer
2/12/26  
Amend KRS 131.170 to make a technical correction.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB641

Introduced
2/13/26  
Refer
2/13/26  
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to protect consumers using mental health chatbots; define terms; establish prohibitions and exceptions for how suppliers are to handle individually identifiable health information; prohibit supplier from advertising a specific product or service unless that product or service is clearly and conspicuously disclosed; require supplier to clearly and conspicuously disclose that the mental health chatbot is artificial intelligence and provide when this disclosure should appear; provide an affirmative defense to liability and list requirements to achieve that defense; grant enforcement authority to the Attorney General; include severability provision; provide that the Act may be cited as the Artificial Intelligence in Mental Health Act.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB642

Introduced
2/13/26  
Refer
2/13/26  
Refer
2/23/26  
Report Pass
3/12/26  
Engrossed
3/19/26  
Refer
3/19/26  
Refer
3/24/26  
Report Pass
3/25/26  
Enrolled
4/1/26  
Enrolled
4/1/26  
Chaptered
4/7/26  
Amend KRS 161.520 to remove the requirement for dependent children over the age of 18 to have their mental or physical condition approved by a majority of a medical review committee to receive survivor benefits; amend KRS 161.605 to raise the minimum amount a retired reemployed member may earn per day from $170 to $200, remove the provision for returning to work 1 month earlier if the member forfeits 1 month of their retirement benefit, reinstate the pension waiver program and prohibit members returning to work under its provisions from returning to work as administrators, and make technical changes; amend KRS 161.608 to clarify that the Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) will acknowledge a member's earliest participation date in another state administered retirement system to determine benefit tier; amend KRS 161.620 to allow a member who is a parent to apply for and manage payments to a disabled child without necessity of a court order or other legal authority; amend KRS 161.635 and 161.636 to allow TRS to offer index fund investment options to university and nonuniversity members, to annuitize the investment return on the supplemental benefit applied to the index funds not to exceed 6.1% if there is no COLA in a given year or 4.6% if there is a COLA in the given year, allow TRS to promulgate administrative regulations to establish procedures for disbursements from the supplemental benefit component, and establish that neither the TRS board or staff shall be liable for any losses or claims due to a member's election of an index fund and state that members have the sole responsibility for their investment decisions.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB643

Introduced
2/13/26  
Refer
2/13/26  
Refer
2/23/26  
Report Pass
3/11/26  
Engrossed
3/18/26  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to allow school districts to implement a wearable panic alert system; establish system criteria; require the Department of Education to provide a list of approved wearable panic alert systems; require the Center for School Safety to establish the Wearable Panic Alert Grant Program; amend KRS 158.446 to allow the Center for School Safety to distribute wearable panic alert grants using funds appropriated in the biennial budget to support school safety; provide that the Act may be cited as Alyssa's Law.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB644

Introduced
2/13/26  
Refer
2/13/26  
Refer
2/23/26  
Report Pass
3/10/26  
Engrossed
3/19/26  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 2 to create the Kentucky General Assembly Medal of Distinction and establish the award criteria and selection process.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB599

Introduced
2/9/26  
Refer
2/9/26  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 503 to provide a justification for the use of physical force or deadly physical force by a defendant operating a motor vehicle while fleeing the immediate area of an obstruction of a highway or public passage; amend KRS 525.015 to expand the elements of obstructing an emergency responder; provide enhanced penalties; allow restitution to an agency for the reasonable costs of an emergency response; amend KRS 525.140 to expand the elements of obstructing a highway or other public passage; provide enhanced penalties; allow restitution to an agency for the reasonable costs of an emergency response; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a civil cause of action for recovery of damages caused by obstructing an emergency responder or obstruction of a highway or other public passage; amend KRS 413.140 to provide a 1-year statute of limitation for the cause of action for recovery of damages caused by obstructing an emergency responder or obstruction of a highway or other public passage; amend KRS 503.085 to conform.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB302

Introduced
1/9/26  
Refer
1/9/26  
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 200 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Diaper Access Board and its functions related to the development of a state plan for the distribution of funds from the Kentucky diaper access trust fund; establish the Kentucky diaper access trust fund and the purposes for which funds are disbursed to diaper access programs in the Commonwealth.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB303

Introduced
1/9/26  
Refer
1/9/26  
The Governor's recommended Transportation Cabinet Budget: Detail Part I, Operating Budget; detail Part II, Capital Projects Budget; detail Part III, Funds Transfer; detail Part IV, Transportation Cabinet Budget Summary; APPROPRIATION.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB304

Introduced
1/9/26  
Refer
1/9/26  
The Governor's recommended State/Executive Branch Budget: Detail Part I, Operating Budget; detail Part II, Capital Projects Budget; detail Part III, General Provisions; detail Part IV, State Salary/Compensation, Benefit, and Employment Policy; detail Part V, Funds Transfer; detail Part VI, General Fund Budget Reduction Plan; detail Part VII, General Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan; detail Part VIII, Road Fund Budget Reduction Plan; detail Part IX, Road Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan; detail Part X, Phase I Tobacco Settlement; and detail Part XI, Executive Branch Budget Summary; detail Part XII, Appropriations from the Budget Reserve Trust Fund; APPROPRIATION.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB305

Introduced
1/12/26  
Refer
1/12/26  
Refer
1/20/26  
Report Pass
2/4/26  
Engrossed
2/12/26  
Refer
2/12/26  
Refer
3/11/26  
Report Pass
3/26/26  
Refer
3/31/26  
Enrolled
4/1/26  
Enrolled
4/1/26  
Chaptered
4/13/26  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 29A to establish that a person present at any part of a grand jury proceeding shall not knowingly record the proceeding or disclose any information gathered while present during a proceeding; amend KRS 29A.990 to establish the penalty for knowingly recording or disclosing information gathered at a grand jury proceeding as a Class A misdemeanor unless the person is a public servant as defined in KRS 519.010, in which case it is a Class D felony; amend KRS 500.050 to provide that a misdemeanor violation of knowingly recording or disclosing information gathered at a grand jury proceeding shall be prosecuted within 10 years after the act is committed.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB306

Introduced
1/12/26  
Refer
1/12/26  
Refer
1/20/26  
Report Pass
1/21/26  
Engrossed
1/28/26  
Amend KRS 511.010 to define terms; amend KRS 511.070 to expand the elements of criminal trespass in the second degree to include knowingly entering or remaining in a workplace while engaging in disruptive or threatening behavior where notice against trespass is given; establish that a second or subsequent criminal trespass in the second degree offense within 3 years is a Class A misdemeanor; amend KRS 511.080 to establish that a second or subsequent criminal trespass in the third degree offense within 3 years is a Class B misdemeanor.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB295

Introduced
1/9/26  
Refer
1/9/26  
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 383 to prohibit landlords from charging screening fees without notice to the applicant; require screening criteria from landlords; require landlords to provide notice of denial to applicants; allow applicants to view the property before a security deposit is paid.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB296

Introduced
1/9/26  
Refer
1/9/26  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to define terms; require Medicaid-enrolled providers prescribing psychotropic drugs to children to provide an FDA Medication Guide to parents or legal guardians; require medical care providers prescribing psychotropic drugs to children covered by Medicaid to obtain signed informed consent from a parent or guardian; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to develop and maintain an adverse drug reaction online reporting system; require the cabinet to compile and submit an annual report of the adverse drug reaction online reporting system to the Legislative Research Commission; require the cabinet to submit an annual report summarizing the implementation efforts and compliance statistics of Medicaid-enrolled providers; establish penalties; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the system.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB297

Introduced
1/9/26  
Refer
1/9/26  
Refer
1/16/26  
Report Pass
2/17/26  
Engrossed
2/20/26  
Amend KRS 15.420, relating to the Kentucky Law Enforcement Foundation Program Fund, to include in the definition of "police officer" a Kentucky State Fair Board special police officer.