Kentucky 2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 30)
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB312
Introduced
1/12/26
Refer
1/12/26
Refer
1/20/26
Report Pass
1/21/26
Engrossed
1/27/26
Refer
1/27/26
Refer
3/16/26
Report Pass
3/19/26
Enrolled
3/20/26
Enrolled
3/24/26
Vetoed
4/3/26
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
Passed
4/14/26
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to define "provisional license" and "standard license"; authorize the Department of Kentucky State Police (KSP) to issue provisional licenses to carry concealed firearms and other deadly weapons to persons who are 18 to 20 years of age; require KSP to provide notice of expiration of provisional licenses and an application to switch from a provisional license to a standard license; allow the provisional license holder to apply by paper to his or her sheriff or online to KSP for a standard license; allow KSP to promulgate administrative regulations to administer provisional and standard license issuance.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB290
Introduced
1/9/26
Refer
1/9/26
Refer
1/16/26
Report Pass
1/28/26
Engrossed
2/2/26
Refer
2/2/26
Refer
2/23/26
Report Pass
2/25/26
Refer
3/17/26
Enrolled
3/31/26
Enrolled
3/31/26
Chaptered
4/10/26
Passed
4/10/26
Amend KRS 172.100 and 172.200, relating to county law libraries, to ensure that law library funds can be expended for subscriptions to computer-assisted legal research, internet access, and computers and related equipment.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB291
Introduced
1/9/26
Refer
1/9/26
Refer
1/16/26
Amend KRS 116.035 to provide that a voter shall be deemed a resident of a city within the county of his or her habitation if the voter has at least 50% ownership in real property located within the city precinct.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB292
Introduced
1/9/26
Refer
1/9/26
Refer
1/16/26
Failed
1/20/26
Amend KRS 65A.030, relating to special purpose governmental entities, to increase the audit and financial statement responsibility thresholds; amend KRS 65A.010 to include 911 emergency services within examples of public services provided by special purpose governmental entities and to raise the fire department audit and financial statement responsibility thresholds; amend KRS 95A.055 to raise the fire department audit and financial statement responsibility thresholds; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2027.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB293
Introduced
1/9/26
Refer
1/9/26
Refer
1/16/26
Report Pass
2/10/26
Engrossed
2/17/26
Refer
2/17/26
Refer
3/16/26
Report Pass
3/18/26
Enrolled
3/26/26
Enrolled
3/26/26
Chaptered
4/3/26
Passed
4/3/26
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to require vehicles operating on a highway with an iron, steel, or wooden wheel to be equipped with a rubberized strip on the portion of the wheel that is in contact with the highway; provide an exception for certain animal-drawn vehicles; amend KRS 189.990 to set penalty for violation at $20 to $100 for each offense.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB294
Introduced
1/9/26
Refer
1/9/26
Refer
1/16/26
Amend KRS 134.490 to modify notification requirements for third-party purchasers of delinquent taxes; amend KRS 134.504 to require notice of the homestead exemption application process.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB32
Introduced
1/6/26
Refer
1/6/26
Refer
1/13/26
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to cover at least 2 medically necessary epinephrine devices per covered person; limit a covered person's cost-sharing amount to $100 annually; amend KRS 304.17A-099 to exempt the epinephrine device coverage requirement from being suspended under state law due to the triggering of federal cost defrayment requirements; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485, 164.2871, and 18A.225 to require Medicaid, KCHIP, self-insured employer group health plans offered by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution, and the state employee health plan to comply with the epinephrine device coverage requirement; provide that various sections apply to health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2027; require the Department of Insurance to determine whether the epinephrine devices coverage requirement would be in addition to essential health benefits required under federal law; require the Department of Insurance to obtain federal approval, if necessary; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to obtain federal approval, if necessary; provide authorization from the General Assembly to make changes in the Medicaid program as required under KRS 205.5372(1); EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2027.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB320
Introduced
1/12/26
Refer
1/12/26
Refer
1/20/26
Report Pass
1/21/26
Engrossed
1/29/26
Refer
1/29/26
Amend KRS 529.110 to enhance the penalty for promoting human trafficking to a Class B felony unless the victim is a minor, in which case it is a Class A felony.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB321
Introduced
1/12/26
Refer
1/12/26
Refer
1/20/26
Amend KRS 199.894 to define terms; apply definitions to Section 2 of the Act; amend KRS 199.8982 to require that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services allow certified family child-care home providers and licensed type II child-care centers to participate in the Child Care Assistance Program and establish requirements related to a provider's children in the program and other nonrelative children of the provider that are served in the program.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB322
Introduced
1/12/26
Refer
1/12/26
Refer
1/20/26
Amend KRS 199.8982 to establish an exemption from the state certification requirements for a child-care provider on a military installation or military facility that is licensed or certified as a family child-care provider by the United States Department of Defense, any branch of the United States Armed Forces, the National Guard, or reserve component thereof.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB323
Introduced
1/12/26
Refer
1/12/26
Refer
1/20/26
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to define "public agency," "harassment," "obscene," and "social media platform"; prohibit a public agency, or individual acting on behalf of a public agency, from disabling, deleting, blocking, hiding, or otherwise preventing a person or entity from commenting on a social media platform designated by the public agency to communicate government business or on an account of an individual with the authority to speak on behalf of the public agency acting on its behalf on his or her personal account; permit a public agency, or individual acting on behalf of a public agency, to disable or delete comments that are libelous or slanderous, obscene, would be considered harassment, or would pose an imminent threat to public safety as determined by a court; allow a person or entity to bring forth an action against a public agency, or an individual acting on behalf of a public agency, for any violation; create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to define "official electronic school communication"; prohibit a public school, school district, or individual acting in his or her capacity on behalf of a public school or school district from directly or indirectly publishing an official electronic school communication to advocate for or against a political topic, party, candidate, or question; prohibit a public school, school district, or individual acting in his or her official capacity on behalf of a public school or school district from restricting lawful public commentary on a political topic, party, or question if the public school, school district, or person acting in his or her official capacity on behalf of a public school or school district directly or indirectly publishes such commentary on an official electronic school communication.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB324
Introduced
1/12/26
Refer
1/12/26
Refer
1/20/26
Amend KRS 15.334 to require law enforcement training on crisis intervention and de-escalation.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB281
Introduced
1/8/26
Refer
1/8/26
Refer
1/15/26
Report Pass
1/21/26
Engrossed
1/30/26
Refer
1/30/26
Refer
3/6/26
Report Pass
3/10/26
Enrolled
3/26/26
Enrolled
3/26/26
Chaptered
4/3/26
Passed
4/3/26
Amend KRS 217.127 to define "charitable food donor" as a nonprofit or religious organization that is recognized as tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or home-based processor, which produces food for distribution to a homeless shelter or to individuals displaced due to a declared natural disaster; exempt a charitable food donor from the licensing requirements of KRS 217.005 to 217.215 and application of State Plumbing Code requirements; amend KRS 217.218 to conform; amend KRS 411.241 to exempt a nonprofit or religious organization that is recognized as tax exempt under Section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code or a home-based processor from civil or criminal liability arising from the production or donation of food to a homeless shelter or to individuals displaced due to a declared natural disaster.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB282
Introduced
1/8/26
Refer
1/8/26
Refer
1/15/26
Report Pass
2/24/26
Engrossed
3/3/26
Refer
3/3/26
Amend KRS 189.920 to allow wreckers to be equipped with a flashing, rotating, or oscillating blue light, to be used only when the wrecker is stationary and while removing a vehicle or debris from the highway; prohibit a wrecker from using a blue light when towing a vehicle; this Act may be cited as Troy's Law.
KY
Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky House Bill HB283
Introduced
1/9/26
Refer
1/9/26
Refer
1/16/26
Report Pass
3/20/26
Engrossed
3/26/26
Refer
3/26/26
Refer
3/31/26
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 39G to define "center," "executive director," "foreign enterprise," and "resident of the Commonwealth"; prohibit a resident of the Commonwealth from engaging in a transaction with a foreign enterprise if the transaction would result in foreign control of intellectual property, infrastructure, technology, or assets critical to the economic security of the Commonwealth, obstruction of counter-intelligence efforts, or would compromise the economic security of the Commonwealth; require the Kentucky Intelligence Fusion Center to review and investigate a transaction between a foreign enterprise and a resident of the Commonwealth; require the center to notify the executive director of the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security once it has determined that a transaction would compromise the economic security of the Commonwealth; require the center to refer the matter to the appropriate federal authorities if a transaction would compromise the security of the United States; allow the center to contact other state and local agencies and access state and local databases if necessary in pursuit of a review or an investigation; require the center to assess whether the transaction between a foreign enterprise and a resident of the Commonwealth would pose a threat to the security of the Commonwealth, the level of threat the transaction would pose, whether that threat has been mitigated, whether the transaction is with or on behalf of a foreign government, and whether a foreign entity may obtain control of critical infrastructure, technology, or assets critical to the economic security of the Commonwealth; require the center to refer the matter to the Attorney General and notify the executive director of the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security if it determines that the transaction would pose as a threat to the Commonwealth and the threat cannot be mitigated; require the center to meet with the co-chairs of the Legislative Oversight and Investigations Committee at least twice a year to discuss any findings in its review or investigations that would compromise the economic security of the Commonwealth; allow either co-chair of the Legislative Investigations and Oversight Committee to compel additional meetings; require the co-chairs of the Legislative Oversight and Investigations Committee to have required security clearance before meeting with the center; prohibit the center from meeting with the co-chairs if neither have obtained the required security clearance; exempt the meeting between the center and the co-chairs of the Legislative Oversight and Investigations Committee from the Kentucky Open Meetings Act and exempt any records produced in the meeting from the Kentucky Open Records Act; require center to submit an annual report to the Legislative Oversight and Investigations Committee; exempt certain data from the report from the Kentucky Open Records Act; exempt certain data from the report from the Kentucky Open Meetings Act; direct that the first report to the Legislative Oversight and Investigations Committee be issued by July 1, 2027.