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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB462

Introduced
1/21/26  
Refer
1/21/26  
Amend KRS 154.30-010 to remove the sunset date in the definition of "modified new revenues for income tax" to make it permanent.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB43

Introduced
1/7/26  
Refer
1/7/26  
Refer
1/14/26  
Report Pass
2/17/26  
Engrossed
2/20/26  
Refer
2/20/26  
Refer
3/16/26  
Report Pass
3/19/26  
Enrolled
3/26/26  
Enrolled
3/26/26  
Chaptered
4/3/26  
Amend KRS 72.415 to allow the commissioner of the Department of Criminal Justice Training to grant an extension to a deputy coroner to complete the required training; specify when the extension begins to toll; specify consequences for failure to complete the training within the time period of the extension; delete provisions relating to reinstatement and pay modification of deputy coroners who fail to complete the required training.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB430

Introduced
1/20/26  
Refer
1/20/26  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 117 to define "large public university campus"; require county boards of elections to conduct election day and no-excuse in-person absentee voting on large public university campuses; provide that this Act shall be known as the Right to Vote at College Campuses Act.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB431

Introduced
1/20/26  
Refer
1/20/26  
Amend KRS 217.186 to require each public postsecondary educational institution to provide access to opioid antagonists on campus; permit access to be provided by emergency opioid antagonist cabinets; permit application for funds from the opioid abatement trust fund and other available sources to coordinate, maintain, and supply the opioid antagonists; amend KRS 15.291 to add providing access to opioid antagonists on the campuses of public postsecondary educational institutions to the list of projects that may be provided with funding from the opioid abatement trust fund.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB432

Introduced
1/20/26  
Refer
1/20/26  
Refer
1/28/26  
Report Pass
2/3/26  
Engrossed
2/12/26  
Refer
2/12/26  
Amend KRS 45A.380 to allow the purchase of used vehicles and used equipment through noncompetitive negotiation if the agency pays no more than 75% of the manufacturer's suggested retail price for new same or similar vehicles or equipment for the used vehicle or equipment; amend KRS 424.260 to allow local agencies to purchase used vehicles and equipment negotiation if the agency pays no more than 75% of the manufacturer's suggested retail price for new same or similar vehicles or equipment without making a newspaper advertisement for bids.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB433

Introduced
1/20/26  
Refer
1/20/26  
Amend KRS 199.570 to allow the names of adopted parents and deceased biological parents to appear on a new birth certificate issued upon adoption if it is requested by the court, adopted parents, or adopted child; direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to create a birth certificate form that complies with this section through the promulgation of administrative regulations.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB434

Introduced
1/20/26  
Refer
1/20/26  
Amend KRS 401.010 to allow a family member of a deceased person to posthumously change the deceased person's name if the name is the result of marriage to a person arrested for or charged with committing an offense intentionally, knowingly, or wantonly, which resulted in the death of the deceased; provide that the order of priority of family members is the same as in KRS 367.93117.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB475

Introduced
1/22/26  
Refer
1/22/26  
Create a new section to KRS Chapter 2 to officially recognize that a person has only 1 gender, male or female.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB476

Introduced
1/22/26  
Refer
1/22/26  
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to establish an individual right to reproductive freedom; allow the Commonwealth to regulate abortion after fetal viability, but not prohibit if medically needed to protect a pregnant patient's life or physical or mental health; forbid discrimination in enforcement of this right; prohibit prosecution of an individual, or a person helping a pregnant individual, for exercising the right to reproductive freedom; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB477

Introduced
1/22/26  
Refer
1/22/26  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to protect access to assisted reproductive technology; create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to declare that a fertilized human egg or human embryo that exists outside of the uterus of a human body shall not be considered an unborn child, a minor child, a natural person, or any other term that connotes a human being for any purpose under state law.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB478

Introduced
1/22/26  
Refer
1/22/26  
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to provide an enhanced term of imprisonment for any defendant convicted of certain crimes if the defendant intentionally committed the offense because of a person's actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, mental or physical disability, gender identity or expression, or sexual orientation; amend KRS 15.334 and 17.1523 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 508 to create the offense of using hate symbols to intimidate; repeal KRS 49.320 and 532.03, relating to hate crimes.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB479

Introduced
1/22/26  
Refer
1/22/26  
Repeal and reenact KRS 532.031 to define "gender identity or expression"; list the actions that qualify as hate crimes; list the actual or perceived characteristics a person must have in order to qualify as a victim of a hate crime; outline penalties for a person guilty of a hate crime; set forth criteria for seeking an enhanced sentence; amend KRS 15.334 and to add characteristics of a victim to be considered when determining the cause of a crime; add a requirement that officers receive training on hate crimes; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to permit a civil action where the victim of a hate crime suffers damages regardless of the outcome of any criminal proceeding; establish recovery for the victim; amend KRS 17.1523 to add characteristics of a victim to be considered when determining the cause of a crime; amend KRS 15.440 to require that a unit of government shall possess a written policy and procedures manual related to hate crimes in order to receive funds from the Law Enforcement Foundation Program fund; repeal KRS 49.320, relating to victim of hate crime deemed victim of criminally injurious conduct.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB645

Introduced
2/13/26  
Refer
2/13/26  
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 142 to establish the Kentucky Tax Tribunal within the executive branch to be the single form for all tax litigation; establish judges, forums, processes, and methods of appeal; amend various statutes to conform; repeal sections of KRS Chapter 49 which constituted the Board of Tax Appeals; amend various sections of KRS to conform; EFFECTIVE, in part, July 1, 2027, and in part, January 1, 2028.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB646

Introduced
2/13/26  
Refer
2/13/26  
Amend KRS 218A.100 to place an abortion-inducing drug in Schedule IV; amend KRS 218A.1413 to include an abortion-inducing drug in the offense of trafficking in a controlled substance in the second degree; amend KRS 218A.1415 to include an abortion-inducing drug in the offense of possession of a controlled substance in the first degree, except when in the possession of a pregnant woman for her own personal use; create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to establish the offense of importing an abortion-inducing drug amend KRS 216.302 to include providing any drug, medication, or other substance as a means of assisting another person to commit or attempt to commit suicide; increase the penalty from a Class D felony to a Class B felony when the act is done knowingly by force or duress and from a Class C to a Class B felony when a person knowingly or intentionally provides the physical means or participates in a physical act by which another person commits or attempts suicide; create a new section of KRS 216.300 to 216.308 to establish the offense of medically assisted aid in dying as a Class B felony; amend KRS 216.308 to provide for the revocation of a license upon a criminal conviction or plea of guilty of assisted suicide or medically assisted aid in dying; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to provide a civil cause of action for any person who sustains damages resulting from receiving an abortion-inducing drug; create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to require the distribution of specified information to any patient who a physician or other healthcare provider believes is experiencing a complication as a result of taking an abortion-inducing drug; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to make specified information available on its website.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Kentucky House Bill HB647

Introduced
2/13/26  
Refer
2/13/26  
Refer
2/17/26  
Report Pass
3/10/26  
Engrossed
3/13/26  
Refer
3/13/26  
Refer
3/19/26  
Report Pass
3/31/26  
Enrolled
4/1/26  
Enrolled
4/1/26  
Chaptered
4/13/26  
Amend KRS 154.14-020, relating to the GRANT Program, to include the United States Department of Justice and the United States Department of Defense as eligible agencies; amend KRS 154.14-030 to push the sunset date of the program from December 31, 2026, to December 31, 2028; amend KRS 154.14-040 to increase the possible extension of a project from 6 months to 12 months; amend KRS 154.14-070 to make technical changes; EMERGENCY.