Kentucky 2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 7)
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SCR115
Introduced
2/24/26
Refer
2/24/26
Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Economic Development Incentive Modernization Task Force to study and make recommendations regarding Kentucky's current economic develop inititiatives, incentives, and related policies and their effectiveness in relation to competitor states, marketing campaigns and targeted sector updates that competitor states have implemented in recent years and their effectivesness, and actions and policies Kentucky should consider in order to improve Kentucky's economic develop initiatives and incentives; establish membership; direct the task force to meet during the 2026 Interim and submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2026.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SCR180
Introduced
3/18/26
Refer
3/18/26
Engrossed
3/31/26
Refer
3/31/26
Establish the Commercial Motor Vehicle Task Force to study commercial motor vehicle safety; establish membership; direct the task force to meet during the 2026 Interim and to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2026.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SCR283
Introduced
3/31/26
Refer
3/31/26
Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Water Resource Regional Infrastructure Planning Task Force to evaluate and develop legislative recommendations for establishing a comprehensive process through which a water or wastewater utility can examine all feasible options for accomplishing the goals of a new infrastructure project and to examine related issues; establish the membership and meeting schedule for the task force; allow the task force to submit its findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2026; allow the issues that the task force is directed to study to be assigned to an interim joint committee or subcommittee thereof.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SCR284
Introduced
4/1/26
Refer
4/1/26
Adjourn the General Assembly until April 14, 2026.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SCR193
Introduced
3/25/26
Refer
3/25/26
Declare the General Assembly's support for the goals of the Make America Healthy Again movement; continue the Make America Healthy Again Kentucky Task Force to integrate the principles of the Make America Healthy Again movement; establish task force membership; require the task force to submit a report with recommendations to the Governor and the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2026.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB98
Introduced
1/15/26
Refer
1/15/26
Refer
2/6/26
Report Pass
2/10/26
Engrossed
2/26/26
Refer
2/26/26
Refer
3/5/26
Report Pass
3/24/26
Refer
4/15/26
Enrolled
4/15/26
Enrolled
4/15/26
Passed
4/27/26
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198B to establish requirements for projects using structural steel welding, such as hiring a certified welder and meeting national welding standards; define terms; exempt welding projects performed or requested on the premises of a homeowner or farmer; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2027.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB87
Introduced
1/14/26
Refer
1/14/26
Amend KRS 66.480 to allow local government and school district investments in United States obligations by a repurchase agreement with a credit union and in interest-bearing accounts issued through a credit union; amend KRS 41.010 to redefine "bank" and "state depository" to include credit unions; amend KRS 41.070 to prohibit receipts from being held, used, or deposited in a personal or special credit union account; amend KRS 41.220 to allow credit unions to be designated as state depositories; amend KRS 41.240, 41.250, 41.300, 30A.120, and 30A.200 to conform.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB97
Introduced
1/15/26
Refer
1/15/26
Refer
3/6/26
Report Pass
3/10/26
Engrossed
3/13/26
Refer
3/13/26
Refer
3/24/26
Report Pass
3/25/26
Refer
3/27/26
Enrolled
3/31/26
Enrolled
3/31/26
Chaptered
4/7/26
Passed
4/7/26
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for prostheses and orthoses; establish minimum requirements for the required coverage; require utilizations review decisions to be made in a nondiscriminatory manner; require an insurer or its private review agent to provide notice of certain rights of the insured; establish notice requirements for denials; establish network adequacy requirements for the provision of a prosthesis or orthosis that is required to be covered; establish reporting requirements for insurers and the commissioner of the Department of Insurance relating to the required coverage; amend KRS 164.2871 and 18A.225 to require self-insured group health plans offering by the governing board of state postsecondary education institutions and the state employee health plan to comply with the requirements relating to coverage for prostheses and orthoses; provide that the Act applies to health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2027; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2027.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SCR110
Introduced
2/18/26
Refer
2/18/26
Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Mental Health Alternative Community Response Model Task Force; establish task force membership; require the task force to study and make recommendations to identify programs, initiatives, and opportunities in the Commonwealth for alternative response services for communities related to mental health for Kentuckians and submit a report with recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2026.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB99
Introduced
1/15/26
Refer
1/15/26
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 41 to define terms; recognize gold specie and silver specie as legal tender in Kentucky; provide for use of gold specie and silver specie as legal tender; require the State Treasurer to promulgate administrative regulations in accordance with KRS Chapter 13A to designate or establish a bullion depository and authorize 1 or more electronic payment systems to facilitate electronic payment transactions; establish requirements for system participants, transaction information, and bullion deposits; require the State Treasurer to submit an annual report to the Legislative Research Commission and to implement the system within 1 year; amend KRS 141.109 and 141.039 to exempt capital gains and losses attributable to the sale or exchange of gold specie and silver specie; provide that Section 1 of the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Transactional Gold and Silver Act.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SCR172
Introduced
3/18/26
Refer
3/18/26
Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Optometric Practice Task Force to conduct a comprehensive review of the regulatory and clinical landscape of the practice of optometry and to make recommendations regarding the practice of optometry; establish membership; direct the task force to meet monthly during the 2026 Interim and submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by October 31, 2026.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SCR140
Introduced
3/2/26
Refer
3/2/26
Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Performance-Based Education Task Force to review and provide recommendations relating to the expansion of performance-based credit; outline task force membership; require the task force to meet monthly during the 2026 Interim of the General Assembly; require the task force to submit its findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2026.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SCR9
Introduced
1/6/26
Refer
1/6/26
Refer
1/12/26
Report Pass
1/14/26
Engrossed
1/22/26
Refer
1/22/26
Refer
2/25/26
Report Pass
2/26/26
Refer
4/1/26
Enrolled
4/1/26
Enrolled
4/1/26
Chaptered
4/13/26
Passed
4/13/26
Direct the Legislative Research Commission to procure a vendor to conduct a feasibility study for an Accountable Communities for Health Medicaid delivery model pilot project; require the results of the study to be submitted to the Legislative Research Commission by November 1, 2026; strongly encourage the Legislative Research Commission to begin the procurement process immediately upon the adoption of this Resolution; establish that a pilot project resulting from the feasibility study shall be known as the 20 by 30 Accountable Care Pilot Project.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SCR96
Introduced
2/11/26
Refer
2/11/26
Direct the Legislative Research Commission to reestablish the Disaster Prevention and Resiliency Task Force to study disaster mitigation, infrastructure resilience, and planning for natural disasters that impact the Commonwealth; require the task force to submit recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2026.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SJR116
Introduced
2/24/26
Refer
2/24/26
Refer
2/26/26
Report Pass
3/4/26
Engrossed
3/10/26
Refer
3/10/26
Refer
3/20/26
Report Pass
3/24/26
Refer
4/15/26
Enrolled
4/15/26
Enrolled
4/15/26
Chaptered
4/17/26
Passed
4/17/26
Direct the University of Kentucky, the University of Louisville, and Eastern Kentucky University to coordinate a search for actionable solutions to physician shortages and to explore and expand health care opportunities in medically underserved areas in collaboration with community, state agency, professional associations, and other stakeholders; require a report to the General Assembly by January 1, 2027; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY, EFFECTIVE July 1, 2026.