Kentucky 2026 Regular Session All Bills (Page 94)
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB168
Introduced
2/5/26
Refer
2/5/26
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to guarantee the right of an individual 21 years of age or older to possess, use, buy, or sell 1 ounce or less of cannabis and to cultivate, harvest, and store up to 5 cannabis plants for personal use; grant the General Assembly control over the production, processing, and sale of cannabis and cannabis-derived products; designate the ballot question; direct the Secretary of State to publish the proposed amendment in a newspaper of general circulation; direct the Secretary of State to certify the proposed amendment to the county clerk of each county.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB166
Introduced
2/5/26
Refer
2/5/26
Amend KRS 157.320 to define "at risk" and "teaming partner"; amend KRS 157.3175 to require each local school district to provide preschool to 4 year olds who reside in a household with an income at or below 160% of the poverty level until the end of the 2030-2031 school year and beginning with the 2031-2032 school year, require each local school district to provide preschool to each 4 year old who is at risk; provide requirements for program guidelines; require the Kentucky Department of Education to establish and maintain a statewide unified data system; create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to require local school districts to maintain certification from the Head Start director that Head Start is fully utilized; provide penalties; require local school districts to prepare and submit preschool expansion plans to the deparment; require the department to promulgate administrative regulations regarding preschool expansion; require the department to submit a report the the Legislative Research Commission annually regarding preschool expansion.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB169
Introduced
2/5/26
Refer
2/5/26
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to exempt disabled United States Armed Forces veterans and unremarried surviving spouses of United States Armed Forces service members killed in action while performing active military duty from property taxation of property owned and maintained as a primary residence and a primary motor vehicle owned and maintained as their primary vehicle after calendar year 2027; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB171
Introduced
2/6/26
Refer
2/6/26
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to establish that a certificate of need is not required to establish or operate a health facility or provide health services; establish that all existing certificates of need be deemed null and void.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB172
Introduced
2/9/26
Refer
2/9/26
Refer
2/9/26
Report Pass
2/11/26
Engrossed
2/12/26
Refer
2/12/26
Refer
2/12/26
Report Pass
2/18/26
Enrolled
2/18/26
Enrolled
2/18/26
Chaptered
2/19/26
Passed
2/19/26
Amend KRS 278.277 to permit the Public Service Commission to allow, upon the request of an electric utility, an extension of the period for recovery of an electric utility's fuel adjustment costs to reduce volatility for consumers and encourage stability in rates.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB17
Introduced
1/6/26
Refer
1/6/26
Refer
1/20/26
Report Pass
1/22/26
Engrossed
1/28/26
Refer
1/28/26
Refer
3/16/26
Report Pass
3/18/26
Enrolled
3/27/26
Enrolled
3/27/26
Chaptered
4/8/26
Passed
4/8/26
Amend KRS 620.500 to add the Kentucky CASA Network to the definition of "association"; amend KRS 620.505 to decrease the minimum number of local CASA board members from 15 to 12; remove the provision that local CASA programs are required to comply with National CASA Association Standards for programs make technical corrections; remove "cabinet" and replace with "the Department for Community Based Services" relating to employees who are prohibited from becoming volunteers or employees of the court-appointed special advocate program; amend KRS 620.537 to make technical corrections; amend KRS 620.055 to conform.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB170
Introduced
2/6/26
Refer
2/6/26
Refer
2/11/26
Report Pass
2/19/26
Engrossed
2/25/26
Refer
2/25/26
Refer
3/9/26
Report Pass
3/11/26
Enrolled
3/27/26
Enrolled
3/31/26
Chaptered
4/10/26
Passed
4/10/26
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.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB173
Introduced
2/9/26
Refer
2/9/26
Refer
2/23/26
Report Pass
2/25/26
Engrossed
3/4/26
Refer
3/4/26
Refer
3/11/26
Report Pass
3/12/26
Enrolled
3/27/26
Enrolled
3/27/26
Vetoed
4/6/26
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 205 to define terms; establish an annual Medicaid state plan and Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program state plan legislative review process; EMERGENCY.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB174
Introduced
2/10/26
Refer
2/10/26
Amend KRS 315.020 to prohibit the Kentucky Board of Pharmacy from requiring immediate supervision of pharmacy technicians stocking, retrieving, or returning products to or from pharmacy inventory in a nonretail pharmacy setting.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB177
Introduced
2/10/26
Refer
2/10/26
Refer
2/27/26
Report Pass
3/3/26
Engrossed
3/6/26
Refer
3/6/26
Amend KRS 334A.035 to remove the requirement of needing to complete postgraduate professional experience to be completed under the supervision of a speech-language pathologist who holds a Kentucky license; amend KRS 334a.050, 334A.020, and 344A.085 to conform.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB176
Introduced
2/10/26
Refer
2/10/26
Amend KRS 121.180 to allow any member of the General Assembly who has a remaining balance in his or her campaign account to transfer those funds to a campaign account to seek election to statewide constitutional office.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB179
Introduced
2/10/26
Refer
2/10/26
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 61 to define "boy," "equal," "female," "girl," "male," "man," "sex," and "woman"; prohibit any state or local law, regulation, ordinance, or policy from treating males or females unfairly from similiarly situated members of the opposite sex, but permit separation of the sexes if in the interest of maintaining safety, privacy, and fairness; provide a non-exhaustive list of examples of areas in which public entities may distinguish between the sexes; require any public school, public school district, state agency, department, local government, special district or any political subdivision of those entities that collects vital statistics to identify each person as either male or female; provide that the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Women's Bill of Rights.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB178
Introduced
2/10/26
Refer
2/10/26
Refer
2/17/26
Report Pass
2/25/26
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 13A to define various terms; prohibit an administrative regulation setting an environmental requirement under KRS Chapter 39E, 109, 146, 151, 211, 224, or 350 from being more stringent or extensive in scope than any federal law or regulation regarding the same or a similar topic; require any administrative regulation setting an environmental requirement to be based upon the best available science and the weight of scientific evidence; establish exemptions.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB18
Introduced
1/6/26
Refer
1/6/26
Refer
2/2/26
Report Pass
2/4/26
Engrossed
2/9/26
Refer
2/9/26
Refer
3/11/26
Report Pass
3/12/26
Refer
3/27/26
Enrolled
3/31/26
Enrolled
3/31/26
Chaptered
4/10/26
Passed
4/10/26
Amend KRS 311.380 to define "physician assistant," “podiatric assistant,” “podiatric residency,” “podiatric resident,” podiatric supervision," and "supervising podiatrist"; amend KRS 311.400 to add the scope of practice for podiatric residents and podiatric assistants; amend KRS 311.410 to conform; amend KRS 311.420 to add qualifications to acquire a license to practice podiatry; permit the board to promulgate administrative regulations for licensure of podiatric assistants and podiatric residents, podiatric residency licenses, and the approval and regulation of podiatric supervision of physician assistants; amend KRS 311.480 to include podiatric resident and podiatric assistant licenses to the licenses the Board of Podiatry can deny, refuse to renew, suspend, place on probation, or revoke; amend KRS 311.840 to define "podiatric supervision" and "supervising podiatrist"; create a new section of KRS 311.840 to 311.862 to establish requirements for podiatrists to supervise physician assistants; amend KRS 218B.010 to add podiatrist to the definition of "medicinal cannabis practitioner"; add the State Board of Podiatry to the definition of "state licensing board"; amend KRS 218B.050 to add podiatrist to those required to apply to the same state licensing board that issued his or her license for authorization to provide written certifications for the use of medicinal cannabis; amend KRS 218B.145 to add the State Board of Podiatry to those to be notified of qualifying medical conditions; amend KRS 311.450, 311.460, 311.470, and 311.475 to make technical changes; amend KRS 311.390, 311.490, 311.495, and 311.990 to conform.
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Kentucky 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky Senate Bill SB185
Introduced
2/11/26
Refer
2/11/26
Refer
3/19/26
Report Pass
3/25/26
Engrossed
3/26/26
Refer
3/26/26
Refer
3/26/26
Report Pass
4/1/26
Refer
4/1/26
Enrolled
4/1/26
Enrolled
4/1/26
Chaptered
4/13/26
Passed
4/13/26
Amend KRS 48.030, relating to branch budget recommendations, to include supporting budget documents.