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.

KY SB173 2026

Medicaid Legislative Oversight

Amend KRS 65.013 to define terms; expand the prohibition on using tax dollars to advocate for or against a public question on the ballot to prohibit using any resources, and to explicitly apply prohibition to school districts, regional educational cooperatives, and recalls on a ballot; establish a criminal penalty and a prohibition against holding a position of public trust or profit for 10 years for a person found guilty of violating the prohibition; create a cause of action for a citizen aggrieved by a violation of the prohibition; establish a statute of limitations to commence suit and the appropriate venue; provide when the suit accrues; specify damages recoverable per violation; allow for class action; include a prohibition against holding a position of public trust or profit for 10 years for a person held civilly liable; amend KRS 48.025 and 132.017 to conform.

KY SB59 2026

Tax Money Election Advocacy Ban Election Integrity

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.

KY HB283 2026

Adversarial Foreign Transactions in the Commonwealth

Amend KRS 61.870 to change the definition of "resident of the Commonwealth"; amend KRS 61.872 to allow the official custodian of public records to require government-issued photo identification that includes an address from an applicant requesting to inspect records as proof that they are a resident of the Commonwealth; allow the agency to require a different form of identification or proof if the applicant does not possess photo identification; amend KRS 61.876 to conform.

KY HB567 2026

Require government-issued photo ID to access public records 

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.

KY HB320 2026

Human Trafficking Enhanced Penalties 

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.

KY HB312 2026

AN ACT relating to concealed firearms and deadly weapons.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; prohibit a public postsecondary education institution from providing differential treatment or benefits on the basis of an individual's religion, race, sex, color, or national origin; from influencing the composition of the student body or scholarship recipients on the basis of religion, race, sex, color, or national origin; from implementing a student housing assignment plan on the basis of religion, race, color, or national origin with designated exceptions; from expending any resources on diversity, equity, and inclusion, the promotion of discriminatory topics, or bias incident investigations; from soliciting statements on an applicant's experience with or views on religion, race, sex, color, or national origin; from requiring a course dedicated to discriminatory concepts; or disseminating or profiting from any research, work product, or material that promotes or justifies discriminatory concepts; prohibit a public postsecondary education institution from requiring any individual to endorse or condemn a specific ideology or viewpoint; prohibit the Council on Postsecondary Education from providing differential treatment or benefits on the basis of an individual's religion, race, sex, color, or national origin or from expending any resources on diversity, equity, and inclusion or discriminatory topics; establish exclusions for legal compliance; require each governing board of a public postsecondary education institution to ensure compliance with specific sections of this Act no later than June 30, 2025; authorize the Attorney General to bring an action for a writ of mandamus to compel the council or a public postsecondary education institution to comply; create a cause of action to permit a qualified individual to file a civil action against council or a public postsecondary education institution for injunctive relief and limited damages arising from a violation of certain sections of this Act; waive sovereign and governmental immunity for the limited purpose of bringing this claim; prohibit retaliation; require each public postsecondary education institution to submit and publish a certified annual report on governmentally mandated discrimination to the Legislative Research Commission by October 1 each year; provide that a public postsecondary education institution or the council cannot claim a federal, state, judicial, contractual, or accreditation mandate as a defense to a civil action filed under this Act unless the policy, practice, or procedure upon which the complaint is founded is listed and clearly and accurately described in the public institution's annual report filed in accordance with this Act; require each public postsecondary education institution to provide the Personnel Cabinet and State Treasurer the name, job title, duty station, and salary or wages of each employee each month beginning January 1, 2025, and to post its itemized annual budget; amend KRS 164.020 to prohibit the Council on Postsecondary Education from approving a degree, certificate, or diploma program that includes discriminatory concepts or diversity, equity, and inclusion iniatives; amend KRS 164.011, 164.131, 164.321, and 164.821 to conform; direct the Council on Postsecondary Education to consider certain enumerated conditions when considering the elimination of an existing program; direct each public postsecondary education institution and the Council on Postsecondary Education to discontinue designated programs and follow designated procedures when implementing this Act; provide specific instructions for public postsecondary education institutions and the Council on Postsecondary Education to follow in implementing this Act; direct public postsecondary education institutions and the council to submit a report on implementation of this Act.

KY HB4 2025

DEI Ban at Public Universities

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 344 to define terms; prohibit discrimination against mental health care professionals, mental health care institutions, and ordained ministry for providing protected counseling services; prohibit discrimination against individuals for offering information, training, and referrals for protected counseling services; prohibit discrimination against parents and guardians who consent to their child receiving protected counseling services; prohibit reporting of a mental health care professional or mental health care institution to a hiring or licensing authority solely on the basis that it provides protected counseling services; prohibit a hiring or licensing authority from investigating a mental health care professional or mental health care institution solely on the basis that it provides protected counseling services; establish a civil cause of action for a person injured by a violation; provide that the Act may be cited as the Mental Health Counseling Protection Act; EMERGENCY.

KY HB495 2025

Conversion Therapy Protection / Medicaid Trans Care Ban

Create new section of KRS Chapter 197 to define terms; prohibit hormone treatment or elective surgery for gender reassignment.

KY SB2 2025

Transgender Inmate Care Ban

Direct the Historic Properties Advisory Commission to return to permanent display on the New State Capitol grounds the granite Ten Commandments monument given to the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1971 by the Fraternal Order of Eagles.

KY HJR15 2025

Restore Ten Commandments Monument 

Amend KRS 141.020 to reduce the individual income tax rate from 4% to 3.5% for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026.

KY HB1 2025

Income Tax Cut to 3.5%

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to establish definitions; require specific parental notifications from public schools; require school districts to adopt specific procedures related to parental rights; limit authority of the Kentucky Board of Education and Kentucky Department of Education in relation to parental rights and a student's use of pronouns; prohibit district or school policies with the intent of keeping student information confidential for parents; prohibit a school district from requiring school personnel or pupils to use pronouns for students that do not conform to that student's biological sex; provide school districts and district personnel authority to seek emergency medical services for a student; provide conditions for student confidentiality; amend KRS 158.1415 to establish requirements for any public school's course, curriculum, or program on the subject of human sexuality.

KY SB150 2023

Transgender Youth Healthcare & Schools Ban

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to prohibit identified entities from enforcing federal firearm bans; prohibit identified entities from adopting rules, regulations, or ordinances that require enforcement of federal firearm bans; and prohibit identified entities from allocating public resources or moneys in the enforcement of federal firearm bans; RETROACTIVE to January 1, 2021; EMERGENCY.

KY HB153 2023

Second Amendment Sanctuary 

Amend KRS 15.243 to expand the Attorney General's independent inquiry of potential election irregularities from not fewer than 5% of Kentucky counties to not fewer than 12 counties; amend KRS 117.228 to remove credit or debit card as a voter's secondary form of proof of identification; amend KRS 117.125 to require all voting systems to be approved in accordance with prescribed requirements by January 1, 2024, and prohibit a voting systems' capability of connecting to any network, including the Internet, or with any device external to the voting system; amend KRS 117.135 to prescribe requirements relating to the county clerk's duties of securing and protecting voting equipment; and amend KRS 117.295 to expand the time in which voting equipment is to remain locked against voting after the election and require the voting equipment and ballot boxes to be under video surveillance.

KY SB216 2022

Election Security Enhancements

Amend KRS 156.070 to require the Board of Education or agency designated by the Board of Education to manage interscholastic athletics to promulgate administrative regulations or bylaws requiring schools that participate in interscholastic athletics to designate all athletic teams, activities, and sports based upon the biological sex of the students eligible to participate; prohibit male students from participating in athletic teams, activities, and sports designated as "girls"; prohibit designated agencies from entertaining complaints or investigations of policies; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to create a cause of action against a school that violates these provisions; require that an action be brought within two years; provide that the Act may be cited as the Save Women’s Sports Act.

KY SB83 2022

Save Women's Sports Act

Create a new section in KRS Chapter 336 to prohibit public entity employers from requiring employees and applicants from disclosing his or her immunization status; create a new section in KRS Chapter 164 to prohibit postsecondary schools from requiring a student, staff, or faculty member to disclose his or her immunization status; amend KRS 344.120 to include the discrimination on the basis of "immunization status" as an unlawful practice; create a new section in KRS Chapter 365 to prohibit a business from requiring customers to disclose his or her immunization status as a condition for service or entry upon the premises; create a new KRS Chapter 214 to prohibit a public entity from creating standardized documentation with the purpose of certifying vaccination status; amend KRS 214.036 to allow objection to immunization on the basis of "conscientiously held beliefs".

KY HB28 2022

Immunization Disclosure / Vaccine Passport Ban

Amend KRS 199.896 to provide that the license or certification of a child-care center shall not be refused or revoked for refusing to require facial coverings; amend KRS 199.898 to provide that parents and guardians of children enrolled in licensed, certified, or publicly funded child care facilities have a right to refuse facial coverings on behalf of their children without any retribution; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to prohibit requiring facial coverings on any public school premises, on school-sponsored transportation, or at a school-sponsored event; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to prohibit requiring facial coverings on property owned, leased, or operated by public postsecondary education institutions; provide exceptions for healthcare licensing board requirements imposed prior to January 1, 2020, and clinical research settings.

KY HB51 2022

School/University Mask Ban 

(S1301B01) Amend various sections of KRS Chapter 5 to divide the Commonwealth into the following senatorial districts: DISTRICT 1 - Calloway KY, Crittenden KY, Fulton KY, Graves KY, Hickman KY, Lyon KY, Trigg KY; DISTRICT 2 - Ballard KY, Carlisle KY, Livingston KY, Marshall KY, McCracken KY; DISTRICT 3 - Caldwell KY, Christian KY, Muhlenberg KY; DISTRICT 4 - Henderson KY, Hopkins KY, Union KY, Webster KY; DISTRICT 5 - Breckinridge KY, Butler KY, Grayson KY, Meade KY, Ohio KY; DISTRICT 6 - Jefferson KY (part), Oldham KY, Trimble KY; DISTRICT 7 - Anderson KY, Henry KY, Jefferson KY (part), Shelby KY; DISTRICT 8 - Daviess KY, Hancock KY, McLean KY; DISTRICT 9 - Barren KY, Edmonson KY, Green KY, Hart KY, Warren KY (part); DISTRICT 10 - Hardin KY, Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 11 - Boone KY (part); DISTRICT 12 - Boyle KY, Fayette KY (part), Mercer KY, Woodford KY; DISTRICT 13 - Fayette KY (part); DISTRICT 14 - Larue KY, Marion KY, Nelson KY, Spencer KY, Washington KY; DISTRICT 15 - Clinton KY, Cumberland KY, Pulaski KY, Russell KY, Wayne KY; DISTRICT 16 - Adair KY, Allen KY, Metcalfe KY, Monroe KY, Taylor KY, Warren KY (part); DISTRICT 17 - Fayette KY (part), Grant KY, Kenton KY (part), Scott KY; DISTRICT 18 - Boyd KY, Carter KY, Greenup KY, Lewis KY; DISTRICT 19 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 20 - Boone KY (part), Carroll KY, Franklin KY, Gallatin KY, Kenton KY (part), Owen KY; DISTRICT 21 - Casey KY, Laurel KY, Lincoln KY, Rockcastle KY; DISTRICT 22 - Fayette KY (part), Garrard KY, Jessamine KY; DISTRICT 23 - Kenton KY (part); DISTRICT 24 - Bracken KY, Campbell KY, Kenton KY (part), Pendleton KY; DISTRICT 25 - Clay KY, Jackson KY, Knox KY, McCreary KY, Owsley KY, Whitley KY; DISTRICT 26 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 27 - Bourbon KY, Fayette KY (part), Fleming KY, Harrison KY, Mason KY, Nicholas KY, Robertson KY, Rowan KY; DISTRICT 28 - Bath KY, Clark KY, Fayette KY (part), Menifee KY, Montgomery KY; DISTRICT 29 - Bell KY, Floyd KY, Harlan KY, Knott KY, Letcher KY; DISTRICT 30 - Breathitt KY, Estill KY, Lee KY, Leslie KY, Magoffin KY, Morgan KY, Perry KY, Powell KY, Wolfe KY; DISTRICT 31 - Elliott KY, Johnson KY, Lawrence KY, Martin KY, Pike KY; DISTRICT 32 - Logan KY, Simpson KY, Todd KY, Warren KY (part); DISTRICT 33 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 34 - Fayette KY (part), Madison KY; DISTRICT 35 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 36 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 37 - Jefferson KY (part); DISTRICT 38 - Bullitt KY, Jefferson KY (part); PLAN INTEGRITY VERIFIED; amend KRS 5.010 to change dates to conform; specify how county and precinct names are to be displayed depending on whether the territory of the county or precinct is included in a particular legislative district in its entirety or in part; direct county boards of elections to change precinct boundaries to conform to legislative district boundaries; EMERGENCY

KY SB2 2022

Statewide Mask Mandate Ban / Healthcare Vaccine Mandate Ban

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 13A to nullify 902 KAR 2:213E and 702 KAR 1:195E; direct each school district to have a COVID-19 operations in place; direct the Department for Public Health to develop a model "test to stay" COVID-19 model for school districts; direct local health departments to assist school districts in implementing their COVID-19 operation plans; provide a temporary remote instruction option for school districts to use at the school, classroom, grade, or group level; provide that districts may submit 2018-2019 or 2019-2020 attendance data for the 2021-2022 school year; require all certified staff and classified staff designated by a school district to work on-site during a nontraditional instruction day; for the 2021-2022 school year, temporarily revise requirements for emergency substitute certification, allow instructional activities to be performed by classified staff, and allow a district to temporarily hire staff upon receipt of a preliminary background check; direct the Kentucky State Police and Cabinet for Health and Family Services to prioritize school district background checks; temporarily revise retirement reemployment provisions until January 15, 2022; allow a school district to submit a school calendar plan to receive a waiver of 170 required student attendance days if 1,062 hours are achieved for the 2021-2022 school year; EMERGENCY.

KY SB1 2021

School Mask Mandate Nullification 

Amend KRS 214.036 to provide exemptions from mandatory immunization for any child, emancipated minor, or adult who, personally or by a parent or guardian, submits a written sworn statement objecting to the immunization based on conscientiously held beliefs; prohibit any administrative regulation, administrative order, or executive order from requiring during an epidemic the immunization of persons who submit either a written sworn statement objecting to the immunization based on conscientiously held beliefs or the written opinion of the person's physician that such immunization would be injurious to the person's health; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to develop and make available on its Web site a standardized form relating to the exemptions from mandatory immunization and to accept the form after it is submitted; amend KRS 209.552 and 214.034 to conform; EMERGENCY.

KY SB8 2021

Vaccine Exemptions

Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to state that Kentucky's Constitution does not secure or protect a right to abortion or funding of abortion.

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Bill	TPAction Position	Brownposition	Comments	Year
KY SB173 2026	Y	Y	Medicaid Legislative Oversight	2026
KY SB59 2026	Y	N	Tax Money Election Advocacy Ban Election Integrity	2026
KY HB283 2026	Y	Y	Adversarial Foreign Transactions in the Commonwealth	2026
KY HB567 2026	Y	N	Require government-issued photo ID to access public records	2026
KY HB320 2026	Y	Y	Human Trafficking Enhanced Penalties	2026
KY HB312 2026	Y	N	AN ACT relating to concealed firearms and deadly weapons.	2026
KY HB4 2025	Y	N	DEI Ban at Public Universities	2025
KY HB495 2025	Y	N	Conversion Therapy Protection / Medicaid Trans Care Ban	2025
KY SB2 2025	Y	N	Transgender Inmate Care Ban	2025
KY HJR15 2025	Y	N	Restore Ten Commandments Monument	2025
KY HB1 2025	Y	N	Income Tax Cut to 3.5%	2025
KY SB150 2023	Y	N	Transgender Youth Healthcare & Schools Ban	2023

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