Local Mandate


Abortion, prohibition at 20 weeks of fetal development

Abortion services, payments from government to enitity providing, prohibition of

Absentee ballots, in-person and mail-in

Absentee voting, mail-in and in-person, persons with disabilities, process for

Agriculture, Department of, Kentucky Proud hand-crafted products, effects on local zoning

Agritourism activities, establishing acceptable venues, events

Agritourism buildings, allowable building code exemptions

Alcoholoc beverages, omnibus bill relating to

Amend to change terms of constitutional officers, restore civil rights, polling hours change

amend to change terms of constitutional officers, restore rights, polling hours change

Area development districts, study by Auditor of Public Accounts

Arrest-related deaths, coroner investigation

Assault on a service animal, first degree, change elements for

Autocycles, provisions for highway operation

Bathrooms, biological sex, use only by

Benefits, changes to amounts and duration

Breastfeeding employees, reasonable accomodations

Cannabis, regulation of

Child pornography, prohibit distribution

Circuit court clerik salary account, establish

Cities, mandates on, prohibition of

Citizens' Freedom from Unwarranted Surveillance Act

Comprehensive tax reform

Concealed carry, interference with right to, violation and fine

Concealed carry, off-duty and retired peace officers, interference with, violation and fine

Concealed carry weapons, training for, handgun cleaning

Consolidate local governments, powers of cities within

Consolidated local government, powers mayor and council

Consolidated local governments, powers and duties of officials

Consolidated local governments, powers of cities within

Constable, allow process service by

Constable, constitutional amendment allowing legislative body of county to abolish office of

Constitution of Kentucky, proposal to call convention for purpose of revising or amending

Contracts, apprenticeship programs, required in

Contracts, Kentucky Buy American Act, compliance with

Controlled substances, classification and rescheduling

County judge/executive, counties meeting certain conditions, election prohibited

Day reporting programs, usage of

Deadly weapons, concealed carry, notice of prohibition

Deadly weapons, concealed carry without license

Department of Criminal Justice Training, concealed carry training

Deputy sheriff, temporary replacement on county board of elections when sheriff not available

Disabled veterans, property tax homesead exemption, proposed constitutional amendment

DNA, sample collection at arraignment, requirement for

Drones; allow school districts to use for educational purposes

Drug offenses, allow judges a 72-hour hold on defendants

DUI, penalties imposed

DUI, ten-year lookback, penalties imposed

Emergency voting situation, process for

Employment, background checks of child abuse and neglect records

Employment discrimination, requirement of criminal history on job applications, prohibition

Employment, pregnancy and related conditions, prohibited discrimination, required accomidations

Employment, pregnancy and related conditions, prohibited discrimination, required accommodations

Expungement of juvenile court record, limit felonies

External detainee fatality review panel, establishment of

Family planning services, establishment of payment restrictions and priorities

Felony expungement, reckless homicide

Firearms and ammunition, authority to regulate, urban-county and consolidated local governments

Fraud crimes, felony threshold, raising of

Gang Violence Prevention Act

Health and Family Services, education employment, abuse and neglect records check

Heroin trafficking, penalties relating to

Human trafficking hotline, require posting

Immigrants, application procedures for operator's license and personal IDs

Immigration and citizenship status, governing body requirements for

Jailers, conpensation and duties detailed for upcoming fiscal year

Judgments, interest rate for

Juvenile age of criminal responsibility

Juvenile records, expungement of

Kentucky Building Code, greenhouses, exemptions from, conditions for

Kentucky Community and Technical College special license plate student scholarship fund, creation of

Kentucky Law Enforcement Foundation Program, administrative cost payment relating to supplement

Kentucky State Police, concealed carry deadly weapons, lifetime licenses

Land bank authorites, liens and blighted properties, disposition of

Land bank authorities, extingushment of tax liability and disposition of subsequent taxes

Law enforcement and firefighter funds, increase in annual supplements and allocations

Legislative Advisory Reapportionment, Redistricting Commission, establishment of, ballot candidates

Legislative council seats within consolidated local governments, adoption of plan

Licensing boards, prescription of Schedule II drugs, certain limitations

Liens against real estate, release of

Local code enforcement

Local governement procurement, contracts for sewer improvement, noncompetitve negotiation allowed

Local option election costs, payment by those who circulated the petition

Local option elections, petition requirements for

Local option question on ballot during primary or regular election, permitted to include

Long-term care facilities, expand prescriptive authorites of doctors

Mail-in absentee ballots, use by persons with medical conditions

Manufactured homes, affidavit of severence for

Masking to evade discovery, prohibit during a protest to evade discovery

Medical cannabis, authorization and regulation of

Medical review panel, utilization in health care porvider litigation

Medical review panels, chairperson of, modify procedure for choosing

Military surplus vehicle, titling and registration of

Minimum wage for tipped employees, increasing

Misdemeanor assault in hospital, warrantless arrest permitted for

Motor fuel tax, local revenue sharing formula, revisions

Municipal incorporation within counties containing consolidated local governments

Natural resources severance tax, definition of "processing"

Occupational license taxes, removal of maximum percentage for certain counties

Offender employment and licensure, requirements applying to

Omnibus amendments to the wage and hours laws

Online impersonation, create Class A misdemeanor offense

Overtime, specify exemptions for administrative, executive, supervisory and professional employees

Paid maternity leave for emplyees, employers with fifty or more employees

Pesticide application by state or local government entities, notice required

Police, fire department, and firefighter supplements

Political funds and activites and annual written authorization, delete provisions relating to

Possession of controlled substance, Class A misdemeanor, mandatory drug treatment

Precinct boundaries, State Board of Elections, computerized map, requirement for

Prevailing wage, repeal

Probation, certain public offenders completing treatment programs

Promoting contraband, elements of

Property valuation, appeals

Protection of wages, labor organization and political activities

Rebates to ratepayers, coal-fired units, carbon emission allowances, Clean Air Act

Registry of Election Finance, voter registration lists, access to

REimbursements, annual supplement police and firefighter increase

Rest areas, human trafficking hotline, require posting

Retirement and pensions, cost-of-living adjustments

Retirement, creditable compensation growth, limitation on

Retirement limitation on creditable compensation growth

Sanctuary institution, state funding from, withholding of

School personnel, require background checks

School property, concealed deadly weapons, permit holders, lifting prohibitions on

Serious physical injury, definition of

Sex offender registrants, restrictions on

Sex offender registry, juvehile adjudications, not a registrable offense

Sex offenders, presence on publicly owned playground, prohibition of

Sex, race, or national origin, wage discrimination prohibited

Sexual assault against an animal, arrests for probable cause

Sexual assualt, crime of

Sexual orientation and gender identity discrimination, prohibition of

Sexual orientation and gender identity, prohibition of discrimination

Sexulaay explicit images, distribution of without consent

Sheriff deputies, employment contracts, reimbursement for training

Sheriff, inspections and reporting, certain public places

Shock probation, prohibition with DUI death

Solid waste management districts, consolidated local governments, cities, relationship to

Solid waste management facilities, use of by cities in consolidated local governement

Solid waste management services, displacement of provider, requirements for

Special license plates, Gold Star Sons and Daughters

Special purpose governmental entities, financial information, public inspection availability

Sport utility all-terrain vehicle, allow highway operation of

State and local governments, data security breach by, waiver of sovereign immunity

State minimum wage, increase

Statewide office, candidates for, income tax filing requirement

Tax increment financing, mixed-use development, upper limit of investrment, removal of

Tax revenues, increase distributions to local governments

TIF, convention facility projects, urban county, independent consultant report, not required

TIF, mixed-use development, previously undeveloped land owned by educational institution

Time of election, move to even-numbered years

Torture, penalty increase

Tourist and convention commissions, restaurant tax

Trafficking in fentanyl or carfentanil, any amount, penalty increase

Transient room tax, application to stays of 30 days or less

TVA in-lieu-of-tax payments, direction to economic development activities

Twenty-eight Judicial Circuit, entitlement to four judges

Unemployment benefits, military spouses whose families are relocated

Unemployment insurance for seasonal/on recall employees

Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act, adoption of

Uniform Residential Landlord and Tenant Act, statewide applicability of

Unlawful storage of a firearm, prohibition of

Unmanned aircraft, operation near airports, restrictions on

Unmanned aircraft system, definition of

Unmanned aircraft, usage on critical infrastructure without permission

Waste management services, public hearing, notice requirements

Welding by mechanical enfineers, exclusions from structurall steel welding

Wills, concealment of

within consolidated local governments, adoption of plan

Youthful offender proceedings, remove provisions regarding


Last updated: 1/16/2019 3:02 PM (EST)