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Abortion, certain prohibitions, removal

Adult performance in view of a minor, prohibition

Advisory Redistricting Commission, establishment

Affordable housing, expenditures of state or federal funds, limitation

Americans with Disabilities Act Amendments Act of 2008, incorporation

Animal control officers, recognition of child abuse, training, Kyan's Law

Animal health emergencies, communicable disease, containment

Animal seizure, cost of care, petition

Applications for license or permit, administrative hearings, judicial review

Article V of Convention to amend U.S. Constitution

Assisted reproductive technology, coverage requirement

Autologous and directed blood transfusion, coverage

Automatic Expungement Act

Background checks, private firearms sales and transfers

Balloon releases, beverage straws and plastic carryout bags, prohibition

Boating accidents, Keegan's Law

Breast examinations, coverage requirement

Burial grounds, proper care, requirement

Burial or cremation of a dead body, facilitation

Burnside Island Development Authority, local participation

calp cooling device in connection with breast cancer treatment, coverage requirement

Cannabis, constitutional amendment, ballot language

Cannabis, personal use quantity, decriminalization

Certificates of delinquency, consolidated collection process, counties

Certification for peace officer powers

Certified laboratories, hemp-derived cannabinoid products, testing

Certified living wage, establishment

Chickens, residential property, regulation

Children, public offense, mental health, treatment plan, procedure, establishment

Chronic pain treatments, coverage

Cigar bars, operation permitted, conditions

Circular energy facilities, advanced recovery facilities, siting, waste management

Cities, fiscal accounting and audits, requirements

Citizenship, voter registration, documentation, procedure

Civil Air Patrol members, employment protections

Colorectal cancer screenings, coverage requirement

Commissioner, Department of Insurance, regulatory authorizations, assessment or cooperative insurers

Concealed carry, age requirement

Consolidated local governments, omnibus reform

Constitutional amendment, additional legislative days, date for adjournment, ballot language

Constitutional amendment, ballot initiatives, establishment of right to propose, ballot language

Constitutional amendment, eligibility to vote, mentally disabled, ballot language

Constitutional amendment, excise, sales, or use tax exemption, ballot language

Constitutional amendment, felon restoration of voting rights and civil rights, ballot inclusion

Constitutional amendment, Governor and Lieutenant Governor, term limits, ballot language

Constitutional amendment, limits on taxation and spending, ballot language

Constitutional amendment, Medicaid expansion, proposal

Constitutional amendment, pardons and commutations, Governor's ability, limitation

Constitutional amendment, property tax, disabled veterans, surviving spouse

Constitutional amendment, property tax exemption right, ballot language

Constitutional amendment, property tax homestead exemption increase, ballot language

Constitutional amendment, right to reproductive freedom, creation

Constitutional amendment, slavery and involuntary servitude, prohibition, ballot inclusion

Constitutional amendment, submission to voters, procedure

Constitutional amendment, tax exemption or elimination, ballot language

Continuing education, pediatric ingestion of controlled substances

Contraceptive coverage

Contracts, Kentucky Buy American Act, compliance

Coroner, compensation requirements

Counseling interventions, perinatal depression, coverage requirement

Counties, county treasurer, replacement

County and regional jails, operations and funding, reform

County clerks, audits of motor vehicle revenue collections, separate audit, removal of requirement

County Employees Retirement System, hazardous duty

Court security officer, transports, authorization

Credentialing, health care providers, requirements

Crime victims, leave from employment

Cultured animal tissue, meat, meat product, prohibition

Damage resulting from riot, liability

Deadly weapons, power to regulate concealed carry in buildings, repeal

Department of Insurance, fraudulent insurance acts, referrals

Development, infrastructure impact on adjacent county, agreement as binding element

Development plans, building permits, vested rights, establishment

DNA, sample collection, requirement

DNA, sample collection, requirement, removal

Driving under the influence, alcohol purchase, prohibition

Driving under the influence, eligible tests

Driving under the influence, list of controlled substances, expansion, implied consent

Driving under the influence under the age of 21, penalties, enhancement

ederal immigration law, enforcement

Election officers, compensation, modify

Election procedures

Elections, cities, legislative body members in cities of 12,000 or more, term of office

Eligibility for office, citizenship

Eligibility to vote, mentally incompetent, proposed constitutional amendment

Eligibility to vote, school board, age requirement

Emergency ground ambulance services, coverage and payment requirements, January 1, 2027

Eminent domain, abolition

Eminent domain, procedures, establishment

Employee benefits, unpaid family care leave

Employer vaccine mandate, medical or religious exception, notice of exemptions

Employers, mandatory posting of veterans' benefits document

EMS Professionals Foundation Program fund, creation

Epinephrine devices, coverage requirement

External Detainee Fatality Review Panel, establishment

Federal firearms laws, repealed or unconstitutional, enforcement prohibition

Federal immigration law compliance, requirement

Feeding or eating disorders, coverage requirements

Fetal homicide, prosecution

Fire protection entities, board of trustees, membership, residency requirement

Firearm loss or theft, reporting requirement

Firearm storage, requirement, firearm theft, reporting requirement

Firearms, comprehensive regulation

Firearms surrender

Food service establishment, menu, calorie information

Foreign insurers, insurance requirements, exemption

Formulas, coverage requirement

Fraudulent insurance act, prosecutors, referral requirement

General Assembly, terms of members, limit

Grant database, requirements

Grooming a minor, creation of offense

Habitual truancy, family diversion plan, requirements

Hate crime, enhanced term of imprisonment

Hate crime, political creed

Health care billing practices, requirements

Health insurance, step therapy requirements

Health plan, mental health and substance use disorder parity, insurance, requirements

Health plan, prescription drug coverage, cost-sharing and rebate requirements

Health plan, prior authorization, exemption program

Health plans, Kentucky all-payer claims database, reporting requirements

Hearing aids and related services, insurance, coverage requirements

Heirs property, partition

Impeding a first responder, creation of offense

Importing a controlled substance, cychlorphine

Independent school districts, establishment

Independent voters, primary, participation

Insurance, personal injury protection benefits, medical expense claims, requirements

Insurance producers, adjusters, and administrators, requirements

Interrogation of children, requirements

Investor-owned electric utility, surcharges, taxes, fees, collections prohibited

Involuntary commitment proceeding, qualifying offense, sexual abuse

Involuntary hospitalization proceedings, 202C, individuals with mental illness

Involuntary hospitalization proceedings, certification review hearing

Kentucky Board of Education, membership, partisan election

Kentucky Community and Technical College System, Kentucky Fire Commission

Kentucky Coroners Association, county coroners, emergency response districts, cooperation

Kentucky General Assembly Medal of Distinction, creation

Kentucky Law Enforcement Council, standards for police conduct

Kentucky Positive Youth Development Commission, duties, establishment

Kentucky Public Pensions Authority, contributions paid on reemployed firefighters of cities

Kentucky Public Pensions Authority, health benefits for line of duty hazardous disability retirees

Kentucky Public Pensions Authority, pension spiking provisions, retroactive exemption

Kentucky State Police, provisional license to carry concealed weapons, persons aged 18 to 20

Kentucky statewide health data utility, establishment

Kentucky statewide health data utility fund, establishment

Kentucky Women's Bill of Rights

Knowingly disclosing grand jury information, statute of limitation, 5 years

Knowingly recording or disclosing grand jury information, crime, establishment

Law enforcement agency, policy and procedure, firearm destruction

Law enforcement, removal of squatters, procedures

Legislative body, vacancy, special election

Legislative council members and candidates for legislative office, employment, protection

Limited health service benefit plans, covered services, provider reimbursement

Litigation settlements, gubernatorial election, Attorney General, approval

Local board of education member, recall election, establishment

Local government procurement, small purchase maximum, reciprocal preference

Local occupational license tax, population threshold, August 1, 2026

Local public agency procurement, methods, standards

Local regulation of accessory dwelling units, restrictions

Local regulation of duplexes, restrictions

Local regulation of multi-unit dwellings and mixed-use developments, restrictions

Long-term care facility, electronic monitoring device, consent

Low voltage battery-charged security fence, permitted

Mandatory training subjects, crisis intervention and de-escalation

Massage therapy businesses, local governments, regulation authority

Master commissioner's sale, requirements, violation, fine, establishment

Medicaid, p[proposed amendment to Constitution of Kentucky

Medicaid, proposed amendment to Constitution of Kentucky

Medical debt, judgment, maximum rate of interest

Medical treatment, discrimination, acts of conscience

Members of General Assembly, protected information, disclosure

Mental health and substance use disorder parity, insurance, requirements

Mental health parity, requirements

Mental health, treatment facilities, parameters, establishment

Minimum wage, authority to establish

Missing and unidentified persons, case information, National Missing and Unidentified Persons System

Missing persons case information, National Missing and Unidentified Persons System

Money bail, restriction to certain high-risk defendants

Motor fuel tax, county and city revenue sharing, formula

Motor vehicle racing, vehicle forfeiture, proceeds, Crime Victims Compensation Board

Motor vehicle titling, liens, taxes, fees, registration, and electronic management system

Motor vehicle usage tax, vehicles purchased by active duty service members, exemption

Municipal interlocal gas utilities, natural gas utility service, service area, customers, powers

Municipal sanitary sewer systems, extensions, failure to provide new service, customer options

Municipal solid waste disposal facilities, exclusion

Municipal utilities, data center service

Newspapers, legal advertisements, publication requirements for taxes

Obstructing a highway or an emergency responder, recovery for damages

Occupancies, dwellings, local government regulation, prohibition

Occupational license fees, apportionment of employee wages to local governments

Occupational license fees, standard electronic forms and payments

Occupational license tax for schools, boards of education, rate increase vote requirements

Official custodian, open records request, proof of identification, requirement

Open Meetings Act, public comment requirement, recess restrictions, notice of agenda

Pari-mutuel racing tax distribution, local government fund, establishment

Peace officer certification, candidates required to meet minimum standards prior to hiring

Peace officer certification, minimum standards, comparable physical agility test, removal

Peer support counseling programs, correctional officers, eligibility

Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders screenings, coverage requirement

Permits for residential construction, third-party inspections, allowing

Person without citizenship or visa, pretrial release prohibition, 48 hours

Plan reviews and inspections, procedures and requirements

Planning and zoning, area planning commissions, audit requirements

Planning unit, housing regulations, prohibitions, rights

Possession of a machine gun conversion device, Class C felony

Possession of assault weapons or machine gun, criminal offence,certiificate of possessio

Possession or viewing of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor, computer-generated image

Prescription drug coverage, cost-sharing and rebate requirements

Prescription drug coverage, cost-sharing requirements

Prevailing wage, public works, establishment

Primary caretaker of a dependent child, eligibility, conditions of sentence

Primary caretaker of a dependent child, finding, effect on another proceeding

Probationary employment service credit, purchase, contributions

Property donation, fines, fees, and interest, waiver

Property tax, assessment or reassessment moratorium expansion, proposed constitutional amendment

Property tax bills, standardized form, requirement

Property tax, emergency services, rate increases

Property tax, emergency services, rate increases, method, recall provisions

Property tax, exemption, homeowners 65 years old or older, proposed constitutional amendment

Property tax, exemption, veterans and first responders, proposed constitutional amendment

Property tax, homestead exemption, disabled veterans

Property tax, homestead exemption, disabled veterans, proposed constitutional amendment

Property tax homestead exemption increase, proposed constitutional amendment

Property tax, homestead exemption, owners who are 65 or older, proposed constitutional amendment

Property taxes, installment payment program

Proposed constitutional amendment, healthy environment, inherent and inalienable right

Prostheses and orthoses, coverage requirement, network adequacy

Prosthetic and orthotic devices, coverage requirement

Protected information, disclosure, prohibition

Psychiatric collaborative care model, reimbursement requirement

Public agency boards, member information, website, publish

Public employees, labor organizations, collective bargaining, rights and privileges

Public library district boards, appointments by county judge/executive

Public question, advocacy restrictions, penalties, cause of action

Public safety officers, lump-sum line of duty death benefits

Recall elections, superintendents of a school district

Recyclers, Motor Vehicle Commission, licensing

Redistricting

Regulatory license fee audit fund, local governments, creation

Religious institutions, development of affordable housing

Rental of property, tenant, right of first refusal, ordinances, preemption

Report of discrimination and retaliation, cause of action, jurisdiction, establishment

Retirees, reemployment of retired firefighters

Right to vote, residency requirement, proposed constitutional amendment

Risk protection orders, firearms prohibitions

Riverport authorities, organization

Riverport authorities, purpose

Safe at Home Program, participation, by prosecutors and public defenders

Sales and use tax, certain spay, neuter, vaccination, and adoption fees, exemption, August 1, 2026

Seized or recovered firearms, reporting procedures

Self-insured employer group health plan, mental health wellness examination, coverage requirement

Sex offender registry, period of registration

Sex offenders, participation in Halloween-related activity involving minors, prohibition

Sex offenders, residing within 3,000 feet of specific locations, prohibitions

Sexual abuse in the first degree, school employee, sexual contact with a student, prohibition

Sexual orientation and gender identity, prohibition of discrimination

Short-term rental restrictions, prohibition

Small farms, home-based processors, rules, regulations, laws, exemption

Smoke detectors in existing residence at time of sale or lease, requirement

Smoke detectors in existing residential properties at time of sale or lease, civil penalty

Social media accounts, government business, individual comments, requirement

Solid waste management facilities, imported solid waste, fees, prohibition

Solid waste management service companies, confidential business information, nondisclosure

Standard electronic forms, payments for occupational license fees, deadlines, exemptions

State employee health plan, community supported agriculture purchases, wellness rewards, inclusion

State minimum wage, increase

State of emergency, contractor requirements

Status offender, detention, requirements

Strengthen Kentucky Homes Program, 1 time financial grants, approved contractors

Swimming pool covers, requirements

Tax rate levy, recall process

Tax revenue sharing, modified distribution ratios

Temporary governmental structures, building code compliance, 6 month inspection

Transactions, foreign entities, critical assets, investigation, reporting

Transportation Cabinet, outdoor light fixtures, agricultural land, encroachment

Transportation Cabinet, vegetation obstruction, intersection of highway and rail grade crossings

Truancy, Supporting Opportunities for Accountability and Restoration Program, pilot project

Unemployment compensation, domestic violence, sexual assault, or stalking

Uniform citation report, motor vehicle accident, public release prohibition, requirements

Uniform Electronic Estate Planning Documents Act, adoption

Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act

Unlawful storage of a firearm, prohibition, affirmative defense, Baby Dre Gub Safety Act

Vegetation sight obstruction, removal, intersection of highway and rail grade crossings

Violations of conditions during any period of supervision, procedure for hearing

Vital statistics, data collection, male and female, identification, sex discrimination, prohibition

Voting hours, extension

Voting rights and civil rights for felons, automatic restoration, constitutional amendment

Voting rights for felons, proposed constitutional amendment

Wages, requirement to pay living wage

Welders, requirements for structural steel welding

Will, county clerk recording fee, collection, establishment

Work schedules, advance notice to employees, requirements

Workers' compensation, illegal substances, proximate cause of injury

Wrongful discharge, collection of lost wages

Youth and adoption


Last updated: 3/11/2026 6:52 PM (EDT)