House Bill 757

Actions | Amendments
Last Action 04/02/26: delivered to Governor
Title AN ACT relating to revenue measures and declaring an emergency.
Bill Documents Current
Introduced
Fiscal Impact Statement Additional Fiscal Impact Statements Exist
Bill Request Number 90
Sponsor J. Petrie
Summary of Original Version Amend KRS 139.340 to redefine the sales and use tax nexus standard for remote retailers and marketplace providers to include a sales volume threshold only; amend KRS 131.383 and 141.044 to allow the Department of Revenue to refund an estimated tax payment in the event the payment was submitted to the department in error; amend KRS 96.895 to require reporting by the Department for Local Government to the Legislative Research Commission related to the Tennessee Valley Act in lieu of tax payments; amend KRS 154.30-030 to sunset the tax increment financing state-participation programs; allow TIF projects approved prior to this date to continue to be governed in accordance with the tax incentive agreement's terms and conditions; amend KRS 141.010, 141.019, and 141.039 to conform to the Internal Revenue Code in effect on December 31, 2025, for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026; decouple from certain IRC provisions; delay the deferred tax deduction until January 1, 2028; create a new section of KRS Chapter 138 to define terms and impose an excise tax on fantasy contests; set requirements for administering the tax; amend KRS 139.010 to define "data brokering services"; amend KRS 139.200 to impose sales and use taxes on pay phones and data brokering services; amend KRS 139.202 to exempt from the tax pre-existing lease or rental agreements; amend KRS 224.50-868 to extend the fee currently imposed for each new motor vehicle, trailer, or semitrailer tire sold in Kentucky to July 1, 2028; amend KRS 224.50-872 to require reporting by the Energy and Environment Cabinet to the Legislative Research Commission on the waste tire trust fund; amend KRS 45.760 and 45.770 to limit the transfer of moneys for a capital project from 15% to 5%; amend KRS 45.345 and create new sections of KRS Chapters 65, 160, and 367 to define terms and require rounding of cash transactions to the nearest $.05 increment; amend KRS 139.210 to prohibit retailers from being relieved of their responsibility to collect the correct amount of sales tax regardless of the purchaser' s payment method; create new sections of KRS Chapter 65 in relation to regional industrial development districts to prioritize the purposes for organizing the district; exclude cities and school occupational license taxes from the single occupational license tax imposition restriction; require the fee to expire the earlier of date bonds issued are retired or 20 years; require notification to all local governments with territory in the boundaries of the multicounty region before interlocal agreement is executed; prohibit inclusion of any portion of a city that has not consented to participation; require reporting to the Department for Local Government and the Legislative Research Commission; amend KRS 143A.030 to tax fluorspar as a natural resource; amend KRS 143A.010 to add fluorspar to the definition of "natural resources"; amend KRS 140.160, relating to the inheritance and estate taxes, to extend the deadline for filing a tax return from 18 months to 36 months for deaths on or after July 1, 2026; amend KRS 140.210 to correspondingly extend the due date for payment of tax and discount; amend KRS 134.490 to modify notification requirements for third-party purchasers of delinquent taxes; amend KRS 138.130 to define "premium cigar," and amend "vending machine operator" to include cigarettes, tobacco products, vapor products, or a combination thereof; amend KRS 138.140 to tax premium cigars at the rate of 15% of the actual price up to 60 cents per cigar; require an annual CPI adjustment for the maximum rate and publication on the Department of Revenue's website; amend KRS 138.195 to require a vending machine operator to secure a license for dispensing tobacco products and vapor products in vending machines; amend KRS 141.0205 to order income tax credits; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on certain credits to the Legislative Research Commission; amend KRS 160.613 to impose the utility gross receipts license tax on the furnishing of pay phone service; amend KRS 139.538 to sunset sales and use tax exemptions for filming and producing motion pictures in this state July 1, 2028; amend KRS 132.096, 139.480, 139.4802, 139.481, 141.0401, 141.206 to delete tax exemptions for property certified as a fluidized bed energy production facility; amend KRS 139.481 to extend the agricultural exemption license number for sales and use taxes to 6 months; amend KRS 154.20-236 to end further applications for the Kentucky Angel Investment ; amend KRS 141.065 to sunset the credit for hiring the unemployed as of January 1, 2028; amend KRS 141.412 to sunset the qualified farming operation credit as of January 1, 2028; amend KRS 151B.402 to sunset the employer High School Equivalency Diploma program incentive credit as of January 1, 2028; amend KRS 171.396 to allocate 15% of the certified rehabilitation credit cap to owner-occupied residential property and 85% to all other property; define "commercial residential property" and "median family income"; amend KRS 171.397 to sunset the current application process; create a new section of KRS Chapter 171 to establish 2 application rounds by which the certified rehabilitation credit may be applied for; allow credit based on 30% of the qualified rehabilitation expenses if the commercial residential property is affordable to households earning 80% of the median family income; amend KRS 441.135 to require compensation received from disposal of property that was purchased from a jail canteen account to be returned to the canteen account; require reporting of proceeds by the jailer; create a new section of KRS Chapter 224A to require an administrative fee of 0.5% to be paid for each project funded by the Infrastructure for Economic Development Fund for Coal-Producing Counties and the Infrastructure for Economic Development Fund for Tobacco Counties; amend KRS 45.050 require audit expenses of audits with federal funds to be paid by the agency being audited; amend KRS 18A.080 Executive branch agencies assessed for the operation of the Personnel Board; require the amount to be determined and collected by Finance and Administration Cabinet based on the number of full-time employees of each agency on July 1; amend KRS 151.723 to prohibit state and local taxes on water withdrawal fees; amend KRS 304.17B-021 to require insurance premium and retaliatory taxes for accident and health and insurance premiums to be deposited into the general fund; amend KRS 11.068 to require the Office of State Budget Director to publish on its website by September 1 of each year an estimate of general fund and road fund revenue loss from tax expenditures; create a new section of KRS Chapter 16 to require billing of Kentucky State Police security services provided to nonstate-operated events; create a new section of KRS Chapter 138 to impose a new excise tax on predictive markets; define terms; amend KRS 160.470 to increase the publication requirements when a local board of education proposes to levy a general tax rate; amend KRS 132.017 to require the petition committee challenge information be published on the home page of the county clerk's website; amend KRS 160.473 to prohibit a personal property tax rate levied by a local board of education to be higher than the rate levied on January 1, 2026; amend KRS 160.607 to prohibit an occupational license tax from being imposed in a school district that does not currently have one imposed as of January 1, 2026; prohibit an occupational license tax rate levied for a school district to increase on or after January 1, 2026; amend KRS 160.613 to prohibit a utility gross receipts license tax from being imposed in a school district that does not currently have one imposed; prohibit a utility gross receipts license tax rate from increasing on or after January 1, 2026; amend KRS 11A.211 to increase the registration fee for each employer of one or more executive agency lobbyist and each real party in interest from $500 to $750; amend KRS 278.010 to define “municipal interlocal gas utility”; exempt “municipal interlocal gas utility” from the definition of “utility”; amend KRS 65.230 to define “municipal interlocal gas utility”; create a new section of KRS 65.210 to 65.300 to provide that municipal interlocal gas utilities shall be considered special purpose governmental entities and pay an annual fee to the Department for Local Government; amend KRS 65.240 to allow public agencies to enter into agreements to acquire natural gas facilities outside of its municipal jurisdictional boundaries; amend KRS 96.5375 to allow municipal interlocal gas utilities to extend or construct natural gas systems outside the constituents city’s boundaries; define municipal interlocal gas utility; allow for the selling or disposal of real property purchased with capital construction funds or equipment or state funds; require reporting of property sold or disposed; require school districts receiving urgent needs school allotments to reimburse the Commonwealth; amend various other sections to conform; make technical changes; repeal KRS 160.621, 160.625, 160.627, 160.633, 160.472, 211.390, and 211.392; EFFECTIVE, in part, August 1, 2026, and January 1, 2027; RETROACTIVE, in part to January 1, 2020; EMERGENCY.
Index Headings of Original Version Taxation - Income tax, IRC update
Taxation - Income tax, mortgage interest deduction, primary residence only
Taxation - Income tax, various credits, sunset
Taxation - Inheritance and estate tax, time of payment and discount
Taxation - Kentucky River Authority, water withdrawal fees taxation, prohibition
Taxation - Occupational license taxes, schools, rate reduction and elimination
Taxation - Pay phone service, utility gross receipts license tax
Taxation - Prediction market operators, excise tax, imposition
Taxation - Property tax, local boards of education, personal property, rate levy restrictions
Taxation - Revenue measures, omnibus bill
Taxation - Sales and use, agricultural exemption license number, extension
Taxation - Sales and use, motion picture company, exemption, sunset, July 1, 2028
Taxation - Severance tax, fluorspar, imposition
Taxation - Tax increment financing, state participation program, sunset
Taxation - Use tax, marketplace provider, transaction threshold nexus standard, deletion
Taxation - Use tax, remote retailer, transaction threshold nexus standard, deletion
Taxation - Utility gross receipts license tax, pay phone service, impose
Taxation, Income--Corporate - Certified rehabilitation credit, application rounds, allocation of credit cap
Taxation, Income--Corporate - Deferred tax, deduction extension
Taxation, Income--Corporate - Various tax credits, sunset
Taxation, Income--Individual - Certified rehabilitation credit, application rounds, allocation of credit cap
Taxation, Income--Individual - Estimated tax payments, refund
Taxation, Income--Individual - Various tax credits, sunset
Taxation, Inheritance And Estate - Time of payment and discount, extension
Taxation, Property - Delinquent tax lien, notification process
Taxation, Property - Local boards of education, tax rate levy requirements
Taxation, Sales And Use - Agricultural exemption license number, extension
Taxation, Sales And Use - Marketplace provider, transaction threshold nexus standard, deletion
Taxation, Sales And Use - Motion picture company, exemption, sunset, July 1, 2028
Taxation, Sales And Use - Pay telephone service, imposition
Taxation, Sales And Use - Remote retailer, transaction threshold nexus standard, deletion
Taxation, Severance - Fluorspar, severance tax, imposition
Technical Corrections - Property tax rate levy requirements
Telecommunications - Pay phone service, utility gross receipts license tax
Telecommunications - Pay telephone service, sales tax
Tobacco - Premium cigars, excise tax imposition
Vaping - Vending machine operator, licensing requirements
Wills, Trusts, And Estates - Inheritance and estate tax, time of payment and discount
Accountants - Prediction market operators, excise tax, imposition
Advertising - Sales and use tax, billboard services, imposition
Agriculture - Qualified farming operation tax credit, sunset
Athletics - Fantasy contests, excise tax administration
Budget And Financial Administration - Kentucky Access fund, use of funds
Budget And Financial Administration - Money transfers to capital project allotment account, authorization reduction
Budget And Financial Administration - Revenue measures, omnibus bill
Business Entities And Organizations - Transactions, penny shortage, rounding
Capital Construction - Money transfers to capital project allotment account, authorization reduction
Cities - Municipal interlocal gas utilities, creation
Cities - Regional industrial development districts, occupational license tax, levy restrictions, exclusion
Coal - Fluidized bed combustion facility, tax exemption, repeal
Commerce - Transactions, penny shortage, rounding
County Clerks - Publication requirements, property tax rate levy
Deaths - Inheritance and estate tax, time of payment and discount
Economic Development - Kentucky Angel Investment Act, application acceptance, sunset
Economic Development - Regional industrial development districts, purposes expansion and prioritization
Economic Development - Tax increment financing, state participation program, sunset
Education, Finance - Occupational license tax for schools, levy restrictions
Education, Finance - Personal property tax rate levy restrictions
Education, Finance - School district taxation, omnibus reforms
Education, Finance - Transactions, penny shortage, rounding
Education, Finance - Urgent needs school assistance, reimbursement of funds
Effective Dates, Delayed - Fantasy contest operator and predictive markets operator, taxation, January 1, 2027
Effective Dates, Delayed - Marketplace provider and remote retailer, taxation thresholds, August 1, 2026
Effective Dates, Delayed - Pay phone service, utility gross receipts tax, August 1, 2026
Effective Dates, Delayed - Pay telephone and data brokering services, sales tax, August 1, 2026
Effective Dates, Emergency - Auditor of Public Accounts, audit expenses
Effective Dates, Emergency - Certified rehabilitation credit, application rounds, allocation of credit cap
Effective Dates, Emergency - Inheritance and estate tax, time of payment and discount
Effective Dates, Emergency - Jailers, jail canteen account
Effective Dates, Emergency - Kentucky Access fund, use of funds
Effective Dates, Emergency - Kentucky Infrastructure Authority, administrative fee
Effective Dates, Emergency - Kentucky River Authority, water withdrawal fees taxation, prohibition
Effective Dates, Emergency - Kentucky State Police, security service billing requirement
Effective Dates, Emergency - Money transfers to capital project allotment account, authorization reduction
Effective Dates, Emergency - New tire fee, extension
Effective Dates, Emergency - Personnel Board, assessments for operation
Effective Dates, Emergency - Postsecondary institution, capital construction funds, sale or disposal or property
Effective Dates, Emergency - Premium cigars taxation
Effective Dates, Emergency - School tax rate levy requirements
Effective Dates, Emergency - State Budget Director, tax expenditure report
Effective Dates, Emergency - Urgent needs school assistance, reimbursement of funds
Energy - Fluidized bed combustion facility, tax exemption, repeal
Environment And Conservation - New tire fee, extension until July 1, 2028
Fees - Department of Agriculture, weights and measurements device inspections
Fees - Kentucky Infrastructure Authority, administrative fee
Fees - New tire fee, extension until July 1, 2028
Fees - Occupational license tax for schools, levy restrictions
Funds - Infrastructure for Economic Development Funds, administrative fee
Housing, Building, And Construction - Certified rehabilitation tax credit, certified historic structures
Investments - Angel investor credit, sunset
Jails And Jailers - Canteen accounts, property disposal
Liens - Delinquent tax lien, notification process
Local Government - Regional industrial development districts, occupational license tax, notification requirements
Local Government - Transactions, penny shortage, rounding
Minerals And Mining - Fluorspar, severance tax, imposition
Pollution - Fluidized bed combustion facility exemption, repeal
Property - Certified rehabilitation of historic structures, tax credit cap allocation
Property - Delinquent tax lien, homestead exemption, requirement
Public Buildings And Grounds - Money transfers to capital project allotment account, authorization reduction
Public Utilities - Municipal interlocal gas utilities, creation
Public Utilities - Pay phone service, utility gross receipts license tax, impose
Real Estate - Certified historic structures, income tax credit
Real Estate - Delinquent tax lien, notification process
Reports Mandated - Department for Local Government, regional industrial development districts, report
Reports Mandated - Department for Local Government, TVA in lieu of tax payments report
Reports Mandated - Department of Revenue, high school equivalency diploma program incentive credit
Reports Mandated - Department of Revenue, motion picture company sales and use tax, annual report
Reports Mandated - Energy and Environment Cabinet, waste tire trust fund report
Reports Mandated - Jailers, jail canteen account
Retroactive Legislation - Municipal interlocal gas utilities, creation
Science And Technology - Fluidized bed combustion facility tax exemption, repeal
Small Business - Transactions, penny shortage, rounding
Special Purpose Governmental Entities - Municipal interlocal gas utilities, creation
State Agencies - Auditor of Public Accounts, audit expenses
State Agencies - Department of Agricultural, weights and measurements device inspection fee
State Agencies - Department of Revenue, severance tax, fluorspar, imposition
State Agencies - Economic Development, state participation TIF programs, sunset
State Agencies - Fantasy sports excise tax administration
State Agencies - Kentucky Infrastructure Authority, administrative fee
State Agencies - Kentucky River Authority, water withdrawal fees taxation, prohibition
State Agencies - Kentucky State Police, security service billing requirement
State Agencies - Personnel Board, assessments for operation
State Agencies - State Budget Director, tax expenditure report
State Agencies - Transactions, rounding, penny shortage
Sunset Legislation - Income tax, various credits, sunset
Sunset Legislation - Motion picture company, sales and use tax exemption, sunset, July 1, 2028
Sunset Legislation - New tire fee, extension until July 1, 2028
Sunset Legislation - Tax increment financing, state participation programs
Taxation - Delinquent tax lien, notification process
Taxation - Excise tax, fantasy contests, creation
Taxation - Excise tax, premium cigars, establishment
Taxation - Income tax credit, amendment to the certified rehabilitation credit
Taxation - Income tax, deferred tax deduction, extension
Taxation - Income tax, estimated tax payments, refund
Jump to Proposed Amendments House Committee Substitute 1 with Fiscal Impact Statements
House Floor Amendment 1
House Floor Amendment 2
House Floor Amendment 3
House Floor Amendment 4
House Floor Amendment 5
House Floor Amendment 6
House Floor Amendment 7
House Floor Amendment 8
House Floor Amendment 9
Senate Committee Substitute 1
Senate Floor Amendment 1
Conference Committee Report 1
Free Conference Committee Report 1
Votes Vote History

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02/25/26
  • introduced in House
  • to Committee on Committees (H)
03/04/26
  • floor amendment (1) filed
  • to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
03/09/26
  • taken from Appropriations & Revenue (H)
  • 1st reading
  • returned to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
  • floor amendments (2), (3), (4) and (5) filed
03/10/26
  • reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1)
  • floor amendments (6), (7), (8) and (9) filed to Committee Substitute
  • posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 11 2026
03/11/26
  • 3rd reading, passed 69-18 with Committee Substitute (1)
03/12/26
  • received in Senate
  • to Committee on Committees (S)
03/13/26
  • to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
03/20/26
  • taken from Appropriations & Revenue (S)
  • 1st reading
  • returned to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
03/24/26
  • floor amendment (1) filed
  • taken from Appropriations & Revenue (S)
  • 2nd reading
  • returned to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
04/01/26
  • reported favorably, to Rules with Floor Amendment (1) and Committee Substitute (1)
  • posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, April 01 2026
  • 3rd reading
  • Floor Amendment (1) withdrawn
  • passed 37-0 with Committee Substitute (1)
  • received in House
  • to Rules (H)
  • posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute (1)
  • House refused to concur in Senate Committee Substitute (1)
  • received in Senate
  • to Rules (S)
  • posted for passage for receding from Senate Committee Substitute (1)
  • Senate refused to recede from Committee Substitute (1)
  • Conference Committee appointed in House and Senate
  • Conference Committee report (1) filed in House and Senate
  • Conference Committee report adopted in House and Senate
  • Free Conference Committee appointed in House and Senate
  • Free Conference Committee report filed in House and Senate
  • posted for passage for consideration of Free Conference Committee Report
  • Free Conference Committee report adopted in Senate
  • passed 34-0
  • received in House
  • to Rules (H)
  • taken from Rules
  • posted for passage for consideration of Free Conference
  • Free Conference Committee report adopted in House
  • passed 65-25
04/02/26
  • enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
  • enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
  • delivered to Governor

Proposed Amendments

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Amendment House Committee Substitute 1
Fiscal Impact Statement Fiscal Note to House Committee Substitute 1
Summary Retain original provisions; amend 141.019 to disallow the deduction for interest paid on mortgage and home equity loans for more than a primary residence for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026; change the taxable base for the excise tax on fantasy contest operators from gross receipts to entry fees and the tax rate from 15.25% to 12%; amend KRS 224.50-868 to extend the sunset date for the new tire fee to July 1, 2034; amend KRS 224.50-872 to require reporting of recipients receiving moneys from the fund and a compilation of the information in KRS 224.50-878(4); remove the sunset on the angel investor tax credit program; amend KRS 171.396 to define "affordable"; allow the certified rehabilitation income tax credit to apply to the taxes imposed under KRS 136.320, 136.330, 136.340, 136.350, 136.370, 136.390, and 304.3-270; allow the credit to equal 30% of the qualified rehabilitation expenses, if the commercial residential property is affordable, to households earning 80% of the median family income or less; allow an insurance company claiming the credit against the insurance premium tax to not pay additional retaliatory taxes; change the taxable base for the excise tax on prediction market operators from gross receipts to transaction fees and the tax rate from 15.25% to 17.25%; amend KRS 160.470 to require additional publication when a local board of education proposes to levy a general tax rate; create a new section of KRS 363.510 to 363.850 to establish an electric vehicle charging station inspection program at the Department of Agriculture; require an electric vehicle power dealer to obtain a retail electric charging license from the department before operating an electric vehicle charging station; require the department to impose an annual license fee of $100 per electric vehicle charging port located at an electric vehicle charging station; establish the retail electric vehicle charging station license fund; require the department to inspect each licensed electric vehicle charging station at least once every 2 years; require the inspection to be made using the standards in the current edition of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Handbook 44; provide for the aspects of the inspection; exempt electric vehicle charging stations constructed using funds from the federal National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure Funding Program from the licensure and inspection requirements established by the section for 5 years following their initial operation; require that within 90 days of the effective date of the section, the department shall promulgate administrative regulations establishing the electric vehicle charging station inspection standards and to carry out the requirements of the section; amend KRS 363.510 to amend the definition of "weights and measures" and define for "electric vehicle," "electric vehicle charging port," "electric vehicle charging station," "electric vehicle power dealer," and "electric vehicle supply equipment"; amend KRS 138.477 to include within the definition of electric vehicle power dealer a person who receives the payment for the charges for power distributed through an electric vehicle charging station; amend KRS 138.446 to remove taxicab companies' ability to receive a refund of the motor fuels tax paid on motor fuels used in their regularly scheduled operations in Kentucky; amend KRS 138.210 to define "cellulosic ethanol," "ethanol," "ethanol flex fuel," and "fuel grade ethanol" and include fuel grade ethanol in the definition of "gasoline"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 246 to establish the Friends of Kentucky Agriculture fund; amend KRS 186.162, relating to special license plates, to establish that a portion of the initial and renewal fee for a Kentucky National Guard plate is dedicated to the National Guard Association of Kentucky and that a portion of the initial and renewal fee for a Friends of Kentucky Agriculture plate is dedicated to the Friends of Kentucky Agriculture fund; amend KRS 186.164 to set a $200,000 threshold for auditing groups receiving funds from special license plate fees; require reporting by groups receiving funds from special license plate fees; amend KRS 154.32-010, relating to the Kentucky Business Investment Program, to add laboratory equipment, computer servers, software, capitalized leases, and leasehold improvements directly related to research and development, headquarters, high-technology operations, or service sector facilities to the definitions of "eligible costs" and "start-up costs," respectively; amend KRS 143.022 to extend the allowance of coal severance tax refunds related to coal transported directly to a market outside of North America; amend KRS 186.041 and 186.166 to conform; make technical corrections; EFFECTIVE, in part, August 1, 2026, and January 1, 2027; RETROACTIVE, in part, January 1, 2026; EMERGENCY.
Index Headings Taxation - Taxicab companies, motor fuels tax refund, exclusion
Taxation, Income--Corporate - Angel investor tax credit, sunset, removal
Taxation, Income--Corporate - Certified rehabilitation credit, definitions
Taxation, Income--Individual - Angel investor tax credit, sunset, removal
Taxation, Income--Individual - Certified rehabilitation credit, definitions
Taxation, Income--Individual - Interest deduction, primary residence requirement
Transportation - Electric vehicle charging station inspection program, establishment
Transportation - Electric vehicle power dealer, licensing
Transportation - License plate, Kentucky National Guard special license plate, fee distribution
Transportation - Taxicab companies, motor fuels tax refund, exclusion
Administrative Regulations And Proceedings - Department of Agriculture, EV charging station inspection program, administrative regulations
Agriculture - Department of Agriculture, electric vehicle charging station inspection program, establishment
Business Entities And Organizations - Kentucky Business Investment Program, eligible and start-up costs, addition
County Clerks - License plate, Kentucky National Guard special license plate, fee distribution
Economic Development - Kentucky Business Investment Program, eligible and start-up costs, addition
Education, Finance - Local board of education, general tax rate, publication requirements
Effective Dates, Delayed - Electric vehicle power dealer, August 1, 2026
Effective Dates, Delayed - Motor fuels tax, definitions
Effective Dates, Delayed - Motor fuels tax, taxicab refunds
Effective Dates, Emergency - Coal severance tax refunds on foreign coal, extension
Effective Dates, Emergency - Special license plate, fee distribution
Environment And Conservation - New tire fee, extension
Fees - Electric vehicle charging station inspection program, establishment, licensure fee
Fees - New tire fee, extension
Fuel - Taxicab companies, motor fuels tax refund, exclusion
Funds - Friends of Kentucky Agriculture fund
Funds - Retail electric vehicle charging station license fund, establishment
Licensing - Electric vehicle charging station inspection program, establishment
Motor Vehicles - Electric vehicle charging station inspection program, establishment
Motor Vehicles - Electric vehicle power dealer, licensing
Motor Vehicles - License plate, Friends of Kentucky Agriculture
Motor Vehicles - License plate, Kentucky National Guard special license plate, fee distribution
Motor Vehicles - Motor fuels tax, definitions
National Guard - Special license plate, fee distribution
Occupations And Professions - Taxicab companies, motor fuels tax refund, exclusion
Reports Mandated - Department of Revenue, coal severance tax refunds on foreign coal
Retroactive Legislation - Special license plate fees, auditing and reporting requirements
Safety - Electric vehicle charging station inspection program, establishment
Small Business - Kentucky Business Investment Program, eligible and start-up costs, addition
State Agencies - Department of Agriculture, electric vehicle charging station inspection program, establishment
Taxation - Coal severance tax refunds on foreign coal, extension
Taxation - Electric vehicle power dealer, imposition
Taxation - Excise tax, fantasy contest operators, base and rate amendment
Taxation - Excise tax, prediction market operators, base and rate amendment
Taxation - Income tax, angel investor tax credit sunset, removal
Taxation - Income tax, certified rehabilitation credit, definitions
Taxation - Insurance premium tax, certified rehabilitation credit
Taxation - Kentucky Business Investment Program, eligible and start-up costs, addition
Taxation - Motor fuels, definitions

Amendment House Floor Amendment 1
Sponsor L. Burke
Summary Retain original provisions; and amend KRS 142.400 to impose a 1% statewide surtax on the rental of accommodations when charged by the owner of the property or by a person facilitating the rental of the property and deposit the receipts from the surtax into the affordable housing trust fund; amend KRS 142.402, 142.404, 142.406, and 198A.190 to conform; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2026.
Index Headings Effective Dates, Delayed - Statewide transient room surtax, imposition, August 1, 2026
Housing, Building, And Construction - Affordable Housing Trust Fund, surtax on rental of accommodations, deposit
Taxation - Statewide transient room surtax, imposition

Amendment House Floor Amendment 2
Sponsor L. Burke
Summary Retain original provisions; amend KRS 141.019 to require any gain from the sale or exchange of qualified small business stock be included in the calculation of adjusted gross income.
Index Headings Small Business - Qualified small business stock, gain from the sale or exchange, individual income tax
Taxation - Gain from the sale of qualified small business stock, include in adjusted gross income
Taxation, Income--Individual - Gain from the sale of qualifiied small business stock, include in adjusted gross income

Amendment House Floor Amendment 3
Sponsor L. Burke
Summary Retain original provisions; and amend KRS 141.039 to include in adjusted gross income any federal deduction taken for foreign-derived deduction eligible income under 26 U.S.C. sec. 250.
Index Headings Taxation - Foreign-derived deduction eligible income, corporation income tax
Taxation, Income--Corporate - Foreign-derived deduction eligible income

Amendment House Floor Amendment 4
Sponsor L. Burke
Summary Retain original provisions; amend KRS 141.030 to provide guidelines related to the taxation of an incomplete gift non-grantor trust; provisions apply to taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026.
Index Headings Taxation - Incomplete gift non-grantor trust

Amendment House Floor Amendment 5
Sponsor L. Burke
Summary Retain original provisions; amend KRS 141.039 to state that dividend income does not include net CFC-tested income as used in 26 U.S.C. sec. 951A.
Index Headings Taxation - Corporation income tax, net CFC-tested income, taxation
Taxation, Income--Corporate - Net CFC-tested income; taxation

Amendment House Floor Amendment 6
Sponsor L. Burke
Summary Retain original provisions; amend KRS 142.400 to impose a 1% statewide surtax on the rental of accommodations when charged by the owner of the property or by a person facilitating the rental of the property and deposit the receipts from the surtax into the affordable housing trust fund; amend KRS 142.402, 142.404, 142.406, and 198A.190 to conform; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2026.
Index Headings Effective Dates, Delayed - Statewide transient room surtax, imposition, August 1, 2026
Housing, Building, And Construction - Affordable Housing Trust Fund, surtax on rental of accommodations, deposit
Taxation - Statewide transient room surtax, imposition

Amendment House Floor Amendment 7
Sponsor L. Burke
Summary Retain original provisions; amend KRS 141.019 to require any gain from the sale or exchange of qualified small business stock be included in the calculation of adjusted gross income.
Index Headings Small Business - Qualified small business stock, gain from the sale or exchange, individual income tax
Taxation - Gain from the sale of qualified small business stock, include in adjusted gross income
Taxation, Income--Individual - Gain from the sale of qualified small business stock, include in adjusted gross income

Amendment House Floor Amendment 8
Sponsor L. Burke
Summary Retain original provisions; amend KRS 141.039 to include in adjusted gross income any federal deduction taken for foreign-derived deduction eligible income under 26 U.S.C. sec. 250.
Index Headings Taxation - Foreign-derived deduction eligible income, corporation income tax
Taxation, Income--Corporate - Foreign-derived deduction eligible income

Amendment House Floor Amendment 9
Sponsor L. Burke
Summary Retain original provisions; amend KRS 141.030 to provide guidelines related to the taxation of an incomplete gift non-grantor trust; provisions apply to taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026.
Index Headings Taxation - Incomplete gift non-grantor trust

Amendment Senate Committee Substitute 1
Summary Retain original provisions; amend KRS 141.019 to couple with the deduction for employer contributions to Trump accounts; include the amount deducted for domestic research or experimental expenditures under 26 U.S.C. sec. 174A; exclude the amount deducted for domestic research or experimental expenditures under 26 U.S.C. sec. 174, as that section existed on December 31, 2024; set the tax rate for fantasy contest service providers at 12% of adjusted gross fantasy contest receipts; require participants in fantasy contests to be at least 21 years of age; amend KRS 139.010 to remove from the definition of "data brokering services" the use of data by a third party; define “infrastructure development” and “trustee”; amend KRS 65.302 to allow tax revenues from a regional industrial to be distributed by the interlocal agreement; amend the purpose of the district; allow the occupational license fee imposed by the district to continue instead of expiring at the earlier of when the bonds are retired or 20 years; require if a district is located within a city’s jurisdiction, all cities, which are part of the interlocal agreement, agree upon the occupational tax rate imposed; allow stacking of occupational license taxes, but require if a city and county both impose an occupational license fee, crediting provisions under KRS 68.197 apply; allow the district to be a county industrial district under KRS 81A.532 to 81A.536 upon the enactment of an ordinance; allow wage assessments to be imposed in the district; set expiration requirements for the wage assessments; amend KRS 138.140 to lower the wholesale sales tax rate on premium cigars from 15% to 6%; extend the sunset date for the film and motion picture tax exemption to July 1, 2030; allow surplus credits in the owner-occupied residential property or commercial property pools to be used interchangeably; allow 50 % of the surplus credits to roll to the next application round; require the Heritage Council and Kentucky Housing Corporation collaborate on compliance with income limits for workforce housing credit; require the apportionment process to happen twice a year; set the tax rate for the prediction market operator excise tax at 14.25% of transaction fees; amend KRS 160.473 to prohibit the general tax rate levied by a local board of education to be more than the tax levied for January 1, 2028 assessment year; amend KRS 160.607 to increase the population threshold for a county to exceed the maximum occupational license tax rate by 0.25%; amend KRS 160.483 to prohibit an occupational license tax from being imposed in a school district that does not already have one imposed as of January 1, 2027; prohibit an occupational license tax rate levied by a school to increase on or after January 1, 2027; remove the prohibition on utility gross receipts license tax; create a new section of KRS 65.210 to 65.300 to prohibit municipal interlocal gas utilities from serving residential and provide exceptions; create a new section of KRS 65.210 to 65.300 to provide that municipal interlocal gas utilities shall be considered special purpose governmental entities and pay an annual fee to the Department for Local Government; amend KRS 217.2202 to prohibit the distribution, dispensing, selling, or making available for sale kratom, kratom, extract, or kratom product and set penalties for violation; amend KRS 139.495 to define "educational or charitable institution" and "religious institution"; exempt purchases and sales of tangible personal property, digital property, or services made by qualifying religious institutions from state sales and use taxes; amend KRS 132.195 to exempt leasehold interests in real property owned by Kentucky Housing Corporation and leasehold interests in public-private partnerships projects or property developed, acquired, or leased in accordance with public-private partnership agreements executed by a state contract or local government; amend KRS 65.494 to require a new development area to exist for 30 years and all it to be extended for 25 years to accommodate a pilot program term; set requirements on contracts regarding the application of increment derived from the new development area; require amendments of projects for an existing development and any negotiation or agreement made related to an existing development area or new development area to be approved by KEDFA; amend KRS 141.438 to increase the tax credit cap from $1,000,000 to $2,000,000 on or after July 1, 2026; amend KRS 164.2847 to require waiver of tuition and fees for a Kentucky foster or adopted child who is a full-time or part-time student if the student meets all entrance requirements and maintains academic eligibility while enrolled at the postsecondary institution; amend KRS 278.150 to increases the Public Service Commission assessment from 2 mills to 0.23% of intrastate receipts; amend KRS 117.322 to include a person with intent to deceive or mislead changes in the content of an electioneering communication in a manner that results in it qualifying as synthetic media in the reasons that a medium or its advertising sales representative may be held liable in a cause of action; amend KRS 154.30-010, relating to tax increment financing, to extend the sunset date for the "modified new revenues for income tax" to 2048 and reduce the modifier; amend KRS 132.380 to require DOR to continue to hold the PVA exam until 2 people for a county are certified or 30 days prior to the certification of candidates for the regular election, when there is not a qualified candidate before the filing deadline for the primary election; create various funds; require the Legislative Research Commission to study of the taxation structure of depository financial institutions.
Index Headings Advertising - Synthetic media in electioneering communication
Charitable And Nonprofit Organizations - Religious institutions, sales and use tax, exemption
Drugs And Medicines - Kratom, kratom extract, kratom product, prohibition
Economic Development - Tax increment financing in existing and new development areas, approval by KEDFA
Education, Elementary And Secondary - Religious institutions, sales and use tax, exemption
Education, Finance - Religious institutions, sales and use tax, exemption
Fees - Public Service Commission assessment fees
Funds - Out-of-home care program
Legislative Research Commission - Taxation structure of depository financial institutions
Property - Income tax credit amendment, certified rehabilitation of historic structures, credit cap allocation
Property Valuation Administrators - Examination opportunities
Real Estate - Certified historic structures, income tax credit, amendment to certified rehabilitation credit
Religion - Religious institutions, sales and use tax, exemption
Sales - Religious institutions, sales and use tax, exemption
Studies Directed - Taxation structure of depository financial institutions
Sunset Legislation - Tax increment financing, modified new revenues for income tax, extension to 2048
Taxation - Endow Kentucky tax credit, sunset
Taxation - Income tax credit, amendment to the certified rehabilitation credit
Taxation - Religious institutions, sales and use tax, exemption
Taxation - Tax increment financing, new development area, extension
Taxation - Tax increment financing, state participation program
Taxation, Income--Individual - Tax increment financing, individual income tax
Taxation, Property - Leasehold interests, Kentucky Housing real property, exemption
Taxation, Property - Leasehold interests, public-private partnerships, exemption
Taxation, Sales And Use - Religious institutions, exemption

Amendment Senate Floor Amendment 1
Sponsor G. Williams
Summary Amend KRS 139.495 to define "educational or charitable institution" and "religious institution"; exempt purchases and sales of tangible personal property, digital property, or services made by qualifying religious institutions from state sales and use taxes; make technical changes.
Index Headings Charitable And Nonprofit Organizations - Religious institutions, sales and use tax, exemption
Education, Elementary And Secondary - Religious institutions, sales and use tax, exemption
Education, Finance - Religious institutions, sales and use tax, exemption
Religion - Religious institutions, sales and use tax, exemption
Sales - Religious institutions, sales and use tax, exemption
Taxation - Religious institutions, sales and use tax, exemption
Taxation, Sales And Use - Religious institutions, exemption

Amendment Conference Committee Report 1
Summary Cannot agree.
Index Headings Conference Committee Reports - HB 757

Amendment Free Conference Committee Report 1
Summary Create a new section of KRS Chapter 11 to require the state curator to accept a statute, monument, or object to art that is privately funded and created depicting or representing United States Senator Addison Mitchell McConnell for display in the New State Capitol rotunda; require the commission to reserve a spot in the rotunda for the display; authorize the installation and permanent display by the General Assembly; create a new section of KRS Chapter 139 to establish a sales tax incentive related to profession a sporting events equal to 100% of the sale of admissions and tangible personal property and services to a qualifying attraction; set requirements for receiving the incentive; create a new section of KRS Chapter 171 to allow credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2027, for the certified rehabilitation of a certified historic structure in which total qualified rehabilitation expenses exceed $150,000,000 for the taxable year; set requirements for the credit.
Index Headings Public Buildings And Grounds - Senator Addison Mitchell McConnell, statute, monument, or object of art display requirement
Taxation - Sales Tax, professional sporting event incentive
Taxation, Income--Corporate - Certified rehabilitation credit
Taxation, Income--Individual - Certified rehabilitation credit
Taxation, Sales And Use - Professional sporting event incentive

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