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passed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 28, 2025

SR 251: A RESOLUTION confirming the reappointment of Peter Naake as an administrative law judge in the Department of Workers' Claims.

This resolution confirms Governor Beshear's reappointment of Peter Naake as an administrative law judge in Kentucky's Department of Workers' Claims for a term ending July 14, 2028. The Senate unanimously adopted the resolution on March 28, 2025, completing the required confirmation process under state law. The bill directly affects Naake's continued service in this role and the Department of Workers' Claims.
Phillip Wheeler (R)
passed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 28, 2025

SR 193: A RESOLUTION confirming the appointment of Brian Weisker to the Energy Planning and Inventory Commission.

This resolution confirms Governor Beshear's appointment of Brian Weisker to the Energy Planning and Inventory Commission for a term ending July 1, 2025. It directly affects Brian Weisker, who represents natural gas transportation and distribution businesses, by formally approving his position. The resolution follows standard procedure under Kentucky law (KRS 164.2807) requiring Senate confirmation for this commission appointment. As a procedural resolution, it does not create new policy or alter existing laws.
Robby Mills (R)
signed · Kentucky · House Mar 28, 2025

HJR 46: A JOINT RESOLUTION relating to road projects and declaring an emergency.

HJR 46 designates specific road projects as "County Priority Projects" under Kentucky's Six-Year Road Plan, directly affecting counties receiving these funded projects. It establishes the priority list by overriding certain existing statutes (KRS 48.100, 48.110, etc.) and incorporating three 2024 Kentucky Acts. The resolution creates the official framework for allocating road funding, specifying which projects advance first in the state's six-year infrastructure plan. This procedural resolution does not create new funding but determines the order of project implementation.
Topics ✓ Budget & TaxesSupports Budget & TaxesBill establishes framework for allocating road funding in state budget, designating priority projects. Directly addresses budget allocation for infrastructure (essential public service), supporting fiscal management.90% confidence ✓ TransportationSupports TransportationDesignates road projects as priorities, overrides statutes to allocate funding per Six-Year Road Plan, directly advancing transportation infrastructure funding and project sequencing.95% confidence
Jason Petrie (R) Ken Upchurch (R) Josh Bray (R) Adam Bowling (R)
signed · Kentucky · House Mar 28, 2025

HB 90: AN ACT relating to maternal health and declaring an emergency.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "freestanding birthing center"; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to establish licensure standards for freestanding birthing centers; establish criteria for a medical director; establish requirements for obtaining written informed consent; require a written patient transfer agreement with a hospital that provides obstetric services; require a written patient transfer agreement with an emergency medical transportation service; exempt a center with no more than four beds from certificate-of-need requirements for establishing and licensing a freestanding birthing center; state intent not to limit or expand liability of a center or health care provider or facility; require medical malpractice insurance for freestanding birthing centers; prohibit abortions in freestanding birthing centers; amend KRS 216B.015 to include freestanding birthing centers in the definition of "health facility"; amend KRS 216B.020, 196.173, 211.122, 211.647, 211.660, 213.046, 214.155, 214.565, 214.567, 214.569, 216.2920, 216.2921, 216.2923, 216.2925, 216.2927, and 216.2970 to conform; require the cabinet to promulgate updated administrative regulations by December 1, 2025; provide that the Act may be cited as the Mary Carol Akers Birth Centers Act.
Topics ✓ HealthcareSupports HealthcareBill establishes regulatory standards for freestanding birthing centers, requiring informed consent and hospital transfer agreements to improve maternal health care safety and quality.90% confidence
Marianne Proctor (R) Kim Banta (R) Kim Holloway (R) Candy Massaroni (R) Nancy Tate (R)
signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 28, 2025

SB 89: AN ACT relating to environmental protection and declaring an emergency.

Amend KRS 224.1-010 to change the definition of "water" or "waters of the Commonwealth"; amend KRS 224.1-300 to provide that the definitions contained therein only apply to KRS 224.1-300 and 224.1-310; amend KRS 350.010 to define "long-term treatment"; amend KRS 350.060 to establish the means of calculating the additional bond amount required for a permit or permit increment for which the Energy and Environment Cabinet determines long-term treatment is required; EMERGENCY.
Topics ✗ EnergyOpposes EnergyBill focuses on coal mining permits and environmental regulations for fossil fuel infrastructure, not renewable energy. Subjects include Coal, Minerals, and Surface Mining, indicating support for fossil fuels over renewables.82% confidence
Greg Elkins (R) Phillip Wheeler (R) Brandon Smith (R) Brandon Storm (R) Gary Boswell (R)
signed · Kentucky · House Mar 28, 2025

HB 4: AN ACT relating to initiatives regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion.

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.
Topics ✓ EducationSupports EducationProhibits discrimination in higher ed admissions, housing, and scholarships based on protected characteristics, strengthening equity and access in education.95% confidence
Marianne Proctor (R) T.J. Roberts (R) Richard White (R) Jennifer Decker (R) Shane Baker (R)
signed · Kentucky · House Mar 28, 2025

HB 399: AN ACT relating to interference with a legislative proceeding.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 519 to define terms; create the crime of interference with a legislative proceeding in the first degree; create the crime of interference with a legislative proceeding in the second degree; amend KRS 431.015 to require a peace officer to make an arrest for a violation of interference with a legislative proceeding in the first or second degree.
John Blanton (R)
signed · Kentucky · House Mar 28, 2025

HB 694: AN ACT relating to Teachers' Retirement System benefit funding.

Create a new section of KRS 161.220 to 161.716, relating to the Teachers' Retirement System (TRS), to require that once the TRS retiree health fund has an actuarial funding level of at least 100%, then the employer funding for retiree health shall be used to pay down the unfunded liability of the TRS pension fund; require that if the actuarial funding level of the TRS retiree health fund falls below 95%, then the employer funding shall be restored to the retiree health fund until the retiree health fund is 100% funded; amend KRS 161.540, 161.550, and 161.675 to provide that the TRS board of trustees shall not recommend changes to the General Assembly to reduce employee or employer funding for retiree health or reduce board adopted charges under the shared responsibility provisions for health benefits for retirees under the age of 65 until the pension and retiree health funds are each 100% funded; amend KRS 161.420 to conform.
Jason Petrie (R) Josh Bray (R) Adam Bowling (R)
signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 28, 2025

SB 25: AN ACT relating to oversight of government operations and declaring an emergency.

Amend KRS 103.200 to include multifamily housing developments of 48 units or more in the definition of "building" for sections related to industrial revenue bonds; and amend KRS 100.347 to limit who can appeal a final action concerning planning and zoning to owners of real property contiguous to a property whose status would be changed as a result of the final action.
Topics ✓ HousingSupports HousingAmends bond definition to include multifamily housing (48+ units) and limits zoning appeals, facilitating housing development and project approvals.85% confidence
Robby Mills (R) Don Douglas (R)
signed · Kentucky · House Mar 28, 2025

HB 684: AN ACT relating to elections.

Amend KRS 117.045 to allow a lesser number of precinct officers when the State Board of Elections has approved a county board of elections' precinct consolidation plan; amend KRS 117.065 to require the county board of elections to notify local boards of education of its intent to use school buildings as voting places by December 1 of each year; require the county board of elections to specify which school buildings will be used; amend KRS 117.066 to conform; allow a county board of elections to request an amendment to its previously submitted precinct consolidation plan if it is at least 56 days before a special election; amend KRS 117.076 to allow caregivers of voters qualified to cast an excused in-person absentee ballot due to age, disability, or illness to cast an excused in-person absentee ballot; amend KRS 117.085 to allow the county clerk to issue voters a mail-in absentee ballot; allow county clerks to issue another mail-in absentee ballot to voters; amend KRS 117.086 to allow the county clerk to dispose of video surveillance of ballot drop-boxes or receptacles after 60 days, upon compliance with the Kentucky Open Records Act, or the completion of an investigation or pending litigation; amend KRS 117.255 to remove the requirement that the county board of elections make the determination of whether a voter requires permanent voting assistance; require that voters requesting assistance on a permanent basis swear an oath; amend KRS 117.265 to change the deadline to file to run as a write-in candidate to the same deadline as the certification of candidates; prohibit certified lists of write-in candidates from being posted; allow voters to review a copy of the certified list of write-in candidates; amend KRS 117.275 to remove language regarding voting equipment that is no longer in use; amend KRS 117.355 to conform; amend KRS 117.383 to allow the video surveillance of hand-to-eye audits to be disposed after 60 days, upon compliance with the Kentucky Open Records Act, or the completion of an investigation or pending litigation; amend KRS 118.125 to require that the two voters signing a candidate's notification and declaration are of the same party and from the same district or jurisdiction as the candidate at the time of signing; amend KRS 118.165 to clarify when candidates shall file nomination papers; amend KRS 118.205 to require that a candidate's district number be listed with the Secretary of State rather than his or her residence; amend KRS 118.212 to conform; amend KRS 118.215 to require that a candidate's office and district number be provided to the county clerks rather than his or her residence; amend KRS 118.315 to clarify that a petitioner for the nomination of a candidate can sign more than one nominating form for the same office; amend KRS 118.387 to require the county clerk and Secretary of State to display a candidate's office and district number rather than his or her residence on their website; clarify that political affiliations shall only be listed online for partisan candidates; amend KRS 118.425 to establish the deadline for the certification of the total number of votes to the Secretary of State following the hand-to-eye audit; amend KRS 118A.140 to require the Secretary of State to record a candidate's office and district number rather than his or her residence; amend KRS 119.165 to clarify that any person who has been convicted of a felony and knowingly votes or attempts to vote shall be guilty of a Class D felony; amend KRS 158.070 to establish that school districts are not required to close if school buildings are used as voting places.
Jennifer Decker (R)
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