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signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 24, 2025

SB 4: AN ACT relating to protection of information and declaring an emergency.

Amend KRS 42.722 to define terms relating to artificial intelligence; amend KRS 42.726 to require the Commonwealth Office of Technology to establish and implement policy standards for the use of artificial intelligence; create a new section of KRS 42.720 to 42.742 to create the Artificial Intelligence Governance Committee; task the committee with the establishment of responsible, ethical, and transparent procedures for the allowable use, development, and approval of artificial intelligence for any department, program, cabinet, agency, and administrative body that uses and accesses the Commonwealth's information technology and technology infrastructure; require public disclosure of any use of artificial intelligence; provide employee education and training; prioritize personal privacy and protection of the data of individuals and businesses; require the Commonwealth Office of Technology to promulgate administrative regulations; amend KRS 117.001 to define "electioneering communication," "information content provider," "interactive computer service," "sponsor," and "synthetic media"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 117 to establish a cause of action for the use of synthetic media in an electioneering communication; establish an affirmative defense that the electioneering communication includes a conspicuous disclosure; provide that the sponsor of the electioneering communication may be held liable, but the medium and its advertising sales representative are not liable, except in certain circumstances; EMERGENCY.
Brandon Storm (R) Amanda Bledsoe (R)
signed · Kentucky · House Mar 24, 2025

HB 306: AN ACT relating to the licensing of professional engineers.

Amend KRS 322.040 to allow an individual to qualify for licensure as a professional engineer if he or she has graduated from a fire protection engineering technology program of four years or more accredited by the Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.
Rachel Roarx (D) Matt Koch (R) Richard White (R) David Meade (R) Chad Aull (D)
signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 24, 2025

SB 129: AN ACT relating to property.

Amend KRS 99.727 to define "diverted tax delinquency purchaser" and "third-party purchaser"; require a certificate of delinquency related to property remaining in a tax delinquency diversion program at the expiration of the program's five year period to be made available for purchase by third-party purchasers; allow diverted tax delinquency purchasers to purchase certificates of delinquency related to property included in a tax delinquency diversion program during the program's five year period; set requirements for the county attorney related to the sale of the certificates of delinquency; set requirements for a third-party purchaser registering as a diverted tax delinquency purchaser; require the Department of Revenue to promulgate administrative regulations for the purchase and sale of the certificates of delinquency; amend KRS 134.128 to conform.
Gerald Neal (D) Julie Adams (R) David Yates (D)
signed · Kentucky · House Mar 24, 2025

HB 701: AN ACT relating to blockchain digital assets.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 369 to define terms relating to blockchain technology; allow individuals to use digital assets and self-hosted wallets; prohibit local zoning changes that discriminate against a digital asset mining business; provide guidelines for operation of a node; amend KRS 286.11-007 to exclude home digital asset mining, digital asset mining business, and the operation of a node from money transmitter license requirements; amend KRS 292.340 to provide that digital asset mining or staking as a service shall not be deemed to be offering or selling a security.
T.J. Roberts (R) Adam Bowling (R)
signed · Kentucky · Senate Mar 24, 2025

SB 120: AN ACT relating to education.

Amend KRS 156.070 to require child dependency, neglect, and abuse information to be included in any interscholastic athletics participation consent form; require any training for interscholastic athletics administrators and coaches to include information about mandatory reporting duties for child dependency, neglect, and abuse.
Steve West (R) David Yates (D) Cassie Armstrong (D) Lindsey Tichenor (R)
signed · Kentucky · House Mar 24, 2025

HB 682: AN ACT relating to utility relocation.

Create new sections of KRS Chapters 175, 175.B, and 177 to afford cable operator and broadband providers the same rights as public utilities to reimbursement for the costs associated with relocation of their facilities in connection with a turnpike project or projects with public highways.
Ken Upchurch (R)
signed · Kentucky · House Mar 24, 2025

HB 152: AN ACT relating to a Medicaid supplemental payment program for public ground ambulance providers.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services to submit a Medicaid preprint to establish a supplemental payment program for public ground ambulance providers.
Jared Bauman (R) Daniel Grossberg (D) Ken Fleming (R) Chris Freeland (R) Al Gentry (D)
signed · Kentucky · House Mar 24, 2025

HB 342: AN ACT relating to financial literacy.

Amend KRS 158.1411 to require one credit in financial literacy during the eleventh or twelfth grade for students entering grade nine during or after the 2026-2027 school year; direct minimum topics to be covered in the course; direct that the financial literacy course be accepted as a math, social studies, or elective course graduation requirement; require the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Kentucky Financial Empowerment Commission, to determine which courses meet the financial literacy course requirement.
Sarah Stalker (D) Vanessa Grossl (R) Beverly Chester-Burton (D) Ken Fleming (R) Daniel Elliott (R)
signed · Kentucky · House Mar 24, 2025

HB 605: AN ACT relating to economic relief for local communities of the Commonwealth and declaring an emergency.

Amend KRS 154.14-020, relating to the GRANT Program, to redefine "eligible grant applicant," "eligible project," "eligible use," "GRANT program," "GRANT program fund," "regional project," and define "qualifying federal entity"; amend KRS 154.14-030 to make technical changes; amend KRS 154.14-040 to modify the dates of the Cabinet for Economic Development's review of grant applications and provide that obligation of funds shall be no more than 12 months with a possible six month extension; amend KRS 154.14-050 to make technical changes and allow community support evidence to come from the grant applicant or a majority of applicants for a regional project; amend KRS 154.14-060 to make technical changes and authorize the cabinet to transfer up to 10 percent of the funds remaining in the two categories of funds with notice to the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue or applicable standing; amend KRS 154.14-070 to make technical changes; repeal KRS 154.14-010 and 154.14-080; EMERGENCY.
Jason Petrie (R) Josh Bray (R) Adam Bowling (R)
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