Rep. Steven Rudy

Maddy summaryHB 1 reduces Kentucky's individual income tax rate from 4% to 3.5% for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026. This change directly affects all Kentucky residents who file individual income tax returns. The bill permanently lowers the rate for the specified tax years, with the reduction taking effect after a review process that confirmed fiscal conditions were met. Governor Andy Beshear signed the bill into law on February 6, 2025 (Acts Ch. 1), making it effective for 2026 tax filings.

Amend KRS 237.109 to lower the age requirement for carrying a concealed and deadly weapon from 21 to 18; amend KRS 237.110 to conform; make technical corrections.

Amend KRS 164.295 to permit Murray State University to offer doctor's degrees required for professional practice and licensure in veterinary medicine.

Amend KRS 164.295 to permit Eastern Kentucky University to offer doctor of osteopathic medicine degrees required for professional practice and licensure in osteopathic medicine.

Provide that when the House of Representatives and the Senate adjourn the first part of the 2025 Regular Session, they adjourn until February 4, 2025, when the second part of the 2025 Regular Session shall convene.

Maddy summaryThis is a procedural resolution (HR 4) for Kentucky's 2025 Regular Session. It directs the House Speaker to appoint a committee to join a Senate committee in formally informing the Governor that the General Assembly is ready to receive his messages. The resolution serves as a routine legislative courtesy at the start of a session, with no substantive policy changes or direct impact on the public. It follows standard practice for the legislature to invite the Governor to address lawmakers.

Maddy summaryThis resolution formally confirms the certified election results for Kentucky's 2025 State House of Representatives membership. It accepts the Secretary of State's election certificates and lists all 100 elected representatives by district, as required by the Kentucky Constitution. The resolution does not create new policies or affect any legislation - it simply establishes the official membership for the upcoming legislative session. It was adopted by voice vote on January 7, 2025.

Maddy summaryThis resolution (HR 3) directs Kentucky's House of Representatives to invite pastors from Frankfort churches to open daily sessions of the 2025 legislative session with prayer. It affects the House's procedural opening rituals, not policy outcomes. The key mechanism requires the Sergeant-at-Arms to extend this invitation, with no financial or regulatory changes. As a procedural resolution, it focuses solely on the format of legislative sessions.

Maddy summaryThis resolution adopts the operational rules for the Kentucky House of Representatives' 2025 legislative session. It establishes procedures for meetings (including remote voting verification), quorum requirements, the order of business (like roll calls and bill introductions), and motion handling. These rules directly affect all House members during the 2025 session. As a procedural resolution, it sets the framework for how legislative business is conducted, not substantive policy.

Repeal and reenact KRS 157.069 to define terms; require the Office of Career and Technical Education within the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) to identify career and technical education programs or pathways as high cost or general cost; provide for a funding calculation from general fund appropriations for career and technical education based 60% upon weighted full-time equivalents enrollment and 40% upon specified incentives; provide for state-operated area technology center operating costs to be funded by the general fund appropriation to KDE; allow funds to be used for career and technical education programming for students in grades 5-8; disburse 75% of administrative operating funds previously designated to state-operated facility administrative costs that were converted to locally operated facilities to the locally operated facility and 25% to the career and technical education innovation and support fund for innovation and support of career and technical programs; create the career and technical education support fund; require the Office of Career and Technical Education to provide oversight of fund usage by recipients; require promulgation of necessary administrative regulations by Kentucky Board of Education; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2024; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.