Rep. Rachel Roarx

Maddy summaryHR 80 is a symbolic resolution recognizing March 2025 as Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month in Kentucky. It does not create new laws or allocate funding but formally acknowledges the contributions of individuals with developmental disabilities and promotes inclusive communities. The resolution includes statements affirming Kentucky's commitment to equality of opportunity, access, and the value of all citizens regardless of ability. It directs the House Clerk to send a copy to Representative Rachel Roarx. This is a procedural gesture with no direct policy impact on residents or services.

Create a new section of KRS 258.095 to 258.500 to require animal control officers to receive training on recognizing child abuse; amend KRS 620.030 to add animal control officers to the list of people with a duty to report dependency, neglect, or abuse of a child; provide that the Act may be cited as Kyan's Law.

Create new section of KRS 6.601 to 6.849 to prohibit sexual harassment by any legislator or legislative agent to a legislator, legislative, or legislative branch employee; define "sexual harassment."

Amend KRS 138.510 to allocate moneys to a newly created fund from the pari-mutuel racing tax distribution; create a new section of KRS Chapter 230 to establish a fund relating to local governments and administered by the Department for Local Government; and amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to share information relating to the calculation of the new fund's distribution.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish the 2026 toll relief tax credit; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the tax credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the department to report on the credit.

Maddy summaryHB 803 repeals Kentucky Revised Statute 338.062, which previously set occupational safety standards capped at federal levels and exempted public employees from certain state regulations. This bill directly affects how Kentucky enforces workplace safety rules, removing the federal cap on state standards and ending the specific exemption for public employees. The repeal is procedural, with no new standards or mechanisms added - only the removal of the existing statutory language. The bill is currently in committee review after its February 2025 introduction.

Amend KRS 403.720, relating to orders of protection, to define "coercive control" and "stalking"; amend the definition of "domestic violence and abuse" to include coercive control of a family member or member of an unmarried couple; amend KRS 456.010 to define "coercive control"; amend the definition of "dating violence and abuse" to include coercive control of a person with whom the perpetrator is or has been in a dating relationship; amend KRS 209A.122 to require the Administrative Office of the Courts to provide information on petitions for orders of protection where the basis of the petition is coercive control and whether parties to a petition for an order of protection were represented by a legal representative.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to allow a law enforcement officer to enter vacant and abandoned property to remove any person unlawfully occupying the property; specify when property shall be presumed vacant and abandoned; provide criminal and civil immunity to a law enforcement officer acting in good faith.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require the Kentucky Department of Veterans' Affairs to create and distribute a veterans' benefits and services document to employers and require employers to keep copies of a veterans' benefits and services document in a conspicuous and accessible place.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to define "safe storage depository" and require an owner or custodian of a firearm to store the firearm in a safe storage depository or render the firearm incapable of being fired using a gun-locking device; require an owner or other person lawfully in possession of a firearm or any person who sells ammunition to report the loss or theft of the firearm or ammunition to a law enforcement agency; amend KRS 237.990 to establish penalties for violations.