Kentucky House advances a broad slate of bills: stalking law update, pension fix, education and public-safety measures pass

FRANKFORT — Lawmakers in the Kentucky House on Thursday passed a broad set of bills spanning criminal law, pensions, education, business taxes and public safety in a largely procedural session that carried multiple committee substitutes and floor amendments.

Among the measures the chamber approved were an update to stalking statutes (HB 521), a technical change to pension-spiking rules (HB 220) including a floor amendment adjusting the effective date, an organ-donation safety bill allowing pauses in procedures when staff perceive signs of life (HB 510), and modernization of local occupational-license filing and collection (HB 518).

Other bills passed on the floor with committee substitutes or concise floor debate: measures on state surplus property procedures (HB 467), licensed child-care square-footage calculations (HB 190, which amends KRS 199.896), a type 1 diabetes awareness requirement for K–12 information distribution (HB 141), reestablishing an independent board for certified real-estate appraisers (HB 355), expanded PTSD and mental-health supports for search-and-rescue and first responders (HB 486), and a bill to allow limited reemployment of retired firefighters under safeguards (HB 589).

Vote tallies were recorded on several measures in the transcript: the House announced unanimous or near-unanimous passage on multiple bills (for example, HB 510 recorded 97 aye, 0 nay; HB 355 recorded 96 yay, 0 nay; HB 486 recorded 95 yay, 0 nay). For items where the transcript provided only the clerk's announcement that a bill "has passed," the transcript did not always include a clear, named roll-call in the passage announcement.

The House also introduced a large set of new bills and resolutions for first reading, including appropriations measures (HB 500 series) that will be considered by Appropriations and Revenue committee. The House adjourned to reconvene Thursday, Feb. 26, 2026.