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Labor & Employment (Labor Standards)

Every labor & employment bill, vote, and legislator stance in Kentucky, automatically classified by Maddy, our AI policy reader.

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2026 Regular Session
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in committee · Kentucky · House Jan 29, 2026

HB 449: AN ACT relating to misclassification of employees.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to provide a remedy for employees misclassified as independent contractors; amend KRS 337.010 to define "independent contractor" and "misclassified"; repeal KRS 336.137, relating to marketplace contractors.
in committee · Kentucky · House Jan 21, 2026

HB 349: AN ACT relating to wages.

Amend KRS 337.010 to increase the applicable threshold of employees of retail stores and service industries from $95,000 to $500,000 average annual gross volume of sales for the employer; amend KRS 337.275 to incrementally raise minimum wage of hourly and tipped employees and require adherence to any future federal increase in excess of the new state wage rates; include anti-preemption language permitting local governments to establish minimum wage ordinances in excess of the state minimum wage.
in committee · Kentucky · House Jan 14, 2026

HB 210: AN ACT relating to wage transparency.

Amend KRS 337.010 to define "job posting" and "wage range"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require all employers to include the wages or wage range for the advertised position in any job posting; amend KRS 95A.250 and 337.020 to conform.
in committee · Kentucky · Senate Jan 6, 2026

SB 16: AN ACT relating to wages.

Amend KRS 337.010 to increase the applicable threshold of employees of retail stores and service industries from $95,000 to $500,000 average annual gross volume of sales for the employer; amend KRS 337.275 to incrementally raise minimum wage for employers to $15.00 an hour; include anti-preemption language permitting local governments to establish minimum wage ordinances in excess of the state minimum wage.
in committee · Kentucky · House Jan 21, 2026

HB 336: AN ACT relating to the establishment of minimum wages by local governments.

Amend KRS 65.016 and 337.275 to allow a local government to adopt and enforce an ordinance that requires a minimum wage at a rate higher than that found in KRS 337.275 for employers located within that government's jurisdiction.
Sub-Topics Labor Standards Minimum Wage Tags Local Government
in committee · Kentucky · House Jan 15, 2026

HB 270: AN ACT relating to wages.

Amend KRS 337.275 to raise the minimum wage for employers to $9.50 an hour beginning on the effective date of this Act and incrementally thereafter to $15 an hour beginning on July 1, 2030; raise the state minimum wage for tipped employees to $5 an hour beginning on the effective date of this Act.
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