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Kentucky · 2025 Regular Session · Bill

SB 162: AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance.

Enacted Official data

  1. Introduced
  2. In committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both chambers
  5. Enacted

Last official action: ·Record last updated:

Plain-language summary

SB 162 is a bill introduced in the Kentucky Senate on February 13, 2025. According to its official title, it concerns: AN ACT relating to unemployment insurance. Most recent recorded action (March 24, 2025): signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 52).

Generated automatically from the official title, sponsor list, and status record only. It does not characterize the bill’s purpose or effects. How summaries are written

Official summary

Abstract published by the legislature (via Open States). Text as published by the legislature; reproduced verbatim.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 341 to require the Education and Labor Cabinet to refer suspected unemployment insurance fraud cases to the United States Department of Justice, the Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet, and the county attorney or Commonwealth's attorney within 30 days of the suspected fraud determination; require that public agencies immediately terminate employees or contractors determined to have collected or attempted to collect unemployment benefits while employed by the public agency; do not require a legal disposition finding that the employee or contractor is guilty in order for public agencies to terminate employment; provide that collecting or attempting to collect unemployment benefits while employed by or under contract with the cabinet shall be a breach of any collective bargaining agreement, civil service process, or contract; amend KRS 341.370 to require that a worker be disqualified from receiving benefits for any week they are under investigation for suspected unemployment insurance fraud; require the disqualification to remain in effect until an investigation determines that a fraudulent act has not occurred; amend KRS 341.360 to conform.

Sponsors

NameRolePartyChamberDistrict
No sponsor recorded in source data.

“Support” is shown only as formal sponsorship recorded by the legislature. Roll-call votes are available on the official bill page.

Recent official actions

  1. signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 52)
  2. delivered to Governor
  3. enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
  4. enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
  5. passed 33-2
  6. Senate concurred in House Floor Amendment (4)
  7. passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day
  8. posted for passage for concurrence in House Floor Amendment (4)
  9. to Rules (S)
  10. received in Senate
  11. 3rd reading, passed 91-0 with Floor Amendment (4)
  12. posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 13, 2025

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Sources

  1. Open States / Plural (data from the official legislature website)
  2. Official legislature source