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Kentucky · 2026 Regular Session · Bill

SB 225: AN ACT relating to regulation of residential construction.

Passed one chamber 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 225 is a bill introduced in the Kentucky Senate on February 23, 2026. According to its official title, it concerns: AN ACT relating to regulation of residential construction. Most recent recorded action (March 17, 2026): to Committee on Committees (H).

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.

Amend KRS 198B.030 to require the Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction to consider the effects of any proposed new or amended regulation on residential construction by conducting a cost-benefit analysis and an analysis to determine the impacts on the amount of residential construction; require the analyses to be submitted to the Housing, Buildings and Construction Advisory Committee and the Legislative Research Commission; establish a moratorium on the Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction altering or amending any state code in a way that would result in an increase in residential construction costs until January 1, 2029.

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. to Committee on Committees (H)
  2. received in House
  3. 3rd reading, passed 38-0 with Committee Substitute (1)
  4. posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 13 2026
  5. reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1)
  6. returned to State & Local Government (S)
  7. 1st reading
  8. taken from State & Local Government (S)
  9. to State & Local Government (S)
  10. to Committee on Committees (S)
  11. introduced in Senate

Sources

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