republic-os/legislation/us/states/ky/2025rs/hb-131.md

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Bill	AN ACT relating to firefighters' work schedules.	Amend KRS 95.500 to allow, absent a collective bargaining agreement, specified fire personnel to have schedules consisting of 48 hours on duty followed by 96 hours of off duty time; specify that collective bargaining agreements maintained by a city or urban-county government may control work hours in lieu of the specified schedules.	us/states/ky	Kentucky General Assembly	2025RS	HB 131	Kentucky HB 131 (2025RS)	bill	Cities Collective Bargaining Contracts Counties Counties Urban Fire Prevention Firefighters and Fire Departments Labor and Industry Local Government Workforce	enacted		3	19	2	2025-01-08T05:00:00+00:00	2025-03-17T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/e735cd05-8560-4298-9d72-3e4077a7adaa	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/25RS/hb131.html	9fe9bb6a0fc24c94d199571f2dc2072f05b602e598ec41280df2d2b6d71a030d	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ky

Kentucky HB 131 (2025RS) — AN ACT relating to firefighters' work schedules.

Amend KRS 95.500 to allow, absent a collective bargaining agreement, specified fire personnel to have schedules consisting of 48 hours on duty followed by 96 hours of off duty time; specify that collective bargaining agreements maintained by a city or urban-county government may control work hours in lieu of the specified schedules.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Acts Chapter 24 (committee substitute) — source
3. Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Pass — 95–0 (pass) · lower
• PASS HB 131 — 35–0 (pass) · lower

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2025-01-08T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in House introduction
• 2025-01-08T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H) referral-committee
• 2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00 to Local Government (H) referral-committee
• 2025-02-18T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) committee-passage
• 2025-02-19T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2025-02-21T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 25, 2025
• 2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 95-0 with Committee Substitute (1) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-26T05:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2025-02-26T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S) referral-committee
• 2025-02-28T05:00:00+00:00 to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S) referral-committee
• 2025-03-06T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar committee-passage
• 2025-03-07T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 12, 2025
• 2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 35-0 passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
• 2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
• 2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Governor
• 2025-03-17T04:00:00+00:00 signed by Governor (Acts Ch.24) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e735cd05-8560-4298-9d72-3e4077a7adaa. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).