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| Bill | AN ACT relating to retiree health provisions of the County Employees Retirement System. | Amend KRS 78.5536, relating to the County Employees Retirement System, to increase the nonhazardous and hazardous duty under age 65 retiree health subsidy to $40 and $50 per month for each year of service, respectively, for those members who meet the "career threshold" who began participating in the system on or after July 1, 2003, and who are eligible for a fixed-dollar retiree health subsidy not tied to the premium; extend the employee contribution used to fund retiree health benefits to include members who began participating in the system on or after July 1, 2003, and increase the current hazardous employee contribution rate to 2% of pay for those eligible for the fixed-dollar retiree health subsidy; make technical amendments regarding the retiree health premium reimbursement program to conform to current policy; provide that the amendments to the employee contributions shall be effective July 1, 2026; for calculation of the retiree health subsidy increase, provide that the change shall apply to service earned prior to the effective date of this Act by eligible members, including retirees, and shall prospectively be adjusted annually by the 1.5% increase currently provided in statute; provide that subsidies payable to impacted retirees shall begin on or after January 1, 2026, to coincide with the next health plan year; direct the Public Pension Oversight Board to continue to review the retiree health fund actuarial data and evaluate potential legislative options to address any future continued improvements in the funds; RETROACTIVE. | us/states/ky | Kentucky General Assembly | 2025RS | SB 10 | Kentucky SB 10 (2025RS) |
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enacted | 3 | 19 | 2 | 2025-02-11T05:00:00+00:00 | 2025-03-19T04:00:00+00:00 | openstates | ocd-bill/a9d0f4f4-f547-49a8-b44a-f66440fe7264 | https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/25RS/sb10.html | c9c090d715db74a764af5b2bdea81c4913401e78509b05aa23079d8e3fc931ea | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Kentucky SB 10 (2025RS) — AN ACT relating to retiree health provisions of the County Employees Retirement System.
Amend KRS 78.5536, relating to the County Employees Retirement System, to increase the nonhazardous and hazardous duty under age 65 retiree health subsidy to $40 and $50 per month for each year of service, respectively, for those members who meet the "career threshold" who began participating in the system on or after July 1, 2003, and who are eligible for a fixed-dollar retiree health subsidy not tied to the premium; extend the employee contribution used to fund retiree health benefits to include members who began participating in the system on or after July 1, 2003, and increase the current hazardous employee contribution rate to 2% of pay for those eligible for the fixed-dollar retiree health subsidy; make technical amendments regarding the retiree health premium reimbursement program to conform to current policy; provide that the amendments to the employee contributions shall be effective July 1, 2026; for calculation of the retiree health subsidy increase, provide that the change shall apply to service earned prior to the effective date of this Act by eligible members, including retirees, and shall prospectively be adjusted annually by the 1.5% increase currently provided in statute; provide that subsidies payable to impacted retirees shall begin on or after January 1, 2026, to coincide with the next health plan year; direct the Public Pension Oversight Board to continue to review the retiree health fund actuarial data and evaluate potential legislative options to address any future continued improvements in the funds; RETROACTIVE.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Introduced (filed) — source
- Acts Chapter 37 (committee substitute) — source
- Current/Final (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- PASS SB 10 — 35–0 (pass) · upper
- Final Passage — 94–0 (pass) · upper
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2025-02-11T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in Senate
introduction - 2025-02-11T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S)
referral-committee - 2025-02-13T05:00:00+00:00 to State & Local Government (S)
referral-committee - 2025-02-19T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
committee-passage - 2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules
reading-2 - 2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 21, 2025
- 2025-02-21T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 35-0
passage, reading-3 - 2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00 received in House
- 2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H)
referral-committee - 2025-02-28T05:00:00+00:00 to Local Government (H)
referral-committee - 2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
committee-passage - 2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules
reading-2 - 2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 13, 2025
- 2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 94-0
passage, reading-3 - 2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
- 2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
passage - 2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
passage - 2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Governor
- 2025-03-19T04:00:00+00:00 signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 37)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a9d0f4f4-f547-49a8-b44a-f66440fe7264. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).