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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to building trade professions."
description: "Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198B to allow on-the-job training equivalencies of internship and cooperative placement hours to count toward those hours needed to obtain licensure; require that the Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction recognize and honor the agreements toward licensure in the professions regulated by the department, including electricians, plumbers, and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2025RS"
identifier: "HB 54"
citation: "Kentucky HB 54 (2025RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Education", "Vocational", "Electricians", "Housing", "Building", "and Construction", "Licensing", "Occupations and Professions", "Plumbers and Plumbing"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2025-01-07T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-19T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/6bf726f0-a8f7-4380-9c42-d420b2a62d91"
source_url: "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/25RS/hb54.html"
source_hash: "7b2d3b743e23b33f9d3f715ac16e028ea622ed12bcd880c48ac33f3907365d01"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ky"]
---
# Kentucky HB 54 (2025RS) — AN ACT relating to building trade professions.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198B to allow on-the-job training equivalencies of internship and cooperative placement hours to count toward those hours needed to obtain licensure; require that the Department of Housing, Buildings and Construction recognize and honor the agreements toward licensure in the professions regulated by the department, including electricians, plumbers, and heating, ventilation, and air conditioning.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/25RS/hb54/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **Acts Chapter 34** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/25RS/documents/0034.pdf)
3. **Current/Final** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/25RS/hb54/bill.pdf)
## Votes
- PASS HB 54 — **370** (pass) · lower
- Pass — **884** (pass) · lower
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-01-07T05:00:00+00:00** introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-01-07T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (H) `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H) `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-13T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2025-02-14T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 18, 2025
- **2025-02-19T05:00:00+00:00** floor amendment (1) filed `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00** floor amendment (2) filed `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-02-21T05:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 88-4 with Floor Amendments (1) and (2) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (S) `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00** to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (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 37-0 `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
- **2025-03-19T04:00:00+00:00** signed by Governor (Acts Ch.34) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/6bf726f0-a8f7-4380-9c42-d420b2a62d91`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).