KY-HB4-2025
Kentucky · HB 4 · 2025
AN ACT relating to initiatives regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion.
- Bill key
- KY-HB4-2025
- State
- Kentucky
- Session
- 2025
- Introduced
- Last recorded status
- passed
- Citation (Bluebook)
- H.B. 4, 2025 Gen. Assemb., Reg. Sess. (Ky. 2025) (enacted), https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/25RS/hb4.html.
- Short citation
- Ky. H.B. 4.
- Enacted as
- delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 120)
- Topics
- Tags
Summary
AN ACT relating to initiatives regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion.
Curator notes
We're banning DEI for public colleges, but you can still sort people by "biological sex" for housing and bathrooms in public colleges if you want, NBD. You don't _have to_, but this bill won't _stop_ you.
Sponsors
| Name | Party | Office | District | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jennifer Henson Decker | Republican | Representative | HD-058 | Primary sponsor |
24 co-sponsors
| Name | Party | Office | District | Role |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Matt Lockett | Republican | Representative | HD-039 | Co-sponsor |
| Shane Baker | Republican | Representative | HD-085 | Co-sponsor |
| Emily Callaway | Republican | Representative | HD-037 | Co-sponsor |
| Josh Calloway | Republican | Representative | HD-010 | Co-sponsor |
| Daniel Elliott | Republican | Representative | HD-054 | Co-sponsor |
| Daniel Fister | Republican | Representative | HD-056 | Co-sponsor |
| Jim Gooch | Republican | Representative | HD-012 | Co-sponsor |
| David Hale | Republican | Representative | HD-074 | Co-sponsor |
| Mark Hart | Republican | Representative | HD-078 | Co-sponsor |
| John Hodgson | Republican | Representative | HD-036 | Co-sponsor |
| Mary Imes | Republican | Representative | HD-005 | Co-sponsor |
| Kim King | Republican | Representative | HD-055 | Co-sponsor |
| Chris Lewis | Republican | Representative | HD-029 | Co-sponsor |
| Candy Massaroni | Republican | Representative | HD-050 | Co-sponsor |
| Shawn McPherson | Republican | Representative | HD-022 | Co-sponsor |
| Jason Nemes | Republican | Representative | HD-033 | Co-sponsor |
| Marianne Proctor | Republican | Representative | HD-060 | Co-sponsor |
| T.J. Roberts | Republican | Representative | HD-066 | Co-sponsor |
| Nancy Tate | Republican | Representative | HD-027 | Co-sponsor |
| James Tipton | Republican | Representative | HD-053 | Co-sponsor |
| Timmy Truett | Republican | Representative | HD-089 | Co-sponsor |
| Billy Wesley | Republican | Representative | HD-091 | Co-sponsor |
| Mitch Whitaker | Republican | Representative | HD-094 | Co-sponsor |
| Richard White | Republican | Representative | HD-099 | Co-sponsor |
Hearings
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Hearings that name or list this bill
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Watch the video of the Senate Education Committee hearing on March 10, 2025
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House Postsecondary Education Committee
Watch the video of the House Postsecondary Education Committee hearing on March 4, 2025
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Senate Health Services Committee
Watch the video of the Senate Health Services Committee hearing on March 12, 2025
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Watch the video of the Senate Education Committee hearing on March 6, 2025
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House Primary and Secondary Education Committee
Watch the video of the House Primary and Secondary Education Committee hearing on March 5, 2025
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Senate Health Services Committee
Watch the video of the Senate Health Services Committee hearing on March 5, 2025
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House State Government Committee
Watch the video of the House State Government Committee hearing on February 13, 2025
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House Primary and Secondary Education Committee
Watch the video of the House Primary and Secondary Education Committee hearing on February 12, 2025
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House Postsecondary Education Committee
Watch the video of the House Postsecondary Education Committee hearing on February 11, 2025
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Bill text
- As introduced (90,812 characters) · Open the printed bill (PDF)
- As enrolled or final (82,575 characters) · Open the printed bill (PDF)
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