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HB9 — HB9 — AN ACT relating to regulated substances and declaring an emergency.

State: Kentucky Committee: S Appropriations and Revenue Session: 2026 Regular Session
📃 Read bill text (Engrossed) 📄 State legislature page

Sponsors: R Jason Petrie, R Matthew Koch, R David Osborne

Subjects: Alcoholic Beverages, Auditor of Public Accounts, Contracts, Distilled Spirits, Drugs and Medicines, Effective Dates, Delayed, Effective Dates, Emergency, Fees, Foods And Beverages, Licensing, Local Government, Malt Beverages, Sunset Legislation, Taxation, Taxation, Sales and Use, Trade Practices and Retailing, Wine And Wineries

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Title: AN ACT relating to regulated substances and declaring an emergency.
Bill: HB9
Status:
Last action: floor amendments (1), (2) and (3) filed (2026-04-14)

Description:
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 138 to define terms; impose a 4% state retail regulatory license fee on all alcoholic beverage and cannabis-infused beverage sales to consumers by alcoholic beverage retailers; establish procedures and duties of retailers; impose state wholesale regulatory license fees on alcoholic beverages and cannabis-infused beverages and state retail regulatory license fees on kratom, hemp-derived, and cannabinoid products; set out regulatory license fee rates, deductions for timely filing and payment, and licensee duties; amend KRS 211.285 to fund the alcohol wellness and responsibility education fund with 0.5% of the collected state retail regulatory license fees; create a new section of KRS Chapter 217 to establish Department for Public Health laboratory and testing standards and procedures; amend KRS 241.010 to define “state or national conference” and redefine “alcoholic beverages”; amend KRS 241.069 to delete outdated language; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 243 to establish state license fees for new and existing license types; limit licensee discipline to only the specific license in question; establish a souvenir package license for distillers; authorize distillers, small farm wineries, and microbreweries to allow leashed dogs on their premises; allow caterers and special temporary auction licensees at state and national conferences; modify the privileges for various licensees, including a wholesaler, Class B distiller, and special agent or solicitor; add references to the new tax structure and statutes; modify requirements for public notice of a license application; sunset existing excise, wholesale, and other taxes on July 1, 2027, as they relate to alcoholic beverages and cannabis-infused beverages; repeal and reenact KRS 243.075, relating to local regulatory license fees, to allow any moist or wet city or county to impose the fee; authorize audits of each city’s or county’s regulatory license fee fund by the Auditor of Public Accounts for the most recent 10 years; describe audit penalties for cities and counties that fail to substantially comply; direct cities and counties to reduce the regulatory license fee to 3% within 4 years; limit future cities and counties to a 1% regulatory license fee; amend KRS 244.080 to permanently prohibit a retail license from using a premises if the licensee sold to minors at that premises 3 or more times in 24 months; amend KRS 244.585 to establish limitations for agreements between distributors and breweries or microbreweries; amend KRS 131.250, 139.010, 243.045, 243.430, 243.790, 243.850, and 243.990 to conform; EFFECTIVE, in part, July 1, 2027; EMERGENCY.

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Timeline

  1. 2026-04-14 [S] floor amendments (1), (2) and (3) filed
  2. 2026-03-31 [S] returned to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
  3. 2026-03-31 [S] 2nd reading
  4. 2026-03-31 [S] taken from Appropriations & Revenue (S)
  5. 2026-03-27 [S] returned to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
  6. 2026-03-27 [S] 1st reading
  7. 2026-03-27 [S] taken from Appropriations & Revenue (S)
  8. 2026-03-27 [S] to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
  9. 2026-03-11 [S] to Committee on Committees (S)
  10. 2026-03-11 [S] received in Senate
  11. 2026-03-10 [H] 3rd reading, passed 63-31 with Committee Substitute (1)
  12. 2026-03-10 [H] placed in the Orders of the Day
  13. 2026-03-10 [H] taken from Rules
  14. 2026-03-10 [H] reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1)
  15. 2026-03-09 [H] returned to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
  16. 2026-03-09 [H] 2nd reading
  17. 2026-03-09 [H] taken from Appropriations & Revenue (H)
  18. 2026-03-06 [H] to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
  19. 2026-03-06 [H] returned to Committee on Committees (H)
  20. 2026-03-06 [H] 1st reading
  21. 2026-03-06 [H] taken from Committee on Committees (H)
  22. 2026-03-04 [H] to Committee on Committees (H)
  23. 2026-03-04 [H] introduced in House

Roll call votes

DateChamberDescriptionYeaNayResult
2026-03-10 H House: Veto Override RCS# 228 63 31 Passed

Amendments

  • 0000-00-00 · H · Pending
    House Committee Substitute House Committee Substitute 1 · View
  • 0000-00-00 · H · Pending
    House Committee Substitute Local Mandate to House Committee Substitute 1 · View
  • 0000-00-00 · H · Pending
    House Committee Substitute Fiscal Note to House Committee Substitute 1 · View
  • 0000-00-00 · S · Pending
    Senate Floor Amendment Senate Floor Amendment 1 · View
  • 0000-00-00 · S · Pending
    Senate Floor Amendment Senate Floor Amendment 2 · View
  • 0000-00-00 · S · Pending
    Senate Floor Amendment Senate Floor Amendment 3 · View