AN ACT relating to state personnel.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 64 to allow the State Treasurer, Auditor of Public Accounts, Secretary of State, Commissioner of Agriculture, and Attorney General to employ persons exempt from approval requirements of the classified service as deemed necessary or advisable to make and carry out policy; permit the State Treasurer, Auditor of Public Accounts, Secretary of State, Commissioner of Agriculture, and Attorney General to increase, by administrative order, the salary of any classified employee with status up to the midpoint of the grade of the employee's classification.

Actuarial Analysis Agriculture Attorney General Auditor of Public Accounts Personnel and Employment Public Officers and Employees Secretary of State State Agencies State Employees Treasurer

Introduced: January 7, 2026

Last action: April 15, 2026

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This bill would give several elected state officials — the State Treasurer, Auditor of Public Accounts, Secretary of State, Commissioner of Agriculture, and Attorney General — more flexibility in hiring and pay decisions. It would allow them to hire certain staff outside the standard state approval process and to raise the salaries of qualifying state employees up to a set midpoint within their pay grade. Who it may affect: state employees working under those five elected offices, and the officials themselves.

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