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Adjourned sine die. The bill was pending when the session ended, so it did not pass.

Last action · February 18, 2026

To Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H)

Introduced February 10, 2026

House

Adjourned Sine Die

2026 Regular Session

HB612

AN ACT relating to regulated substances and declaring an emergency.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 138 to define terms; impose a 4% state retail regulatory license fee on all alcoholic beverage sales to consumers by alcoholic beverage retailers; establish procedures and duties of retailers; establish KRS Chapter 243A and create new sections thereof to impose state wholesale regulatory license fees on alcoholic beverages, state retail regulatory license fees on kratom, hemp-derived, and cannabinoid products, and penalties for violations; set out regulatory license fee…

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This bill would overhaul how Kentucky taxes and regulates alcohol sales by replacing existing excise and wholesale taxes with new regulatory license fees charged at both the retail and wholesale levels, with those changes taking effect July 1, 2027. It also creates new fees on kratom, hemp-derived, and cannabinoid products, sets rules for local governments on how much they can charge through their own regulatory fees, and makes a range of changes to who can…

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