The Kentucky Chamber of Commerce has released its 2025 Legislative Agenda detailing priorities for growth for the upcoming session of the Kentucky General Assembly.
The business community’s focus for the upcoming legislative session includes advocating for policies that will help make Kentucky the best state in the nation to live, work, and do business.
“Our state policymakers have demonstrated foresight and dedication to laying a solid foundation for success, and the Kentucky Chamber is committed to building on this momentum to accelerate our state’s growth to new heights,” said Kentucky Chamber President and CEO Ashli Watts. “But first, we have to address the challenges and leverage the opportunities that we face as a Commonwealth.”
The Chamber’s priorities for growth during the 2025 Legislative Agenda include:
- Grow Kentucky’s jobs, population, and workforce through tax reform.
- Foster economic development and increase Kentucky’s housing supply.
- Improve Kentucky’s legal liability climate.
- Help employers grow their businesses through key workforce solutions:
- Child care: Focus on increasing access to affordable and high-quality child care.
- Housing: Implement strategies to ensure working Kentuckians have access to housing options and support their ability to participate in the workforce.
- Infrastructure and transportation: Invest in high-quality and high-impact infrastructure and transportation projects.
- Benefits cliff: Continue identifying solutions that provide smooth off-ramps for public assistance recipients seeking career advancement, new jobs, and pay increases.
- Fair chance employment and substance use disorder: Supporting fair chance employment for those who are in recovery or justice-involved and reduce liability concerns for employers.
- Education: Continue making strategic investments in K-12 and postsecondary education.
- Health outcomes: Improve health outcomes by reducing smoking rates, encouraging utilization of wellness programs, supporting efforts to fight substance use disorder, and ensuring wide access to high-quality health care services.
- Workforce training: Focus on continual improvements to workforce training.
The Chamber’s legislative agenda is developed by several policy councils comprised of member businesses, with final approval given by the organization’s Board of Directors. Click here to download the full 2025 Legislative Agenda.
The 2025 Legislative Preview, presented by Westlake, is on November 18 at Central Bank Center in Lexington, where Kentucky’s most prominent legislators and business leaders will discuss education and workforce, budget and revenue, emerging technologies, health care, energy and environment, and more topics highlighted in the Kentucky Chamber’s Legislative Agenda. Register to attend Legislative Preview here.