Samara Heavrin

Primary-sponsored HB 231 (2021 RS), enacted on 2021-03-29 (Acts Ch. 155) after the House and Senate overrode the Governor's veto, establishing unified Treasury accounting systems for the Commonwealth.

March 29, 2021For

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Primary-sponsored HB 310 (2021 RS), signed into law (Acts Ch. 175) on 2021-04-01, requiring notice and a hearing before the parole of Class D felony sex offenders.

April 1, 2021For

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Primary-sponsored HB 6 (2026 RS), which became law without the Governor's signature (Acts Ch. 146) on 2026-04-14, overhauling child-care policy with a graduated quality-rating system, licensed child-care microcenters, and third-party administration of ECAP.

April 14, 2026For

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Primary-sponsored HB 179 (2024 RS), signed into law (Acts Ch. 99) on 2024-04-05, authorizing paid family leave insurance in Kentucky.

April 5, 2024For

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Primary-sponsored HB 561 (2024 RS), signed into law (Acts Ch. 88) on 2024-04-05, creating the Certified Child Care Community Designation Program and making the Employee Child Care Assistance Partnership permanent.

April 5, 2024For

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Primary-sponsored HB 499 (2022 RS), signed into law (Acts Ch. 184) on 2022-04-08, creating the Employee Child Care Assistance Partnership (ECAP), a public-private child-care subsidy program.

April 8, 2022For

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Primary-sponsored HB 210 (2021 RS), signed into law (Acts Ch. 76) on 2021-03-23, requiring employers to give adoptive parents the same leave policies as birth parents and raising the covered child age from seven to ten.

March 23, 2021For

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Received the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce MVP Award for her child-care reform leadership during the 2026 Kentucky General Assembly.

June 16, 2026

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Primary-sponsored HB 424 (2026 RS), signed into law (Acts Ch. 77) on 2026-04-10, modernizing Kentucky social work licensure with student and trainee exemptions, multistate licensing, and background-check standards.

April 10, 2026

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Samara Heavrin serves as the incumbent State Representative for State House District 18 (2024) (in office as of the 2026 cycle).

January 13, 2025

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Received the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce MVP Award recognizing her work during the 2024 Kentucky General Assembly.

August 9, 2024

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Voted YEA on final House passage of HB 2 (2024 RS) on 2024-03-13 (65-32), the proposed constitutional amendment authorizing the General Assembly to fund non-public education; the amendment was later placed before Kentucky voters.

March 13, 2024

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Primary-sponsored HB 387 (2023 RS), signed into law (Acts Ch. 25) on 2023-03-20, updating statutes to reference the newly created legislative committees on Families and Children and Health Services.

March 20, 2023

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Primary-sponsored HB 276 (2020 RS), signed into law (Acts Ch. 42) on 2020-03-27, expanding special military license plate eligibility and veteran designations on operator's licenses.

March 27, 2020

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Primary-sponsored HB 331 (2020 RS), signed into law (Acts Ch. 65) on 2020-03-27, expanding Kentucky's education savings plan (KRS 164A.305) to cover registered-apprenticeship expenses and qualified student-loan repayment.

March 27, 2020

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