Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to establish definitions; require specific parental notifications from public schools; require school districts to adopt specific procedures related to parental rights; limit authority of the Kentucky Board of Education and Kentucky Department of Education in relation to parental rights and a student's use of pronouns; prohibit district or school policies with the intent of keeping student information confidential for parents; prohibit a school district from requiring school personnel or pupils to use pronouns for students that do not conform to that student's biological sex; provide school districts and district personnel authority to seek emergency medical services for a student; provide conditions for student confidentiality; amend KRS 158.1415 to establish requirements for any public school's course, curriculum, or program on the subject of human sexuality.
Create a new section of KRS 65.8801 to KRS 65.8839 to allow cities that have chosen to use their own collection procedure for the collection of property taxes to place unpaid code enforcement liens on the property tax bill; establish certain requirements for the lien and make provisions for the collection of the unpaid or delinquent lien; amend KRS 91.481 to include any city adopting these provisions within the definition of "collector."
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define "harmful to minors"; require local boards of education to adopt a complaint resolution policy to address parent complaints about materials that are harmful to minors; require the school to ensure that a student whose parent has filed a complaint does not have access to the material; require the Kentucky Department of Education to promulgate model complaint resolution policy; EMERGENCY.
Amend various sections of KRS 148.258 to 148.320 to reorganize the Kentucky Horse Park and the duties and functions of the commission; create new sections of KRS 148.258 to 148.320 to establish methods for procurement and authorize the issuance of revenue bonds.
Amend KRS 177.074 to require the Transportation Cabinet Secretary, upon passage of a joint resolution of the General Assembly, to direct the placement of signs denoting inclusion of an artist as an honoree on the Country Music Highway on United States Route 23; amend KRS 186.240 to identify the mottos and slogans that may appear on a standard issue motor vehicle license plate; amend KRS 186.240 (Effective January 1, 2024) to conform.
Create new sections of Subchapter 12 of KRS Chapter 154 to define "advisory committee," "applicable agency," "applicant," "consumer," "demonstrate," "director," "innovation," "innovative offering," "offering," "product," "production," "regulatory relief office," "regulatory sandbox," "sandbox participant," "secretary," and "service"; establish the General Regulatory Sandbox Advisory Committee; establish the Kentucky Office of Regulatory Relief; create the General Regulatory Sandbox Program; establish the application process and requirements to apply to the sandbox; give an applicant that is accepted into the sandbox 12 months to demonstrate the offering identified in his or her application; establish the conditions upon which the regulatory relief office can terminate a sandbox participant's participation in the sandbox; require the secretary of the Cabinet for Economic Development to prepare and submit a written report to the General Assembly and LRC by October 1 of each year; amend KRS 12.020 to place the Kentucky Office of Regulatory Relief under the Office of the Secretary of the Cabinet for Economic Development; amend KRS 13A.250 to require each administrative body to provide in its fiscal note an explanation of the fiscal impact of the methodology and resources it used to determine the fiscal impact; amend KRS 304.3-705 to allow a person regulated under KRS 304.3-700 to 304.3-735 to participate in the regulatory sandbox if the person is not qualified to make an application under KRS 304.3-700 to 304.3-735.
Amend KRS 286.4-530 and 286.4-533 to modify permitted loan charges for consumer loan companies; make technical corrections.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to establish the Board of Education Nomination Committee, set requirements for appointees, and term limitations; amend KRS 156.148 to require the commissioner of education to be subject to Senate confirmation in accordance with KRS 11.160; require the commissioner of education to be subject to an annual review by the Kentucky Board of Education; provide that the commissioner of education shall serve for a defined employment contract term not to exceed 4 years; amend KRS 156.029 to prohibit ex officio and nonvoting members of the Board of Education from being represented by proxy at any meeting.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 278 to define terms; prohibit the Public Service Commission from approving a request by a utility to retire a coal-fired electric generator unless the utility demonstrates that the retirement will not have a negative impact on the reliability or the resilience of the electric grid or the affordability of the customer's electric utility rate; require the Public Service Commission to submit an annual report on retirements of electric generating units by December 1 to the Legislative Research Commission; EMERGENCY.
Amend KRS 336.180 to define "political activities," "candidate," "committee," "contributing organization," "contribution," "election," "electioneering communications," "fundraiser," "independent expenditure," "labor organization," "public employee," "slate of candidates," and "testimonial affair"; amend KRS 336.134 to prohibit any deduction from the wages of any public employee for any dues, fees, or charges associated with a labor organization or for political activities without a written authorization from the public employee; create new sections of KRS Chapter 336 to prohibit public employers from assisting a labor organization or other entity in collecting funds or financial information if the funds are to be used for political purposes; prohibit application of these restrictions if deductions were made under bargaining agreements entered into before the effective date of this Act; amend KRS 336.990 to create a penalty; EMERGENCY.
Amend KRS 304.5-150, relating to reinsurance treaties and contracts, to include gender-neutral language.
Create a new section of Subchapter 16 of KRS Chapter 224 to require the Energy and Environment Cabinet, when issuing permits under the Clean Water Act for discharges into outstanding state resource waters, to presume that water quality will be maintained if the permittee complies with technology-based effluent limitations for its industry or with species-specific protection measures imposed on its operations by another state or federal agency, give substantial weight to evidence that discharges from similar operations have not impacted the same or similar threatened or endangered species, not impose conditions that are more stringent than United States Fish and Wildlife Service requirements to protect a threatened or endangered aquatic organism or habitat, presume that compliance with numeric water quality standards applicable to the discharge shall constitute compliance with narrative water quality standards applicable to outstanding state resources waters that support threatened or endangered species; require the Energy and Environment Cabinet to clearly document its compliance with the requirements of the section in the fact sheet for the permit; provide that failure to clearly and adequately document compliance with the requirements of the section shall result in a stay in permit conditions for permits based on a narrative water quality standard for an outstanding state resource water upon the filing of a petition for an administrative hearing; amend KRS 224.10-225 to allow an applicant for a surface coal mining and reclamation operation to request for one stop shopping for environmental permits; provide that failure of the Energy and Environment Cabinet to adhere to the timelines for Clean Water Act permitting issuances shall constitute the making of a final determination, which shall allow the applicant to initiate an action in the Circuit Court for the county where the surface coal mining and reclamation operation is located or initiate an administrative hearing; define surface coal mining operations; amend KRS 224.16-050 to require the Energy and Environment Cabinet, when making a Clean Water Act Section 401 certification, to notify an applicant within 30 days of receiving an application if the application is incomplete; provide that if the application is incomplete, allow the applicant an additional 30 days to complete the application; provide that after receiving a complete application, the Energy and Environment Cabinet shall make a certification determination within 60 days; provide that if the certification determination is not made within 60 days, then the certification requirements are waived unless a time extension is otherwise agreed upon; provide that Clean Water Act Section 401 certifications shall be limited to water quality impacts from the discharge only; strike the requirement that the Governor must make a finding that the permitted activity would be in the best interests of the Commonwealth before the Energy and Environment Cabinet could engage in permitting and certification for the activity; prohibit the Energy and Environment Cabinet from delaying the issuance of a Clean Water Act permit based on the need or receipt of any other federal, state, or local permit or certification.
