Rep. Jason Petrie

Amend KRS 48.020 to remove the requirement that the branch budget recommendation be certified together with the budget statements; amend KRS 48.040 and 48.050 to require the certain budget documents to be submitted on or before October 15 of each odd-numbered year; amend KRS 48.110 to require each branch budget recommendation and all supporting documentation to be submitted in a form and format cooperatively developed by each respective branch of government and the General Assembly and approved by the Legislative Research Commission; amend KRS 48.120 to require the Office of State Budget Director to submit official revenue estimates made by the consensus forecasting group by December 20 of each odd-numbered year; amend KRS 48.170 to allow each standing committee of each house or the Legislative Research Commission to request additional information and require the information be submitted within 14 days of the request; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 48 to conform.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 210 to define new terms; establish the mobile crisis services fund within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; establish requirements Community Mental Health Centers (CMHCs) must adhere to in order to apply for a loan; require the cabinet to determine the terms and conditions of each loan, review and adjudicate applications, monitor performance of each CMHC, and report to the Interim Joint Committee on Health, Welfare, and Family Services; require that the fund created be a trust and agency account, require moneys in the fund to be administered by the cabinet; provide that moneys remaining in the fund will accrue to the fund; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.

Create the Commonwealth West Healthcare Workforce Innovation Center to provide healthcare educational pathways to address the healthcare worker shortage; direct the center to be operated through a partnership of public and private organizations; direct the General Assembly to provide start-up funds to be administered through the Kentucky Community and Technical College System; direct KCTCS to provide reports to LRC; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.

Amend KRS 403.763 and 456.180 to enhance a second or subsequent violation of an order of protection to a Class D felony.

Urging Congress to take appropriate steps in mitigating cyberattacks and ransomware attacks.

Condemning Russia's unprovoked military aggression and invasion of the sovereign state of Ukraine.

Appropriate moneys to the Behavioral Health, Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities budget unit, within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, to provide inpatient psychiatric services within Hospital District IV; APPROPRIATION.

Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Darryl Owens.

Amend KRS 15A.020 to provide that the Department of Kentucky State Police shall be an independent agency within the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet; create new sections of KRS Chapter 16 to establish the Kentucky State Police Commission and the membership; provide that the Kentucky State Police Commission shall promulgate administrative regulations to create a competitive examination for applicants for employment and establish a list of eligible candidates for employment; provide that the Kentucky State Police Commission shall have the sole authority to appoint a commissioner of the Department of Kentucky State Police; amend KRS 16.050 to require that the biennial salary survey be provided to the Kentucky State Police Commission and to conform; provide for staggering of initial appointments to the commission.

Apply to Congress under the provisions of Article V of the Constitution of the United States for the calling of a convention of the states limited to proposing amendments to the Constitution of the United States that impose fiscal restraint on the federal government, limit the powers and jurisdiction of the federal government, and limit the terms of office for its officials and members of Congress; direct the Secretary of State to send copies of the joint resolution to certain federal and state officials; state that the application should be continuing until the legislatures of at least two-thirds of the states have made applications on the subject.