Amend KRS 161.155 to require school districts to provide a teacher or employee leave with no loss of income or benefits for 60 school days following an assault against the teacher or employee that results in a physical injury; define the terms of the leave; require the school district to pay for mental health services of the teacher or employee's choosing during the leave period; amend KRS 158.150 to require a local board of education to adopt a policy requiring expulsion when a student physically assaults or batters school personnel; provide that the policy may permit case-by-case exceptions with the consent of the victim; permit the safety of school personnel to be a factor in issuing suspensions and expulsions of primary school students; amend KRS 158.154 to remove the requirement that a physical injury be serious to require a principal to report an assault to law enforcement; amend KRS 158.155 to require mandatory reporters to report assault, batteries, and abuse of school personnel and students on school property.
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Amend KRS 121.015 to define "expenditure"; amend KRS 121.150 to prohibit candidates, slates of candidates, committees, contributing organizations, or anyone on their behalf from making an expenditure to an intermediary, including subcontractors, for the purpose of making a payment to another person; require that expenditures are made directly to the provider of goods or services.
Amend KRS 83A.130, 83.140, and 83A.150 to require a city's legislative body to create an agenda prior to every meeting that is distributed to members of the body at least 72 hours prior to the meeting and made available to the public at the time of the meeting.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 365 to define terms; prohibit a person from soliciting residential property owners with a prohibited advertisement, offering value in exchange for inspecting residential property owners' roof, or making an insurance claim for damage to the residential property owners' roof, interpreting the residential property owners' insurance policy without a license, and failing to provide a good faith estimate agreeing to repairing a residential property owners' roof pursuant to a property insurance claim; create an exemption when Kentucky is declared to be in a state of emergency.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 342 to set out when the psychological injuries are valid workers' compensation claims when no physical injury exists; amend KRS 342.0011 to clarify definition of "injury" to include psychological injuries experienced by educators.
Amend KRS 121.015 to define "campaign consultant"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 121 to establish the registration process for campaign consultants; set penalty for failure to register; require employers of campaign consultants to pay a registration fee.
Amend KRS 186.531 to eliminate fees for personal identification cards; amend KRS 186.400, 186.403, and 186.4101 to conform.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 to provide an enhanced term of imprisonment for any defendant convicted of certain crimes when the defendant intentionally selected the person because of that person's actual or perceived race, color, ethnicity, national origin, religion, mental or physical disability, gender identity or expression, or sexual orientation; amend KRS 15.334 and 17.1523 to conform; create new section of KRS Chapter 508 to create the offense of using hate symbols to intimidate; repeal KRS 49.320 and 532.031.
Declare support for the admission of Washington, D.C., as a state and urge the Congress of the United States to enact legislation authorizing statehood.
Amend KRS 344.010 to define "source of income"; and amend KRS 344.360, 344.367, and 344.370 to forbid housing discrimination based on an individual's source of income.