Rep. Ken Upchurch

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 132 to exempt federally documented vessels from property taxation; create new sections of KRS Chapter 235 to establish the waterway usage fee and the distribution of revenue generated from the fee; establish the waterway usage fund; create a new section of KRS Chapter 148 to establish the Kentucky lakes and rivers tourism fund; require grants of money from the fund to go to marinas qualifying through an application process; amend KRS 235.990 to establish a penalty for nonpayment of the waterway usage fee; amend KRS 235.999 and 150.160 to distribute the money collected from the penalty; amend KRS 132.020 and 132.200 to make conforming changes; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2024; APPROPRIATION.

Amend KRS 148.0211 to include gender-neutral pronouns.

Amend KRS 189.340, regarding passing and overtaking of vehicles on the roadway, to prohibit traveling in the left-most lane of an interstate or limited access highway with multiple lanes of travel in each direction at a speed lower than the posted maximum speed limit; provide exceptions; amend KRS 189.990 to set a fine of $25 for a violation; make fine prepayable; exempt violations from the payment of court costs or other fees imposed under KRS Chapter 24A.

Amend KRS 260.852 and 260.858 to prohibit production of intoxicating hemp-derived products; amend KRS 260.850 and 218A.010 to conform.

Adjourn the Senate and honor and loving memory of the 39 victims of the flooding in Eastern Kentucky.

Amend KRS 434.415 to define the terms "airbag," "counterfeit supplemental restraint system component," "nonfunctional airbag," and "supplemental restraint system"; prohibit the use of counterfeit airbags or components; set forth penalities for the use of counterfeit airbags or components; set forth exception.

Amend KRS 16.052 to increase state trooper salaries.

Amend KRS 186A.100 and 186A.105 to extend the term of temporary tags for motor vehicles from 30 to 60 days.

Create a new sections of KRS Chapter 199 to create the Employee Child-Care Assistance Partnership program; define terms; obligate the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to administer the program; establish reporting requirements; establish a fund for the program; authorize the cabinet to administer the fund; direct the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to effectuate the program; establish program requirements for employers and employees; establish requirements for both permissive and mandatory termination of the program contract; permit the Cabinet for Economic Development to condition program requirements on participation in this program; amend KRS 199.990 to include a penalty; cite as the Employee Child-Care Assistance Partnership; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.

Amend KRS 218A.1410, 218A.1412, and 218A.142 to enhance the penalty for importing or trafficking carfentanil, fentanyl, or fentanyl derivatives from a minimum of 50 percent of the sentence served to a minimum of 85 percent of the sentence served and establish prohibition against the use of pretrial diversion for those criminal offenses.