Rep. Dan Fister

Amend KRS 158.1415 to require a school district to adopt health curricula that includes human growth and development instruction that meets specific criteria; set restrictions for the instruction that grants parents an opportunity to review materials and opt their child out of instruction; provide that the Act may be cited as the Baby Olivia Act.

Create a new section of KRS 186.400 to 186.640 to define "identity document" and "third-party entity"; require the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to establish procedures to allow third-party entities to apply to the Transportation Cabinet to be approved to accept applications for certain identity documents; set forth minimum standards for third-party issuance; and allow third-party entities to charge a fee for services provided.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 41 to define "occupational license fee" and "system"; require the Office of the State Treasurer to develop and maintain a web-based system for the centralized reporting, collection, and distribution of occupational license fees; establish requirements for the system; allow the State Treasurer to assess a fee on businesses using the system; establish requirements related to the web-based system for the State Treasurer and local taxing jurisdictions; create a working group to be chaired by the State Treasurer; require the working group to provide recommendations on creating a centralized system for modernizing the reporting, collection, and distribution of local business taxes and fees.

Maddy summaryHB 310 amends Kentucky law to permit Kentucky State University (KSU) to offer a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Integrated Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture. This specifically overrides a general prohibition in state law that previously barred comprehensive universities from granting PhD degrees. The bill directly affects KSU students and faculty by enabling the creation of this new graduate program, which addresses academic and workforce needs in sustainable agriculture. The legislation is currently pending in the House Postsecondary Education Committee after its introduction on February 4, 2025.

Amend KRS 311.772, relating to the intentional termination of life of an unborn human being, to define terms; establish criminal penalties and fines for a foreign sender who provides an abortifacient or abortion-inducing drug; establish a civil cause of action that is available to a woman who receives an abortifacient; establish available relief; amend KRS 218A.100 to include abortifacients and abortion-inducing drugs as Schedule IV controlled substance.

Amend KRS 37.170 to create the Kentucky Emergency Volunteer Corps (KEV Corps) within the Kentucky State Defense Force; create a new section of KRS Chapter 37 to detail KEV Corps eligibility, supervision, training requirements, uniform details, and prohibitions and to create the KEV Corps fund; amend KRS 39B.030 to permit the local emergency management director to use the KEV Corps during a local disaster or emergency; amend KRS 39B.050 to include the KEV Corps as a part of the local disaster and emergency services organization; amend KRS 39B.070 to permit each city, urban-county government, or charter county government the use of the KEV Corps.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to create the vaping settlement trust fund to be administered by the Office of the Attorney General; direct the deposit of certain litigation proceeds into the fund; direct the allowable use of fund moneys for certain youth vaping prevention and cessation efforts.

Amend KRS 164.295 to permit Murray State University to offer doctor's degrees required for professional practice and licensure in veterinary medicine.

Amend KRS 141.019 to exclude all distributions from military pension plans received by retired members of the United States military and National Guard and their surviving spouse or former spouse under a survivor benefit plan from income taxation for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, but before January 1, 2030; require reporting by the Department of Revenue; amend KRS 131.190 to conform.

Amend KRS 139.495 to exempt purchases and sales of tangible personal property, digital property, or services made by qualifying resident nonprofit educational, charitable, or religious institutions from state sales and use taxes.