Amend KRS 139.480 to exempt currency and bullion from sales and use tax; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2023.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 405 to establish definitions; provide for parental rights; establish that no governmental entity shall substantially burden the rights of parents unless required by a compelling governmental interest of the highest order and in the least restrictive means; establish specific rights of parents, with some limitations; provide that specific governmental employees shall not encourage or coerce a child to withhold information from a parent; recognize additional rights beyond those enumerated; require local boards of education or boards of directors of public charter schools to adopt specific policies to promote involvement of parents in education; allow the Kentucky Department of Education to provide consultation and model policies that shall not be binding on schools; require a report from the Kentucky Department of Education on the consultation and model policies provided to schools; require obtaining parental consent prior to procuring, soliciting to perform, arranging for the performance of, providing a referral for, or providing medical or mental health services to a child; require verification of identity for remote parental consent; establish limits of the applicability of the requirement; establish a cause of action for violation; establish terms and conditions for the cause of action; waive sovereign, governmental, and qualified immunity; specify applicability; amend KRS 160.715 to provide a procedure for requesting, inspecting, and reviewing specific information held by a school district or public charter school; and amend KRS 214.185 to establish the conditions required for providing medical or mental health services to a minor without consent of the parent or legal guardian; EMERGENCY.
Establish KRS Chapter 239 and create new sections to define terms; create the Kentucky Gaming Commission and attach it to the Public Protection Cabinet for administrative purposes; establish requirements for the commissioner and members on the commission; authorize the commission to establish and maintain an office in Frankfort; require the Auditor of Public Accountants to perform an annual audit of the commission; require the commission to promulgate administrative regulations to establish standard forms for the reporting of financial conditions, operational results, gross gaming receipts and adjusted gaming receipts, the amount of prizes paid during specific reporting periods, require periodic financial reports, require annual audits of the financial statements of all licensees regulated under this chapter; authorize the Governor to appoint an executive director; establish qualifications for an executive director of the commission; establish certification requirements for skill games; establish application requirements; authorize the commission to promulgate administrative regulations to establish criminal history checks for applicants; establish fees for initial and renewal license application fees; require decals to appear on every licensed skill game; allow the commission to grant, deny, suspend or revoke a license; allow a license to be transferable subject to the transferee's ability to satisfy all requirements; prohibit the distributor, operator, and establishment from holding multiple licenses; limit an establishment to two terminals per five hundred square feet of public floor common space; limit an establishment to five terminals overall; limit a truck stop to 10 terminals; require terminals to be placed in public floor space visible to patrons and employees; prohibit anyone under the age of 18 from playing a skill game; require an establishment to post problem gaming signage; require all gross profits from a skill game to be subject to a 6% tax; provide penalties for regulated; establish requirements for initial licensure of members on the commission; APPROPRIATION.
Amend KRS 158.305 to require superintendents and public charter school boards to adopt a common comprehensive reading program that is determined by the department to be reliable, valid, and aligned to required reading and writing standards.
Amend KRS 341.125 to add gender-neutral language.
Amend KRS 211.190 to make water fluoridation programs optional; allow the governing bodies of water systems subject to regulation by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to decide whether they participate in water fluoridation programs; provide that a water fluoridation program in place on the effective date of the Act continues until action is taken by its governing body to end its participation; provide that any decision regarding participation in a water fluoridation program made by the governing body of a water system shall be binding on all water systems it supplies.
Amend KRS 164.348 to define "institution," "public," and "staff"; require an institution to adopt a policy to not restrict off-campus speech; extend free speech protections to the public; provide that student religious and political organizations shall be afforded equal access to facilities; provide that authority vested with a student organization to distribute student organization funding shall be contingent on viewpoint-neutral distribution of those funds; reduce institution's authority to establish permit requirements; specify how an institution defines student-on-student harassment; waive immunity for claims brought under the Act; permit disciplinary action against a faculty member or administrator that knowingly and intentionally restricts the protected speech of another; suspend the distribution authority of a student organization that does not distribute student organization funding in accordance with the Act; prohibit retaliation against campus community members; require Council on Postsecondary Education to develop free speech instructional materials and model trainings for institutions; require institutions to present free speech instructional materials and trainings to designated individuals; require institutions to publish semiannual student organization funding reports; designate the required contents of the semiannual student organization funding report; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to limit the jurisdiction of an institution over associations, groups, or organizations not affiliated with the institutions.
Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the Greg "Slim" Hearn Memorial Highway in Grant County.
Amend KRS 216B.020 to exempt any group of three contiguous counties from obtaining a certificate of need if each county borders another state and each county has a population of 90,000 or more according to the most recent federal decennial census.
Amend KRS 322.040 to allow a graduate from an engineering program of at least 4 years accredited by the Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology to sit for the Principles and Practice of Engineering Examination.
