Rep. C. Ed Massey

Amend KRS 508.080 to include gender-neutral language

Amend KRS 532.080 to make technical corrections and insert gender-neutral language.

Amend KRS 158.070 to allow school districts to remain open if an individual school within the district is used as a polling location for an election; permit a school district to include additional days within their nontraditional instruction plan for each school district that closes to allow schools in the district to be used as a polling place for an election.

Amend KRS 635.010 to make language gender-neutral.

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

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 150 to require the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to conduct all procurements necessary for its performance pursuant to KRS Chapter 45A or pursuant to administrative regulations it promulgates; provide that the department's procurement procedures or administrative regulations be designed with the best interests of the Commonwealth, the department, and the public in mind; allow the department to conduct its own bidding and procurements or to utilize the services of the Finance and Administration Cabinet, or both; allow the commissioner of the department, in lieu of the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet, to declare an emergency for purchasing purposes; amend KRS 150.021 to provide that the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources be attached administratively to the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet only for those limited functions and purposes expressly requested by the department; remove language making the powers conferred to the department by KRS Chapters 150 and 235 subject to KRS Chapters 42, 45, 45A, 56, and 64; require the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet to transfer to the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources all records, files, and documents associated with functions that the cabinet no longer performs for the department; exempt the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources from reorganization under KRS Chapter 12; amend KRS 150.022 to change references from wildlife districts to commission districts; make commission members' terms end on December 31 of the fourth calendar year following their appointments and until their successors are duly appointed and confirmed by the Senate; require that a member serve no more than two full terms, excluding any partial terms that a member may serve; provide that a member, including a member appointed prior to the effective date of the Act, shall not take office or act in an official capacity until confirmed by the Senate; provide that a person who has been convicted of a misdemeanor violation of game and fish laws of Kentucky, another state, or the United States shall not be eligible to serve on the Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission; require that a candidate to be a commission member have held hunting and fishing licenses for the previous five consecutive years; require that an appointment to the commission to replace a member whose term has expired be made no later than January 20 of the year following the year in which the term expired; require that member candidate lists for the Fish and Wildlife Resources Commission be submitted no later than January 1 of the year following the year in which the term for the commissioner to be replaced has expired; amend KRS 150.061 to make the commissioner the appointing authority for the department for the purposes of KRS Chapter 18A and to conform; amend KRS 235.030 to provide that the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources be attached administratively to the Tourism, Arts and Heritage Cabinet only for those limited functions and purposes expressly requested by the department; amend KRS 150.0241, 235.010, and 235.130 to conform; EMERGENCY.

Honor Kentucky farmers and recognize February 20 to 26, 2022, as Food Check-Out Week.

Create a subcommittee of the Interim Joint Committee on Judiciary to study revisions to the penal code; require report by December 1, 2022.

For taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2023, but before January 1, 2027, create a new section in KRS Chapter 141 to establish the community investment credit for financial institutions making loans to a community development financial institution; establish the annual credit cap at $20 million; require the Department of Revenue to report tax credit data to the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Legislative Research Commission to receive confidential data about the new tax credit from the Department of Revenue.

Amend KRS 81A.410 to prohibit city annexation of school property without the approval of the governing body of the public school system.