Rep. Chad Aull

Establish KRS Chapter 245, relating to cannabis, to administer its cultivation, processing, transportation, sale, use, taxation, and licensing; define terms; establish the Cannabis Control Board and its membership, procedures, powers, and duties; direct the board to promulgate administrative regulations for the administration and enforcement of the chapter; set up advisory committees appointed by the board; create the Department of Cannabis Control within the Public Protection Cabinet for the oversight of cannabis operations and to provide administrative support for the board; establish various one-year business licenses under the chapter; grant administrative hearings under KRS Chapter 13B to appeal a license denial or revocation; forbid an employer from discriminating against applicants or employees who use cannabis outside of working hours as long as the use does not affect job performance; prohibit a person under the age of 21 from purchasing, possessing, consuming, or using cannabis; establish a revolving account called the "cannabis fund" to collect cannabis licensing fees, fines, excise taxes, and any other funds; form the Social Impact Council as a public agency authorized to distribute moneys from the cannabis fund; set council membership, procedures, powers, and duties; create new sections of KRS Chapter 138 to define terms; impose an excise tax at a rate set by the Cannabis Control Board on the first sale or transfer of harvested cannabis; establish excise tax reporting, collection, and liability; amend KRS 139.472 to exempt medical cannabis and accessories from sales and use taxes; create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to authorize local governments to levy up to a 5% license fee on the gross receipts of a retailer or microbusiness; allow overlapping local governments to agree to levy a combined license fee, with set fee amounts absent an agreement; amend KRS 2.015 to require a person to be 21 years of age or older to purchase cannabis and its products and accessories; create new sections of KRS 218A and amend KRS 218A.1421, 218A.1422, 218A.1423, and 218A.500 to exempt licensed cannabis activities from criminal marijuana offenses; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to allow a person to petition the court to expunge the person's misdemeanor marijuana offenses; amend KRS 431.079 to exclude the expungement petition from the certification of eligibility requirement; amend KRS 131.1815 to notify the Cannabis Control Board if a cannabis licensee is a delinquent taxpayer; amend KRS 600.020 to include cannabis offenses in the list of juvenile status offenses; amend KRS 12.020 to add the governmental entities created in KRS Chapter 245 to the list of executive branch government bodies; set initial terms for members of the Cannabis Control Board and Social Impact Council; apply the excise tax beginning on July 1, 2024, and allow cannabis sales beginning on July 1, 2025; Section 31 of Act RETROACTIVE; APPROPRIATION.

Amend KRS 194A.030 to place the Office of Safer Communities under the oversight of the Department for Public Health; create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to establish the Office of Safer Communities; appropriate $3,000,000 in fiscal year 2023-2024 to fund the office; APPROPRIATION.

Appropriate General Fund moneys for a salary supplement for all full-time school district employees; appropriate General Fund moneys to provide for universal preschool for all four-year-olds; appropriate General Fund moneys to provide funding for professional development for educators; appropriate General Fund moneys for textbooks and instructional resources; appropriate General Fund moneys to address social emotional learning and mental health for students and school staff; appropriate Restricted Funds to provide a student loan forgiveness program for teachers certified by the Kentucky Education Professional Standards Board and employed by Kentucky public schools; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.

Set out General Fund transfers to the State Salary and Compensation Fund, the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority, and the General Operations budget unit within the Personnel Cabinet; appropriate General Fund moneys to the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority and the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System; appropriate Restricted Funds to the General Operations budget unit within the Personnel Cabinet; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.

Appropriate General Fund moneys to support the Kentucky Chamber of Commerce's Talent Pipeline Management Program; APPROPRIATION.

Establish KRS Chapter 239 and create new sections to define “adjusted gross revenue,” “beginner,” “cabinet," “confidential information,” “entry fee,” “fantasy contest,” “fantasy contest operator," “fantasy contest participant," “highly experienced player,” “immediate family,” “location percentage,” “net poker revenue,” “online poker,” “person,” “principal stockholder,” “rake,” “registered fantasy contest operator,” “script,” “secretary,” and “wager”; establish requirements for registration as a fantasy contest operator; require the Public Protection Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations for the operation of fantasy contests; establish the wagering administration fund and direct the uses of that fund; require an annual audit of fantasy contest registrants; establish requirements for fantasy contest procedures; require any person offering online poker in the Commonwealth to have a license from the cabinet and require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations prescribing requirements for licensure including geolocation software, age verification, and security and accounting standards; amend KRS 230.210 to define "sports wagering"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 230 to require the racing commission to institute a system of sports wagering at tracks; limit the types of events upon which wagers may be placed; amend KRS 230.215 to declare the intent to allow citizens to enjoy sports wagering and allow the racing commission to promulgate administrative regulations prescribing conditions under which sports wagering is to be conducted; amend KRS 230.225, 230.240, and 230.260 to include sports wagering; create a new section of KRS Chapter 230 to establish sports wagering licensure requirements; amend KRS 230.320 to conform; amend KRS 230.361 to include sports wagering; amend KRS 230.3615 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 138 to define “adjusted gross income” and impose a tax on sports wagering; amend KRS 230.362, 230.363, 230.364, 230.365, 230.366, 230.369, 230.371, 230.372, 230.373, 230.374, and 230.750 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 230 to prohibit participants from wagering on events in which they participate and to prohibit tampering with the outcome of a sporting event; amend KRS 230.990 to provide penalties for participants who wager on sporting events or tamper with the outcome of a sporting event; amend KRS 243.500 to exempt sports wagering and online poker; amend KRS 525.090 to exempt sports wagering; amend KRS 528.010 to exempt fantasy contests, sports wagering, and online poker and the devices used in the conduct of those forms of wagering; amend KRS 528.020, 528.070, and 528.080 to exempt fantasy contests, sports wagering, and online poker; create a noncodified section to assert that the provisions of the Act are severable; APPROPRIATION.

Appropriate General Fund moneys to the Bowling Green Veterans Center capital project; set the average wholesale price of gasoline for fiscal years 2022-2023 and 2023-2024; appropriate General Fund moneys for the Biennial Highway Construction Program; appropriate General Fund moneys to the Revenue Sharing budget unit; appropriate General Fund moneys for training grants under the KCTCS-TRAINS Program; appropriate General Fund moneys to provide the additional resources necessary to implement House Bill 4 from the 2022 Regular Session; appropriate Restricted Funds to the Replace Unemployment Insurance System capital project; appropriate General Fund moneys for restoration of 90 staff positions to provide in-person services to unemployed persons to assist with their unemployment insurance claims at the 12 career centers across the state; appropriate General Fund moneys for a Talent Attraction Media campaign; appropriate Restricted Funds to the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority for a loan forgiveness program for social service workers in Kentucky state government; appropriate General Fund moneys to the Affordable Housing Trust Fund to be used in areas named in a Presidential Declaration of Emergency relating to the storms and tornadoes that occurred in December 2021 and flooding that occurred in July 2022; appropriate General Fund moneys to the City of Lancaster for the fire department substation; stipulate that Highway Construction Contingency Account moneys may be used for the promotion of economic or industrial development; appropriate General Fund moneys for repayment to the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for a portion of a Community Development Block Grant for economic development; stipulate that the Department of Corrections shall pay each contracted provider of substance abuse, mental health, and reentry centers for only those beds that are occupied by individuals assigned by the Department of Corrections; approve the Department of Parks' comprehensive statewide proposal; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.

Amend KRS 139.010 to define "feminine hygiene products"; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt from sales and use tax the sale or purchase of feminine hygiene products; apply to sales or purchases made on or after July 1, 2023, but before July 1, 2027; require the Department of Revenue to report annually to the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue the total exemptions claimed for the previous fiscal year on September 1; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report to the Legislative Research Commission.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 218A to define terms and establish a medicinal cannabis program; amend KRS 342.815 to establish that the Employer’s Mutual Insurance Authority shall not be required to provide coverage to an employer if doing so would subject the authority to a violation of state or federal law; amend KRS 139.470 to exempt the sale of medical cannabis from the state sales tax; amend KRS 138.870 to exempt medicinal cannabis from the excise tax on controlled substances; amend KRS 216B.402 to require hospital emergency departments to report cases of cannabinoid hyperemesis syndrome to the Department for Public Health; amend KRS 218A.010, 218A.1421, 218A.1422, 218A.1423, and 218A.500 to conform; amend KRS 12.020 to reestablish the Department for Alcoholic Beverage Control as the Department for Alcoholic Beverage and Cannabis Control; amend KRS 12.252, 15.300, 15.380, 15.398, 15.420, 15A.340, 61.592, 62.160, 131.1815, 211.285, 241.010, 241.015, 241.030, 243.025, 243.0307, 243.038, 243.090, 243.360, 438.310, 438.311, 438.313, 438.315, 438.317, 438.320, 438.325, 438.330, 438.337, and 438.340 to conform; appropriate $1,500,000 in fiscal year 2022-2023 for the creation of the Division of Medicinal Cannabis and the Division of Alcohol and Cannabis Enforcement; some sections EFFECTIVE July 1, 2023; APPROPRIATION.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 210 to define "sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts," "mental health professional," and "public funds"; prohibit mental health professionals from engaging in sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts with a person under 18 years of age, a person who is 18 years or older who is an adult as defined in KRS 209.020, or a ward as defined in KRS 387.510; require violations to be subject to board discipline; prohibit public funds from being used for sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts; create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to require the Department for Public Health and the Department for Behavioral Health, Developmental and Intellectual Disabilities to develop, produce, and disseminate educational materials regarding sexual orientation and gender identity change efforts; permit the cabinet to contract for the educational materials; cite as the Youth Mental Health Protection Act; EMERGENCY.