Amend KRS 186.4101 to require the Transportation Cabinet to give notice to individuals of pending expiration of operator's licenses, instruction permits, and personal identification cards; specify manner of notification; prohibit nonreceipt of notice to be used as a defense for a violation of KRS 186.510.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Proud School Match Program; direct the Department of Education to reimburse an eligible school district $0.33 for every meal reimbursed by the community eligibility provision at the paid rate; require a school district that receives a reimbursement to develop and implement a Kentucky Proud school plan to identify and purchase available Kentucky-grown agricultural products and to optimize food usage; direct the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations necessary to carry out this section; provide that the section shall be null and void if the community eligibility provision is terminated by the United States Department of Agriculture; provide that the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Proud School Match Act; APPROPRIATION.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 36 to establish the Kentucky Guard Youth Challenge Program; outline the purpose of the program; authorize the program to establish high schools to serve the program's students; align program with the federal National Guard Youth Challenge Program; establish the governance of the program; establish guidelines for the operation of the program; establish guidelines for the operation of the high schools operated by the program; authorize the adjutant general or designee to adopt policies for the operation of the program's schools; establish an advisory council for the program; require the adjutant general or designee to enter into a memorandum of agreement to provide for the operation of the program's schools; amend KRS 164.7874 to allow program school students to participate in KEES scholarship program; and amend KRS 164.7885 to conform.
Amend KRS 158.162 to direct local boards of education to require schools to maintain a portable automated external defibrillator in every middle and high school building and at school-sponsored events; require local boards to adopt policies and procedures for portable automated external defibrillators and ensure training requirements are met; amend KRS 158.302 to conform; amend KRS 160.445 to require all interscholastic coaches to be trained in CPR and use of portable automated external defibrillators; require all schools that participate in interscholastic athletics to maintain a portable automated external defibrillator at every practice or competition and meet training requirements; require venue-specific emergency plans to identify the location of a portable automated external defibrillator and the procedures for use; require schools that participate in interscholastic athletics to annually certify compliance with portable automated external defibrillator requirements and venue-specific emergency plan requirements.
Amend KRS 45A.705 to require the State Treasurer to either revise, cancel, or keep effective any contract in which the Government Contract Review Committee issues nonbinding recommendations; require the Treasurer to submit contract revisions pursuant to the committee's nonbinding recommendations to the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet or designee; require the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet or designee to either issue the contract with the Treasurer's revisions or cancel the contract; require the secretary of the Finance and Administration Cabinet or designee to revise, cancel, or keep effective any contract issued pursuant to the Governor's constitutional powers in which the committee has issued a nonbinding recommendation; provide severability clause; EMERGENCY.
Amend KRS 158.441 to include private and parochial schools; amend KRS 158.4414 to specify that private and parochial schools can enter memorandums of understanding with local law enforcement agencies or the Department of Kentucky State Police to provide school resource officers.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to prohibit a school district from punishing an employee for engaging in private religious expression otherwise protected by the First Amendment absent a showing of engaging in actual coercion; provide specific examples of protected activity; establish limits of applicability.
Amend KRS 158.150 to require a local board of education to expel a student for at least 12 months if the student makes threats that pose a danger to other students or staff; require a local board of education to adopt a policy requiring disciplinary actions for a student who assaults other students or staff off campus property; allow a local school board to place a student in an alternative education setting in lieu of expulsion, or at the end of an expulsion; allow a teacher to remove a disruptive student from the classroom; provide that a student who is removed from a classroom three times in 30 days shall be considered chronically disruptive and may be suspended; provide that a principal may permanently remove a disruptive student from a classroom and determine the placement of the student, subject to an appeal process; require a local board of education to conduct an expulsion review process to determine whether a student's expulsion shall continue or end.
Amend KRS 205.6405, relating to hospital rate improvement programs, to redefine "managed care gap" and "qualifying hospital"; amend KRS 205.6406, relating to hospital rate improvement programs, to add inpatient services and include add-on amounts to the calculation of payments; modify the formula for the calculation of payments; provide that certain payments made under the programs do not count against any spending or appropriation limits; permit the Department for Medicaid Services to create a program to increase outpatient reimbursement within the Medicaid fee-for-service program; direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to request any necessary state plan amendment, waiver, or other authorization from a federal agency; RETROACTIVE; EMERGENCY.
Recognize the 75th anniversary of the enactment of the Women's Armed Services Integration Act.
