Rep. Patrick Flannery

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 152 to define "CAER"; require CAER to establish a research, development, and demonstration program for carbon engineering solutions to enable new uses for coal-derived carbon; require CAER submit annual report to the Legislative Research Commission on the progress and results of the program; define eligible company; require CAER to act jointly with an eligible company to study the feasibility of the commercialization of coal fly ash and coal-derived carbon products; to file a report with the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2022, detailing the results of the study; require that on or before January 1, 2023, CAER shall partner with an eligible company to commence a two-year pilot program for the purpose of accelerating the commercial deployment of coal ash; appropriate $10,000,000 from the General Fund for fiscal year 2022-2023 to accomplish the pilot program; appropriate $10,000,000 from the General Fund for fiscal year 2022-2023 to establish the program created in Section 1 of the Act and to carry out the study on the feasibility of commercialization of coal fly ash and coal-derived carbon products; establish the short title as the "Coal Fly Ash Act of 2022"; APPROPRIATION.

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

Create new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health insurance coverage for fertility preservation services and medical services related to testicular or other urological cancers; create new sections of Subtitles 17C and 38A of KRS Chapter 304 to require limited health service benefit plans and limited health service organizations to comply with coverage requirements for medical services related to testicular or other urological cancers; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 150 to establish qualification requirements, salary schedules, and rate structures for conservation officers employed by the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources and exempt them from the requirements of KRS Chapter 18A; establish years-of-service requirements for the salary schedules; establish terms and conditions for conservation officer promotions to sergeant, lieutenant, and captain; limit the number of supervisory officers to a ratio not to exceed one supervisor for every five nonsupervisory officers; require that no promotion to a higher rank shall be made without competing for the position with other officers as required by the section; prohibit discrimination based on race, sex, age, national origin, color, religion, creed, or political affiliation in the officer promotional system; provide that salary supplements received from the Law Enforcement Foundation Program Fund pursuant to KRS 15.460(1)(e) shall be in addition to the amounts established in the salary schedules in the section; require that beginning on July 1, 2023, annual adjustments to the salary schedules be made to incorporate increases in the Consumer Price Index; allow the commissioner for the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to establish ranks above those established by the section; amend KRS 150.090 to make the commissioner's authority with regard to employment actions subject to the requirements of the Act; require that funds needed to meet the salary requirements of the Act be paid from the game and fish fund established in KRS 150.150 and not the general fund; effective July 1, 2022; EMERGENCY.

Amend KRS 45A.494 to include a bidding preference of five percent for bidders who certify that 25 percent of their workforce have completed or are in the process of completing a registered apprenticeship and to include a bidding preference of five percent for bidders who certify that 70 percent of their workforce resides either in Kentucky or within 50 miles of the work site; amend KRS 176.082 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require the Kentucky Community and Technical College System to offer online courses to fulfill the technical education requirements of registered apprenticeship programs.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 173 relating to public library districts to require the terms of library board members to expire as of January 1, 2023; establish requirements for new members; amend KRS 173.480, relating to public library districts' initial board appointments, to allow a county judge/executive with the approval of the fiscal court to appoint the first members of the newly created library board; amend KRS 173.490, relating to public library districts, to allow a county judge/executive with the approval of the fiscal court to appoint members or fill vacancies of the library board; amend KRS 173.520 to provide libraries the authority to lease and build to lease buildings for use by educational institutions; require unanimous vote of the board and fiscal court approval for leasing or constructing buildings for use by educational institutions and expenditures of capital projects over $500,000; define appropriate buildings for use by educational institutions; create a new section of KRS Chapter 173 relating to library districts formed by petition to require the terms of library board members to expire as of January 1, 2023, and establish requirements for new members; amend KRS 173.725, relating to petition-created library districts' initial board appointments, to allow a county judge/executive with the approval of the fiscal court to appoint the first members of the newly created library board; amend KRS 173.730, relating to library districts created by petition, to allow a county judge/executive with the approval of the fiscal court to appoint members or fill vacancies of the library board; amend KRS 173.745 to provide libraries the authority to lease buildings for use by educational institutions; require unanimous vote of the board and fiscal court approval for leasing buildings for use by educational institutions and expenditures of capital projects over $500,000; define appropriate buildings for use by educational institutions; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2023.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 67 to define "recorded instrument" and "portal"; establish deadlines for county clerks to maintain portals for the electronic filing and searching of recorded instruments; amend KRS 64.012 to provide that the $10 storage fee collected by a county clerk shall be held by the county fiscal court or legislative body of a consolidated local government or urban-county government or the exclusive purpose of providing funding for the permanent storage of recorded instruments; amend KRS 142.010 to provide that 90 percent of the funds held for the local records grant program shall be set aside and distributed as grants for county clerks; create a new section of KRS Chapter 64 to allow a county clerk in a county containing a population of less than 70,000 to receive an advancement to defray necessary official expenses; appropriate $25,000,000 from the General Fund to the Department for Local Government for the purpose of providing grants to county clerks to establish and maintain portals for the electronic filing and searching of recorded instruments; APPROPRIATION.

Amend KRS 164.7874 to add proprietary schools to KEES eligible institutions; define "proprietary school."

Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Darryl Owens.

Recognize January 27, 2022, as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.