Sen. Steve West

Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.

Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.

Amend KRS 29A.080 to allow an individual age 70 or older to elect to be permanently excused from jury service; require this option to be prominently displayed at the top of the juror qualification form; require a prospective juror age 70 or older to complete only the entries for name, address, and date of birth on the juror qualification form; amend KRS 29A.090 to allow an automatic and permanent exemption from jury service for individuals age 70 or older.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to prohibit a requirement for any individual to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, modified ribonucleic acid (modRNA) vaccine, or messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine for the purposes of student enrollment, employment, or medical treatment in the Commonwealth.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 231 to express the findings of the General Assembly relating to adult-oriented businesses and the need for regulation; define terms; establish distance parameters for the location of adult-oriented businesses in proximity to identified entities and locations; establish transition provisions for existing businesses; affirm the authority of local governmental units to supplement regulation of adult-oriented businesses; EMERGENCY.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 96 to define terms; prohibit any utility operating under the chapter from constructing a facility that generates electricity using solar energy if constructing the facility would result in more than one percent of the total land area of any county where the proposed construction is to be located being occupied by solar electric generating facilities; amend KRS 278.020 to prohibit the Public Service Commission from granting an application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity for a facility that uses solar energy to produce electricity if constructing the facility would result in more than one percent of the total land area of any county where the proposed construction is to be located being occupied by solar electric generating facilities; define terms; amend KRS 278.706 to require that as part of its construction certificate application to the siting board, a merchant electric generating facility owner shall certify that no portion of the proposed construction site will be located on land that was acquired through eminent domain and that the proposed site would not result in more than one percent of the total land area of any county where the proposed construction is to be located being occupied by solar electric generating facilities; define terms; create a new section of KRS Chapter 416 to prohibit the construction of any facility that generates electricity using solar energy on any land that was acquired by eminent domain; amend KRS 416.570 to require that as part of the verified petition required to be filed prior to an exercise of eminent domain, a condemnor shall certify that the proposed condemnation will not violate the prohibition on constructing solar electric generating facilities on condemned land.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 159 to allow the enrollment of a child on a part-time basis in a school district; establish conditions for the part-time enrollment; amend KRS 158.120 to prohibit a district's nonresident pupil policy from discriminating against any pupil on the basis of residential address, abilities, disability, race, ethnicity, sex, or socioeconomic status; require the policy be posted on the district website; prohibit charging tuition to any child; require a board of education to establish policies for a calculation to determine enrollment capacity; establish requirements for a district's nonresident pupil policy; require districts to report to the Kentucky Department of Education numbers related to nonresident pupils and require the department to publish the reports on the department's website, authorize the department to promulgate administrative regulations for nonresident enrollment appeals processes and forms; amend KRS 157.350 and 156.070 to conform.

Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Jack Carter.

Honor the cadets of Lewis County High School 2024 JROTC Precision Shooting Team.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 344 to make it unlawful for a state agency to discriminate against a person based on his or her access to electronic means to obtain benefits or gain access to public buildings; provide that the Act may be cited as the Digital Identification Act.