Amend KRS 156.029 to provide that all 14 voting members of the Kentucky Board of Education are to be elected; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to establish the process by which members of the Kentucky Board of Education are elected, including a partisan primary and partisan regular election; amend KRS 156.040 to add a requirement that members of the Kentucky Board of Education shall not have served on a local school board for at least four years preceding the year of their election; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to establish the process for removal of a member of the Kentucky Board of Education; amend various KRS sections to conform; repeal KRS 156.031, which relates to the State Board for Elementary and Secondary Education; establish a schedule for transitioning from appointed to elected members; allow appointees to continue to serve in accordance with their appointments until December 31, 2026; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2026.
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Proclaim March 28, 2024, to be The Garden Club of Frankfort Day in recognition of its 100th anniversary.
Amend KRS 160.348 to direct secondary school-based decision making councils to adopt designated policies relating to advanced courses; provide that students who meet certain criteria shall be granted automatic enrollment in an AP course; direct the Kentucky Department of Education to establish a pilot monetary incentive program for AP students and AP teachers; amend KRS 158.6453 to require development of an accelerated learning plan for students with identified strengths; direct local board of education to adopt policies for advanced courses; establish a reporting requirement for KDE related to the number of accelerated learning courses offered, the demographics of eligible students, the number of students placed in those courses, and the number of students not placed in those courses.
Amend KRS 12.020 and 194A.030 to establish the Office of Medicinal Cannabis, the Division of Enforcement and Compliance, and the Division of Licensure and Access in the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 218A.202 require the Administrative Office of the Courts to forward all available data regarding disqualifying felony offenses for the previous five years to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 218B.010 to expand the definition of "qualifying medical condition" to include amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, Parkinson's disease, irritable bowel disease, sickle cell disease, cachexia or wasting syndrome, neuropathies, arthritis, fibromyalgia, muscular dystrophy, Huntington's disease, HIV, AIDS, glaucoma, and terminal illnesses; amend KRS 218B.060 delete provisions related to the medicinal cannabis provisional registration receipt system; amend KRS 218B.130 prohibit a local government from prohibiting cannabis business operations in the territory of the local government once the Cabinet for Health and Family Services has issued a cannabis business license for cannabis business operations in the territory; repeal and reenact KRS 139.480, 218A.1421, 218A.1422, and 218A.1423, 218B.015, 218B.030, 218B.035, 218B.090, 218B 095, 218B.105, 218B.110, 218B.115, 218B.120, 218B.125, and 218B.155 to hasten the delayed effective date of those sections when originally enacted in 2023; repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 218B.100 to establish the authority of the Office of Medical Cannabis, the office's executive director, and the executive directors representatives when inspecting or investigating cannabis businesses; state the General Assembly's intent to hasten the effective date of statutes repealed and reenacted in the Act; EMERGENCY
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 278 to direct the Public Service Commission to promulgate administrative regulations to require retail electric suppliers to file integrated resource plans on a triennial basis and include an assessment and acquisition plan for adequate and reliable electricity to meet customer demand at the lowest possible cost of forecasted estimates; require retail electric suppliers to maintain adequate service by owning or contracting capacity to meet customer demand; prohibit retail electric suppliers filing integrated resource plans to purchase capacity or energy from regional transmission organizations or independent system operators; make the privilege to serve customers in a certified territory a property right of the Commonwealth; require the Public Service Commission to allow the commission to determine an amount to be returned to customers of an electric retail supplier that is based on a calculation of the privilege to serve in a certified territory in a proceeding involving an acquisition, transfer, or sale of an electric retail supplier; amend KRS 278.010 to state that the term 'facility' may be used in singular or plural and 'adequate service' includes generating capacity; amend KRS 278.016 to state that retail electric supplier has the privilege to provide electric service; amend KRS 278.018 to state that retail electric suppliers have the privilege rather than right to furnish retail electric service in its certified territory; and if the Public Service Commission find that a retail electric supplier is not providing adequate service the Public Service Commission may order the supplier to correct the problem; allow the commission to authorize another retail electric supplier to serve facilities located in the certified territory of another retail electric supplier; amend KRS 278.020 to determine whether public ownership of a retail electric supplier can achieve lower rates and deem cooperatives organized under KRS Chapter 279 to have public ownership.
Amend KRS 157.440 to raise the amount of tax revenues raised by school districts to be equalized by state funding from 15% to 17.5%.
Recognize August 2024 as Railroad Crossings Safety Awareness Month in Kentucky.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 365 to prohibit a person, business, or agency who sells goods and services or collects fees from requiring the use of a credit or debit card or refusing cash in a face-to-face sale; amend KRS 365.990 to create a penalty for violations.
Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
Amend KRS 161.500 to allow members of the Teachers' Retirement System to recover up to 10 unpaid days that were missed to observe religious holidays; include the recovered days in count of days worked for service credit; EMERGENCY.