Amend KRS 156.070 to require the Board of Education or agency designated by the Board of Education to manage interscholastic athletics to promulgate administrative regulations or bylaws requiring schools that participate in interscholastic athletics to designate all athletic teams, activities, and sports based upon the biological sex of the students eligible to participate; prohibit male students from participating in athletic teams, activities, and sports designated as "girls"; prohibit designated agencies from entertaining complaints or investigations of policies; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to create a cause of action against a school that violates these provisions; require that an action be brought within two years; provide that the Act may be cited as the Save Womenâs Sports Act.
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Urge the Kentucky Public Service Commission to examine strategies to address utility costs to ratepayers.
Honor Kentucky utility linemen and adjourn the Senate in their honor.
Amend KRS 154.20-258 to allow a tax credit of up to 40 percent if the contribution is made to an investment fund approved by the authority prior to January 1, 2023, and 25 percent if the contribution is made to an investment fund approved by the authority on or after January 1, 2023; amend KRS 65.7047 to add that if the city or county pledges occupational license taxes or fees as part of the local tax revenue to support local development areas, it may contract for the services of a qualified independent outside consultant or financial adviser, making this optional and setting forth requirements; amend KRS 65.7049 to add that if the city or county intends to apply for the Signature Projects Program under KRS 154.30-050 or the mixed-use redevelopment program under KRS 154.30-060, the city or county shall engage the services of a qualified independent outside consultant or financial adviser, specifying the reporting requirements of the financial adviser; amend KRS 65.7053 to include that an ordinance establishing the development area must also include the estimated fiscal impact arrived at by the financial adviser under their reporting requirements addressed in KRS 65.7049; amend KRS 154.20-410 to end the Kentucky alternative fuel and renewable energy fund and deeming any balances be transferred to the Kentucky enterprise fund established in KRS 164.6019; amend KRS 164.6019 to conform with this transfer; repeal KRS 154.20-405; EMERGENCY.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 41 to declare findings regarding the financial harms of boycotting energy companies for dealing in fossil-fuel based energy; define terms; require the State Treasurer to publish, maintain, and update a list of financial companies engaged in energy company boycotts and to file the list with the Legislative Research Commission and the Attorney General; require state governmental entities to notify the Treasurer of the listed financial companies in which the state governmental entity owns direct or indirect holdings; require state governmental entities to inform and warn listed financial companies that they may become subject to divestment by the state governmental agency unless they clarify their actions or cease their energy company boycott; require state governmental entities to divest from the listed financial company if it does not cease its energy company boycott in the timeframes established by the section; provide for delays in the divestment schedule if it will result in a loss of value or a benchmark deviation; require for delays in divestment to be reported to the Treasurer, the Legislative Research Commission, and the Attorney General; provide that a state governmental entity shall not be required to divest from any holdings in actively or passively managed investment funds or private equity funds; provide for exceptions from divestment requirements; require that beginning on December 1, 2023, and each December 1 thereafter, each state governmental agency shall file a report with the Treasurer, the Attorney General, and the Legislative Research Commission identifying the divestments it made and the investments prohibited under the Act; allow the Attorney General or the Treasurer to enforce Sections 1 to 4 and 5 of the Act; prohibit a governmental entity from entering into a contract for goods or services with a company that engages in energy company boycotts; provide exceptions; amend KRS 286.2-015 to conform.
Amend KRS 403.735, 403.740, 456.050, and 456.060 to require that emergency protective orders and interpersonal protective orders restrain both parties from certain conduct; amend KRS 403.730 and 456.404 to require certain information to be included in ex parte emergency protective orders and interpersonal protective orders.
Amend KRS 281A.160 and 186.635 to allow a person whose valid Kentucky commercial driver's license or operator's license has been expired for less than five years to renew the license without having to take knowledge and skills tests; set requirements for application for renewal; EMERGENCY.
Honor the University of Louisville Women's Basketball Team upon making the Final Four of the 2022 NCAA Basketball Championship.
Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Lafe Smith Hinkle II.
Honor Isaac Dixon, Kentucky's Mr. Football for 2021.