Amend KRS 211.684 to define "state child and maternal fatality review team"; require the Department for Public Health to establish a state child and maternal fatality review team; modify required annual reporting requirements; amend KRS 216.2929 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to report methods of delivery by hospital annually on its website beginning December 1, 2024.
Amend KRS 156.160 to require cursive writing to be included as a course of study in all elementary schools beginning in the 2025-2026 school year; create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to establish a public high school graduation requirement that a student demonstrate the ability to sign his or her own name in cursive; direct the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to administer the section and create a waiver process for students physically unable to demonstrate a cursive signature; require all public high schools to offer a course in typing and cursive writing; direct Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to establish academic standards for the course; require successful completion of the course to be a graduation requirement from the 2025-2026 school year through the 2028-2029 school year.
Amend KRS 164.092 to define "nontraditional age students"; include nontraditional age students in the goal of closing achievement gaps; increase the percentage of public university funding based on student success outcomes produced from 35 to 40 percent; decrease the percentage of public university funding for student credit hours earned from 35 to 30 percent; include in the Kentucky Community and Technical College System's student success outcomes weighting for credentials aligned with the economic needs of the state and recognize credentials earned by nontraditional age students; require the Council on Postsecondary Education to promulgate an emergency or amended administrative regulation to implement the amended funding formula; EMERGENCY.
Recognize March 2024 as Kentucky Women's History Month in the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
Honor the extraordinary service of Senator John Schickel to the Commonwealth of Kentucky upon his retirement from the General Assembly.
Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Jessie "Jess" J. Adkins.
Honor Senator Denise Harper Angel upon her retirement from the General Assembly.
Commemorate and honor the life and accomplishments of Dr. Robert H. Biggerstaff.
Recognize April 11 to17, 2024, as Black Maternal Health Week in Kentucky.
Commend The Links, Incorporated for their impressive history of community service.
