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 new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to define terms; prohibit a bot from communicating or interacting with another person in Kentucky online with the intent to mislead the other person about its artificial identify for the purpose of knowingly deceiving the person about the content of the communication in order to incentivize a purchase or sale of goods or services in a commercial transaction; provide that a violation of the Act is a deceptive act or practice in the conduct of trade or commerce; prohibit a private right of action.
Propose to amend Sections 145 and 155 of the Constitution of Kentucky to prohibit persons who are not citizens of the United States from being allowed to vote in the Commonwealth of Kentucky; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
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.
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.
Amend KRS 118.225 to require that the ballot position for all statewide office candidates or slates of candidates be determined by lot for each congressional district.
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.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 16 to require the Department of Kentucky State Police to provide for training for forensic lab technicians; require any forensic lab technician that completes training provided for by the department to remain employed with the department for at least five years; provide that if a forensic lab technician does not remain employed with the department for at least five years shall be required to repay training costs incurred by the department.
Amend KRS 150.170 to remove the requirement that resident owners of farmlands must own five or more acres of land in order to be exempt from sport hunting and sport fishing license requirements when hunting or fishing on their own farmlands.
