Recognize Leland "Lee" Smith of the Kentucky State Police Facilities Security Division on the occaision of his retirement.
Amend KRS 139.480 to define "currency" and "bullion"; exempt currency and bullion from sales and use tax on or after August 1, 2024.
Amend KRS 161.164 to prohibit that a local school district or public charter school from requiring a statement, pledge, or oath, other than to uphold general and federal law, the United States Constitution, and the Constitution of Kentucky, as a part of any recruitment, hiring, employment, promotion, disciplinary, or evaluation process; create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to define terms; prohibit public school districts and schools from expending any resources or funds to purchase membership in, or goods and services from, any organization that discriminates on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex, disability, or religion; to prohibit public school districts and schools from expending any resources or funds on diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging or political or social activism; prohibit public school districts from engaging in diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging; provide a limited exception for compliance with state or federal law; amend KRS 158.4416 to strike all references to trauma-informed approach; amend KRS 158.4414 to conform.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 6 to establish the Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Committee, the membership of the committee and the committee's duties.
Amend KRS 138.460 to provide a tax credit to active duty members of the Armed Forces for taxes paid to another state which are substantially identical to the taxes paid in this state, whether or not the other state grants a similar credit.
Amend KRS 132.810 to remove the requirement that totally disabled persons filing for the homestead exemption apply annually and only require a person to reapply if the disability status of the person changes; create a new section of KRS Chapter 140 to sunset inheritance and estate taxes; repeal KRS 140.130 and 140.140 to conform; EMERGENCY.
Amend KRS 150.170 to allow a bona fide resident landowner and other authorized persons to take fish from any lake or pond located on the owner's property without procuring a sport fishing license.
Honor the members of the Kentucky National Guard, the Tennessee National Guard, and the West Virginia National Guard for their service to the citizens of eastern Kentucky during the flooding events during the summer of 2022.
Amend KRS 12.020 to reorganize the Office of Data Analytics within the Office of the Secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and remove the Office of Health Data and Analytics; amend KRS 194A.030 to establish the Office of Data Analytics within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; remove the Office of Health Data and Analytics; establish that the oversight of the operations of the Kentucky Health Information Exchange will be in the Office of Inspector General within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 194A.099 to establish that the Department for Medicaid Services shall administer the provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; amend KRS 194A.101 to reorganize the Office of Data Analytics within the Office of the Secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 194A.103 to reorganize the Division of Kentucky Health Information Exchange in the Office of Inspector General within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and remove the Division of Health Information from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 194A.105 to reorganize the Division of Telehealth Services within the Office of Inspector General in the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amend KRS 211.334 to conform.
Endorse the grant application of the Paducah & Louisville Railway to rehabilitate the Rockport Bridge and encourage the federal Department of Transportation to give favorable consideration to the application.
