Create new sections of KRS 186.400 to 186.640 to: require the Transportation Cabinet to establish a driver licensing regional office in each senatorial district; allow third-party entities to apply to the Transportation Cabinet to be approved to accept applications for certain identity documents; allow third-party entities to charge a fee for services provided; require the Kentucky State Police to offer written instruction permit testing in counties without a permanent driver licensing office that coincides with Transportation Cabinet visits to those counties to offer in-person licensing services; require the state police to collect certain data on appointments and customers served and report to the Interim Joint Committee on Transportation by October 31, 2025; EFFECTIVE, in part, July 1, 2025.
Sen. Lindsey Tichenor
Sponsored bills
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.
Create a new section of KRS 17.500 to 17.580 to define "social media platform"; require sex offenders who have committed a criminal offense against a victim who is a minor to display their full legal name on social media platforms; provide penalties.
Condemn the air attack launched by Iran against Israel on April 13, 2024.
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.
Recognize April 18, 2024, as National Lineman Appreciation Day.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; provide that a student or employee of a public postsecondary education institution shall not be penalized, discriminated against, or receive any adverse treatment due to the individual's refusal to support or endorse any divisive concept; provide that a student or employee of a public postsecondary education institution shall not be required to endorse a specific ideology or political viewpoint to be eligible for hiring, contract renewal, tenure, promotion, or graduation and prohibit an institution from inquiring into the individual's political or social viewpoints; provide that any person aggrieved by a violation of this Act has a cause of action against the institution for damages and costs of no less than $1,000 and no more than $100,000 per violation; waive sovereign, governmental, and qualified immunity; require the job duties of any individual employed in a diversity, equity, and inclusion role to include the promotion of intellectual diversity; provide that nothing in the section shall be interpreted to infringe upon designated rights of an institution's ability to comply with state or federal law or accreditation standards; require each public postsecondary education institution to conduct a survey in 2025 and 2027 of the institution's students and employees to assess the campus climate with regard to diversity of thought and the respondents' comfort level in speaking freely on campus, regardless of political affiliation or ideology.