Sen. Lindsey Tichenor

Amend KRS 117.125 to include additional requirements for voting systems; amend KRS 117.175 to include additional instructions for voter instruction cards; amend KRS 117.383 to require the State Board of Elections to include a voter notification program to notify a voter of the effect of casting multiple votes for a single office on a paper ballot; amend KRS 67C.103, 117.155, and 117.205 to conform.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "freestanding birthing center"; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate updated administrative regulations to establish licensure standards for freestanding birthing centers, including requiring accreditation by the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers, compliance with the American Association of Birth Centers' Standards for Birth Centers, and consistent plans for transfer and safe transport to a hospital as needed, and to delineate medical malpractice insurance requirements for centers; exempt a center with no more than four beds from certificate-of-need requirements for establishing and licensing a freestanding birthing center; state intent not to limit or expand liability of a center or health care provider or facility; add requirement for medical malpractice insurance for freestanding birthing centers; prohibit abortions in freestanding birthing centers; amend KRS 216B.015 to include freestanding birthing centers in the definition of "health facility"; amend KRS 216B.020, 196.173, 211.122, 211.647, 211.660, 213.046, 214.155, 214.565, 214.567, 214.569, 216.2920, and 216.2970 to conform; provide that the Act may be cited as the Mary Carol Akers Birth Centers Act.

Amend KRS 117.125 to require that voting systems contain components and subcomponents that are only manufactured, integrated, and assembled in the United States; require that the suppliers of components and subcomponents be accredited by the Defense Microelectronics Activity of the United States Department of Defense.

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.

Designate January 11, 2024, as Human Trafficking Awareness Day.

Amend KRS 139.010 to define "clothing" and "diaper"; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt all diapers from the sales and use tax.

Acknowledge the events of January 6, 2021, and recognize the citizens who have been held without due process.

Amend KRS 117.076 to eliminate no-excuse in-person absentee voting; provide that excused in-person absentee voting shall be conducted during normal business hours for at least 13 working days before an election; amend KRS 117.085 and 117.086 to conform.

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.