This resolution directs the Kentucky Senate to adjourn in celebration of the Grayson County Historical Society's 50th anniversary. The bill formally recognizes the society's contributions to preserving local history through its museum, research library, and educational programs in Leitchfield, Kentucky. It does not create new laws or funding but serves as a ceremonial acknowledgment of the organization's work and upcoming anniversary event.
This resolution honors the George Rogers Clark High School Lady Cardinals basketball team for winning the 2026 Kentucky High School Athletic Association Girls' Sweet Sixteen Basketball Championship. The Senate formally congratulates the team and their coaches on their historic first state title, which came after a comeback victory in the championship game. The resolution recognizes the team's achievements, including their 33-win season and the individual contributions of players like MVP Teigh Yeast and their coaching staff. It directs the Senate Clerk to send a copy of the resolution to Senator Greg Elkins for presentation to the team.
Amend KRS 161.048 to modify and reestablish alternative teacher certification options as alternative routes; establish the eligibility requirements of alternative routes; delete Option 2 certification; establish a route for current professional certificate holders to expand certification and the eligibility requirements; require the Education Professional Standards Board to maintain and publish a list of academic majors, academic minors, and graduate degree academic content areas and the corresponding areas for which they shall satisfy certification requirements; make current professional certificate holders eligible to expand certification through any alternative route; require holders of professional certificates under specific routes complete training requirements to be eligible for the first renewal of the certificate; provide that the Education Professional Standards Board may require a passing score on a professional skills assessment; amend KRS 161.032 and 164.757 to conform; repeal KRS 161.049.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to define terms; allow a public or private entity to contribute funds to a portable benefit plan as a form of compensation to a self-employed worker; prohibit using contributions to determine a worker's classification.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 96 relating to municipal utilities and KRS Chapter 278 relating to Public Service Commission-regulated utilities to: define terms; only allow for the provision of electric service to a data center through a contract that conforms to the requirements of the Act; require that within 90 days of the effective date of the Act, the electric service provider issue or file a tariff setting forth the process for a data center customer to apply for service; require the payment of a nonrefundable service application fee; require the preparation of studies to determine the manner in which the electric service provider can safely and efficiently serve the data center in a way that does not have negative service or rate impacts to their non-data center customers; establish the minimum contract requirements between the electric service provider and the data center customer; provide that requirements of the Act that are conflict with the Tennessee Valley Authority's requirements for the distribution of electricity that it supplies shall not apply; prohibit the charging or allocating of any costs associated with serving or constructing new infrastructure to serve a data center to any other customers served by natural gas, water, or wastewater utilities; amend KRS 154.20-229 to require that a qualified data center project that has been preliminarily approved for a certificate of exemption under KRS 139.499 include in its memorandum of agreement with the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority a certification that the data center project complies or will comply with all applicable local requirements and the applicable requirements of the Act.
This resolution honors Shriners Children's Lexington for 100 years of providing pediatric healthcare to children and families in Kentucky and the surrounding region. It recognizes the facility's century-long history of offering specialty care regardless of a family's ability to pay, noting its top 50 ranking for pediatric orthopedic care and its efforts to create a child-friendly environment. The Senate formally acknowledges this milestone through a voice vote, with the resolution text to be delivered to Senator Reginald Thomas. This is a commemorative measure that does not change laws or policies but serves to recognize the organization's contributions.
Congratulate The Goat Project on winning the Environmental Commission of the Lexington-Fayette Urban County Government's 2025 Outstanding Project in Sustainability Award.
This resolution establishes the Kentucky Senate as a Court of Impeachment to hear charges against Circuit Judge Julie Muth Goodman, who was impeached by the House for alleged abuses of power and violations of court rules and statutes. The bill sets April 6, 2026, as the start date for the hearing and outlines procedures for summoning the respondent, witnesses, and evidence, while designating a Senate committee to receive testimony and make initial findings. It adopts specific rules of procedure that allow the Senate to compel witness attendance, enforce its orders, and determine evidence admissibility, with the full Senate ultimately voting on whether to convict or acquit based on the committee's report. The resolution also defines roles for the Senate President as presiding officer, the Clerk of the Senate as court clerk, and establishes guidelines for who may attend the proceedings and who may be subpoenaed.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 317A to prohibit a licensee from performing services that go beyond the stratum germinativum layer unless practicing under the immediate supervision of a licensed physician; prohibit a licensee from performing any service regulated by another agency without the appropriate licensing for that service; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 317A to define "fixed salon" and "mobile salon"; change "limited beauty salon" to "limited facility" throughout; require any person who attempts to practice cosmetology or shampoo styling without being licensed to pay an administrative penalty to the board in an amount not to exceed $1,500 for each offense; authorize the board to investigate any and all unlicensed activity of services licensed under KRS Chapter 317A; prohibit a licensee from holding clinics if the clinics are not sponsored by a beauty specialty group for a service that require a license or permit under KRS Chapter 317A; require any person who applies for an esthetician license to have completed 750 hours of instruction in a licensed school within 5 years of submitting an application for licensure; establish licensing for mobile salons and limited facilities; exclude completion of 50 hours of esthetics or nail technology training within the last 2 years from licensure requirements for teaching esthetic practices or nail technology; establish license and renewal periods by administrative regulations promulgated by the board; establish a permit for natural hair braiding; exempt a person practicing natural hair brading from being required to have a salon license if working out of their home, a limited facility license if only working with other natural hair braiders, or obtaining cosmetology instruction hours beyond a sanitation course; require the board to promulgate administrative regulations to set standards for mobile salons and limited facilities; establish a code of professional conduct for persons licensed and permitted by the board; establish the inspection criteria for fixed and mobile salons; require the board to hold hearings in accordance with KRS Chapter 13B upon the request of an unlicensed party facing penalties; require schools to follow the student-teacher ratio listed in administrative regulations; allow the board to take immediate remedial measures to help a school operate according to standards if a complaint or concern has been validated through an inspection; prohibit a licensee from failing to follow sanitation standards prescribed by administrative regulations; allow the board to investigate all complaints concerning any person that is performing regulated services without a license; establish a fine of not less than $50 nor more than $1,500 per violation for any person who provides regulated services without a license.
This bill is a Senate resolution that formally adjourns the Kentucky Senate in honor of William "Turkey" Thomason, a longtime community leader and public servant. The resolution recognizes his 36 years of service on the Leitchfield City Council, his tenure as mayor from 1995 to 2018, and his contributions to veterans' affairs through the Veterans Memorial Park he helped establish. It expresses the Senate's condolences to his family and directs the Clerk to send a copy of the resolution to Senator Stephen Meredith for delivery to Thomason's family. The measure is a ceremonial gesture rather than a policy change, serving to acknowledge Thomason's legacy of public service and community involvement.
This Senate resolution formally recognizes regulated trapping as an essential and humane part of wildlife management and conservation in Kentucky. It highlights how trapping helps control predator populations, protect endangered species, and manage overabundant wildlife while contributing economic value and reducing taxpayer costs. The resolution also encourages public education about trapping's role in sustainable resource use and directs officials to notify relevant state and federal agencies of its adoption.
Support the availability of termed and perpetual conservation easements as an important tool designed to promote conservation practices on private lands.
