Recognize the 75th anniversary of the enactment of the Women's Armed Services Integration Act.
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to authorize the General Assembly to provide for the educational costs of elementary and secondary school students outside of the public school system; provide ballot language for submission to voters for ratification or rejection.
Honor the 75th anniversary of the independence of the State of Israel.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Kentucky Mental Health Safety Center within the University of Louisville to be known as SafeKY; require SafeKY to create, implement, and maintain a real-time electronic mental health application; require the application be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year; require the application to be made available at no cost to all elementary, secondary, and postsecondary students and the parents and teachers of those students; require the University of Louisville to establish an advisory council regarding the electronic application; require the University of Louisville to report on the implementation status of the electronic application to the Interim Joint Committees on Health, Welfare, and Family Services and Education by November 1, 2024.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 116 to require the Secretary of State to quarterly issue a comprehensive status report regarding voter registration records cleanup and maintenance; establish information to be included the report.
Recognize March 2023 as Developmental Disabilities Awareness Month.
Amend KRS 141.0101 to update the expense deduction on property placed in service on or after January 1, 2023, to be the same as Section 179 of the Internal Revenue Code in effect on December 31, 2022, except the phase-out provision shall not apply.
Amend KRS 520.050 to enhance promoting contraband to a Class B felony if the dangerous contraband is fentanyl, carfentanil, or fentanyl derivatives; amend KRS 439.3401 to add a person who has been convicted of or entered a plea of guilty to a Class B felony violation of KRS 520.050 to the definition of "violent offender."
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 6 to establish a school fiscal impact statement to evaluate the potential costs that would be incurred by school districts and other parts of the common school system by passing certain legislation; establish the requirements and components of the statement; authorize the director of the Legislative Research Commission to implement policies and procedures necessary to produce the statements; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2025.
Amend KRS 164.786 to increase the dual credit tuition rate ceiling amount; add eligibility for high school freshmen and sophomores; expand the scholarship to include two career and technical education courses in each year of high school and four general education or career and technical education courses in any combination over the junior and senior years; amend KRS 164.787 to delete the dual credit provisions from the Work Ready Kentucky Scholarship Program; effective July 1, 2024.
