Rep. Kevin Bratcher

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.

Condemn any and all manifestations of antisemitism.

Honor the 75th anniversary of the independence of the State of Israel.

Amend KRS 18A.110 to permit the secretary of the Personnel Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations considering relevant work experience or certification in lieu of a bachelor's degree for the purpose of evaluating employee qualifications.

Honor the 100th anniversary of Fern Creek High School.

Amend KRS 21A.160 to establish parameters for compulsory dues for members of the bar; define who is a member of the bar for purposes of this Act.

Establish Subtitle 13 of KRS Chapter 286 and create sections thereof to define terms; provide exemptions to the new subtitle on nonrecourse consumer legal funding; prohibit engaging in the business of nonrecourse consumer legal funding transactions without a license; establish licensing requirements; provide that nonrecourse consumer legal funding transactions are not loans and exempt them from statute relating to interest; establish requirements for nonrecourse consumer legal funding transaction contracts; prohibit certain actions by nonrecourse consumer legal funding companies; provide for attorney communications and responsibilities; provide that transactions made in compliance with the new subtitle on nonrecourse consumer legal funding are not champerty; establish penalties; provide that the new subtitle on nonrecourse consumer legal funding shall not restrict the powers or duties of the Attorney General; amend KRS 286.4-410, 360.010, and 372.060 to conform.

Create or repeal and reenacted sections of KRS Chapter 525 to define terms; establish crimes of animal abuse in the first degree and animal abuse in the second degree; authorize law enforcement and animal control officers to seize and hold animals who are victims of cruelty or abuse; allow a seizing agency to seek forfeiture and reimbursement for reasonable costs of caring for seized animals from the owner of the animal in the criminal case; provide that the costs of caring for a seized animal shall apply to any offspring born to that animal while in custody; grant civil immunity to a person who enters a car containing a dog or cat believed in good faith to be in danger of death, subject to certain parameters; amend KRS 525.125 and 525.130 to provide for the seizure of animals from a person charged with cruelty to animals in the first degree and from a person charged with cruelty to animals in the second degree with additional available penalties; amend KRS 525.137 to allow seizure of an animal that has been the object of sexual crimes against an animal.

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."

Amend KRS 273.303 to permit a dissolving corporation to transfer its assets to any entity engaged in for-profit activities that are substantially similar to those of the dissolving corporation subject to two certain conditions.