Rep. Candy Massaroni

Maddy summaryHJR 38 is a symbolic resolution naming a specific bridge on U.S. Highway 31E in Nelson County, Kentucky (Bridge ID #090B00113N over Beech Fork River) as the "Nelson County Veterans Bridge." It requires the Kentucky Transportation Cabinet to install signs identifying the bridge within 30 days of the resolution taking effect. The bill directly honors veterans from Nelson County who served in the U.S. Armed Forces, with no new policies, funding, or legal obligations beyond the naming and signage. This is a commemorative action with no substantive policy changes.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define "anti-choking device"; require school cafeteria personnel and other expected users of the device to be trained if a school obtains an anti-choking device; provide immunity from civil liability for rendering emergency care or treatment with an anti-choking device or the Heimlich maneuver at a public or private school; provide that the Act may be cited as Landon's Law.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to establish legislative intent; define terms; establish that a person in the Commonwealth shall not administer, by any route or modality, any human gene therapy product for any infectious disease indication, regardless of whether the administration is termed an immunization, vaccine, or any other term; exempt human gene therapy products used to treat cancer or genetic disorders; sunset the provisions on July 1, 2035, unless extended by the General Assembly; EMERGENCY.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to require the Transportation Cabinet conduct a quality assurance test six months after each highway pavement marking or other highway paint application; require the Transportation Cabinet repair or reapply the highway pavement markings within 30 days of a failed quality assurance test.

Amend KRS 72.425 to require the state medical examiner to perform an autopsy on a decedent when the death of the person is not a coroner's case if a request is made by written consent by the decedent's spouse, the next of kin, or the person who assumes the responsibility to dispose of the body, as applicable; amend KRS 72.460 to specify who pays for an autopsy.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 277 to require that every railroad company destroy or remove obstructive vegetation at intersections with public roads or highways; direct the Transportation Cabinet or local government to remove obstructive vegetation if the railroad company fails to do so and establish procedures for reimbursement by the railroad company for the vegetation removal.

Amend KRS 158.1415 to require a school district to adopt health curricula that includes human growth and development instruction that meets specific criteria; set restrictions for the instruction that grants parents an opportunity to review materials and opt their child out of instruction; provide that the Act may be cited as the Baby Olivia Act.

Amend KRS 65.013 to create a cause of action for violations of the use of tax dollars to advocate for or against public questions on ballot or to lobby or participate in executive agency lobbying; establish time limitation to commence suit and appropriate venue; provide damages recoverable per violation; allow for a class action; prohibit holding a position of public trust or profit for 10 years for individuals held civilly liable; create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to establish criminal penalty and a prohibition against holding a position of public trust or profit for 10 years for individuals found guilty for a violation.

Create new sections of KRS 99.700 to 99.730 to allow a commission or alternative government entity to obtain an administrative warrant to inspect blighted or abandoned properties; require commissions and alternative government entities to exercise the power of eminent domain in accordance with KRS 99.700 to 99.730; amend KRS 99.705 to define "abandoned property"; redefine "blighted property"; amend KRS 99.720 to require two notices of local code violations prior to certification of a property as blighted or abandoned; amend KRS 99.725 to require local governments to hold public hearings regarding proposed takings of blighted or abandoned property prior to initiating eminent domain proceedings; require proceedings of the public hearings to be recorded and available to the public for review and comment; amend KRS 416.610 to require the petitioner in an eminent domain proceeding to prove necessity of the taking; amend KRS 416.675 to redefine "public use"; remove allowance of sale or lease of property to private entities occupying an incidental area within a public project or building; remove exemption for property financed by state road funds or federal highway funds from the requirements of KRS 416.675; amend KRS 65.355, 91.285, 92.305, 99.700, 99.710, 99.715, 99.727, 99.730, and 416.580 to conform.