Rep. Josh Bray

Call on the United States Congress to submit to the states for ratification a balanced budget amendment to the United States Constitution and making a formal application to Congress to call a convention.

Create a new section of KRS 217.005 to 217.215 to define "end consumer"; allow certain USDA-exempted poultry processors to sell to end consumers on a farm, at a farmers market, or at a roadside stand.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define terms; permit a local government to establish a housing development district and a Housing Incentive Payment Program; allow a local government to exempt housing developments within a district from planning and zoning following a public hearing; permit other local taxing authorities to participate in a district; allow a local government to accept applications from developers to undertake projects within a district; allow a local government to negotiate with a developer whose application it has accepted regarding rates associated with incentive payments to the developer; establish a means by which a developer shall be paid incentive payments by a local government; require area development districts to provide assistance to a local government in establishing a district; require the Cabinet for Economic Development to promote awareness of the district and incentive program and the Certified Child Care Community Designation program set out in KRS 199.891; require the cabinet to post information including a list of local governments that have established a district and have obtained the certified child care community designation to its website; require local governments that have established a district to provide information to the Department for Local Government regarding the district and utilization of the incentive program; require the Department for Local Government to submit a report to LRC summarizing information received from local governments regarding districts; provide that the Act shall not be construed to prohibit a local government from establishing any other program for housing development.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to define terms; establish limitations on the introduction of identification devices on or within the human body; create a new section of KRS Chapter 413 to establish a statute of limitations for an action filed for introduction of an identification device; amend KRS 508.152, relating to the unlawful use of tracking devices, to include the installation of a tracking device on the person or property of another without their consent and exempt parental tracking of minors from the prohibition.

Amend KRS 45.812 to require an agency, corporation, or school district that is authorized to issue a general obligation bond by an appropriation of the General Assembly, or by or on behalf of any Kentucky school district, to report the costs associated with the issuance of the bond to the Capital Projects and Bond Oversight Committee and the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue.

Maddy summaryHJR 32 authorizes the release of state funds from the School Facility Assistance Fund to 13 specific Kentucky school districts for facility construction, repair, or renovation projects. The bill directs the Office of State Budget Director to release 50% of the cost difference (after accounting for local resources) for eligible schools meeting strict criteria, including being ranked Priority 1 or 2 in district plans and having a dedicated capital tax. It explicitly excludes athletic facilities and specifies that six districts were ineligible due to failing criteria or having sufficient local funding. The approved districts include Adair County Schools ($3.8M) and Harrison County Schools ($31.8M), among others, for fiscal year 2025-2026.

Maddy summaryHJR 46 designates specific road projects as "County Priority Projects" under Kentucky's Six-Year Road Plan, directly affecting counties receiving these funded projects. It establishes the priority list by overriding certain existing statutes (KRS 48.100, 48.110, etc.) and incorporating three 2024 Kentucky Acts. The resolution creates the official framework for allocating road funding, specifying which projects advance first in the state's six-year infrastructure plan. This procedural resolution does not create new funding but determines the order of project implementation.

Create a new section of KRS 161.220 to 161.716, relating to the Teachers' Retirement System (TRS), to require that once the TRS retiree health fund has an actuarial funding level of at least 100%, then the employer funding for retiree health shall be used to pay down the unfunded liability of the TRS pension fund; require that if the actuarial funding level of the TRS retiree health fund falls below 95%, then the employer funding shall be restored to the retiree health fund until the retiree health fund is 100% funded; amend KRS 161.540, 161.550, and 161.675 to provide that the TRS board of trustees shall not recommend changes to the General Assembly to reduce employee or employer funding for retiree health or reduce board adopted charges under the shared responsibility provisions for health benefits for retirees under the age of 65 until the pension and retiree health funds are each 100% funded; amend KRS 161.420 to conform.

Authorize the Office of State Budget Director to release a portion of the moneys appropriated for the Kentucky Water or Wastewater Assistance for Troubled or Economically Restrained Systems Fund.

Amend KRS 205.5372 to prohibit the Department for Medicaid Services from making any change to the Medicaid program without authorization from the General Assembly to do so; amend KRS 205.460 and 205.520 to conform; amend KRS 205.5371 to authorize the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to submit a community engagement waiver for able-bodied Medicaid beneficiaries without dependents; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to establish the Kentucky Medicaid rebate sequestration fund as a restricted fund within the Finance and Administration Cabinet; require all money received by the Department for Medicaid Services as rebates from pharmaceutical drug manufacturers to be deposited into the Kentucky Medicaid rebate sequestration fund; amend KRS 205.240 to conform; amend KRS 205.525 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to submit a copy of any waiver renewal application to the Legislative Research Commission concurrent with submission of the application to a federal agency; repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 205.6328 to establish reporting requirements for the Department for Medicaid Services and Medicaid managed care organizations; create new sections of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services to retain beneficiaries' data for at least seven years after the beneficiary is disenrolled from the Medicaid program; require the Department for Medicaid Services and Medicaid managed care organizations to cover up to 100 units of psychoeducational services per Medicaid beneficiary per year; create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to notify the Legislative Research Commission of any anticipated barriers to implementing Medicaid-related legislation; direct the Department for Medicaid Services to reinstate all prior authorization requirements for behavioral health services that were in place on January 1, 2020; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to procure new Medicaid managed care contracts with an effective date of no later than January 1, 2027; direct Medicaid managed care organizations to collaborate on the development of a behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment services scorecard; require behavioral health and substance use disorder treatment services scorecard to be accessible by the public on each Medicaid managed care organization's website no later than December 31, 2025; EMERGENCY.