Sen. Gex Williams

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198B to define; require short-term rental platforms to prompt users listing properties through their platforms with information regarding R-1 residential occupancies and a box to check regarding whether the property is an R-1 residential occupancy; require short-term rental platforms to store information regarding properties listed as R-1 residential occupancies and to provide email notifications to the person listing the property and the Department for Housing, Buildings and Construction regarding the property; require the Department for Housing, Buildings and Construction to provide short-term rental platforms with information regarding R-1 residential occupancies and allow the Department to promulgate regulations to.

Amend KRS 156.029 to provide that all 14 voting members of the Kentucky Board of Education are to be elected; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to establish the process by which members of the Kentucky Board of Education are elected, including a partisan primary and partisan regular election; amend KRS 156.040 to add a requirement that members of the Kentucky Board of Education shall not have served on a local school board for at least four years preceding the year of their election; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to establish the process for removal of a member of the Kentucky Board of Education; amend various KRS sections to conform; repeal KRS 156.031, which relates to the State Board for Elementary and Secondary Education; establish a schedule for transitioning from appointed to elected members; allow appointees to continue to serve in accordance with their appointments until December 31, 2026; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2026.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 235 to create a derelict vessel removal assistance fund to be administered by the Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources; require the department to submit a report on the fund beginning September 1, 2024; prohibit persons from abandoning derelict vessels in the Commonwealth; authorize owners of private property to remove derelict vessels at owner's expense after notice; require the Department of Fish and Wildlife to remove derelict vessels and establish criteria for when the removal of an abandoned water vessel is necessary, use amounts deposited into the derelict vessel removal assistance fund to assist in the removal of water vessels from any waters of this state and allow local governments to apply for grants from the fund; accept bids and contract to provide for the removal of abandoned water vessels; and require the department to promulgate administrative regulations; amend KRS 235.010 to define terms; amend KRS 235.040 to require motorboat owners to have boat insurance with wreckage removal; amend KRS 235.050 to require insurance with wreckage removal when registering a motorboat; amend KRS 235.070 to prohibit renewal of registration is the owner does not have an insurance policy with wreckage removal; amend KRS 235.090 to require 50 percent of the fees received from KRS 235.080, 235.085, and 235.130 to the derelict vessel removal assistance fund; require transfers to be made quarterly, within 30 days of the close of each fiscal quarter; amend KRS 235.180 to give notice of destruction or abandon of a vessel to the department; amend KRS 235.250 to require proof of insurance; amend KRS 235.990 to make abandonment of a derelict vessel a Class B misdemeanor and impose a fine of $250 for each offense; amend KRS 235.999 to have all the fines collected from abandonment of derelict vessels or making false statements about possessing insurance to be credited to the derelict vessel removal assistance fund. APPROPRIATION.

Amend KRS 224A.1123 to remove the requirement that an eligible pole replacement be located in an unserved area; allow for an eligible pole replacement to be made in order to provide qualifying broadband service access to underserved areas; include a pole owner as an eligible applicant for a pole replacement if it has received written notification from a qualified broadband service provider of the provider's planned route for deploying qualifying broadband service and the pole owner replaces a pole along the planned route that would not otherwise need to be replaced except to accommodate broadband facilities; require that a retail provider of qualifying broadband service reimburse the rural infrastructure improvement fund for eligible pole replacement costs paid to a utility pole owner if the retail broadband provider changed its planned deployment route after the pole owner replaced a pole and received reimbursement from the fund for making the replacement.

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 Chief Greg Estes on being named the 2023 Kentucky Volunteer Fire Chief of the Year.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 16 to require the Department of Kentucky State Police to provide for training for forensic lab technicians; require any forensic lab technician that completes training provided for by the department to remain employed with the department for at least five years; provide that if a forensic lab technician does not remain employed with the department for at least five years shall be required to repay training costs incurred by the department.

Amend KRS 216B.020 to add various health facilities and services to the list of health facilities and services that are exempt from certificate of need requirements; amend KRS 216B.065 to exempt various health facilities and services from acquisition of facilities or major medical equipment notification and certificate of need requirements; amend KRS 216.380 to conform.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish the sustainable aviation fuel tax credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, but before January 1, 2035; compute credit based on $2.50 per gallon of sustainable aviation fuel consumed by taxpayers; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish the nonrefundable feedstock production tax credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2025, but before January 1, 2035; compute credit based on the amount of usable feedstock produced in this state; amend KRS 141.0205 for the ordering of the tax credits; amend KRS 131.190 to allow reporting by the Department of Revenue on the credits; amend KRS 154.27-010 and 154.27-020 to allow incentives for sustainable aviation fuel facilities with a minimum investment of $100 million; create an appropriation of $25 million for economic development projects for the production of sustainable aviation fuel with a minimum investment of $100,000,000; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.

Amend KRS 150.170 to remove the requirement that resident owners of farmlands must own five or more acres of land in order to be exempt from sport hunting and sport fishing license requirements when hunting or fishing on their own farmlands.