Sen. Mike Wilson

Establish the Workforce Attraction and Retention Task Force; list duties and members of the task force; require the task force to meet monthly during the 2024 Interim of the General Assembly; require the Cabinet for Economic Development to hire the consulting and strategic firm and provide a report to the task force by November 1, 2024; require the task force to submit a report by December 1, 2024, for referral to the appropriate committee or committees by December 31, 2024; EMERGENCY.

Direct the Council on Postsecondary Education to conduct a study on expanding postbaccalaureate program offerings at comprehensive universities; consult with each president of a comprehensive university to consider a regional economic development or workforce development need that may be met by a postbaccalaureate program.

Amend KRS 156.160 to require cursive writing to be included as a course of study in all elementary schools beginning in the 2025-2026 school year; create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to establish a public high school graduation requirement that a student demonstrate the ability to sign his or her own name in cursive; direct the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to administer the section and create a waiver process for students physically unable to demonstrate a cursive signature; require all public high schools to offer a course in typing and cursive writing; direct Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to establish academic standards for the course; require successful completion of the course to be a graduation requirement from the 2025-2026 school year through the 2028-2029 school year.

Confirm the reappointment of Gordon Ferrell Jones to the Kentucky Agricultural Development Board for a term expiring July 6, 2027.

Confirm the appointment of Cynthia Jean Nichols to the Western Kentucky University Board of Regents for a term expiring July 9, 2029.

Honor the extraordinary service of Senator John Schickel to the Commonwealth of Kentucky upon his retirement from the General Assembly.

Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Jessie "Jess" J. Adkins.

Honor Senator Denise Harper Angel upon her retirement from the General Assembly.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; provide that a student or employee of a public postsecondary education institution shall not be penalized, discriminated against, or receive any adverse treatment due to the individual's refusal to support or endorse any divisive concept; provide that a student or employee of a public postsecondary education institution shall not be required to endorse a specific ideology or political viewpoint to be eligible for hiring, contract renewal, tenure, promotion, or graduation and prohibit an institution from inquiring into the individual's political or social viewpoints; provide that any person aggrieved by a violation of this Act has a cause of action against the institution for damages and costs of no less than $1,000 and no more than $100,000 per violation; waive sovereign, governmental, and qualified immunity; require the job duties of any individual employed in a diversity, equity, and inclusion role to include the promotion of intellectual diversity; provide that nothing in the section shall be interpreted to infringe upon designated rights of an institution's ability to comply with state or federal law or accreditation standards; require each public postsecondary education institution to conduct a survey in 2025 and 2027 of the institution's students and employees to assess the campus climate with regard to diversity of thought and the respondents' comfort level in speaking freely on campus, regardless of political affiliation or ideology.

Recognize and commend the Louisville Fire Department rescue squad that executed a rescue on the Clark Memorial Bridge, and the Louisville Metro Police and emergency medical services personnel that responded to the scene.