Appropriate $162 million and $12 million in fiscal year 2022-2023 to fund a one-time one and one-half percent cost-of-living adjustment effective July 1, 2022, for Kentucky Employees Retirement System nonhazardous and hazardous duty retirees/beneficiaries, respectively; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.

Amend KRS 45A.110 require a bidder to state whether the bidder has received two or more civil penalties under KRS Chapters 337, 338, 339, or 341 prior to a determination of responsibility of the bidder.

Amend KRS 65.870 to remove state preemption of local firearms regulations and allow local governments to enact ordinances regulating firearms; amend KRS 237.115 to conform; EMERGENCY.

Amend KRS 337.010 to define "essential employee"; amend KRS 337.275 to set a minimum wage for essential employees; EMERGENCY.

Amend KRS 141.069 to include educational institutions that participate in the Academic Common Market in accordance with the Regional Compact of Southern States for Regional Educational Services, as established in KRS 164.530 and add reporting requirements; amend KRS 131.190 allowing the Department of Revenue to report on this credit.

Honor the University of Kentucky football team upon the occasion of their fourth consecutive bowl game victory.

Amend KRS 147A.100 to require the Department for Local Government to allocate funds to the area development districts by a specific formula and allow a reduction in the allocation upon unanimous written direction of all area development districts; appropriate $2,000,000 for fiscal year 2023 and $2,000,000 for fiscal year 2024 from the general fund to the Department for Local Government to allocate to area development districts; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.

Amend KRS 158.4414 to require local school boards to ensure at least one school resource officer works full-time on-site at each school in the district by July 1, 2025; require the state school security marshal to determine placement of school resource officers on a per school basis in the district through June 30, 2025, using the incidents listed in KRS 158.444 if funds and personnel are not available; allow school resource officers to carry a taser or a firearm; APPROPRIATION.

Confirm the reappointment of W. Greg Harvey as administrative law judge at the Department of Workers' Claims for a term expiring on December 31, 2025.

Amend KRS 304.17A-163 to define terms; establish requirements for clinical review criteria and clinical practice guidelines used to establish step therapy protocols; require certain notices and disclosures relating to step therapy protocols; establish requirements for exception requests, internal appeals, and external reviews of step therapy protocols; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require the commissioner of insurance to promulgate administrative regulations; require insurers, health plans, pharmacy benefit managers, or private review agents to submit an annual report relating to step therapy exception requests; amend KRS 304.17A-168, 304.17A-535, 304.17A-600, 304.17A-607, 304.17A-617, and 304.17A-623 to conform; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485, 164.2871, and 18A.225 to require Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program, self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution, and the state employee health plan to comply with the step therapy protocol requirements; apply to health plans delivered, issued for delivery, or renewed on or after the effective date of Sections 1 to 12 of the Act; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to seek a federal waiver of authorization if necessary; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2023.

Propose an amendment to Section 54 of the Constitution of Kentucky to allow the General Assembly the power to limit noneconomic damages for injuries resulting in death or for injuries to persons or property, and the power to provide statutes of limitation; provide for submission to the voters.

Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of John "Rusty" Rednour.

Amend KRS 413.249 to remove the statute of limitations for civil actions arising from childhood sexual assault or abuse; to provide that every civil action arising from childhood sexual assault or abuse be accompanied by a motion to seal the record.

Express support for the State of Israel and opposition to the international Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions movement which seeks to harm the State of Israel.

Recognize Kentucky's native daughter, United States Navy Commander Billie J. Farrell, for her extensive service and congratulate her on becoming the 77th Commanding Officer of the U.S.S. Constitution.