Recognize March 2, 2022, as Read Across America Day.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 243 to authorize a retail food establishment wine and distilled spirits license; limit the license to the owner or lessee of a retail food store or combination retail food store and food service establishment; amend KRS 243.030, 243.060, and 243.070 to set a $500 annual state and local fee for a retail food establishment wine and distilled spirits license; amend KRS 243.0307 to allow a retail food establishment wine and distilled spirits license holder to also hold a sampling license.

Amend KRS 202A.011 to include definitions for "emergency medical services" and "medical clearance"; amend KRS 202A.028, 202A.041, 202A.051, 202A.0813, and 202A.101 to designate who may transport respondents under this chapter and the responsibility for the costs associated with transport; amend KRS 202A.041 to decrease the period a person may be held pending certification from 18 hours to 12 hours; amend KRS 202A.051 and 202A.0831 to establish that a sheriff or certified peace officer shall not be required to stay at a facility accepting a patient under this chapter unless the person is charged with a criminal offense; amend KRS 202A.202 to establish protocols for the transfer of a patient between facilities within the same network; amend KRS 210.300 regarding factors to consider in designating hospital districts.

Create the Task Force on Election Security to examine the security of Kentucky elections, examine current election security processes in place and actions by other states, and investigate the use of statewide risk limiting audits; outline the membership; require the task force to meet at least 4 times during the 2022 interim; require the task force to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2022.

Create a new section of KRS 382 to require a seller of residential property conduct and pay for a tests to determine lead content as a condition of sale; create a new section of KRS 211 to establish a lead mitigation and control fund; create a new section of KRS 383 to require a landlord to conduct lead testing and inform tenants of results; amend KRS 324.360 to add additional disclosures to the seller's disclosure of conditions form.

Repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 157.320, 157.069, 157.200, 157.350, 157.360, 157.370, 157.390, 157.420, 157.621, 157.660, 158.030, 158.070, 159.035, 159.075, 159.090, 160.107, 160.345, 160.486, 160.593, 160.6152, 160.644. and 164.380 to transition the school funding model from using average daily attendance to average daily membership; make conforming changes; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2024.

Amend KRS 15.705 to expand the membership of the Prosecutors Advisory Council from 9 members to 13 members; amend the requirements for selection to the council for Commonwealth's attorneys; allow the membership of the Commonwealth's Attorneys Association to elect their members; amend the requirements for selection to the council for county attorneys; allow the membership of the County Attorneys Association to elect their members; allow the Attorney General to appoint the nonattorney citizen members from a list of 3 names submitted by the Commonwealth's Attorney Association and the County Attorneys Association; provide members shall serve for two year terms;provide that Commonwealth's attorneys and county attorneys shall not serve more than 1 consecutive term.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to state how to interpret the Act; define terms; allow law enforcement officers to petition a court to issue crisis aversion and rights retention orders when a respondent poses a present danger of causing serious physical injury to themselves or others through purchasing, possessing, or receiving a firearm; establish procedures for the filing, review, hearing, termination, or renewal of the petition and orders; provide court processes and evidentiary standards; allow entry of the orders into law enforcement systems; prescribe issuance and service procedures for resulting protection orders; establish procedures for the surrender, storage, transfer, and return of firearms; establish penalties; allow for recognition and enforcement of foreign orders; amend KRS 431.015 to allow warrantless arrest for violations of the orders; amend KRS 31.110 and 431.076 to conform.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a nonrefundable tax credit for security modifications made to the exterior of a residential home or commercial property; establish that the credit shall be equal to the installed costs not to exceed $5,000 per taxable year, with an aggregate total of $10 million per taxable year of all credits allocated as $5 million as credits against the tax imposed under KRS 141.020 and $5 million as credits against the tax imposed under KRS 141.040 and 141.0401; provide that the income limitation for individuals and joint filers shall be $150,000 in adjusted gross income; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the credit; amend KRS 131.091 to allow reporting by the Department of Revenue.

Amend various sections of KRS Chapters 116, 117, 118, and 119 relating to no-excuse in-person absentee voting, establishing excused in-person absentee voting, prohibiting the early disclosure of unofficial ballot count totals, requiring a tamper resistant seal to be placed on voting equipment, recording the public counter on voting machines before and after the days of in-person absentee voting, changing the time from which the State Board of Elections is required to furnish the county clerk with the appropriate voter registration list prior to an election from five to six days, permitting a disabled voter and military and overseas voters the ability to use the same electronic transmission system for requesting mail-in absentee ballots, removing the requirement that a voter return a mail-in absentee ballot seven days prior to an election, central ballot counting board requirements, ballot box requirements, location designation for the counting and reviewing of mail-in absentee ballots, prohibitions relating to voting equipment and systems from being connected to the internet, requirements relating to securing and locking voting equipment and voting systems, submission of precinct-by-precinct summary reports, requirements relating to the in-person absentee ballot signature roster, requiring a secure online connection for the transmittal of unofficial election results, requirements relating to external devices used to upload election results, requirements related to election officers duties of election administration, requiring the State Board of Elections to promulgate administrative regulations, changing the filing deadline for unexpired terms of partisan races, and creating a Class D Felony for any person who directly connects or attempts to directly connect a voting machine, voting equipment, or voting system to a public network, including the Internet; EMERGENCY.

Amend KRS 177.905, to change the definition of "road" to include only those highways which are a part of the national highway system; amend KRS 177.912 to require any auto recycler to comply with all local ordinances, rules, and regulations, regardless if the auto recycler is required to be permitted under KRS 177.910; specify that for any auto recycler required to be permitted under KRS 177.910, the commissioner of highways may exempt the auto recycler from the permit process, if the local government certifies the auto recycler's compliance as a conforming use in an industrially zoned area under the applicable zoning ordinances and regulations; allow recyclers permitted by the department on the effective date of the Act, but no longer subject to department oversight to continue operation on the same site for which they were permitted; keep screening, site, and use restrictions imposed by the department in place unless removed by a planning and zoning body, city, or county; give responsibility for enforcement at the local level to county attorneys.

Amend KRS 311.586 to add gender-neutral language.

Amend KRS 158.792 to include the employment of reading interventionists as a purpose of the reading diagnostic and intervention fund; prevent the state board of education from limiting grant recipients from expending grant funds for authorized purposes; direct that grant applications currently under consideration shall be subject to this Act; EMERGENCY.

Amend KRS 45A.077, relating to public-private partnerships for capital projects with an aggregate walue of $25 million or more, to adjust the date to July 1, 2024 for authorization by the General Assembly.

Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.