Create new sections of KRS Chapters 23A and 24A to establish remote or virtual attendance by a defendant who is in jail or other detention facility; specify proceedings when remote or virtual attendance is permitted; establish parameters to ensure protection of rights; provide permissive authority to attend civil hearing remotely or virtually.

Amend KRS 196.026 and 196.070 to reorganize the Department of Corrections; amend KRS 197.010 to define "institution"; amend KRS 196.701, 196.702, and 439.653 to conform; repeal KRS 197.011.

Amend KRS 154.24-060 to make technical corrections.

Appropriate from the General Fund $2,221,900 for fiscal year 2021-2022, $85,040,600 for fiscal year 2022-2023, and $88,016,800 for fiscal year 2023-2024; appropriate from Restricted Funds $75,000 for fiscal year 2022-2023 and $175,000 for fiscal year 2023-2024; detail Part II, General Provisions; detail Part III, Budget Reduction or Surplus Expenditure Plan; APPROPRIATION.

Amend KRS 344.450 to expand scope of permissible suits against state and local governments and limit defenses.

Amend KRS 40.050 to include gender-neutral language.

Amend KRS 216.510 to establish the definition of "restraint"; create a new section of KRS 216.510 to KRS 216.530 to allow a resident of a long-term care facility to request the use of bed rails; amend KRS 304.14-560 to conform.

Amend KRS 158.105 to include gender-neutral language.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 18A to prohibit trainings that promote bigotry, critical social justice, or revisionist history; provide that a public employer shall not discipline a public employee for refusing to participate in a training that violates the prohibition; require public employers to review trainings to ensure compliance; provide that willful or repeated violations shall be considered a violation of the employee code of conduct that justifies disciplinary sanction, create a cause of action for a violations; require a qualified plaintiff to exhaust the administrative remedies set forth in KRS Chapter 344 prior to bringing the action; provide that nothing in the section shall be interpreted to limit academic freedom of postsecondary faculty members or restrict the conduct or speech of students; amend KRS 344.010 to include public employee training that violates these provisions under the definition of " discrimination"; amend KRS 344.040 to provide that a pubic employer's actions to promote bigotry, critical social justice, or revisionist history shall create a presumption that the employer has knowingly created or contributed to a hostile work or learning environment; provide that the Act shall be severable; EMERGENCY.

Create new sections of Subchapter 20 of KRS Chapter 154 to establish a stillage management tax credit for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2023, but before January 1, 2027; establish the Stillage Management Board consisting of 13 voting and two nonvoting members; provide that the board is responsible for approval of the applications from stillage managers and reporting this to the Department of Revenue for processing of the return and tax credit; create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish the stillage management tax credit and reporting requirements for the Department of Revenue; amend KRS 141.0205 to provide the ordering of tax credits; amend KRS 131.190 to require reporting by the Department of Revenue; amend KRS 141.4242 to sunset the ethanol tax credit; provide that the last taxable year for the credit is prior to January 1, 2023; amend KRS 141.4244 to sunset the cellulosic tax credit; provide that the last taxable year for the credit is prior to January 1, 2023; amend KRS 141.389 to allow a refundable portion of the distilled spirits tax credit for distillers installing system to transform stillage material into a value-added product for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2023.

Amend KRS 61.675 to make technical changes.

Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.

Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the Jimmy Lee Memorial Highway in Johnson County.

Amend KRS 401.010 to allow a family member of a deceased person to posthumously change the deceased person's name if the name is the result of marriage to a person arrested for or charged with committing an offense intentionally, knowingly, or wantonly, which resulted in the death of the deceased; provide that the order of priority of family members is the same as in KRS 367.93117.

Amend KRS 344.010 to include definitions for "sexual orientation" and "gender identity"; amend KRS 344.020, relating to the purpose of the Kentucky's civil rights chapter, to include a prohibition on discrimination because of sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.040, 344.050, 344.060, 344.070, and 344.080, relating to prohibited discrimination in various labor and employment practices, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.025, 344.100, 344.110, and 18A.095 to conform; amend KRS 344.120 and 344.140, relating to prohibited discrimination in places of public accommodation and advertisements therefor, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.170, 344.180, 344.190, 344.300, and 344.310, relating to the state and local human rights commissions, to include prohibition of discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and gender identity in the scope of their powers and duties; amend KRS 344.360, 344.370, 344.380, and 344.680, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain housing, real estate, and other financial transactions, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.367, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain insurance sales, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; amend KRS 344.400, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain credit transactions, to include sexual orientation and gender identity; make various technical amendments; exempt the provisions of the Act from KRS 6.945(1); cite as the Kentucky Competes Act.