Create a new section of KRS Chapter 620 to allow the Department for Community Based Services to request a criminal justice agency to perform a federal name-based criminal history record check of each adult residing in a home in which a child is placed during an emergency placement; allow the Department for Kentucky State Police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation to charge a reasonable fee for processing a fingerprint-based criminal history record check.

Amend KRS 311.844, relating to physicians assistants, to revise continuing education requirements and to clarify that proof of completed course work in an individual's graduate program can qualify for pediatric head trauma requirements for licensure renewal; amend KRS 311.854 to increase the number of physician assistants a physician may supervise and enter into contracts with, and amend the application requirements to be a supervising physician.

Amend KRS 56.580 to prohibit closing portions of Capital Avenue in Frankfort; provide exceptions for emergency personnel.

Create new sections of KRS 278.010 to 278.450 to define "utility"; allow any utility that has received an order from the Public Service Commission making a general adjustment of the utility's base rate in the previous five years to file an application to adjust its base rate using a streamlined regulatory procedure; require the utility to file notice of its intent to file for a streamlined base rate adjustment between 30 to 60 days before filing its application; require the utility to file its application using a test period as defined in KRS 278.192; establish notice requirements for the filing of the application; require requests for intervention to be filed no later than 15 days after a utility files an application to use the streamlined regulatory procedure; establish intervenor requirements for requests for information and comments; allow applicant utilities to file responses to each intervenor's comments; establish public meeting requirements for taking public comments on a utility's application; require evidentiary hearings only if requested by the utility; require the Public Service Commission to review a utility's application to use the streamlined regulatory process within 120 days of its receipt and to order the utility to make the adjustments to its tariff rates to earn the authorized return on equity established in its most recent general rate case and to recover its historical cost of capital; allow any party to seek rehearing or review of the Public Service Commission's order; allow for net increases or decreases in certain listed items that were previously approved in the utility's last general rate adjustment to be adjusted to calculate a utility's revenue requirement; prohibit certain listed items from being adjusted in a streamlined rate proceeding; prohibit requesting a certificate of public convenience and necessity in a streamlined rate proceeding; allow a utility to terminate an approved streamlined rate proceeding by filing a general rate case; specify that the Public Service Commission's jurisdiction with regard to complaints or initiating proceedings on the reasonableness of a utility's rates is not limited; establish the purposes for which the Public Service Commission is required to allow recovery by a separate rate rider mechanism of capital, operational and maintenance costs, taxes, and a reasonable return for investment; prohibit a utility from seeking recovery under the section for anything that is recovered in their existing base rates; prohibit any recovery under the section unless the Public Service Commission deems the costs to be fair, just, and reasonable; repeal KRS 278.509.

Adjourn in honor and loving memory of U.S. Congressman Larry Jones Hopkins.

Amend KRS 214.155 to include cytomegalovirus (CMV) testing as part of the newborn screening program; create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to require the Department for Public Health in the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to provide public educational resources related to CMV; provide that the Act may be cited as the Bella Dawn Streeval Law.

Amend KRS 119.205 to prohibit payment to any person by a candidate or committee, or any person acting on behalf of a candidate or committee, for the purpose of transporting a voter to the polls; Class B misdemeanor; EMERGENCY.

Amend KRS 337.010 to increase the applicable threshold of employees of retail stores and service industries from $95,000 to $500,000 average annual gross volume of sales for the employer; amend KRS 337.275 to raise the state minimum wage to $8.20 per hour on the effective date of the Act, $9.15 per hour on July 1, 2023, $10.10 per hour on July 1, 2024, $11 per hour on July 1, 2025, $12.05 per hour on July 1, 2026, $13.10 per hour on July 1, 2027, $13.95 per hour on July 1, 2028, and $15 per hour on July 1, 2029; raise the state minimum wage for tipped employees to $2.13 per hour on the effective date of the Act, $3.05 per hour on July 1, 2023, $3.95 per hour on July 1, 2024, and $4.90 per hour on July 1, 2025; include anti-preemption language permitting local governments to establish minimum wage ordinances in excess of the state minimum wage.

Effective for the 2022 primary and for no other election, extend the filing deadline for all candidates to May 31, 2022; extend the date of the primary to the first Tuesday in August; permit the Secretary of State or the county clerk, as appropriate, to determine when the drawing for ballot positions and certifications will be held; permit the Secretary of State or the county clerk, as appropriate, to establish any other necessary elections deadlines for the 2022 primary; EMERGENCY.

Adjourn in honor and loving memory of William "Bill" Amey Jr.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to prohibit action against the license of a physician or physician assistant for a recommendation of medical treatment for COVID-19 including a prescription for a drug not approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration as a treatment for COVID-19; create a new section of KRS Chapter 314 to prohibit action against the license of an advanced practice registered nurse for a recommendation of medical treatment for COVID-19, including a prescription for a drug not approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration as a treatment for COVID-19; create a new section of KRS Chapter 315 to prohibit a pharmacist blocking or attempting to block a patient's access to a drug prescribed by a physician, physician assistant, or APRN on the basis that the United States Food and Drug Administration has not approved the drug as a treatment for COVID-19; prohibit action against the license of a pharmacist for dispensing a prescribed drug for the treatment of COVID-19 that has not been approved by the United States Food and Drug Administration as a treatment for COVID-19.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 38 to restrict the use of the Kentucky National Guard outside of state active duty unless Congress officially declares war or has taken official action pursuant to the United States Constitution and has satisfied any outstanding balance to the Kentucky National Guard; establishment a short title of Defend the Guard Act.

Honor Albert B. Chandler Hospital and recognize April 24, 2022, as UK Albert B. Chandler Hospital Appreciation Day.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 6 to establish a school fiscal impact statement to evaluate the potential costs that would be incurred by school districts and other parts of the common school system by passing certain legislation; establish the requirements and components of the statement; authorize the director of the Legislative Research Commission to implement policies and procedures necessary to produce the statements; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2024.

Amend KRS 217.015, 217.125, 217.126, and 217.128 to establish standards for statewide mobile food units; create a new section of KRS Chapter 217 to establish operational, inspection, and regulation standards for statewide mobile food units; amend KRS 217.136, 217.137, 304.17A-741, 315.010, and 411.600 to conform.