Create a new section of KRS 211.672 to 211.678 to establish the Perinatal Advisory Committee to review Kentucky’s system of perinatal care and make recommendations for the improvement of perinatal outcomes within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; establish duties, membership, and reporting requirements of the committee.

Amends KRS 198B.706 to allow the Kentucky Board of Home Inspectors to promulgate administrative regulations following review of the director of the Division of Real Property Boards; amends KRS 198B.724 to establish continuing education requirements for licensees, and amends the continuing education grace period to reflect the continuing education deadline established by the Kentucky Board of Home Inspectors; amends KRS 324.085 to establish continuing education requirements for licensees, and amends the continuing education grace periods to reflect the continuing education deadlines established by the Kentucky Real Estate Commission; amends KRS 324.281 to require the chair of the commission to submit written recommendations to the secretary of the Public Protection Cabinet regarding staffing needs and relevant experience necessary to carry out the functions of the commission, and requires the secretary of the cabinet to consider the staffing recommendations and requests submitted by the chair; amends KRS 324A.020 to allow the Real Estate Appraisers Board to promulgate administrative regulations following review of the director of the division; amends KRS 324A.045 to establish continuing education requirements for licensees, and amends the continuing education grace period to reflect the continuing education deadline established by the Real Estate Appraisers Board; amends KRS 324A.154 to allow the Real Estate Appraisers Board to promulgate administrative regulations following review of the director of the division; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 324B to create the Division of Real Property Boards within the Public Protection Cabinet, to direct the director of the division and the chair of each board to submit written recommendations to the cabinet regarding sufficient staffing needs, to require the secretary of the cabinet to consider the staffing recommendations and requests submitted by the executive director of the Kentucky Real Estate Authority, the director of the division, and the chair of each board, to require the executive director of the authority and the director of the division to have a minimum of seven years of experience in the real estate industry within the last 15 years, and to require the secretary of the cabinet to provide the division, the authority, and boards with documentation showing the income and expenditures of all license fees; amends KRS 324B.060 to require that the executive director of the authority have a minimum of seven years of experience in the real estate industry within the last 15 years; amends KRS 330.050 to allow the Board of Auctioneers to promulgate administrative regulations following review of the director of the division; amends KRS 330.070 to establish continuing education requirements for licensees, to amend the continuing education grace period to reflect the continuing education deadline established by the board, to establish the conditions upon which a license may be canceled; and amends other sections to conform.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to prohibit unlawful storage of a firearm; establish elements of the crime as recklessly allowing access to an unsecured firearm by a minor; establish the crime as a Class B misdemeanor unless a physical injury or death results, in which case it is a Class A misdemeanor; provide that the Act may be cited as the Baby Dre Gun Safety Act.

Recognize and honor the life-saving actions of Corporal Ben Webb.

Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 339 to allow a nonprofit organization to apply to the Department of Workplace Standards to create a work program for minors 12 or 13 years of age, to require that the primary benefit of the work performed provide vocational and educational value to the minors, to establish requirements and prohibitions for participation, to establish minimum wage requirements for youth participants, to require employment to not operate on student attendance days, to provide an exemption to allow a nonprofit that currently operates or has previously operated a program to apply to the department to allow a minor to work on school attendance days but not during regular school hours, to prohibit a minor from working if the nonprofit organization was aware that the minor missed school that day, to require that the nonprofit bear the burden of proof to justify the necessity of a program on school attendance days, to require that the department be the sole decision maker in the approval or denial of any work program under this Act, and to require the department to promulgate administrative regulations; and amends KRS 339.210 to conform.

Creates new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to establish consumer rights relating to personal data; defines terms; exempts certain persons or entities from the statutory provisions of this Act; establishes certain consumer rights relating to personal data, including the rights to confirm whether data is being processed, to correct any inaccuracies in the consumer’s personal data, to delete personal data provided by the consumer, to obtain a copy of the consumer’s personal data that was previously provided, and to opt out of targeted advertising, the sale of data, or profiling of the consumer; sets forth requirements for persons or entities that control and process consumer data; establishes that the Attorney General has exclusive authority to enforce the consumer data privacy rights; creates a consumer privacy fund to be administered by the Office of the Attorney General; and provides that the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Consumer Data Protection Act. EFFECTIVE January 1, 2026.

Amends KRS 205.506 to establish the conditions under which a recovery residence may provide on-site clinical services or access to on-site clinical services; amends KRS 222.500 to define terms related to recovery residences; amends KRS 222.502 to permit a recovery residence that provides on-site clinical services or access to on-site clinical services to continue to operate without certification from a certifying organization until December 31, 2024; and amends KRS 222.504 to authorize the Cabinet for Health and Family Services and local governments to impose civil fines on uncertified recovery residences.

Amend KRS 161.155 to require school districts to provide up to 40 days of maternity leave to teachers without a deduction of salary; require accrued sick leave to be taken first and concurrently; allow a teacher to reserve up to 30 days of sick leave; amend various sections of KRS to conform.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 231 to express the findings of the General Assembly relating to adult-oriented businesses and the need for regulation; define terms; establish distance parameters for the location of adult-oriented businesses in proximity to identified entities and locations; establish transition provisions for existing businesses; affirm the authority of local governmental units to supplement regulation of adult-oriented businesses; EMERGENCY.

Repeal and reenact KRS 344.010 to define various terms; amend KRS 344.020, relating to the purpose of the Kentucky's civil rights chapter, to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.025, 344.040, 344.050, 344.060, 344.070, and 344.080, relating to prohibited discrimination in various labor and employment practices, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.100 and 344.110 to conform; amend KRS 344.120 and 342.140, relating to prohibited discrimination in places of public accommodation and advertisements therefor, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or 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 or 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 discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.367, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain insurance sales, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; amend KRS 344.400, relating to prohibited discrimination in certain credit transactions, to include discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation or gender identity; make various technical amendments; amend KRS 18A.095 to conform.

Amend KRS 220.510 to prohibit a sanitation district from imposing any fee, tax, surcharge, or other charge for the provision of service to a property unless the property is connected to a sanitary sewer owned or maintained by the sanitation district or there is an approved plan to connect the property to a sanitary sewer owned or maintained by the sanitation district within two years, the property discharges storm water to a storm sewer or storm water improvement owned or operated by the sanitation district and if it discharges to a new improvement or facility that it not be more than one mile from the nearest property boundary, the person responsible for the charge has agreed to the charges in writing with the sanitation district that provides the service; amend KRS 220.515 to conform; provide that the Act may be cited as the Ensuring Fair Sewer Charges Act.

Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Judith "Judy" Allen.

Amends KRS 26A.140 to state that the guardians ad litem shall receive a fee fixed by the court and paid by the Finance and Administration Cabinet; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 403.715 to 403.785 to require appointment of a guardian ad litem for any unrepresented minor who is an alleged victim of domestic violence and abuse, or who is named as a respondent or petitioner in a petition for an emergency protective order or domestic violence order, and to provide that a violation of an interpersonal protective order or a domestic violence order may constitute a criminal offense if the offender is an adult or a public offense if the offender is a juvenile; and creates a new section of KRS Chapter 456 to require appointment of a guardian ad litem for any unrepresented minor who is an alleged victim of dating violence and abuse, sexual assault, or stalking or who is named as a respondent or petitioner in a petition for an interpersonal protective order.

Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 292 to establish a registration exemption for private fund advisers, to establish requirements for the exemption, to direct where filings shall be made, to require that investment advisers comply with registration requirements within 90 days of becoming ineligible for exemption, and to permit the commissioner of the Department of Financial Institutions to waive certain provisions; and amends KRS 292.330 to conform and to make technical amendments.

Amend KRS 311B.050 to require the Kentucky Board for Medical Imaging and Radiation Therapy to create and enforce policies and procedures that ensure a patient's right to record any procedure performed by an individual who is licensed by the board; amend KRS 311B.110 to require practitioners licensed as an advanced imaging professional, a medical imaging technologist, a radiographer, a radiation therapist, a nuclear medicine technologist, or a limited X-ray machine operator to allow a patient to record any procedure performed upon the patient.