Recognizing the 250 year tradition of opening prayers for legislative session days.

Recognize February 26 to March 1, 2024, as Public Schools Week.

Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Jessie "Jess" J. Adkins.

Creates new sections of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Teacher Recruitment Student Loan Forgiveness Pilot Program, to defines eligibility for the program, to direct the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to administer the program, to provides monetary awards for student loan repayment for eligible students who complete qualified teaching service, to establish the Teacher Recruitment Student Loan Forgiveness Pilot Program fund, to establish the Student Teacher Stipend Program; defines eligibility for the program, to direct the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to administer the program, and to provide an award of up to $5,000 to an eligible student teacher; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.

Amends KRS 95A.262 to permit the Kentucky Fire Commission to establish a reimbursement program for cancer screenings for firefighters.

Amend KRS 158.165 to require local boards of education to adopt a policy to, at a minimum, prohibit student use of a personal telecommunications device during instructional time with specific exceptions.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to require each local school board to include at least one student representative; require each local school board to adopt a school board student representative policy, set minimum requirements for the school board student representative policy.

Honor Nelson County Sheriff Ramon Pineiroa Jr. for being selected 2023 Sheriff of the Year.

Recognize January 27, 2024, as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to provide that members of local boards, commissions, committees, and other bodies created by or appointed by consolidated local governments have geographic diversity; amends KRS 67C.103 to require that the election of council members in a consolidated local government be nonpartisan; amends KRS 67C.105 to require that the election of a mayor in a consolidated local government be nonpartisan; amends KRS 67C.111, regarding incorporation and annexation of cities in a county containing a consolidated local government, to adjust the number of signatures required in a petition for mandatory action, to prohibit a mayoral veto of the consolidated local government council, and to prohibit a city in a county containing a consolidated local government from annexing commercial real estate, as defined, primarily for the purpose of obtaining occupational license, net profits, or gross receipts taxes revenue unless the annexation is consented to by each property owner in the area to be annexed; amends KRS 67C.147, relating to urban service taxing districts in consolidated local governments, to require that the consolidated local government reimburse fire districts operating under KRS Chapter 75 that made emergency medical runs within the area of the urban service tax district, to index that reimbursement to the increase in the consumer price index, to prohibit a consolidated local government from charging a fire district for any expenses it did not charge the district prior to January 1, 2024, and to establish graduated percentages of internal funding for the urban service district for the services it provides from 85 percent to 100 percent running from 2025 to 2034, with increases in the percentage every three years; amends KRS 67C.321, relating to disciplinary procedures of police officers in consolidated local governments, to allow for a pre-disciplinary hearing and establishes procedures; amends KRS 67C.323, relating to disciplinary procedures of police officers in consolidated local governments and disciplinary review by the board, to stipulate that executive session discussions be without the parties to the appeal; amends KRS 67C.326, relating to complaints regarding consolidated local government police officers, to define “citizen,” “complaint,” “disciplinary action,” “interrogation,” and “misconduct,” to make technical changes, to establish procedures for hearings for an officer accused of misconduct by individuals within the officer’s department or by citizens, to set conditions for notices of interrogation of the police officer and requirements for written reports of the alleged incident leading to the complaint, to expand written notice from 72 hours to 12 days for notice to a police officer of a hearing and for the review of documents, to stipulate that the board, rather than an appointing authority, legislative body, or other body as designated by the Kentucky Revised Statutes, has the duty to subpoena for witnesses and the production of documentary evidence, to stipulate that officers who have been suspended without pay and who are found not guilty are reinstated with full back pay and benefits, to allow the hearing to be conducted in a closed session unless the police officer requests otherwise, to specify that the provisions of the section do not affect rights given to the police officer by statute, ordinance, or agreement, to permit a consolidated local government to investigate and charge an officer, to allow the suspension or reassignment of a police officer during an investigation and pending the final disposition of charges, to establish the Property Valuation Review Commission to review assessments in a county containing a consolidated local government, to ensure that the assessments are consistent and uniform, to provide for appointments by the mayor from recommendations of various entities, to require that the commission report to the Legislative Research Commission, the mayor and metro council of the consolidated local government, and the Finance and Administration Cabinet no later than December 31, 2024, to prohibit consolidated local governments from amending their land development code zoning classifications in their land development code to change permitted, conditional, or any other uses involving residential uses or change the characteristics of those uses that could increase the allowable density of residential units per acre or any other unit describing land size or inhabitants of any residential units in any zoning district classifications within the prescribed time limits from the effective date of the Act and prior to April 15, 2025, and to require the mayors of consolidated local governments to conduct a review of planning and zoning statutes relative to consolidated local governments and the governments’ needs relative to housing and their land development code; amends KRS 117.125 to conform; and amends KRS 177.360 to direct consolidated local governments to establish procedures to prioritize projects undertaken with county road aid funds; Sections 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, and 10 EFFECTIVE January 1, 2025; EMERGENCY, in part.

Creates new sections of KRS Chapter 237 to prohibit certain entities from requiring, incentivizing, or assigning a merchant category code that distinguishes a firearms retailer from other retailers, to prohibit keeping or causing to be kept any list, record, or registry of private firearm ownership, to require that the Attorney General enforce provisions, and provide that the Act may be cited as the Second Amendment Privacy Act.

Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require insurers and any exchange to provide a special enrollment period for pregnant individuals; specify requirements for the coverage; require group plan insurers to provide notice of special enrollment rights; amend KRS 18A.225 and 164.2871 to require the state employee health plan and self-insured state postsecondary education institution group health plans to comply with the special enrollment requirements; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require Medicaid to cover lactation support services and breastfeeding supplies; amend KRS 199.894 to define terms related to the Child Care Assistance Program; create a new section of KRS Chapter 199.892 to 199.896 to establish the Child Care Assistance Program; amend KRS 139.010 and 139.480 to exempt certain postnatal supplies from the sales and use tax; amend KRS 141.067 to make the existing child and dependent care tax credit refundable for tax years 2025 to 2028; create new sections of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a refundable adoption services tax credit for tax years 2025 to 2028 and establish a nonrefundable qualified contribution tax credit for tax years 2025 to 2028; amend KRS 141.019 and 141.039 to disallow the charitable contribution deduction if the qualified contribution tax credit is take for the same contribution; amend KRS 141.0205 for ordering of tax credits; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on newly created tax credits; appropriate to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services in the 2024-2026 biennium: $200,000 for expansion of the Women, Infants, and Children Farmers Market Nutrition Assistance Program to include Jefferson County; APPROPRIATION; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2025, and August 1, 2024.

Amend KRS 158.1415 to require a school district to adopt health curricula that includes human growth and development instruction that meets specific criteria; set restrictions for the instruction that grants parents an opportunity to review materials and opt their child out of instruction; authorize the Attorney General to bring an action for a writ of mandamus to compel a school district to comply; create a cause of action to permit parents and students over the age of 18 to file a civil action a school district for injunctive relief for a violation of this section; waive sovereign and governmental immunity; provide that the Act may be cited as the Baby Olivia Act.

Amends KRS 158.110 to require that local school boards adopt a transportation services policy; amends KRS 158.148, relating to school district discipline guidelines, to require that the Kentucky Department of Education create a model transportation services policy, to detail required provisions of local board transportation services policies, to create process for operators of transportation to report, be heard during proceedings, and receive a response regarding misconduct by students aboard transportation and by parents or guardians, to permit revocation of transportation privileges based on failure to acknowledge transportation services policy, and to require that any action related to students with disabilities be in compliance with applicable federal law; and amends KRS 158.445 to require inclusion of the transportation services policy in district safety plans.

Amend KRS 405.020 to allow people other than a parent to petition for custody of child if the parent is claimed to be unfit or to have waived his or her superior rights custody; provide factors to be considered by the court.