Create a new section of KRS Chapter 159 to allow the enrollment of a child on a part-time basis in a school district; establish conditions for the part-time enrollment; amend KRS 158.120 to prohibit a district's nonresident pupil policy from discriminating against any pupil on the basis of residential address, abilities, disability, race, ethnicity, sex, or socioeconomic status; require the policy be posted on the district website; prohibit charging tuition to any child; require a board of education to establish policies for a calculation to determine enrollment capacity; establish requirements for a district's nonresident pupil policy; require districts to report to the Kentucky Department of Education numbers related to nonresident pupils and require the department to publish the reports on the department's website, authorize the department to promulgate administrative regulations for nonresident enrollment appeals processes and forms; amend KRS 157.350 and 156.070 to conform.

Repeal and reenact KRS 162.060 to establish that local boards of education submit all plans for new public school buildings or additions or alterations of old buildings to the chief state school officer; prohibit the Kentucky Department of Education from requiring prior approval of the district's plans; prohibit a project for new school buildings from spending more than 10 percent of the project on the acquisition and improvement of land; provide a waiver process; amend KRS 156.160 to require the administrative regulation promulgated by the Kentucky Board of Education on the construction of school buildings be subject to a review and update process; provide for the approval and appeal process for a district's purchase or disposal of real property; provide a waiver and appeal process from standards for plans and specifications of buildings; amend KRS 156.095 to update language and require the department to establish a professional development program and a list of similar professional development offerings for district personnel on facilities management, construction, and management; require districts to use the professional development program; amend KRS 157.420 conform and authorize a district to use capital outlay funds to employ facility related personnel as defined by the department; establish the requirements for a district facilities plan; establish dangerous levels of radon within a school facility as an emergency that may be addressed outside the district facilities plan process and the funds that may be used to mitigate radon; amend KRS 157.440, 157.615, 157.620, 157.621, 157.622, 158.814, and 160.105 to conform; amend KRS 160.160 to remove the requirement for a district to obtain prior approval from the department for a mortgage or lien on a school building or for leasing a building; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2024; EMERGENCY.

Amend 160.210 to establish new numbers for membership of a local board of education based on district enrollment; require the Kentucky Board of Education to determine the required number of members every 10 years; provide for the election of additional members and for the reduction of membership; require local boards of education to report new electoral divisions to the Kentucky Board of Education and the Legislative Research Commission; amend KRS 160.160 to establish a one year term for chair and vice chair of the local board of education; require superintendents to submit reports on closed personnel investigations to the local board of education for the purposes of policy oversight and evaluation of the superintendent's performance; amend KRS 160.180 to require open records and open meetings training for local board members and make conforming changes, permit the hiring of relatives of a local board member; amend KRS amend KRS 160.190, 160.200, 160.380, 116.200, and 160.042 to conform; require the Kentucky Board of Education to implement Section 1 of this Act by December 31, 2024; require superintendents to submit reports on previous personnel investigations closed during the superintendent's contract to the local board of education within 30 days of the effective date of this Act.

Amends KRS 304.5-140 to limit the definition of “reciprocal jurisdiction” in certain provisions and to except certain provisions to the extent that the provisions conflict with a covered agreement; amends KRS 304.6-134 to modify exemptions from KRS 304.6-143 and 304.6-151; and amends KRS 304.37-020 to allow the commissioner of insurance to establish a timeframe for insurers to report material changes or additions to registrations.

Amend KRS 335.158 to establish requirements and standards for the provision of social work services via telehealth.

Establish new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to create a prevailing wage law for all public works projects; amend KRS 12.020, 99.480, 227.487, 151B.015, 337.010, and 337.990 to conform.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to define terms; establish a procedure for classifying workers as employees or independent contractors; amend KRS 337.990 to establish penalties for violations; amend KRS 45A.145 to prohibit contractors with multiple violations from contracting with the state for five years; create new sections of KRS Chapters 341 and 342, and amend KRS 131.190, to require the Department of Revenue, Office of Unemployment Insurance, and the Department of Workers' Claims to provide one another with any assessment or orders arising out of the misclassification of an employee; create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require the secretary of the Education and Labor Cabinet to develop a training program relating to employee misclassification; provide that Sections 1 to 10, 14 and 15 of this Act may be cited as the Kentucky Workers Fairness Act; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2025.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 75 to define "premises"; allow a fire protection district or subdistrict, or a volunteer fire department district, to assess a fee against a premises for the costs of maintaining necessary fire protection measures; establish billing and appeals process; set reporting requirements; create a new section of KRS Chapter 75A to define "premises"; allow a consolidated emergency services district board to assess a fee against a premises for the costs of maintaining necessary fire protection measures; establish billing and appeals process; set reporting requirements; create a new section of KRS Chapter 244 to establish a process for distilled spirits aging facilities to reimburse nearby property owners for cleaning expenses relating to whiskey fungus; require the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to promulgate administrative regulations to administer the program; define terms; include any affected property within a three mile radius of aging facilities; determine cleaning expenses based on costs incurred by the property owner and verify through an independent entity; direct the department to determine the cleaning expenses in the absence of an agreement; impose fines on distilled spirits licensees who disregard the reimbursement process; pay all cleaning expense reimbursements from moneys in the distilled spirits environmental fund; create a new section of KRS Chapter 138 to require distilled spirits barrel aging facilities to pay to the Department of Revenue a $0.25 environmental fee on each barrel stored on January 1 of each year; apply all provisions of KRS Chapter 131 to the fee; create a new section of KRS Chapter 244 to establish the distilled spirits environmental fund; authorize the fund to consist of moneys received from the barrel environmental fee and cleaning expense fines; direct the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to administer the fund; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2025; APPROPRIATION.

Amend KRS 164.295 to permit a comprehensive university to offer certain research doctoral degree programs upon fulfilling requirements promulgated by the Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE); permit a comprehensive university to describe itself as a research university or institution upon fulfilling requirements promulgated by CPE; direct CPE to promulgate administrative regulations establishing those requirements.

Amend KRS 217.015 to expand the definition of "home-based processor" to include roasted coffee beans in the list of foods a home-based processor may produce.

Amend KRS 67C.103 to provide that a runoff election shall be held if no candidate receives more than 50 percent of the total votes cast and the candidates receiving the two highest number of votes are of separate political parties; provide that the candidate receiving the highest number of votes cast shall be elected to fill the vacancy when no candidate receives more than 50 percent of the total votes cast and the candidates receiving the two highest number of votes are of the same political party; provide that a runoff election shall be held 45 days after the special election; provide that a runoff election shall not occur on a weekend or on a recognized holiday under 5 U.S.C. sec. 6103(a).

Amend KRS 322.470 to require professional land surveyors to provide seven days' written notice of a survey to the landowner; inform landowner regarding corners that lie on the land or affect its boundaries, and provide a copy of the survey to the landowner without charge upon request; allow landowners to discuss the survey with the professional land surveyor.

Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the Reverend C.E. Jacobs Memorial Bridge in Pulaski County.

Amends KRS 189.635 to define “law enforcement agency” and “department,” to allow law enforcement agencies to retain copies of accident reports filed with the Kentucky State Police, to allow law enforcement agencies access to vehicle accident reports and to contract with third parties to provide the reports to other entities that are eligible to receive them under the statute, and to specify that vehicle accident reports held by law enforcement agencies are exempt from the provisions of KRS 61.870 to 61.884, the Open Records Act, but are subject to the provisions of KRS 189.635; amends KRS 61.870 to conform; and makes technical corrections.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 338 to define terms; require employers who provide services in agriculture, construction, landscaping, and transportation to maintain a written heat illness prevention plan informing employees of policies and procedures to be followed when an employee is suffering from a heat illness; establish a penalty for a violation.