Honor the Rotary Club of Elkton and recognize its 100 years of service.

Directs the Council on Postsecondary Education to conduct a study on expanding postbaccalaureate program offerings at comprehensive universities; and directs the council to consult with each president of a comprehensive university to consider a regional economic development or workforce development need that may be met by a postbaccalaureate program.

Create new sections of Subchapter 20 of KRS Chapter 154 to establish the Kentucky Rural Jobs Act of 2024; allow the Cabinet for Economic Development to begin accepting applications from entities seeking approval as a growth fund; allow no more than $50 million of grants to be awarded as state matching capital for investments in growth businesses; establish the rural jobs development fund; appropriate $50 million in fiscal year 2024-2025 to the Rural Jobs Development Fund; provide that the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Rural Jobs Act of 2024; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.

Amend KRS 138.475 to exclude hybrid vehicles and hybrid motorcycles from the ownership fee paid annually when registering an electric or hybrid vehicle; amend KRS 186.010 and 186.050 to conform; make technical corrections; RETROACTIVE; EMERGENCY.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 96 to define terms; prohibit any utility operating under the chapter from constructing a facility that generates electricity using solar energy if constructing the facility would result in more than one percent of the total land area of any county where the proposed construction is to be located being occupied by solar electric generating facilities; amend KRS 278.020 to prohibit the Public Service Commission from granting an application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity for a facility that uses solar energy to produce electricity if constructing the facility would result in more than one percent of the total land area of any county where the proposed construction is to be located being occupied by solar electric generating facilities; define terms; amend KRS 278.706 to require that as part of its construction certificate application to the siting board, a merchant electric generating facility owner shall certify that no portion of the proposed construction site will be located on land that was acquired through eminent domain and that the proposed site would not result in more than one percent of the total land area of any county where the proposed construction is to be located being occupied by solar electric generating facilities; define terms; create a new section of KRS Chapter 416 to prohibit the construction of any facility that generates electricity using solar energy on any land that was acquired by eminent domain; amend KRS 416.570 to require that as part of the verified petition required to be filed prior to an exercise of eminent domain, a condemnor shall certify that the proposed condemnation will not violate the prohibition on constructing solar electric generating facilities on condemned land.

Amends KRS 190.046 to establish that the compensation of a dealer for vehicles with a federal classification of seven or higher by a manufacturer, component manufacturer, or distributor shall not be less than the amount charged to retail customers for nonwarranty work or the dealer acquisition cost of parts or service.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to define "modified weapon"; provide that a licensed dealer may not deliver a modified weapon until seven days have elapsed from the date of the purchase application; create new sections of KRS Chapter 527 to provide that a person shall not possess a modified weapon if the person is under 21 years old; provide that no person shall knowingly sell or transfer a modified weapon to a person who is under 21 years old; establish penalties.

Amend KRS 337.010 to remove exemptions in definition of employee for agricultural workers and domestic service workers; amend KRS 342.630 to indicate that agricultural employers are subject to KRS Chapter 342; amend KRS 342.650 to remove exemptions for domestic service employees and agricultural employees from coverage under KRS Chapter 342; amend other statutes to conform.

Direct the Transportation Cabinet to conduct a study on the environmental impact of road salt and the feasibility of alternative deicing methods; require the results of the study to be submitted to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2025.

Amend KRS 311.571 to allow and add requirements for a physician licensed to practice medicine in another country to obtain a provisional license to practice medicine in the Commonwealth; add requirements for a provisional license to convert to a regular license; add conditions for the Board of Medical Licensure to revoke a provisional license.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 342 to define "educator" and set out when psychological injuries are valid workers' compensation claims for educators when no physical injury exists; amend KRS 342.0011 to clarify definition of "injury" to include certain psychological injuries experienced by educators.

Designate a bridge on Kentucky Route 358 in Ballard County as the Morris Crain Memorial Bridge.

Amend KRS 336.130 to delete references restricting rights of public employees to organize, associate collectively, or strike; amend KRS 336.180 to redefine "labor organization" and delete definitions of "candidate," "committee," "contributing organization," "contribution," "election," "electioneering communications," "employer," "fundraiser," "independent expenditure," "political activities," "public employee," "slate of candidates," and "testimonial affair"; amend KRS 336.990 to conform; amend KRS 67A.6904 to allow urban-county governments to make an agreement with a labor organization to require membership in the organization as a condition of employment; amend KRS 67C.406 to allow consolidated local governments to make an agreement with a labor organization to require membership in the organization as a condition of employment; amend KRS 70.262, 78.470, and 78.480 to remove exceptions; amend KRS 345.050 to allow public employers to make an agreement with a labor organization to require membership in the organization as a condition of employment; amend KRS 336.1341 and 336.135 to conform; repeal KRS 65.016, 336.132, and 336.134.

Establishes the Kentucky Rural Veterinary Medicine Student Loan Repayment Program for an eligible livestock practitioner who engages in veterinary medicine in an underserved rural area or veterinary shortage area for five consecutive years; allows a livestock practitioner in an underserved rural area to practice mixed animal medicine with a minimum of 30 percent work dedicated to livestock; defines “underserved rural area” as a city having a population of less than 25,000 and lying more than 20 miles from a city having a population of more than 50,000; authorizes the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to promulgate administrative regulations; sets forth program eligibility requirements; authorizes the authority to award loan repayment benefits to applicants selected by the Veterinary Student Loan Repayment Selection Committee; establishes compliance requirements; creates the rural veterinary care trust fund; establishes purposes of the fund; and requires a report to the Legislative Research Commission, Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue, and Interim Joint Committee on Agriculture; APPROPRIATION.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "pregnancy resource center"; require pregnancy resource centers to be licensed; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations to establish licensure standards for pregnancy resource centers; provide that operation or advertisement of a pregnancy resource center without a license is a Class A misdemeanor; provide that a pregnancy resource center's or health care provider's liability is neither limited nor expanded by the licensure requirement; and amend KRS 216B.990 to establish penalties for violations by pregnancy resource centers.