Amend KRS 48.311, relating to branch budget bills, to make a technical correction.

Amend KRS 610.070 to establish persons who shall be admitted to a proceeding related to dependency, neglect, and abuse, and termination of parental rights; establish guidelines for attendance; amend KRS 610.105 and 610.340 to conform; repeal KRS 21A.190, 21A.192, and 610.072, relating to the pilot project to study open juvenile proceedings.

Amend KRS 371.160 to provide that the requirement that the retained amount held back by an owner for improvement of real estate in any contract in the amount of $500,000 or more be deposited into a separate escrow account shall be mandatory and shall not waived by contract.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 369 to define terms relating to blockchain technology; allow individuals to use digital assets and self-hosted wallets; provide an exemption of income tax for transactions less than $200; allow home digital asset mining and digital asset mining businesses to operate within local ordinances relating to noise pollution; amend KRS 141.019 and 141.039 to conform.

Amend KRS 533.220 to include gender-neutral language.

Amend KRS 241.065 to limit the number of quota retail package licenses in each council district of a consolidated local government to 16 licenses; require each quota retail package premises within a consolidated local government to be at least 700 feet from any other quota retail package premises; exempt any quota retail package licenses issued by a home rule city within a county containing a consolidated local government; grandfather existing quota retail package licenses within the consolidated local government; prohibit the renewal of a grandfathered license if the license is revoked, allowed to lapse, changes ownership, or otherwise ceases to be in effect.

Amend KRS 131.131 to make a technical correction.

Ensure that all public areas of the New State Capitol, State Capitol Annex, and any buildings, appurtenances, or areas surrounding the New State Capitol and the State Capitol Annex be available for use by all three branches of government.

Amends KRS 70.030 to allow a sheriff to appoint nonsworn special inspectors solely to perform motor vehicle inspections; amends KRS 186A.115 to allow sheriffs to appoint up to two employees of a motor vehicle dealer licensed under KRS Chapter 190 and doing business in the sheriff’s county as special inspectors solely to complete inspections of motor vehicles to be sold by that dealer if the motor vehicle dealer is a new motor vehicle dealer or a used motor vehicle dealer that makes an average of 100 motor vehicle sales per month for the preceding 12 months, to allow the sheriff to retain fees for conducting motor vehicle inspections in the amount of $30 for a motor vehicle dealer that has an employee who is appointed as a special inspector, $15 for a motor vehicle dealer that does not have an employee appointed as a special inspector, or $15 for an individual, to require that the Transportation Cabinet promulgate administrative regulations to create an electronic certified vehicle inspection form to electronically input all required information for motor vehicle inspections, and to exempt certified inspector numbers from open records requests unless required by a court order; and amends KRS 186A.990 to add intentionally or willfully divulging a certified inspector number as a Class A misdemeanor and selling a certified inspector number as a Class D felony.

Amend KRS 350.028 to insert gender-neutral language.

Amend KRS 18A.037 to make a technical correction.

Appropriate certain General Fund moneys to the Department for Public Health to support the Smoking and Vaping Cessation Program; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.

Amends KRS 147A.090 to provide that area development district boards of directors have the power and duty to cooperate with the Kentucky Ohio River Regional Recreation Authority (KORRRA); creates new sections of KRS Chapter 148 to promote outdoor recreation and tourism development by establishing the KORRRA; amends KRS Chapter 241.010 to define terms; creates new sections of KRS Chapter 242 and 243 to authorize a precinct local option election to allow the sale of alcoholic beverages at marinas, to set petition and ballot language, to define “marina” and establish qualifications for a local option election and licensure, and to make marinas eligible for retail package and drink licenses.

Declare that the Commonwealth of Kentucky is a sanctuary state from the United States Environmental Protection Agency's overreaching regulatory actions on fossil fuel-fired power plants; provide that air quality standards for permits for fossil fuel-fired power plants are not subject to federal regulation; provide that the Energy and Environment Cabinet holds sole jurisdiction for environmental regulation; prohibit state agencies from collecting fines or penalties for any violations of federal requirements as they apply to fossil fuel-fired power plants.

Amend KRS 117.066 to eliminate vote centers; amend KRS 117.001 and 117.383 to conform.