Appropriates funds for the payment of claims against the Commonwealth; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.

Amend KRS 36.230 to include gender-neutral language.

Creates a new section of KRS 164A.555 to 164A.630 to permit governing boards of public-supported postsecondary educational institutions to elect to terminate the institution’s coverage through the state fire and tornado insurance fund and obtain coverage from an authorized insurer or through a self-insurance pool, to establish requirements for terminating and resuming coverage through the state fire and tornado insurance fund, to require that institutions that obtain coverage under the section have an annual inspection of each state building and its contents, and to establish requirements for insurance obtained by an institution from an authorized insurer or a self-insurance pool; and amends KRS 164A.575 to conform.

Amend KRS 65A.030 to provide that special purpose governmental entities with less than $25,000 in annual receipts or expenditures are only required to provide a yearly financial statement; make special purpose governmental entities with annual receipts or expenditures equal to or greater than $25,000 but less than $100,000 subject to attestation of engagement once every four years.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to define terms; require all employers to grant an employee at least 10 days bereavement leave, with a minimum of three days paid, following the death, miscarriage, or stillbirth of a child, or death of a dependent or other immediate family member; amend KRS 337.990 to establish a penalty for violations; create a new section of KRS Chapter 18A to define terms; provide state employees at least 10 days bereavement leave, with a minimum of three days paid, following the death, miscarriage, or stillbirth of a child, or death of a dependent or other immediate family member; amend KRS 18A.110 to require the secretary of the Personnel Cabinet to promulgate related administrative regulations; provide that the Act may be cited as the Bereavement Leave Act.

Creates a new section of KRS 17.500 to 17.580 to define “social media platform,” to require sex offenders who have committed a criminal offense against a victim who is a minor to display their full legal name on social media platforms, and to provide penalties.

Designate United States Route 62 in Anderson County from mile marker 18.276 to mile marker 18.825 as the Anderson County Veterans Memorial Highway.

Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a portion of Kentucky Route 140 in Daviess County as the Captain Alan Kurre Elliott Memorial Highway.

Amend KRS 216.313 to add gender-neutral language.

Commemorate the 78th Southern Legislative Conference of The Council of State Governments Southern Office.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Proud School Match Program fund; establish the Kentucky Proud School Match Program; direct the Department of Education to reimburse an eligible school district $0.33 for every meal reimbursed by the community eligibility provision at the paid rate; require a school district that receives a reimbursement to develop and implement a Kentucky Proud school plan to identify and purchase available Kentucky-grown agricultural products and to optimize food usage; direct the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations necessary to carry out this section; provide that the section shall be null and void if the community eligibility provision is terminated by the United States Department of Agriculture; provide that the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Proud School Match Act.

Amends sections of Subtitles 1, 2, and 3 of KRS Chapter 286 to consolidate statutes, to make technical corrections, and to make revisions to the required banking experience of the financial institutions commissioner, the Financial Institutions Board, prohibited practices of financial institution examiners, application of financial services code to national bank or federal savings association operating subsidiaries, examination of safe deposit boxes, transaction of business by foreign financial institutions, banking definitions, the transaction of banking or trust business in this state, state bank and trust company charter requirements, and state bank investment powers; amends sections of Subtitle 3 of KRS Chapter 286 relating to the definition of a receivership court for an insolvent bank, national bank to state bank conversions, state bank branching powers, bank holidays, pledges of bank assets, bank dividends, bank acquisitions, bank concentration limits, interstate merger transactions, out-of-state bank powers, and banking code penalties; creates new sections of Subtitles 2 and 3 of KRS Chapter 286 to establish rules of application and interpretation, to establish national bank parity regulatory authority of the commissioner, and to amend various sections to conform; repeals sections within Subtitles 1, 2, and 3 of KRS Chapter 286 relating to financial institution commissioner appointments, improperly influencing real estate appraisals, financial institution definitions, foreign financial institutions, banking business powers, bank officers and directors, capital requirements for banks and trust companies, bank branch requirements, installment loans, educational loans to minors, and revolving credit plans; amends KRS 286.3-095 to require reporting for changes in control of bank holding companies that own a state bank; amends KRS 286.3-145 to modify the requirements for state trust companies doing business outside of Kentucky; amends KRS 286.3-146 to modify the requirements for out-of-state trust companies to do business in Kentucky; amends KRS 286.3-690 to permit the commissioner of financial institutions to remove a bank employee from office; repeals Subtitle 5 of KRS Chapter 286, relating to the chartering and regulation of state savings and loan associations, except provision relating to transacting of business by out-of-state savings and loan associations; repeals Subtitles 7 and 10 of KRS Chapter 286, relating to the licensing and regulation of industrial loan corporations and title pledge lending; amends KRS 286.8-034 to modify application fees and annual assessment fees for mortgage loan companies and mortgage loan brokers; repeals KRS 365.205, relating to printing requirements for personal checks; and provides for the initial and staggered appointments to the Financial Institutions Board.

Amend KRS 246.285, relating to the Commissioner of Agriculture, to add gender-neutral language.

Honor the Taylor County High School Lady Cardinals, the 2024 KHSAA Girls' Wrestling champions.

Amends KRS 12.020 and KRS 194A.030 to establish the Office of Medical Cannabis, the Division of Enforcement and Compliance, and the Division of Licensure and Access within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amends KRS 218A.202 to make a technical correction; amends KRS 218B.010 to revise definitions of terms related to the medicinal cannabis program; amends KRS 218B.020 to add a pharmacist appointed by the Kentucky Board of Pharmacy to be confirmed by the Senate to the membership of the Board of Physicians and Advisors and to require the board to assist the cabinet in developing a Medicinal Cannabis Advisory Pamphlet; amends KRS 218B.035 to prohibit the use or consumption of marijuana by vaping while on any form of public transportation or in any public place; amends KRS 218B.045 to require each local board of education, each board of directors of a public charter school, and the governing body of each certified nonpublic school to establish policies related to the use of medicinal cannabis by a pupil who is a registered qualified patient on school property by December 1, 2024, and to establish basic standards for school policies related to medicinal cannabis; amends KRS 218B.050 to establish that a medicinal cannabis practitioner shall believe a patient is likely to receive safe and effective therapeutic or palliative relief from the use of medicinal cannabis before providing the patient with a written certification for the use of medicinal cannabis; amends KRS 218B.055 to require that an application for a registry identification card be accompanied by a written certification for the use of medicinal cannabis issued not more than 60 days prior to the date of application; amends KRS 218B.060 to delete provisions related to a provisional registration receipt system; amends KRS 218B.065 to make a technical correction; amends KRS 218B.070 to require a medical cannabis practitioner to make certain notifications to the cabinet; amends KRS 218B.090 to require that the cabinet prioritize the review of cannabis business licensure applications submitted by an individual or entity who is an existing Kentucky hemp business in good standing with the Kentucky Department of Agriculture and to establish that a cannabis business licensed by the cabinet must comply with local government zoning and cannabis business regulations; amends KRS 218B.100 to establish the investigation and inspection powers of the Office of Medical Cannabis; amends KRS 218B.110 to establish requirements for dispensaries to provide cardholders with a copy of the Medicinal Cannabis Advisory Pamphlet and to prohibit licensed dispensaries from opening to the public or dispensing medicinal cannabis to cardholders prior to January 1, 2025; amends KRS 218B.130 to establish when a local government may act to prohibit cannabis business operations, to make technical corrections, to require that a proposal for a petition to allow cannabis business operations inside the territory of a local government that has prohibited cannabis business operations be initiated by a person or group of persons who have been registered to vote in the affected territory for at least 12 months prior to submitting the proposal, to require that a petition be signed by at least 10 percent of registered voters in the affected territory, and to require a local government that acts to prohibit cannabis business operations in its territory to provide notification of the action to the cabinet; amends KRS 218B.140 to delete the requirement that the cabinet collaborate with the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure, the Kentucky Board of Nursing, and the Kentucky Center for Cannabis to establish a definition of a daily supply, 10-day supply, and 30-day supply of medicinal cannabis and the amount of raw plant material that medicinal cannabis products are equivalent to, and to require that the cabinet develop a Medicinal Cannabis Advisory Pamphlet and an adverse drugs effects reporting system; amends KRS 218B.150 to establish that property and casualty insurance carriers shall not be required to reimburse a person for costs associated with the use of medicinal cannabis; and amends 2023 Ky. Acts ch. 146 (2023 SB 47), sec. 42, to establish a new effective date of July 1, 2024, for KRS 139.480, 218A.1421, 218A.1422, 218A.1423, 218B.015, 218B.030, 218B.090, 218B.095, 218B.100, 218B.105, 218B.110, 218B.115, 218B.120, 218B.125, and 218B.155; EMERGENCY.