Create a new section of KRS Chapter 324B to direct professional healthcare licensing boards to collect more comprehensive and uniform data on licensure renewal forms and to report data to the Department of Insurance and Cabinet for Health and Family Services; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2026.

Amend KRS 342.0011 to include gender-neutral language.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 96 to require electric utilities that own and operate a municipal electric utility to establish a utility board to administer the functions of the utility; require utility rates, terms of service and customer service to be administered through rules of the board; require rates be fair, just, and reasonable and predicated on the utility cost of service; prohibit commingling of funds between the utility and other local government functions; prohibit the expenditure of utility revenues on any function other than the running of the electric utility; require anyone serving on a utility board to wait one year after serving on the municipal legislative body; require the Public Service Commission to provide technical assistance to municipal electric utilities regarding rate setting and provide training for board members in the same manner as is provided to water district commissioners; amend KRS 42.4588 to link eligibility to funds under the Local Government Economic Development Program to compliance with establishing a board and delinking ratemaking and municipal revenue use from the political arena of the city legislative function; amend KRS 96.170 to require a utility board to set rates for the electric utility; amend KRS 96.200 to prohibit the legislative body of a city from using the revenue from an electric utility for anything other than running the electric utility.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to require background checks for private firearms sales and transfers.

Amend KRS 158.033 to allow a student admitted to an inpatient facility to receive home and hospital services effective on the day of admittance.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to prohibit the unlawful storage of a firearm; establish elements of the crime for recklessly allowing access to an unsecured firearm by a minor; establish the crime as a Class A misdemeanor unless a physical injury or death results, in which case it is a Class D felony; provide that the Act may be cited as the Baby Dre Gun Safety Act.

Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 161 to establish a teacher induction and mentor program, to require that the Education Professional Standards Board develop standards and guidance for the program, develop evaluations for new teachers, and submit an annual report to the Legislative Research Commission; amends KRS 161.030 to direct that an individual who completes a preparation program and passes the required assessments shall receive a five-year professional certificate, to provide that an out-of-state teacher who passes the required assessments shall receive a five-year professional certificate, to remove the provisions for a teacher internship requirement, and to direct that teacher certification be awarded upon successful completion of an educator preparation program or alternative certification pathway and passing of the required assessment and not be dependent on employment except for emergency certificates; amends KRS 161.048 to modify the Option 7 alternative teacher certification pathway, to remove some initial candidate requirements, to allow provisional certification upon qualifying and enrolling in an approved institute, and to establish conditions for receiving a professional certificate; repeals KRS 161.1222 relating to the pilot teacher internship program; and amends sections of KRS Chapter 161 to conform.

Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the Stumbo Family Memorial Highway in Floyd County.

Amend KRS 117.085 to provide convenience of the voter as a basis for absentee voting; amend KRS 117.076 to permit any qualified voter the ability to vote in-person absentee during normal business hours on any of the 12 working days and two Saturdays before an election; amend KRS 117.066 to require that each county board of elections petition for and use a vote center on election day.

Amend KRS 31.020 to require the appointment of the public advocate to be confirmed by the Senate.

Amend KRS 156.160 to allow participation in physically demanding interscholastic athletics, or similar activities, as determined by a local board of education to satisfy physical education course graduation requirements; make technical corrections.

Establish the Homeschool Task Force; establish membership; direct the task force to study and make recommendations on guardrails that can be implemented in Kentucky to preserve the integrity of homeschooling and on the impact of homeschooling on Kentucky school districts.

Amend KRS 2.110 to add the nineteenth day of June as a state holiday commemorating Juneteenth National Freedom Day; EMERGENCY.

Amend KRS 309.081 to create gender-neutral language.

Establish the Workforce Attraction and Retention Task Force; list duties and members of the task force; require the task force to meet monthly during the 2024 Interim of the General Assembly; require the Cabinet for Economic Development to hire the consulting and strategic firm and provide a report to the task force by November 1, 2024; require the task force to submit a report by December 1, 2024, for referral to the appropriate committee or committees by December 31, 2024; EMERGENCY.