Amend KRS 224.1-010 to restrict residual wastes in the definition of "municipal solid waste disposal facility" and define "residual waste" and "residual waste facility"; amend KRS 224.40-315 to require the generator of a residual solid waste and the location of the residual waste site or facility to be located in the same county to qualify for the exception from local determination; restrict the owner of a residual waste site or facility from accepting industrial wastes from other facilities outside of the county and then disposing of those wastes within the residual waste site or facility; and amend KRS 224.43-345 to update the solid waste management plan to include capacity expansions for residual waste sites or facilities including those that bring in residual wastes from areas outside of the solid waste management area.

Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 337 to define terms related to employer requirements for victims of domestic violence; require employers to grant leave from work for employees who seek protection or treatment for themselves or a family member due to dating violence and abuse, domestic violence and abuse, human trafficking, sexual assault, or stalking; require that employees give their employers advance notice when feasible before taking leave or by the end of the first day in which the employee takes leave when advance notice is not feasible; permit an employer to request verification upon an employee requesting leave; provide how an employee may satisfy the verification requirement for leave; allow for the employee to decide whether to use the employee's paid time off or unpaid leave; require the employer to maintain confidentiality related to an employee's requested leave except under limited circumstances; require that an employer reinstate an employee who takes leave to the employee's exact or similar position the employee was in before the employee took the leave except under limited circumstances; require an employer to maintain health care coverage for an employer who takes leave; require an employer make reasonable safety accommodations requested by an employee who is a victim of dating violence and abuse, domestic violence and abuse, human trafficking, sexual assault, or stalking; permit an employer to request verification upon an employee requesting reasonable safety accommodations; provide how an employee may satisfy the verification requirement for reasonable safety accommodations; require the employer to maintain confidentiality related to an employee's request for reasonable safety accommodations, except under limited circumstances; prohibit employers from discriminating against employees or candidates who are actual or perceived victims of dating violence and abuse, domestic violence and abuse, human trafficking, sexual assault, or stalking; allow for a private right of action for violation of Sections 1 to 7 of this Act; amend KRS 337.990 to establish penalties for violations.

Amend KRS 161.030 to specify that an individual who completes a preparation program and passes the required assessments shall receive a five year professional certificate; specify that an out-of-state teacher who passes the required assessments shall receive a five year professional certificate; remove the provisions for a teacher internship requirement; specify that teacher certification shall be awarded upon successful completion of an educator preparation program or alternative certification pathway and passing of the required assessment and shall not be dependent on employment; create a new section of KRS Chapter 161 creating a new teacher induction and mentor program; require the Education Professional Standards Board (EPSB) to develop standards and guidance for the program; require the EPSB to develop evaluations for new teachers; require the EPSB to submit and annual report to the Legislative Research Commission; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 161 to make conforming changes; repeal KRS 161.1222, relating to the pilot teacher internship program.

Amends KRS 65.503, relating to the board of the West End Opportunity Partnership, to stipulate that the board has the authority to set its own procedures to determine successors, to allow more than one nominee from the institutions from which members are appointed by the Governor listed in paragraph (f) of subsection (1) of the section, and to allow successor members to be appointed to the board if an institution refuses to comply with the board procedures for successor determination, in which event the institution is deemed to have forfeited its membership.

Amends KRS 241.060 to allow the State Alcoholic Beverage Control Board to conduct hearings and appeals; amends KRS 438.305 to define terms, to require the Secretary of State to create and publish a list of certain tobacco product retailers, to require the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to create and maintain a tobacco noncompliance database and reporting system, to require wholesalers to verify a retailer’s presence in the database prior to transactions, to establish and impose fines for wholesalers that unlawfully sell to a retailer that is in the noncompliance database, to make any retailer with unpaid fines that are more than 60 days overdue ineligible to sell Tobacco Control Act covered products until the fines are paid, to direct manufacturers of Tobacco Control Act covered products to provide safe harbor certification to wholesalers and retailers of their products, and to prohibit a retailer from selling Tobacco Control Act products to persons under 21 years of age; and amends KRS 438.340 to create new civil penalties and appeals process; effective January 1, 2025.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 338 to define terms; provide that an employer may petition the court for an order of protection after incidents of workplace violence; establish procedures for petitioning the court, service of process, hearings, and penalties for violating an order of protection; amend KRS Chapter 336.130 to include workplace violence, and order of protection based on workplace violence; direct that provisions of this Act are not severable; EFFECTIVE March 1, 2025.

Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.

Direct the Legislative Research Commission to create the Penal Code Reform Task Force; establish membership; require report to the Legislative Research Commission.

Creates a new section of subchapter 21 of KRS Chapter 154 to establish the Kentucky Product Development Initiative of 2024; amends KRS 154.21-015 to define “county population ranking,” “population density,” and “ten (10) year percentage change in population” and to redefine other terms; amends KRS 154.21-020 to designate reporting requirements and to restrict the Kentucky Product Development Initiative of 2022 to fiscal years 2022-2023 and 2023-2024; and amends KRS 154.21-035 to make technical corrections; EMERGENCY; June 1, 2024.

Amend KRS 12.020 to place the Office of Safer Communities under the oversight of the Cabinet for General Government; create a new section of KRS Chapter 17 to establish the Office of Safer Communities; appropriate $3,000,000 in fiscal year 2024-2025 to fund the office; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.

Amend KRS 48.210, relating to branch budget bills, to require the Transportation Cabinet to provide assistance to the General Assembly during the budgeting process.

Amend KRS 13A.110 to make technical corrections.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 230 to require tracks licensed by the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission to implement programs that promote responsible gambling.

Amend KRS 131.1817 to remove the possible suspension of an operator's license for a person found to be a delinquent taxpayer; amend KRS 186.444 to create a medical review board for the purpose of considering a person's ability to drive due to a physical or mental disability; establish the number and qualifications of members; establish who may report persons to the medical review board; amend KRS 186.570 to conform.