Amends KRS 18A.225 and 164.2871 to require the state employee health plan and self-insured state postsecondary education institution group health plans to comply with special enrollment and maternity coverage requirements; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services and any managed care organization with which the department contracts for the delivery of Medicaid services to provide coverage for lactation consultation and breastfeeding equipment, to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to apply for a Medicaid waiver if potential cost defrayment or loss of federal funds is identified, and to require the cabinet to study doula certification programs nationally; amends new sections of KRS Chapter 205 and KRS 304.17A-145 to define “in-home program” and “telehealth” and to establish health insurance coverage for an in-home program and telehealth services; amends KRS 205.522 to require Medicaid coverage of maternity services; amends KRS 205.592 to allow that the Medicaid income limit for certain women and children be increased under certain circumstances; amends KRS 205.6485 to require that the Kentucky Children’s Health Insurance Program provide maternity coverage; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to establish the Kentucky Maternal Psychiatry Access Program (also known as the Kentucky Lifeline for Moms), to establish duties and responsibilities of the program, and to direct that the program be operated by the Department for Public Health, Division of Maternal and Child Health; amends KRS 211.122 to rename the collaborative panel related to maternal and infant health as the Kentucky Maternal and Infant Health Collaborative, to establish formal membership of the collaborative, and to require that the collaborative annually review the operations of the new Kentucky Maternal Psychiatry Access Program; amends KRS 211.575 to change the date of the required annual report of the statewide system for stroke response and treatment to September 1 of each year; amends KRS 211.684 to delete the definitions of “local child and maternal fatality response team” and “state child and maternal fatality review team,” to permit the Department for Public Health to establish a separate state child fatality review team, to provide that the team may include representatives of law enforcement agencies with investigation responsibilities for child fatalities and the Commonwealth’s and county attorney offices, to permit rather than require the development of local child fatality response teams, to delete inclusion of “maternal” in local teams, to require that state review teams cooperate with the External Child Fatality and Near Fatality Review Panel, to require that the department establish a state maternal fatality review team, to provide that the state maternal fatality review team may include representatives of public health, social services, law enforcement, coroners, health care providers, and other agencies or professions deemed appropriate, to establish the duties of the state maternal fatality review team, to permit separate reports for the state child fatality review team and the state maternal fatality review team, and to add protections for proceedings, records, opinions, and deliberations of the state child fatality review team and the maternal fatality review team; amends KRS 211.686 to delete the inclusion of “maternal” in local teams, to require that the cabinet use health data collected pursuant to KRS 216.2920 to 216.2929 for annual delivery reports, and to permit the use of other sources if necessary; amends KRS 211.689 to change the definition of “home visitation” and “home visitation program,” and to make technical changes; amends KRS 211.690 to allow submission of an electronic agreement for the Health Access Nurturing Development Services (HANDS) program, to require that the program provide information related to lactation consultation, breastfeeding, and safe sleep for babies, and to establish that program participants shall participate in the home visitation program through in-person face-to-face methods or through teleservice delivery methods; amends KRS 213.046 to change the reference from “local registrar” to “state registrar” and to change a timeline for submission from 10 days to five days related to birth certificates; amends KRS 216.2929 to require that the cabinet report methods of delivery by hospital annually on its website beginning December 1, 2024; creates a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require that insurers and any exchange provide a special enrollment period for pregnant individuals, to specify requirements for the coverage, and to require that group plan insurers provide notice of special enrollment rights; amends KRS 304.17A-145 to require health benefit plans that provide coverage for dependents to provide coverage for maternity care; amends KRS 304.17A-220 and 194A.099 to conform with the special enrollment requirement; and amends KRS 387.540, related to individuals who compile an interdisciplinary report, to add an employee of the cabinet with relevant expertise; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2025.

Amend KRS 16.601, 61.621, and 78.5534 to increase minimum line of duty death benefits to a non-spouse beneficiary of a Kentucky Employees Retirement System, County Employees Retirement System, or State Police Retirement System member who was working in an approved hazardous duty position or in a position that could be approved as hazardous duty for retirement purposes; specify the minimum payment to the non-spouse beneficiary shall only be payable if there is no surviving spouse beneficiary and shall be a minimum of a lump-sum payment equal to 36 months of the member's monthly rate of pay; provide that the non-spouse beneficiary may elect the minimum lump-sum payment or any other benefits the non-spouse beneficiary is eligible to receive upon the member's death, but not both.

Amends KRS 158.791 to specify the role of the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) in assisting local school districts with mathematics instruction, supports, and interventions and to require KDE to collaborate with designated agencies on mathematics programming, materials, and activities; amends KRS 158.840 to require students in kindergarten through grade three needing to make accelerated progress in mathematics to receive interventions and to require that the Council on Postsecondary Education submit an annual report on the compliance of teacher preparation programs to this Act; creates a new section of KRS 158.840 to 158.844 to require that KDE promulgate regulations defining and establishing a multitiered system of supports to include mathematics instruction, intervention, and instructional strategies for students through grade three, to require that KDE provide technical support to school districts, to require that school districts select a universal screener for mathematics by January 1, 2026, beginning with the 2026-2027 school year, to require that a universal screener be given to every student in kindergarten through grade three within 30 days of the start of the school year, to require the development of a mathematics improvement plan in the first 60 days for any student in kindergarten through grade three who is identified as needing interventions, to require that KDE report the status of implementation to the Legislative Research Commission (LRC) by November 1, 2027, to require that KDE provide resources to teachers on specific screeners and instructional resources, and to require that KDE establish reading teacher academies or coaching models for teachers of students in grades kindergarten through eight by September 1, 2025; creates a new section of KRS 158.840 to 158.844 to establish the Kentucky numeracy counts fund, to provide that moneys and interest in the fund shall not lapse, and to provide that the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Numeracy Counts Act; creates KRS 158.8401 to define new terms for KRS 158.840 to 158.844; amends KRS 158.842 to change the composition of the Committee for Mathematics Achievement and to require that the committee report activities and progress to LRC by May 1, 2025; creates KRS 164.3061 to require postsecondary institutions offering teacher preparation programs in elementary education to include evidence-based instructional strategies for kindergarten through grade three beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, to require that the Education Professional Standards Board (EPSB) develop and maintain a list of approved teacher preparation assessments, to require that the EPSB develop an evaluation rubric for teacher candidates, and to require that the EPSB report data to an external evaluator for analysis and report the results and all data to LRC; and appropriates General Fund moneys in the amount of $5 million in fiscal year 2024-2025 and $5 million in fiscal year 2025-2026 to the Kentucky numeracy counts fund; APPROPRIATION.

Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Brian Carter House.

Amends KRS 132.010 and 136.010, relating to certain property taxes, to include certain mains, pipes, pipelines, and conduits in the definition of “real property”; amends KRS 132.590 to declare that property valuation administrators (PVAs) are officers whose jurisdiction and duties are coextensive to that of the Commonwealth as stated in Section 246 of the Constitution of Kentucky, to update the PVA salary schedule, to prohibit PVA salaries from exceeding limits in the Constitution and adjusted for inflation by statute, and to provide that certain PVAs who did not receive an eight percent raise in July 2022 and who are still in office receive a lump-sum payment of eight percent of the sum received for the time between the effective date of the Act and July 1, 2022; amends KRS 138.477 to exempt charging stations with a charging capacity of less than 20 kilowatts from the electric vehicle power tax; and applies Section 1 of the Act retroactively to January 1, 2024; EMERGENCY.

Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 77 to define “environmental audit” and to provide that a person or facility subject to the requirements of KRS Chapter 77 that performs an environmental audit according to the requirements of KRS 224.1-040 shall be entitled to all of the benefits, privileges, and protections afforded by that section; and amends KRS 224.1-040 to allow facilities regulated by air pollution control districts established under KRS Chapter 77 to avail themselves of the same environmental audit process available to facilities regulated by the Energy and Environment Cabinet under KRS Chapter 224, to allow owners or operators of facilities regulated by air pollution control boards under KRS Chapter 77 to make voluntary disclosures as a result of the findings of an environmental audit, to create an environmental audit privilege to protect the confidentiality of communications relating to voluntary internal environmental audits of facilities regulated under KRS Chapter 77, and to prohibit an air pollution control district from seeking civil penalties against a facility for a violation of KRS Chapter 77 or the rules, orders, or administrative regulations promulgated thereunder if certain conditions are met.

Amend KRS 189.290 to prohibit a person from operating a vehicle in or near a highway work zone in a manner that endangers persons or property; provide that violators shall be subject to revocation of their operator's license; amend KRS 189.960 to require operators of motor vehicles yield to workers in or near a highway work zone; remove condition that workers must be present or that work is being performed for a violation to occur; amend KRS 189.2327 to increase fines for highway work zone traffic offenses; amend KRS 189.990 to establish fines for causing physical injury or death to a person while operating a vehicle in or near a highway work zone; amend KRS 189.010 to define "highway work zone"; amend KRS 186.560 to require revocation of an operator's license for certain highway work zones violations; amend KRS 189.2325 to conform.

The Governor's recommended Transportation Cabinet Budget: Detail Part I, Operating Budget; detail Part II, Capital Projects Budget; detail Part III, Funds Transfer; detail Part IV, Transportation Cabinet Budget Summary; APPROPRIATION.

Amend KRS 118.025 to remove straight-party voting as a ballot option in a regular election; amend KRS 63.200, 67C.103 117.125, 117.155, 117.205, 118A.090, and 118A.100 to conform.

Amend KRS 117.275 to establish that a voter tally be conducted; include additional requirements for the certification of election results; amend KRS 117.066 and 117.355 to conform.

Amend KRS 317A.010 to allow fixed or mobile beauty salons, esthetic salons, nail salons, and limited beauty salons; amend KRS 317A.020 and 317A.145 to consider any type of mobile salon a "facility" and a "premises"; amend KRS 317A.060 to require the cosmetology board to set the standards for mobile and fixed salons and establish inspection schedules; direct any administrative regulations to balance licensee and public interests; amend KRS 317A.050 and 317A.155 to conform.

Amend KRS 156.153 to define "danger zone"; direct the Department of Education to consider requiring the installation of school bus sensors and interior cameras on new school buses purchased on or after July 1, 2025; direct the Department of Education to promulgate administrative regulations; require the Department of Education to submit a report on the availability and effectiveness of school bus sensors to the Legislative Research Commission by June 30, 2025; amend KRS 189.540 to conform; amend KRS 281.635 to encourage cities to install safety sensors in city buses; provide that the Act may be cited as Ally's Law.

Urge the United States Department of Labor Mine Safety and Health Administration to adopt its proposed rule on permissible exposure limits of silica dust consistent with existing Occupational Safety and Health Administration regulations.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 344 to prohibit employers from considering or requiring disclosure of prior criminal history as part of the initial job application; provide that the Act may be cited as the Ban the Box - The Criminal Record Employment Discrimination Act.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 344 to ensure federal law relating to emergency medical treatment and the collection of evidence is not overridden; define terms; prohibit discrimination against medical care providers who decline to perform procedures that violate their conscience; grant providers the right not to participate in or pay for services that violate their conscience; exempt providers from liability for exercising these rights; prohibit the State Board of Medical Licensure from reprimanding medical practitioners and require the board to provide complaints it has received to medical practitioners; establish a civil cause of action for persons injured by violations; provide that the Act may be cited as the Healthcare Heroes Recruitment and Retention Act; EMERGENCY.