Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the James "Jim" Herring Memorial Bridge in Boyle and Garrard Counties.

Amends KRS 190.080, regarding dealer discloser of previous consumer-owner information to a potential purchaser, to require that the previous consumer-owner give consent to disclose the information, and to make technical corrections; amends KRS 281.926 to require towing companies to submit their rate schedules to the nearest Department of Kentucky State Police (KSP) post and all local law enforcement agencies in addition to making them available to the public upon request, and directs KSP and local law enforcement agencies to remove companies that do not comply with these requirements from their wrecker log for a period of six months for the first violation and one year for any subsequent violation; amends KRS 281.990 to allow the Transportation Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to set penalties for violations of KRS 281.920 to 281.936; and amends KRS 376.325 to allow for the disposal of towed vehicles by a towing and storage company if a lienholder does not respond to notifications from the company.

Amend KRS 164.348 to define "institution," "public," and "staff"; require an institution to adopt a policy to not restrict off-campus speech; extend free speech protections to the public; provide that student religious and political organizations shall be afforded equal access to facilities; provide that authority vested with a student organization to distribute student organization funding shall be contingent on viewpoint-neutral distribution of those funds; reduce institution's authority to establish permit requirements; specify how an institution defines student-on-student harassment; waive immunity for claims brought under the Act; permit disciplinary action against a faculty member or administrator that knowingly and intentionally restricts the protected speech of another; suspend the distribution authority of a student organization that does not distribute student organization funding in accordance with the Act; prohibit retaliation against campus community members; require Council on Postsecondary Education to develop free speech instructional materials and model trainings for institutions; require institutions to present free speech instructional materials and trainings to designated individuals; require institutions to publish semiannual student organization funding reports; designate the required contents of the semiannual student organization funding report; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to limit the jurisdiction of an institution over associations, groups, or organizations not affiliated with the institutions.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 186 to require the Transportation Cabinet to expand driver licensing services by either setting up a system where a county clerk issues operators licenses and personal identification cards, or maintain a permanent full-time driver licensing office in each county where a regional driver licensing office is not currently located; allow county clerks to retain a $5 fee for each document processed; amend KRS 186.531 to conform; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2025.

Establish KRS Chapter 245, relating to adult use cannabis, to administer its cultivation, processing, transportation, sale, use, taxation, and licensing; define terms; establish the Adult Use Cannabis Control Board and its membership, procedures, powers, and duties; direct the board to promulgate administrative regulations for the administration and enforcement of the chapter; set up advisory committees appointed by the board; create the Department of Cannabis Control within the Public Protection Cabinet for the oversight of cannabis operations and to provide administrative support for the board; establish various one-year business licenses under the chapter; grant administrative hearings under KRS Chapter 13B to appeal a license denial or revocation; forbid an employer from discriminating against applicants or employees who use cannabis outside of working hours as long as the use does not affect job performance; prohibit a person under the age of 21 from purchasing, possessing, consuming, or using cannabis; establish a revolving account called the cannabis fund to collect cannabis licensing fees, fines, excise taxes, and any other funds; form the Social Impact Council as a public agency authorized to distribute moneys from the cannabis fund; set council membership, procedures, powers, and duties; amend KRS 2.015 to require a person to be 21 years of age or older to purchase cannabis and its products and accessories; create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to authorize local governments to levy up to a five percent license fee on the gross receipts of a retailer or microbusiness; allow overlapping local governments to agree to levy a combined license fee, with set fee amounts absent an agreement; create new sections of KRS Chapter 138 to define terms; impose an initial excise tax rate of nine percent on the first sale or transfer of harvested cannabis; allow the Adult Use Cannabis Control Board to set the excise tax rate in each subsequent year; establish excise tax reporting, collection, and liability; amend KRS 138.870 and 260.850 to exclude adult use cannabis from the definitions of "controlled substance," "marijuana," "hemp," and "hemp products"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 218A and amend KRS 218A.010, 218A.1421, 218A.1422, 218A.1423, and 218A.500 to exempt licensed adult use cannabis activities from criminal marijuana offenses; create a new section of KRS Chapter 431 to allow a person to petition the court to expunge the person's misdemeanor marijuana convictions; amend KRS 431.079 to exclude the expungement petition from the certification of eligibility requirement; amend KRS 131.1815 to notify the Adult Use Cannabis Control Board if a cannabis licensee is a delinquent taxpayer; amend KRS 600.020 to include cannabis offenses in the list of juvenile status offenses; amend KRS 12.020 to add the governmental entities created in KRS Chapter 245 to the list of executive branch government bodies; set initial terms for members of the Adult Use Cannabis Control Board and Social Impact Council; apply the excise tax beginning on July 1, 2025, and allow cannabis sales beginning on July 1, 2026; Section 35 of Act, relating to expungement, is RETROACTIVE; APPROPRIATION.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 335B to allow universal recognition of occupational licenses and government certifications; include work experience as a basis for licensure or certification; explicity include military personnel and their spouses; provide that the Act may be cited as the Universal Recognition of Occupational Licenses Act.

Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 31 to define “alternative sentencing worker,” “qualified treatment program,” and “treatment program,” to allow a court to issue an order for pretrial release pending an assessment for a mental health or substance use disorder and to allow the prosecution to object, to require that a needs assessment be conducted within 48 hours and to establish who may conduct the assessment, to require that a treatment plan be developed by a qualified health professional who is employed by a treatment program, to allow a court to approve the treatment plan without a hearing or allow the court to schedule a hearing, to allow the court to put conditions on pretrial release, to require that the Department of Public Advocacy and defense counsel consider all appropriate and competent facilities and not discriminate against any facility based on religious content, and to allow that facilities or programs be recommended if they are consistent with a client’s personal religious belief; amends KRS 31.030 to require that the Department of Public Advocacy submit a report, and to require that alternative sentencing workers complete continuing education related to substance use disorder and comply with kickback provisions; amends KRS 202A.011 to define “contract mental health evaluator”; amends KRS 202A.041 to replace “qualified mental health professional” with “contract mental health evaluator” and to set forth state compensation requirements when a sheriff or other peace officer must remain with a person after requesting evaluation by a contract mental health evaluator; amends KRS 205.200, relating to residency requirements for Medicaid, to prohibit relocation to Kentucky solely for receiving medical services using Medicaid, and to allow an individual to submit proof of residency; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 222 to require any substance use disorder program authorized or regulated under the chapter, or substance use disorder program that holds a chemical dependency treatment services license under KRS 222.231 that was issued in accordance with KRS 216B.042, or recovery residence as defined in KRS 222.500 to obtain agreement from the resident’s family member, guardian, or emergency contact to personally transport the resident or make available transportation services for any resident who wishes to leave the treatment program, except where prohibited by federal law; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 222 to outline transportation service responsibilities; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 222 to allow treatment facilities to notify the court, Commonwealth’s attorney, county attorney, local law enforcement, emergency contact, or court-designated individual if a resident leaves a facility prior to court approval or prior to completing the conditions of the court order if permitted by state and federal law; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 222 to require the facilities to provide full disclosure of the services they provide to potential patients and in any advertisements or other solicitations; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 222 to prohibit substance use disorder facilities or recovery residences from knowingly recruiting into their facilities any out-of-state resident who is enrolled in Medicaid, or recruiting with the purpose of enrolling the out-of-state resident in Medicaid in Kentucky to the extent allowed by federal law; creates new sections of KRS Chapter 222 to require that the facilities submit to the Department for Medicaid Services a recipient’s proof of Kentucky residency when submitting an initial request for Medicaid reimbursement if the facilities are aware that the recipient resided in another state within the past month, to establish fines for facilities to the extent allowed by federal law, to require that any out-of-state resident found to be ineligible for Medicaid in Kentucky reimburse the Department for Medicaid Services any fees paid by Medicaid if the out-of-state resident fails to establish Kentucky residency, and to allow the Office of the Attorney General to enforce actions for fines assessed; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 222 to define “department,” “qualified treatment program,” and “treatment program,” to require that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services publish a list of all qualified treatment programs, post the list on its website, and send the list to the Department of Public Advocacy and the Administrative Office of the Courts, to require that state employees who make recommendations to a court for an alternative sentence prioritize referrals to qualified treatment programs, and to require that the cabinet promulgate administrative regulations; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 222 to prohibit any person from receiving kickbacks for referrals into treatment facilities; establishes protections, exemptions, and penalties; and includes a severability clause.

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

Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 13A to nullify three emergency administrative regulations relating to Medicaid services after those administrative regulations were found deficient during the 2023 legislative interim; and creates a new section of KRS Chapter 13A to nullify 201 KAR 23:170, relating to social workers, after that administrative regulation was found deficient during the 2024 Regular Session of the General Assembly; EMERGENCY.

Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to define “SUDEP,” to update autopsy requirements, to require the Vital Statistics Branch to forward a copy of the death certificate to the North American SUDEP Registry if sudden unexpected death in epilepsy is found to be the cause or the suspected cause of death, and to provide that the Act may be cited as Jami’s Law.

Amends KRS 147A.029 to allow soil and water conservation districts and watershed conservancy districts to use funds appropriated for the Local Match Participation Program for flood-related projects with federal government agencies, including the United States Department of Agriculture Natural Resources Conservation Service; amends KRS 262.240 to provide immunity to a supervisor serving on a soil and water conservation board; creates a new section of KRS 262.700 to 262.795 to establish the procedure for the discontinuance of watershed conservancy district boards, to allow any soil and water conservation district or fiscal court where the watershed conservancy district lies to initiate the discontinuance if the watershed conservancy board fails to meet over the course of one year or longer or fails to adopt and fund a budget, to provide for public notice requirements, to allow for a public hearing to be requested, to require a vote on the discontinuance to be held by the body proposing the discontinuance within 30 days of the public hearing or, if no public hearing is requested, within 30 days of the expiration of the time period in which the public hearing could be requested, to require that if the proposing body votes in favor of discontinuance, then all soil and water conservation districts and fiscal courts where any portion of the watershed conservancy district lies shall hold discontinuance votes within 30 days, to provide that if all voting entities vote in favor of discontinuance or fail to vote, then the watershed conservancy district board shall be discontinued, to provide that if the watershed conservancy district board is discontinued, then the watershed conservancy district shall remain intact and the landowners within the district shall continue to pay the watershed conservancy district tax to the soil and water conservation district or districts in which the watershed conservancy district lies, to require the soil and water conservation district board or boards where the discontinued watershed conservancy district lies to assume all of the rights and responsibilities of the watershed conservancy district board, and to allow that a discontinued watershed conservancy district board be reestablished; amends KRS 262.740 to provide immunity to a director serving on a watershed conservancy district board; amends KRS 262.742 to require that if a vacancy occurs on a watershed conservation district board, the board shall give public notice of the vacancy in the watershed conservancy district; amends KRS 262.760 to provide that if a watershed conservancy district fails to prepare and fund a budget within the first quarter of the year, the soil and water conservation district board or boards where the watershed conservancy district lies may prepare and fund a budget for the watershed conservancy district; repeals KRS 262.791 relating to district discontinuance; and amends KRS 262.793 to allow soil and water conservation board or boards that inherit funds and taxing authority from a discontinued watershed conservancy district board to make periodic adjustments to the revenues they collect and to spend the funds collected on the same works of improvement that are within the watershed conservancy district, even if they are outside of the soil and water conservation district collecting the revenue; EMERGENCY.

Amend KRS 161.500 to allow members of the Teachers' Retirement System to recover up to 10 unpaid days that were missed to observe religious holidays; include the recovered days in count of days worked for service credit; EMERGENCY.

Amends KRS 18A.225 and 164.2871 to require the state employee health plan and self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution to comply with breast examination coverage requirements; amends KRS 304.17-316 to define terms, to make technical corrections, to prohibit cost-sharing requirements for any covered diagnostic breast examination or supplemental breast examination, to provide for additional coverage if required under federal law, and to provide exemption to Health Savings Account-qualified High Deductible Health Plans under certain circumstances; and amends KRS 304.17A-096, 304.17A-133, 304.18-098, 304.32-1591, and 304.38-1935 to conform; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2025.

Acknowledge the events of January 6, 2021, and recognize the citizens who have been held without due process.

Appropriate $100,000 in General Fund moneys in fiscal year 2024-2025 to the Forest Stewardship Incentives Fund; APPROPRIATION.