Amend KRS 139.472 to define and exempt from sales and use tax breast pumps, breast pump storage and collection supplies, and breast pump kits from August 1, 2024, to July 31, 2028, and require the Department of Revenue to report the exemption each September 1; amend KRS 131.190 to authorize the department to report the exemption to the Legislative Research Commission; EFFECTIVE August 1, 2024.

Amends sections of Articles 1, 2, 2A, 3, 5, 7, 8, and 9 of KRS Chapter 355 to make definitional revisions and conforming amendments; amends sections of Articles 2, 2A, 4A, and 9 of KRS Chapter 355 to remove writing requirements; repeals and reenacts KRS 355.2-102 to establish transactions subject to provisions of article; amends KRS 355.2A-102 to establish when article applies to hybrid leases; amends definition of “negotiable instrument” in KRS 355.3-104; amends KRS 355.3-105 and 355.3-604 to accommodate electronic transactions; amends KRS 355.3-417 and 355.4-208 to specify that expenses include reasonable attorney’s fees; amends KRS 355.4A-201 to modify security procedure requirements relating to funds transfers; amends KRS 355.5-116 to establish governing law standards for letters of credit; amends KRS 355.7-106 and 355.8-106, repeals and reenacts KRS 355.9-105, and creates new sections of Article 9 of KRS Chapter 355, to establish control requirements for electronic documents of title, security entitlements, records evidencing chattel paper, electronic money, controllable electronic records, controllable accounts, and controllable payment intangibles; amends governing law standards for certain securities transactions in KRS 355.8-110; creates new sections of Article 9 of KRS Chapter 355 to establish certain perfection and priority jurisdictional rules for chattel paper, controllable electronic records, controllable accounts, and controllable payment intangibles; amends KRS 355.9-104 to expand when a secured party has control of a deposit account; amends KRS 355.9-203, 355.9-207, 355.9-208, 355.9-209, 355.9-310, 355.9-312, 355.9-314, 355.9-316, 355.9-317, 355.9-330, 355.9-331, 355.9-332, 355.9-406, 355.9-408, 355.9-605, and 355.9-628, and creates new sections of Article 9 of KRS Chapter 355, to govern security interests in controllable electronic records, electronic money, controllable accounts, controllable payment intangibles, electronic documents, and chattel paper; amends KRS 355.9-204 to establish exception to after-acquired property clause limitation; amends governing law standards for banks and securities and commodity entities in KRS 355.9-304 and 355.9-305; amends KRS 355.9-323 to remove exception for buyers and lessees in the ordinary course of business relating to certain future advances clauses; amends notification of disposition of collateral requirements in KRS 355.9-613 and 355.9-614; creates new sections of Article 11 of KRS Chapter 355, titled “Transitional Provisions for Uniform Commercial Code Amendments (2022),” which establishes definitions and transitional provisions for transactions, liens, and interests entered, created, or acquired before the effective date of this Act; establishes a new Article 12 of KRS Chapter 355, titled “Controllable Electronic Records,” which establishes definitions, scope, purchaser rights, control requirements, debtor discharge obligations, and jurisdictional rules relating to controllable electronic records, controllable accounts, and controllable payment intangibles; amends KRS 367.976 and 369.116 to conform; makes technical corrections; and provides a construction clause relating to a national digital currency; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2025.

Create new sections of KRS Chapters 67, 67A, 67C, 75, 75A, 95, 183, and 273 to prohibit residency requirements for employees or volunteers of a fire department while allowing a response time requirement in counties, charter county governments, unified local governments, urban-county governments, consolidated local governments, fire districts, consolidated emergency services districts, cities, local air boards, and nonprofit fire departments.

Amends KRS 211.285 to rename the “malt beverage education fund” as the “alcohol wellness and responsibility education fund,” to add proceeds from Alcoholic Beverage Control Board distilled spirit auctions to the fund, to issue moneys from the fund to the Alcohol Wellness and Responsibility Education Corporation, to modify membership of the corporation’s board of directors, to authorize the corporation to accept grant applications from Kentucky high schools, colleges, universities, and other entities that promote alcohol responsibility, and to increase Project Graduation grants to $1,000 annually; amends KRS 241.010 to decrease the minimum number of passengers from 100 to 40 in the definition of “riverboat”; amends KRS 241.060 and 243.540 to allow the Alcoholic Beverage Control board to dispose of alcoholic beverages through public auction when a final order has been issued after all appeals are exhausted, to promulgate administrative regulations to establish auction procedures, and to donate all auction proceeds to the alcohol wellness and responsibility education fund; amends KRS 241.066 to allow one quota retail package license for every 2,000 residents in any wet county or urban-county government with more than 100,000 residents, unless a lower statutory ratio is already established; amends KRS 241.069 and 242.021 to permit a city, county, or urban-county government to petition for an increase in the number of quota retail package licenses at least one year after the certification of the local option election; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 243 to establish requirements for persons delivering alcoholic beverages on behalf of a retail package licensee; amends KRS 243.030 to create a $300 annual vintage distilled spirits license fee; amends KRS 243.110 to authorize the holder of a primary license to also hold a vintage distilled spirits license; amends KRS 243.200 to remove vehicle requirement provisions from a transporter’s license; amends KRS 243.232 to restructure vintage distilled spirits licenses and sales, to allow a licensee who may sell distilled spirits by the drink or package to receive a vintage distilled spirits license as a supplementary license, to require vintage distilled spirits licensees to file a monthly report with the department, to require all purchases to be in-person at the licensed premises, to direct the licensee to conspicuously label the purchase as vintage distilled spirits, to limit a licensee to 24 vintage distilled spirits packages purchased from each seller every 12 months, and to limit any seller to 24 packages total every 12 months; amends KRS 243.360 to give an applicant the option to advertise intent to apply for a license either online or in print and to exempt a vintage distilled spirits license applicant from the public notice advertising requirement; amends KRS 243.990 to establish fines for vintage distilled spirits sellers who exceed the maximum package limit; and creates a new section of KRS Chapter 244 to establish procedures for department seizure of alcoholic beverages, including providing notice of violations within 14 days, to return the alcoholic beverages to the licensee if the department fails to provide notice, and to establish licensee administrative hearing and Circuit Court appellate rights; EMERGENCY.

Create new section of KRS Chapter 411 to create a cause of action for introduction of an identification device.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to require that when a certificate of need for a health service or health facility is considered orphaned the need for the health service or health facility shall be presumed, an application by a new entity must be granted a nonsubstantive review, and the Cabinet for Health and Family Services may not receive consideration of opposition from any previous entity that had been granted a certificate of need.

Amend KRS 16.505, 61.510, and 78.510 to define "special needs trust" (SNT) for purposes of the State Police Retirement System, Kentucky Employees Retirement System, and County Employees Retirement System; amend the definition of "person" to include a SNT, and amend the definition of "beneficiary" to exclude sole beneficiary of a SNT; amend KRS 16.578 to allow a SNT to receive a lifetime retirement benefit; amend KRS 61.623 to allow a trustee to receive checks on behalf of a SNT; amend KRS 61.635 to allow a person who is the beneficiary of a SNT to be designated as the beneficiary of a lifetime retirement benefit; require the trustee of a SNT to notify the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority (KPPA) upon the death of the beneficiary of a SNT and repay any payment not properly payable to the SNT; allow KPPA to promulgate administrative regulations to administer the SNT provisions; amend KRS 61.640 to allow a SNT to receive a lifetime retirement payment if a member dies before retirement; amend KRS 78.5532 to allow a SNT to receive a lifetime retirement benefit if a member dies before retirement; amend KRS 161.525, relating to the Teachers' Retirement System (TRS) to allow a SNT to receive a lifetime annuity if a member dies before retirement; amend KRS 161.640 to allow checks to be sent by mail to the trustee of a SNT; require the trustee to notify the TRS upon the death of the beneficiary; require any payments not properly payable to the SNT to be repaid to TRS; allow TRS to promulgate administrative regulations to administer the SNT provisions; amend KRS 161.700 to require TRS to assign annuity payments to a SNT, issue payments to the trustee, and prevent annuity payments from being used to reimburse any state for any Medicaid benefits paid on behalf of the beneficiary of a SNT; amend KRS 21.420 , relating to the Judicial Retirement Plan, to allow for a SNT to be selected as a beneficiary, and define "special needs trust"; amend KRS 21.425 to allow a member to designate a SNT to receive lifetime survivorship benefits on behalf of a surviving spouse, dependent child, or disabled child.

Create a new section of KRS 311.710 to 311.820 to define terms; establish privacy protections for a woman seeking reproductive health care outside of the Commonwealth; establish protections for any person or entity assisting a woman seeking reproductive health care out of the Commonwealth; establish a civil cause of action for violations; waive sovereign immunity protections of the Commonwealth.

Recognize and commend the National Conference of State Legislatures on its 50th anniversary in 2025.

Amends KRS 342.0011 to expand the definition of “physician” to include physicians with a license to practice in any jurisdiction in the United States; amends KRS 342.033 to define “physician” to include retired physicians previously authorized to practice in the Commonwealth, who surrendered a medical license while in good standing and who are not subject to an ongoing investigation for improper practices; and amends KRS 342.140 to include unemployment benefits in the average weekly wage calculation.

Amend KRS 217.125 to exempt poultry producers that slaughter and process less than 20,000 birds per year from permit and processing requirements.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a refundable individual income tax credit for certain volunteer firefighters; declare the purpose of the credit; require annual reporting to the Legislative Research Commission and the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue to evaluate the impact of the credit; amend KRS 141.0205 to provide the ordering of the credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow confidential tax return information to be shared with the Legislative Research Commission and Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue; amend KRS 75.400 to allow a volunteer fire department to have a minimum of six members; amend KRS 342.140, relating to workers' compensation, to allow income benefits for volunteer firemen, police, and emergency management agency members or trainees to be based on 50% of the state average weekly wage if that is greater than the average weekly wage of their regular employment.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 243 to establish requirements for persons delivering alcoholic beverages on behalf of a retail package licensee; amend KRS 241.066 to limit the number of quota retail package licenses to one license for every 2,000 residents in any wet county or urban-county government with more than 100,000 residents; amend KRS 241.069 to allow a city, county, or urban-county government to petition for an increase in the number of quota retail package licenses; amend KRS 242.021 to prohibit a city or urban-county government from seeking an increase in the number of quota retail package licenses until at least one year has passed since the certification of the local option election; amend KRS 243.200 to remove vehicle requirement provisions from a transporter's license; EMERGENCY.

Urge the United States Congress to enact legislation to reform federal permitting and environmental review processes to expedite the deployment of modern energy infrastructure.

Amend KRS 56.580 to prohibit closing portions of Capital Avenue in Frankfort; provide exceptions for emergency personnel.