Direct the creation of the Public Bank Task Force to study the establishment of one or more public banks in Kentucky; outline task force duties and members; require the task force to meet monthly during the 2024 Interim and to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2024; require the executive branch to assist the task force.

Amend KRS 199.894 to define "Child Care and Development Fund" and "Child Care Assistance Program"; create a new section of KRS 199.892 to 199.896 to establish income eligibility requirements for the Child Care Assistance Program.

Commend The Links, Incorporated for their impressive history of community service.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 258 to require insurance disclosures by dog owners, other persons, and insurers to persons alleging entitlement to damages resulting from a dog bite or dog attack; establish procedures for requesting additional information and amending disclosures; provide that disclosures shall not be construed as a waiver of certain rights or acceptance of liability; create a new section of Subtitle 12 of KRS Chapter 304 to require insurers and other persons subject to regulation under the Insurance Code to comply with insurance disclosure requirements.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216B to define "freestanding birthing center"; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate updated administrative regulations to establish licensure standards for freestanding birthing centers, including requiring accreditation by the Commission for the Accreditation of Birth Centers, compliance with the American Association of Birth Centers' Standards for Birth Centers, and consistent plans for transfer and safe transport to a hospital as needed, and to delineate medical malpractice insurance requirements for centers; exempt a center with no more than four beds from certificate-of-need requirements for establishing and licensing a freestanding birthing center; state intent not to limit or expand liability of a center or health care provider or facility; add requirement for medical malpractice insurance for freestanding birthing centers; prohibit abortions in freestanding birthing centers; amend KRS 216B.015 to include freestanding birthing centers in the definition of "health facility"; amend KRS 216B.020, 196.173, 211.122, 211.647, 211.660, 213.046, 214.155, 214.565, 214.567, 214.569, 216.2920, and 216.2970 to conform; provide that the Act may be cited as the Mary Carol Akers Birth Centers Act.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 510 to provide that it is unlawful to travel into the Commonwealth with the intent to engage in specified sexual offenses; provide that a person shall not be convicted of this offense and specified inchoate offenses for a single course of conduct; provide that a violation is a Class D felony.

Repeal KRS 237.115, which interprets the application of the license to carry concealed deadly weapon statute as permitting postsecondary facilities, local governments, and units of state government to limit concealed carry in governmental buildings; amend KRS 150.172, 237.110, and 527.020 to conform; amend KRS 237.110 to no longer prohibit the carrying of concealed deadly weapons in schools and specify that the prohibition of carrying concealed deadly weapons in airports is limited to areas controlled by the Transportation Security Administration and make technical corrections; amend KRS 527.070 to add persons with valid licenses to carry concealed deadly weapons to the list of those permitted to possess weapons in schools.

Amend KRS 18A.115 to exclude attorneys in the Department of Public Advocacy from classified service; amend KRS 31.010 to delete references to legal representation for persons with disabilities and make technical corrections; provide that the Department of Public Advocacy is an independent agency that is administratively attached to the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet; create a new section of KRS Chapter 31 to establish an independent division of the Department of Public Advocacy, the Division of Protection and Advocacy, to provide the protection of rights for persons with disabilities; amend KRS 31.020 to provide that the compensation of attorneys employed by Department of Public Advocacy shall be set by the public advocate; amend KRS 31.030 to require the departmant to provide assistance and education to attorneys representing indigent persons under KRS Chapter 31; delete the requirement that the department shall submit information regarding funding to the Legislative Research Commission; amend KRS 31.211 to provide that all attorneys providing representation under KRS Chapter 31 shall forward all information that indicates payment or reimbursement for legal assistance to the public advocate; amend KRS 31.215 to prohibit any attorney providing representation under KRS Chapter 31 from accepting any compensation except unsolicited gifts of de minimis value; amend to a Class A misdemeanor; amend KRS 31.219 to provide that any attorney providing representation under KRS Chapter 31 shall file a notice of appeal unless the appeal would be frivolous.

Create new section of KRS Chapter 14 to define terms; require the Secretary of State to create a grant database that will be a central repository for all state grants; require agencies to report grant opportunities to the Secretary of State for inclusion in the grant database.

Amend the 2022-2024 State/Executive Branch biennial budget to implement a cap for disaster or emergency aid funds under the Military Affairs budget unit in fiscal year 2023-2024 and for the necessary government expense under the Adult Correctional Institutions budget unit in fiscal year 2023-2024; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.

Amend KRS 156.029 to provide that all 14 voting members of the Kentucky Board of Education are to be elected; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to establish the process by which members of the Kentucky Board of Education are elected, including a partisan primary and partisan regular election; amend KRS 156.040 to add a requirement that members of the Kentucky Board of Education shall not have served on a local school board for at least four years preceding the year of their election; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to establish the process for removal of a member of the Kentucky Board of Education; amend various KRS sections to conform; repeal KRS 156.031, which relates to the State Board for Elementary and Secondary Education; establish a schedule for transitioning from appointed to elected members; allow appointees to continue to serve in accordance with their appointments until December 31, 2026; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2026.

Reestablish the Early Childhood Education Task Force to study the complex issues relating to child care and early childhood education opportunities in the Commonwealth and the impacts of child care on children and families, workforce participation, and economic development; outline task force membership; require the task force to meet monthly during the 2024 Interim; require the task force to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2024.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to define terms; establish a qualified terminally ill individual's right to voluntarily request medication to self-administer to cause death; require conditions for making the request; permit individual to rescind the request at any time; permit an attending health care provider to provide medication; establish requirements for the attending health care provider to inform individuals and document request; require disposal of unused medications; establish residency requirements for qualified individuals; require a report by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; establish provisions for contracts, insurance policies, and beneficiaries; state that a health care provider is not required to provide medication to a qualified individual; permit health care providers to prohibit persons or entities from participating in a qualified individual's request during or on the premises of employment; prohibit reporting a health care provider to a licensing board for participating in a qualified individual's request; state that actions do not constitute suicide or homicide; create a form for a qualified individual to make a request; create a new section of Subtitle 12 of KRS Chapter 304 to establish provisions for insurance policies and beneficiaries of qualified individuals; amend KRS 507.020 and 507.030 to create an affirmative defense to a charge of murder and manslaughter in the first degree; provide a severability clause; provide that the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Our Care, Our Options Act.

Recognize January 23, 2024, as Certified Registered Nurse Anesthetists Day in Kentucky.

Amend KRS 75.260 to increase the maximum per meeting salary of fire district board members to $150.