Repeal and reenact KRS 132.017 to require the portion of a property tax rate which will produce revenue from real property, exclusive of revenue from new property, more than four percent over the amount of revenue produced by the compensating tax rate to be subject to recall by the voters of the district; establish requirements for the ballot question, notifying the public, the election process, and recalling the rate; allow the cancellation of the election; disallow local, state, and federal tax dollars to be used to advocate for the rate; amend various statutes to conform; EFFECTIVE January 1, 2026.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 365 to define “prohibited advertisement” and “solicit”; prohibit a person from soliciting residential property owners with a prohibited advertisement, offering value in exchange for inspecting residential property owner's roof, offering value in exchange for making an insurance claim for damage to the residential property owner's roof, and providing an agreement authorizing repairs to a residential property owner's roof pursuant to a property insurance claim without providing a good-faith estimate of itemized and detailed cost of services

Amend KRS 309.0836 to require temporary alcohol and drug peer support specialist licensees to become registered alcohol and drug peer support specialists after a maximum period of nine months from the date of issuance; amend KRS 222.233 to delete the requirement that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services promulgate an administrative regulation relating to reimbursement for temporary alcohol and drug peer specialists and require limitation on group size.

Amend KRS 48.165, relating to branch budget recommendations, to specify application on a fiscal year basis.

Amend KRS 164.7881 to extend the expiration of KEES eligibility from five to eight years from high school graduation; amend KRS 164.7884 to conform.

Amend KRS 401.020 to require the establishment of a legal relationship between a parent and child in proceedings involving a name change for the child.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 171 to establish the Kids Love to Read Program; specify the program is for children in kindergarten through grade five; require books to be sent to children's homes; require the Department for Libraries and Archives to promulgate administrative regulations necessary to administer the program; appropriate $500,000 in fiscal year 2025-2026 to support the program; APPROPRIATION.

Amend KRS 160.290 to provide that an interlocal cooperative board is an extension school district and all statutes and administrative regulations that apply to school districts extend to interlocal cooperative boards; amend KRS 156.070 to provide that the Kentucky Board of Education has the management and control of interlocal cooperative boards and that the board shall manage interlocal cooperative boards in the same manner and method as the board manages school districts; amend KRS 156.010 to provide that the commissioner of education is responsible for monitoring the management of interlocal cooperative boards; amend KRS 156.200 to provide that the commissioner of education shall receive and examine all KBE reports of interlocal cooperative boards and see that all financial and educational accounts are accurately and neatly kept; amend KRS 158.785 to include inefficiencies in the governance and administration of interlocal cooperative boards in the commissioner’s report on recommendations on the designation of school districts as “state assisted” or “state managed”; amend KRS 156.255 to define "interlocal cooperative board"; amend KRS 156.265 to extend school district audit requirements to include interlocal cooperative boards; amend KRS 156.275 to conform; amend KRS 156.285 to authorize the accountant to access the financial records of interlocal cooperative boards; amend KRS 156.295 to apply the misdemeanor penalty to preventing or obstructing an audit of an interlocal cooperative board to any interlocal cooperative school board officer or employee.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require the Kentucky Department of Veterans' Affairs to create and distribute a veterans' benefits and services document to employers and require employers to keep copies of a veterans' benefits and services document in a conspicuous and accessible place.

Amend KRS 189A.010 to provide that operating a motor vehicle while the person's operator's license is suspended for a previous violation of driving under the influence or KRS 189A.090 is an aggravating circumstance; expand the list of controlled substances; amend KRS 189A.070 to extend the period of license suspension for a person who is issued an ignition interlock license for a first offense from four months to six months; require each person who is issued an ignition interlock license to comply with the consecutive day requirements in KRS 189A.340 within the last 90 or 120 days of the suspension period, and provide that if the person does not comply the period of suspension will continue until the consecutive day requirements are fulfilled; require that any period of license suspension be tolled during any sentence of imprisonment for a violation of KRS 189A.010; amend KRS 189A.340 to require a person whose license is suspended for a violation of KRS 189A.010(1)(a), (b), (e), or (f) to apply for an ignition interlock license; reduce the ignition interlock device installation fee to $100 and require installation to not exceed three hours.

Amend KRS 508.025 to expand assault in the third degree to include causing or attempting to cause physical injury to a justice or judge of the Court of Justice.

Amend KRS 158.850 to define terms; ban schools from selling or providing ultra-processed foods during the school day.

Amend KRS 167.017 to set timelines for appointment of a search committee for the superintendent of the Kentucky School for the Deaf and appointment of the superintendent; require prioritization of candidates that will be locally available and commit to full-time duties as superintendent; preclude Department of Education employees or Board of Education members from being appointed as superintendent within one year of employment or membership.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 247 to define terms; prohibit a nonresident alien, foreign business, foreign agent, trustee, or fiduciary associated with the government of any proscribed country referenced in 22 C.F.R. sec. 126.1 from the purchase, lease, or acquisition of agricultural land in Kentucky or participation in programs administered by the Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Development Board, and Kentucky Agricultural Finance Corporation; allow an existing foreign-owned business to purchase adjacent agricultural land to expand the operations of the business; exempt foreign ownership or leasing of up to 350 acres for research purposes; allow a nonresident alien, foreign business, foreign agent, trustee, or fiduciary to own, purchase, hold, or develop agricultural land for nonagricultural use provided that the development is completed within five years of acquiring the land; require that a copy of the report required under the provisions of the Agricultural Foreign Investment Disclosure Act be filed with the Department of Agriculture; require the Department of Agriculture to report evidence of noncompliance to the Office of the Attorney General; require the Office of the Attorney General to investigate the evidence; allow the Office of the Attorney General to enforce provisions; require that agricultural land found in violation be escheated to the state and be subject to judicial foreclosure; set requirements for disbursement of proceeds of the sale.

Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to establish that any health benefit plan that provides coverage for hospital, medical, or surgical expenses shall include coverage for chronic pain treatments provided by a licensed professional; amend KRS 205.522 to require Medicaid and Medicaid managed care organizations to include coverage for chronic pain treatments provided by a licensed professional; amend KRS 218A.172 to require that a health care practitioner discuss and refer or prescribe alternative chronic pain treatments before initially prescribing or dispensing a controlled substance; provide that certain provisions apply to health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2026; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to seek federal approval if it is determined that such approval is necessary, and comply with KRS 205.525; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2026.