Amend KRS 158.645 to modify language on core capacities, specify the intent of K-5 education, and define terms; amend KRS 156.070 to give the state board the responsibility for adopting or rejecting the state academic standards, adopting or rejecting instructional materials collections, setting a timeline for adoption updates, and ensuring alignment of academics across the state; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to require the Kentucky Department of Education to deconstruct the approved academic standards and provide free guides to districts with sample curricula; amend KRS 156.395 to define "instructional materials collections"; amend KRS 156.405 to change the State Textbook Commission into the State Instructional Materials Council, require the State Instructional Materials Council to recommend instructional materials collections to the state board for adoption; amend KRS 156.415 to conform; amend KRS 156.433 to require school districts to utilize instructional materials collections from list approved by the state board; amend KRS 156.474, 156.407, 156.410, 156.420, and 156.425 to conform; amend KRS 156.435 to require the State Instructional Materials Council and Kentucky Department of Education to publish the approved instructional materials collections list on its website; amend KRS 156.437, 156.438, 156.439, 156.440, 156.445, 156.460, 156.465, 156.470, and 156.476 to conform; amend KRS 158.6452 to modify membership of the School Curriculum, Assessment, and Accountability Council, and require biennial report on membership and meetings by commissioner; amend KRS 158.6453 to require the School Curriculum, Assessment, and Accountability Council recommend academic standards to the state board for adoption, specify adoption update timeline; require Education Professional Standards Board to require alignment with academic standards as condition of educator preparation program approval; amend KRS 7.410 to conform; amend KRS 157.360 to remove school-based decision making council ability to waive class size maximums in kindergarten through grade one; amend KRS 157.195 and 158.6450 to conform.

Amend KRS 154.12-330 to make technical corrections.

Amend KRS 186.020 to allow members of the National Guard or Reserves that are stationed or assigned to a base or location outside the boundaries of the United States, to renew their registration within 30 days of his or her return; allow an individual serving in the United States Armed Forces, the National Guard, or Reserves to renew their motor vehicle registration up to 280 days prior to its expiration if the person will be outside the boundaries of the Commonwealth when the current motor vehicle registration expires; require the applicant to provide military orders documenting the need for early vehicle registration; amend KRS 186.416 to allow an individual serving in the United States Armed Forces, the National Guard, or Reserves or their spouse to renew their operator's license up to 280 days prior to its expiration if the person will be outside the boundaries of the Commonwealth when the operator's license expires; require the applicant to provide military orders documenting the need for early operator's license renewal; allows a resident of the National Guard or Reserves that has been stationed or assigned to a base or other location outside the boundaries of the Commonwealth to renew his or her operator's license within 90 days of returning to the Commonwealth.

Amend KRS 504.120 to insert gender-neutral language.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to prohibit all employers of 75 or more employees from demoting, dismissing, disciplining, or discriminating against an employee who misses work because of duties related to being a candidate, candidate-elect, or member of the General Assembly or legislative body of a local government; require an employer grant a leave of absence if the employee requests it, not to exceed three terms for a member of the House of Representatives, two terms for a member of the Senate or a member of a legislative body of a local government; amend KRS 336.990 to provide a penalty for employers who violate Section 1 of the Act.

Amend KRS 224.43-500 to define "residual waste facility"; increase the environmental remediation fee from $1.75 to $2; require that the fee collected from residual waste facilities be returned to the county where the facility is located; amend KRS 224.43-505 to conform.

Amend KRS 67.160 to make a technical correction.

Amend KRS 158.070 to remove the authorization for nontraditional instruction.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 7A to define terms; establish the Medicaid Oversight and Advisory Board of the Kentucky General Assembly to review, analyze, study, evaluate, provide legislative oversight, and make recommendations to the General Assembly regarding any aspect of the Kentucky Medicaid program; establish board membership, authority, and duties; amend KRS 7A.010, 7A.140, 7A.150, and 7A.180 to conform; EMERGENCY.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 148 to terms; establish the Dream Big Burnside Development Authority to establish, maintain, and promote a recreational and resort park system surrounding General Burnside Lake; establish board membership and executive director requirements of the authority; establish the duties and purposes of the authority; require that bond debt service be payable solely from the revenue of the bonds; provide that a landowner that has a contractual agreement with the authority for use of private land as part of a recreational area does not waive any protection granted to the landowner by KRS 411.190.

Amend KRS 243.036 to allow a licensed auctioneer to hold a special temporary alcoholic beverage auction license; establish duties, privileges, and limitations for auctioneers who hold the license; suspend the auctioneer's special temporary alcoholic beverage auction license if the person ceases to be a licensed auctioneer; make a special temporary alcoholic beverage auction license valid for one year; create a new section of KRS Chapter 330, relating to auctioneer licensing, to allow a licensed auctioneer to obtain a special temporary alcoholic beverage auction license; make an auctioneer whose alcohol license is suspended or revoked subject to potential discipline by the auctioneer board; prohibit the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control from taking any action against an auctioneer's regular license; allow the auction of alcoholic beverages either separately or as a part of another auction; amend KRS 243.033 to conform.

Confirm the reappointment of Holly Bloodworth to the Kentucky Board of Education for a term expiring April 14, 2028.

Confirm the appointment of Shea William Conley to the Northern Kentucky University Board of Regents for a term expiring June 30, 2030.

Confirm the appointment of Brandon Thomas Garnett to the Kentucky State Fair Board for a term expiring May 17, 2028.

Direct the Legislative Research Commission staff to study the causes of gun violence in Kentucky; require a report to be submitted to the Interim Joint Committees on Judiciary and Health Services by December 1, 2025.