Amend KRS 383.290 to include consolidated local government law enforcement agencies and require posting in a conspicuous location.

The Transportation Cabinet Budget: Detail Part I, Operating Budget; detail Part II, Capital Projects Budget; detail Part III, Funds Transfer; detail Part IV, Transportation Cabinet Budget Summary; APPROPRIATION.

Set out the 2026-2028 Biennial Highway Construction Plan; EMERGENCY.

The Legislative Branch Budget: Detail Part I, Operating Budget; detail Part II, General Provisions; detail Part III, Budget Reduction or Surplus Expenditure Plan; APPROPRIATION.

The Judicial Branch Budget: Detail Part I, Operating Budget; detail Part II, Capital Projects Budget; detail Part III, General Provisions; detail Part IV, Budget Reduction or Surplus Expenditure Plan; APPROPRIATION.

The State/Executive Branch Budget: Details Part I, Operating Budget; details Part II, Capital Projects Budget; details Part III, General Provisions; details Part IV, State Salary/Compensation, Benefit, and Employment Policy; details Part V, Funds Transfer; details Part VI, General Fund Budget Reduction Plan; details Part VII, General Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan; details Part VIII, Road Fund Budget Reduction Plan; details Part IX, Road Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan; details Part X, Phase I Tobacco Settlement; and details Part XI, Executive Branch Budget Summary; APPROPRIATION.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 43 to require the Auditor of Public Accounts to conduct a biennial audit of the contract procurement systems of the Department of Highways; enumerate issues to be examined in the audit; allow the Auditor to contract for professional services; require the Department of Highways to reimburse the Auditor for the cost of the audit; require submission of the audit to the LRC by October 31st of each odd numbered year; amend KRS 176.050 to require the Department of Highways to reimburse the Auditor for the biennial audit of contract procurement procedures; require the department to promulgate administrative regulations regarding the advertisement and award of bids for highway construction; amend KRS 176.210 to prohibit the Department of Highways from making public the identity of a qualified bidder on a particular project prior to the bid letting on that project.

Set out the Governor's recommended 2026-2028 Biennial Highway Construction Plan; EMERGENCY.

Amend KRS 278.670 to define "environmental control" and "underpreciated extra-state generation utility plant balances," amend various definitions, and make technical changes; amend KRS 278.672 to remove the deadline date for calculating the value of the regulatory asset associated with the undepreciated extra-state generation utility plant balances, deferred storm costs, and other regulatory assets approved by the Public Service Commission (PSC) remove the dollar amount thresholds for qualifying for a financing order; remove the submittals associated with securitization of deferred costs for retried electric generation greater than 50%; add additional submittals for an application for a financing order; add requirement for a utility to acquire in-state dispatchable generation and agree to a freeze on base rates for a period of 2 years; define "dispatchable"; amend KRS 278.674 to prohibit the PSC from requiring securitized bonds to be marketed as a specific type of security or that an assignee be formed as a specific type of entity; provide a price cap for costs associated with retaining counsel, advisors, or other consultants; remove PSC authority to address how the securities are marketed; add a template issuance advice letter to be included in the financing order; direct that the PSC must approve sales or transfer of assets including extra-state generation facilities even if the balances are securitized; amend KRS 278.678 to make technical changes; amend KRS 278.682 to remove the requirement that the securitized surcharge be listed as a separate item on the customer bill; EMERGENCY.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define terms; permit a local government to establish a housing development district and a Housing Incentive Payment Program; allow a local government to exempt housing developments within a district from planning and zoning following a public hearing; permit other local taxing authorities to participate in a district; allow a local government to accept applications from developers to undertake projects within a district; allow a local government to negotiate with a developer whose application it has accepted regarding rates associated with incentive payments to the developer; establish a means by which a developer shall be paid incentive payments by a local government; require area development districts to provide assistance to a local government in establishing a district; require the Cabinet for Economic Development to promote awareness of the district and incentive program and the Certified Child Care Community Designation program set out in KRS 199.891; require the cabinet to post information including a list of local governments that have established a district and have obtained the certified child care community designation to its website; require local governments that have established a district to provide information to the Department for Local Government regarding the district and utilization of the incentive program; require the Department for Local Government to submit a report to LRC summarizing information received from local governments regarding districts; provide that the Act shall not be construed to prohibit a local government from establishing any other program for housing development.

Amend KRS 199.462 to prohibit an individual from being approved to provide foster care or relative caregiver services to a child, be considered a fictive kin placement for a child, or to receive a child for adoption if the individual or an adult or minor child living in the individual's home has been directed by a court to complete or attend sex offender treatment.

Amend KRS 205.533 to require Medicaid managed care organizations to include certain information for providers on their websites; amend KRS 205.534 to require managed care organizations to allow providers 120 days to file an appeal or grievance related to a reduction or denial of a claim; establish penalties for a managed care organization's failure to ensure the timely disposition of any appeal or grievance; require payment of any amount owed to a provider following an appeal to be paid within 30 days; require payments made following an appeal to include interest in accordance with KRS 304.17A-730 and reasonable attorney's fees; establish standards and requirements for provider audits; require the inclusion of additional information in the monthly report filed by managed care organizations; require the Department for Medicaid Services to submit an annual report to the Legislative Research Commission related to Medicaid claims, appeals, and grievances for the previous state fiscal year; authorize the Department for Medicaid Services to promulgate administrative regulations; require Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to seek federal approval if they determine that such approval is necessary.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to define terms; provide rights related to access to contraception; create private right of action; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for contraception; amend KRS 304.17A-099 to exclude contraception from cost defrayal requirements; require health benefit plans to provide coverage for long-acting reversible contraception administered during a postpartum hospital stay; amend KRS 164.2871, 205.522, 205.6485, and 18A.225 to require self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary institution to its employees, Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program, and the state employee health plan to comply with the new section on contraceptive coverage; amend KRS 446.350 to provide that nothing in the new section on contraceptive coverage shall be construed to violate section; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to apply for a Medicaid waiver to offer family planning services to certain low-income individuals; require the cabinet to report annually; create a new section of KRS Chapter 315 to allow pharmacists to prescribe and dispense hormonal contraceptives; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to seek federal approval if they determine that such approval is necessary; provide authorization from the General Assembly to make changes as required under KRS 205.5372(1); include provisions for cost defrayal requirements; direct that provisions apply to health benefit plans issued or renewed on or after January 1, 2027; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2027.

Propose to amend Section 1 of the Constitution of Kentucky to establish a right of the people to have a healthy environment, including a right to clean air, pure water, and ecologically healthy habitats; declare the Commonwealth's natural resources, among them its air, water, flora, fauna, climate, and public lands, the common property of all people, including generations yet to come; establish that as trustee of the environment and its natural resources, the Commonwealth shall conserve and maintain them for the benefit of all people; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection; provide that is Act may be cited as the Legacy Amendment.

Amend KRS 224.1-010 to change the definition of "water" or "waters of the Commonwealth" to include any and all rivers, streams, creeks, lakes, ponds, impounding reservoirs, springs, wells, marshes, and all other bodies of surface or underground water; delete the definition of "wellhead protection area."