Kentucky

Urge the Congress of the United States and the relevant federal agencies to expand opportunities for states to seek flexibility, waivers, or demonstration authority under federal public assistance programs for the purpose of reducing barriers to work and supporting earned income advancement.

Support the federal Ohio River Restoration Program Act, House Resolution 5966 and Senate Bill 3796.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to define terms; allow a public or private entity to contribute funds to a portable benefit plan as a form of compensation to a self-employed worker; prohibit using contributions to determine a worker's classification.

Honor the George Rogers Clark High School Lady Cardinals, 2026 KHSAA Girls' Sweet Sixteen Basketball champions.

Adjourn the Senate in celebration, honor, and appreciation of the Grayson County Historical Society on the occasion of its 50th anniversary.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 200 to define terms; establish procedures for a child charged with a public offense to determine if the child is a high acuity youth; establish procedures for securing a treatment plan and dispute resolution through a review process and the court if the parties cannot agree to a plan; require a 24-hour protocol for health facilities, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, the Department of Juvenile Justice, and the courts to direct care; establish reimbursement rates for inpatient and outpatient psychiatric care of a child by psychiatric hospitals and pediatric teaching hospitals; establish procedures for discharge and transfer of the child from an inpatient admission under specific circumstances; amend KRS 15A.305 to include a mental health facility operated by the Department of Juvenile Justice as an identified facility for the detention and treatment of children; direct the operation of 2 female-only facilities with authority to increase as population increases; direct reimbursement rates for local governments lodging juveniles to be set by administrative regulation; amend KRS 600.020 to remove and add defined terms; amend KRS 610.265 to remove beginning date that is past; amend KRS 610.340 to enable release of information in specific circumstances; amend various sections of KRS to conform; authorize the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet to construct a high acuity youth mental health facility, subject to funding; direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to provide clinical services; direct the Department of Juvenile Justice to continue to implement the plan to return to a regional model of detention.

Urge United States Attorney General Pam Bondi to investigate and prosecute individuals implicated in criminal activities related to the Jeffrey Epstein files; recognize the efforts of Representative Thomas Massie in securing the public release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.

Amend KRS 161.048 to modify and reestablish alternative teacher certification options as alternative routes; establish the eligibility requirements of alternative routes; delete Option 2 certification; establish a route for current professional certificate holders to expand certification and the eligibility requirements; require the Education Professional Standards Board to maintain and publish a list of academic majors, academic minors, and graduate degree academic content areas and the corresponding areas for which they shall satisfy certification requirements; make current professional certificate holders eligible to expand certification through any alternative route; require holders of professional certificates under specific routes complete training requirements to be eligible for the first renewal of the certificate; provide that the Education Professional Standards Board may require a passing score on a professional skills assessment; amend KRS 161.032 and 164.757 to conform; repeal KRS 161.049.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 96 relating to municipal utilities and KRS Chapter 278 relating to Public Service Commission-regulated utilities to: define terms; only allow for the provision of electric service to a data center through a contract that conforms to the requirements of the Act; require that within 90 days of the effective date of the Act, the electric service provider issue or file a tariff setting forth the process for a data center customer to apply for service; require the payment of a nonrefundable service application fee; require the preparation of studies to determine the manner in which the electric service provider can safely and efficiently serve the data center in a way that does not have negative service or rate impacts to their non-data center customers; establish the minimum contract requirements between the electric service provider and the data center customer; provide that requirements of the Act that are conflict with the Tennessee Valley Authority's requirements for the distribution of electricity that it supplies shall not apply; prohibit the charging or allocating of any costs associated with serving or constructing new infrastructure to serve a data center to any other customers served by natural gas, water, or wastewater utilities; amend KRS 154.20-229 to require that a qualified data center project that has been preliminarily approved for a certificate of exemption under KRS 139.499 include in its memorandum of agreement with the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority a certification that the data center project complies or will comply with all applicable local requirements and the applicable requirements of the Act.

Establish the Commercial Motor Vehicle Task Force to study commercial motor vehicle safety; establish membership; direct the task force to meet during the 2026 Interim and to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2026.

Honor the importance of fathers in the home; honor Eunice Ray and Dr. Linda Jeffrey.

Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Water Resource Regional Infrastructure Planning Task Force to evaluate and develop legislative recommendations for establishing a comprehensive process through which a water or wastewater utility can examine all feasible options for accomplishing the goals of a new infrastructure project and to examine related issues; establish the membership and meeting schedule for the task force; allow the task force to submit its findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2026; allow the issues that the task force is directed to study to be assigned to an interim joint committee or subcommittee thereof.

Condemn Sharia law and affirm the supremacy of United States and Kentucky law over foreign law.

Recognize and honor Chloe Yates for her advocacy in her "Special Olympics - Deleting the 'Dis' in Disabled" community service initiative.

Commemorate July 4, 2026, as the 250th Anniversary of the founding of the United States of America.

Recognize the value of student wellness and access to physical activity in schools.

Honor the Piner Elementary School archery team for winning the 2026 Kentucky National Archery in the Schools Program 3D state championship.

Recognize regulated trapping as an essential, humane, and effective component of modern wildlife management and conservation.

Honor Dr. Joel Barrow as the first Indigenous American to become a college-educated medical doctor in the country and the Choctaw Academy as the first federal Native American boarding school and the school that empowered him to do so.

Recognize Terry Martin on being awarded the 2026 Truck Dealer of the Year Award.

Recognize November 2026 as Grieving Children and Families Month.

Adjourn in honor and loving memory of Jack Conley Morgan.

Recommend that a permanent statue of Mitch McConnell be placed in the New State Capitol rotunda.

Honor Shriners Children's Lexington for 100 years of care.

Commend Taiwan for its relationships with the United States and the Commonwealth of Kentucky.