Create a new section of KRS Chapter 218A to establish the criminal offense of unlawful possession of a controlled substance on hospital property as a Class D felony unless a higher penalty applies; require hospitals to display signs regarding unlawful possession; amend KRS 218A.1415 to change the name of the crime of possession of a controlled substance to unlawful possession of a controlled substance; remove controlled substance analogues, methamphetamine, lysergic acid diethylamide, phencyclidine, gamma hydroxybutric acid, and flunitrazepam from unlawful possession of a controlled substance in the first degree; establish possession of a controlled substance on hospital property as a Class D felony unless a higher penalty applies; amend KRS 218A.1416 to add controlled substance analogues, methamphetamine, lysergic acid diethylamide, phencyclidine, gamma hydroxybutyric acid, and flunitrazepam to unlawful possession of a controlled substance in the second degree; amend KRS 218A.133, 218A.1417, 218A.202, 218A.205, 218A.275, and 218A.500 to conform.

Attorney General - Public postsecondary education, enforcement of diversity, equity, and inclusion ban, removal Auditor Of Public Accounts - Diversity, equity, and inclusion spending, periodic compliance audit, deletion of requirement Civil Rights - Public postsecondary education, diversity, equity and inclusion activities, deletion of prohibition Education, Finance - Public postsecondary education, diversity, equity and inclusion activities, deletion of penalties Education, Higher - Public postsecondary education, diversity, equity and inclusion activities, deletion of prohibitions Education, Vocational - Public postsecondary education, diversity, equity and inclusion activities, deletion of prohibitions Licensing - Diversity, equity, and inclusion, licensure requirement, deletion of prohibition Occupations And Professions - Diversity, equity, and inclusion, licensure requirement, prohibition Reports Mandated - Postsecondary annual report on federally mandated discrimination, deletion of requirement State Agencies - Council on Postsecondary Education, diversity, equity, and inclusion, deletion of prohibition Universities And Colleges - Public postsecondary education, diversity, equity and inclusion activities, deletion of prohibitions Workforce - Diversity, equity, and inclusion spending, periodic compliance audit, deletion of requirement Short Titles And Popular Names - Restoration of Postsecondary Inclusion and Student Success Programs Act

Amend KRS 75.031 to require all trustees of a fire district to personally reside in the fire district and declare a vacancy if a trustee moves outside the district during his or her term; amend KRS 273.207 to require all board members of a fire department organized under KRS Chapter 273 to be residents of the area served by the corporation and declare a vacancy if the member moves outside the geographic area during his or her term; declare a vacancy to exist for board members who do not reside in the district or area in the effective date of the Act; provide a method to fill the vacancy; EMERGENCY.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 148 to define terms; establish the Burnside Island Development Authority to develop, finance, maintain, and improve lodging and restaurant facilities on General Burnside Island State Park and surrounding area; require the authority to be governed by a board; establish board membership, terms, powers, and duties; establish duties and purposes of the authority; require the board and authority to be subject to the Kentucky Open Meetings Act and Kentucky Open Records Act; require the board to acquire authorization from the General Assembly prior to the sale, trade, or disposal of real property valued greater than $400,000 that is owned by the Commonwealth and managed by the Department of Parks; require that bond debt service be payable solely from the revenue of the bonds; require the Department of Parks to operate and maintain General Burnside Island State Park until an agreement between the authority and a private partner takes effect; amend KRS 132.195 to exempt the acquisition or lease of General Burnside Island State Park from taxation requirements; set forth the staggering of initial board terms.

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 15 to require the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council (KLEC) to approve and certify within 90 days of submission an 80 hour basic training course for constables and deputy constables, and topics for in-service training for constables by the Kentucky Constables Association, Inc., require KLEC to promulgate administrative regulations allowing the association to provide basic training courses and in-service training courses for constable and deputy constable certification; provide that a constable or deputy constable that has taken the basic training course or who is certified under KRS 15.380 to 15.404 is certified and has peace officer powers; require 40 hours of in-service training to maintain certification; require instructors to be certified by KLEC; grandfather constables serving in office on the effective date of the Act who have been continually in office since December 31, 2022; require KLEC to track certification; establish the peace officer powers of certified constables; allow for extensions of training time and establish consequences for failing to meet training standards; set out certification categories; amend KRS 70.325 to specify powers of constables who have not completed the training; amend KRS 15.856 to allow constables in all counties to serve process related to child support actions; create a new section of KRS Chapter 15 to provide for the conditions of revocation of constable's peace officer powers; amend KRS 15.310 to include constables and deputy constables within the definition of "law enforcement officers" amend KRS 15.315 to add a constable to the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council; amend KRS 17.190 to add constables to the list of law enforcement agencies allowed to make emergency requests for call location information; amend KRS 70.310 to remove the sufficiency standards for constables' bonds exercised by the county level government; amend KRS 15.404 to specify that the executive director of the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council is responsible for certain program aspects; allow constables to apply for admission to a basic training course as established by KRS 15.440 at a school certified or recognized by an association representing constables, the Kentucky Law Enforcement Council, or the Department for Criminal Justice Training; remove requirement that the constable bear the costs of precertification and training as well as precertification; provide that if space is not available upon request, the constable or deputy constable possessing peace officer powers at the time of application continue to possess those powers until training is made available to them and they are able to complete the training; amend KRS 446.010 to include certified constables and deputy constables in the definition of "peace officers"; amend KRS 180.910 to include within the definition as an "emergency vehicle" a vehicle being used for official law enforcement purposes by a constable or deputy constable possessing the powers of a peace officer; amend KRS 189.910 to inlcude vehicles commandeered by peace officers, rather than police officers within the meaning of emergency vehicles, and include constables' and deputy constables' vehicles within the meaning of an emergency vehicle when the officers possess peace officer powers and are using the vehicles for law enforcement; amend KRS 189.950 to allow constables without the powers of peace officers to equip their vehicles with blue lights and a siren with fiscal court approval; allow constables possessing the powers of a peace officer to equip their vehicle with blue lights and a siren without fiscal court approval; direct that the act be cited as the Richard Lee VanHoose Act; EMERGENCY.

Education, Elementary And Secondary - Renewal of lapsed teaching certification, eligibility requirements Licensing - Renewal of lapsed teaching certification, eligibility requirements State Agencies - Education Professional Standards Board, lapsed teaching certificate renewal, requirements Teachers - Renewal of lapsed teaching certification, eligibility requirements

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 210 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Positive Youth Development Commission; establish the positive youth development trust fund; amend KRS 200.503, 200.505, and 200.509 to require the State Interagency Council for Services and Supports to Children and Transition-Age Youth to direct regional interagency councils to coordinate with the Kentucky Positive Youth Development Commission to establish workgroups to perform community needs assessments, research opportunities for positive youth development programming, and apply for grants to fund and implement positive youth development programming; amend KRS 200.505 to add the state suicide prevention coordinator and Attorney General, or their designees, to the Interagency Council for Services and Support to Children and Transition-Age Youth.

Agriculture - County judge/executive, take up stray equines, contract for services Animals, Livestock, And Poultry - County judge/executive, take up stray equines, contract for services Courts, Fiscal - County judge/executive, take up stray equines, contract for services Horses And Horse Racing - County judge/executive, take up stray equines, contract for services County Judges/Executive - Take up stray equines, contract for services, immunity

Sunset Legislation - Political party contribution, portion of individual income tax liability, January 1, 2026 Taxation - Individual income tax liability, political party contribution, sunset Taxation, Income--Individual - Political party contribution, sunset as of January 1, 2026

Health Care Professionals - Medicaid state-directed payment, physician and nonphysician professional services, requirement Hospitals And Health Facilities - Medicaid state-directed payment, physician and nonphysician professional services, requirement Medicaid - State-directed payment program, physician and nonphysician professional services, requirement Physicians - Medicaid state-directed payment, physician and nonphysician professional services, requirement Retroactive Legislation - Medicaid state-directed payment, physician and nonphysician professional services, requirement

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 198A, relating to affordable housing, to define terms; require agencies that expend state or federal affordable housing funds to expend at least 90% of those funds on single-family detached housing and no more than 10% of those funds on multifamily housing in any given fiscal year; EMERGENCY.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 200 to define terms; establish procedures for a child charged with a public offense or subject to a court order 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 of the child from inpatient admission under specific circumstances.

Attorney General - Data privacy, automatic content recognition data, sensitive data, collection, prohibition Consumer Protection - Data privacy, automatic content recognition data, sensitive data, collection, prohibition Data Protection - Data privacy, automatic content recognition data, sensitive data, collection, prohibition Economic Development - Data privacy, automatic content recognition data, sensitive data, collection, prohibition Effective Dates, Delayed - Data privacy, automatic content recognition data, July 1, 2027 Information Technology - Data privacy, automatic content recognition data, sensitive data, collection, prohibition Technology - Data privacy, automatic content recognition data, sensitive data, collection, prohibition Telecommunications - Data privacy, automatic content recognition data, sensitive data, collection, prohibition

Amend KRS 96.150 to provide that when a city extends its water supply or sanitary sewer system into the service territory of another water supply or sanitary sewer system and it fails to provide utility service to its new customers within the agreed upon time to do so, the affected customers may elect to receive their utility service from their previous provider for as long as the service is available; RETROACTIVE.