Amend KRS 91A.040 to change the population thresholds for exceptions to annual municipal audits to a single exception for municipalities with less than 3,000 people; change the revenue exception from $150,000 to $500,000; allow the Department for Local Government to consider any evidence in assessing whether to allow an extension from the deadline for annual audits; permit the department to grant extensions up to 18 months; amend KRS 91A.040, 65.003, and 65.920 to indicate that the withholding of state funds from a municipality due to noncompliance with the statutes should not be construed to cause the withholding of nondiscretionary payments to a city for the provision of services by the city to the state or any agency of the state; amend KRS 154.40-060 to allow a city government that appoints members to the board of the corporation that runs the Eastern Kentucky Exposition Center to elect to have the corporation included in its audit and to have its required annual audit be performed by an independent auditor; require any independent audit be forwarded to the Auditor of Public Accounts; amend KRS 42.460 and 424.220 to conform.

Amend KRS 186.230 and 186.120 to insert gender-neutral language; make technical correction.

Create a new section KRS Chapter 100 to define terms; allow multi-unit dwellings and mixed-use developments as permitted uses in commercial zones; prohibit a planning unit from adopting or enforcing regulations that do not allow multi-unit dwellings and mixed-use developments in commercial zones, impose requirements on multi-unit dwellings or mixed-use developments more restrictive than other uses in a zone, or require certain parking restrictions on multi-unit dwellings or mixed-use developments.

Amend KRS 42.740 to reduce the number of candidates submitted by the Kentucky League of Cities and Kentucky Association of Counties for consideration of the Governor to be appointed to the Geographic Information Advisory Council from six persons to three persons.

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.

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 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.

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.

Create a new section of KRS 262.900 to 262.920 to prohibit the taking of property subject to an agricultural conservation easement by eminent domain; allow public hearing on a proposed taking of property subject to an agricultural conservation easement before the local soil and water conservation district board of supervisors; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to allow an owner of property adjoining a property condemned by eminent domain to bring a civil action against the condemnor for damages to property; create a new section of KRS Chapter 413 to establish a five-year statute of limitations for actions by adjoining property owners against condemnors; create a new section of KRS Chapter 416 to prohibit land condemned by eminent domain from being used for the construction of solar energy facilities; amend KRS 262.850 to prohibit the taking of property within the boundaries of an agricultural district by eminent domain; require condemnors to provide a written report at public hearing justifying condemnation due to lack of feasible alternative locations; amend KRS 382.850 to prohibit the taking of property subject to a conservation easement by eminent domain; allow an owner of property subject to a conservation easement who has been served with a summons of condemnation proceedings to request a public hearing before the local soil and water conservation district board of supervisors; require condemnors to provide a written report at public hearing justifying condemnation due to lack of feasible alternative locations; amend KRS 416.560 to specify requirements for contents of notice of entry to owners of property; establish penalty for failure to give notice; amend KRS 416.570 to require a petition for condemnation proceedings to contain statements that the property is not subject to an easement that prohibits taking by eminent domain and that there are no reasonable alternate locations or routes for the proposed project; amend KRS 416.580 to require the appointment of a certified independent real estate appraiser to the group of commissioners who establish the value of condemned property; amend KRS 416.610 to require the condemnor to pay expenses and reasonable attorney's fees in a condemnation proceeding; amend KRS 416.620 to require the condemnor to pay expenses and reasonable attorney's fees in a condemnation proceeding; amend KRS 416.660 to establish a highest and best use valuation for condemned property; establish the payment of a premium of 125% for any condemned property used for conservation, farm, or agricultural purposes; amend KRS 416.675 to define "private owner."

State the General Assembly's support for the goals of the Make America Healthy Again movement; establish the Make America Healthy Again Kentucky Task Force to integrate the principles of the Make America Healthy Again movement; establish task force membership; require the task force to submit a report with recommendations to the Governor and the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2025.

Amend KRS 141.019, relating to income tax, to define terms; allow a deduction from gross income for union dues and professional membership dues paid for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026, but before January 1, 2030; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the exclusion; make technical changes.

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 151B.015 to establish the Division of Program Policy and Support within the Office of Vocational Rehabilitation; establish the Department for Disability Determination Services and its divisions in the Education and Labor Cabinet; establish the Office of Industry and Apprenticeship Services and the Division of Workforce Talent within the Department of Workforce Development; amend KRS 151B.017, 151B.185, and 12.020 to conform.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to define terms; direct each local board of education to designate one or more programs or applications as a traceable communication system that shall be the exclusive means for school district employees and volunteers to communicate electronically with students; provide that a parent may submit written consent for a designated school district employee or volunteer to communicate electronically with a student outside of the traceable communication system; exclude communications between a parent that is a school district employee or volunteer and his or her own children; establish a mandatory duty to report violations for school employees and volunteers; require principals, superintendents, and the commissioner of education to notify parents of allegations of unauthorized electronic communication involving their children; require principals, superintendents, and the commissioner of education to report alleged violations to the Educational Professional Standards Board (EPSB); require principals, superintendents, the commissioner of education, and EPSB to investigate designated allegations of unauthorized electronic communication; establish the methods of disciplinary action for a violation; amend KRS 161.120 to provide that the identity of complainants alleging unauthorized electronic communication, sexual contact, or other sexual misconduct that are dismissed and minors invovled in the complaint to remain confidential; provide that EPSB will have 120 days to conduct the initial review of complaints alleging unauthorized electronic communication, sexual contact, or other sexual misconduct.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to define terms; establish that automated license plate readers (ALPRs) shall only be used as set forth in this section; ALPRs may be deployed and maintained for the purposes of protecting public safety, conducting criminal investigations, ensuring compliance with law, regulating parking, controlling acess to secured areas, deterring crime and theft, and the Transportation Cabinet's toll collection activities; establish a 90-day data storage limit unless being used for criminal prosecutions or toll collection; prohibit the selling of data obtained by ALPRs and prohibit sharing of data except with law enforcement officers or agencies; require law enforcement agencies and neighborhood associations to adopt and publish a written policy for the use of ALPR systems; amend KRS 189.990 to add a penalty for improper use of an ALPR or captured license plate data.