Children And Minors
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION recognizing March 2, 2025, as Read Across America Day. [SR-158]
Recognize March 2, 2025, as Read Across America Day.
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A RESOLUTION recognizing April as Child Abuse Prevention Month. [SR-99]
Recognize April 2025 as Child Abuse Prevention Month.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION recognizing November 2025 as Grieving Children and Families Month in Kentucky. [HR-71]
Recognize November 2025 as Grieving Children and Families Month.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION recognizing March 2, 2025, as Read Across America Day. [HR-72]
Recognize March 2, 2025, as Read Across America Day.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION recognizing November 2025 as Grieving Children and Families Month in Kentucky. [SR-98]
Recognize November 2025 as Grieving Children and Families Month in Kentucky.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION recognizing April as Child Abuse Prevention Month. [HR-68]
Recognize April 2025 as Child Abuse Prevention Month.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to reproductive health services. [HB-793]
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
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for the care of children. [HB-691]
Amend KRS 304.17A-258 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for certain formulas; to suspend the the coverage requirement for certain formulas as applied to qualified health plans if cost defrayment required by the state; amend KRS 304.17A-145 to require coverage for breastfeeding and lactation services without a prescription and in conjunction with the birth of each child; amend KRS 205.522 to require Medicaid to comply with the coverage requirements for formulas and breastfeeding support and equipment; amend KRS 205.560 to conform;
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to prohibited criminal acts. [HB-753]
Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to prohibit child pornography and any form of federally defined racketeering in this state and establish penalties for violations; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to children. [HB-805]
Amend KRS 600.020 to change the definition of "safety plan" to reference risks to a child's safety; amend KRS 620.032 related to child welfare data reporting; amend KRS 620.040 to include children who are alleged victims of domestic violence and abuse or sexual assault for automatic acceptance for investigation of reports of child dependency, neglect, or abuse; amend KRS 620.048 related to negotiated safety plans in child protective services investigations.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the family child care homes. [HB-749]
Amend KRS 199.894 to define "Child Care and Development Fund" and "Child Care Assistance Program"; apply definitions to Section 2 of the Act; amend KRS 199.8982 to require that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services allow certified family child-care home providers to participate in the child care assistance program and establish requirements related to a provider's children in the program and other nonrelative children of the provider that are served in the program.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to online protections for minors. [HB-12]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to define terms; prohibit a minor under 14 years old from contracting with a social media platform to become an account holder; require social media platforms to terminate any account held by an account holder younger than 14 years old; prohibit minors who are 14 or 15 years old from contracting with a social media platform to become an account holder without parental consent; require social media platforms to terminate the account of any minor under 15 years old if requested by a parent or the minor account
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to health education. [HB-706]
Repeal and reenact KRS 158.1415 to require each school district to provide healthy relationship education instruction to all public school students; establish minimum requirements for the instruction; establish minimum requirements for the healthy relationship curricula and instructional materials; prohibit a school or school district from restricting the ability of an instructor to answer a question related to the instruction; require that a school make the healthy relationship curricula and instructional materials available upon the request of
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to paid family leave for state employees. [HB-771]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to provide an employee of the Commonwealth in the judicial or legislative branch of the state government a paid leave of absence of up to six weeks for the birth, adoption, foster care placement, or serious health condition of a child; establish requirements; create a new section of KRS 18A.005 to 18A.200 to provide the paid leave benefits to classified employees in the executive branch of state government; amend KRS 18A.025 and 18A.110 to conform.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sex offender registration. [HB-716]
Amend KRS 17.500 to include various forms of identification in the definition of "registrant information"; amend KRS 17.510 to reduce the amount of time allowed for a registrant to notify probation and parole of a registrant's change of address from five days to three days; require a registrant to report to probation and parole in-person on a semiannual or quarterly basis; requires the Commonwealth to recognize offenses committed by a person in the District of Columbia or on land recognized as belonging to an Indian tribe; amend KRS 17.520 to include
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to protective orders. [HB-705]
Amend KRS 403.725 and 456.030 to require the court of justice to create protocols to allow law enforcement officers to assist victims in filing a petition for an order of protection; amend KRS 403.720 to expand the definition of "domestic violence and abuse"; amend KRS 456.010 to expand the definition of dating violence and abuse; amend KRS 403.270, 403.280, 403.315, 403.220, and 403.340 to remove the presumption in favor of joint custody and equal parenting time; create new sections of KRS Chapter 454 to provide definitions and establish procedures
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to relative and fictive kin caregivers. [HB-792]
Amend KRS 605.120 to require the report by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services that tracks and analyzes data on relative and fictive kin caregiver placement be done annually and posted to the cabinet website for public access.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to dependent, neglected, or abused children. [HB-718]
Amend KRS 620.140 to expand the ability for a dependent, neglected, or abused youth to request to have his or her commitment extended or reinstated beyond the age of 18.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sibling visitation. [HB-702]
Amend KRS 405.021 to allow a sibling to petition for reasonable visitation rights.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school personnel. [HB-779]
Amend KRS 161.155 to require school districts to provide a teacher or other employee leave with no loss of income or benefits for 60 school days following an assault against the teacher or employee that results in a physical injury; specify the terms of the leave; require the school district to pay for mental health services of the teacher or employee's choosing during the leave period; amend KRS 158.150 to require a local board of education to adopt a policy requiring expulsion when a student physically assaults or batters school personnel; provide
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