Children And Minors
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for cranial conditions. [HB-768]
Create new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for the treatment of plagiocephaly; prohibit certain restrictions on coverage for the treatment of plagiocephaly; require health benefit plans to provide coverage for cranial banding when prescribed by a health care provider; prohibit certain restrictions on coverage for cranial banding; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485, 164.2871, and 18A.225 to require Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program (KCHIP), self-insured employer plans
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AN ACT relating to child-care centers. [HB-775]
Amend KRS 199.896 to establish licensure requirements for child-care centers; amend KRS 199.8962 to establish operational standards for child-care centers.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the promotion of family well-being and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-734]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 205 to require the eligibility periods for all public assistance programs administered by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services be extended to the maximum period of eligibility permitted under federal law; prohibit the Cabinet for Health and Family Services from relying exclusively on automated, artificial-intelligence based, or algorithmic software in the identification of fraud in programs administered by the cabinet; require Cabinet for Health and Family Services personnel to review relevant documentation
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. [HB-786]
Amend KRS 407.440 to add gender-neutral language and make technical change.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to inheritance tax. [HB-785]
Amend KRS 140.070 and 140.080 to include a foster child as a Class A beneficiary and to delete language that only applies to deaths occurring prior to July 1, 1995, or between July 1, 1995, and June 30, 1998.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to child custody. [HB-832]
Amend KRS 610.050 to add gender-neutral language.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the protection of minors. [SB-276]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 436 to declare legislative findings relating to pornography; define terms; establish a civil cause of action against any commercial entity that publishes matter harmful to minors on the internet without obtaining age verification; require removal of personal data following review for access; establish civil causes of action for violations; establish limitations on applicability and liability.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION recognizing May 16, 2024, and October 31, 2024, as Take Your Child to Vote Day. [HR-123]
Recognize May 16, 2024, and October 31, 2024, as Take Your Child to Vote Day.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to gun safety for children. [SB-262]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to prohibit the unlawful storage of a firearm; establish elements of the crime for recklessly allowing access to an unsecured firearm by a minor; establish the crime as a Class A misdemeanor unless a physical injury or death results, in which case it is a Class D felony; provide that the Act may be cited as the Baby Dre Gun Safety Act.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education. [SB-263]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to prohibit censorship of history curriculum; permit a school or school district to adopt, implement, and offer equity, diversity, and inclusion curricula, programing, initiatives, and instruction without penalty; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to provide that public postsecondary education institutions may adopt, implement, and offer diversity, equity, and inclusion programs, initiatives, and instruction without penalty.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to juvenile justice. [HB-693]
Amend KRS 630.030 to include gender-neutral language.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the prohibition of social and emotional learning in common schools. [HB-683]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to prohibit instruction on social and emotional learning in common schools; prohibit the use of state funding to promote or provide social and emotional learning instruction of training.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sex offenders. [SB-249]
Creates a new section of KRS 17.500 to 17.580 to define “social media platform,” to require sex offenders who have committed a criminal offense against a victim who is a minor to display their full legal name on social media platforms, and to provide penalties.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to student safety. [SB-2]
Amends KRS 156.095 to require schools to provide suicide prevention awareness twice a year and an opportunity for any student who missed the suicide prevention awareness lesson to receive the lesson at a later time, and to make conforming changes; amends KRS 156.501 to remove existing cost-sharing provisions for the registered nurse required to be employed by the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE); creates a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms, to establish a framework for employment of Kentucky guardians in schools, to specify qualifications
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school meals at low-income schools. [SB-256]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Proud School Match Program fund; establish the Kentucky Proud School Match Program; direct the Department of Education to reimburse an eligible school district $0.33 for every meal reimbursed by the community eligibility provision at the paid rate; require a school district that receives a reimbursement to develop and implement a Kentucky Proud school plan to identify and purchase available Kentucky-grown agricultural products and to optimize food usage; direct the Kentucky
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to child care. [HB-672]
Amend KRS 199.894 to define "contract substitute staff member"; amend KRS 199.8943 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to develop standards and training related to the quality-based graduated early childhood rating system; amend KRS 199.896 to establish various child-care center licensure exceptions related to contract substitute staff members, and remove exemptions for instructional programs for school-age children.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to early intervention services for children. [HB-675]
Amend KRS 200.666, related to requirements for personnel development, to provide that training activities for licensed providers of early intervention services for children are offered by various licensure boards.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to financial institutions. [HB-639]
Amend KRS 286.3-380 to include gender-neutral language.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to child care. [SB-240]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 199.892 to 199.896 to allow the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to give child-care benefits to foster parents who work outside the home or telework inside the home, and to require the cabinet to apply for a waiver if deemed necessary by the cabinet.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency. [SB-232]
Repeal and reenact KRS 162.060 to establish that local boards of education shall submit all plans for new public school buildings or additions or alterations of old buildings to the chief state school officer, but prohibit the Kentucky Department of Education from requiring prior approval of the district's plans; amend KRS 156.160 to provide for the approval and appeal process for a district's purchase or disposal of real property; amend KRS 157.420 conform; establish the requirements for a district facilities plan; amend KRS 157.440, 157.615, 157.620,
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