Children And Minors
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to child-care centers. [SB-236]
Amend KRS 199.896 to establish licensure requirements for child-care centers; amend KRS 199.8962 to establish operational standards for child-care centers.
Sponsored by: Sen. Steve West
To Families & Children (s) on 02/22/2024
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AN ACT relating to child welfare investigations. [SB-235]
Amend KRS 620.030 to establish requirements for reports of alleged child dependency, abuse, or neglect.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adrienne Southworth
To Families & Children (s) on 02/22/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to behavioral health services. [HB-617]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 210 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Youth Mobile Crisis Response Program within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; set requirements for mobile crisis response teams; require the cabinet to develop protocols and issue a report to the Interim Joint Committees on Health Services and Families and Children; require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; establish the Youth Behavioral Health Crisis Advisory Board; require behavioral health emergency services provided by a mobile crisis
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Introduced In House on 02/20/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to children. [SB-238]
Amend KRS 158.1415 to remove provisions related to parental rights and courses, curriculums, or programs on human sexuality; provide for a process for parents to opt out of their child receiving instruction on the subject of human sexuality; amend KRS 158.191 to remove language limiting Kentucky Board of Education or Department of Education policies regarding student confidential information and the use of pronouns; require a local school district to use pronouns for students upon a request from a parent along with a note from a medical provider
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Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Berg
To Education (s) on 02/22/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to truancy. [HB-611]
Amends KRS 159.140 to require a director of pupil personnel to report to the county attorney if a parent or guardian has allowed a child in kindergarten to grade five to be absent without an excuse for 15 or more days or if a minor in grade six through 12, who is a habitual truant, is absent without an excuse for 15 or more days; and amends KRS 610.030 to require that a diversion agreement for a child against whom a complaint alleging truancy has been filed shall require that if the child is absent without an excuse four or more times during the
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Hale
Became Law Without Governor's Signature (acts Ch. 163) on 04/10/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sexual offenses against children. [HB-598]
Amend KRS 510.040, 510.070, and 510.110 to provide that rape in the first degree, sodomy in the first degree, and sexual abuse in the first degree shall be capital offenses when the victim is under 12 years old; amend KRS 532.025 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Josh Calloway
Introduced In House on 02/20/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to parental rights. [HB-560]
Amend KRS 620.050 to require that upon initial contact with a family, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services must advise a parent of his or her rights both orally and in writing; outline those rights; provide an exception to the requirement that the parent be advised immediately upon initial contact if there are exigent circumstances; amend KRS 620.055 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
Introduced In House on 02/15/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to child care. [HB-561]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to define terms, to establish operations and requirements of a Certified Child Care Community Designation Program to be administered by the Cabinet for Economic Development for the purpose of creating new opportunities for local governments to help increase the supply of child care and early childhood education services in their communities through voluntary actions related to zoning reform and programming at the local level, and to require annual reporting to the General Assembly related to the operation
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 88) on 04/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for injectable epinephrine devices. [HB-556]
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to cover injectable epinephrine devices for persons 18 years of age or younger; provide that the coverage shall not be subject to cost-sharing requirements; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485,164.2871, and 18A.225 to require Medicaid, KCHIP, self-insured employer group health plans offered by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution, and the state employee health plan to comply with the 18-and-under injectable epinephrine device coverage requirement;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Cherlynn Stevenson
Introduced In House on 02/15/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education technology. [SB-212]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to prohibit a school district from entering into an agreement with providers of digital instruction services that allows the provider to collect, share, or use data not directly related to the function of the service; amend KRS 158.060 to establish limits to student screen time during the instructional day, regardless of instructional model.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adrienne Southworth
To Education (s) on 02/20/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to contraceptives. [HB-536]
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; 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 employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 02/14/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to child and maternal fatalities. [HB-544]
Amend KRS 211.684 to permanently establish the state child and maternal fatality review team within the Kentucky Department for Public Health; require the team to review and analyze all child fatalities or near fatalities in the Commonwealth each year that involve a person under the age of eighteen (18) years with a gunshot wound; make technical corrections.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rachel Roarx
Introduced In House on 02/14/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to neglect and abuse. [SB-207]
Amend KRS 620.080 to require the Commonwealth to bear the burden of proof by clear and convincing evidence in a temporary removal hearing; remove the admissibility of hearsay evidence in a temporary removal hearing; amend KRS 620.090 to provide that the issuance of an order for a temporary removal if the burden of proof is met is permissive and not mandatory.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adrienne Southworth
To Judiciary (s) on 02/16/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to neglect and abuse. [SB-208]
Amend KRS 600.020 to separate the definitions of "abused child" and "neglected child"; amend the definition of "physical injury" to include the requirement that it is likely to cause death or disfigurement or impairment of an organ; amend KRS 620.040 and 620.050 to require that interviews of any party by the cabinet must be recorded and retained for five years; amend KRS 620.072 to remove "neglect"; amend KRS 625.090 to remove "neglect" as a basis for a termination of parental rights; amend various KRS sections to conform.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adrienne Southworth
To Families & Children (s) on 02/16/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to best interests of a child. [SB-206]
Amend KRS 620.023 to add additional criteria that the court may consider in determining the best interests of a child; prohibit court from considering the socioeconomic status of a parent or caretaker.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adrienne Southworth
To Families & Children (s) on 02/16/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to early childhood programs. [HB-550]
Amend KRS 199.894 to define "Child Care and Development Fund" and "Child Care Assistance Program"; create a new section of KRS 199.892 to 199.896 to define additional eligibility requirements in the Child Care Assistance Program; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate regulations for implementation; amend KRS 157.3175 to define "at risk of educational failure" to include three and four-year old children experiencing any of the listed circumstances; require that children will be identified for preschool based on their risk
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 02/14/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to early childhood education. [SB-203]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require the Kentucky Community and Technical College System to offer an associate degree program in interdisciplinary early childhood education entrepreneurship; create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to establish the Division of Regulated Early Childhood Education within the Office of Inspector General within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; establish the Division of Early Childhood Education within the Department for Community Based Services within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services;
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Sponsored by: Sen. Julie Adams
2nd Reading, To Rules on 02/28/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION recognizing September 2024 as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. [SR-139]
Recognize September 2024 as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.
Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise
To Senate Floor on 02/14/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to instructional programs for school-age children and declaring an emergency. [HB-491]
Amends KRS 199.896 to change the requirements for when instructional programs for school-age children are exempt from all child-care licensure administrative regulations, and to provide that instructional programs for school-age children that offer recreational, educational, sports training, or vacation programs to children under 18 years of age that a child attends outside the presence of his or her parent or legal guardian, shall be exempt from all child-care licensure administrative regulations if certain criteria are met; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 87) on 04/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to termination of parental rights. [HB-476]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 625 to allow a parent to voluntarily terminate parental rights during the pendency of a proceeding under KRS Chapter 620, relating to dependency, neglect, and abuse actions, by signing and filing a consent form prescribed by the Administrative Office of the Courts, and to require a finding by the court that termination of parental rights would be in the best interest of the child; and amends KRS 625.020 and 625.041 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Elliott
Signed By Governor (acts Ch.37) on 04/04/2024