Children And Minors
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education. [HB-419]
Amend KRS 161.030 to specify authority of Education Professional Standards Board over educators hired by public schools only; amend KRS 199.894 to define "learning pods" and exclude them from the definition of "child-care center" and "family child-care home"; amend KRS 194A.381 to exclude learning pods from certain youth camp requirements.
Sponsored by: Rep. Felicia Rabourn
Introduced In House on 01/30/2024
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AN ACT relating to the Child Care Assistance Program. [HB-422]
Create a new section of Subchapter 12 of KRS Chapter 154 to define "in-demand industry sector" and "in-demand occupation"; require the Cabinet for Economic Development to create annual lists of in-demand industry sectors and in-demand occupations and transmit the lists to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services for use in determining eligibility criteria for the Child Care Assistance Program; amend KRS 199.894 to define "Child Care and Development Fund" and "Child Care Assistance Program"; make technical corrections; create a new section of KRS
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 01/30/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the rights of incarcerated children. [HB-404]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 600 to enumerate rights of incarcerated children; create short title of The Incarcerated Children's Bill of Rights.
Sponsored by: Rep. Lisa Willner
Introduced In House on 01/30/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to preschool and kindergarten education. [HB-424]
Amend KRS 157.3175 to require school districts provide a full-day preschool education program for eligible three and four-year-olds; establish eligibility for the program; require that preschool for three year old children continue to be funded through a grant process and preschool programs for four-year-old children be funded under KRS 157.310 to 157.440; require preschool programs to operate on the school district calendar; require transportation be provided; amend KRS 158.031 to include preschool education programs for four-year-old children
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 01/30/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Perinatal Advisory Committee. [HB-405]
Create a new section of KRS 211.672 to 211.678 to establish the Perinatal Advisory Committee to review Kentucky’s system of perinatal care and make recommendations for the improvement of perinatal outcomes within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; establish duties, membership, and reporting requirements of the committee.
Sponsored by: Rep. Cherlynn Stevenson
Introduced In House on 01/30/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to relative and fictive kin caregivers. [SB-151]
Amends KRS 620.140 to allow a child to submit to the District Court the names of possible relative or fictive kin caregivers with whom the child could be placed if the court removes the child from his or her home; and amends KRS 620.142 to establish when a relative or fictive kin caregiver can apply to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to be certified as a child-specific foster home.
Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 85) on 04/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to outdoor nature-based child care. [HB-423]
Amend KRS 199.894 to define "outdoor nature-based child-care center"; amend KRS 194A.381 to exempt outdoor nature-based child-care centers from the requirements for youth camps; amend KRS 199.8941 to allow monetary incentives for outdoor nature-based child-care centers; amend KRS 199.8943 to expand the quality rating system to outdoor nature-based child-care centers; amend KRS 199.895 to specify evacuation plans for outdoor nature-based child-care centers; amend KRS 199.8951 to establish epinephrine auto-injector requirements for outdoor nature-based
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 01/30/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to adult-oriented businesses and declaring an emergency. [HB-402]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 231 to express the findings of the General Assembly relating to adult-oriented businesses and the need for regulation; define terms; establish distance parameters for the location of adult-oriented businesses in proximity to identified entities and locations; establish transition provisions for existing businesses; affirm the authority of local governmental units to supplement regulation of adult-oriented businesses; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Introduced In House on 01/30/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to child care programs. [HB-421]
Amend KRS 199.894 to define "Child Care and Development Fund", "Child Care Assistance Program" and to rename and redefine the family child-care home program to the "family, friend, and neighbor child-care home"; create a new section of KRS 199.892 to 199.896 to expand eligibility requirements for the Child Care Assistance Program; amend KRS 199.8982 to rename the family child-care home program to the family, friend, and neighbor child-care home program; establish that certified family, friend, and neighbor child-care home providers shall be eligible
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 01/30/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to paid parental leave. [SB-142]
Create a new section of KRS 18A.005 to 18A.200 to provide an employee of the Commonwealth a paid leave of absence of up to four weeks for the birth, surrogacy, or adoption of a child, or up to two weeks for the placement of a child in foster care or kinship care; establish requirements; amend KRS 18A.025 and 18A.110 to conform.
Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
To Families & Children (h) on 03/12/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sex-based classifications. [HB-390]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 61 to define "boy," "equal," "female," "girl," "male," "man," "sex," and "woman"; prohibit any state or local law, regulation, ordinance, or policy from treating males or females unfairly from similiarly situated members of the opposite sex, but permit separation of the sexes if in the interest of maintaining safety, privacy, and fairness; provide a non-exhaustive list of examples of areas in which public entities may distinguish between the sexes; require any public school, public school district, state agency,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Richard Heath
Introduced In House on 01/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT proposing to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to education funding. [HB-2]
Proposes a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to authorize the General Assembly to provide for financial support for the education of students outside of the public school system; provides ballot language; and provides for submittal to voters for ratification or rejection.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 8) on 03/21/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to local school board student representatives. [HB-381]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to require each local school board to include at least one student representative; require each local school board to adopt a school board student representative policy, set minimum requirements for the school board student representative policy.
Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
Introduced In House on 01/25/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to supports for pregnant women and children and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-380]
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require insurers and any exchange to provide a special enrollment period for pregnant individuals; specify requirements for the coverage; require group plan insurers to provide notice of special enrollment rights; amend KRS 18A.225 and 164.2871 to require the state employee health plan and self-insured state postsecondary education institution group health plans to comply with the special enrollment requirements; create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require Medicaid to cover lactation
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Introduced In House on 01/25/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to children and declaring an emergency. [HB-376]
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 provisions requiring a school obtain parental consent prior to providing health services or mental health services to students; remove language concerning policies to encourage or facilitate conversations between parents and students; remove language limiting Kentucky Board of Education
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ruth Palumbo
Introduced In House on 01/25/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to dependency, neglect, and abuse. [HB-360]
Amend KRS 620.030 to require any person with reasonable knowledge of the matter to notify the local law enforcement agency or the Department of Kentucky State Police, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or its designated representative, the Commonwealth's attorney, or the county attorney that a child has been born to a parent who has another child in the care, custody, or control of the cabinet or other person as a result of removal pursuant to KRS Chapter 620; amend KRS 620.040 to require the local law enforcement agency or the Department
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Sponsored by: Rep. Myron Dossett
To Families & Children (h) on 03/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to gun safety for children. [HB-373]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to prohibit unlawful storage of a firearm; establish elements of the crime as recklessly allowing access to an unsecured firearm by a minor; establish the crime as a Class B misdemeanor unless a physical injury or death results, in which case it is a Class A misdemeanor; provide that the Act may be cited as the Baby Dre Gun Safety Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/24/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to a name change for a minor. [HB-370]
Amend KRS 401.020 to require a court to conduct a hearing and consider the best interests of a child when one parent refuses or is unable to execute a petition for a name change for a minor child.
Sponsored by: Rep. Chad Aull
Introduced In House on 01/24/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to birth certificates. [HB-358]
Amend KRS 213.046, 213.056, and 213.071 to require the biological sex designation on a birth certificate to be either male or female and prohibit a nonbinary or any symbol representing a nonbinary designation including the letter "X."
Sponsored by: Rep. Billy Wesley
Introduced In House on 01/24/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prevention-oriented child abuse awareness. [HB-347]
Amend KRS 158.4416 to require a trauma-informed team to incorporate age-appropriate and evidence-based child abuse and neglect awareness and prevention into the training, guidance, and assistance provided by the team; require the trauma-informed toolkit to include recommendations regarding child abuse and neglect awareness and prevention; require a school's trauma-informed plan to include strategies for child abuse and neglect awareness and prevention; require the Kentucky Department of Education to send annual notification of where the standards
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Sponsored by: Rep. Nancy Tate
To Families & Children (h) on 03/12/2024