Children And Minors
Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to behavioral health services. [HB-592]
Create various new sections of KRS Chapter 210 to define terms, establish a 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, issue a report to the Interim Joint Committee on Health and Family Services; and require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations; establish a Youth Behavioral Health Crisis Advisory Board; require behavioral health emergency services and mobile crisis team services to be
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AN ACT relating to reproductive privacy. [HB-518]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to establish reproductive rights and define terms; amend KRS 18A.225 to remove the prohibition of insurance coverage for abortion; amend KRS 39A.180 to allow the Governor to suspend statutes related to abortion during a declared emergency; amend KRS 156.496 to allow a school district to operate a family resource center that provides abortion counseling; amend KRS 205.010 to permit financial aid for an abortion; amend KRS 205.510 to include abortions or induced miscarriages as medical care; amend KRS 205.560
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to expulsion of students. [HB-498]
Amend KRS 158.150 to include possession of any intoxicating tetrahydrocannabinol product as a cause for suspension or expulsion from school; require a local board of education to expel a student for at least 12 months if a student makes threats that pose a danger to other students or staff; require a local board of education to conduct an expulsion review process to determine whether a student's expulsion shall continue or end; amend KRS 158.155 and 158.444 to conform.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to custody. [HB-515]
Amend KRS 405.020 to allow people other than parents to petition for custody of child if the parents are claimed to be unfit or have waived their superior rights to custody.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to adoption. [HB-523]
Amend KRS 199.575 to add gender-neutral language.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to discipline of students. [HB-538]
Amend KRS 158.150 to require a local board of education to expel a student for at least 12 months if the student makes threats that pose a danger to other students or staff; require a local board of education to adopt a policy requiring disciplinary actions for a student who assaults other students or staff off campus property; allow a local school board to place a student in an alternative education setting in lieu of expulsion, or at the end of an expulsion; allow a teacher to remove a disruptive student from the classroom; provide that a student
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to birth certificates. [HB-585]
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."
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to custody. [HB-499]
Amend KRS 405.020 to allow people other than parents to petition for custody of child if the parents are claimed to be unfit or have waived their superior rights to custody.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to financial support of a child or dependent after driving under the influence. [SB-268]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 532 allowing restitution in the form of child support to be ordered in violations of KRS 189A.010 if the violation caused the death of a parent or guardian of a minor child or resulted in a finding by the court that a parent or guardian of a minor child is disabled or totally and permanently disabled; provide that the Act may be cited as Melanie's Law.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to military-connected educational benefits. [HB-407]
Amend KRS 164.507 to remove degree-seeking requirement for nonremarried spouse and children of a deceased veteran when utilizing educational benefits; require students to use federal grant funds toward tuition prior to the use of the waiver; amend KRS 164.515 to expand educational benefit to include service members with a disability rating of 50% or higher; remove degree-seeking requirement; require students to use federal grant funds toward tuition prior to the use of the waiver.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to protective orders involving minors. [HB-440]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 456 to require appointment of a guardian ad litem for any unrepresented minor who is a party to the action or on behalf of whom a petition for an interpersonal protective order has been filed; create a new section of KRS 403.715 to 403.785 to require appointment of a guardian ad litem for any unrepresented minor who is a party to the action or on behalf of whom a petition for an emergency protective order or domestic violence order has been filed; establish protocols for proceeding against minor respondents who
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to child abuse. [SB-229]
Amend KRS 620.030 to remove the requirement that a supervisor make an additional report to the proper authorities regarding a report made to them of suspected abuse; require an oral report of child abuse and notification of a supervisor; add the requirement that a supervisor cooperate with the investigation of a report; amend KRS 620.040 to require an agency that is the reporting source to notify other involved agencies; amend KRS 620.072 to allow the cabinet to choose announced or unannounced visits following alleged child abuse reports.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to reorganization. [HB-387]
Amend KRS 12.550, 21A.190, 164.020, 194A.030, 194A.564, 194A.601, 199.665, 199.8943, 199.8996, 205.470, 205.525, 205.619, 205.702, 205.704, 209A.122, 210.031, 210.300, 210.365, 210.366, 210.368, 211.027, 211.297, 211.577, 211.684, 214.544, 214.556, 214.564, 214.640, 214.645, 216.2929, 216B.457, 260.032, 304.14-642, 315.0351, 625.120, and 620.055 to reference newly established legislative committees on Families and Children and Health Services.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to juvenile justice. [HB-469]
Amend KRS 630.030 to include gender-neutral language.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Medicaid coverage for residential pediatric recovery centers. [HB-436]
Direct the Department for Medicaid Services to submit a state plan amendment application to the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services no later than November 1, 2023, to provide medical assistance for inpatient and outpatient services provided by a residential pediatric recovery center.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to maternal health. [SB-215]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 211 to require all health care facilities to provide information on perinatal mood disorders; amend KRS 211.684 to define "state child and maternal fatality review team"; require the Department for Public Health to establish a state child and maternal fatality review team; modify required annual reporting requirements; amend KRS 216.2929 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to report methods of delivery by hospital annually on its website beginning December 1, 2023.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to common comprehensive reading programs. [HB-389]
Amend KRS 158.305 to require superintendents and public charter school boards to adopt a common comprehensive reading program that is determined by the department to be reliable, valid, and aligned to required reading and writing standards.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to transient public school students. [SB-247]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 requiring eligible students to have the option to remain in the same school when changing residence within the same school district; define "eligible student"; require the school district to provide transportation to the school from the student's new residence.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to juvenile justice. [HB-493]
Amend KRS 635.050 to make technical corrections.
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments. [SB-199]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 508 to define terms; criminalize the use of tracking devices on motor vehicles without the consent of the owner or lessee; establish penalty; provide exceptions.