Children And Minors
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION recognizing March 2025 to be Kentucky Maternal and Infant Mortality and Disparities Awareness Month. [HR-58]
Recognize March 2025 to be Kentucky Maternal and Infant Mortality and Disparities Awareness Month.
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AN ACT relating to custody. [HB-597]
Amend KRS 403.270, 403.280, 403.315, and 403.340 to remove the presumption in favor of joint custody and equal parenting time; amend KRS 403.320 to conform.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school cooperation with patriotic organizations. [HB-603]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define "organization" as a federally recognized patriotic civic service organization that consists of or serves youths; permit an organization to request and require superintendents to provide an opportunity to provide information to students on school property during a school day.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Kentucky School for the Deaf Governance Task Force. [SCR-76]
Establish the Kentucky School for the Deaf Governance Task Force; establish duties and membership; direct the task force to study optimal governance models for the Kentucky School for the Deaf, including by a possible independent board of education.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to instructional programs for school-age children. [HB-679]
Amend KRS 199.896 to change the requirements for when instructional programs for school-age children are exempt from all child-care licensure administrative regulations.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to compulsory attendance. [SB-213]
Amend KRS 159.030 to create an exemption for compulsory attendance in school for a child who is at least 16 years old and has obtained a High School Equivalency Diploma.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to children. [HB-621]
Create new section of KRS Chapter 635 to establish penalties for children who violate KRS 508.075, 508.078, or 508.080; amend KRS 159.170 to prohibit transfer of a student to an at-home private school while certain proceedings are pending.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to interrogation of children. [SB-264]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 610 to define terms; prohibit a child from being interrogated using deceptive methods; create a new rule of evidence to limit the admissibility of statements made in the interrogation of a child in violation of statute.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the operations of the Department of Law. [SB-244]
Amend KRS 15.010 to establish the Department of Child Support Services and the Office of Data Privacy in the Department of Law; amend KRS 15.111 to conform to existing law and recognize that the Office of Administrative Hearings is created under the Department of Law; amend KRS 15.802, 44.030, 156A.060, 186.570, 237.110, 248.664, and 403.135 and various sections of KRS Chapters 405, 406, and 407 to conform with the transfer of child support enforcement programs to the Department of Child Support Services in the Department of Law; amend various sections
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to adoption. [SB-210]
Amend KRS 199.575 to add gender-neutral language.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to local school board student representatives. [HB-626]
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.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Child Care Assistance Program. [HB-651]
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 establish income eligibility requirements for the Child Care Assistance Program.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for the treatment of postpartum mood disorders. [HB-683]
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for FDA-approved prescription drugs for the treatment of postpartum mood disorders; allow the suspension of the coverage requirement for FDA-approved prescription drugs for the treatment of postpartum mood disorders under qualified health plans if cost defrayment required by the state; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485, 18A.225, and 164.2871 to require Medicaid, Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program, the state health employee health plan,
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency. [HB-653]
Amend KRS 158.192 to change the definition of "harmful to minors" and define terms; deem material, performances, events, or programs that are obscene, harmful to minors, or contain obscene imagery representing minors as educationally unsuitable and not age appropriate; require principals to remove student access to materials, programs, or events deemed educationally unsuitable or not age appropriate; modify complaint and appeals timelines; require that principal or local board of education report that a material, program, or event was educationally
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to moral instruction. [HB-607]
Amend KRS 158.200 to detail process by which local boards of education may permit pupils to attend moral instruction; permit individuals or groups offering moral instruction to submit a request to a board and set requirements to be included in request; require superintendents to submit individuals providing transportation or moral instruction for criminal history and CA/N background checks; provide that students attending moral instruction are counted in average daily attendance for SEEK funding; repeal KRS 158.210, 158.220, 158.230, 158.240, 158.250,
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for perinatal mood and anxiety disorders screenings. [HB-627]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to allow perinatal mood and anxiety disorders screenings to be claimed as a service for the child as part of the early and periodic, diagnostic and treatment benefit; amend KRS 205.6497 to require the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program to cover perinatal mood and anxiety disorders screenings; create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require a health plan to cover perinatal mood and anxiety disorders screenings as part of a well-child or well-baby visit; to suspend the coverage requirement
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to loss of consortium. [SB-199]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a civil cause of action for loss of consortium by a child when the negligent or wrongful act of a third person caused the death or total and permanent disability of a parent.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A JOINT RESOLUTION relating to contingent appropriations. [HJR-33]
Declare that the General Assembly does not authorize the contingent appropriation moneys to establish an Innovations in Early Childhood Education Delivery Grant Program.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to parentage fraud. [SB-239]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 530 to establish the crime of parentage fraud as a Class B misdemeanor.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to mental health coverage in connection with pregnancy. [HB-633]
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms; require health benefit plans to provide coverage for counseling interventions for pregnant and postpartum persons at increased risk of perinatal depression, including persons who have suffered a miscarriage or stillbirth; suspend the coverage requirement's application to qualified health plans if the state would be required to make cost defrayal payments; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485, 18A.225, and 164.2871 to require Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program,
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