Children And Minors
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to student assessment and declaring an emergency. [HB-128]
Amend KRS 158.6453 to define a "series of interim assessments"; provide that the statewide assessment program may be composed of a series of interim assessments if approved by the United States Department of Education; require the results of an assement that is part of a series of summative assessments to be reported to the school within one month of the assessment date; make conforming amendments; require the commissioner of education to apply to the United States Department of Education for a waiver to the requirement of a single, summative assessment
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Sponsored by: Rep. Chad McCoy
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022
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AN ACT relating to COVID-19 precautions in educational settings and declaring an emergency. [HB-51]
Amend KRS 199.896 to provide that the license or certification of a child-care center shall not be refused or revoked for refusing to require facial coverings; amend KRS 199.898 to provide that parents and guardians of children enrolled in licensed, certified, or publicly funded child care facilities have a right to refuse facial coverings on behalf of their children without any retribution; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to prohibit requiring facial coverings on any public school premises, on school-sponsored transportation, or at a school-sponsored
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Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph Fischer
To Health & Welfare (s) on 03/10/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for injectable epinephrine devices. [HB-183]
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 and under; provide that the coverage shall not be subject to cost-sharing requirements; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485, 18A.225, and 164.2871 to require Medicaid, KCHIP, the state employee health plan, and self-insured employer group health plans offered by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution to comply with the 18-and-under injectable epinephrine device coverage requirement;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to health education. [HB-13]
Repeal and reenact KRS 158.1415 to require each school district to provide healthy relationship education instruction to all public school students; establish minimum requirements for the instruction; establish minimum requirements for the healthy relationship curricula and instructional materials; prohibit a school or school district from restricting the ability of an instructor to answer a question related to the instruction; require that a school make the healthy relationship curricula and instructional materials available upon the request of
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kelly Flood
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to children in out-of-home care. [HB-177]
Amend KRS 620.150 to require all visits between a child in out-of-home care and the parent or other person exercising custodial control or supervision of the child to be in-person.
Sponsored by: Rep. Matt Lockett
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to civil proceedings and declaring an emergency. [HB-170]
Create a new section of KRS 387.010 to 387.280 to establish a new procedure for legal settlements with a minor when the amount of the settlement is $25,000 or less; amend KRS 387.280 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph Fischer
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 182) on 04/08/2022
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Kentucky 2021 Special Session
AN ACT relating to the delivery of education and care for children and declaring an emergency. [SB-1]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 13A to nullify 902 KAR 2:213E and 702 KAR 1:195E; direct each school district to have a COVID-19 operations in place; direct the Department for Public Health to develop a model "test to stay" COVID-19 model for school districts; direct local health departments to assist school districts in implementing their COVID-19 operation plans; provide a temporary remote instruction option for school districts to use at the school, classroom, grade, or group level; provide that districts may submit 2018-2019 or 2019-2020
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Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise
Vetoed on 09/09/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Special Session
AN ACT relating to the delivery of education and care for children and declaring an emergency. [HB-1]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 13A to nullify 902 KAR 2:213E and 702 KAR 1:195E; direct each school district to have a COVID-19 operations in place; direct the Department for Public Health to develop a model "test to stay" COVID-19 model for school districts; direct local health departments to assist school districts in implementing their COVID-19 operation plans; provide a temporary remote instruction option for school districts to use at the school, classroom, grade, or group level; provide that districts may submit 2018-2019 or 2019-2020
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Sponsored by: Rep. Steven Rudy
Identical Senate Bill 1 Substituted For This Bill on 09/09/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION urging the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish policies and reports related to children in out-of-home care during the COVID-19 pandemic. [HR-78]
Request the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish policies and reports related to children in out-of-home care during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sponsored by: Rep. John Blanton
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/15/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education technology. [SB-281]
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 02/25/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education. [HB-579]
Amend KRS 158.6453 to allow parents or guardians to choose that their student not participate in statewide student assessments; amend KRS 160.345 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Nemes
Introduced In House on 02/23/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Juvenile Handgun Violence Prevention Task Force. [SCR-116]
Request that the Legislative Research Commission create the Juvenile Handgun Violence Prevention Task Force to study the causes, impacts, and potential solutions to juvenile handgun violence in Kentucky.
Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Berg
Introduced In Senate on 02/23/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to juveniles. [SB-256]
Amend KRS 605.035 to allow the family accountability, intervention, and response team to refer children age 12 and younger to DCBS for assessment and services, and to report progress back to the team or advise the court-designated worker to refer the case to the county attorney, who may choose to take no action; amend KRS 610.030 to require a court-designated worker to refer children 12 years of age and younger first to the county attorney and then to the family accountability, intervention, and response team.
Sponsored by: Sen. Alice Kerr
To Health & Welfare (s) on 02/24/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the false reporting of claims of abuse. [HB-547]
Amend KRS 403.270 to add false reporting of claims of abuse towards another party or de facto custodian to the list of factors a court shall consider when making a custody determination; amend KRS 519.040, relating to false reporting, to prohibit reports of domestic violence or sexual assault to any law enforcement officer, officer of the court, or government agency officer when the information reported is false or baseless.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Nemes
Introduced In House on 02/22/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the dissemination of personally identifying information. [SB-267]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 525 to define terms; criminalize the dissemination of personally identifying information; establish penalties; create a civil cause of action; limit the liability of service providers.
Sponsored by: Sen. Wil Schroder
Signed By Governor (acts Ch.199) on 04/08/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION recognizing Gateway Children's Services. [SR-83]
Recognize Gateway Children's Services.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ralph Alvarado
To Senate Floor on 02/22/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to rights of conscience for child-placing agencies and child-caring facilities. [HB-524]
Create a new section of KRS 199 to establish legislative findings related to faith-based and religiously affiliated child-placing agencies and child-caring facilities; create new sections of KRS 199 to establish definitions; establish provisions that protect faith-based and religiously affiliated child-placing agencies and child-caring facilities from discrimination or retribution; and allow faith-based and religiously affiliated child-placing agencies and child-caring facilities to take action in courts.
Sponsored by: Rep. John Blanton
Introduced In House on 02/11/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to contraceptive coverage. [SB-250]
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms; require health benefit plans to provide coverage for contraception; set forth requirements for health benefit plans relating to contraceptive coverage; amend KRS 211.185 to define contraceptive services; provide that "foundational public health programs" includes contraceptive services; amend KRS 205.522 to require the Department for Medicaid Services and managed care organizations contracted to provide Medicaid benefits to comply with the new section on contraceptive coverage;
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Sponsored by: Sen. Morgan McGarvey
To Health & Welfare (s) on 02/22/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to open juvenile proceedings. [HB-503]
Amend KRS 610.070 to establish persons who shall be admitted to a proceeding related to dependency, neglect, and abuse, and termination of parental rights; establish guidelines for attendance; amend KRS 610.105 and 610.340 to conform; repeal KRS 21A.190 and 21A.192.
Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Flannery
Introduced In House on 02/11/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to child abuse and declaring an emergency. [HB-472]
Amend KRS 500.050 to extend the criminal statute of limitations for misdemeanor sex offenses against minors from 5 to 10 years; amend KRS 413.249, relating to civil actions arising from childhood sexual assault or abuse, to apply to direct perpetrators as well as third-party individuals or corporate entities who may be criminally liable for the criminal act of those perpetrators; specify that the amendments enacted in 2017 Ky. Acts ch. 114, sec. 2 shall be applied retroactively to actions accruing before that Act's effective date of June 29, 2017;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Hart
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 89) on 03/23/2021