Children And Minors
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to health care. [HB-688]
Amend KRS 314.041, relating to registered nurse licensure, and KRS 314.051, relating to licensed practical nurse licensure, to permit rather than require the board to issue credentials; amend KRS 314.042 to require physicians collaborating with an advanced practice registered nurse to have an active and unrestricted license in Kentucky; amend KRS 314.109 to reduce the time from 90 to 30 days for a person under the jurisdiction of the board to notify the board of a conviction of certain misdemeanors or felonies; amend KRS 209.032, relating to employees
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/12/2025
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AN ACT relating to dependency, neglect, and abuse. [HB-574]
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
2nd Reading, To Rules on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to postsecondary education students. [HB-568]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms, require postsecondary education institutions to designate at least one employee in an appropriate department to serve as a liaison between the institution and a homeless student or student in care who is enrolled at the institution; detail responsibilities of the liaison, the Council on Postsecondary Education, and the institution; require an institution to create a position to carry out the responsibilities of a liaison if the number of students experiencing homelessness or students in care
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sarah Stalker
To Postsecondary Education (h) on 02/25/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to liability for injury or damage caused by the underage consumption of intoxicating substances. [SB-182]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to allow a person injured due to the negligence of an intoxicated minor to bring a civil action against a person who knew or should have known that the minor consumed alcohol or a controlled substance in the person's home or on property under the person's control, and against any person, other than the minor's parent, who provided the alcohol or controlled substance to the minor.
Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
To Judiciary (s) on 02/19/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to psychotropic drugs. [HB-572]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to define terms; require Medicaid-enrolled providers prescribing psychotropic drugs to children to provide an FDA Medication Guide to parents or legal guardians; require medical care providers prescribing psychotropic drugs to children covered by Medicaid to obtain signed informed consent from a parent of guardian; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to develop and maintain an adverse drug reaction online reporting system; require the cabinet to compile and submit an annual report of the adverse
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josh Calloway
To Health Services (h) on 02/25/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to military-connected educational benefits. [HB-560]
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.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (h) on 02/25/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to student health and safety. [HB-589]
Amend KRS 158.162 to define "critical incident," require investigations in emergency plans for critical incidents, and state the goals of the investigations; amend KRS 158.4410 to task the state school security marshal with investigating serious physical injury or death incidents that occur on school property, at school-sanctioned events, or during interscholastic athletic events; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to outline the parameters of the investigation, require referral of potential criminal charges, and require necessary administrative
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/25/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to vaccines. [SB-177]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to prohibit a requirement for any individual to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, modified ribonucleic acid (modRNA) vaccine, or messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine for the purposes of student enrollment, employment, or medical treatment in the Commonwealth; prohibit any COVID-19 vaccine, modified ribonucleic acid (modRNA) vaccine, or messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine to be administered in the Commonwealth to a minor child under the age of 18 years; sunset the provisions that relate to a minor child
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Sponsored by: Sen. Mike Wilson
To Health Services (s) on 02/19/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to elementary literacy and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-557]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 171 to establish the Kids Love to Read Program; specify the program is for children in kindergarten through grade five; require books to be sent to children's homes; require the Department for Libraries and Archives to promulgate administrative regulations necessary to administer the program; appropriate $500,000 in fiscal year 2025-2026 to support the program; APPROPRIATION.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To State Government (h) on 02/25/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION honoring the Blueprint for Kentucky's Children and adjourning in honor of Children's Advocacy Day, March 5, 2025. [HR-29]
Honor Blueprint for Kentucky's Children, and adjourn on March 5th, 2025, in honor of Children's Advocacy Day.
Sponsored by: Rep. Samara Heavrin
Taken From Committee On Committees (h) on 03/05/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to name change of a minor. [HB-592]
Amend KRS 401.020 to require the establishment of a legal relationship between a parent and child in proceedings involving a name change for the child.
Sponsored by: Rep. Steve Bratcher
To Families & Children (h) on 02/25/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to children. [SB-181]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to define terms; direct each local board of education to designate one or more programs or applications as a traceable communication system that shall be the exclusive means for school district employees and volunteers to communicate electronically with students; provide that a parent may submit written consent for a designated school district employee or volunteer to communicate electronically with a student outside of the traceable communication system; exclude communications between a parent that is a school
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Sponsored by: Sen. Lindsey Tichenor
Delivered To Governor on 03/28/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the dissolution of marriage. [HB-549]
Amend KRS 403.044 to establish that the 60-day waiting period for the presentation of testimony in a divorce proceeding involving minor children shall not apply where the parties have completed the collaborative law process or family mediation that has resulted in a final agreement that is filed with the court.
Sponsored by: Rep. Stephanie Dietz
To Families & Children (h) on 02/25/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to interrogation of children. [HB-516]
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.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Judiciary (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to support systems for English language learners in common schools. [HB-494]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; establish the English learner enhanced support program under the Department of Education to help bring English learners with little or no formal education to grade-level proficiency within three years; require the department to set standards for program, contract with a provider meeting certain standards and with record of success with qualified English learners, identify eligible districts or schools, offer the program to as many students as funds permit, and report to the Legislative Research
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Meredith
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency. [SB-165]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; prohibit a school district, public school, or cooperative board from providing differential treatment or benefits on the basis of an individual's religion, race, sex, color, or national origin; prohibit the Kentucky Department of Education, a school district, a public school, or a cooperative board from expending any resources on diversity, equity, and inclusion; prohibit the department, a school district, a public school, or a cooperative board from soliciting statements on an applicant's
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Sponsored by: Sen. Mike Wilson
To Education (s) on 02/18/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Employee Child Care Assistance Partnership Program. [HB-508]
Amend KRS 199.884 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to establish new procedures related to the Employee Child Care Assistance Partnership Program.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jennifer Henson Decker
Reported Favorably, 2nd Reading, To Rules With Committee Substitute (1) And Committee Amendment (1-title) on 03/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to administrative subpoenas. [SB-169]
Amend KRS 500.120 to include social networking companies, mobile payment services, and cloud storage services as account holders subject to an administrative subpoena under various criminal statutes.
Sponsored by: Sen. Danny Carroll
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 74) on 03/24/2025
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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. [HCR-28]
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.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Elliott
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to children and declaring an emergency. [HB-513]
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. George Brown
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/21/2025