Children And Minors
Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to child welfare. [HB-492]
Amend KRS 620.100 to establish a requirement that ensures that separate counsel is available to advise a cabinet employee in court anytime that the cabinet employee is required to be in court; amend KRS 620.142 to establish custodial, permanency, and service options available to a relative or fictive kin caregiver; amend KRS 620.360 to expand the rights of foster parents in court proceedings and clarify that all components of a foster parent’s approval are effective for three years and that when reevaluation is required after that three years, all
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Gettr Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION affirming support for services and providers addressing the domestic violence, sexual violence, and child abuse public health crisis. [HR-59]
Affirm support for services and providers addressing the domestic violence, sexual violence, and child abuse public health crisis.
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to parental consent for transgender healthcare services. [HB-477]
Amend KRS 214.185 to prohibit administering transgender healthcare services on a minor patient without the written consent of the parent or guardian.
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to abortion and declaring an emergency. [HB-460]
Amend KRS 311.732, relating to performance of an abortion upon a minor, to require the informed written consent of a parent or legal guardian to include a copy of that parent's or legal guardian's government-issued identification, and to include specific language; require the physician to keep a copy of the informed written consent for at least 7 years; require the physician to execute an affidavit; require additional criteria and standards for when a court determines whether to allow a minor to self-consent to an abortion; require the court hearing
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to athletics. [HB-471]
Amend KRS 156.070 to designate the NAIA and NJCAA as organizations the Kentucky Board of Educaion must consider in establishing athletic programs, require the Board of Education or agency designated by the Board of Education to manage interscholastic athletics to promulgate administrative regulations or bylaws requiring schools that participate in interscholastic athletics to designate all athletic teams, activities, and sports based upon the biological sex of the students eligible to participate; prohibit male students from participating in athletic
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to home studies. [HB-493]
Amend KRS 199.474 to establish specific requirements of the home study that is done related to the out-of-home placement of children.
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to health education. [HB-462]
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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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education. [HB-473]
Amend KRS 161.030 to specify authority of Education Professional Standards Board over educator hired by public schools only; amend KRS 199.894 to define "learning pods" and exclude from the defintion of "child-care center" and "family child-care home"; and amend KRS 194A.381 to exclude learning pods from certain hiring requirements.
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to child welfare. [HB-448]
Amend KRS 600.020 to expand the definition of "qualified mental health professional" as it relates to licensed clinical social workers, licensed marriage and family therapists, and credentialed professional counselors.
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to child welfare investigations. [HB-455]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 605 to establish protections for persons making a report relating to a child in out-of-home placement to the Office of the Ombudsman and Administrative Review within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services that a violation of KRS Chapters 600 to 645 has occurred.
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to banking. [SB-183]
Amend KRS 286.3-380 to include gender-neutral language.
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to child support. [HB-404]
Amend KRS 403.211 to increase the amount of an extraordinary medical expense from $100 to $250; amend KRS 403.212 to update the child support guidelines table and a self-support reserve; establish guidelines for imputation of income; create a new section of KRS Chapter 403 to establish adjustments to a child support obligation based upon parenting time; amend KRS 406.031 to decrease the time liability for child support shall attach in a paternity action from 4 years to 2 years; amend KRS 620.090 to establish an action for child support when a court
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to abuse or neglect of a child. [SB-174]
Amend KRS 600.020 to add exclusions relating to a parent's or guardian's actions from the definition of "abused or neglected child."
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to dependency, neglect, and abuse. [HB-389]
Amend KRS 620.140 to create procedures for informal adjustment of certain dependency, neglect, and abuse cases.
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION encouraging high schools to offer annual government instruction. [HR-49]
Encourage high schools to offer students at least 3 hours of annual, nonpartisan instruction on the roles and functions of city, county, and state government.
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to flagrant nonsupport. [HB-402]
Amend KRS 530.050 to increase the amount qualifying for flagrant nonsupport from $1,000 to $5,000.
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school breakfasts. [HB-384]
Amend KRS 158.070 to permit the administrator of a school that participates in the Federal School Breakfast Program to authorize up to 15 minutes of the student attendance day to provide the opportunity for children to eat breakfast during instructional time.
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Medicaid coverage for lactation support services and breastfeeding equipment. [HB-350]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to require the Department for Medicaid Services and Medicaid managed care organizations to provide coverage for lactation counseling, lactation consultation, and breastfeeding equipment; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid Services to request federal authorization for a waiver if necessary.
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION encouraging high schools to offer annual government instruction. [SR-57]
Encourage high schools to offer students at least three hours of annual, nonpartisan instruction on the roles and functions of city, county, and state government.
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to preserving families that include a parent who is blind. [HB-359]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 405 relating to parents or prospective parents with blindness; define terms; establish rights of parents or prospective parents with blindness.