Children And Minors
Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the operation of bicycles. [SB-144]
Amend KRS 189.287 to direct the Transportation Cabinet to include a requirement for bicycle helmets for operators and passengers under the age of 12 in the bicycle standards and safety administrative regulations promulgated under this section; amend KRS 189.990 to conform.
Sponsored by: Sen. Julie Adams
To Transportation (s) on 02/11/2019
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AN ACT relating to reorganization. [SB-116]
Create a new section of KRS 157.195 to 157.290 to establish the State Advisory Council for Exceptional Children; amend KRS 156.029 to revise the Kentucky Board of Education; amend KRS 158.6453 to revise the standards and assessments process review committee; repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 158.6452 to revise the School Curriculum, Assessment, and Accountability Council; repeal, reenact, and amend KRS 158.648 to rename the State Advisory Council for Gifted and Talented Education the Gifted and Talented Education Advisory Council and revise the council;
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Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise
To Education (h) on 03/07/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school safety and declaring an emergency. [SB-1]
Amend KRS 158.441 to include definitions of school safety and school security; amend KRS 158.442 to include development and implementation of a school safety coordinator training program; specify membership on the Center for School Safety board of directors; amend KRS 158.443 to specify the board of directors is to appoint an executive director, establish all positions of the center, approve a school security risk assessment tool, review the organizational structure of the center and make recommendations; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158
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Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise
Signed By Governor (ky Acts Ch. 005) on 03/11/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION urging the Legislative Research Commission and the Finance and Administration Cabinet to work collaboratively to provide one or more safe, appropriate places for mothers to breastfeed and express milk in the Capitol Annex. [HR-29]
Urge the Legislative Research Commission and the Finance and Administration Cabinet to work collaboratively to provide one or more safe, appropriate places for mothers to breastfeed and express milk in the Capitol Annex.
Sponsored by: Rep. McKenzie Cantrell
Posted In Committee on 02/11/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION honoring Governor Matt Bevin's legal team for their tireless work defending life. [HR-218]
Honor the dedicated and tireless work of Governor Bevin's legal team at this pivotal time in the fight for life and in defense of the unborn.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph Fischer
Adopted By Voice Vote on 03/28/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION honoring Governor Matt Bevin for his support of pro-life legislation. [HR-219]
Honors Governor Matt Bevin for his dedicated, courageous, and bold leadership at this pivotal time in the fight for life and in defense of the unborn.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph Fischer
Adopted By Voice Vote on 03/28/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION adjourning the House of Representatives in loving memory of Dawson Moore and honoring all those children in the Commonwealth currently battling pediatric cancers. [HR-149]
Adjourn in loving memory of Dawson Moore and honor all those children in the Commonwealth currently battling pediatric cancers.
Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
Adopted By Voice Vote on 03/12/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION condemning the passage of the "Reproductive Health Act" by the New York State Assembly. [HR-135]
Condemn the passage of the "Reproductive Health Act" by the New York State Assembly.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
To House Floor on 02/21/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION urging the Legislative Research Commission and the Finance and Administration Cabinet to work collaboratively to equip men's and women's restrooms with baby changing facilities in the Capitol and Capitol Annex. [HR-128]
Urge the Legislative Research Commission and the Finance and Administration Cabinet to work collaboratively to equip men's and women's restrooms in with baby changing facilities in the Capitol and Capitol Annex.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joni Jenkins
To State Government (h) on 02/21/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION honoring the Blueprint for Kentucky’s Children and adjourning in honor of Children's Advocacy Day, February 13, 2019. [HR-104]
Recognize February 13, 2019 as Children's Advocacy Day.
Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
Introduced In House on 02/13/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the external child fatality and near fatality review panel. [HB-89]
Amend KRS 620.055 to add additional four new members to the external child fatality and near fatality review panel; require that the panel additionally report to the Child Welfare Oversight and Advisory Committee; and change the annual required published report deadline to February 1 from December 1.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Health And Family Services (h) on 01/10/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to healthy goals for the school children of the Commonwealth. [HB-88]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to establish the goal of increasing time for physical activity to 20 minutes per day or 100 minutes per week in all schools with kindergarten through grade 5 by November 1, 2020; require the Kentucky Department of Education to identify model programs, provide resources and assessment tools, develop a checklist for collecting data for public reporting, encourage physical activity plans in schools containing grades 6 through 8, report to the Interim Joint Committee on Education and the Interim Joint Committee
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Education (h) on 01/10/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to corporal physical discipline. [HB-82]
Create a new section of KRS 158.440 to 158.449 to prohibit a person employed by a school district from using corporal physical discipline; amend KRS 158.444 to remove corporal punishment as a form of discipline in a school; amend KRS 199.640 as effective July 1, 2019, to establish that church-related privately operated child-caring agencies or facilities shall not use corporal physical discipline; amend KRS 503.110 to establish that physical force may not be used against a minor.
Sponsored by: Rep. Steve Riley
To Education (h) on 01/10/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to firearms. [HB-70]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to make it a crime to unlawfully store a firearm; establish elements of the crime for recklessly allowing access to an unsecured firearm by a minor; establish the crime as a Class B misdemeanor unless a physical injury results, in which case it is a Class A misdemeanor; exempt this section from KRS 6.945(1).
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Judiciary (h) on 01/10/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to motor vehicle insurance. [HB-67]
Amend KRS 304,99-060, regarding penalties for operating a motor vehicle with required security, to exempt operators of a motor vehicle who are minors and who do not own the motor vehicle; clarify that owners of a motor vehicle operated without security by a minor shall still be subject to penalties outlined in the section.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kelly Flood
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 01/10/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to kinship and fictive kin care and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-68]
Amend KRS 405.023 to establish that the KinCare Support Program shall include respite care for low-income fictive kin caregivers; amend KRS 605.120 to require the establishment and operation of the Kinship and Fictive Kin Care Program that will include monetary provisions for relative and fictive kin caregivers who have permanent custody of a child that shall be at a minimum $300 monthly per child through the age of 18; amend KRS 610.010 to conform; appropriate $17,500,000 in General Fund and $17,500,000 in Federal Funds in fiscal year 2019-2020
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
To Health And Family Services (h) on 01/10/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to income tax checkoff programs and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-62]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to provide taxpayers the option to donate to the Kentucky YMCA Youth Assembly program from their individual income tax refunds; require the Department of Revenue to place the designation on the face of the Kentucky individual income tax return; provide information about the Kentucky YMCA Youth Assembly program in the return's instructions; transfer the funds designated by taxpayers to the Kentucky YMCA Youth Association by July 1.
Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 02/27/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to a youth crossbow deer hunting season. [HB-54]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 150 to require the Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources to promulgate administrative regulations to establish a statewide youth crossbow deer hunting season; define terms; require the statewide youth crossbow deer hunting season to take place each year on the same dates established by the department for the statewide archery deer hunting season; require participants to comply with all statewide deer hunting requirements, including supervision requirements for youth deer hunters.
Sponsored by: Rep. William Reed
To Tourism & Outdoor Recreation (h) on 01/10/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the human rights of unborn children to not be discriminated against and declaring an emergency. [HB-5]
Create new section of KRS Chapter 311 to prohibit an abortion if the pregnant woman is seeking the abortion, in whole or in part, because of an unborn child's sex, race, color, national origin, or disability, except in the case of a medical emergency; require physicians to certify a lack of knowledge that the pregnant woman's intent to seek an abortion was, in whole or in part, because of an unborn child's sex, race, color, national origin, or disability; require the State Board of Medical Licensure to revoke a physician's license to practice medicine
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Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph Fischer
Signed By Governor (ky Acts Ch. 037) on 03/19/2019
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to custody orders. [HB-491]
Amend KRS 403.330 to set minimum requirements for parenting coordinators.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ed Massey
To Judiciary (h) on 02/21/2019