Children And Minors
Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to homeless youth prevention and protection and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-466]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 194A to state legislative findings; define terms; create the Office of Homeless Youth Prevention and Protection in the Department for Community Based Services; require the office to establish training programs and make periodic reports, establish the Homeless Youth Prevention and Protection Advisory Council; allow the administrator of a crisis residential center to convene a multidisciplinary team; establish procedures to be used when a child is taken into custody; create the ending youth homelessness grant program;
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AN ACT relating to child welfare. [HB-446]
Amend KRS 620.140 to require a list to be provided to the cabinet by a biological or legal parent of potential persons to be considered as a relative or fictive kin placement; amend KRS 620.290 to add new requirements for local citizen foster care review boards to consider when making recommendations and remove requirements related to case reviews of when a foster child is moved more than three times; amend KRS 620.320 to change the duties of the State Citizen Foster Care Review Board; amend KRS 620.360 to establish that foster parent certification
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to student access to sexually explicit material. [HB-423]
Amend KRS 156.675 to require the Kentucky Department of Education to Develop informational materials on the public health risks and potential harms of sexually explicit Internet content; require each public school to distribute the informational materials to parents and guardians beginning with the 2020-2021 school year.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to child support. [HB-415]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 403 to create calculation methods for use in determining child support obligations when shared parenting is the ordered custody arrangement; amend KRS 205.721 to increase the fee charged by the cabinet to $35 required by federal law; amend KRS 403.211 to provide that the calculations for child support provided in Section 1 are excepted from the presumption of application of the existing guidelines in KRS 403.212; amend KRS 403.212 to update the amounts in the child support guidelines table; amend KRS 403.215 to
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to superintendent screening committees. [HB-404]
Amend KRS 160.352 to require greater minority representation on a screening committee in a school district with a student minority population of 50% or greater.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to strangulation. [HB-400]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 508 to create the new crimes of strangulation in the first degree as a Class C felony, and strangulation in the second degree as a Class D felony; amend KRS 403.720 to include strangulation in the definition of "domestic violence and abuse"; amend KRS 456.010 to include strangulation in the definition of "dating violence and abuse"; amend KRS 15.334, 15.440, 15.718, 21A.170, 30A.015, 194A.540, 194A.545, and 194A.550 to mandate training on screening and forensic evidence collection in strangulation cases.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to children of military families. [HB-399]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 159 to allow children of military families who are transferring to Kentucky on official military orders to pre-enroll in a school district with official documentation.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to hazing. [HB-379]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 508 to define "hazing"; establish a Class C felony of hazing in the first degree; establish a Class D felony of hazing in the second degree; establish a Class A misdemeanor of hazing in the third degree.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to youth homelessness. [HB-378]
Amend KRS 156.160 to establish educational coursework completion alternatives for students who are homeless children or youth; amend KRS 213.141 to establish that homeless individuals under the age of 25 shall not have to pay a fee to get a copy of their birth certificate; amend KRS 214.185 to establish that a qualified mental health professional may provide outpatient mental health counseling to any child age 16 or older upon request of such child without the consent of a parent, parents, or guardian of such child.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school truancy. [HB-343]
Amend KRS 159.150 to specify that students in kindergarten can be truant.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education. [HB-331]
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.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education stability for children. [HB-312]
Amend KRS 620.060 regarding emergency custody orders in dependency, neglect, and abuse cases to require a specific statement in the orders to change the educational enrollment of a protected child; amend KRS 403.730 to require a specific finding on the record before an emergency domestic violence protective order can order a child to change educational enrollment; amend KRS 403.270 regarding child custody generally to emphasize educational stability as a primary factor.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to precinct election officers. [HB-309]
Amend KRS 117.045 to permit 16 year-old and 17 year-old minors to serve as precinct election officers.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the sexual exploitation of minors. [HB-298]
Amend KRS 531.335 to raise the penalty for possession or viewing of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor under the age of 12 years to a Class C felony; amend KRS 531.340 to raise the penalty for the distribution of matter portraying a sexual performance of a minor under the age of 12 years to a Class C felony for the first offense and a Class B for each subsequent offense.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the operation of bicycles. [HB-280]
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.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to student diabetes screenings. [HB-259]
Amend KRS 156.160 to add a blood screening for diabetes to any student physical required for enrollment.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to high school students pursuing military careers. [HB-251]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 requiring schools to offer the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB) test annually to students in grades 10 through 12, offer counseling based on the ASVAB test results, and allow up to four excused absences to meet with a recruiter of the Armed Forces of the United States or Kentucky National Guard; amend KRS 159.035 to allow excused absences for students who meet with a military recruiter, receive ASVAB counseling, or pursue enlistment.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the exemption certain baby products from sales and use taxation. [HB-24]
Amend KRS 139.010 to define "diapers"; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt from sales and use tax the sale or purchase ofdiapers and certain baby products; provide that the exemptions apply to sales or purchases made after August 1, 2019, but before August 1, 2023; require the Department of Revenue to report to the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue the amount of exemptions claimed.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to preserving families that include a parent who is blind. [HB-221]
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.
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Kentucky 2019 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to family resource and youth services centers. [HB-21]
Amend KRS 156.496 to allow school districts to accept monetary donations for the operation and maintenance of family resource and youth services centers; require that donations be used exclusively for those purposes.