Children And Minors

State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to early childhood education. [SB-275]
Amend KRS 157.3175 to require school districts to provide full-day preschool, require all four year olds residing in the school district be eligible; amend KRS 158.060 to remove half-day allowance for kindergarten; amend KRS 157.320 to remove kindergarten full-time equivalent definition; amend KRS 157.360, and 158.030 to conform.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Morgan McGarvey Introduced In Senate on 03/04/2020

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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to the household and dependent care service tax credit. [SB-267]
Amend KRS 141.067 to increase the amount of household and dependent care service tax credit to an amount equal to 100% of the allowable federal credit; apply to taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2020.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Morgan McGarvey To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 03/06/2020

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to juvenile justice. [SB-258]
Amend KRS 635.010 to make language gender neutral.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Whitney Westerfield Introduced In Senate on 03/03/2020

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to child care. [HB-621]
Amend KRS 199.8983 related to the designee members of the Kentucky Child Care Advisory Council.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser To Health And Family Services (h) on 03/04/2020

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to underage purchasers of age-restricted products. [HB-625]
Amend KRS 244.085 and 438.311 to make an underage person who purchases or accepts an alcoholic beverage, tobacco product, alternative nicotine product, or vapor product subject to a fine of up to $500; require the underage person's parent or guardian to attend any court hearings and pay the fine plus any court costs if the violator is under 18 years of age; direct the underage person to attend the hearings and pay the costs for an alcoholic beverage offense if the violator is between 18 and 20 years of age; set the same hearings and costs for a (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Randall Bridges Posting Withdrawn on 03/12/2020

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to kindergarten and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-636]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to establish a full-day kindergarten grant fund; create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to require the Kentucky Department of Education to administer the grant fund and define eligibility for funds; amend KRS 157.320, 157.360,158.031, and 158.060 to require districts to provide full-day kindergarten and SEEK to include funds for full-day kindergarten beginning July 1, 2026; APPROPRIATION.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. James Tipton To Education (h) on 03/04/2020

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to organ donation education. [SB-233]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to establish academic requirements for instruction on organ procurement and tissue donation designed to develop a knowledge of the potentially life-saving achievement involved in organ and tissue transplantation.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Dennis Parrett To Education (s) on 03/04/2020

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to children in the custody of the state. [HB-618]
Amend KRS 194A.146 related to the membership of the Statewide Strategic Planning Committee for Children in Placement.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser To Health And Family Services (h) on 03/04/2020

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to child support. [HB-615]
Amend KRS 403.212 to update the child support table.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie Posting Withdrawn on 03/12/2020

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to child welfare. [HB-628]
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 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 that all courses be offered online and in-person and allow the (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. David Meade Taken From Health & Welfare (s) on 03/26/2020

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to child support. [HB-562]
Amend KRS 620.090 to require that a child support order be established or modified within 7 days of an order of temporary removal.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie Posting Withdrawn on 03/12/2020

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to epinephrine auto-injectors. [HB-577]
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefits plans to cover epinephrine auto-injectors for persons 18 years of age and under; provide that the coverage shall not be subject to cost-sharing requirements; amend KRS 205.522 to apply the 18-and-under auto-injector coverage requirement to the Department of Medicaid Services and managed care organizations contracted to provide Medicaid benefits; amend KRS 205.6485 to require the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program to comply with the 18-and-under auto-injector (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Mary Marzian To Banking & Insurance (h) on 03/04/2020

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to child dependency, neglect, or abuse. [HB-616]
Amend KRS 620.145, 620.180, and 620.240 to establish a 30-day case review to be submitted to a court for a child who is in the custody of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie 3rd Reading, Passed 72-12 on 03/19/2020

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to tissue sample collection in autopsies. [SB-237]
Amend KRS 213.161 and 72.405 to allow for the collection of tissue samples from post-mortem examinations of children for research purposes.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 126) on 04/24/2020

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to guardians ad litem and counsel for minors and disabled adults and making an appropriation therefor. [SB-230]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 15A to create the Office of Child and Family Advocacy, the Child and Family Advocacy Commission, and the child and family advocate position to provide a state-sponsored and controlled system for training and appointing guardians ad litem and counsel for minors and disabled adults; amend KRS 49.120, 209.110, 353.260, 387.305, 387.560, 392.140, and 620.100 to cap guardian ad litem or counsel fees to $500; amend various statutes to conform; Sections 4 to 28 EFFECTIVE July 1, 2021; APPROPRIATION.

  

Sponsored by: Sen. Christian McDaniel To Judiciary (s) on 03/02/2020

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to the Attorney General and declaring an emergency. [HB-521]
Amend KRS 15.241 to require the Attorney General, upon certification by the secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, to seek injunctive relief as well as civil or criminal penalties for violations of KRS Chapter 216B relating to abortion facilities and KRS 311.720 to 311.830 relating to abortions; provide that the Attorney General may seek injunctive relief as well as civil or criminal penalties, notwithstanding the absence of certification by the secretary of the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; EMERGENCY.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley To Judiciary (h) on 03/02/2020

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to epinephrine auto-injectors. [HB-519]
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A or KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefits plans to cover epinephrine auto-injectors for persons 18 years of age and under; cap cost-sharing at $50 per epinephrine auto-injector; allow cost-sharing cap to be adjusted every 5 years for inflation; amend KRS 18A.225 to require the state employee health plan to comply; EFFECTIVE, January 1, 2021.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Joni Jenkins To Banking & Insurance (h) on 03/02/2020

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to nonsupport. [HB-523]
Amend KRS 530.050 to require a person incarcerated for nonsupport to be granted work release and pay work release wages towards outstanding support obligations.

  

Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown To Judiciary (h) on 03/02/2020

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session

A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION related to the access of exceptional students to educational opportunities. [HCR-110]
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION related to the access of exceptional students to educational opportunities, "The Students First Resolution."

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser Recommitted To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 03/17/2020

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State (Kentucky)
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to parental rights. [HB-483]
Amend KRS 403.322 to deny parental rights to a person shown by clear and convincing evidence to have fathered a child via sexual assault; amend KRS 405.028 to deny parental rights to a person shown by clear and convincing evidence to have fathered a child via sexual assault; amend KRS 625.050 to add guardians and de facto custodians to the list of people who may file a petition for involuntary termination of parental rights; create a new section of KRS Chapter 625 to require the court to involuntarily terminate parental rights for someone who is (continued...)

  

Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph Fischer To Judiciary (h) on 02/27/2020

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