Children And Minors
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to early literacy education. [SB-214]
Amend KRS 158.791 to set forth the intent of the General Assembly with regard to reading instruction, supports, and interventions; define the Department of Education's role in assisting local school districts with regard to reading instruction, supports, and interventions; require the department to collaborate with designated agencies on reading programing, materials, and activities; amend KRS 158.305 to replace references to "response to intervention" systems with "multi-tiered system of supports"; require school districts to submit evidence of
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Sponsored by: Sen. Steve West
To Education (s) on 02/27/2020
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AN ACT relating to early literacy education. [HB-488]
Amend KRS 158.791 to set forth the intent of the General Assembly with regard to reading instruction, supports, and interventions; define the Department of Education's role in assisting local school districts with regard to reading instruction, supports, and interventions; require the department to collaborate with designated agencies on reading programing, materials, and activities; amend KRS 158.305 to replace references to "response to intervention" systems with "multi-tiered system of supports"; require school districts to submit evidence of
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Sponsored by: Rep. James Tipton
To Education (h) on 02/27/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to parentage and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-480]
Establish KRS Chapter 408 to adopt the Uniform Parentage Act (2017); amend various KRS sections to conform; repeal KRS 199.503 and KRS Chapter 406.
Sponsored by: Rep. John Sims
To Judiciary (h) on 02/26/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to mental health treatment. [SB-205]
Amend KRS 202A.021 to permit voluntary transport to a hospital or psychiatric facility with authorization of the admitting and receiving hospital or facility; amend KRS 645.030 to permit voluntary transport of a child to a hospital or psychiatric facility with authorization of the admitting and receiving hospital or facility and a parent if the child is under 16 and parent and child if the child is age 16 or older; amend KRS 645.190 to conform.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ralph Alvarado
Received In House on 03/19/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to athletics. [HB-459]
Amend KRS 156.070 to require the Kentucky 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; prohibiting male students from participating in athletic teams, activities, and sports designated as girls; and defining the methods of establishing a students' biological
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
To Education (h) on 02/21/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to abandoned infants. [HB-447]
Amend KRS 405.075 to define and allow the use of a "newborn safety device" related to the anonymous surrendering of a newborn infant in the Commonwealth.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
To Health & Welfare (s) on 03/26/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to abortion. [HB-451]
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, in the absence of certification, the Attorney General may seek injunctive relief as well as civil or criminal penalties.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph Fischer
To Rules (h) on 04/15/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the ad valorem taxation of privately owned leasehold interests in residential property owned by a purely public charity. [HB-452]
Amend KRS 132.195 to include specific privately owned leasehold interests in residential property owned by a purely public charity in the list of leasehold interests exempt from state and local property taxation at the prevailing rate; amend KRS 132.020 to include specific privately owned leasehold interests in residential property owned by a purely public charity in the list of property that is subject to a one-and-one-half-cent state property tax rate; amend KRS 132.200 to include specific privately owned leasehold interests in residential property
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Meade
Posted In Committee on 03/12/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the dissemination of personally identifying information. [SB-182]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 525 to create a Class A misdemeanor for disseminating personally identifying information on the Internet about a minor; establish increased criminal penalties for injury and levels of monetary loss; create a civil cause of action arising from violations; and limit the liability of service providers.
Sponsored by: Sen. Christian McDaniel
Posted In Committee on 03/06/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to child abuse or neglect investigations. [SB-183]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 620 to prohibit a parent, guardian, or other custodian from withdrawing, transfering, or in any way altering the current enrollment of a child to hinder an abused or neglected child investigation; make violation of the prohibition a Class A misdemeanor; make violation of the prohibition a Class D felony if the child is taken out of state; make notification of intent a defense to prosecution.
Sponsored by: Sen. Wil Schroder
Posted In Committee on 03/12/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Uniform Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation Act. [HB-428]
Establish KRS Chapter 403A and create new sections thereof to establish the Uniform Deployed Parents Custody and Visitation Act; amend KRS 403.280, 403.320, 403.340, 403.352, and 403.353 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kevin Bratcher
To Judiciary (s) on 03/17/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prevention of smoking and vaping by students. [SB-166]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to require the Department of Education to establish an anonymous reporting mechanism for students to report concerns about vaping and other substances in schools; establish policies for the prompt investigation of reports to the anonymous reporting mechanism; require local school districts to provide awarness programs to teachers, students, and staff about vaping.
Sponsored by: Sen. Brandon Smith
To Education (s) on 02/18/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Kentucky Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Streptococcal Infections (PANDAS) and Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS) Task Force. [HCR-78]
Create the Kentucky Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorder Associated with Streptococcal Infections (PANDAS) and Pediatric Acute-Onset Neuropsychiatric Syndrome (PANS) Task Force to provide recommendations to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, health care providers, and the General Assembly on improving research, diagnoses, treatments, and education of PANDAS and PANS; outline task force membership; require the task force to meet monthly during the 2020 Interim and to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research
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Sponsored by: Rep. Melinda Prunty
To Health & Welfare (s) on 03/17/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to radon testing and mitigation and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-407]
Create a new section of KRS 199.892 to 199.8996 to require licensed child-care centers to be tested for radon at least once every five years as part of their initial licensure and license renewal; require the most current report to be posted in a public place within the child-care center; amend KRS 211.9105 to establish new duties for the Radon Program Advisory Committee related to financial assistance for child-care centers and schools for radon testing and mitigation; amend KRS 211.9113 to require an insurance policy for a radon laboratory; amend
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Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Meredith
To Health & Welfare (s) on 03/26/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the reporting of abortion related information to the Vital Statistics Branch. [HB-391]
Amend KRS 213.101, relating to abortion reporting requirements, to allow the Auditor of Public Accounts to perform an annual audit.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph Fischer
Recommitted To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 03/17/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to superintendent screening committees. [HB-396]
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.
Sponsored by: Rep. Charles Booker
To Education (h) on 02/10/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to guardians ad litem and other court-appointed counsel and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-395]
Amend various KRS sections to provide that guardians ad litem and court-appointed counsel shall receive a fee not to exceed $500 and to specify the payors of those fees; amend KRS 625.0405, 625.041, and 625.080 to provide that the appointment of guardians ad litem and court-appointed counsel for voluntary or involuntary termination of parental rights proceedings shall solely be for representation at the trial level and shall not extend to the filing of an appeal nor to the appeal process thereafter.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Elliott
To Judiciary (s) on 03/18/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to playgrounds. [HB-394]
Amend KRS 97.010 to require certain local government playground projects to include wheelchair access ramps, wheelchair-friendly surfaces and at least one (1) wheelchair swing, except where the contract for a playground project was signed prior to the effective date of this Act and for playground projects wholly using private funds.
Sponsored by: Rep. Russ Meyer
Recommitted To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 03/09/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to vision examinations. [HB-385]
Amend KRS 156.160 to require a conclusive vision examination upon a child's initial enrollment in kindergarten and a vision examination upon a child's initial enrollment in a public preschool program, a Head Start program or grade six.
Sponsored by: Rep. John Sims
Posted In Committee on 03/17/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to nonsupport. [SB-139]
Amend KRS 530.050 to raise the amount qualifying for flagrant nonsupport from $1,000 to $10,000 and raise the time period of flagrant nonsupport from 6 months to 12 months; specify lower the service time for a person jailed for nonsupport on a second or subsequent offense and that work release shall be permitted.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robin Webb
To Judiciary (s) on 02/06/2020