Children And Minors
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to full-day kindergarten. [HB-530]
Amend KRS 158.060 to remove language that allows for half-day kindergarten programs; amend KRS 157.320 and 157.360 to remove references to kindergarten full-time equivalent pupils in average daily attendance for program base funding purposes; amend KRS 158.030 to conform; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2026.
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AN ACT relating to correctional facilities. [HB-5]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 15A, relating to juvenile detention facilities, to direct that all incarcerated youth are subject to search at any time and to require separate bathrooms and sleeping quarters for males and females; create new sections of KRS Chapter 197, relating to penitentiaries, to direct that all prisoners are subject to search at any time, require separate bathrooms and sleeping quarters for males and females, and to prohibit the Department of Corrections from providing cosmetic procedures or initiating cross-sex hormones
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the taxation of income received by a minor. [HB-471]
Amend KRS 141.019 to define "minor"; allow an individual income tax exclusion of all income from all sources received by a minor.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to chaplains in schools. [HB-454]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 161 to require school districts and public charter schools to employ a chaplain or accept a chaplain as a volunteer; set eligibility for employed and volunteer chaplains; require that employed and volunteer chaplains submit background checks; amend KRS 160.380 to include a volunteer chaplain as an adult who is required to have a background check; provide that the Act may be cited as the Teachers and School Chaplains Act.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to preschool and kindergarten education. [HB-460]
Amend KRS 157.3175 to require school districts provide a full-day preschool education program for eligible three and four-year-olds; establish eligibility for the program; require that preschool for three year old children continue to be funded through a grant process and preschool programs for four-year-old children be funded under KRS 157.310 to 157.440; require preschool programs to operate on the school district calendar; require transportation be provided; amend KRS 158.031 to include preschool education programs for four-year-old children
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school nutrition. [HB-439]
Amend KRS 158.850 to define terms; ban schools from selling or providing ultra-processed foods during the school day.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the display of child labor laws in public schools. [HB-457]
Amend KRS 158.195 to require each public school with students in grades six through 12 to display a printed abstract of certain child labor laws, including limited and prohibited occupations and work hour restrictions for minors; require the information to be posted on the school's website.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to transportation network company services. [HB-438]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 281 to establish procedures and requirements for providers of youth transportation network company services to children under the age of 14; allow school districts to contract with providers of youth transportation network company services for pupil transportation, subject to approval by the student's parent or legal guardian; amend KRS 281.010 to define "youth transportation network company services" or "youth TNC services."
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education. [SB-120]
Amend KRS 156.070 to require child dependency, neglect, and abuse information to be included in any interscholastic athletics participation consent form; require any training for interscholastic athletics administrators and coaches to include information about mandatory reporting duties for child dependency, neglect, and abuse.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to reproductive privacy. [HB-419]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 311 to establish reproductive rights and define terms; amend KRS 18A.225 to remove the prohibition of insurance coverage for abortion; amend KRS 39A.180 to allow the Governor to suspend statutes related to abortion during a declared emergency; amend KRS 156.496 to allow a school district to operate a family resource center that provides abortion counseling; amend KRS 205.010 to permit financial aid for an abortion; amend KRS 205.510 to include abortions or induced miscarriages as medical care; amend KRS 205.560
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Health Access Nurturing Development Services Program. [HB-417]
Amend KRS 211.690 to require the Health Access Nurturing Development Services (HANDS) Program to provide educational information about maternal and postpartum depression; make technical corrections.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for rapid whole genome sequencing. [HB-401]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 18A to define "rapid whole genome sequencing"; require any health plan offered to public employees provide coverage and reimbursement for rapid whole genome sequencing; establish conditions for coverage.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments. [SB-118]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 533 to define terms; require the court, upon conviction of the defendant, to consider the defendant's status as a primary caretaker of a dependent child unless the defendant is a violent offender, the victim is a child, or a statute prohibits an alternative sentence; require the court, upon a finding that the defendant is a primary caretaker of a dependent child, to consider an alternative sentence; provide that the defendant shall have the right to present an alternative sentencing plan and a family impact statement
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to human sexuality instruction in public schools. [HB-380]
Amend KRS 158.1415 to exclude puberty instruction from the prohibition of human sexuality instruction for students in the fifth grade and below; make human sexuality instruction opt-out for parents instead of opt-in.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sex-based classifications. [SB-116]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 61 to define "boy," "equal," "female," "girl," "male," "man," "sex," and "woman"; prohibit any state or local law, regulation, ordinance, or policy from treating males or females unfairly from similiarly situated members of the opposite sex, but permit separation of the sexes if in the interest of maintaining safety, privacy, and fairness; provide a non-exhaustive list of examples of areas in which public entities may distinguish between the sexes; require any public school, public school district, state agency,
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION honoring the Blueprint for Kentucky's Children and adjourning in honor of Children's Advocacy Day, March 5, 2025. [SR-46]
Honor Blueprint for Kentucky's Children and adjourn on March 5th, 2025, in honor of Children's Advocacy Day.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to child sexual abuse instruction. [HB-382]
Amend KRS 158.1415 to exclude age-appropriate child sexual abuse instruction from the prohibition of human sexuality instruction for students in the fifth grade or lower.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to human growth and development instruction. [HB-397]
Amend KRS 158.1415 to require a school district to adopt health curricula that includes human growth and development instruction that meets specific criteria; set restrictions for the instruction that grants parents an opportunity to review materials and opt their child out of instruction; provide that the Act may be cited as the Baby Olivia Act.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to juvenile justice. [SB-111]
Create a new section in KRS Chapter 200 to define terms; establish procedures for a child charged with a public offense to determine if the child is a high acuity youth; establish procedures for securing a treatment plan and dispute resolution through a review process and the court if the parties cannot agree to a plan; require a 24-hour protocol for health facilities, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, the Department of Juvenile Justice, and the courts to direct care; establish reimbursement rates for inpatient and outpatient psychiatric
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to intranasal epinephrine. [HB-384]
Amend KRS 158.832 to include intranasal epinephrine to list of medications used to treat anaphylaxis; amend KRS 158.836 to include intranasal epinephrine as permissible for schools to keep.