Children And Minors
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to gun safety for children. [HB-332]
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 A misdemeanor unless a physical injury or death results, in which case it is a Class D felony; provide that the Act may be cited as the Baby Dre Gun Safety Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. Beverly Chester-Burton
Withdrawn on 02/13/2025
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AN ACT relating to children. [HB-325]
Amend KRS 405.020 to add gender-neutral language.
Sponsored by: Rep. Samara Heavrin
To Families & Children (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Urban Youth Agriculture Initiative. [HB-356]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 247 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Urban Farming Youth Initiative to promote farming to youth in urban counties in at least one urban University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service office beginning August 1, 2025, and others by August 1, 2026; set each program term to one year in duration beginning in January; establish guidelines for participant eligibility.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Agriculture (s) on 03/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to crimes and punishments. [HB-291]
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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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Families & Children (s) on 03/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school curriculum. [HB-294]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define "Success Sequence"; require all students to receive instruction on the Success Sequence during grades 7 and 10 beginning with the 2026-2027 school year; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to establish academic standards for instruction on the Success Sequence; require the Department of Education to develop guidelines for implementing Success Sequence instruction; permit superintendents to partner with Kentucky-based nonprofits to develop required curriculum.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Nemes
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to offices within the Auditor of Public Accounts and declaring an emergency. [SB-85]
Amend KRS 43.010 to define "deputy auditor" and "ombudsman"; amend KRS 43.030 to replace references to "assistant auditor" with "deputy auditor"; amend KRS 43.035 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to provide information on contacting the Commonwealth Office of the Ombudsman at all Department for Community Based Services offices; require ombudsman to maintain confidentiality; authorize the ombudsman to promulgate administrative regulations; establish that expenses incurred by ombudsman shall be charged to the entity that is the
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Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Meredith
Recommitted To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 03/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to a sales and use tax exemption for diapers. [HB-282]
Amend KRS 139.010 to define "diaper"; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt all diapers from the sales and use tax; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. Josh Calloway
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the rights of incarcerated children. [HB-228]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 600 to enumerate the rights of incarcerated children; provide that the Act may be cited as the Incarcerated Children's Bill of Rights.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Families & Children (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to rapid whole genome sequencing. [HB-217]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to define "rapid whole genome sequencing"; require the Department for Medicaid Services and Medicaid managed care organizations to provide coverage for rapid whole genome sequencing; establish conditions for coverage; amend KRS 205.6485 to require the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program to provide coverage for rapid whole genome sequencing; require the Department for Medicaid Services (department) to promulgate administrative regulations; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the department
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Sponsored by: Rep. Rebecca Raymer
Withdrawn on 02/06/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency. [HB-241]
Allow local school districts to make up days missed by adding instructional time to student attendance days; notwithstand the requirement for the student instructional year to have 170 student attendance days; allow waiver of up to five student attendance days if a school district is unable to provide the required 1,062 hours of instruction by June 4, 2025; require local boards of education seeking to revise its calendar to submit a plan for approval to the Department of Education; allow instructional time made up and days waived to count as employee
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Sponsored by: Rep. John Blanton
Became Law Without Governor's Signature (acts Ch. 94) on 03/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage of feeding or eating disorders. [HB-244]
Create new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms; require health plans to provide coverage for eating or feeding disorder treatment; prohibit health plans from using certain standards, including body mass index, when determining medical necessity or the appropriate level of care for an individual diagnosed with a feeding or eating disorder; amend KRS 304.17C-125, 205.522, 205.6485, 164.2871, and 18A.225 to require limited health services benefit plans, Medicaid, KCHIP, self-insured employer group plans provided by the governing
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Fleming
To Banking & Insurance (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to conversion therapy. [SB-94]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 216 to define terms; direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services (cabinet) to prohibit the direct or indirect use of state and federal funds for the practice of conversion therapy on minors; require state agencies to report providers engaged in conversion therapy efforts with a minor to the appropriate professional certification or licensing board; require the cabinet to update relevant policies and procedures to reflect the prohibition of conversion therapy on minors and to convey the dangers of conversion
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Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Berg
To Health Services (s) on 02/06/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for hearing loss. [SB-93]
Amend KRS 304.17A-132 to modify coverage requirements for hearing aids and related services; amend KRS 304.17A-131 to modify coverage requirements for cochlear implants; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485, 164.2871, and 18A.225 to require Medicaid, KCHIP, self-insured employer group plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution, and the state employee health plan to comply with the coverage requirements for hearing aids and related services and cochlear implants; provide that various sections apply to health benefit
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Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to a sales and use tax exemption for diapers. [SB-78]
Amend KRS 139.010 to define "diaper"; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt all diapers from the sales and use tax.
Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to licensed child-care centers. [HB-221]
Amend KRS 199.896 to establish square footage requirements for child-care centers.
Sponsored by: Rep. DJ Johnson
To Families & Children (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to children. [SB-90]
Amend KRS 158.1415 to remove provisions related to parental rights and courses, curriculums, or programs on human sexuality; provide for a process for parents to opt out of their child receiving instruction on the subject of human sexuality; amend KRS 158.191 to remove language limiting Kentucky Board of Education or Department of Education policies regarding student confidential information and the use of pronouns; require a local school district to use pronouns for students upon a request from a parent along with a note from a medical provider
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Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Berg
To Education (s) on 02/06/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for epinephrine devices. [HB-236]
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to cover epinephrine devices for covered persons; limit a covered person's cost-sharing amount to $100 annually; amend KRS 304.17A-099 to exempt the epinephrine device coverage requirement from being suspended under state law due to the triggering of federal cost defrayment requirements; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485,164.2871, and 18A.225 to require Medicaid, KCHIP, self-insured employer group health plans offered by the governing board of a state postsecondary
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Sponsored by: Rep. John Blanton
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 03/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to child dependency, neglect, and abuse reports. [HB-242]
Amend KRS 620.050 to allow identified persons or entities to have access to confidential information related to child dependency, neglect, and abuse reports for the purpose of a bona fide research, quality improvement, or evaluation project; establish criteria.
Sponsored by: Rep. Tina Bojanowski
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 14) on 03/15/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to child custody. [HB-275]
Amend KRS 610.050 to add gender-neutral language.
Sponsored by: Rep. Samara Heavrin
To Families & Children (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Department for Medicaid Services to provide the Legislative Research Commission with a report regarding pharmacist payment parity. [SJR-26]
Direct the Department for Medicaid Services to provide the Legislative Research Commission with a report regarding pharmacist payment parity.
Sponsored by: Sen. David Givens
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 23) on 03/17/2025