Children And Minors
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education. [SB-68]
Amend KRS 158.645 to change the required learning capacities of Kentucky public school students; amend KRS 158.6451 to provide that schools shall expect a high level of academic achievement and shall develop students' ability to think critically and independently; amend KRS 156.010 to include career and technical education; amend KRS 160.345 to remove the reporting requirement relating to physical activity of students; amend KRS 157.065 to remove the reporting requirement relating to participation in breakfast programs; amend KRS 424.250 to reflect
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Sponsored by: Sen. Steve Rawlings
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 86) on 03/25/2025
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AN ACT relating to home and hospital instruction. [HB-132]
Amend KRS 158.033 to allow a student admitted to an inpatient facility to receive home and hospital services effective on the day of admittance.
Sponsored by: Rep. Timothy Truett
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 27) on 03/18/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Child Care Assistance Program. [HB-148]
Amend KRS 199.894 to define "Child Care and Development Fund" and "Child Care Assistance Program"; create a new section of KRS 199.892 to 199.896 to establish income eligibility requirements for the Child Care Assistance Program.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Withdrawn on 02/18/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to historical instruction. [HB-119]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require African history instruction in certain middle and high school world history and civilization courses; require Native American history instruction in certain middle and high school United States history courses; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations establishing academic standards for the required historical instructions; require superintendents to adopt curricula for required instruction; require the Department of Education to collaborate with the Kentucky
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to gun safety for children. [HB-120]
Amend KRS 527.010 to define "securely locked container" and make technical corrections; create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to prohibit unlawful storage of a firearm; establish elements of the crime as recklessly allowing access to an unsecured firearm by a minor; establish the crime as a Class B misdemeanor unless a physical injury or death results, in which case it is a Class A misdemeanor; provide that an affirmative defense exists if a minor obtained the firearm through the minor's unlawful entry; provide that the Act may be cited as the
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sales and use tax exemptions for baby and personal care products. [HB-122]
Amend KRS 139.010, relating to the sales and use taxes, to define terms; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt from sales and use tax the sale or purchase of baby bottles, baby wipes, breast pumps, breast pump collection and storage supplies, breast pump kits, diapers, menstrual discharge collection devices, and incontinence products; apply to sales or purchases made on or after July 1, 2025, but before July 1, 2029; require the Department of Revenue to report annually to the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue the total exemptions claimed
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to choking prevention in schools. [HB-44]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define "anti-choking device"; require school cafeteria personnel and other expected users of the device to be trained if a school obtains an anti-choking device; provide immunity from civil liability for rendering emergency care or treatment with an anti-choking device or the Heimlich maneuver at a public or private school; provide that the Act may be cited as Landon's Law.
Sponsored by: Rep. Lisa Willner
To Education (s) on 02/18/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education. [HB-91]
Amend KRS 161.030 to specify authority of the Education Professional Standards Board over educators hired by public schools only; amend KRS 199.894 to define "learning pod" and exclude them from the definition of "child-care center" and "family child-care home"; amend KRS 194A.381 to exclude learning pods from certain youth camp requirements.
Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school meals at low-income schools. [SB-48]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Proud School Match Program fund; establish the Kentucky Proud School Match Program; direct the Department of Education to reimburse an eligible school district $0.33 for every meal reimbursed by the community eligibility provision at the paid rate; require a school district that receives a reimbursement to develop and implement a Kentucky Proud school plan to identify and purchase available Kentucky-grown agricultural products and to optimize food usage; direct the Kentucky
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Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 01/09/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to undesignated glucagon. [HB-75]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 217 to define terms; permit health care practitioners to prescribe and dispense undesignated glucagon in the name of a school or to a trained individual; permit trained individuals to receive, possess, and administer undesignated glucagon during diabetic medical emergencies; permit schools to stock undesignated glucagon; provide for immunity from civil liability for any personal injury resulting from good faith actions to use undesignated glucagon to treat diabetic medical emergencies.
Sponsored by: Rep. Adrielle Camuel
To Health Services (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to civil liability of a parent or guardian. [HB-55]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish civil liability against a parent, guardian, or other person legally responsible for a minor if the minor causes the injury or death of another by the use of a destructive device, explosive, firearm, or other deadly weapon; provide limited exemptions; amend KRS 411.155 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Tina Bojanowski
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Medicaid home and community-based waiver residential services. [SB-30]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to establish the right of an individual, parent, guardian, or limited guardian to install video recording devices in the private residential room of an individual who is receiving residential services under a federally approved 1915(c) home and community based services waiver program; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate administrative regulations.
Sponsored by: Sen. Reginald Thomas
To Families & Children (s) on 01/09/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION encouraging Kentucky schools to acquire anti-choking devices. [HR-6]
Encourage Kentucky schools to acquire anti-choking devices.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Banta
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sex offenders. [HB-50]
Amend KRS 17.545 to prohibit a registrant from residing within 3,000 feet of a high school, middle school, elementary school, preschool, publicly owned or leased playground, or licensed daycare facility; provide that the 3,000 feet restriction applies to any person who becomes a registrant after the effective date of the Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to providing free feminine hygiene products for elementary and secondary students. [HB-74]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define "feminine hygiene product"; require each public school that includes any of grades four through 12 to provide free feminine hygiene products to female students; require each local board of education to adopt policies for the distribution of free feminine hygiene products.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to postincarceration supervision. [HB-51]
Amend KRS 532.043 to provide that a person convicted of felony attempt to commit a felony offense under KRS Chapter 510, KRS 529.100, 529.110, or a felony offense under KRS 531.310 to 531.370 relating to the sexual exploitation of minors, shall be subject to postincarceration supervision; amend KRS 532.060 to provide that a person convicted of felony attempt to commit a felony offense specified in KRS Chapter 510 or KRS 531.310 to 531.370 shall be subject to postincarceration supervision.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Banta
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the display of child labor laws in public schools. [SB-52]
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.
Sponsored by: Sen. Casey Chambers Armstrong
Withdrawn on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sex offenders. [HB-42]
Create a new section of KRS 17.500 to 17.580, relating to the sex offender registry, to define "costume" and "Halloween-related activity"; prohibit sex offenders who have committed a criminal offense against a victim who is a minor from participating in any Halloween-related activity; establish penalties.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to exceptions to restrictions on maternal healthcare. [SB-35]
Amend KRS 311.720, 311.7701, 311.781, and 311.787 to define terms; amend KRS 311.723, 311.727, 311.732, 311.735, 311.7706, and 311.782 to allow an abortion when there is a lethal fetal anomaly or the fetus is incompatible with sustained life outside the womb, or when the pregnancy is the result of rape or incest and the fetus has not reached viability as determined in the good-faith medical judgment of the physician; amend KRS 311.782 to establish a rebuttable presumption that the physician complied with the requirements of the section; amend KRS
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Sponsored by: Sen. Reginald Thomas
Introduced In Senate on 01/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to guardian ad litem fees. [SB-55]
Amend KRS 403.100 to require a guardian ad litem that is appointed for any minor child in a dissolution or custody proceeding under KRS Chapter 403 be paid a reasonable fee fixed by the court and paid by the Finance and Administration Cabinet when the respondent and petitioner have an active order of protection and both parties are indigent.
Sponsored by: Sen. Casey Chambers Armstrong
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 01/09/2025