Children And Minors
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the protection of mothers and their children. [HB-700]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Healthcare ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Insurance ]
[Reproductive Rights / Abortion ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Education ]
[Poverty ]
[Human Rights ]
Create a new section of Subtitle17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require insurers and any exchange to provide a special enrollment period for pregnant individuals; specify requirements for coverage; require group plan insurers to provide notice of special enrollment rights; amend KRS 304.17A-145 to require health benefit plans that provide coverage for dependents to provide coverage for maternity care; amend KRS 304.17A-220 and 194A.099 to conform with the special enrollment requirement; amend KRS 18A.225 and 164.2871 to require the state employee health
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Poore Moser
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (h) on 03/15/2024
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AN ACT relating to children. [HB-790]
[Children and Youth ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
Amend KRS 405.020 to add gender-neutral language.
Sponsored by: Rep. Samara Rae Heavrin
To Families & Children (h) on 03/01/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to medicinal cannabis and declaring an emergency. [HB-829]
[Cannabis ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Insurance ]
Amends KRS 12.020 and KRS 194A.030 to establish the Office of Medical Cannabis, the Division of Enforcement and Compliance, and the Division of Licensure and Access within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amends KRS 218A.202 to make a technical correction; amends KRS 218B.010 to revise definitions of terms related to the medicinal cannabis program; amends KRS 218B.020 to add a pharmacist appointed by the Kentucky Board of Pharmacy to be confirmed by the Senate to the membership of the Board of Physicians and Advisors and to require the
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Michael Nemes
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 195) on 04/17/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to guardian ad litem fees. [HB-808]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Funding ]
[Human Services ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Amend KRS 625.041, 625.080, 625.0405, and 620.100 to increase the maximum fee that can be paid to guardians ad litem and court appointed counsel to $600.
Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Flannery
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 03/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky National Guard and declaring an emergency. [HB-715]
[Military ]
[Veterans ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Human Services ]
Amends KRS 36.474 removing the post-deployment provision relating to eligibility for the military family assistance trust fund, and to make a technical correction; and amends KRS 36.477 expanding the Kentucky National Guard Adoption Assistance Program to include former members of the Kentucky National Guard, and to allow adoption of stepchildren to qualify; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Poore Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 59) on 04/04/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to adoption. [HB-787]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 405.390 to add gender-neutral language.
Sponsored by: Rep. Samara Rae Heavrin
To Families & Children (h) on 03/01/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for the treatment of postpartum mood disorders. [HB-713]
[Healthcare ]
[Insurance ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health benefit plans to provide coverage for FDA-approved prescription drugs for the treatment of postpartum mood disorders; amend KRS 164.2871, 205.522, 205.6485, and 18A.225 to require a self-insured employer group health plan provided by a state postsecondary education institution to its employees, Medicaid, and Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program to comply with the new section on postpartum mood disorder coverage; direct that provisions apply to health benefit plans
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Sponsored by: Rep. Rachel Roberts
Introduced In House on 02/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to support systems for English language learners in common schools. [HB-722]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; establish the English learner enhanced support program under the Department of Education (KDE) to help bring English learners with little or no formal education to grade-level proficiency within three years; require KDE to set standards for program; require KDE to contract provider meeting certain standards and with record of success with qualified English learners; require KDE to identify eligible districts or schools; require KDE to offer program to as many students as funds permit; require
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Sponsored by: Rep. Steve Riley
To Education (h) on 02/29/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to elementary literacy and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-817]
[Education ]
[Libraries ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 171 establishing the Kids Love to Read Program; specify the program is for kindergarten through grade five children; require books be sent to children's homes; require the Department for Libraries and Archives to promulgate administrative regulations necessary to administer the program; appropriate $500,000 for fiscal years 2024-2025 and 2025-2026; APPROPRIATION.
Sponsored by: Rep. Pamela D. Stevenson
Introduced In House on 02/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT establishing the Adaptive Kindergarten Readiness pilot project. [HB-695]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to make legislative findings and declarations, to establish definitions, to establish the Adaptive Kindergarten Readiness Pilot Project, to establish the duration and terms of the pilot project, to require that the Kentucky Department of Education implement the pilot project through selection of a service provider, to establish the qualifications and duties of the service provider, to require that the department submit a report by December 1, 2025, to the Legislative Research Commission that evaluates the
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Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 65) on 04/04/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to mental health coverage in connection with pregnancy. [HB-709]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Medicare and Medicaid ]
[Insurance ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 304.17A-145 to define terms; require health benefit plans to provide coverage for counseling interventions for pregnant and postpartum persons at increased risk of perinatal depression, including persons who have suffered a miscarriage or stillbirth; amend KRS 205.522, 205.6485, 18A.225, and 164.2871 to require Medicaid, the Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program, the state employee health plan, and self-insured employer plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution to comply with the coverage
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Sponsored by: Rep. Rachel Roberts
Introduced In House on 02/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to home and hospital instruction. [HB-799]
[Education ]
[Healthcare ]
[Children and Youth ]
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. George A. Brown
Received In Senate on 03/22/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to child welfare investigations. [HB-776]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Amend KRS 620.030 to establish record keeping and process requirements for reports of alleged child dependency, abuse, or neglect.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Hart
Introduced In House on 02/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to evaluate and report on services offered to children in out-of-home care settings. [HJR-116]
[Healthcare ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
Direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to evaluate and report on services offered to children in out-of-home care settings.
Sponsored by: Rep. Samara Rae Heavrin
Taken From The Orders Of The Day on 03/27/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. [HB-791]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 211.575 to change the required statewide system for stroke response and treatment annual report date to September 1 of each year; amend KRS 211.689 to change the definition of "home visitation" and "home visitation program" and make technical changes; amend KRS 211.690 to allow for an electronic agreement to be submitted for the HANDS program; amend KRS 213.046 to change the reference from local registrar to state registrar and a timeline for submission from 10 days to five days related to birth certificates; amend KRS 387.540 related
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Sponsored by: Rep. Samara Rae Heavrin
To Families & Children (h) on 03/01/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Kentucky Kinship Task Force. [HCR-117]
[Children and Youth ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Human Services ]
Establish the Kentucky Kinship Task Force to study, review, and make recommendations regarding the current and future policy needs of the state to address access and availability of kinship care to the citizens of the Kentucky; outline task force membership; require the task force to meet monthly during the 2024 Interim; require the task force to submit findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2024.
Sponsored by: Rep. Samara Rae Heavrin
Posted For Passage In The Regular Orders Of The Day For Friday, March 22, 2024 on 03/21/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to educational neglect. [HB-747]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
Amend KRS 600.020 to change the definition of "abused and neglected child" to describe educational neglect; amend KRS 620.090 to require that a parent or guardian shall surrender public financial benefits received on behalf of the child when the child is placed outside the home due to educational neglect.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/29/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to child dependency, neglect, and abuse reports. [HB-721]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
[Data Privacy ]
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.
Sponsored by: Rep. Tina Bojanowski
Introduced In House on 02/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to internet safety instruction for children. [HB-767]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Education ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Public Safety ]
[Cybersecurity ]
Amend KRS 156.675 to require school districts to implement social media safety mechanisms in internet access policies; require social media safety policies; require social media safety instruction for students in grades six through 12; allow parents or guardians to opt children out of social media safety instruction.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Poore Moser
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (h) on 03/01/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to open juvenile proceedings. [HB-805]
[Children and Youth ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Amend KRS 610.070 to establish persons who shall be admitted to a proceeding related to dependency, neglect, and abuse, and termination of parental rights; establish guidelines for attendance; amend KRS 610.105 and 610.340 to conform; repeal KRS 21A.190, 21A.192, and 610.072, relating to the pilot project to study open juvenile proceedings.
Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Flannery
Introduced In House on 02/26/2024