Children And Minors
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the protection of mothers and their children. [HB-700]
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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AN ACT relating to children. [HB-790]
Amend KRS 405.020 to add gender-neutral language.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to medicinal cannabis and declaring an emergency. [HB-829]
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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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to guardian ad litem fees. [HB-808]
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.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky National Guard and declaring an emergency. [HB-715]
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.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to adoption. [HB-787]
Amend KRS 405.390 to add gender-neutral language.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to coverage for the treatment of postpartum mood disorders. [HB-713]
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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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to support systems for English language learners in common schools. [HB-722]
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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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to elementary literacy and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-817]
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.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT establishing the Adaptive Kindergarten Readiness pilot project. [HB-695]
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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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to mental health coverage in connection with pregnancy. [HB-709]
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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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to home and hospital instruction. [HB-799]
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.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to child welfare investigations. [HB-776]
Amend KRS 620.030 to establish record keeping and process requirements for reports of alleged child dependency, abuse, or neglect.
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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]
Direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to evaluate and report on services offered to children in out-of-home care settings.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services. [HB-791]
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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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Kentucky Kinship Task Force. [HCR-117]
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.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to educational neglect. [HB-747]
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.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to child dependency, neglect, and abuse reports. [HB-721]
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.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to internet safety instruction for children. [HB-767]
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.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to open juvenile proceedings. [HB-805]
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.