Kentucky House Bill 296 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 13-0)
Status: Introduced on January 21 2020 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2020-01-23 - to Education (H)
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Repeal and reenact KRS 158.1415 to require each school district to provide comprehensive sex education instruction to all public school students; establish minimum requirements for the comprehensive sex education instruction; establish minimum requirements for the comprehensive sexual education curricula and instructional materials; prohibit a school or school district from restricting the ability of an instructor to answer a question related to comprehensive sex education; require that a school make comprehensive sex education curricula and instructional materials available upon the request of a parent or guardian and establish a procedure for a parent or guardian to opt a student out of comprehensive sexual education instruction; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations necessary to implement, administer, and enforce this section; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations requiring that each school district submit a report on comprehensive sex education in the district biennially; require the Kentucky Department of Education to maintain a list of recommended comprehensive sex education curricula and instructional materials; permit a parent or guardian to file an action in Circuit Court to enforce these provisions.

AN ACT relating to health education.

Rep. Lisa Willner [D]	Rep. Tina Bojanowski [D]	Rep. Charles Booker [D]	Rep. Kelly Flood [D]
Rep. Joni Jenkins [D]	Rep. Nima Kulkarni [D]	Rep. Mary Marzian [D]	Rep. Patti Minter [D]
Rep. Josie Raymond [D]	Rep. Attica Scott [D]	Rep. Maria Sorolis [D]	Rep. Cherlynn Stevenson [D]
Rep. Susan Westrom [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-01-23	House	to Education (H)
2020-01-21	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/20RS/hb296.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/20RS/hb296/orig_bill.pdf