Kentucky House Bill 36

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Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-1)
Status: Introduced on January 2 2024 - 25% progression
Action: 2024-01-02 - to Committee on Committees (H)
Pending: House Committee On Committees Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to establish the Center for Student Resiliency and Well-Being within the Kentucky Department of Education to gather and compile data, coordinate training, and monitor the numbers and types of mental health professionals in schools; amend KRS 158.4416 to include the definition of "student resiliency and well-being approach"; remove the definition of "trauma-informed approach"; make conforming changes; require the resiliency and well-being team to compile their activities to be used in the creation of the Comprehensive School Improvement Plan and Comprehensive District Improvement Plan and submit the information to the Center for Student Resiliency and Well-Being; amend KRS 158.191 to require a school district to allow a parent to decline their student's participation in well-being questionnaires rather than requiring parental consent for the student to participate; amend KRS 156.095 to require schools to provide an opportunity for any student who missed the suicide prevention awareness lesson to receive the lesson at a later time; make conforming changes; amend KRS 158.443 to conform.

AN ACT relating to student resiliency and well-being.

Rep. Lisa Willner [D]	Rep. Bobby McCool [R]	Rep. Chad Aull [D]	Rep. Tina Bojanowski [D]
Rep. George Brown [D]	Rep. Beverly Chester-Burton [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2024-01-02	House	to Committee on Committees (H)
2024-01-02	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24RS/hb36.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/hb36/orig_bill.pdf