| KY | HB109 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 403.044 to establish that the 60-day waiting period for the presentation of testimony in a divorce proceeding involving minor children shall not apply where the parties have completed the collaborative law process or family mediation that h...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-15
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB383 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 159.075 to require a school district to take the necessary steps to ensure that a child of a military family who has an individualized education program or section 504 plan shall receive comparable services when the child begins school; ame...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-15
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SJR54 | Engross
Sine Die | Direct the Department for Libraries and Archives and the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to cooperate in exploring ways to increase enrollment in Dolly Parton's Imagination Library Program; direct the department and the cabinet to submit a rep...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-15
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HCR36 | Intro
Sine Die | Establish the Child Welfare and Family Court Reform Task Force; establish duties and membership; require the task force to meet monthly during the 2026 Interim of the General Assembly and submit a report to the Legislative Research Commission by Dece...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-15
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB156 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 402.020 to prohibit marriage with a person under 18 years of age; exclude from being prohibited and void, marriages entered into in the Commonwealth before the effective date of this Act and marriages entered into in another state or countr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-15
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB160 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 199.896 to establish standards and factors for the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to consider in determining whether to issue a plan of correction, directed plan of correction or suspension or revocation of a child-care license in r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-15
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB598 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 15A to establish the Department of Family Representation and Advocacy and the Family Representation and Advocacy Commission to provide a state-sponsored and controlled system for training and appointing guardians ad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-15
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SR109 | Pass | Recognize March 2, 2026, as Read Across America Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-15
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SR112 | Pass | Encourage the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Fatherhood and Family Engagement Task Force; recommend duties and membership of the task force; encourage the task force to meet at least monthly during the 2026 Interim of the General As...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-15
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | HB766 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to prohibit public postsecondary education institutions from requiring a student who is within 6 months of turning 18 years of age or older to reside in student housing; provide exceptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-15
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB281 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 405.021 to establish a clear and convincing standard of evidence in determining grandparent visitation; establish factors the court may consider in determining the best interests of the child; remove rebuttable presumption standard; amend K...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-15
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB789 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 158.6453 to require a school district's advanced coursework plan to include middle school mathematics strategies to enable students to enroll in Algebra I by grade 8.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-15
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HCR108 | Intro
Sine Die | Establish the Early Childhood Education Governance and Outcomes Task Force; list the duties and members of the task force; require the task force to meet monthly during the 2026 Interim of the General Assembly and to submit a report by December 1, 20...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-15
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HR131 | Pass | Recognize November 2026 as Grieving Children and Families Month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-15
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | HB312 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 237 to define "provisional license" and "standard license"; authorize the Department of Kentucky State Police (KSP) to issue provisional licenses to carry concealed firearms and other deadly weapons to persons who ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 173) |
| KY | HB2 | Pass | Amend KRS 205.5371 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to condition eligibility for enrollment or continued enrollment in the Medicaid program on demonstrated community engagement as required under federal law; require the cabinet t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 179) |
| KY | HJR50 | Pass | Direct the Auditor of Public Accounts to commission a study of applicable statutes, administrative regulations, and agency policies and processes that directly impact opening and operating licensed and certified child care services in the Commonwealt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 160) |
| KY | HB6 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 related to the quality-based graduated early care and education rating system program to establish the intent of the General Assembly related to the program; establish processes and procedures for how the progr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 146) |
| KY | HB669 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 605 to establish requirements that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall determine for all children in the care and custody of the cabinet whether each child is receiving or eligible for earned federal b...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-14
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 162) |
| KY | HB169 | Pass | Create new sections of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to define terms; require health plans to provide coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of feeding or eating disorders; prohibit insurers from using certain standards, including body mass index...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 101) |
| KY | HB3 | Pass | Amend KRS 205.522 and 205.6485 to require Medicaid and KCHIP to comply with pharmacy reimbursement requirements established in KRS 304.12-237; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or the Department for Medicaid to seek federal approval ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 99) |
| KY | HB366 | Pass | Amend KRS 531.335, relating to possession or viewing of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor, to provide that the sexual performance may be by a computer-generated image of a minor; provide that any person convicted of possession or view...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 109) |
| KY | HB67 | Pass | Amend KRS 160.145, relating to unauthorized electronic communicating in schools, to expand existing definitions and define "private electronic communication," "qualified school volunteer," and "commercial, nonprofit, or local government affiliation";...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 129) |
| KY | SB50 | Pass | Amend KRS 391.010 to specify the share of the surviving spouse in real property in an intestate estate; amend KRS 392.020 to identify surplus personalty and surplus real estate and the share of the surviving spouse to surplus personalty and surplus r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-13
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 134) |
| KY | HB280 | Pass | Amend KRS 314.041, relating to registered nurse licensure, and KRS 314.051, relating to licensed practical nurse licensure, to add credential requirements; amend KRS 314.042 to require physicians collaborating with an advanced practice registered nur...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-10
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 75) |
| KY | HB4 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 510 to establish the offense of grooming a minor; amend KRS 510.010 to define "course of conduct," "grooming behavior," and "sexual conduct"; amend various sections to conform; make technical corrections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-10
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 65) |
| KY | SB122 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 533 to define terms; require the court, upon conviction of the defendant, to consider the defendant's status as a caretaker of a dependent child; provide that a court's determination of a defendant's status as a ca...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-10
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 92) |
| KY | SB170 | Pass | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 610 to establish a pilot program to be known as the Supporting Opportunities for Accountability and Restoration Program for children who are truant; require the pilot program to be established in no less than 10 pub...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-10
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 69) |
| KY | SB17 | Pass | Amend KRS 620.500 to add the Kentucky CASA Network to the definition of "association"; amend KRS 620.505 to decrease the minimum number of local CASA board members from 15 to 12; remove the provision that local CASA programs are required to comply wi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-08
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 53) |
| KY | HB307 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; establish a proactive postsecondary admissions program to be managed by the Council on Postsecondary Education; require each public postsecondary education institution in Kentucky to establish ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-07
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 35) |
| KY | HB164 | Pass | Amend KRS 304.17A-132 to modify the definition of "hearing aid"; increase the coverage amount for hearing aids from $1,400 to $2,500; establish network adequacy requirements relating to the provision of hearing aids and related services that are requ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-03
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 26) |
| KY | SB22 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 164.786 to define "eligible high school apprentice" and "eligible registered teacher apprenticeship program"; include eligible registered teacher apprenticeship programs in the dual credit scholarship program; establish student and school d...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB227 | Engross
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to establish requirements to protect minors from AI companion platforms and social media platforms using addictive features and predatory data collection; define terms; require AI companion platforms and social ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | SB125 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 200 to define terms; establish procedures for a child charged with a public offense to determine if the child is a high acuity youth; establish procedures for securing a treatment plan and dispute resolution throug...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | HB686 | Engross
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 210 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Positive Youth Development Commission; establish the positive youth development trust fund; amend KRS 200.503, 200.505, and 200.509 to require the State Interagency Counci...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | SR199 | Pass | Recognize April 2026 as Child Abuse Prevention Month in Kentucky.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | HR133 | Pass | Recognize April 2026 as Child Abuse Prevention Month in Kentucky.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-04-01
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SR160 | Pass | Recognize November 2026 as Grieving Children and Families Month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-27
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | HB335 | Engross
Sine Die | 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 ren...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-25
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | HB418 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 403 to prohibit the removal from custody or the reduction in parenting time of a party solely for improvement of relationship between the child and the other party where the court has made a finding of domestic vio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-25
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | HB583 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to require school districts that elect to provide health care services through a school nurse to bill the school-based Medicaid program for medically necessary services provided to a student enrolled in Medicai...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-25
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | SR149 | Pass | Designate January 6th, as Breaking Free With Ally Day in the Commonwealth of Kentucky to raise awareness for human trafficking and childhood sexual abuse.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-25
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SB34 | Engross
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 391 to establish the Kentucky Uniform Real Property Transfer on Death Act to codify provisions for the creation, administration, modification, termination, and validity of transfer on death deeds; define terms; spec...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-24
To House Local Government Committee |
| KY | HB195 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 247 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Urban Youth Agriculture Initiative to promote farming to youth in urban counties with a pilot program in at least 1 University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-19
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | HB621 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 157.220 to require the Kentucky Department of Education to promulgate administrative regulations in accordance with the maximum class sizes and caseloads specified for exceptional children and youth; make technical corrections; amend KRS 15...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-18
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | SB289 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 16.175 to expand the criteria for determining when an Amber alert should be initiated to include when a child's disappearance may not have been voluntary and the physical safety of the child may be endangered and when a child is committed t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-17
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB138 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 507 to establish the offense of child abuse homicide as a capital offense; amend KRS 199.896 to require licensed child-care centers to maintain video surveillance of all public areas within the facility and retain ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-13
To Senate Rules Committee |
| KY | HB523 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 200.470 to insert gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-13
To House Families & Children Committee |
| KY | SB191 | Engross
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 199 to define terms; create the Kentucky Kindergarten Readiness Performance-Based Child-Care Incentive Pilot Program; require the University of Kentucky to operate the pilot program; establish the purpose and direct...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-13
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB691 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 200 to define terms; establish procedures for a child charged with a public offense or subject to a court order to determine if the child is a high acuity youth; establish procedures for securing a treatment plan, ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2026-03-13
To House Families & Children Committee |
