| KY | SB74 | Pass | Amends KRS 18A.225 and 164.2871 to require the state employee health plan and self-insured state postsecondary education institution group health plans to comply with special enrollment and maternity coverage requirements; creates a new section of KR...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 207) |
| KY | SB167 | Pass | Amends KRS 156.160 to require that cursive writing be included as a course of study in all elementary schools beginning in the 2025-2026 school year; and amends KRS 158.6453 to distinguish basic handwriting or penmanship from the definition of “wri...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 203) |
| KY | SB249 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS 17.500 to 17.580 to define “social media platform,” to require sex offenders who have committed a criminal offense against a victim who is a minor to display their full legal name on social media platforms, and to pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 204) |
| KY | SR87 | Pass | Recognize January 23, 2024, as Maternal Mental Health Awareness Day.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SR287 | Pass | Recognize April 2024 as Child Abuse Prevention Month in Kentucky.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SR368 | Pass | Recognize and commend the 40 public schools throughout the Commonwealth that participate in the Kentucky Community School Initiative.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SB20 | Pass | Amends KRS 635.020 to provide that a child 15 years of age or older who is charged with a Class A, B, or C felony involving the use of a firearm shall be transferred to Circuit Court to be tried as an adult, to provide that the Commonwealth’s attor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 160) |
| KY | SB128 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 339 to allow a nonprofit organization to apply to the Department of Workplace Standards to create a work program for minors 12 or 13 years of age, to require that the primary benefit of the work performed provide ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 119) |
| KY | SB151 | Pass | Amends KRS 620.140 to allow a child to submit to the District Court the names of possible relative or fictive kin caregivers with whom the child could be placed if the court removes the child from his or her home; and amends KRS 620.142 to establish ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 85) |
| KY | SB240 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 199.892 to 199.896 to allow the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to give child-care benefits to foster parents who work outside the home or telework inside the home, and to require the cabinet to apply for a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 84) |
| KY | SB11 | Pass | Amends KRS 610.345 to require notice to schools prior to filing of a public offense petition against a child in certain cases; and amends KRS 158.488 and 158.153 to conform.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 51) |
| KY | SB111 | Pass | Amends KRS 18A.225, 164.2871, 205.522, 205.6485, and 304.17C-125 to require limited health service benefit plans, Medicaid, self-insured employer group health plans provided by the governing board of a state postsecondary education institution, and t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 69) |
| KY | SB158 | Pass | Amends KRS 387.278, relating to certain settlements with minors, to establish provisions relating to the opening of restricted accounts and issuance of annuities on behalf of minors entering into settlements; EMERGENCY.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-29
signed by Governor (Acts Ch.16) |
| KY | SB232 | Engross
Sine Die | Repeal and reenact KRS 162.060 to establish that local boards of education shall submit all plans for new public school buildings or additions or alterations of old buildings to the chief state school officer, but prohibit the Kentucky Department of ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Education Committee |
| KY | SB147 | Engross
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 231 to express the findings of the General Assembly relating to adult-oriented businesses and the need for regulation; define terms; establish distance parameters for the location of adult-oriented businesses in pro...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House Rules Committee |
| KY | SB110 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 403.211 to allow a child support action to be filed at any time following conception in the county where the mother resides.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To House Judiciary Committee |
| KY | SB142 | Engross
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS 18A.005 to 18A.200 to provide an employee of the Commonwealth a paid leave of absence of up to four weeks for the birth, surrogacy, or adoption of a child, or up to two weeks for the placement of a child in foster care or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Families & Children Committee |
| KY | SB276 | Fail | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 436 to declare legislative findings relating to pornography; define terms; establish a civil cause of action against any commercial entity that publishes matter harmful to minors on the internet without obtaining ag...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
WITHDRAWN |
| KY | SB360 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 160.348 to direct secondary school-based decision making councils to adopt designated policies relating to advanced courses; provide that students who meet certain criteria shall be granted automatic enrollment in an AP course; direct the K...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | SB336 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 61 to define "boy," "equal," "female," "girl," "male," "man," "sex," and "woman"; prohibit any state or local law, regulation, ordinance, or policy from treating males or females unfairly from similiarly situated me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
| KY | SB365 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a civil cause of action for loss of consortium by a child when the negligent or wrongful act of a third person caused the death or total and permanent disability of a parent.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | SB343 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 15A to require the Department of Juvenile Justice to establish a local juvenile restorative justice advisory committee in each county; set committee membership; require committees to develop and implement local juv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | SB345 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 367 to define terms; require covered entities to complete Data protection impact assessments before releasing new products or services; require covered entities to make Data protection impact assessments available t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor Committee |
| KY | SB354 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 610.070 to require open hearings in all juvenile cases; amend KRS 620.050 to remove immunity for persons acting in good faith and upon reasonable cause in relation to reports of child dependency, neglect, and abuse and participation in judi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | SB338 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to direct each local board of education to designate a traceable communication system that shall be the exclusive means for school district personnel to communicate electronically with students; provide that a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | SB358 | Intro
Sine Die | Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to authorize the General Assembly to provide for the educational costs of elementary and secondary school students outside of the public school system; provide ballot language for submis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| KY | SB320 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 645.110 to add gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Families & Children Committee |
| KY | SCR189 | Intro
Sine Die | Establish the Foster Care and Adoption Efficiency Task Force to examine the foster care system, evaluate timeframes and guidelines once a child comes into state custody, review barriers to foster care homes, and review funding to foster care placemen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Families & Children Committee |
| KY | SB315 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to direct school districts and public schools to act to protect Jewish students from credible threats of violence or violence motivated by antisemitism; prohibit a school district, public school, or student org...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
| KY | SB203 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require the Kentucky Community and Technical College System to offer an associate degree program in interdisciplinary early childhood education entrepreneurship; create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB256 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Proud School Match Program fund; establish the Kentucky Proud School Match Program; direct the Department of Education to reimburse an eligible school district $0.33 for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB262 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 527 to prohibit the unlawful storage of a firearm; establish elements of the crime for recklessly allowing access to an unsecured firearm by a minor; establish the crime as a Class A misdemeanor unless a physical i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
| KY | SB263 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to prohibit censorship of history curriculum; permit a school or school district to adopt, implement, and offer equity, diversity, and inclusion curricula, programing, initiatives, and instruction without penalt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | SB236 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 199.896 to establish licensure requirements for child-care centers; amend KRS 199.8962 to establish operational standards for child-care centers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To Senate Families & Children Committee |
| KY | SB235 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 620.030 to establish requirements for reports of alleged child dependency, abuse, or neglect.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To Senate Families & Children Committee |
| KY | SB238 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 158.1415 to remove provisions related to parental rights and courses, curriculums, or programs on human sexuality; provide for a process for parents to opt out of their child receiving instruction on the subject of human sexuality; amend KR...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | SB212 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to prohibit a school district from entering into an agreement with providers of digital instruction services that allows the provider to collect, share, or use data not directly related to the function of the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | SB207 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 620.080 to require the Commonwealth to bear the burden of proof by clear and convincing evidence in a temporary removal hearing; remove the admissibility of hearsay evidence in a temporary removal hearing; amend KRS 620.090 to provide that ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | SB208 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 600.020 to separate the definitions of "abused child" and "neglected child"; amend the definition of "physical injury" to include the requirement that it is likely to cause death or disfigurement or impairment of an organ; amend KRS 620.040...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Families & Children Committee |
| KY | SB206 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 620.023 to add additional criteria that the court may consider in determining the best interests of a child; prohibit court from considering the socioeconomic status of a parent or caretaker.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To Senate Families & Children Committee |
| KY | SR139 | Pass | Recognize September 2024 as Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SB165 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to remove requirements for using a Social Security number as an identifier.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | SB173 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 205 to establish the right of a parent, guardian, or limited guardian to install video recording devices in the private residential room of an individual who is receiving residential services under a federally appr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | SB106 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS 258.095 to 258.500 to require animal control officers to receive training on recognizing child abuse; amend KRS 620.030 to add animal control officers to the list of people with a duty to report dependency, neglect, or abu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-16
To Senate Families & Children Committee |
| KY | SB98 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 156.029 to change the public high school nonvoting student member to a voting member of the Kentucky Board of Education; add an at-large member to the board; require at least two of the members to have a child enrolled in public school; ame...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | SB93 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 161.164 to prohibit that a local school district or public charter school from requiring a statement, pledge, or oath, other than to uphold general and federal law, the United States Constitution, and the Constitution of Kentucky, as a part...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | SB92 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 156.153 to permit school districts to use district-owned and district-leased passenger transportation vehicles to transport students to and from school under an alternative transportation plan approved by the Kentucky Department of Educatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-11
To Senate Transportation Committee |
| KY | SB95 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapters 158 and 164 to require public schools, public charter schools, and public postsecondary institutions to provide reasonable accommodations to a lactating student; set forth the minimum requirements for those reasona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | SB97 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 139.010 to define "clothing" and "diaper"; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt all diapers from the sales and use tax.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB99 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 311.720, 311.7701, 311.781, and 311.787 to define terms; amend KRS 311.723, 311.727, 311.732, 311.735, 311.7706, and 311.782 to allow an abortion when there is a lethal fetal anomaly or the fetus is incompatible with sustained life outside ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-09
To Senate Committee on Committees |
