Kentucky House Bill 173 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 19-0)
Status: Failed on March 13 2023 - 100% progression
Action: 2023-03-13 - WITHDRAWN
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; make legislative findings and declarations on the rights of parents as it relates to public schools and establish a standard to protect those rights; require public schools to establish a process to receive complaints of violations; create a cause of action for violations and establish limitations; establish specific parental rights as related to public schools; require public schools to adopt policies to protect those rights; require the Kentucky Department of Education to eliminate regulations in violation and develop recommended policies to public schools for compliance; make findings and declarations related to privacy of parents and children and require public schools to adopt policies to safeguard those rights; establish a cause of action for a child encountering a person of the opposite biological sex while in a location where there is a reasonable expectation of bodily privacy; create a cause of action for those who are forced by a public school to share private quarters with specific people of the opposite biological sex and provide exclusions; make findings and declarations relating to controversial subject matter in common schools; establish a parental right of not having a child indoctrinated into any political position or being involved in advocacy in a controversial subject matter; establish limitations on school personnel related to instruction and discussion on sexual orientation, sexual preference, or gender expression; establish limitations on school personnel advocacy in the scope of employment and actions based on the immutable characteristics of students; prohibit compelling school personnel to advocate for or against anything in opposition to sincerely held beliefs and convictions; require public schools to adopt enforcement policies; establish limitations; establish a parental right to expect a child not be exposed to or given access to harmful to minors, pervasively vulgar, or obscene matter or performance or obscene imagery representing minors; require that public schools adopt policies to protect that right by making those materials and performances inaccessible and prohibit matters and performances harmful to minors, drag performances, pervasively vulgar performances, obscene performances, and any performance involving sexual conduct, nudity, or stripping; provide that none of the materials identified shall be deemed to have educational value for minors; establish limitations; amend KRS 158.148 to establish a parental right to expect a child will not be bulled at school and require public schools adopt policies to ensure notification and support of bullying victims, require an order of reporting to staff, require specific time requirements for investigations; provide for an appeal and review of incidents; require identification of actions to prevent future acts of bullying or retaliation; require procedures for supporting victims; establish a short title of the Childhood Protection in Education Act.

AN ACT relating to education.

Rep. Josh Calloway [R]	Rep. Candy Massaroni [R]	Rep. Shane Baker [R]	Rep. Emily Callaway [R]
Rep. Jennifer Henson Decker [R]	Rep. Steven Doan [R]	Rep. Ryan Dotson [R]	Rep. Chris Fugate [R]
Rep. David Hale [R]	Rep. Mark Hart [R]	Rep. John Hodgson [R]	Rep. Thomas Huff [R]
Rep. Matt Lockett [R]	Rep. Marianne Proctor [R]	Rep. Steve Rawlings [R]	Rep. Nancy Tate [R]
Rep. Walker Thomas [R]	Rep. Billy Wesley [R]	Rep. Susan Tyler Witten [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2023-03-13	House	WITHDRAWN
2023-02-07	House	to Committee on Committees (H)
2023-02-07	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/23RS/hb173.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/23RS/hb173/orig_bill.pdf
Supplement	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/note/23RS/hb173/LM.pdf