| KY | HB162 | Pass | Amends KRS 158.791 to specify the role of the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) in assisting local school districts with mathematics instruction, supports, and interventions and to require KDE to collaborate with designated agencies on mathemati...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 222) |
| KY | HB244 | Pass | Amends KRS 401.020 to require a court to conduct a hearing and consider the best interests of a child when one parent refuses or is unable to execute a petition for a name change for a minor child; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 403 to define t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 219) |
| KY | HB169 | Pass | Amends KRS 158.162 to require that local boards of education maintain a portable automated external defibrillator in a public, readily accessible, well-marked location in all school buildings, including elementary school buildings, and at school-sanc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 208) |
| 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 | HB272 | Pass | Amends KRS 405.075 to change the definition of “newborn safety device” related to the continuous staffing requirement; and amends KRS 156.095 to require that information on the Safe Haven Baby Boxes Crisis Line be posted in public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 202) |
| 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 | HB829 | Pass | Amends KRS 12.020 and KRS 194A.030 to establish the Office of Medical Cannabis, the Division of Enforcement and Compliance, and the Division of Licensure and Access within the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; amends KRS 218A.202 to make a tech...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 195) |
| KY | HB469 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to define “military-connected student” and “purple star school,” to establish the Purple Star School Program and set requirements for eligibility, and to designate the Kentucky Commission on Military A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 193) |
| 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 | HB5 | Pass | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 532 to define "violent felony" and enhance sentencing for a person convicted of a third violent felony; prohibit probation, parole, or other form of release for a person who commits a crime using a weapon that is st...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 174) |
| 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 | HB611 | Pass | Amends KRS 159.140 to require a director of pupil personnel to report to the county attorney if a parent or guardian has allowed a child in kindergarten to grade five to be absent without an excuse for 15 or more days or if a minor in grade six throu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 163) |
| KY | HB142 | Pass | Repeals, reenacts, and amends KRS 438.345 as a new section of KRS Chapter 158; requires local boards of education to adopt policies that penalize students for possessing alternative nicotine products, tobacco products, or vapor products and lists pen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 149) |
| KY | HB333 | Pass | Amends KRS 69.210 to establish that any prosecution by attorneys for the Cabinet for Health and Family Services under KRS Chapter 620 shall occur only upon written consent of the county attorney and presiding judge.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 141) |
| KY | HB271 | Pass | Amends KRS 600.020 to define “safety plan” and “statewide reporting system”; amends KRS 620.023 to allow a court access to a child’s protection and permanency record; amends KRS 620.030 to allow a person to make a written report of dependen...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 144) |
| 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 | HB453 | Pass | Amends KRS 620.040 to require that the Cabinet for Health and Family Services determine the military status of any parent or guardian subject to an investigation and notify a Department of Defense family advocacy program of an investigation involving...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 133) |
| KY | HB436 | Pass | Amends KRS 26A.140 to state that the guardians ad litem shall receive a fee fixed by the court and paid by the Finance and Administration Cabinet; creates a new section of KRS Chapter 403.715 to 403.785 to require appointment of a guardian ad litem f...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 135) |
| KY | HB471 | Pass | Amends KRS 159.075 to allow the use of military orders as proof of residency for enrollment or course registration in a school and to prohibit in-person enrollment or course registration when the child's parent or guardian is transferred or returning...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 131) |
| KY | HB100 | Pass | Amends KRS 213.141 to establish that a homeless individual as defined in KRS 198A.700, or a homeless youth, as defined in 42 U.S.C. sec. 11434a(2), who is under the age of 25 does not have to pay a fee to get a copy of his or her birth certificate.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 96) |
| KY | HB179 | Pass | Amends KRS 304.3-110 to authorize life and health insurers to transact disability income and paid family leave insurance, and to make technical corrections; creates new sections of Subtitle 5 of KRS Chapter 304 to define “disability income insuranc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 99) |
| KY | HB200 | Pass | Amends KRS 40.010 and 40.400 to include the United States Space Force in the definition of “Armed Forces”; amends KRS 154.12-203 to include the United States Army Reserve Aviation Command in the membership of the Kentucky Commission on Military A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 100) |
| KY | HB278 | Pass | Amends KRS 15A.190 to require that the Justice and Public Safety Cabinet include crimes involving childhood sexual assault or abuse on the JC-3 form; amends KRS 160.380 to provide that a superintendent shall not employ any person who has been convict...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 106) |
| 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 | HB491 | Pass | Amends KRS 199.896 to change the requirements for when instructional programs for school-age children are exempt from all child-care licensure administrative regulations, and to provide that instructional programs for school-age children that offer r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 87) |
| KY | HB561 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to define terms, to establish operations and requirements of a Certified Child Care Community Designation Program to be administered by the Cabinet for Economic Development for the purpose of creating new oppo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 88) |
| 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 | HB87 | Pass | Amends KRS 199.572 to permit the child, grandchild, or sibling of a deceased birth parent or deceased adoptee to be given the right to inspect adoption papers and records, to establish new language that allows the court to determine who has access to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch.43) |
| 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 | HB206 | Pass | Creates new sections of KRS Chapter 403 to enact the Uniform Collaborative Law Act on the recommendation of the National Conference of Commissioners on Uniform State Laws, to regulate the use of collaborative law participation agreements as a volunta...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 62) |
| KY | HB293 | Pass | Creates new sections of KRS Chapter 217 to define terms related to kratom, to prohibit the sale of kratom products to individuals under 21 years of age, to establish product safety standards, to establish labeling requirements for kratom products, to...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 44) |
| 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 | HB447 | Pass | Amends KRS 156.153 to permit school districts to use district-owned, leased, or contracted passenger transportation vehicles to transport students to and from school and approved school activities under an alternative transportation plan approved by ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch.35) |
| KY | HB476 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 625 to allow a parent to voluntarily terminate parental rights during the pendency of a proceeding under KRS Chapter 620, relating to dependency, neglect, and abuse actions, by signing and filing a consent form pr...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch.37) |
| KY | HB715 | Pass | Amends KRS 36.474 removing the post-deployment provision relating to eligibility for the military family assistance trust fund, and to make a technical correction; and amends KRS 36.477 expanding the Kentucky National Guard Adoption Assistance Progra...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 59) |
| KY | HB695 | Pass | Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to make legislative findings and declarations, to establish definitions, to establish the Adaptive Kindergarten Readiness Pilot Project, to establish the duration and terms of the pilot project, to require tha...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 65) |
| 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 | HB255 | Engross
Sine Die | Amend KRS 339.230 to prohibit the Department of Workplace Standards from promulgating regulations on child labor that are more restrictive than those promulgated by the United States Secretary of Labor.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To Senate Rules Committee |
| KY | HB225 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 158.645 to change the required learning capacities of Kentucky public school students; amend KRS 158.6451 to provide that schools shall expect a high level of academic achievement and shall develop students' ability to think critically and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB346 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 158.1415 to require a school district to adopt health curricula that includes human growth and development instruction that meets specific criteria; set restrictions for the instruction that grants parents an opportunity to review materials...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB438 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 158.832 to include a definition for "undesignated glucagon"; amend KRS 158.838 to allow health care practitioners to prescribe undesignated glucagon in the name of a school to be maintained for use by a school nurse or trained school employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| 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 | HJR116 | Intro
Sine Die | Direct the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to evaluate and report on services offered to children in out-of-home care settings.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB274 | Pass | Amends KRS 315.010 and 315.205 to permit pharmacists to administer vaccines to children five years of age or older pursuant to prescriber-approved protocols with the consent of a parent or guardian.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
signed by Governor (Acts Ch.11) |
| KY | HCR51 | Engross
Sine Die | Establish the Autism in Education Task Force; establish duties and membership; direct the task force to study autism supports and services provided to K-12 students by Kentucky public schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| 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 | HR141 | Pass | Recognize April 2024 as Child Abuse Prevention in Kentucky Month.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
adopted by voice vote |
