All Children and Minors Legislation - Kentucky
SR203
Latest Action: 03/24/2008 - Adopted by voice vote Bill Text Commend the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) for recommendations relating to influenza vaccination. Latest Action: 03/19/2008 - Introduced in House; adopted by voice vote Bill Text Honor Kentucky's 4-H members as they participate in "4-H: A Capitol Experience." SR199
Latest Action: 03/28/2008 - Adopted by voice vote Bill Text Recognize Kentucky's 4-H members as they participate in "4-H: A Capitol Experience." SR21
Latest Action: 11/07/2008 - To: Interim Joint Committee on State Government Bill Text Adjourn the Senate in loving memory and honor of Otto Wilson Goff. HR183
Latest Action: 03/19/2008 - 3rd reading, adopted 97-0 Bill Text Urge the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to make initiatives toward reducing the cost and increasing the support and quality of care for people suffering from asthma. HB755
Latest Action: 03/05/2008 - To Judiciary (H) Bill Text Amend KRS 17.545, relating to sex offender 1,000-feet residence restrictions, to include publicly leased playgrounds. HB738
Latest Action: 03/05/2008 - To Education (H) Bill Text Create a new section of KRS 157.200 to 157.290 to require that by the beginning of the 2009-2010 school year, students entering the first year of the primary program shall be tested for dyslexia and other related disorders according to administrative regulations adopted by the Kentucky Board of Education; require local school districts to provide appropriate instruction and professional development for students with dyslexia or related disorders; amend KRS 157.200 to expand the definition of "specific learning disability" to include perceptual disabilities, brain injury, minimal brain dysfunction, dyslexia, and developmental aphasia define "dyslexia" and "related disorders." HB721
Latest Action: 03/05/2008 - To Education (H) Bill Text Create new sections of KRS Chapter 157 to establish the Autism Scholarship Program to permit autistic children as defined by KRS 157.200(1)(m) to receive a scholarship to move from his or her resident public school to a participating school as a public or nonpublic school that meets certain criteria and accepts the student for enrollment; establish the maximum amount of the scholarship as an amount equal to the per pupil funding based on the average daily attendance and add-on funds for exceptional children that are allotted under the Support Education Excellence in Kentucky Program; require the resident district to provide or pay for transportation for the student to attend the nonpublic participating school; require the Kentucky Board of Education shall promulgate necessary administrative regulations to implement and manage the scholarship program; require the program to be implemented by the 2008-2009 school year. SB246
Latest Action: 03/07/2008 - To Education (S) Bill Text Amend KRS 159.010, effective July 1, 2010, to require compulsory school attendance to be the ages of six years and eighteen years rather than six years and sixteen years; amend KRS 159.020 to conform. SB238
Latest Action: 03/06/2008 - To Judiciary (S) Bill Text Create a new section of KRS Chapter 344 to prohibit the involuntary implantation of tracking devices in humans; amend KRS 344.990 to set the penalty for violations of the Act as a Class B misdemeanor. SB214
Latest Action: 03/05/2008 - To Judiciary (S) Bill Text Amend KRS 510.155, relating to using a communications system to procure a minor to engage in sexual offenses, to add to "minor" "any individual the person has reason to believe is a minor" to the elements of the offense; amend KRS 508.130 to include in the definitions used for Kentucky's stalking offenses stalking activity that is done electronically; amend KRS 531.010 and 531.300 to include live images transmitted over the Internet within material subject to the standards of Kentucky's obscenity laws; amend KRS 17.500 to create definitions for "electronic identity or online membership information" and "substantial change in appearance" and amend the definition of "registrant information" to require registrants on the sex offender registry to disclose more information; amend KRS 17.510 to require a new photograph of registrant if there is a substantial change in appearance; create provisions governing when a registrant changes or creates an electronic identity or online membership; amend [...] show full description HC179
Latest Action: 02/29/2008 - To Health & Welfare (H) Bill Text Require the Legislative Research Commission to designate staff to study Kentucky's preparedness to respond to the needs of children with Sensory Processing Disorders; require the study to be completed by November 1, 2008; require a written report to be presented by December 1, 2008. HB685
Latest Action: 03/26/2008 - Received in Senate Bill Text Amend KRS 406.011, relating to presumption of paternity, to update language regarding evidence in paternity cases; amend KRS 406.021, relating to determination of paternity, to clarify how paternity may be determined and add references to Family Court; amend KRS 406.035, relating to written orders of paternity, to include Family Court Judges; amend KRS 406.051 to include references to Family Court and clarify how an appeal is to be made; amend KRS 406.151, relating to venue in paternity cases, to include the county where the child resides. HB683
Latest Action: 04/24/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 158) Bill Text Amend KRS 439.320 to replace the two part time members of the Parole Board with two full time members; amend KRS 439.340 to allow the Parole Board to review the parole application of a Class C felon without a hearing; include noncodified effective date of July 1, 2008; EMERGENCY. HB666
Latest Action: 03/25/2008 - Received in Senate Bill Text Create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to establish the Office on Racial Disportionality within the cabinet secretary's office; specify duties of the office to include training, targeted recruitment and employment efforts, data collection, and strategic planning; require the department and its contractors to collect an analyze data by race, evaluate and implement a plan to address disportionality; require annual report to the Governor, Interim Joint Committee on Health and Welfare, and the public each year. HB655
Latest Action: 04/24/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 131) Bill Text Amend KRS 158.115 to require that by September 30 of each year the secretary of the Transportation Cabinet report data related to providing transportation for nonpublic school pupils to the Interim Committee on Appropriations and Revenue; the report shall project the amount of money needed to provide nonpublic transportation during the next biennium. HB632
Latest Action: 02/28/2008 - To Education (H) Bill Text Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate an administrative regulation to implement a physical activity requirement; set forth the Kentucky Board of Education's and the Department of Education's responsibilities for the implementation of the physical activity requirements; require the department to develop a reporting mechanism for schools to report to the department on physical activities; require the department to report no later than November 1 of each year to the Interim Joint Committee on Education and the Interim Joint Committee on Health and Welfare; amend KRS 160.345 to require all public preschool through eighth grade programs to implement, no later than the 2009-2010 school year, 30 minutes per day or 150 minutes per week of structured moderate-to-vigorous physical activity incorporated into the school day; permit the physical activity to include a combination of classroom-based physical activity, structured recess, or other [...] show full description SB192
Latest Action: 04/14/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 120) Bill Text Amend KRS 156.4975 to delete reference to the interagency task force on family resource and youth services centers; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to specify purpose of family resource and youth services centers, eligibility criteria, core components required for a family resource center and a youth services center, specify funding from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, specify that a funded center may remain eligible until the percent of the student body eligible for free or reduced school food is below 20% for five consecutive years, and prohibit abortion counseling or referrals; amend KRS 156.4977 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to implement continuation application requirements and establish a continuing education program for coordinators and staff. SB191
Latest Action: 02/28/2008 - To Judiciary (S) Bill Text Amend KRS 244.080 and 244.990 to provide a criminal penalty with a mandatory minimum fine for employees of alcoholic beverage retail licensees who sell alcohol to minors; amend KRS 530.070 to conform. SB188
Latest Action: 04/24/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 187) Bill Text Amend KRS 620.220 to permit use of electronic records from court clerks to citizen foster care review boards. HB618
Latest Action: 04/09/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 42) Bill Text Amend KRS 150.170 to provide that persons who kill or trap wildlife on their land that are causing damage may do so during periods of time other than the open season for the species; provide that, with permission of the commissioner, persons other than landowners, tenants, and their children may be likewise permitted; provide that the carcass may be used, subject to permission by the commissioner. SB185
Latest Action: 02/27/2008 - To Judiciary (S) Bill Text Amend KRS 620.220 to permit court clerks to provide electronic notification of court commitment orders to the Citizen Foster Care Review Board Program. SB180
Latest Action: 03/20/2008 - To Judiciary (H) Bill Text Create new sections of KRS Chapter 500, the general provisions for the Kentucky Penal Code, to require forfeiture of all real and personal property used in or acquired as a result of certain sexual offenses against minors and create forfeiture procedures; amend KRS 500.090, relating to forfeiture, and KRS 16.210, relating to disposition of property by the Kentucky State Police to conform. HB596
Latest Action: 02/25/2008 - To Appropriations & Revenue (H) Bill Text Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to permit an adoption tax credit; amend KRS 141.0205 to recognize the credit. HB544
Latest Action: 03/27/2008 - Floor amendments (1-title) and (2) filed Bill Text Create new sections of KRS Chapter 17 to ratify the National Crime Prevention and Privacy Compact, which would organize an electronic information-sharing system among the federal government and contracting states to exchange criminal history records for noncriminal justice purposes authorized by federal or state law; amend KRS 17.140 to conform. SB151
Latest Action: 04/14/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 112) Bill Text Create new sections of KRS Chapters 16, 65, 70, and 95 to prohibit law enforcement officers or a state prosecutors from requiring the victim of a sexual offense to submit to a polygraph examination as a condition precedent to the investigation or prosecution of an alleged sexual offense. SB149
Latest Action: 04/14/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 119) Bill Text Amend KRS 205.560 to clarify Medicaid coverage for therapeutic food, formulas, supplements, and low-protein food products prescribed by a physician for inborn errors of metabolism or genetic conditions; amend KRS 213.141 and 304.17A-139 to conform. HB504
Latest Action: 02/20/2008 - Posted in committee Bill Text Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require the cabinet to develop a plan for children to be screened for autism spectrum disorders at 18 months, three years, upon enrollment in school, and in sixth grade; require schools to maintain a record of screening upon school enrollment; require children who screen positive to receive a full diagnosis within 90 days and permit religious and conscientious exemption for screening; require the cabinet to report on the plan by October 1, 2010; define "autism, spectrum disorders." SR111
Latest Action: 02/27/2008 - 3rd reading, adopted 33-0 Bill Text Encourage the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to make initiatives toward reducing the cost and increasing the support and quality of care for people suffering from asthma. HB494
Latest Action: 02/27/2008 - Posted in committee Bill Text Amend KRS 510.060, 510.090, and 510.120 to increase the age at which a minor becomes the victim of prohibited sexual conduct to under 18 years when the offense is perpetrated by a person in a position of authority or special trust. Latest Action: 02/11/2008 - To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S) Bill Text Create new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to define terms; prohibit entities from placing into the stream of commerce children's products that do not meet safety standards or if they have been recalled; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to maintain a list of unsafe and recalled children's products and to post the list on their Internet Web site; require that the list be sent to certain groups; require cribs to meet Consumer Product Safety Commission or ASTM standards; create procedures for retrofitting recalled children's products; require commercial users of children's products to notify customers and post notices regarding recalled children's products; require retailers of children's products to take certain steps to prohibit the sale of recalled products and to post warning notices; create a penalty; permit the Attorney General or the Commonwealth's attorney to bring an action and to seek injunctions; provide that remedies are in addition to any existing remedies; prohibit [...] show full description Latest Action: 03/17/2008 - To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (S) Bill Text Create new sections of KRS Chapter 211 to define terms; prohibit entities from placing into the stream of commerce children's products that do not meet safety standards or if they have been recalled; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to maintain a list of unsafe and recalled children's products and to post the list on their Internet Web site; require that the list be sent to certain groups; require cribs to meet Consumer Product Safety Commission or ASTM standards; create procedures for retrofitting recalled children's products; require commercial users of children's products to notify customers and post notices regarding recalled children's products; require retailers of children's products to take certain steps to prohibit the sale of recalled products and to post warning notices; create a penalty; permit the Attorney General or the Commonwealth's attorney to bring an action and to seek injunctions; provide that remedies are in addition to any existing remedies; prohibit [...] show full description HB460
Latest Action: 02/06/2008 - To Education (H) Bill Text Amend KRS 158.175 to require a moment of silence or reflection not to exceed two minutes at the commencement of each school day. HB461
Latest Action: 03/03/2008 - To Education (S) Bill Text Amend KRS 156.4975 to delete reference to the Interagency Task Force on Family Resource and Youth Services Centers; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to specify purpose of family resource and youth services centers, eligibility criteria, and core components required for a family resource center and a youth services center; specify funding from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; specify a funded center may remain eligible until the percent of the student body eligible for free or reduced-price school meals is below 20 percent for five consecutive years; prohibit abortion counseling or referrals; amend KRS 156.4977 to conform; create new section of KRS Chapter 194A to require the cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to implement continuation application requirements and establish a continuing education program for coordinators and staff. HC97
Latest Action: 03/10/2008 - Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 11, 2008 Bill Text Request the Supreme Court and the Administrative Office of the Courts to provide basic and in-service training for attorneys serving as guardians ad litem. Latest Action: 02/13/2008 - Posted in committee Bill Text Direct the Early Childhood Development Authority to conduct various studies related to early childhood programs; direct the authority to report findings and recommendations to the Governor and the Legislative Research Commission by September 1, 2009. HB454
Latest Action: 04/15/2008 - Recommitted to Licensing, Occupations and Administrative Regulations (S); reported favorably, to Rules with committee amendment (1-title) ; posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, April 15, 2008; 3rd reading, passed 36-0 with Comm Bill Text Create a new section of KRS Chapter 194A to require employees of and volunteers for the Cabinet for Health and Family Services who have direct face-to-face contact with children, parents, or guardians to have basic and in-service training relating to their duties. SB131
Latest Action: 04/11/2008 - Signed by Governor Bill Text Amend KRS 161.520 to delete provision prohibiting survivor benefits from the Kentucky Teacher's Retirement System for legally adopted children unless adoption proceedings were initiated at least 1 year prior to the death of the member; make eligibility retroactive to legally adopted children born after January 1, 1990. SB132
Latest Action: 04/10/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 48) Bill Text Amend KRS 199.555 to make technical corrections to conform with federal requirements related to state-funded adoption assistance; amend KRS 199.557 to make technical corrections to conform with federal requirements related to federally funded adoption assistance. HB451
Latest Action: 02/06/2008 - To Judiciary (H) Bill Text Amend KRS 199.585 to limit attorney fees to $750 for international adoptions involving children who are not granted citizenship upon entry to the United States. HB442
Latest Action: 03/26/2008 - To Judiciary (S) Bill Text Repeal and reenact KRS 615.030 to replace the existing interstate compact relating to the placement of children with the new interstate compact for the placement of children; effective when the 35th state ratifies the compact or upon July 1, 2008, whichever is later; provide that until such time, KRS 615.030 shall remain in effect. HB421
Latest Action: 02/14/2008 - Posted in committee Bill Text Create a new section of KRS Chapter 610 relating to juvenile proceedings to request the Chief Justice to adopt administrative procedures relating to protecting parents; create new sections of KRS Chapter 21A relating to the Supreme Court to request the Supreme Court to create a pilot project for a limited opening courts of in three to seven jurisdictions when handling dependency, needy, neglect, and abuse cases involving children and termination of parental rights, to set parameters, and require reporting to the Interim Joint Committees on Health and Welfare and Judiciary; create a new section of KRS Chapter 615 relating to juvenile procedure to permit pilot project courts to open proceedings which otherwise would be closed. SB128
Latest Action: 02/08/2008 - To Health & Welfare (S) Bill Text Amend KRS 199.8994 to set eligibility for a child-care subsidy at less than or equal to 165 percent of the federal poverty level at initial application and less than or equal to 200 percent of the federal poverty level upon redetermination of eligibility; permit a family receiving a child-care subsidy to meet work requirements under KRS 205.2003 by combining approved employment and educational activities. SB126
Latest Action: 02/01/2008 - To Health & Welfare (S) Bill Text Amend KRS 205.6485 to define the terms "presumptive eligibility period" and "qualified entity"; provide a presumptive eligibility period for children applying for KCHIP; require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to promulgate regulations to establish standards and procedures for designation as a qualified entity to grant presumptive eligibility; require qualified entities to ensure submission of a completed application to the cabinet for full eligibility determination simultaneous with a determination of presumptive eligibility; provide continuous enrollment in KCHIP for twelve months post enrollment and each renewal of eligibility; provide for the electronic submission of KCHIP applications and renewals; and prohibit the cabinet from requiring a face-to-face interview for KCHIP applications or renewals. HB405
Latest Action: 04/09/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 21) Bill Text Amend KRS 205.721 to establish annual fee, pursuant to federal law, in child support collection actions; amend KRS 186.570 to require suspension of operator's license upon notice of excessive arrearage; amend KRS 205.712 to reduce amount of child support arrearage necessary to commence process for suspension of passports; and amend KRS 413.090 to provide for tolling of statute of limitation in child support arrearage actions. SB122
Latest Action: 01/31/2008 - To Health & Welfare (S) Bill Text Amend KRS 156.160 to require a dental screening or examination the first year that a three, four, five or six year-old child is enrolled in a public school, public preschool, or Head Start program. SB118
Latest Action: 04/15/2008 - Signed by Governor Bill Text Amend KRS 214.034 to remove the clause sunsetting the requirement that all public and private primary schools obtain a current immunization certificate for hepatitis B for any child enrolled as a regular attendee in the sixth grade. SB120
Latest Action: 04/14/2008 - Signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 108) Bill Text Amend KRS 189.125 to require that a child under age 7 years between 40 and 50 inches in height be secured in a child booster seat; amend KRS 189.990 relating to penalties for traffic offenses to require that a courtesy warning be issued for a first violation of the booster seat requirement; require that child restraint seat and booster seat fines are not subject to court costs, additional costs, or fees; require that seat belt violations are not subject to additional costs or fees; amend KRS 186.574 and 431.452 to conform. HB396
Latest Action: 03/24/2008 - Reassigned to Appropriations & Revenue (S) Bill Text Amend KRS 214.034 to require immunization against human papillomavirus for school-age children and require parental statements to withhold consent to be filed with the immunization certificate; amend KRS 214.036 to require the department to provide educational resources to the public and all schools with specific information; permit parent to withhold consent for immunization for any reason with a signed statement and require statement to include that the parent understands the link between human papillomavirus and cervical cancer and require statement to be on file; amend KRS 158.035 to conform. Latest Action: 01/30/2008 - To Education (H) Bill Text Create new sections of KRS Chapter 157 to establish the Students with Special Needs Scholarship Program to permit exceptional students as defined by KRS 157.200(a) to (m) to receive a scholarship to move from his or her resident public school to a participating school; define "participating school" as a public or nonpublic school that meets certain criteria and accepts the student for enrollment; provide that the maximum amount of the scholarship shall be an amount equal to the per-pupil funding based on the average daily attendance and add-on funds for exceptional children that are allotted under the Support Education Excellence in Kentucky program; require the resident district to provide or pay for transportation for the student to attend the nonpublic participating school; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate necessary administrative regulations to implement and manage the scholarship program. SB119
Latest Action: 01/31/2008 - To Judiciary (S) Bill Text Amend KRS 23A.205 relating to court costs in criminal cases in Circuit Court to increase costs from $100 to $125; amend KRS 24A.175 relating to court costs in criminal cases in District Court to increase costs from $100 to $125; amend KRS 42.330 relating to disposition of court costs to provide that $25 from each court cost go to the Cabinet for Health and Family Services to provide supervised visitation in cases where a court requires supervised visitation. SR78
Latest Action: 01/30/2008 - Adopted by voice vote Bill Text Declare January 30, 2008, as VIPS Day in Kentucky. Latest Action: 01/30/2008 - To House Floor; adopted by voice vote Bill Text Declare January 30, 2008, as VIPS Day in Kentucky. HB384
Latest Action: 04/11/2008 - Signed by Governor Bill Text Amend and create various provisions within the Unified Juvenile Code to establish requirements for the detention of status offenders, establish a process to notify the Department for Community Based Services when a status offender has been detained, and make technical corrections; amend KRS 31.200, 31. 110, 164.2847, 605.090, 610.080, 610.255, 610.330 and 620.155 to conform. Latest Action: 01/29/2008 - To Education (H) Bill Text Create new sections of KRS Chapter 157 to establish a grant program administered by the Early Childhood Development Authority to develop collaborative models of preschool education for unserved children living at 200 percent of the federal poverty level and below; require collaboration among all community providers; require administrative regulations to define the eligible applicants; require the authority to study the long-term need and projected cost of serving all three and four-year old children by the 2011-2012 school year and report its findings to the Legislative Research Commission prior to January 1, 2009; establish a trust fund to be administered by the Early Childhood Development Authority to allot grants to provide collaborative models of community-based preschool for unserved children. SB113
Latest Action: 01/30/2008 - To Education (S) Bill Text Amend KRS 158.030 to require a child to be five years of age by August 1 to enter a primary school program. SB114
Latest Action: 01/30/2008 - To Judiciary (S) Bill Text Amend KRS 189.125 to require that a child under the age of eight years and between 40 and 57 inches in height be secured in a child booster seat; amend KRS 189.990, relating to penalties for traffic offenses, to specify that child restraint seat and booster seat fines are not subject to court costs, additional costs, or fees; specify that seat belt violations are not subject to additional costs or fees. HB383
Latest Action: 01/29/2008 - To Judiciary (H); posting waived Bill Text Create a new section of KRS Chapter 403 relating to child custody and visitation to provide a procedure for relocation of the principal residence of a child, provide for objection to relocation; amend KRS 403.270 relating to custodial issues to specify what court order for relocation of a child shall contain; amend KRS 403.340 relating to modification of a child custody decree to require notice of proposed relocation to be mailed to all parties entitled to notice. SB109
Latest Action: 01/29/2008 - To Judiciary (S) Bill Text Amend KRS 17.545 to prohibit registered sex offenders from coming onto the grounds of a high school, middle school, elementary school, preschool, publicly owned playground, or licensed day care facility. HB374
Latest Action: 01/29/2008 - To Health & Welfare (H) Bill Text Create a new section of KRS 217 to prohibit the sale of energy drinks to children under 18 years of age; amend 217.015 to define the term "energy drink." HB367
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