Children and Minors


Abortion, exempt rape and incest

Abortion, life or health of pregnant person

Abortion, pregnant person, Jewish faith

Abortion reporting requirements, audit

Abortion, upon a minor

Abused or neglected child, definition

Adoption, addition of gender-neutral language

Adoption annulment, requirements

Adoption expenses, requirements

Adoption records, accessing

Bank deposits, gender-neutral language

Cabinet for Health and Family Services, foster parents, notice requirement

Caregiving services, allowable campaign expenditure

Child abuse and neglect recognition training, requirement

Child abuse awareness and prevention, required instruction

Child abuse instruction, exclude emotional abuse and neglect, require discreet approach

Child abuse, mandatory reporting

Child abuse, neglect, and sexual exploitation investigations, requirements

Child Care Assistance Program, eligibility

Child care costs, tax liability deferral

Child custody, requirements

Child dependency, neglect, or abuse reports, requirements

Child fatalities and near fatalities, drug tests, requirement

Child hospitalization, gender-neutral language

Child support, obligation payment

Child support, parenting time credit

Child Welfare Advisory Committee, repeal

Child-care centers, radon testing

Childcare facilities, facial covering requirements, permit only at discretion of facility

Child-caring facilities and child-placing agencies, employment requirements

Child-caring facilities and child-placing agencies, inspections

Children 12 and under, referral to family accountability, intervention, and response team

Children's Health Insurance Program, certified community health worker, reimbursement, requirement

Children's Oral Health Awareness Day, recognizing

Compulsory attendance, High School Equivalency Diploma, exemption

Corporal physical discipline, use of, prohibition

Court proceedings, foster parents, notice requirement

Court records of a child, allow the child to request confidentiality

Court referral for truancy cases, court-designated worker

Court-designated workers, require 24 additional

COVID-19, children in out-of-home care, policies and reports

COVID-19 precautions, parent opt-out, medical device, vaccine, and testing requirements

COVID-19 precautions, parent opt-out, medical device, vaccine, testing, healthcare requirements

COVID-19 precautions, public schools, parent opt-out

COVID-19 school mask policy, parental opt out

COVID-19 vaccination, consent, requirement

Criminal abuse in the first degree, increased penalties if the victim is under 12 years of age

Department for Library and Archives, state program

Disabled sportsman's hunting and fishing license, eligible disabilities

Diversion for minors, requiring parental cooperation

Domestic violence offender registry, establishment

Down syndrome and spina bifida, information

Early Childhood Education Task Force, establishment

Early literacy education, requirements

Education and Sharing Day, Kentucky, April 12, 2022, recognition

Education opportunity account program

Education opportunity account program, expansion of qualifying expenses

Education, youth, urban agriculture, promotion

Educational benefits, veterans and their families, expansion

Electronic prescription record, patient request

Emergency placement of children, criminal history record check, requirement

Exceptional children and youth, high school service, eligibility

External child fatality and near fatality review panel, change in membership

Facial coverings, child-care facilities and public schools, prohibition of requirement

Facial coverings, child-care facilities, prohibition of requirement

Facial coverings, limited prohibition of requirement, parent opt-out, response to COVID-19 pandemic

Family accountability, intervention, and response teams, require report

Family Resource and Youth Services Center Day, designating

Family Resource and Youth Services Center Day, proclaiming

Federal School Breakfast Program, breakfast as instructional time

Federal School Breakfast Program, breakfast as instructional time, approval by superintendent

Fictive kin placement, requirements

Full utilization certification and negotiation, local Head Start director

Gender transition procedures, prohibition

Gender-neutral language

Gender-neutral language, inclusion

Grandparents, visitation rights

Head Start, full utilization, certification, alternative procedure

High School Equivalency Diploma, students enrolled in alternative programs, eligibility conditions

Historical instruction, African and Native American history, requirements

Identification device, remove as basis to petition for removal of child from the control of a parent

Imagination Library of Kentucky Program, creation

Include gender-neutral language

Infant mortality and disparities, awareness

Interscholastic athletics, designation for eligibility based on biological sex, injunctive relief

Interscholastic athletics, designation for eligibility based on biological sex, requirements

Interscholastic athletics, eligibility based on biological sex, exclusion of K-5 athletics

Interscholastic athletics, eligibility based on biological sex, exclusion of K-8 athletics

Interscholastic athletics, eligibility based on biological sex, students in grades 6-12

Interscholastic athletics, eligibility, method for determining biological sex, birth certificate

Interscholastic, eligibility based on biological sex, high school athletics

Juvenile Justice Oversight Council, term extension

KCHIP, counseling interventions, perinatal depression, coverage requirement

KCHIP, hearing aids and related services, coverage

KCHIP, hepatitis C virus infection in pregnant women, coverage requirement

KCHIP, hepatitis C virus infection, treatment, coverage requirement

KCHIP, mental health wellness examination, coverage requirement

KCHIP, prescription drugs, postpartum mood disorders, coverage requirement

Kentucky Board of Education, student voting member

Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program, formulas, coverage requirement

Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program, injectable epinephrine devices, coverage requirement

Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program, long-acting reversible contraception, coverage

Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program, prescription drugs, step therapy protocol

Kentucky Children's Health Insurance Program, prescription drugs, step therapy protocols

Kindergarten, full day of attendance

Kindergarten, full-day of attendance

Lactation support and breastfeeding equipment, Medicaid coverage, requirement

Learning pods, child-care center, exclusion

Learning pods, family child-care home, exclusion

Mental Health Flag, support childhood mental health awareness, designation

Minors as parties, emergency protective orders, domestic violence orders

Minors as parties, interpersonal protective orders

Newborn and infant screening, cytomegalovirus, testing requirements

Newborn and infant screening program, cytomegalovirus (CMV), inclusion

Newborn safety device, permitting

Parental depression screenings, coverage, requirement

Parental rights, establishing

Parental rights, establishment

Parental rights, involuntary termination, filings

Parental rights, termination, neonatal abstinence syndrome

Perinatal care, advisory committee, establishment

Preschool, all four-year-olds and qualified three-year-olds, school districts to provide

Preschool education programs, eligibility

Preschool, eligible three and four-year-olds, school districts to provide

Preschool program proposal, required contents, Head Start full utilization certification

Probation violations, probationary period, requirements

Public assistance, reform

Public assistance reform

Public assistance, reform

Public education, controversial topics and current events, requirements, restrictions

Public education, instruction, concepts related to race, sex, and religion

Public education, prohibited instruction, concepts related to race, sex, and religion

Public education, required instruction, concepts related to race and sex

Public school meal programs, no cost

Public schools, healthy relationship instruction, age-appropriate, requirement for all grades

Public schools, mask mandate, authority of school board or school to impose

Qualified mental health professional, meeting with detained children, require

Read Across America Day, participation

Reproductive privacy, right to, establishment

Sale of kratom products, prohibition

School attendance policy, mental health, inclusion

School attendance policy, mental health, inclusion option

School, compulsory attendance, mental health

School extra-curricular activities, biological sex, eligibility

School personnel, sexual misconduct involving a minor or student, duty of district to disclose

School screening committees, minority student population of 50 percent or greater, composition

Settlement, procedure, amount of $25,000 or less

Settlement, procedures, amount of $25,000 or less

Social studies curriculum, censorship, prohibition

State Child Abuse and Neglect Prevention Board, establishing

Statute of limitations, civil actions, childhood sexual assault or abuse

Stillbirths, individual income tax credit, creation

Student assessment, series of interim assessments, waiver request for single summative test

Swimming pools, residential, safety standards

Trauma-informed teams and plans, child abuse and neglect awareness and prevention, inclusion

Unlawful storage of a firearm, prohibition

Use of tracking device, criminalization, parental exception

Violent felony offenses, detention, no confidentiality requirement

Visitation for children in out-of-home care, in-person requirement

Youth statewide hunting licenses, persons under 16, parent or guardian permission required


Last updated: 2/8/2023 2:57 PM (EST)