25RS HB 653

House Bill 653

Actions

Last Action	02/18/25: to Committee on Committees (H)
Title	AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency.
Bill Documents	Introduced
Bill Request Number	1207
Sponsor	J. Calloway
Summary of Original Version	Amend KRS 158.192 to change the definition of "harmful to minors" and define terms; deem material, performances, events, or programs that are obscene, harmful to minors, or contain obscene imagery representing minors as educationally unsuitable and not age appropriate; require principals to remove student access to materials, programs, or events deemed educationally unsuitable or not age appropriate; modify complaint and appeals timelines; require that principal or local board of education report that a material, program, or event was educationally unsuitable and age appropriate to the educational materials review committee; provide that willful violation be a basis for employee disciplinary action; require local boards of education to adopt policies to prevent educationally unsuitable and not age appropriate material from being introduced into the school library or made accessible on school property; require the Kentucky Department of Education to provide a model policy for excluding matter that is educationally unsuitable and not age appropriate from school libraries; require the Kentucky Board of Education to establish an educational materials review committee to evaluate decisions made locally and provide recommendations to the Kentucky Board of Education on the usage of reported materials, programs, and events; EMERGENCY.
Index Headings of Original Version	Education, Elementary and Secondary - Educationally unsuitable and age inappropriate materials, complaint and appeal process Education, Elementary and Secondary - Educationally unsuitable and age inappropriate materials, limiting access Education, Elementary and Secondary - Educationally unsuitable materials, employees, willful violation, disciplinary action Education, Elementary and Secondary - Local boards of education, educationally unsuitable materials, policy, require Effective Dates, Emergency - Educationally unsuitable and age inappropriate materials, limiting access Obscenity and Pornography - Educationally unsuitable and age inappropriate materials, limiting access State Agencies - Department of Education, educationally unsuitable materials, model policy, require Teachers - Educationally unsuitable and age inappropriate materials, willful violation, disciplinary action Children and Minors - Educationally unsuitable and age inappropriate materials, limiting access Boards and Commissions - Kentucky Board of Education, educational materials review committee, creation