26RS HB 717

House Bill 717

Actions

Last Action	02/24/26: to Committee on Committees (H)
Title	AN ACT relating to health education.
Bill Documents	Introduced
Bill Request Number	73
Sponsor	L. Willner
Summary of Original Version	Repeal and reenact KRS 158.1415 to require each school district to provide healthy relationship education instruction to all public school students; establish minimum requirements for the instruction; establish minimum requirements for the healthy relationship curricula and instructional materials; prohibit a school or school district from restricting the ability of an instructor to answer a question related to the instruction; require that a school make the healthy relationship curricula and instructional materials available upon the request of a parent or guardian and establish a procedure for a parent or guardian to opt a student out of the instruction; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations necessary to implement, administer, and enforce this section; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations requiring that each school district submit a report on healthy relationship instruction in the district biennially; require the Kentucky Department of Education to maintain a list of recommended healthy relationship curricula and instructional materials; permit a parent or guardian to file an enforcement action in Circuit Court; provide that the Act may be cited as the Education for Healthy Youth Act.
Index Headings of Original Version	Administrative Regulations And Proceedings - Board of Education, healthy relationship instruction Boards And Commissions - Board of Education, healthy relationship instruction, administrative regulations Children And Minors - Public schools, healthy relationship instruction, age-appropriate, requirement for all grades Education, Elementary And Secondary - Healthy relationship instruction, age-appropriate, requirement for all grades Reports Mandated - School districts, biennial report on healthy relationship instruction to the Department of Education Short Titles And Popular Names - Education for Healthy Youth Act State Agencies - Department of Education, healthy relationship curricula and materials, listing