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Children And Minors


Abortion, prohibitions, removal

Adoption, gender-neutral language, insertion

Adoption, inheritance and succession, limitation

Adoption, unmarried couples, prohibition

Adoptive child placement, restrictions

Adult performance in view of a minor, prohibition

Advanced coursework, middle school mathematics, requirements

Alleged criminal acts, mental health, treatment, parameters, establishment

Alternative school placement, placement term, appeal

Amber alert criteria, expansion

App stores, app developers, duties to minors

Attorney general, support order, appeal, technical corrections

Baby-related and menstrual products, diapers, sales and use tax, exemption

Beyond the control of school, failed diversion, petition

Blueprint for Kentucky's Children, honoring

Boy, definition

Certified Child Care Community Designation Program, requirements

Certified family child-care homes, requirements

Child Care Assistance Program, establishment

Child Care Assistance Program, income exclusions, establishment

Child credit against taxes imposed for qualifying children under 6 years, refundable

Child custody, gender-neutral language, insertion

Child dependency, neglect, or abuse reports, requirements

Child hospitalization, gender-neutral language, insertion

Child in out-of-home care, gender natural language, insertion

Child placement, requirements

Child Welfare and Family Court Reform Task Force, establishment

Childcare center employees, continuing education, pediatric ingestion of controlled substances

Child-care center licensee standards, establishment

Child-care center licensure, requirements

Child-care centers, square footage requirements, establishment

Child-care centers, square footage requirements, waiver, establishment

Child-care centers, video surveillance, requirement

Child-care homes and centers, access to the Child Care Assistance Program, requirements

Child-care microcenters, establish

Childhood sexual abuse, condemnation

Children with disabilities, maximum class and caseload sizes

Children's Advocacy Week 2026, recognizing

Children's health and welfare fiscal impact statement, requirement

Choking prevention in schools, anti-choking devices, Heimlich maneuver, emergencies

Classroom Library Grant Program, establishment

Commercial surrogacy, prohibition

Commercial surrogacy, protection, provision

Contracts, nondisclosure and confidentiality provisions, sexual abuse, void

Criminal abuse and neglect, pediatric ingestion of controlled substances

Custody proceedings, domestic violence or abuse, determination of custody, factors

Custody proceedings, reunification therapy, determination, removal

Department for Libraries and Archives, Kids Love to Read Program, creation

Department of Education, annual report, student removed to be homeschooled, removal

Department of Juvenile Justice, detention facilities, female-only, provision

Department of Juvenile Justice, reorganization

Dependency, neglect, and abuse, removal from home, clear and convincing evidence

Diabetes, prescribed medication, administration in school

Diabetes, prescribed medication in schools

Diapers, sales and use tax, exemption

Dispositional order, right of appeal, technical correction

Divorce, parties with minor children, 60-day waiting period, basis for waiver, establishment

Early Childhood Education Governance and Outcomes Task Force, establishment

Education, urban agriculture, promotion

Educational benefits, veterans and their families, expansion

Eligibility to vote, school board, age requirement

Eligible registered teacher apprenticeship dual credit program, program requirements, 2.75 GPA

Employee Child Care Assistance Partnership Program, requirements

Equal parenting time, presumption, removal

Exceptional children, teachers, maximum caseloads

Facilities use by students, individual privacy

Family accountability, intervention, and response teams, repeal

Family impact statement, requirements

Family medical leave, state employees

Fatherhood and Family Engagement Task Force, encouraging establishment

Feminine hygiene products, no-cost provision to elementary and secondary students

Fictive kin caregiver, child placement, restrictions

Firearms, personal injury, civil liability

Foster and adoption tuition waivers, restrict benefit to 128 credit hours, expiration at age 26

Foster care child placement, requirements

Foster child eligibility for earned federal benefits, determination

Foster child placement, restrictions

Foster child tutoring and academic assistance trust fund establishment

Foster children, Tutoring and Academic Assistance Grant Program, establishment

Gender dysphoria, treatment, children

Gender transition services, KCHIP payment or coverage, prohibition

Gender-appropriate pronouns, parental request, usage

Girl, definition

Grandparent visitation, best interests factors, establishment

Grandparent visitation, evidentiary standard, provision

Grooming a minor, creation of offense

Grooming a minor, elements

Grooming a minor, exceptions

Grooming a minor, preparing a minor for sexual conduct, removal

Grooming by school employees, prohibition

Guardians ad litem and counsel, appointment

Guardians ad litem and counsel, appointment, minimum training requirements

Habitual truancy, family diversion plan, requirements

Hearing aids and related services, insurance, coverage requirements

Hearings aids and related services, insurance, network adequacy requirements

Hemp-derived vapor products, age verification, fines

High acuity youth, psychiatric treatment, provision

Historical instruction, African and Native American history, requirements

Human growth and development instruction, requirements, parental notification

Human sexuality instruction, parental right to opt student out of instruction

Human sexuality programs, parental rights, opt out

Imagination Library Program, interagency cooperation to increase enrollment

Immunizations for children, restrictions on requiring additional immunizations

Incarcerated minors, bill of rights

Individual income tax credit, eligible child

Individualized Education Program, resources

Infantile seizure disorder, health care provider, continuing education

Inheritance tax, foster child, Class A beneficiary, August 1, 2026

Interpersonal protective order, school violence between minors

Interrogation of children, requirements

Juvenile convictions, life imprisonment without parole for capital offense, prohibition

Juvenile services fund, Department of Juvenile Justice, creation

KCHIP, contraceptive coverage

KCHIP, counseling interventions, perinatal depression, coverage requirement

KCHIP, epinephrine devices, coverage requirement

KCHIP, feeding or eating disorders, coverage requirements

KCHIP, formulas, coverage requirement

KCHIP, pharmacist services, reimbursement requirement, establishment

KCHIP, step therapy requirements

Kentucky Board of Education, student member, appointment April of sophomore year

Kentucky Child Care Advisory Council, membership, establish

Kentucky Department of Education, Kentucky Center for Statistics, data reporting

Kentucky diaper access programs, establishment

Kentucky Kindergarten Readiness Performance-Based Child Care Incentive Pilot Program, establishment

Kentucky Mentorship Month, January 2026

Kentucky Positive Youth Development Commission, suicide prevention, mental health

Kindergarten, full day, requirement

Learning pods, child-care center, exclusion

Learning pods, family child-care home, exclusion

Licensed and certified child care services study, establishment

Licensed child-care centers, requirements

Local board of education, candidates, qualification for membership, proof requirement

Local CASA programs, board of directors, standards

Marriage, prohibition

Medicaid, 1915(c) home and community-based waivers, requirements

Mental health, high acuity youth, treatment, provision

Mental health, treatment facilities, parameters, establishment

Military families, individualized family services plan, comparable services

Military Kids Day, celebrating

Missing and unidentified persons, case information, National Missing and Unidentified Persons System

Missing persons case information, National Missing and Unidentified Persons System

Moral instruction, public schools, requirements

Norton Children's, recognition

Online services, protection of minors

Outdoor nature-based early learning and child-care program, licensure requirements

Parentage fraud, Class B misdemeanor, elements

Parental consent, child health and mental healthcare

Parental rights relating to cellular phones, establishment

Party to a child support or related dissolution of marriage proceeding, prohibition

Perinatal mood and anxiety disorders screenings, coverage requirement

Possession or viewing of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor, computer-generated image

Possession or viewing of matter portraying a sexual performance by a minor, parole eligibility

Postsecondary students, foster and adopted, institutional liaison

Postsecondary students, housing unstable, institutional liaison

Primary caretaker of a dependent child, eligibility, conditions of sentence

Primary caretaker of a dependent child, finding, effect on another proceeding

Proactive admissions program, information on students

Proactive admissions program, information on students that opt in, collection and distribution

Proactive postsecondary admissions program, public secondary institutions, establishment

Protection of minors, social media platforms

Provisional license to carry concealed weapons, persons aged 18 to 20

Psychotropic drugs, adverse drug reaction reporting system, Medicaid

Public assistance, assignment of child support, payments up to $200 per month, establishment

Public education, diversity, equity and inclusion activities, prohibition

Public education, recess, inclusion in instructional day, minimum time requirements by grade level

Public elementary students, instructional technology, limitation of use

Public offense, mental health, treatment facility, establishment

Public offense, mental health, treatment plan, establishment

Public offense, treatment plan, procedures, establishment

Public offenses, status offenses, diversion requirements

Public offenses, status offenses, FAIR teams, eliminated

Public postsecondary education institutions, student housing requirement, parental consent

Public school students, Student Secular Bill of Rights, investigation and enforcement

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

Public schools, ultra-processed foods, ban

Qualified school volunteers, unauthorized electronic communication, scope of prohibition

Quality-based graduated early childhood rating system program, requirements

Read Across America Day, participation

Recognition of child abuse, training, animal control officers

Registered teacher apprenticeship programs, dual credit scholarship, eligibility

Relative and fictive kin caregivers, technical correction

Relative caregiver, child placement, restrictions

Sales and use tax, diapers, exemption

School activity, transportation, driver qualification, drug testing and background check

School bus stop cameras, placement and use

School district employees and volunteers, unauthorized electronic communication, exclusions

School nutrition, free and reduced-price meal programs, study to expand access

School nutrition, reimbursement to school districts

School-based Medicaid program

Serious physical injury or death, investigation, requirements

Sex crimes against victim under 12 years old, capital offense

Sex offender registry, period of registration

Sex offender registry, registrant information, expansion

Sex offenders, participation in Halloween-related activity involving minors, prohibition

Sex offenders, residing within 3,000 feet of specific locations, prohibitions

Social media, addictive features, definitions and enforcement of violations

Social media, addictive metrics, personal information, restrictions

Social media, age verification

Social media and AI companion platforms, addictive features, age verification

Social media platforms, addictive features, age verification

Social media, verifiable parental consent

Social service workers, investigations, body-worn cameras

Social workers, child-caring or child-placing entity employees, licensure exemption

Special education classrooms, video and audio surveillance, requirements

Special health needs, gender-neutral language

State child-care certification exemption, military property with licensure, establishment

Status offender, detention, requirements

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

Student attendance days, school calendar amendment, waiver

Student behavior, removal from classroom, option

Student data reported, expansion

Student lunch period, 30 minute minimum duration

Student representative, local school boards, requirement

Students, anaphylaxis treatment, possession and administration of intranasal epinephrine at schools

Success Sequence, instruction, requirements

Suspended visitation or parenting time, restoration, establishment

Title IX, K-12 public school oversight system, establishment

Tobacco Prevention and Cessation Program, litigation proceeds, support

Transfer of assets, dispense with estate administration, establishment

Truancy, Supporting Opportunities for Accountability and Restoration Program, eligibility

Truancy, Supporting Opportunities for Accountability and Restoration Program, pilot project

Unauthorized electronic communication, reduction in scope of exclusions, enforcement flexibility

Unauthorized electronic communication with students, expansion of permitted exclusions

Unauthorized electronic communication with students, family member exemption, nephew and niece

Unified Juvenile Code, interpretation

Unlawful storage of a firearm, prohibition, affirmative defense

Vapor products, alternative nicotine products, tobacco products, age verification, fines

Vital statistics, data collection, boy and girl, identification

Youth camp, sunscreen application, policy

Youth in state custody, transitional living support, extension or reentry to age 21, request

Youth organizations, provision of information

Youthful offender designation, notice


Last updated: 3/9/2026 7:15 PM (EDT)