KY HB 717
in committeeAN ACT relating to health education.
Kentucky · 2026 Regular Session · lower
Description
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.
- Introduced
- 2026-02-24
- Status date
- —
- Latest action
- 2026-03-03 — to Primary and Secondary Education (H)
- Bill type
- bill
- Last updated
- —
Subjects
Sponsors
- L. Willnerprimary
Committees
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Action timeline
2026-02-24
introduced in House
introduction
2026-02-24
to Committee on Committees (H)
referral-committee
2026-03-03
to Primary and Secondary Education (H)
referral-committee
Versions
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Documents
Votes
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Related bills
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