Official record
Measure details
- Jurisdiction
- Kentucky
- Session
- 2026RS
- Chamber
- upper
- Classification
- bill
- Subjects
- Boards And Commissions, Children And Minors, Education, Elementary And Secondary, Teachers
- Introduced / first action
- 2026-02-12 05:00:00
Source-supplied abstracts
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to define "grooming behavior"; amend KRS 161.120 to add, current and recent former students to the list of individuals upon which the Education Professional Standards Board may refuse to issue or take disciplinary action against a certificate if the applicant or certificate holder engaged in sexual contact with the specified individuals; amend KRS 160.390 to require superintendents to include employment terms prohibiting sexual contact between an employee of the district and specified individuals; amend KRS 160.1596 to require as a term of the public charter school contract that all employees and contractors refrain from sexual contact with specified individuals; amend KRS 156.160 to require the Kentucky Board of Education to require certified nonpublic schools to require employee prohibitions on sexual contact between an employee of the school and specified individuals.
Sponsors
- A. Reed (primary), primary
- L. Tichenor (primary), primary
- J. Adams (primary), primary
- G. Boswell (primary), primary
- S. Funke Frommeyer (primary), primary
- S. Madon (primary), primary
- A. Mays Bledsoe (primary), primary
- R. Mills (primary), primary
- M. Nunn (primary), primary
- S. Rawlings (primary), primary
- C. Richardson (primary), primary
- R. Webb (primary), primary
- S. West (primary), primary
- G. Williams (primary), primary