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HB 717 KY
Introduced

AN ACT relating to health education.

KY · session 2026RS · Assembly / House · bill

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Introduced Feb 24, 2026

Latest action (Mar 3, 2026) to Primary and Secondary Education (H)

Summary

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.

Sponsor (1)

Action history (3)

  1. Feb 24, 2026 introduced in House · lower
  2. Feb 24, 2026 to Committee on Committees (H) · lower
  3. Mar 3, 2026 to Primary and Secondary Education (H) · lower
Subjects
Administrative Regulations And ProceedingsBoards And CommissionsChildren And MinorsEducation, Elementary And SecondaryReports MandatedShort Titles And Popular NamesState Agencies

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