This legislative session, the Kentucky state legislature passed three pieces of legislation that we actively supported as soon as it was filed:
- Senate Bill 154 (passed as part of House Bill 139 Senate Committee Substitute 1): our bill was election security legislation that removes Social Security Cards and EBT food stamp cards as ID to vote at the polls
- House Bill 510: this was the legislation that requires a pause and reassessment in the organ donation process when the organ donor that was declared dead afterward shows signs of life
- House Bill 778: this was child safety legislation that did four key things:
- It made it clear that people seeking to be a foster parent or adopt a child will fail the background test if they are a registered sex-offender or have a registered sex-offender living in their residence, regardless of the age of that sex-offender
- It made it officially “abuse or neglect” in Kentucky state law to give your own underage children street drugs (such as meth) to ingest or inhale
- It added Fentanyl, Methadone, Buprenorphine, and Xylazine to the list of chemicals that urine drug screening tests will test for
- It added a new section to Kentucky State Law that says that, when a child is a respondent or requester for a protective restraining order, the superintendent or principal of the child's school will be notified and the school resource officer will also be notified
Please thank your state legislators for passing those three pieces of legislation, as well as any other pieces of legislation that you think were good. For example, although we were not the primary group supporting these pieces of legislation, the state legislature also passed House Bill 4 (see link here), another child safety bill. It looks like they could also pass House Bill 422 (Logan's Law: see link here), a third good child safety bill.
We hope that in 2027, we can get more good legislation passed, and we thank you for your help in encouraging our state legislators to pass good legislation.