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HB717

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AN ACT relating to health education.

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.

Administrative Regulations and ProceedingsBoards and CommissionsChildren and MinorsEducation, Elementary and SecondaryReports MandatedShort Titles and Popular NamesState Agencies

Introduced: February 24, 2026

Last action: March 3, 2026

To Primary And Secondary Education (H)
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Legislative History

Feb 24, 2026 · House
Introduced In House
Feb 24, 2026 · House
To Committee On Committees (H)
Mar 3, 2026 · House
To Primary And Secondary Education (H)

Primary Sponsor

Portrait of Lisa Willner
Lisa Willner

Representative · House District 035

Primary sponsor
Lisa.Willner@kylegislature.gov
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