AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Urban Youth Agriculture Initiative.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 247 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Urban Farming Youth Initiative to promote farming to youth in urban counties in at least one urban University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service office beginning August 1, 2025, and others by August 1, 2026; set each program term to one year in duration beginning in January; establish guidelines for participant eligibility.

Education, Elementary and Secondary Foods Universities and Colleges Agriculture Children and Minors Counties, Urban Counties of 75,000 or More

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This bill creates the Kentucky Urban Farming Youth Initiative, a program that would introduce young people in urban areas to farming and agriculture through University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service offices. The program would launch in at least one urban county by August 2025 and expand to additional urban counties by August 2026, with each program term running for one year starting in January. It also sets rules for who can participate. Who it may affect: youth in urban Kentucky counties, families interested in agriculture education, and University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service staff.

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