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Last action · March 10, 2026

To Primary And Secondary Education (H)

Introduced March 3, 2026

House

Adjourned Sine Die

2026 Regular Session

HB862

AN ACT relating to materials, programs, or events alleged to be harmful to minors.

Amend KRS 158.192 to require a local board of education to allow parents and guardians an opportunity to orally recite passages from materials, programs, or events that are subject to appeal; require immediate removal of the material, program, or event if the board denies a parent or guardian the opportunity to orally recite passages.

Education, Elementary and Secondary Parental Rights

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This bill would change how Kentucky school boards handle parent complaints about materials, programs, or events considered potentially harmful to minors. Under the proposed change, parents and guardians must be given a chance to read aloud passages from the questioned material during an appeal hearing before the school board. If a board refuses to allow that oral reading, the material, program, or event in question would have to be removed immediately. Who it may affect: parents and guardians of K-12 students, and local school boards across Kentucky.

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