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SB 5 Kentucky Senate · 2023 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency.

Summary
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define "harmful to minors"; require local boards of education to adopt a complaint resolution policy to address parent complaints about materials that are harmful to minors; require the school to ensure that a student whose parent has filed a complaint does not have access to the material; require the Kentucky Department of Education to promulgate model complaint resolution policy; EMERGENCY.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2023
Committee Review
Mar 2023
Senate Passage
Mar 2023
House Passage
Mar 2023
Signed into Law
Mar 2023
Introduced Feb 7, 2023 Signed Mar 29, 2023
Floor votes · Senate Feb 23, 2023

How they voted

22–3
Passed · 3 other
Total votes 28
Feb 23, 2023
D Democratic4
3 Nay 1
75% Nay
R Republican24
22 Yea 2
91% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea All Nay Mixed No data
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
31
Key actions
6
Committee
6
Amendments
4
Mar 27, 2023
Introduced
filed without Governor's signature with the Secretary of State
upper
Mar 16, 2023
Lower · Passed
enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
lower
Mar 16, 2023
Upper · Passed
enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
upper
Mar 15, 2023
Upper · Passed
passed 80-18
upper
Mar 15, 2023
Introduced
floor amendment (3) ruled not germane
upper
Mar 15, 2023
Introduced
floor amendments (4), (5-title), (6) and (7-title) filed
upper
Mar 14, 2023
Introduced
floor amendment (3) filed
upper
Mar 13, 2023
Introduced
floor amendments (1) and (2) filed
upper
Mar 13, 2023
Upper · Passed
reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
upper
Mar 2, 2023
Committee
to Education (H)
lower
Feb 24, 2023
Committee
to Committee on Committees (H)
lower
Feb 23, 2023
Upper · Passed
3rd reading, passed 29-4 with Committee Substitute (1)
upper
Feb 23, 2023
Upper · Passed
reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1)
upper
Feb 9, 2023
Committee
to Education (S)
upper
Feb 7, 2023
Committee
to Committee on Committees (S)
upper
Feb 7, 2023
Introduced
introduced in Senate
upper
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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