Sen. Cassie Armstrong

Create new sections of KRS Chapters 158 and 164 to require public schools, public charter schools, and public postsecondary institutions to provide reasonable accommodations to a lactating student; set forth the minimum requirements for those reasonable accommodations; require public schools, public charter schools, and public postsecondary institutions to provide lactating students a reasonable amount of time to express breast milk or breastfeed without incurring an academic penalty.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 403 to require a guardian ad litem that is appointed for any minor child in certain enumerated court proceedings covered in KRS Chapter 403 to receive a reasonable fee to be fixed by the court and paid by the Finance and Administration Cabinet; create a new section of KRS Chapter 456 to require a guardian ad litem appointed for any minor child in any court proceeding covered in KRS Chapter 456 to receive a reasonable fee to be fixed by the court and paid by the Finance and Administration Cabinet.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a refundable Kentucky child tax credit for taxpayers with qualifying children under the age of six; authorize a maximum credit of $1,000 per qualifying child for individuals with income below $50,000 for single taxpayers and $100,000 for married taxpayers filing jointly; provide that individuals with incomes above the specified thresholds may be eligible for a reduced child tax credit; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the tax credit; amend KRS 131.190 to allow the Department of Revenue to report on the tax credit.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Proud School Match Program; direct the Department of Education to reimburse an eligible school district $0.33 for every meal reimbursed by the community eligibility provision at the paid rate; require a school district that receives a reimbursement to develop and implement a Kentucky Proud school plan to identify and purchase available Kentucky-grown agricultural products and to optimize food usage; direct the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations necessary to carry out this section; provide that the section shall be null and void if the community eligibility provision is terminated by the United States Department of Agriculture; provide that the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Proud School Match Act; APPROPRIATION.