TAKE ACTION FOR KIDS
1. CALL THE LEGISLATIVE MESSAGE LINE at 1-800-372-7181. The LRC staff operators will look up your representatives for you to leave a message (green slip).
2. ASK YOUR LEGISLATORS to support Blueprint for Kentucky’s Children priority bills and bills that are good for kids, including:
- Ask your Representative to support:
- House Bill 71 to give families a second chance at housing stability by expunging evictions after three years and prohibiting minors from being named in evictions
- House Bill 199 to expand access to safe and healthy prenatal and birth options by removing barriers to establishing freestanding birth centers
- House Bill 813 to ensure that funds awarded to Kentucky as part of the JUUL settlement are allocated toward tobacco prevention and cessation programming
- House Concurrent Resolution 68 to promote Kentuckians’ access to safe, affordable, and stable housing by establishing the Kentucky Housing Task Force
- House Concurrent Resolution 117 to promote the well-being of children who have experienced abuse and neglect by establishing the Kentucky Kinship Task Force
- Senate Bill 151 to allow a child to identify caregivers to be placed with and a relative or fictive kin caregiver to apply at any time to be certified as a child-specific foster home
- Ask your Senator to support:
- Senate Bill 34 to support parents in meeting their basic needs
- Senate Bill 103 to expand access to safe and healthy prenatal and birth options by removing barriers to establishing freestanding birth centers
- Senate Bill 203, known as the Horizons Act, to ensure high-quality early childhood environments to support working families and children’s early learning
- Senate Bill 335 to ensure that funds awarded to Kentucky as part of the JUUL settlement are allocated toward tobacco prevention and cessation programming
- House Bill 11 to enforce Tobacco-21 law and protect kids from the harmful effects of tobacco and nicotine products
- House Bill 275 to reduce the risk of sexual abuse and exploitation by mandating that schools cannot enter into nondisclosure agreements regarding misconduct involving students
- House Bill 377 to support the student-teacher pipeline through stipends and a Student Loan Forgiveness Pilot Program
- House Bill 561 to permanently establish the Employee Child Care Assistance Partnership and create the Certified Child Care Community Designation Program