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

3. SHARE WITH 3 ADVOCATES: Please share this alert with at least 3 of your fellow advocates for kids and ask them to join you in reaching out to the General Assembly.

Join partners in the Blueprint for Kentucky’s Children in raising visibility of these important bills for kids by amplifying on social media. Follow Kentucky Youth Advocates on Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram to help amplify the message!

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