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KY HB443

Bill

Status

Introduced

1/20/2026

Primary Sponsor

James Tipton

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Origin

House of Representatives

2026 Regular Session

AI Summary

  • Adds school employees who engage in sexual intercourse, deviate sexual intercourse, or sexual abuse with students enrolled in elementary or secondary schools to the list of those guilty of rape in the third degree, sodomy in the third degree, and sexual abuse in the first degree (Class D felonies)

  • Defines "school employee" to include adult employees of public school districts or private/parochial/church schools serving as administrators, classified employees, certified employees, coaches, or contract employees, as well as Kentucky Department of Education employees assigned to schools

  • Amends KRS 510.010 to add and reorganize definitions including "adult intermediary," "foreign object," "individual with an intellectual disability," "registrant," and "school employee" within sex crimes statutes

  • Updates terminology throughout multiple professional licensing statutes (physicians, nurses, EMTs, massage therapists, physical therapists, social workers, behavior analysts) to reference the renumbered definition of "sexual contact" in KRS 510.010

  • Makes technical corrections replacing outdated statutory language such as "this state" with "the Commonwealth" and updating references to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders to the "most recent edition"

Legislative Description

AN ACT relating to sex crimes.

Crimes and Punishments

Last Action

to Judiciary (H)

1/28/2026

Committee Referrals

Judiciary1/28/2026
Committee On Committees1/20/2026

Full Bill Text

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