# Kentucky SB 26: AN ACT relating to parental rights. Kentucky SB 26, AN ACT relating to parental rights., is a 2025 Regular Session Senate bill sponsored by Brandon J. Storm (Republican); status signed, last action 2025-03-18 (signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 26)); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-19). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KY-SB26-2025RS - As of: 2026-10-19 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Kentucky SB 26 - State: Kentucky - Session: 2025 Regular Session - Title: AN ACT relating to parental rights. - Status: signed - Chamber: Senate - Introduced: 2025-01-07 - Last action: 2025-03-18, signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 26) - Sponsor: Brandon J. Storm (Republican) - Cosponsors: 10 - Subjects: Courts, Circuit, Courts, District, Disabilities and the Disabled, Parental Rights, State Agencies, Courts, Family, Children and Minors, Civil Procedure - Touches household money: yes - Roll calls: 2 (134 yes, 0 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 3 ## Summary No summary available. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - Adoption applicants with disabilities gain safeguards: benefit, high. Before rejecting an adoption or placement solely because of disability, decision-makers must consider targeted support that could enable essential child care. For disability-based application denials, the secretary must confirm an individual assessment and review of support services and available c… - Parents with disabilities gain family-rights safeguards: benefit, high. A petition to end parental rights solely for disability requires individually assessed support services, or the parent’s knowing written rejection. The petition must include the required assessment and service records, or the parent’s signed rejection of offered services. Courts must consider wheth… - Adoption applicants gain background discrimination protections: benefit, medium. Adoption decision-makers cannot deny petitions because of an applicant’s religious, ethnic, racial, or interfaith background, unless that matches the biological parents’ expressed wishes. They also cannot reject a placement on those grounds when the parent consents. ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: Brandon J. Storm (Republican), Senate - Cosponsor: Cassie Chambers Armstrong (Democrat), Senate - Cosponsor: Craig Richardson (Republican), Senate - Cosponsor: D. Yates - Cosponsor: Gary Boswell (Republican), Senate - Cosponsor: Greg Elkins (Republican), Senate - Cosponsor: Gerald A. Neal (Democrat), Senate - Cosponsor: Julie Raque Adams (Republican), Senate - Cosponsor: Lindsey Tichenor (Republican), Senate - Cosponsor: Matthew Deneen (Republican), Senate - Cosponsor: Robin L. Webb (Republican), Senate ## Roll call votes | Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2025-03-11 | House | 3rd reading, passed | pass | 97 | 0 | | | 2025-02-13 | Senate | 3rd reading, passed | pass | 37 | 0 | | ## Actions (21) - 2025-03-18: signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 26) - 2025-03-11: delivered to Governor - 2025-03-11: enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House (Senate) - 2025-03-11: enrolled, signed by President of the Senate (Senate) - 2025-03-11: received in Senate (Senate) - 2025-03-11: 3rd reading, passed 97-0 (House) - 2025-03-04: posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 05, 2025 (House) - 2025-02-28: 2nd reading, to Rules (House) - 2025-02-27: reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar (House) - 2025-02-25: to Families & Children (H) (House) - 2025-02-14: to Committee on Committees (H) (House) - 2025-02-14: received in House (House) - 2025-02-13: 3rd reading, passed 37-0 with Floor Amendment (1) (Senate) - 2025-02-12: passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day (Senate) - 2025-02-12: floor amendment (1) filed (Senate) - 2025-02-07: posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 12, 2025 (Senate) - 2025-02-07: 2nd reading, to Rules (Senate) - 2025-02-06: reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar (Senate) - 2025-01-09: to Judiciary (S) (Senate) - 2025-01-07: to Committee on Committees (S) (Senate) - 2025-01-07: introduced in Senate (Senate) ## Bill text - Current, 2025-02-13: [PDF](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/25RS/sb26/bill.pdf) - Introduced, 2025-02-13: [PDF](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/25RS/sb26/orig_bill.pdf) ## Related bills - HB 501: AN ACT relating to pharmaceutical drugs. (became law) - HB 664: AN ACT relating to the operation of a motor vehicle and declaring an emergency. (signed) - HB 606: AN ACT relating to economic development. (signed) - HB 421: AN ACT relating to colorectal cancer screenings. (signed) - HB 555: AN ACT relating to local government financial practices. (signed) - HB 493: AN ACT relating to the towing and storage of motor vehicles. (signed) ## Sources - [Current (PDF)](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/25RS/sb26/bill.pdf) - [Introduced (PDF)](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/25RS/sb26/orig_bill.pdf) ## Related - [HB 501: AN ACT relating to pharmaceutical drugs.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KY-HB501-2025RS) - [HB 664: AN ACT relating to the operation of a motor vehicle and declaring an emergency.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KY-HB664-2025RS) - [HB 606: AN ACT relating to economic development.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KY-HB606-2025RS) - [HB 421: AN ACT relating to colorectal cancer screenings.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KY-HB421-2025RS) - [HB 555: AN ACT relating to local government financial practices.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KY-HB555-2025RS) - [HB 493: AN ACT relating to the towing and storage of motor vehicles.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KY-HB493-2025RS) - [Kentucky bills](https://policyrisk.com/states/kentucky/bills) - [Kentucky state hub](https://policyrisk.com/states/kentucky) - [All state legislation](https://policyrisk.com/state-bills) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KY-SB26-2025RS (as of 2026-10-19).