---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to school notification of persons authorized to contact or remove a child. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 620 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, if the cabinet is granted custody of a dependent, neglected, or abused child, to notify the school in which the child is enrolled of persons authorized to contact the child or remove the child from school grounds."
description: "AN ACT relating to school notification of persons authorized to contact or remove a child. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 620 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, if the cabinet is granted custody of a dependent, neglected, or abused child, to notify the school in which the child is enrolled of persons authorized to contact the child or remove the child from school grounds."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2017RS"
identifier: "HB 33"
citation: "Kentucky HB 33 (2017RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 19
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2016-08-30"
last_action: "2017-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/07b91c38-9b3d-4454-9250-b7c5e7ef7f22"
source_url: "http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/17RS/HB33.htm"
source_hash: "f6e292ffaa15360ac9645fc9ffa91a74471bc4a4f22c60b3ccf71e4d0963dcce"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ky"]
---

# Kentucky HB 33 (2017RS) — AN ACT relating to school notification of persons authorized to contact or remove a child. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 620 to require the Cabinet for Health and Family Services, if the cabinet is granted custody of a dependent, neglected, or abused child, to notify the school in which the child is enrolled of persons authorized to contact the child or remove the child from school grounds.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **HB 33 (As Introduced)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/HB33/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **HCS1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/HB33/HCS1.pdf)
3. **Most Recent Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/HB33/bill.pdf)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2016-08-30** Prefiled by the sponsor(s).
- **2017-01-03** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2017-01-03** To Health and Family Services (H) `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-15** Posted in committee
- **2017-02-16** Reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar with Committee Substitute `reading-1`
- **2017-02-17** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2017-02-21** Posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 22, 2017
- **2017-02-22** 3rd reading, passed 99-0 with Committee Substitute `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-23** Received in Senate
- **2017-02-24** To Health & Welfare (S) `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-08** Reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar `reading-1`
- **2017-03-14** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2017-03-29** Posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 29, 2017
- **2017-03-29** 3rd reading, passed 38-0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-29** Received in House
- **2017-03-29** Enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
- **2017-03-29** Enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
- **2017-03-29** Delivered to Governor
- **2017-04-10** Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 159) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/07b91c38-9b3d-4454-9250-b7c5e7ef7f22`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).