---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to education."
description: "Amend KRS 156.070 to require child dependency, neglect, and abuse information to be included in any interscholastic athletics participation consent form; require any training for interscholastic athletics administrators and coaches to include information about mandatory reporting duties for child dependency, neglect, and abuse."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2025RS"
identifier: "SB 120"
citation: "Kentucky SB 120 (2025RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Athletics", "Boards and Commissions", "Children and Minors", "Education", "Elementary and Secondary"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 28
vote_count: 5
first_action: "2025-02-11T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-24T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/572671ff-ab3d-4ac9-b95c-1916ff0ec7aa"
source_url: "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/25RS/sb120.html"
source_hash: "0f1f403a23d75cd1a0c669f9472fa6a19f107918c4c3a94113a99c09d4efe03d"
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 SB 120 (2025RS) — AN ACT relating to education.

Amend KRS 156.070 to require child dependency, neglect, and abuse information to be included in any interscholastic athletics participation consent form; require any training for interscholastic athletics administrators and coaches to include information about mandatory reporting duties for child dependency, neglect, and abuse.

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/25RS/sb120/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **Acts Chapter 73** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/25RS/documents/0073.pdf)
3. **Current/Final** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/25RS/sb120/bill.pdf)

## Votes

- Final Passage SB 120 W/ hcs1 hcta1 — **36–0** (pass) · upper
- Reconsider — **81–0** (pass) · upper
- Pass — **87–1** (pass) · upper
- Adopt — **26–32** (fail) · upper
- PASS SB 120 — **36–0** (pass) · upper

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-11T05:00:00+00:00** introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-11T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (S) `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-12T05:00:00+00:00** to Education (S) `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-14T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2025-02-26T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 28, 2025
- **2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 27, 2025
- **2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 36-0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-28T05:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2025-02-28T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (H) `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-07T05:00:00+00:00** to Primary and Secondary Education (H) `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1), and Committee Amendment (1-title) `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** taken from Rules
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** placed in the Orders of the Day
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** Floor Amendment (1) defeated
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** passed with 87-1 Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) `passage`
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** to Rules (S) `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage for concurrence in House Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title)
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** Senate concurred in House Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title)
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** passed 36-0-1 `passage`
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** delivered to Governor
- **2025-03-24T04:00:00+00:00** signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 73) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/572671ff-ab3d-4ac9-b95c-1916ff0ec7aa`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).