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Bill	AN ACT relating to child dependency, neglect, and abuse reports.	Amend KRS 620.050 to allow identified persons or entities to have access to confidential information related to child dependency, neglect, and abuse reports for the purpose of a bona fide research, quality improvement, or evaluation project; establish criteria.	us/states/ky	Kentucky General Assembly	2025RS	HB 242	Kentucky HB 242 (2025RS)	bill	Children and Minors Courts Research and Methods State Agencies	enacted		3	20	2	2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00	2025-03-15T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/16d28837-81cb-41e1-b016-13b5c9981446	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/25RS/hb242.html	a5c6ef15d2a34fe59d9c7a0627896176db436c39b8102d998b6ac8e4d6155996	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ky

Kentucky HB 242 (2025RS) — AN ACT relating to child dependency, neglect, and abuse reports.

Amend KRS 620.050 to allow identified persons or entities to have access to confidential information related to child dependency, neglect, and abuse reports for the purpose of a bona fide research, quality improvement, or evaluation project; establish criteria.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Acts Chapter 14 (committee substitute) — source
3. Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASS HB 242 — 37–0 (pass) · lower
• Pass — 92–0 (pass) · lower

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in House introduction
• 2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H) referral-committee
• 2025-02-07T05:00:00+00:00 to Families & Children (H) 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
• 2025-02-18T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 19, 2025
• 2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 92-0 passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-21T05:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2025-02-21T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S) referral-committee
• 2025-02-26T05:00:00+00:00 to Families & Children (S) referral-committee
• 2025-03-04T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar committee-passage
• 2025-03-05T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2025-03-07T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 11, 2025
• 2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 37-0 passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
• 2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
• 2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Governor
• 2025-03-15T04:00:00+00:00 signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 14) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/16d28837-81cb-41e1-b016-13b5c9981446. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).