AN ACT relating to allowing biological parents and foster parents the right to seek enforcement in Circuit Court for the cabinet's violations of certain rules, provisions, regulations, or statutory requirements.
Enacting the affirming parental rights act to require school districts to provide parents with an affirming parental rights document, requiring the investigation of parental rights violations and establishing certain remedies for parents aggrieved by such violations.
Establishes confirmatory adoptions allowing adoption and parentage judgements for a child with more than two parents; recognizes functional parents as legal parents; allows "de facto parents" to get a court order confirming their parentage; grants all legal parents standing to seek visitation or custody of their children.
Parental rights; creating the Parental Medical Rights Protection Act; prohibiting removal of child from custodial parent under certain circumstances. Effective date.