Issued February 18, 2025

SUPPORT: HB 74

An act relating to providing free feminine hygiene products for elementary and secondary students. This bill requires public schools and public charter schools in Kentucky that include grades four through twelve to provide free feminine hygiene products to female students.

SUPPORT: HB 90

An act relating to freestanding birthing centers. This bill establishes a
comprehensive framework for freestanding birthing centers in Kentucky, defining them as health facilities outside of hospitals and private residences that provide care during labor, delivery, and the immediate postpartum period.

SUPPORT: HB 357

An act relating to reproductive health care. This bill expands Medicaid
eligibility and creates a comprehensive family planning program in Kentucky . . . to include pregnant women and new mothers in Medicaid coverage for up to 12 months postpartum, regardless of citizenship or national origin.

SUPPORT: HB 418

Establish privacy protections for a woman seeking reproductive health care outside of the Commonwealth; establish protections for any person or entity assisting a woman seeking reproductive health care out of the Commonwealth.

Download .pdf file of AAUW Policy Position on Health Care for Women and Girls here.

Issued February 17, 2025

SUPPORT: HB 268

Amend KRS 158.196 to require social studies instruction, materials, and academic standards to include the roles and contributions of indigenous peoples, people of color, and people from other marginalized or non-European groups, as well as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the history of the United States and the Commonwealth.

OPPOSE: HB 197

Amend KRS 164.020 to abolish the Council on Postsecondary Education and transfer authorities and duties to the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority; amend KRS 164.746 to add three student members to the board of the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority.

SUPPORT: HB 300 & HB 460

Amend KRS 157.3175 to require school districts provide a full-day preschool education program for eligible three and four-year-olds; establish eligibility for the program; require that preschool for three year old children continue to be funded through a grant process and preschool programs for four-year-old children be funded under KRS 157.310 to 157.440

Download .pdf file of AAUW’s Policy Position on Education here.