Summary of Original Version

Amend KRS 402.020 to prohibit marriage with a person under 18 years of age; exclude from being prohibited and void, marriages entered into in the Commonwealth before the effective date of this Act and marriages entered into in another state or country; amend KRS 402.080 and 402.210 to prohibit the issuance of marriage licenses to persons under 18 years of age; amend KRS 402.030 to conform; repeal KRS 402.205, relating to petitions to courts filed by minors aged 17 years seeking permission to marry.

Summary of Amendment: House Floor Amendment 1 -- L. Burke

Summary Retain original provisions, except amend KRS 402.020 to remove marriage between members of the same sex from marriages that are prohibited and void.

Summary of Amendment: House Floor Amendment 2 -- K. Holloway

Summary Remove original provisions; amend KRS 402.020 to allow persons age 16 and older to marry if they have been declared an emancipated minor or if the marriage parties have a child in common or if a party is pregnant with a child of the other party and judicial permission to marry has been granted; amend KRS 402.210 and 402.205 to conform.

Summary of Amendment: House Floor Amendment 3 -- K. Moser

Summary Add new sections of KRS Chapter 210 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Positive Youth Development Commission; establish the positive youth development trust fund; amend KRS 200.503, 200.505, and 200.509 to require the State Interagency Council for Services and Supports to Children and Transition-Age Youth to direct regional interagency councils to coordinate with the Kentucky Positive Youth Development Commission to establish workgroups to perform community needs assessments, research opportunities for positive youth development programming, and apply for grants to fund and implement positive youth development programming; amend KRS 200.505 to add the state suicide prevention coordinator and Attorney General, or their designees, to the Interagency Council for Services and Support to Children and Transition-Age Youth.

Summary of Amendment: House Floor Amendment 4 -- K. Moser

Summary Make title amendment.

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 402.020, 402.030, 402.080, 402.210
Current: 402.020, 402.030, 402.080, 402.210