1. (1) The Cabinet for Health and Family Services shall post on its website high-quality, evidence-based suicide prevention awareness information, which shall include information on recognizing the warning signs of a suicide crisis. The website shall include information related to suicide prevention training opportunities offered by the cabinet or an agency recognized by the cabinet as a training provider.
2. (2) Every public school and public charter school shall provide two (2) high quality, evidence-based suicide prevention awareness lessons each school year, the first by September 15 and the second by January 15, either in person, by live streaming, or via a video recording to all students in grades six (6) through twelve (12). Every public school shall provide an opportunity for any student absent on the day the high quality, evidence-based suicide prevention awareness lesson was initially presented to receive the lesson at a later time. The information may be obtained from the Cabinet for Health and Family Services or from a commercially developed suicide prevention training program.

Effective: June 27, 2025

History: Created 2025 Ky. Acts ch. 145, sec. 5, effective June 27, 2025. Legislative Research Commission Note (6/27/2025). 2025 Ky. Acts ch. 145, sec. 14, provides that the Act, which created this section and KRS 158.041, and amended KRS 156.070, 156.095, 156.492, 156.557, 157.360, 158.060, 158.070, 158.4416, and 161.031, may be cited as the Red Tape Reduction Act.