SB36 • 2026

AN ACT relating to parentage fraud.

Passed Legislature

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Sponsor: D. Douglas
Last action: 2026-01-07
Official status: 01/07/26: to Committee on Committees (S)
Effective date: Not listed

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AN ACT relating to parentage fraud.

What This Bill Does

AN ACT relating to parentage fraud.

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Bill History

2026-01-07 Kentucky Legislative Research Commission
introduced in Senate to Committee on Committees (S)

Official Summary Text

AN ACT relating to parentage fraud.

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AN ACT relating to parentage fraud. 1
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: 2
SECTION 1. A NEW SECTION OF KRS CHAPTER 530 IS CREATED TO 3
READ AS FOLLOWS: 4
(1) A person is guilty of parentage fraud when he or she: 5
(a) Seeks to legally establish another person as the biological parent of a child 6
in the person's custody with the intent to: 7
1. Deprive the other person of property; or 8
2. Prevent the child's actual biological parent from exercising parental 9
rights to the child; and 10
(b) Knows or reasonably should know that the other person is not the child's 11
biological parent. 12
(2) This section shall not apply when the: 13
(a) Child involved was conceived as the result of any degree of rape as 14
described in KRS Chapter 510 or incest as described in KRS 530.020; 15
(b) Child involved has been or is the process of being adopted; or 16
(c) Victim of the offense was the defendant's spouse at the time of the offense. 17
(3) Parentage fraud is a Class B misdemeanor. 18