Kentucky Senate passes bill to grant the right to collect child
support for unborn children
The Republican-led Kentucky Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to
grant the right to collect child support for unborn children,
advancing a bill that garnered bipartisan support.
The measure would allow a parent to seek child support up to a year
after giving birth to retroactively cover pregnancy expenses. The
legislation -- Senate Bill 110 -- won Senate passage on a 36-2 vote
with little discussion to advance to the House. Republicans have supermajorities in both chambers.
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Kentucky is among at least six states where lawmakers have proposed
measures similar to a Georgia law that allows child support to be
sought back to conception. Georgia also allows prospective parents to
claim its income tax deduction for dependent children before birth;
Utah enacted a pregnancy tax break last year; and variations of those
measures are before lawmakers in at least a handful of other states.