We begin tonight with your schools and how they're run.

Another bill that would give parents more say over the education system passed a Senate committee today.

Senate Bill five establishes a process for parents to object to sexually explicit material in public schools.

As we began tonight's legislative update, Kacey Parker Bell reports on the bill some are calling a book ban.

Are these the manners and and the matters in the materials that we want to educate our children on?

A bill passed by committee today could establish a process for parents to have material they find objectionable removed from schools.

Senate Bill five is sponsored by Murray.

Senator jason, how he says it allows parents to opt out of some school materials for their children, like books.

This bill's purpose is to guarantee the parents involvement to end their child's access to this material that they may believe is harmful to their family values and interest.

The process in Senate Bill five would allow parents to submit complaints on material the bill defines as harmful to minors.

Complaints would be submitted to school principals who determine if the material is harmful and if it should remain in the school.

Appeals would be submitted to the local Board of Education if the principal and board both deem the material appropriate.

Parents may still request their children not have access to it.

Alexandria Senator Shelley Frank from Frohnmayer says the bill gives local control to the issue.

We elect our school board.

So you've now given so much more local attention to the superintendents and the school boards.

Kate Miller, the ACLU's advocacy director, spoke against Senate Bill five.

She says students First Amendment rights shouldn't end when they enter a school.

A number of senators questioned the ACLU's position, including Litchfield Senator Steven Meredith.

Obscene material appealed to printers, interest and sex offensive and preventing standards.

So you don't think those three things in combination are sufficient safeguards for this?

I think that they could be.

I think it depends on the principal of a school.

I think it depends on the particular text that we're discussing.

Should have attended.

It should contain on what parents might think about it.

Absolutely.

Which is why, you know, the idea of me as a parent going to my school, my child's school, and telling them to ensure that my child doesn't have access to a particular text, I think is a is an abdication of the responsibility of the parent.

Only one senator in the education committee voted against the bill.

Lexington Senator Reggie Thomas.

He called the bill a, quote, book ban.

I think the whole purpose of education, the whole purpose of being exposed is to learn different views, different subject matters, different content, and then be able to to rationally and critically, critically discern what you think is is proper behavior or proper conduct and what you think is it.

For Kentucky Edition, I'm K.C.

Parker Belle.

Later this afternoon, the full Senate took up Senate Bill five.

Legislators debated the merits of whether a sexually explicit materials found in books and school libraries should stay and whether creating a pathway to have them removed from schools was appropriate.

Am I wrong to want what's best for my children?

These are just questions I want to throw out Mr. President.

Am I wrong for caring about my grandkids?

We're talking about education.

We know that the Sixth Circuit had dealt with an issue and whether or not we can keep information from students.

And we know that information, even if it's controversial, expands minds and debate.

And so we have to decide what is that?

Senate Bill five passed 29 to 4.

It now heads to the House for consideration there.