| KY | HB162 | Pass | Amend KRS 158.791 to specify the role of Department of Education in assisting local school districts with mathematics instruction, supports, and interventions; require the department to collaborate with designated agencies on mathematics programming,...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 222) |
| KY | HB387 | Pass | Amend KRS 161.102 to require the Education Professional Standards Board to issue substitute teacher certificates based on education attained; specify the type of employment each certificate allows.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 221) |
| KY | HB169 | Pass | Amend KRS 158.162 to require local boards of education to maintain a portable automated external defibrillator in a public, readily accessible, well-marked location in all school buildings, including elementary school buildings, and at school-sanctio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 208) |
| KY | HB354 | Pass | Amend KRS 61.637 and 78.5540 to require the Department of Education to pay to the Kentucky Public Pensions Authority (KPPA) the health insurance premium reimbursements required for retirees who participated in a hazardous position prior to July 1, 20...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 214) |
| KY | HB300 | Pass | Amend KRS 161.120 to require the Education Professional Standards Board to promulgate administrative regulations that establish the process and procedures for receiving and processing a complaint against a certificate holder; establish a specific tim...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 209) |
| KY | HB449 | Pass | Amend KRS 160.180 to provide additional types of evidence permitted to document a board of education candidate's completion of twelfth grade; remove specifications for the topics of required trainings for board of education members.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 215) |
| KY | HB499 | Pass | Repeal and reenact KRS 157.069 to define terms; require the Office of Career and Technical Education within the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) to identify career and technical education programs or pathways as high cost or general cost; provi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-18
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 210) |
| KY | HB829 | Pass | Amend KRS 218B.010 to revise the definition of "bona fide practitioner-patient relationship"; amend KRS 218B.020 to require the Board of Physicians and Advisors to assist the Cabinet for Health and Family Services in developing a Medicinal Cannabis A...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 195) |
| KY | HB469 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to define "military-connected student" and "purple star school"; establish the Purple Star School Program and set requirements for eligibility; designate the Kentucky Commission on Military Affairs as the gover...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 193) |
| KY | HB6 | Pass | The State/Executive Branch Budget: Detail Part I, Operating Budget; detail Part II, Capital Projects Budget; detail Part III, General Provisions; detail Part IV, State Salary/Compensation, Benefit, and Employment Policy; detail Part V, Funds Transfer...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 175) |
| KY | HB509 | Engross
50% | Create a new section of KRS 61.870 to 61.884, the Open Records Act, to require a public agency to furnish an officer, employee, board member, or commission member an agency email account; define terms; allow the governing body of a public agency or i...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
To Senate Rules Committee |
| KY | HB611 | Pass | Amend KRS 159.140 to require a director of pupil personnel to file with the county attorney a complaint against a parent or guardian who has allowed a child in kindergarten to grade five to be absent without excuse for 15 or more days; allow the dire...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-10
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 163) |
| KY | HB142 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS 438.305 to 438.340 to require the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to establish a vapor retail license and require retailers to have a retail license to sell vapor products; amend KRS 438.310 to increase penalties ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 149) |
| KY | HB471 | Pass | Amend KRS 159.075 to allow the use of military orders as proof of residency for enrollment or course registration in a school and prohibit in-person enrollment or course registration when prevented due to official military duties.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 131) |
| KY | HB535 | Pass | Amend KRS 158.141 to require, beginning with the freshman class of 2025-2026, a one-half credit course in civic literacy for graduation, including early graduation; provide a list of required topics to be taught in a civic literacy course; require th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 122) |
| KY | HB727 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 162 to allow school districts to issue general obligation bonds and obtain bank loans; amend KRS 160.160 require the approval of the Department of Education prior to a school district obtaining a bank loan or issui...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 126) |
| KY | HB825 | Pass | Require the Office of the Auditor of Public Accounts to conduct a full fiscal controls and operational performance audit of the Kentucky Department of Education and provide the report to the Interim Joint Committee on Education by July 1, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-09
became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 118) |
| KY | HB491 | Pass | Amend KRS 199.896 to change the requirements of when instructional programs for school-age children are exempt from all child-care licensure administrative regulations.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 87) |
| KY | HB439 | Pass | Amend KRS 241.010 to make a technical correction; amend KRS 241.060 and 243.540 to allow the Alcoholic Beverage Control board to dispose of alcoholic beverages through public auction; promulgate administrative regulations to establish auction procedu...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 46) |
| KY | HB447 | Pass | Amend KRS 156.153 to permit school districts to use district-owned, leased, or contracted passenger transportation vehicles to transport students to and from school and approved school activities under an alternative transportation plan approved by t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch.35) |
| KY | HB695 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to make legislative findings and declarations; establish definitions for the section; establish the Adaptive Kindergarten Readiness Pilot Project; establish the duration and terms of the pilot project; require ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 65) |
| KY | HB275 | Engross
50% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to prohibit a public school district or public charter school from entering a nondisclosure agreement relating to misconduct involving a minor or student; amend KRS 160.380 to define "abusive conduct"; require ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) |
| KY | HB138 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 161.500 to allow members of the Teachers' Retirement System to recover up to 10 unpaid days that were missed to observe religious holidays; include the recovered days in count of days worked for service credit; EMERGENCY.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB225 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 158.645 to change the required learning capacities of Kentucky public school students; amend KRS 158.6451 to provide that schools shall expect a high level of academic achievement and shall develop students' ability to think critically and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB383 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 158.165 to require local boards of education to adopt a policy to, at a minimum, prohibit student use of a personal telecommunications device during instructional time with specific exceptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB346 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 158.1415 to require a school district to adopt health curricula that includes human growth and development instruction that meets specific criteria; set restrictions for the instruction that grants parents an opportunity to review materials...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB438 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 158.832 to include a definition for "undesignated glucagon"; amend KRS 158.838 to allow health care practitioners to prescribe undesignated glucagon in the name of a school to be maintained for use by a school nurse or trained school employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB304 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 158.191 to ensure parental rights and involvement by requiring notification within two business days of specific events; require a district to adopt procedures that both encourage students to speak with parents and require facilitation of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
To House Education Committee |
| KY | HB446 | Pass | Amend KRS 158.110 to require local school boards to adopt a transportation services policy; amend KRS 158.148, relating to school district discipline guidelines, to require the Kentucky Department of Education to create a model transportation service...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
signed by Governor (Acts Ch.9) |
| KY | HB605 | Engross
50% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to allow the Kentucky Department of Education to enter into an agreement with a building and construction trade organization to develop a training program for school counselors on building and construction trad...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | HB799 | Engross
50% | Amend KRS 158.033 to allow a student admitted to an inpatient facility to receive home and hospital services effective on the day of admittance.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | HB828 | Engross
50% | Amend KRS 161.030 to specify that an individual who completes a preparation program and passes the required assessments shall receive a five year professional certificate; specify that an out-of-state teacher who passes the required assessments shall...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | HB2 | Pass | Propose a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to authorize the General Assembly to provide for a financial support for the education of students outside of the public school system; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 8) |
| KY | HB662 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB347 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 158.4416 to require a trauma-informed team to incorporate age-appropriate and evidence-based child abuse and neglect awareness and prevention into the training, guidance, and assistance provided by the team; require the trauma-informed tool...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Families & Children Committee |
| KY | HB461 | Engross
50% | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 67 to define terms; require the use of camera monitoring systems on all school buses by all school districts, and require the enforcement of a civil penalty for stop arm camera violations recorded by a camera monito...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | HB612 | Engross
50% | Create a section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms to be used in the section; require the Kentucky Department of Education to establish an approved list of reading curriculum that does not use a three-cueing system; require that school districts not...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | HB748 | Engross
50% | Amend KRS 157.350 to delete outdated language for the calculation of average daily attendance for the distribution of funds for the support education excellence in Kentucky.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-11
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | HB227 | Engross
50% | Amend KRS 160.041 to provide a merger process for contiguous school districts; require the Kentucky Board of Education to determine the terms of merger for an insolvent district if no agreement between the school districts can be reached; require the...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | HB798 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 527.010 to include knives longer than three inches in weapons prohibited on school grounds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
To House Education Committee |
| KY | HB514 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Education Committee |
| KY | HB826 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to direct school districts and public schools to act to protect Jewish students from credible threats of violence or violence motivated by antisemitism; prohibit a school district, public school, or student org...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Education Committee |
| KY | HB767 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 156.675 to require school districts to implement social media safety mechanisms in internet access policies; require social media safety policies; require social media safety instruction for students in grades six through 12; allow parents ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To House Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection Committee |
| KY | HB191 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 158.192 to require the local board of education to allow parents and guardians an opportunity to orally recite passages from materials, programs, or events subject to appeal; require immediate removal of the material, program, or event if t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Education Committee |
| KY | HB564 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a refundable tax credit for a dependent's qualified education expenses paid or incurred during the taxable year, not to exceed $150 per dependent; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the tax credit; amend ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB650 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 158.197 to permit school-based decision making councils to offer Bible literacy courses to students in grade seven and above, permit such courses to count as language arts courses; amend KRS 156.162 to require the Kentucky Board of Educatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Education Committee |
| KY | HB719 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 156.160 to allow participation in physically demanding interscholastic athletics, or similar activities, as determined by a local board of education to satisfy physical education course graduation requirements; make technical corrections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Education Committee |
| KY | HB747 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 600.020 to change the definition of "abused and neglected child" to describe educational neglect; amend KRS 620.090 to require that a parent or guardian shall surrender public financial benefits received on behalf of the child when the chil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB722 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; establish the English learner enhanced support program under the Department of Education (KDE) to help bring English learners with little or no formal education to grade-level proficiency withi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Education Committee |
| KY | HB704 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
