| KY | SB254 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | SB253 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | SB275 | Fail | Amend KRS 158.4414 to require each public school building to post signs at least six inches high by 14 inches wide in prominent locations stating, "This school is protected by an armed and trained School Resource Officer."; require the word "armed" t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
WITHDRAWN |
| KY | SB150 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 164.7879 to establish new award grade point average qualifications and amounts for the Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarship beginning with the 2024-2025 school year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | SB279 | 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] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB274 | 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] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HR128 | Pass | Recognize February 26 to March 1, 2024, as Public Schools Week.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-27
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SR109 | Pass | Recognize February 26 to March 1, 2024, as Public Schools Week.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SB245 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to define "lobbyist", "public agency", and "public funds"; prohibit a public agency from spending public funds to employ or contract with a lobbyist or from using public funds to pay a nonprofit association or o...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| KY | SB258 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to state legislative findings; establish definitions; provide additional free speech protections for student journalists; place limitations on additional protections; provide protection for student media adviso...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | SB256 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Proud School Match Program fund; establish the Kentucky Proud School Match Program; direct the Department of Education to reimburse an eligible school district $0.33 for ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB246 | 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] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | SB200 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 158.070 to remove the variable student instructional year and require the student instructional year not begin prior to September 1; allow districts to extend the length of a student attendance day beyond seven hours with approval from the ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | SB263 | Intro
25% | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to prohibit censorship of history curriculum; permit a school or school district to adopt, implement, and offer equity, diversity, and inclusion curricula, programing, initiatives, and instruction without penalt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | HCR112 | Intro
25% | Establish the DEI Economic Impact Task Force; establish membership; direct the task force to study and make recommendations on the current and recent use of state-appropriated funds by Kentucky's public postsecondary education system and public schoo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB704 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HCR120 | Intro
25% | Establish the Homeschool Task Force; establish membership; direct the task force to study and make recommendations on guardrails that can be implemented in Kentucky to preserve the integrity of homeschooling and on the impact of homeschooling on Kent...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HCR111 | Intro
25% | Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish School District Consolidation Task Force; outline task force duties; require the task force to submit any recommendations and changes the task force may adopt by December 1, 2024; establish memb...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB769 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 161.048 to allow for alternative teacher certification through a state-approved local training program provided by a local district, group of districts, or educational cooperative; permit participation in the training program for those poss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB291 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 344.010 to provide definitions of "protective hairstyle" and "race" that include traits historically associated with race; amend KRS 344.020 to provide that nothing in the chapter shall be construed to prohibit reasonable workplace policies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Committee on Committees |
| KY | HB800 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to require the Department of Education to post school district employee salary information on the department's website annually.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB756 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 161.155 to provide 20 maternity days to district employees who give birth; establish the terms and conditions for use of maternity days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB831 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to prohibit a public school district, public school, or public charter school or educational cooperative from expending any money from whatever source to advocate for against any public question that appears on...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB837 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 162.055 to allow school property to be utilized for teacher and employee housing; create a new section of KRS Chapter 162 to permit school boards or school district finance corporations to use land currently owned or newly leased to provide...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB783 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 167.017 to set timelines for appointment of a search committee for the superintendent of the Kentucky School for the Deaf and appointment of the superintendent; require prioritization of candidates that will be locally available and commit ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB784 | Intro
25% | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 160 to establish definitions; establish a petition process for citizens of a qualifying city to place the question of creating a new independent district and local board of education within the boundaries of the cit...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB96 | Engross
50% | Amend KRS 158.175 to require moments of silence or reflection at the start of each school day and establish guidelines.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | HB685 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB694 | Intro
25% | Direct local school districts to provide a one-time payment of $2,000 to certified employees, excluding superintendents, in each year of the 2024-2026 biennium, and a one-time payment of $1,000 to classified employees in each year of the 2024-2026 bi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB686 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 168.040 to revise the membership requirements of the Kentucky Authority for Educational Television; require members appointed by the Governor be confirmed by the Senate; require the executive director of the authority to recommend a member ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-23
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB7 | Engross
50% | Amend KRS 164.7874 to include an equivalent score on the Classic Learning Test as a KEES supplemental amount; define "eligible noncertified school graduate"; amend definitions of "KEES award," "KEES award maximum," and " KEES base amount" for an elig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Education Committee |
| KY | HB515 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Education Committee |
| KY | HB571 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 156.095 to require the Kentucky Department of Education to create a professional development training schedule for certified personnel; require each local district to implement the schedule; require an additional day to be added to the scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Education Committee |
| KY | SB238 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 158.1415 to remove provisions related to parental rights and courses, curriculums, or programs on human sexuality; provide for a process for parents to opt out of their child receiving instruction on the subject of human sexuality; amend KR...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | HB644 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB683 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to prohibit instruction on social and emotional learning in common schools; prohibit the use of state funding to promote or provide social and emotional learning instruction of training.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB649 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 531 to establish the crime of sexual extortion as a felony; provide for enhancements to penalties; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a civil cause of action for sexual extortion; amend KRS 17.500...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB681 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a nonrefundable tax credit for eligible educator expenses of up to $2,000 for single returns or $4,000 for married educators filing a joint return; amend KRS 141.019, relating to the individual inc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB652 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to prohibit the Kentucky Department of Education from complying with a provision of any administrative regulation or guidance issued by the United States Department of Education concerning Title IX that equates...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB399 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 164.786 to add eligibility for high school freshmen and sophomores, require an "approved dual credit course" to be in the statewide general education core; provide that scholarships shall be awarded in order of application date; revise scho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB464 | Intro
25% | Repeal and reenact KRS 162.060 to establish that local boards of education submit all plans for new public school buildings or additions or alterations of old buildings to the chief state school officer; prohibit the Kentucky Department of Education ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-21
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB213 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 158.141 to require school districts to report civics test data to the Kentucky Department of Education annually; require KDE to publicly post a report on the data.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | SB212 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to prohibit a school district from entering into an agreement with providers of digital instruction services that allows the provider to collect, share, or use data not directly related to the function of the s...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | HB587 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 18A.225, 78.510, 156.095, 158.038, 158.189, 158.196, 158.305, 158.4416, 160.152, 161.164, 161.220, and 218B.045 to remove references to public charter schools; repeal KRS 160.1590, 160.1591, 160.15911, 160.1592, 160.1593, 160.1594, 160.1595...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB584 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-16
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HR72 | Pass | Urge elementary and secondary schools that provide health-related information to parents or legal guardians to include information regarding type 1 diabetes.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SB205 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 161.155 to provide 20 maternity days to district employees who give birth; establish the terms and conditions for use of maternity days.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB567 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 161.030 to remove the authority of the Education Professional Standards Board to require successful completion of assessments prior to certification; amend KRS 156.101, 161.048, and 161.053 to conform; repeal KRS 161.1222, relating to a pil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB568 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 342 to define "educator" and set out when psychological injuries are valid workers' compensation claims for educators when no physical injury exists; amend KRS 342.0011 to clarify definition of "injury" to include ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-15
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SCR142 | Intro
25% | Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Efficient and Effective School District Governance Task Force; outline task force duties; require the task force to submit any recommendations and changes the task force may adopt by Decembe...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Education Committee |
