Education, Elementary And Secondary
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to discriminatory practices against a person. [HB-125]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 344.010 to provide definitions of "protective hairstyle" and "race" that include traits historically associated with race; amend KRS 158.148 to provide that school disciplinary codes shall prohibit discrimination on the basis of race; provide that the Act may be cited as the C.R.O.W.N. Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (h) on 02/04/2025
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AN ACT relating to historical instruction. [HB-119]
[Education ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Native American Affairs ]
[Arts and Culture ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require African history instruction in certain middle and high school world history and civilization courses; require Native American history instruction in certain middle and high school United States history courses; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations establishing academic standards for the required historical instructions; require superintendents to adopt curricula for required instruction; require the Department of Education to collaborate with the Kentucky
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Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Ten Commandments in public schools. [HB-116]
[Education ]
[Religion ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 158.195 to allow the reading or posting of the Ten Commandments in a public school building, classroom, or event.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Poore Moser
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to choking prevention in schools. [HB-44]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define "anti-choking device"; require school cafeteria personnel and other expected users of the device to be trained if a school obtains an anti-choking device; provide immunity from civil liability for rendering emergency care or treatment with an anti-choking device or the Heimlich maneuver at a public or private school; provide that the Act may be cited as Landon's Law.
Sponsored by: Rep. Lisa Willner
To Education (s) on 02/18/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to misconduct in schools and school-sponsored activities. [HB-36]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Crime ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to prohibit a public school district or public charter school from entering into a nondisclosure agreement relating to misconduct involving a minor or student; amend KRS 160.380 to define "abusive conduct"; require school district applicants to disclose being the subject of any investigations or disciplinary actions in the previous 12 months relating to abusive conduct and consent to a reference check; require school districts to conduct reference checks; require nonpublic schools and public school districts
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Sponsored by: Rep. James A. Tipton
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Kentucky educational excellence scholarships. [SB-45]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Amend KRS 164.7879 to increase the Kentucky educational excellence scholarship base amount for each eligible grade point average; increase the supplemental award amounts; require a supplemental award for eligible Cambridge Advanced International scores; amend KRS 164.7882 to increase the award amount for an eligible student enrolled in a comprehensive transition and postsecondary program; amend KRS 164.7874, 164.7881, 164.7884, and 164.7885 to conform; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To Education (s) on 01/09/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to moments of silence and reflection. [HB-25]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Religion ]
Amend KRS 158.175 to require moments of silence or reflection at the start of each school day and establish guidelines.
Sponsored by: Rep. Richard White
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to permitted uses of time during the school day. [SB-19]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Religion ]
Amend KRS 158.175 to require moments of silence or reflection at the start of each school day and establish guidelines.
Sponsored by: Sen. Rick Girdler
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 111) on 03/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education. [HB-91]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 161.030 to specify authority of the Education Professional Standards Board over educators hired by public schools only; amend KRS 199.894 to define "learning pod" and exclude them from the definition of "child-care center" and "family child-care home"; amend KRS 194A.381 to exclude learning pods from certain youth camp requirements.
Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school meals at low-income schools. [SB-48]
[Agriculture ]
[Education ]
[Food ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Children and Youth ]
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 every meal reimbursed by the community eligibility provision at the paid rate; require a school district that receives a reimbursement to develop and implement a Kentucky Proud school plan to identify and purchase available Kentucky-grown agricultural products and to optimize food usage; direct the Kentucky
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Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 01/09/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education. [HB-48]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 156.557 to increase the time period between mandatory summative evaluations for tenured certified school staff from once every three years to once every five years; provide that additional summative evaluations may be performed at the discretion of the individual's immediate supervisor but shall not be imposed as a uniform requirement across the system; amend KRS 158.060 to provide teachers access to their employment contract upon request; amend KRS 156.095 to require the Department of Education to create and local school districts to
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Sponsored by: Rep. DJ Johnson
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 145) on 04/01/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to undesignated glucagon. [HB-75]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Safety ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 217 to define terms; permit health care practitioners to prescribe and dispense undesignated glucagon in the name of a school or to a trained individual; permit trained individuals to receive, possess, and administer undesignated glucagon during diabetic medical emergencies; permit schools to stock undesignated glucagon; provide for immunity from civil liability for any personal injury resulting from good faith actions to use undesignated glucagon to treat diabetic medical emergencies.
Sponsored by: Rep. Adrielle Camuel
To Health Services (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the display of the Ten Commandments in schools. [HB-65]
[Education ]
[Religion ]
[Children and Youth ]
Repeal and reenact KRS 158.178, relating to the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Poore Moser
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to student journalist freedom. [SB-40]
[Education ]
[Media and Advertising ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to state legislative findings; define terms; establish additional free speech protections for student journalists; place limitations on additional protections; establish protections for student media advisors; require each local school board to adopt a written policy for time, place, and manner restrictions and for an appeals procedure; provide that student speech not be considered school speech; allow that a student journalist or student media advisor to seek injunctive relief; provide that the Act may be
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Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald A. Neal
To Education (s) on 01/09/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school bus safety. [SB-38]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Education ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Crime ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; allow the use of camera monitoring systems on school buses operated by a school district, and allow the enforcement of a civil penalty for stop arm camera violations recorded by a camera monitoring system; set the amount of the civil penalty; provide that the revenue generated from a civil penalty shall be retained by the school district; allow a law enforcement agency to charge a fee of $25 from every civil penalty enforced by the law enforcement agency; require specific notice for a stop
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Sponsored by: Sen. Donald Douglas
Passed Over And Retained In The Orders Of The Day on 03/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to bus safety. [SB-31]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 156.153 to define "danger zone"; direct the Department of Education to consider requiring the installation of school bus sensors and interior cameras on new school buses purchased on or after July 1, 2026; direct the department to promulgate administrative regulations; require the department to submit a report on the availability and effectiveness of school bus sensors to the Legislative Research Commission by June 30, 2026; amend KRS 156.990, 160.380, and 189.540 to conform; amend KRS 281.635 to encourage cities to install safety sensors
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Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To Transportation (s) on 01/09/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION encouraging Kentucky schools to acquire anti-choking devices. [HR-6]
[Public Health ]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Safety ]
Encourage Kentucky schools to acquire anti-choking devices.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Banta
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sex offenders. [HB-50]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Amend KRS 17.545 to prohibit a registrant from residing within 3,000 feet of a high school, middle school, elementary school, preschool, publicly owned or leased playground, or licensed daycare facility; provide that the 3,000 feet restriction applies to any person who becomes a registrant after the effective date of the Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Poore Moser
To Judiciary (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to providing free feminine hygiene products for elementary and secondary students. [HB-74]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Health ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define "feminine hygiene product"; require each public school that includes any of grades four through 12 to provide free feminine hygiene products to female students; require each local board of education to adopt policies for the distribution of free feminine hygiene products.
Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the display of child labor laws in public schools. [SB-52]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 158.195 to require each public school with students in grades six through 12 to display a printed abstract of certain child labor laws, including limited and prohibited occupations and work hour restrictions for minors.
Sponsored by: Sen. Casey Chambers Armstrong
Withdrawn on 02/07/2025