Education, Elementary And Secondary
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency. [HB-653]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Libraries ]
Amend KRS 158.192 to change the definition of "harmful to minors" and define terms; deem material, performances, events, or programs that are obscene, harmful to minors, or contain obscene imagery representing minors as educationally unsuitable and not age appropriate; require principals to remove student access to materials, programs, or events deemed educationally unsuitable or not age appropriate; modify complaint and appeals timelines; require that principal or local board of education report that a material, program, or event was educationally
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Sponsored by: Rep. Josh Calloway
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/26/2025
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AN ACT relating to moral instruction. [HB-607]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Funding ]
[Public Safety ]
Amend KRS 158.200 to detail process by which local boards of education may permit pupils to attend moral instruction; permit individuals or groups offering moral instruction to submit a request to a board and set requirements to be included in request; require superintendents to submit individuals providing transportation or moral instruction for criminal history and CA/N background checks; provide that students attending moral instruction are counted in average daily attendance for SEEK funding; repeal KRS 158.210, 158.220, 158.230, 158.240, 158.250,
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Sponsored by: Rep. DJ Johnson
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to student attendance days and declaring an emergency. [HB-669]
[Education ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Establish a waiver process and eligibility requirements for school districts to be granted credit for student attendance days missed during September 2024 due to dangers posed by criminal activity; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Tom Odell Smith
3rd Reading, Passed 85-9 on 03/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to autonomous vehicles. [SB-241]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Insurance ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
Amend KRS 186.763 to extend the requirement for a human driver on a fully autonomous commercial vehicle in excess of 62,000 pounds from July 31, 2026 to July 31, 2031; prohibit school districts from using fully autonomous vehicles as school buses or to transport students; amend KRS 186.779 to allow units of local government to impose conditions on autonomous vehicle operation within their jurisdictions; amend KRS 186.766 and 281.655 to increase all insurance minimum requirement amounts from $1 million to $5 million for both personal and commercial
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Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
Introduced In Senate on 02/18/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to virtual education. [SB-268]
[Education ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
Prohibit the commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Education, the Kentucky Board of Education, and the Kentucky Department of Education from establishing or implementing, or requiring a school district to implement, any cap, limitation, or restriction on enrollment for a virtual program; prohibit the Kentucky Department of Education and the Kentucky Board of Education from reducing or withholding any funds due to a school district from the fund to Support Education Excellence in Kentucky based on the district's operation of a virtual program;
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Sponsored by: Sen. Robert M. Mills
Passed Over And Retained In The Orders Of The Day on 03/05/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education. [HB-619]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
Sponsored by: Rep. James A. Tipton
To Postsecondary Education (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to immunization policy. [HB-647]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Religion ]
[Data Privacy ]
Create a new of section KRS Chapter 164 to allow a student, staff, or faculty member to opt out of a postsecondary school's immunization policy for specified reasons; create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to prohibit a public entity from creating standardized documentation with the purpose of certifying vaccination status; create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to require written notice of vaccination exemptions for a sincerely held religious belief or medical contraindication; establish which health care providers can support a medical exemption;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
To Health Services (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Support Education Excellence in Kentucky Program, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-600]
[Education ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
Appropriate $26,000,000 in General Fund in fiscal year 2024-2025 to the Support Education Excellence in Kentucky (SEEK) budget unit from the Budget Reserve Trust Fund Account; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Adrielle Camuel
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the transportation of students and declaring an emergency. [HB-661]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 189.540 to authorize the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to govern the operation of passenger vehicles used to transport students that are owned, leased, or privately contracted by school districts; provide that operators of a passenger vehicle that is owned, leased, or privately contracted by the district to transport students shall possess a valid Class D operator's license; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. James A. Tipton
Received In Senate on 03/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education. [HB-636]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
Sponsored by: Rep. Scott Lewis
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Support Education Excellence in Kentucky Program. [SB-6]
[Education ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
Amend KRS 157.320 to include costs paid on behalf of districts in the definition of "Support Education Excellence in Kentucky"; define "distributable cost" and "on-behalf cost"; amend KRS 157.330 to include appropriations of on-behalf costs in the fund to support education excellence in Kentucky; amend KRS 157.360 to provide for the calculation of total cost of the program to support education excellence in Kentucky to include on-behalf costs and distributable costs; provide for the calculation; provide for the determination of on-behalf costs;
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Sponsored by: Sen. David P. Givens
Floor Amendment (1) Filed To Committee Substitute on 03/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to interscholastic athletics. [SB-224]
[Education ]
[Sports ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 160.445 to require the Kentucky Board of Education or an agency designated to manage interscholastic athletics to include psychological concerns in the student athlete in sports safety courses for coaches.
Sponsored by: Sen. Keturah Herron
To Education (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education. [HB-637]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
Sponsored by: Rep. Scott Lewis
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to health care. [HB-688]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Education ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Disabilities ]
[Crime ]
Amend KRS 314.041, relating to registered nurse licensure, and KRS 314.051, relating to licensed practical nurse licensure, to permit rather than require the board to issue credentials; amend KRS 314.042 to require physicians collaborating with an advanced practice registered nurse to have an active and unrestricted license in Kentucky; amend KRS 314.109 to reduce the time from 90 to 30 days for a person under the jurisdiction of the board to notify the board of a conviction of certain misdemeanors or felonies; amend KRS 209.032, relating to employees
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Poore Moser
2nd Reading, To Rules on 03/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A JOINT RESOLUTION directing a report on the transfer processes in interscholastic athletics. [HJR-49]
[Education ]
[Sports ]
[Children and Youth ]
Direct the Kentucky High School Athletic Association to submit a report to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2025, concerning student-athlete transfers and eligibility and making recommendations to improve the process.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Pollock
3rd Reading, Adopted 92-0 on 03/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to elections. [HB-684]
[Elections ]
[Education ]
[Voting Rights ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
Amend KRS 117.045 to allow a lesser number of precinct officers when the State Board of Elections has approved a county board of elections' precinct consolidation plan; amend KRS 117.065 to require the county board of elections to notify local boards of education of its intent to use school buildings as voting places by December 1 of each year; require the county board of elections to specify which school buildings will be used; amend KRS 117.066 to conform; allow a county board of elections to request an amendment to its previously submitted precinct
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jennifer Henson Decker
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 125) on 03/28/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education. [SB-173]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
Sponsored by: Sen. Mike Wilson
To Education (s) on 02/19/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public charter schools. [HB-541]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 18A.225, 78.510, 156.095, 157.063 158.038, 158.189, 158.196, 158.305, 158.4416, 158.4433, 158.8402, 158.843, 160.152, 160.153, 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, 160.1596, 160.1597, 160.1598, 160.1599, and 161.141 relating to public charter schools.
Sponsored by: Rep. Adrielle Camuel
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/25/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education funding integrity. [HB-554]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to define "foreign source"; preclude common schools from receiving funds from the Chinese government, Chinese Communist Party, or agents thereof; require reporting of foreign source funding in common schools; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to define "foreign source"; preclude public postsecondary education institutions schools from receiving funds from the Chinese government, Chinese Communist Party, or agents thereof; require reporting of foreign source funding in public postsecondary education institutions.
Sponsored by: Rep. Steven Doan
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/25/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to student health and safety. [HB-589]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Crime ]
Amend KRS 158.162 to define "critical incident," require investigations in emergency plans for critical incidents, and state the goals of the investigations; amend KRS 158.4410 to task the state school security marshal with investigating serious physical injury or death incidents that occur on school property, at school-sanctioned events, or during interscholastic athletic events; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to outline the parameters of the investigation, require referral of potential criminal charges, and require necessary administrative
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Poore Moser
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/25/2025