Education, Elementary And Secondary
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to state benefits for veterans. [HB-565]
[Veterans ]
[Human Rights ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
Amend KRS 12.245, 12.354, 14A.1-070, 16.040, 40.010, 40.310, 40.650, 42.0146, 148.0211, 158.105, 158.140, 161.048, 164.512, 164.515, 186.041, 186.163, and 186.416 to make certain LGBTQ and qualifying veterans, as defined, eligible for state veterans' benefits.
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AN ACT relating to educational cooperatives. [HB-584]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 160.290 to provide that an interlocal cooperative board is an extension school district and all statutes and administrative regulations that apply to school districts extend to interlocal cooperative boards; amend KRS 156.070 to provide that the Kentucky Board of Education has the management and control of interlocal cooperative boards and that the board shall manage interlocal cooperative boards in the same manner and method as the board manages school districts; amend KRS 156.010 to provide that the commissioner of education is responsible
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to vaccines. [SB-177]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to prohibit a requirement for any individual to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, modified ribonucleic acid (modRNA) vaccine, or messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine for the purposes of student enrollment, employment, or medical treatment in the Commonwealth; prohibit any COVID-19 vaccine, modified ribonucleic acid (modRNA) vaccine, or messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine to be administered in the Commonwealth to a minor child under the age of 18 years; sunset the provisions that relate to a minor child
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to children. [SB-181]
[Children and Youth ]
[Education ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Crime ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to define terms; direct each local board of education to designate one or more programs or applications as a traceable communication system that shall be the exclusive means for school district employees and volunteers to communicate electronically with students; provide that a parent may submit written consent for a designated school district employee or volunteer to communicate electronically with a student outside of the traceable communication system; exclude communications between a parent that is a school
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education. [SB-157]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education. [HB-509]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to support systems for English language learners in common schools. [HB-494]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; establish the English learner enhanced support program under the Department of Education to help bring English learners with little or no formal education to grade-level proficiency within three years; require the department to set standards for program, contract with a provider meeting certain standards and with record of success with qualified English learners, identify eligible districts or schools, offer the program to as many students as funds permit, and report to the Legislative Research
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency. [SB-165]
[Education ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Funding ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; prohibit a school district, public school, or cooperative board from providing differential treatment or benefits on the basis of an individual's religion, race, sex, color, or national origin; prohibit the Kentucky Department of Education, a school district, a public school, or a cooperative board from expending any resources on diversity, equity, and inclusion; prohibit the department, a school district, a public school, or a cooperative board from soliciting statements on an applicant's
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education. [SB-159]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION recognizing February 14, 2025 as Making Our Schools Safe (MOSS) Day in the Commonwealth of Kentucky. [HR-26]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
Recognize February 14, 2025, as Making Our Schools Safe (MOSS) Day.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to reading and language arts instruction. [HB-528]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; require the Kentucky Department of Education to establish an approved list of reading curriculum that does not use a three-cueing system; prohibit school districts from using any curriculum that employs a three-cueing system; prohibit the use of a three-cueing system in teacher professional development; require the Educational Professional Standards Board to promulgate administrative regulations establishing curriculum for each approved educator preparation program; amend KRS 164.306 to specify
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Kentucky School for the Deaf Governance Task Force. [HCR-28]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Establish the Kentucky School for the Deaf Governance Task Force; establish duties and membership; direct the task force to study optimal governance models for the Kentucky School for the Deaf, including by a possible independent board of education.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to children and declaring an emergency. [HB-513]
[Children and Youth ]
[Education ]
[Healthcare ]
[Mental Health ]
[Public Health ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
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 KRS 158.191 to remove provisions requiring a school obtain parental consent prior to providing health services or mental health services to students; remove language concerning policies to encourage or facilitate conversations between parents and students; remove language limiting Kentucky Board of Education
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prohibited uses of state tax dollars. [HB-492]
[Immigration ]
[Taxes ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[National Security ]
[Public Safety ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 48 to define "illegal alien"; prohibit state tax dollars appropriated by the General Assembly from being used to compensate an illegal alien; direct the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security to assist in the implementation and enforcement of the Act.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education. [HB-526]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to full-day kindergarten. [HB-530]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 158.060 to remove language that allows for half-day kindergarten programs; amend KRS 157.320 and 157.360 to remove references to kindergarten full-time equivalent pupils in average daily attendance for program base funding purposes; amend KRS 158.030 to conform; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2026.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to service credit for the Teachers' Retirement System and declaring an emergency. [HB-507]
[Education ]
[Religion ]
[Retirement ]
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.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the governance of the Kentucky School for the Deaf. [HB-532]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Disabilities ]
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 to full-time duties as superintendent; preclude Department of Education employees or Board of Education members from being appointed as superintendent within one year of employment or membership.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION honoring Dr. Nick Carter for being named the 2025 Kentucky Superintendent of the Year. [SR-57]
[Education ]
Honor 2025 Kentucky Superintendent of the Year, Dr. Nick Carter.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education. [SB-158]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.