Education, Elementary And Secondary
Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to bus operation safety. [HB-274]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require the Transportation Cabinet to develop in cooperation with the Department of Education, a risk reduction program for school bus operators; outline requirements of the program; outline school district implementation requirements; require reporting of assaults; create a new section of KRS Chapter 281 to require the Transportation Cabinet to develop a risk reduction program for bus operators; outline requirements; outline implementation requirements; require reporting of assaults; amend KRS 281.990
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Sponsored by: Rep. Jeffery M. Donohue
To Education (h) on 01/21/2020
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AN ACT relating to computer science education. [HB-263]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Education ]
[Data Privacy ]
Amend KRS 158.849 to establish goal of increasing participation in computer science courses by underrepresented groups; require the Department of Education to submit an annual report on public school students participating in computer science courses.
Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick W. Graham
To Education (h) on 01/17/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to children of military families. [HB-266]
[Education ]
[Veterans ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Military ]
Amend KRS 159.075 to include parents or guardians who are transferring to a reserve component or separating from the military under honorable conditions; include a home under contract to be built as a qualifying residence; allow qualifying students to temporarily reside outside of district if the housing is unavailable and be included in the attending district's average daily attendance.
Sponsored by: Rep. Charles W. Miller
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 28) on 03/24/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school councils. [SB-7]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 160.345 to allow a local board to require an annual report of activities from a school council; reduce the minimum number of teachers serving on the council to two; specify that a council decision is appealable to the local board; require the local board of education to adopt a policy allowing the board to initiate review of a school council decision; specify the alignment of council policy with local board policy; allow a teacher to be transferred while serving on the school council; specify that local board members may attend council
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Sponsored by: Sen. Damon Thayer
Returned To Local Government (h) on 03/18/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to religious texts literacy courses in the public schools. [HB-243]
[Education ]
[Religion ]
Amend KRS 156.162 to replace courses on the Hebrew Scriptures, Old Testament of the Bible, or New Testament of the Bible with courses on the various religious texts of the many religions practiced in the Commonwealth; amend KRS 158.197 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. McKenzie Cantrell
To Education (h) on 01/15/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school safety and declaring an emergency. [SB-8]
[Education ]
[Firearms/Gun Control ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Mental Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
amend KRS 158.441 to clarify the definition of "school resource officer"; amend KRS 158.4412 to allow the superintendent to specify any individual to serve as the district's school safety coordinator; amend KRS 158.4414 to clarify which facilities are required to have school resource officers and to require that school resource officers are armed with a firearm; amend KRS 158.4416 to specify that the goal is to have at least one school counselor per public school and to have at least one school counselor or school-based mental health services provider
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Sponsored by: Sen. Damon Thayer
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 5) on 02/21/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT establishing the Kentucky Eating Disorder Council and making an appropriation therefor. [SB-82]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 210 to establish the Kentucky Eating Disorder Council in the Cabinet for Health and Family Services; set forth membership and duties; require a report annually beginning December 1, 2020; sunset the council on December 1, 2030, unless otherwise reestablished by the General Assembly.
Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald A. Neal
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 56) on 03/27/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to child abuse education. [SB-77]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Safety ]
[Crime ]
[Human Services ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 requiring each public school to provide developmentally appropriate instruction on child abuse and child sexual abuse to students in all grades; require the Department of Education to develop child abuse and child sexual abuse instructional resources for use by schools; cite the Act as Jenna Quinn's Law.
Sponsored by: Sen. Julie Adams
To Education (s) on 01/13/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school background checks. [SB-79]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Safety ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Human Services ]
Amend KRS 160.380, relating to the employment of school personnel, to define "administrative findings of child abuse or neglect" to mean a substantiated finding of child abuse or neglect that is upheld on appeal or not appealed; amend the definition of "clear CA/N check" to include administrative findings instead of substantiated findings; remove the requirement that an existing school district employee self-report a substantiated finding of child abuse or neglect to the superintendent.
Sponsored by: Sen. Julie Adams
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 32) on 03/24/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to educational requirements. [HB-220]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 160.1596 to prevent requiring public charter school authorizer to receive training until after receipt of a charter application.
Sponsored by: Rep. Regina Bunch
Received In Senate on 03/19/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to high school programs. [SB-63]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 158.100 to include virtual high school completion programs, give local board authority to establish program, identify the purpose of such programs, outline enrollment eligibility requirements, identify graduation requirements for enrollees of the program, authorize schools to charge students tuition and fees for the program, require that an enrollee in the program be at least 21 years old, establish school requirements for eligibility, and allow a district to choose between requiring completion of graduation requirements at the time of
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Sponsored by: Sen. George Maxwell Wise
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 17) on 03/17/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to arts education. [HB-37]
[Arts and Culture ]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require schools to offer all students instruction in the visual and performing arts, submit an annual report to the Department of Education, and implement school policies regarding visual and performing arts instruction; require the Department of Education to develop visual and performing arts program standards, guidelines on model programs, and strategies and initiatives for meeting the requirements of the section; require the Department of Education to provide resources, assessment tools, and a reporting
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Hart
To Education (s) on 02/18/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to nonteaching time for teachers. [HB-165]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Amend KRS 158.060 to require teachers to be provided a minimum of 120 minutes per week for nonteaching activities; specify types of teacher-directed activities to be completed during nonteaching time.
Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
Introduced In House on 01/07/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school building projects. [HB-151]
[Education ]
[Construction ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Amend KRS 162.070 to increase the minimum amount for advertising and bidding school building projects from $7,500 to $30,000.
Sponsored by: Rep. Myron B. Dossett
Received In Senate on 03/19/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to full-day kindergarten. [HB-41]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 158.060 to remove language that allows for half-day kindergarten programs; amend KRS 157.320, 157.360, and 158.030 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick W. Graham
Introduced In House on 01/07/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public charter schools. [HB-25]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 156.095 and KRS 158.4416 to remove references to public charter schools; repeal KRS 160.1590, 160.1591, 160.1592, 160.1593, 160.1594, 160.1595, 160.1596, 160.1597, 160.1598, 160.1599, and 161.141.
Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick W. Graham
Introduced In House on 01/07/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to historical instruction. [HB-9]
[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 local school boards to adopt curricula for required instruction; require the Department of Education to collaborate with the Kentucky
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Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick W. Graham
Introduced In House on 01/07/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to evidence-based budget allocations by providing for the formation of the Office for Program Evaluation and Quality Assurance within the Office of State Budget Director, the establishment of an evidence-based program inventory, the regular evaluation of state programs, the elimination of ineffective state programs, and the creation of an evaluation officer position within state agencies. [HB-64]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Economic Development ]
Amend KRS 11.068 to abolish the Governor's Office for Policy Research and to create the Governor's Office for Program Evaluation and Quality Assurance within the Office of State Budget Director; create new sections in KRS Chapter 11 to define terms, require an inventory of evidence-based programs, create the evidence building workgroup, require reporting by the program agencies, and lapse state funding for any program if the program agency does not comply with the reporting requirements; amend KRS 48.110 and 48.180 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Maria Sorolis
Introduced In House on 01/07/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to student privacy and declaring a emergency. [HB-132]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Data Privacy ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to ensure that student privacy exists in school restrooms, locker rooms, and showers; require students born male to use only those facilities designated to be used by males and students born female to use only those facilities designated to be used by females; require schools to provide the best available accommodation to students who assert that their gender is different from their biological sex; identify consequences for using facilities designated for the opposite biological sex; identify the Act as the
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
Posted In Committee on 02/21/2020
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Kentucky 2020 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to high school graduation requirements. [HB-87]
[Education ]
[Student Loans ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require completion of the Free Application for Federal Student Aid form as a high school graduation requirement; provide waiver options for meeting the requirement; require local boards of education to develop policies and procedures to assist students in completing the requirement.
Sponsored by: Rep. Regina Bunch
To Education (s) on 03/19/2020