Education, Elementary And Secondary
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prohibited uses of state tax dollars. [SB-151]
[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.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert M. Mills
Received In House on 03/04/2025
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AN ACT relating to English language learners. [SB-142]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 157.360 to require that English language learners receive an additional factor of 0.24 in a school districts average daily attendance for the program to support education excellence in Kentucky, beginning with the 2026-2027 school year; amend KRS 160.1596 to conform.
Sponsored by: Sen. David P. Givens
To Education (s) on 02/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school construction. [HB-433]
[Construction ]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 158.447 to require local school boards to consult with the Center for School Safety when constructing or renovating school buildings.
Sponsored by: Rep. Deanna L. Frazier Gordon
To Education (s) on 03/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to teachers. [HB-435]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Amend KRS 158.060 to require teachers to be compensated for noninstructional planning time within their school day during which they are required to supervise or instruct students.
Sponsored by: Rep. Tina Bojanowski
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to workers' compensation for educators. [HB-467]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Workers' Compensation ]
[Education ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 342, relating to workers' compensation, to define "educator;" set out when psychological injuries are valid workers' compensation claims for educators when no physical injury exists; amend KRS 342.0011 to modify definition of "injury" to include certain psychological injuries experienced by educators.
Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
To Economic Development & Workforce Investment (h) on 02/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to chaplains in schools. [HB-454]
[Education ]
[Religion ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 161 to require school districts and public charter schools to employ a chaplain or accept a chaplain as a volunteer; set eligibility for employed and volunteer chaplains; require that employed and volunteer chaplains submit background checks; amend KRS 160.380 to include a volunteer chaplain as an adult who is required to have a background check; provide that the Act may be cited as the Teachers and School Chaplains Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. Billy Wesley
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to preschool and kindergarten education. [HB-460]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 157.3175 to require school districts provide a full-day preschool education program for eligible three and four-year-olds; establish eligibility for the program; require that preschool for three year old children continue to be funded through a grant process and preschool programs for four-year-old children be funded under KRS 157.310 to 157.440; require preschool programs to operate on the school district calendar; require transportation be provided; amend KRS 158.031 to include preschool education programs for four-year-old children
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Sponsored by: Rep. Pamela D. Stevenson
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school nutrition. [HB-439]
[Education ]
[Food ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 158.850 to define terms; ban schools from selling or providing ultra-processed foods during the school day.
Sponsored by: Rep. Steven Doan
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the display of child labor laws in public schools. [HB-457]
[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; require the information to be posted on the school's website.
Sponsored by: Rep. Chris Freeland
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to students. [HB-440]
[Education ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Disabilities ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 159 to allow the enrollment of a child on a part-time basis in a school district; establish conditions for the part-time enrollment; amend KRS 158.120 to prohibit a district's nonresident pupil policy from discriminating against any pupil on the basis of residential address, abilities, disability, race, ethnicity, sex, or socioeconomic status; require the policy be posted on the district website; prohibit charging tuition to any child; require a board of education to establish policies for a calculation to determine
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Sponsored by: Rep. Steven Doan
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to transportation network company services. [HB-438]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 281 to establish procedures and requirements for providers of youth transportation network company services to children under the age of 14; allow school districts to contract with providers of youth transportation network company services for pupil transportation, subject to approval by the student's parent or legal guardian; amend KRS 281.010 to define "youth transportation network company services" or "youth TNC services."
Sponsored by: Rep. Susan Tyler Witten
To Transportation (h) on 02/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to reemployment after retirement in the Teachers' Retirement System. [HB-441]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Pensions ]
[Retirement ]
Amend KRS 161.605, relating to the Teachers' Retirement System, to remove language requiring superintendents to make every reasonable effort to hire qualified applicants for teaching and nonteaching positions, increase the percentage of retired members that an employer can employ full-time from three percent to 10 percent, increase the number of retired members that a local school district may employ under the critical shortage provision from one percent of total active members employed by the school district or two members to 10 percent or four
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Sponsored by: Rep. James A. Tipton
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 144) on 04/01/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to teacher professional development. [HB-448]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Amend KRS 158.070 to provide that certified school personnel shall be compensated for professional development activities required outside of the days scheduled in the school calendar or regularly scheduled hours in the school work day.
Sponsored by: Rep. Chad Aull
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school transportation and declaring an emergency. [HB-430]
[Education ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 189.540 to authorize the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to require regular instruction of pupils in school bus safety; allow a school district to obtain an exemption from any school bus safety instruction requirement if the district transports 48 or fewer pupils in the district's gross average daily attendance of transported pupils; require exempted districts to develop and implement a school bus safety instruction policy.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Banta
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 151) on 04/01/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education. [SB-120]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Sports ]
Amend KRS 156.070 to require child dependency, neglect, and abuse information to be included in any interscholastic athletics participation consent form; require any training for interscholastic athletics administrators and coaches to include information about mandatory reporting duties for child dependency, neglect, and abuse.
Sponsored by: Sen. Steve West
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 73) on 03/24/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to retiree health provisions of the County Employees Retirement System. [SB-10]
[Healthcare ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Pensions ]
[Retirement ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Insurance ]
Amend KRS 78.5536, relating to the County Employees Retirement System, to increase the nonhazardous and hazardous duty under age 65 retiree health subsidy to $40 and $50 per month for each year of service, respectively, for those members who meet the "career threshold" who began participating in the system on or after July 1, 2003, and who are eligible for a fixed-dollar retiree health subsidy not tied to the premium; extend the employee contribution used to fund retiree health benefits to include members who began participating in the system on
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Sponsored by: Sen. Robert M. Mills
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 37) on 03/19/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school governance. [SB-131]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 160.350 to require a majority vote instead of a four-fifths vote of board members to remove the superintendent; delete requirements for approval from the commissioner of education to remove a superintendent; amend KRS 160.180 to remove the relative employee eligibility requirement for candidates for the local board of education; require a local board member obtain at least one hour of open records and open meetings training per term; amend KRS 160.160 to establish a one-year term for chair and vice chair of the local board of education;
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Sponsored by: Sen. Lindsey Tichenor
To Education (s) on 02/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education. [HB-404]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
Sponsored by: Rep. James A. Tipton
To Postsecondary Education (h) on 02/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school safety. [HB-14]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to allow school districts to implement a wearable panic alert system; establish system criteria; require the Department of Education to provide a list of approved wearable panic alert systems; require the Center for School Safety to establish the Wearable Panic Alert Grant Program; amend KRS 158.446 to allow the Center for School Safety to distribute wearable panic alert grants using funds appropriated in the biennial budget to support school safety.
Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
Received In Senate on 03/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to human sexuality instruction in public schools. [HB-380]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Health ]
Amend KRS 158.1415 to exclude puberty instruction from the prohibition of human sexuality instruction for students in the fifth grade and below; make human sexuality instruction opt-out for parents instead of opt-in.
Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/12/2025