Education, Elementary And Secondary
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sex-based classifications. [SB-116]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Human Rights ]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 61 to define "boy," "equal," "female," "girl," "male," "man," "sex," and "woman"; prohibit any state or local law, regulation, ordinance, or policy from treating males or females unfairly from similiarly situated members of the opposite sex, but permit separation of the sexes if in the interest of maintaining safety, privacy, and fairness; provide a non-exhaustive list of examples of areas in which public entities may distinguish between the sexes; require any public school, public school district, state agency,
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Sponsored by: Sen. Robert M. Mills
To Education (s) on 02/11/2025
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AN ACT relating to child sexual abuse instruction. [HB-382]
[Children and Youth ]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
[Human Services ]
[Crime ]
[Criminal Justice ]
Amend KRS 158.1415 to exclude age-appropriate child sexual abuse instruction from the prohibition of human sexuality instruction for students in the fifth grade or lower.
Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to human growth and development instruction. [HB-397]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Public Health ]
[Healthcare ]
Amend KRS 158.1415 to require a school district to adopt health curricula that includes human growth and development instruction that meets specific criteria; set restrictions for the instruction that grants parents an opportunity to review materials and opt their child out of instruction; provide that the Act may be cited as the Baby Olivia Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. DJ Johnson
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public notices. [HB-386]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Public Safety ]
Amend KRS 424.260 to make a technical correction and to increase the expenditure threshold for the advertising requirement from $40,000 to $60,000; exempt vehicles and installed vehicle equipment from the bidding requirement; allow an alternative publication procedure for the advertisement; amend KRS 424.145 to remove the population restriction and allow any city, special district, school district, or special purpose governmental entity to use the alternative publication procedures.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jennifer Henson Decker
To Local Government (h) on 02/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school district use of autonomous vehicles. [HB-379]
[Education ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 186.763 to prohibit school districts from operating fully autonomous vehicles for transporting students.
Sponsored by: Rep. Lindsey Burke
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to intranasal epinephrine. [HB-384]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Pharmaceuticals ]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 158.832 to include intranasal epinephrine to list of medications used to treat anaphylaxis; amend KRS 158.836 to include intranasal epinephrine as permissible for schools to keep.
Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
To Health Services (h) on 02/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public contracts. [HB-345]
[Construction ]
[Manufacturing ]
[Trade ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Economic Development ]
Create new sections of KRS Chapters 45A, 56, and 65 to require that state and local contracts contain a provision that any iron, steel, aluminum, or manufactured goods used in all state and local projects be manufactured in the United States unless a waiver is granted; amend KRS Chapters 45A.343, 45A.352, 65.027, 162.070, 164A.575, 176.070, 176.080, and 424.260 to conform; provide that Sections 1 to 3 of the Act may be cited as the Kentucky Buy American Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. John C. Blanton
To State Government (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to educators. [HB-324]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 160.160 to authorize a local board of education to establish minimum score requirements for certified positions within the district on specific assessments related to content knowledge, competency in educational practices, or both; require the district include minimum score information in any posts or notices for a related certified vacancy; amend KRS 161.030 to remove successful completion of assessments prior to receiving a teacher certification; amend KRS 161.048, 161.010, and 161.053 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Walker Wood Thomas
3rd Reading, Passed 85-6 on 03/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to open meetings. [HB-318]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
Amend KRS 61.848 to establish that any formal action of a public agency is voidable by a court if there was not substantial compliance with statutes regarding video teleconferencing of meetings, recording of minutes, and conditions for attendance.
Sponsored by: Rep. T.J. Roberts
To State Government (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION expressing Kentucky's support for the Crisis Recovery Support Network coordinated by the Southern Regional Education Board, expressing support for Kentucky's participation in the network, and recognizing the network as a trusted support for Kentucky schools, districts, and postsecondary institutions to know they may call upon if the need arises. [SCR-43]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Community Development ]
[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Mental Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Express support for the Southern Regional Education Board's Crisis Recovery Support Network.
Sponsored by: Sen. Steve West
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 30) on 03/18/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION honoring the Louisville Academy of Music for winning the Governor's Award in the Arts for Education. [SR-42]
[Arts and Culture ]
[Education ]
Honor the Louisville Academy of Music for winning the Governor's Award in the Arts for Education.
Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Berg
Adopted By Voice Vote on 02/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to financial literacy. [HB-342]
[Education ]
[Consumer Protection ]
[Finance ]
[Budget and Spending ]
Amend KRS 158.1411 to require one credit in financial literacy during the eleventh or twelfth grade for students entering grade nine during or after the 2026-2027 school year; direct minimum topics to be covered in the course; direct that the financial literacy course be accepted as a math, social studies, or elective course graduation requirement; require the Department of Education, in collaboration with the Kentucky Financial Empowerment Commission, to determine which courses meet the financial literacy course requirement.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Lee Meredith
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 58) on 03/24/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Urban Youth Agriculture Initiative. [HB-356]
[Agriculture ]
[Education ]
[Community Development ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 247 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Urban Farming Youth Initiative to promote farming to youth in urban counties in at least one urban University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service office beginning August 1, 2025, and others by August 1, 2026; set each program term to one year in duration beginning in January; establish guidelines for participant eligibility.
Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
To Agriculture (s) on 03/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to publication. [HB-368]
Amend KRS 424.145 to remove the population restriction and make the alternative publication procedure available to all local governments as defined; stipulate that the local government must submit the advertisement to the newspaper in a timely manner for publication within the prescribed limits; make technical corrections.
Sponsored by: Rep. DJ Johnson
Received In Senate on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to background checks. [HB-340]
[Crime ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[National Security ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 17 to define terms and require criminal justice agencies to provide criminal history records information to requesting agencies when they are conducting a basic suitability or fitness assessment for federal or contractor employees under 5 U.S.C. sec. 9101; authorize the agency to request a fee of $25 for reimbursement of expenses related to the check; amend KRS 610.340, relating to juvenile justice records, to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Grossberg
Reported Favorably, To Rules on 03/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to interscholastic athletics. [HB-292]
[Education ]
[Sports ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 156.070 to establish an interscholastic varsity athletics eligibility rule for transfers between member schools.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nicolas Wilson
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school curriculum. [HB-294]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define "Success Sequence"; require all students to receive instruction on the Success Sequence during grades 7 and 10 beginning with the 2026-2027 school year; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to establish academic standards for instruction on the Success Sequence; require the Department of Education to develop guidelines for implementing Success Sequence instruction; permit superintendents to partner with Kentucky-based nonprofits to develop required curriculum.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Michael Nemes
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to menstrual discharge collection devices and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-231]
[Education ]
[Healthcare ]
[Taxes ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Funding ]
[Public Health ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require each public school that includes any of grades six through 12 to provide free menstrual discharge collection devices to students; require each local board of education to adopt policies for the distribution of free menstrual discharge collection devices; define "menstrual discharge collection devices"; amend KRS 139.010 to define "menstrual discharge collection devices"; amend KRS 139.480 to exempt from sales and use tax the sale or purchase of menstrual discharge collection devices; APPROPRIATION;
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Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school district employees and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-271]
[Education ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Appropriate necessary funds for local school districts to provide a five percent salary increase to eligible employees in fiscal year 2025-2026; APPROPRIATION.
Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency. [HB-241]
[Education ]
[Disaster Relief ]
Allow local school districts to make up days missed by adding instructional time to student attendance days; notwithstand the requirement for the student instructional year to have 170 student attendance days; allow waiver of up to five student attendance days if a school district is unable to provide the required 1,062 hours of instruction by June 4, 2025; require local boards of education seeking to revise its calendar to submit a plan for approval to the Department of Education; allow instructional time made up and days waived to count as employee
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Sponsored by: Rep. John C. Blanton
Became Law Without Governor's Signature (acts Ch. 94) on 03/27/2025