Education, Elementary And Secondary
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to children. [SB-90]
[Children and Youth ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Mental Health ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Education ]
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 language limiting Kentucky Board of Education or Department of Education policies regarding student confidential information and the use of pronouns; require a local school district to use pronouns for students upon a request from a parent along with a note from a medical provider
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Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Berg
To Education (s) on 02/06/2025
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AN ACT relating to school districts. [HB-297]
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Amend KRS 160.041 to provide a merger process for any contiguous school districts; require the Kentucky Board of Education to determine the terms of merger for an insolvent district if no agreement between the school districts can be reached, and to promulgate administrative regulations regarding mergers due to insolvency.
Sponsored by: Rep. James A. Tipton
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT providing maternity leave for public school employees. [HB-259]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
[Family-Related Legislation ]
[Education ]
[Healthcare ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 161.155 to provide 20 maternity days to district employees who give birth; establish the terms and conditions for use of maternity days.
Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public school restroom facilities. [HB-270]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 162 to define "single-user toilet facility"; require the chief state school officer not approve plans for specific new school buildings or alterations to school buildings unless the plans provide sufficient single-user toilet facilities, with a minimum requirement of one; require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations regarding the required number of single-user toilet facilities in school buildings; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require a school where more that 25
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Sponsored by: Rep. Beverly Chester-Burton
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to preschool and kindergarten education. [HB-300]
[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. George A. Brown
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school bus stops. [HB-258]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 189 to define "bus stop camera system," "school bus stop," and "qualifying school district"; require the installation of video cameras at each school bus stop in a qualifying school district; require the unit of government responsible for maintaining the road where the bus stop is located to install the cameras and retain the video images; specify the allowable uses of the video images and provide for retention timeframes; require school districts to notify the Transpiration Cabinet and all local governments that
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Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
To Transportation (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to KEES scholarships for students attending noncertified schools. [HB-249]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
Amend KRS 164.7874, relating to KEES awards, to define terms; amend KRS 164.7879 to establish the use of a specified equivalent grade point average for eligible graduates of certain private, parochial, or church schools based on the Advanced Placement exam score, dual credit courses grade point average, or a combination of both; amend KRS 164.7881 and 164.7884 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. James A. Tipton
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to social studies curriculum. [HB-268]
[Education ]
[Race and Civil Rights ]
[Human Rights ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 158.196 to require social studies instruction, materials, and academic standards to include the roles and contributions of indigenous peoples, people of color, and people from other marginalized or non-European groups, as well as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in the history of the United States and the Commonwealth.
Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to teacher professional development. [HB-230]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Amend KRS 156.095 to require the Kentucky Department of Education to create a professional development training schedule for certified personnel; require each local district to implement the schedule; require an additional day to be added to the school calendar if required training cannot be completed in a single calendar day; require school districts to submit a report to the department on the status of professional development training.
Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to schools identified for comprehensive support and improvement in schools. [HB-298]
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Amend KRS 160.346 to require the Kentucky Department of Education to annually identify schools for comprehensive support and improvement (CSI); require the audit of a CSI school to include an assessment and recommendation regarding the principal's capacity to lead the turnaround effort; remove the required use of a turnaround vendor by a CSI school; require the department to establish professional learning for teachers in a CSI school; require the superintendent of the district in which the CSI school is located to adopt evidence-based curriculum
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Sponsored by: Rep. Ken Fleming
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 92) on 03/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to high school graduation requirements. [HB-239]
[Education ]
[Healthcare ]
[Public Health ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 156.160 to require any course meeting the health requirement for high school graduation to include information on the organ donation program.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nancy J. Tate
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to autonomous vehicles. [HB-252]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Education ]
[Public Safety ]
Amend KRS 186.763 to prohibit school districts from operating fully autonomous vehicles for transporting students; prohibit the operation of fully autonomous vehicles if that vehicle requires an operator with a commercial driver's license; amend KRS 281.764 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to primary school. [HB-240]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 158.305 to require kindergarten students to be given a universal screener within the final 10 instructional days of the school year; beginning with the 2025-2026 school year require that a student remain in kindergarten for an additional year if he or she did not make adequate progress in kindergarten; prohibit a school from requiring a student who turns seven by August 1 to remain in kindergarten; require the school to reevaluate the reading improvement plan of any student remaining in kindergarten; allow a student provided an additional
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Sponsored by: Rep. James A. Tipton
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 103) on 03/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to reading and writing in schools. [HB-272]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 158.307 to define "dysgraphia"; require the Department of Education to annually review and update the dyslexia toolkit; expand dyslexia toolkit required guidance and include dysgraphia and other reading and writing difficulties; require rather than allow local boards of education to develop a policy on dyslexia; require rather than allow the policy to include certain items; require the department to compile and maintain data on dyslexia reported by local school districts; require the department to report dyslexia data to the appropriate
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Sponsored by: Rep. James A. Tipton
To Education (s) on 02/28/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education. [SB-77]
[Education ]
[Nonprofit ]
Amend KRS 161.028 to allow for a designee of the chief academic officer of an independent not-for-profit college or university to serve as a member of the Education Professional Standards Board.
Sponsored by: Sen. Matthew D. Deneen
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 33) on 03/19/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to KEES scholarships for students attending noncertified schools. [SB-83]
[Education ]
[Student Loans ]
Amend KRS 164.7874 to include an equivalent score on the Classic Learning Test as a KEES supplemental amount; define "eligible noncertified school graduate"; amend definitions of "KEES award," "KEES award maximum," and " KEES base amount" for an eligible noncertified school graduate; amend KRS 164.7879 to establish an equivalent grade point average for eligible noncertified school graduates based on the graduate's ACT score; amend KRS 164.7881 and 164.7884 to conform.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert M. Mills
Received In House on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the evaluation of educator preparation programs. [HB-251]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 158.840 to require the Education Professional Standards Board, rather than the Council on Postsecondary Education, to ensure teacher education programs provide highly skilled teachers; require the board to report to the Legislative Research Commission every three years and regularly report program data to an external evaluator.
Sponsored by: Rep. James A. Tipton
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 17) on 03/15/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to family impact statements. [HB-248]
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Create a new section of KRS Chapter 6 to require the Legislative Research Commission to prepare a family impact statement for every bill, concurrent resolution, joint resolution, amendment, or committee substitute introduced during a regular or extraordinary session of the Kentucky General Assembly; define terms; establish procedures.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Michael Nemes
To State Government (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to high school graduation requirements. [HB-301]
[Education ]
[Sports ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 156.160 to allow participation in physically demanding interscholastic athletics, or similar activities, as determined by a local board of education to satisfy physical education course graduation requirements; make technical corrections.
Sponsored by: Rep. Steve Bratcher
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to technology in public schools. [HB-208]
[Education ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
[Telecommunications ]
[Data Privacy ]
[Cybersecurity ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 158.165 to require local boards of education to adopt a policy to, at a minimum, prohibit student use of a personal telecommunications device during the school day with specific exceptions; amend KRS 156.675 to include social media in prohibited material to be made inaccessible through school technology and provide the scope of social media to be prohibited.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Poore Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 90) on 03/26/2025