SR-237: A RESOLUTION urging the Council on Postsecondary Education and the Kentucky Department of Education, in partnership with the Secretary of State and education entities, to develop strategies and a timeline for improving Kentucky students’ knowledge and understanding of the constitutional republic of the United States of America and the democratic processes specified in the United States Constitution.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jimmy Higdon
Adopted By Voice Vote on 03/14/2025
You have voted SR-237: A RESOLUTION urging the Council on Postsecondary Education and the Kentucky Department of Education, in partnership with the Secretary of State and education entities, to develop strategies and a timeline for improving Kentucky students’ knowledge and understanding of the constitutional republic of the United States of America and the democratic processes specified in the United States Constitution..
You have voted SCR-131: A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Efficient and Effective Districts Task Force..
AN ACT relating to virtual programs and declaring an emergency. [HB-784]
[Education ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
Define "virtual program"; place an enrollment cap on virtual programs for the remainder of the 2024-2025 school year and the entirety of the 2025-2026 school year; EMERGENCY.
HB-784: AN ACT relating to virtual programs and declaring an emergency.
Sponsored by: Rep. James Tipton
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/21/2025
AN ACT relating to student health. [HB-809]
[Education ]
[Public Health ]
[Healthcare ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to authorize a superintendent or principal to request assistance from a local health department to implement a health curriculum, comply with statutory program requirements, or provide additional health programming for students; provide example programs a local health department may offer; require instruction and programming provided in partnership with a local health department be subject to the curricular requirements of KRS 160.345.
HB-809: AN ACT relating to student health.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Taken From The Orders Of The Day on 03/11/2025
AN ACT relating to career and technical education. [HB-758]
[Education ]
[Labor, Jobs, Employment ]
Amend KRS 157.069 to apportion supplemental funds for career and technical education to be 75 percent for enrollment-based funding and 25 percent for incentive-based funding; modify incentives to permit two incentives per student; require "concentrator" status as the first incentive before eligibility for a second incentive.
HB-758: AN ACT relating to career and technical education.
Sponsored by: Rep. Nima Kulkarni
Reported Favorably, To Rules on 03/05/2025
AN ACT relating to education. [HB-8]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 158.645 to modify language on core capacities, specify the intent of K-5 education, and define terms; amend KRS 156.070 to give the state board the responsibility for adopting or rejecting the state academic standards, adopting or rejecting instructional materials collections, setting a timeline for adoption updates, and ensuring alignment of academics across the state; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to require the Kentucky Department of Education to deconstruct the approved academic standards and provide free guides to districts
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HB-8: AN ACT relating to education.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie
Taken From Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 03/04/2025
AN ACT establishing the School Supplies for Kentucky Teachers Program. [HB-732]
[Education ]
[Funding ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to define terms; establish the School Supplies for Kentucky Teachers Program to provide eligible classroom teachers with financial and technical support in purchasing school supplies; authorize the Kentucky Board of Education to adopt policies and promulgate administrative regulations necessary to administer the program; require the Kentucky Department of Education to enter into contracts for an online commerce platform and to identify online school supplies vendors for the program; provide that the Act may
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HB-732: AN ACT establishing the School Supplies for Kentucky Teachers Program.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mary Imes
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/27/2025
AN ACT relating to school cooperation with patriotic organizations. [HB-603]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define "organization" as a federally recognized patriotic civic service organization that consists of or serves youths; permit an organization to request and require superintendents to provide an opportunity to provide information to students on school property during a school day.
HB-603: AN ACT relating to school cooperation with patriotic organizations.
Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Hart
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/26/2025
You have voted SCR-76: A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION directing the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Kentucky School for the Deaf Governance Task Force..
AN ACT relating to compulsory attendance. [SB-213]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
Amend KRS 159.030 to create an exemption for compulsory attendance in school for a child who is at least 16 years old and has obtained a High School Equivalency Diploma.
SB-213: AN ACT relating to compulsory attendance.
Sponsored by: Sen. Steve Rawlings
Floor Amendment (1) Filed on 02/27/2025
AN ACT relating to scholarships. [SB-253]
[Education ]
[Student Loans ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
Amend KRS 164.769 to remove repayment obligations from the teacher scholarship program; amend scholorship terms; provide that the scholarship amount shall not exceed the highest in-state tuition rate for a teacher preparation program at a Kentucky public university; amend KRS 164.786 to add eligibility for high school freshmen and sophomores to the dual credit scholarship program; require an approved dual credit course to be in the statewide general education core; permit up to 20 dual credit courses in a teacher and learning career pathway; provide
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SB-253: AN ACT relating to scholarships.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jimmy Higdon
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 02/20/2025
AN ACT relating to education. [SB-207]
[Education ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to establish a procedure for a local board of education to submit a waiver request to the Kentucky Board of Education to waive a statute or administrative regulation; set the terms and limitations of a waivers; authorize the identification of schools of innovation and establish parameters for the status; establish procedures for the renewal of approved waivers; provide the conditions and procedure for rescinding waivers by the state board; authorize the promulgation of administrative regulations to adopt necessary
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SB-207: AN ACT relating to education.
Sponsored by: Sen. Steve West
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 113) on 03/27/2025
AN ACT relating to public schools. [SB-5]
[Education ]
Amend KRS 160.346 to include identification as a state intervention school when a school enters comprehensive support and improvement status and does not make annual improvement for two years or does not exit the status after three years; create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to define "state intervention school"; require the identification of state intervention schools with the 2027-2028 school year; establish the procedures for identification; require the commissioner of education to take management of the state intervention school and develop
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SB-5: AN ACT relating to public schools.
Sponsored by: Sen. Steve West
Taken From Education (s) on 02/28/2025
AN ACT relating to the governance of the Kentucky School for the Deaf. [SB-214]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
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.
SB-214: AN ACT relating to the governance of the Kentucky School for the Deaf.
Sponsored by: Sen. Amanda Mays Bledsoe
To Education (s) on 02/20/2025
AN ACT relating to moral instruction. [HB-607]
[Education ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Criminal Justice ]
[Funding ]
[Public Safety ]
Amend KRS 158.200 to detail process by which local boards of education may permit pupils to attend moral instruction; permit individuals or groups offering moral instruction to submit a request to a board and set requirements to be included in request; require superintendents to submit individuals providing transportation or moral instruction for criminal history and CA/N background checks; provide that students attending moral instruction are counted in average daily attendance for SEEK funding; repeal KRS 158.210, 158.220, 158.230, 158.240, 158.250,
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HB-607: AN ACT relating to moral instruction.
Sponsored by: Rep. DJ Johnson
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/26/2025
AN ACT relating to student attendance days and declaring an emergency. [HB-669]
[Education ]
[Crime ]
[Public Safety ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Law Enforcement ]
Establish a waiver process and eligibility requirements for school districts to be granted credit for student attendance days missed during September 2024 due to dangers posed by criminal activity; EMERGENCY.
HB-669: AN ACT relating to student attendance days and declaring an emergency.
Sponsored by: Rep. Tom Smith
3rd Reading, Passed 85-9 on 03/07/2025
AN ACT relating to virtual education. [SB-268]
[Education ]
[Technology and Innovation ]
Prohibit the commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Education, the Kentucky Board of Education, and the Kentucky Department of Education from establishing or implementing, or requiring a school district to implement, any cap, limitation, or restriction on enrollment for a virtual program; prohibit the Kentucky Department of Education and the Kentucky Board of Education from reducing or withholding any funds due to a school district from the fund to Support Education Excellence in Kentucky based on the district's operation of a virtual program;
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SB-268: AN ACT relating to virtual education.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Mills
Passed Over And Retained In The Orders Of The Day on 03/05/2025
AN ACT relating to the Support Education Excellence in Kentucky Program. [SB-6]
[Education ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
Amend KRS 157.320 to include costs paid on behalf of districts in the definition of "Support Education Excellence in Kentucky"; define "distributable cost" and "on-behalf cost"; amend KRS 157.330 to include appropriations of on-behalf costs in the fund to support education excellence in Kentucky; amend KRS 157.360 to provide for the calculation of total cost of the program to support education excellence in Kentucky to include on-behalf costs and distributable costs; provide for the calculation; provide for the determination of on-behalf costs;
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SB-6: AN ACT relating to the Support Education Excellence in Kentucky Program.
Sponsored by: Sen. David Givens
Floor Amendment (1) Filed To Committee Substitute on 03/13/2025
AN ACT relating to postsecondary education students. [HB-568]
[Education ]
[Housing ]
[Children and Youth ]
[Human Services ]
[Poverty ]
[Student Loans ]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms, require postsecondary education institutions to designate at least one employee in an appropriate department to serve as a liaison between the institution and a homeless student or student in care who is enrolled at the institution; detail responsibilities of the liaison, the Council on Postsecondary Education, and the institution; require an institution to create a position to carry out the responsibilities of a liaison if the number of students experiencing homelessness or students in care
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HB-568: AN ACT relating to postsecondary education students.
Sponsored by: Rep. Sarah Stalker
To Postsecondary Education (h) on 02/25/2025