Kentucky House Bill 312 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 8-2)
Status: Passed on March 27 2020 - 100% progression
Action: 2020-03-27 - signed by Governor (Acts ch. 64)
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

Amend KRS 158.448 to require the Kentucky Department of Education(KDE) to develop processes to promote more expeditious enrollment of students in foster care who are transferring to a new school or district, and the sharing of information among schools, school districts, the Cabinet for Health and Family Services(CHFS), and a child’s caseworker; amend KRS 159.170 require that KDE allow a school district’s foster care liaison to directly obtain a student’s records without requiring staff at the former district to release them first; create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to provide that educational records released from a school to CHFS, a private agency, or a child’s caseworker, shall be limited to the purpose of serving the needs of the student and shall only be released to persons authorized by statute to receive the records; amend KRS 199.640 to require child-placing agencies to have written policies and procedures to explain their outreach activities undertaken to develop cooperative relationships with local school districts and allow the agencies to release information to authorized school staff where a child is enrolling; amend KRS 199.660 to require child-placing agencies to notify CHFS and each other through a registry when a foster family home is closed and require child-placing agencies to ensure that their homes understand and actively support the educational needs of their children through training and support; amend KRS 199.801 to conform; amend KRS 199.802 to require that the child’s caseworker shall accompany the child to the new school to enroll the child or contact the school via telephone during the day of enrollment and provide as much information as is known; require a new enrolling school to immediately obtain all school records of an enrolling foster child without needing to first request a release from prior district; require all educational records to be shared with CHFS and the child’s caseworker on a confidential basis; allow CHFS, private agencies, and the caseworker to share information with the school and teachers as to a child’s unique needs.

AN ACT relating to children.

Rep. David Meade [R]	Rep. Kimberly Banta [R]	Rep. Chris Freeland [R]	Rep. Samara Heavrin [R]
Rep. Regina Huff [R]	Rep. Kim King [R]	Rep. David Osborne [R]	Rep. Ruth Palumbo [D]
Rep. Phillip Pratt [R]	Rep. Susan Westrom [D]

2020-03-18 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading RSN# 1381 (Y: 31 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 7) [PASS]
2020-02-13 - House - House: Third Reading RCS# 109 (Y: 91 N: 0 NV: 0 Abs: 7) [PASS]

Date	Chamber	Action
2020-03-27	House	signed by Governor (Acts ch. 64)
2020-03-19	House	delivered to Governor
2020-03-19	House	enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
2020-03-19	House	enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
2020-03-19	House	received in House
2020-03-18	Senate	3rd reading, passed 31-0
2020-03-18	Senate	posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 18, 2020
2020-03-17	Senate	2nd reading, to Rules
2020-03-12	Senate	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar
2020-02-18	Senate	to Education (S)
2020-02-14	Senate	received in Senate
2020-02-13	House	3rd reading, passed 91-0 with Committee Substitute (1) and floor amendment (1)
2020-02-12	House	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 13, 2020
2020-02-12	House	2nd reading, to Rules
2020-02-11	House	floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute
2020-02-11	House	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1)
2020-01-30	House	posted in committee
2020-01-27	House	to Education (H)
2020-01-23	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/20RS/hb312.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/20RS/hb312/orig_bill.pdf
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/20RS/hb312/bill.pdf
Roll Call	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/20RS/hb312/vote_history.pdf