Kentucky Senate Bill 3 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 2 2011 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-03-03 - returned to Education (H)
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [MS Word]

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 160 to define charter schools and to prescribe the requirements and conditions under which a local board of education may authorize a charter school; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations for charter schools including an appeal process; create a new section of KRS Chapter 161 to specify that teachers and staff shall participate in the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System and the County Employees Retirement System, respectively; ensure they receive health benefits the same as other school employees; create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to describe the transfer of public funds to charter schools in a district; amend KRS 159.070 to permit under certain conditions that a parent shall be permitted to enroll for attendance their children in the public school nearest their home; amend KRS 160.346 to permit a persistently low-achieving school to be converted to a charter school as one of the intervention options.

AN ACT relating to schools.

Sen. Dan Seum [R]

Sen. Jack Westwood [R]

Sen. David Williams [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-03-03		returned to Education (H)
2011-03-03		2nd reading
2011-03-03		taken from Education (H)
2011-03-02		posted in committee
2011-03-02		posting waived
2011-03-02		returned to Education (H)
2011-03-02		1st reading
2011-03-02		taken from Education (H)
2011-02-04		to Education (H)
2011-02-02		received in House
2011-01-07		passed 21-17
2011-01-07		floor amendment (2) defeated
2011-01-07		floor amendment (1) withdrawn
2011-01-07		3rd reading
2011-01-07		posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, January 7, 2011
2011-01-06		floor amendments (1) and (2) filed
2011-01-06		reported favorably, to Rules
2011-01-05		returned to Education (S)
2011-01-05		2nd reading
2011-01-05		taken from Education (S)
2011-01-04		1st reading
2011-01-04		returned to Education (S)
2011-01-04		taken from Education (S)
2011-01-04		to Education (S)
2011-01-04		introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB3.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB3/bill.doc