Kentucky Senate Bill 66

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 2-0)
Status: Introduced on January 9 2025 - 25% progression
Action: 2025-02-04 - to Education (S)
Pending: Senate Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Amend KRS 160.180 to remove the definition of "relative"; remove prohibition for local school board eligibility for individuals directly or indirectly interested in sales for which school funds are expended; prohibit employees of the board from being eligible for local school board membership; remove prohibition that a local school board candidate have no relative employed by the district; provide that board members may be removed from office after election for becoming an employee of the board, failure to abstain from board votes in which they have an interest, or for violation of the board's code of ethics; amend KRS 160.290 to require each local school board to create a board code of ethics; provide that a code of ethics cannot prohibit relatives of board members from being employed by the school district.

AN ACT relating to local school boards.

Sen. Greg Elkins [R]

Sen. Donald Douglas [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2025-02-04	Senate	to Education (S)
2025-01-09	Senate	to Committee on Committees (S)
2025-01-09	Senate	introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/25RS/sb66.html
Text	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/25RS/sb66/orig_bill.pdf