Kentucky Senate Bill 70 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: Introduced on January 3 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-01-07 - to Education (S)
Pending: Senate Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [PDF]

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 160 to describe the intent of the General Assembly and the purposes of authorizing public charter schools; establish a charter school pilot project and identify charter school authorizer; define terms; describe the characteristics and the requirements of a charter school; identify the requirements and the components of a charter school application; describe the responsibilities of authorizers; describe charter school renewal and revocation processes; identify the components of a charter school annual report; identify the requirements for student enrollment; create a new section of KRS Chapter 159 to identify student enrollment and withdrawal requirements to be followed by a charter school; create a new section of KRS Chapter 161 to identify charter school staff as employees of the authorizer; specify that charter school employees are covered under any existing collective bargaining agreement; create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to specify the charter school funding process.

AN ACT relating to charter schools.

Sen. Gerald Neal [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-01-07	Senate	to Education (S)
2017-01-03	Senate	introduced in Senate
2016-12-09	Senate	Prefiled by the sponsor(s).

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/17RS/SB70.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/SB70/bill.pdf