| KY | SR268 | Intro
Sine Die | Confirm the appointment of Julia Dianne Pile to the Kentucky Board of Education for a term expiring April 14, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted 38-0 |
| KY | SR285 | Intro
Sine Die | Confirm the appointment of Dr. Robbie Fletcher as Commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Education for a term beginning on July 1, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted 36-1 |
| KY | SR307 | Intro
Sine Die | Confirm the reappointment of Christopher John Fryer to the Education Professional Standards Board for a term expiring June 30, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted 38-0 |
| KY | SR303 | Intro
Sine Die | Confirm the reappointment of Cathy Chanelle Gunn to the Education Professional Standards Board for a term expiring June 30, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted 38-0 |
| KY | SR302 | Intro
Sine Die | Confirm the reappointment of Amy Shearer Lingo to the Education Professional Standards Board for a term expiring June 30, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted 38-0 |
| KY | SR312 | Intro
Sine Die | Confirm the appointment of Diana W. Woods to the Kentucky Board of Education for a term expiring April 14, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted 38-0 |
| KY | SR306 | Intro
Sine Die | Confirm the appointment of James Paul Cousins to the Education Professional Standards Board for a term expiring June 30, 2025.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted 38-0 |
| KY | SR301 | Intro
Sine Die | Confirm the reappointment of Sarah Weedman to the Education Professional Standards Board for a term expiring June 30, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted 38-0 |
| KY | SR300 | Intro
Sine Die | Confirm the reappointment of Diana F. Berry to the Education Professional Standards Board for a term expiring June 30, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted 38-0 |
| KY | SB251 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | SB252 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-28
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | HB138 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 161.500 to allow members of the Teachers' Retirement System to recover up to 10 unpaid days that were missed to observe religious holidays; include the recovered days in count of days worked for service credit; EMERGENCY.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB225 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 158.645 to change the required learning capacities of Kentucky public school students; amend KRS 158.6451 to provide that schools shall expect a high level of academic achievement and shall develop students' ability to think critically and ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB346 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 158.1415 to require a school district to adopt health curricula that includes human growth and development instruction that meets specific criteria; set restrictions for the instruction that grants parents an opportunity to review materials...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB383 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 158.165 to require local boards of education to adopt a policy to, at a minimum, prohibit student use of a personal telecommunications device during instructional time with specific exceptions.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB438 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 158.832 to include a definition for "undesignated glucagon"; amend KRS 158.838 to allow health care practitioners to prescribe undesignated glucagon in the name of a school to be maintained for use by a school nurse or trained school employ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB304 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 158.191 to ensure parental rights and involvement by requiring notification within two business days of specific events; require a district to adopt procedures that both encourage students to speak with parents and require facilitation of t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-25
To House Education Committee |
| KY | SB230 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 344.010 to provide definitions of "protective hairstyle" and "race" that include traits historically associated with race; amend KRS 344.020 to provide that nothing in the chapter shall be construed to prohibit reasonable workplace policies...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To Senate Licensing and Occupations Committee |
| KY | HR144 | Intro
Sine Die | Urge the Kentucky Department of Education to explore and implement flexibilities within the federal assessment and accountability requirements regarding English learners to improve circumstances for the students and schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-22
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HCR60 | Intro
Sine Die | Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Support Education Excellence in Kentucky (SEEK) Task Force to study the various components of the SEEK formula, evaluate whether changes are necessary to the base, tiers, or add-ons to maint...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 22, 2024 |
| KY | HCR83 | Intro
Sine Die | Establish the Teacher Red Tape Reduction Task Force; establish membership; direct the task force to study and make recommendations to identify outdated, redundant, or unnecessary mandates imposed upon teachers.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-21
posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 22, 2024 |
| KY | SB210 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 159 to allow the enrollment of a child on a part-time basis in a school district; establish conditions for the part-time enrollment; amend KRS 158.120 to prohibit a district's nonresident pupil policy from discrimi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To Senate Rules Committee |
| KY | HB662 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-15
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB347 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 158.4416 to require a trauma-informed team to incorporate age-appropriate and evidence-based child abuse and neglect awareness and prevention into the training, guidance, and assistance provided by the team; require the trauma-informed tool...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-12
To House Families & Children Committee |
| KY | HB798 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 527.010 to include knives longer than three inches in weapons prohibited on school grounds.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-08
To House Education Committee |
| KY | HB514 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Education Committee |
| KY | HB826 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to direct school districts and public schools to act to protect Jewish students from credible threats of violence or violence motivated by antisemitism; prohibit a school district, public school, or student org...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-07
To House Education Committee |
| KY | HCR132 | Intro
Sine Die | Establish the Kentucky School for the Deaf Governance Task Force; establish duties and membership; direct the task force to study optimal governance models for the Kentucky School for the Deaf, including by a possible independent board of education.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-05
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | HB767 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 156.675 to require school districts to implement social media safety mechanisms in internet access policies; require social media safety policies; require social media safety instruction for students in grades six through 12; allow parents ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To House Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection Committee |
| KY | SB377 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 160.440 to specify that a local board of education cannot appoint the superintendent as secretary to the board.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | SB339 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | SB343 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 15A to require the Department of Juvenile Justice to establish a local juvenile restorative justice advisory committee in each county; set committee membership; require committees to develop and implement local juv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | SB338 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to direct each local board of education to designate a traceable communication system that shall be the exclusive means for school district personnel to communicate electronically with students; provide that a ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | SB360 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 160.348 to direct secondary school-based decision making councils to adopt designated policies relating to advanced courses; provide that students who meet certain criteria shall be granted automatic enrollment in an AP course; direct the K...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | SB336 | Intro
Sine Die | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 61 to define "boy," "equal," "female," "girl," "male," "man," "sex," and "woman"; prohibit any state or local law, regulation, ordinance, or policy from treating males or females unfairly from similiarly situated me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
| KY | SB358 | Intro
Sine Die | Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to authorize the General Assembly to provide for the educational costs of elementary and secondary school students outside of the public school system; provide ballot language for submis...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| KY | SB378 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 160.580 to require each superintendent to submit an annual charitable contribution report to the Kentucky Department of Education regarding contributions to the district; establish the minimum contents of the report; require the department ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | SB379 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to require any lobbyist or lobbyist employer who engages in lobbying activity with a local government to file a registration statement with the Department for Local Government; define terms; require the Departme...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate State & Local Government Committee |
| KY | HB191 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 158.192 to require the local board of education to allow parents and guardians an opportunity to orally recite passages from materials, programs, or events subject to appeal; require immediate removal of the material, program, or event if t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Education Committee |
| KY | HB564 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 141 to establish a refundable tax credit for a dependent's qualified education expenses paid or incurred during the taxable year, not to exceed $150 per dependent; amend KRS 141.0205 to order the tax credit; amend ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | HB650 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 158.197 to permit school-based decision making councils to offer Bible literacy courses to students in grade seven and above, permit such courses to count as language arts courses; amend KRS 156.162 to require the Kentucky Board of Educatio...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Education Committee |
| KY | HB722 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; establish the English learner enhanced support program under the Department of Education (KDE) to help bring English learners with little or no formal education to grade-level proficiency withi...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Education Committee |
| KY | HB719 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 156.160 to allow participation in physically demanding interscholastic athletics, or similar activities, as determined by a local board of education to satisfy physical education course graduation requirements; make technical corrections.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Education Committee |
| KY | HB747 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 600.020 to change the definition of "abused and neglected child" to describe educational neglect; amend KRS 620.090 to require that a parent or guardian shall surrender public financial benefits received on behalf of the child when the chil...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB308 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 157.440 to raise the amount of tax revenues raised by school districts to be equalized by state funding from 15% to 17.5%.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB315 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to direct school districts and public schools to act to protect Jewish students from credible threats of violence or violence motivated by antisemitism; prohibit a school district, public school, or student org...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
| KY | SB203 | Intro
Sine Die | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require the Kentucky Community and Technical College System to offer an associate degree program in interdisciplinary early childhood education entrepreneurship; create a new section of KRS Chapter 199 to es...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB250 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | SB254 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | SB253 | Intro
Sine Die | Amend KRS 156.690 to insert gender-neutral language.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Education Committee |
