25RS SB 5

Senate Bill 5

Actions

Last Action	02/28/25: returned to Education (S)
Title	AN ACT relating to public schools.
Bill Documents	Introduced
Fiscal Impact Statement	Fiscal Note
Bill Request Number	1425
Sponsor	S. West
Summary of Original Version	Amend KRS 160.346 to include identification as a state intervention school when a school enters comprehensive support and improvement status and does not make annual improvement for two years or does not exit the status after three years; create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to define "state intervention school"; require the identification of state intervention schools with the 2027-2028 school year; establish the procedures for identification; require the commissioner of education to take management of the state intervention school and develop an intervention plan to the Kentucky Board of Education for approval; establish the authorities of the commissioner of education over the state intervention school; establish the criteria for a school to exit status as an state intervention school; create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to establish a procedure for a local board of education to submit a waiver request to the Kentucky Board of Education to waive a statute or administrative regulation; set the terms and limitations of a waivers; authorize the identification of schools of innovation and establish parameters for the status; establish procedures for the renewal of approved waivers; provide the conditions and procedure for rescinding waivers by the state board; authorize the promulgation of administrative regulations to adopt necessary forms and procedures to process waiver requests; amend various sections to conform; repeal KRS 156.108 and 160.107; provide that the Act may be cited as the School Improvement and Innovation Act.
Index Headings of Original Version	Education, Elementary and Secondary - Comprehensive support and improvement, state intervention schools, establishment Education, Elementary and Secondary - Districts of innovation, repeal Education, Elementary and Secondary - Public schools, statute and administrative regulation waiver process, establishment Education, Elementary and Secondary - Schools of innovation status, establishment Education, Vocational - Comprehensive support and improvement, state intervention schools, establishment Education, Vocational - Districts of innovation, repeal Education, Vocational - Public schools, statute and administrative regulation waiver process, establishment Education, Vocational - Schools of innovation status, establishment State Agencies - KDE, state intervention schools, establishment State Agencies - KDE, statute and administrative regulation waiver process, establishment Teachers - Public schools, statute and administrative regulation waiver process, establishment Boards and Commissions - Kentucky Board of Education, state intervention schools, establishment Boards and Commissions - Kentucky Board of Education, statute and administrative regulation waiver process, establishment Short Titles and Popular Names - School Improvement and Innovation Act Fiscal Note - Comprehensive support and improvement, state intervention schools, establishment

02/18/25	introduced in Senate to Committee on Committees (S)
02/20/25	to Education (S)
02/27/25	taken from Education (S) 1st reading returned to Education (S)
02/28/25	taken from Education (S) 2nd reading returned to Education (S)