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HB 270 (BR 1193) - M. Cherry, C. Belcher, T. Burch, J. Carr, J. Crenshaw, R. Crimm, C. Embry Jr, D. Graham, W. Hall, C. Hoffman, D. Horlander, J. Jenkins, D. Keene, G. Lynn, M. Marzian, C. Meade, R. Meeks, C. Miller, S. Nunn, D. Owens, R. Palumbo, R. Rand, J. Richards, S. Riggs, A. Simpson, K. Stein, T. Thompson, J. Wayne, M. Weaver, R. Webb, R. Wilkey, B. Yonts
AN ACT relating to the safety, learning, and well-being of students.
Amend KRS 158.440 to require school districts to have plans, policies, and procedures dealing with measures for assisting students who are engaging in disruptive and disorderly behavior, including harassment, intimidation, or bullying of another student; amend KRS 158.441 to define "harassment, intimidation, or bullying"; amend KRS 158.148 to require school districts to formulate a code of acceptable behavior and discipline that prohibits harassment, intimidation, or bullying of a student and includes procedures for identifying, reporting, investigating, and responding to complaints, a strategy for protecting complainants from retaliation, a process for annually discussing the code and the consequences of violating the code with students and their parents or their legal guardians; require school districts to provide training on the district's acceptable code of behavior to school employees who have direct contact with students if funds exist for this purpose; require school districts to include code of acceptable behavior in district employee training manual; amend KRS 158.150 to include student harassment, intimidation, or bullying as a cause for suspension, expulsion, or other appropriate disciplinary action; amend 158.444 to require local school districts to report to the Kentucky Department of Education all incidents where a student has been disciplined for harassment, intimidation, or bullying 3 times in a single semester or where an individual has been the object of 3 or more documented incidents of harassment, intimidation, or bullying in a single semester; create a new section of KRS 158 to provide immunity to school employees or students from a cause of action for damages arising from reporting in good faith a student's disruptive or disorderly behavior if school and district procedures are followed regarding the report.
HB 270 - AMENDMENTS
HCS - Require school councils that are proposing to adopt an instructional program or curriculum designed to instruct students on issues regarding harassment, intimidation, or bullying to afford parents, in a timely manner, the right to inspect and review the instructional material prior to adoption and to address the council on the proposal prior to its adoption; require that all student data collected that is related to harassment, intimidation, or bullying be subject to the confidentiality provisions of both the federal and the Kentucky Family Education Rights and Privacy Act and afford parents the right to inspect or challenge student records as permitted under those provisions; require individual student data collected that is related to harassment, intimidation, or bullying to be placed in the student's disciplinary record.
HFA (1, M. Harmon) - Prohibit policies, procedures, strategies, or codes from requiring, teaching, or instructing either staff or students in a manner that conflicts with their personal religious beliefs.
HFA (2, M. Harmon) - Prohibit policies, procedures, strategies, or codes from requiring, teaching, or instructing either staff or students in a manner that conflicts with their personal religious beliefs.
HFA (3, M. Harmon) - Require school councils that are proposing to adopt an instructional program or curriculum designed to instruct students on issues regarding harassment, intimidation, or bullying to afford parents, in a timely manner, the right to inspect and review the instructional material prior to adoption and to address the council on the proposal prior to its adoption; require that all student data collected that is related to harassment, intimidation, or bullying be subject to the confidentiality provisions of both the federal and the Kentucky Family Education Rights and Privacy Act and afford parents the right to inspect or challenge student records as permitted under those provisions; require individual student data collected that is related to harassment, intimidation, or bullying to be placed in the student's disciplinary record; offer parents or legal guardians the opportunity to opt out their children from programs or curriculum regarding harassment, intimidation, or bullying; specify that students who are opted out shall remain subject to the policy that prohibits harassment, intimidation, or bullying; make technical corrections.
HFA (4, M. Harmon) - Provide parents and legal guardians the opportunity to opt out their students from programs or curriculum regarding harassment, intimidation, or bullying; specify that students who are opted out shall remain subject to the policy that prohibits harassment, intimidation, or bullying; make technical corrections.
HFA (5, R. Damron) - Allow "cultural practices" to be included in areas exempt from definition of "harassment, intimidation, or bullying."
Jan 9-introduced in House
Jan 10-to Education (H)
Jan 17-posted in committee; posting waived
Jan 18-reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute ; floor amendment (2) filed to Committee Substitute, floor amendment (1) filed
Jan 19-2nd reading, to Rules; posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, January 20, 2006
Jan 26-floor amendment (4) filed to Committee Substitute, floor amendment (3) filed
Jan 30-floor amendment (5) filed to Committee Substitute
Feb 1-3rd reading, passed 96-0 with Committee Substitute, floor amendments (4) and (5)
Feb 2-received in Senate
Feb 6-to Education (S)
Vote History
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