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House Bill 388

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Last Action recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
Title AN ACT relating to the school calendar and declaring an emergency.
Bill Documents Bill
Bill Request Number 1141
Sponsor M. Denham
Summary of Original Version Amend KRS 158.070 to permit a school district to adjust its calendar to use days that had been scheduled without the presence of students as makeup days and to use primary election day for a makeup day due to days missed for weather-related, safety, or health emergencies; make technical corrections; EMERGENCY.
Index Headings of Original Version Education, Elementary and Secondary - School calendar, adjustments to
Effective Dates, Emergency - School calendar adjustments
Proposed Amendments House Committee Substitute 1
House Floor Amendment 1

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02/08/11
  • introduced in House
02/09/11
  • to Education (H)
02/11/11
  • posted in committee
02/22/11
  • reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute
02/23/11
  • 2nd reading, to Rules
  • posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 24, 2011
  • floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute
03/03/11
  • recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)

Proposed Amendments

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Amendment House Committee Substitute 1
Summary Amend KRS 158.070 to permit a school district to adjust its calendar to use a closing day that had been scheduled as a makeup day and to use primary election day during the 2010-2011 school year for a makeup day due to days missed for weather-related, safety, or health emergencies; prohibit a voting precinct from being displaced as a result; require a district to work with local officials to ensure safety and security during an election day; EMERGENCY.
Index Headings Education, Elementary and Secondary - School calendar, adjustments to
Effective Dates, Emergency - School calendar adjustments

Amendment House Floor Amendment 1
Piggyback? Yes
Sponsor J. DeCesare
Summary Amend KRS 158.070 to require a school calendar to include makeup days for the average number of days missed in the three highest years over the past five years; establish the minimum and maximum number of minutes by which a school instructional day may be lengthened; require a school calendar to be approved by the department of education; require a local board of education to submit to the Department of Education for approval a plan to make up instructional days missed; provide that the commissioner of education shall approve requested waivers for the makeup of all remaining instructional days scheduled to occur on or after June 21; amend KRS 157.350 and 158.649 to conform; require the school term for fiscal years 2010-2011 and 2011-2012 to include the equivalent of 177 six-hour instructional days.
Index Headings Education, Elementary and Secondary - School calendar, adjustments to
Effective Dates, Emergency - School calendar adjustments

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