12RS Senate Bill 21

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Last Action	to Education (H)
Title	AN ACT relating to the school calendar and declaring an emergency.
Bill Documents	Bill
Bill Request Number	57
Sponsor	J. Higdon
Summary of Original Version	Amend KRS 158.070 to reiterate school closure on the day of a Presidential election; permit a school district to adjust its calendar to keep schools open on the days of a regular election, a special election, and a primary election if no school in the district is used as a polling place; allow a district to schedule election days as instructional days or make-up days for purposes of recouping instructional time missed due to weather-related, safety, or health emergencies or other disasters; direct the Department of Education to approve school calendars amended pursuant to this Act for the 2011-2012 school year; EMERGENCY.
Index Headings of Original Version	Teachers - School calendar, adjustments to Education, Elementary and Secondary - School calendar, adjustments to Education, Elementary and Secondary - School calendar, inclusion of election days in Effective Dates, Emergency - School calendar, adjustments to Elections and Voting - Schools, polling places in
Votes	Vote History

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10/14/11	Prefiled by the sponsor(s).
01/03/12	introduced in Senate to Education (S)
01/26/12	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
01/27/12	2nd reading, to Rules
02/01/12	posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 2, 2012
02/02/12	3rd reading, passed 38-0
02/06/12	received in House
02/07/12	to Education (H)