Last Action | 03/27/25: became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 94) |
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Title | AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency. |
Bill Documents |
Acts Chapter 94
Current/Final Introduced |
Bill Request Number | 1379 |
Sponsors | T. Truett, T. Smith, C. Aull, J. Blanton, B. Chester-Burton, J. Decker, A. Donworth, D. Lewis, N. Wilson |
Summary of Enacted Version | Allows local school districts to make up days missed by adding instructional time to student attendance days notwithstanding the requirement for the student instructional year to have 170 student attendance days; allows the commissioner of education to grant up to five disaster relief student attendance days; allows the commissioner of education to waive up to five student attendance days if a school district adds time to the instructional day and is unable to provide the required 1,062 hours of instruction by June 4, 2025; requires a local board of education seeking to revise its calendar to submit a plan for approval to the Department of Education; allows instructional time made up and days waived to count as employee contracted days; provides that districts that used 10 or fewer nontraditional instruction days and chose not to use any disaster relief student attendance days or waived days shall have the district's average daily attendance calculated by deducting five low attendance days in addition to the five days deducted under KRS 157.320(1); amends KRS 157.320 to define "virtual program"; amends KRS 157.360 to require that the maximum class size loads for middle and secondary classroom teachers in virtual programs is not to exceed 300 pupil hours per day; exempts virtual programs from the requirement for kindergarten aids to be provided for each 24 full-time equivalent kindergarten students; amends KRS 158.120 to establish a statewide nonresident pupil enrollment limitation for districts' virtual programs; requires each school district to report in the student information system the number of nonresident pupils enrolled in the district's virtual programs; requires the department to track nonresident student numbers; excludes siblings, dependents of a member of the Armed Forces, and pupils with an evidenced medical condition from the statewide nonresident cap; requires that no further nonresident pupil enrollments are to occur after June 30, 2028; amends 158.100 to allow a school district to establish a virtual program; requires a district operating a virtual program to adopt policies to address a student's failure to complete state-mandated assessments; and establishes limitations for virtual program enrollment in qualifying districts based on academic performance; EMERGENCY. |
Summary of Original Version | Allow local school districts to make up days missed by adding instructional time to student attendance days; notwithstand the requirement for the student instructional year to have 170 student attendance days; allow waiver of up to five student attendance days if a school district is unable to provide the required 1,062 hours of instruction by June 4, 2025; require local boards of education seeking to revise its calendar to submit a plan for approval to the Department of Education; allow instructional time made up and days waived to count as employee contracted days; EMERGENCY. |
Index Headings of Original Version |
Education, Elementary and Secondary - Student attendance days, waiver, 2024-2025 school year Effective Dates, Emergency - Student attendance days, waiver, 2024-2025 school year State Agencies - Kentucky Department of Education, local boards of education, school calendar revisions Teachers - Teacher contract days, waiver, 2024-2025 school year Children and Minors - Student attendance days, waiver, 2024-2025 school year Boards and Commissions - Local boards of education, student attendance days, waiver |
Jump to Proposed Amendments |
House Committee Substitute 1 Senate Committee Substitute 1 Senate Committee Substitute 2 Senate Committee Amendment 1 Senate Floor Amendment 1 Senate Floor Amendment 2 Senate Floor Amendment 3 Senate Floor Amendment 4 Conference Committee Report 1 Free Conference Committee Report 1 |
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02/26/25 |
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02/27/25 |
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02/28/25 |
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03/04/25 |
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03/06/25 |
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03/27/25 |
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Amendment | House Committee Substitute 1 |
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Summary | Retain original provisions, except provide five disaster relief student attendance days; require the commissioner of education to deny school day waiver requests for school districts that did not make up days by adding time to the student instructional day. |
Index Headings |
Education, Elementary and Secondary - Local school districts, disaster relief student attendance days, allowance Education, Elementary and Secondary - Student attendance days, waiver denial, 2024-2025 school year State Agencies - Kentucky Department of Education, disaster relief student attendance days, allowance State Agencies - Kentucky Department of Education, local boards, school calendar Boards and Commissions - Local boards of education, student attendance days, waiver denial |
Amendment | Senate Committee Substitute 1 |
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Summary | Retain original provisions; include an incentive for school districts that do not use any of the five disaster relief student attendance days and the five days waivable by the commissioner of education; provide those school districts with five additional low attendance days. |
Index Headings |
Education, Elementary and Secondary - Local school districts, school calendar incentives, low attendance days Education, Finance - Local school districts, school calendar incentives, low attendance days |
Amendment | Senate Committee Substitute 2 |
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Summary | Retain original provisions; include an incentive for school districts that do not use any of the five disaster relief student attendance days and the five days waivable by the commissioner of education; provide those school districts with five additional low attendance days; amend KRS 157.320 to define "virtual program"; amend KRS 157.360 to include virtual programs in the exclusion for class size loads of 150 pupil hours per day for a teacher; amend KRS 158.120 to establish nonresident pupil enrollment limitations for a district's virtual program; require that no further nonresident pupil enrollments is to occur after June 30, 2028; prohibit the commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Education, the Kentucky Board of Education, and the Kentucky Department of Education from establishing or implementing, or requiring a school district to implement, any cap, limitation, or restriction on enrollment for a virtual program; prohibit the Kentucky Department of Education and the Kentucky Board of Education from reducing or withholding any funds due to a school district from the fund to Support Education Excellence in Kentucky based on the district's operation of a virtual program; sunset prohibitions on June 30, 2028, EMERGENCY. |
Index Headings |
Education, Elementary and Secondary - Local school districts, school calendar incentives, low attendance days Education, Elementary and Secondary - Virtual program, enrollment cap, prohibition Education, Elementary and Secondary - Virtual program, nonresident pupil enrollment, establishment of guidelines Education, Elementary and Secondary - Virtual program, SEEK fund withholding, prohibition Education, Elementary and Secondary - Virtual program, teacher class size load cap, exclusion Education, Finance - Local school districts, school calendar incentives, low attendance days Education, Finance - Virtual program, SEEK fund withholding, prohibition Education, Vocational - Virtual program, nonresident pupil enrollment, establishment of guidelines Education, Vocational - Virtual program, teacher class size load cap, exclusion Effective Dates, Emergency - Local school districts, school calendar incentives, low attendance days Sunset Legislation - Virtual program, enrollment cap, prohibition, after June 30, 2028 Sunset Legislation - Virtual program, nonresident pupil enrollment, discontinue June 30, 2028 Sunset Legislation - Virtual program, SEEK fund withholding, prohibition after June 30, 2028 |
Amendment | Senate Committee Amendment 1 |
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Sponsor | S. West |
Summary | Make title amendment. |
Index Headings | Title Amendments - HB 241/GA |
Amendment | Senate Floor Amendment 1 |
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Sponsor | L. Tichenor |
Summary | Retain original provisions, except delete subsection (3) in its entirety. |
Index Headings |
Education, Elementary and Secondary - Local school districts, disaster relief student attendance days, removal State Agencies - Local school districts, disaster relief student attendance days, removal |
Amendment | Senate Floor Amendment 2 |
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Sponsor | L. Tichenor |
Summary | Retain original provisions; direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Nontraditional Instruction and Virtual Instruction Models Task Force; outline task force duties; establish membership; require the task force to meet monthly; require the task force to submit any findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2025, |
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Education, Elementary and Secondary - Nontraditional Instruction and Virtual Instruction Models Task Force, creation Education, Finance - Nontraditional Instruction and Virtual Instruction Models Task Force, creation Legislative Research Commission - Nontraditional Instruction and Virtual Instruction Models Task Force, creation Task Forces, Legislative Branch - Nontraditional Instruction and Virtual Instruction Models Task Force, creation |
Amendment | Senate Floor Amendment 3 |
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Sponsor | L. Tichenor |
Summary | Make title amendment. |
Index Headings | Title Amendments - HB 241 |
Amendment | Senate Floor Amendment 4 |
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Sponsor | L. Tichenor |
Summary | Amend KRS 156.395 to include a definition of "virtual instructional materials"; create a new section of KRS Chapter KRS 156 to require each local board of education to provide a single source of virtual instructional materials. |
Index Headings |
Education, Elementary and Secondary - Local boards of education, virtual instructional materials, provision Teachers - Local boards of education, virtual instructional materials, provision |
Amendment | Conference Committee Report 1 |
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Summary | Cannot agree. |
Index Headings | Conference Committee Reports - HB 241 |
Amendment | Free Conference Committee Report 1 |
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Summary | Retain language and require that the maximum class size loads for middle and secondary classroom teachers in virtual programs is not to exceed 300 pupil hours per day; establish the terms and conditions for non-resident pupil enrollment in virtual programs; terminate non-resident enrollment in virtual programs on June 30, 2028; amend KRS 158.100 to require local boards operating a virtual program to adopt a policy to address student failures to complete state-mandated assessments; establish limitations for virtual program enrollment in qualifying districts based on academic performance; make title amendment. |
Index Headings |
Conference Committee Reports - HB 241 Education, Elementary and Secondary - Virtual programs, non-resident pupil enrollment, terms, establishment Education, Vocational - Virtual programs, non-resident pupil enrollment, terms, establishment Teachers - Virtual program, maximum class size loads, middle and secondary teachers, establishment Sunset Legislation - Virtual program, non-resident pupil enrollment, June 30, 2028 |
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