25RS SB 181

Senate Bill 181

Actions

Last Action	02/19/25: to Families & Children (S)
Title	AN ACT relating to school employee and volunteer misconduct.
Bill Documents	Introduced
Bill Request Number	1477
Sponsor	L. Tichenor
Summary of Original Version	Create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to define terms; direct each local board of education to designate on or more programs or applications as a traceable communication system that shall be the exclusive means for school district employees and volunteers to communicate electronically with students; provide that a parent may submit written consent for a designated school district employee or volunteer to communicate electronically with a student outside of the traceable communication system; exclude communications between a parent that is a school district employee or volunteer and his or her own children; establish a mandatory duty to report violations for school employees and volunteers; require principals, superintendents, and the commissioner of education to notify parents of allegations of unauthorized electronic communication involving their children; require principals, superintendents, and the commissioner of education to report alleged violations to the Educational Professional Standards Board (EPSB); require principals, superintendents, the commissioner of education, and EPSB to investigate designated allegations of unauthorized electronic communication; establish the methods of disciplinary action for a violation; amend KRS 161.120 to provide that the identity of complainants alleging unauthorized electronic communication, sexual contact, or other sexual misconduct that are dismissed and minors invovled in the complaint to remain confidential; provide that EPSB will have 120 days to conduct the initial review of complaints alleging unauthorized electronic communication, sexual contact, or other sexual misconduct.
Index Headings of Original Version	Education, Elementary and Secondary - Electronic communication with students, restrictions State Agencies - Education Professional Standards Board, disciplinary actions, sexual misconduct procedures State Employees - School district personnel, electronic communication with students, restrictions Teachers - Complaint review, sexual misconduct and unauthorized electronic communication, 120 day period Teachers - School district personnel, electronic communication with students, restrictions Children and Minors - Electronic communication by school district personnel with students, restrictions Boards and Commissions - Local boards of education, electronic communication policy, traceable communication system

02/14/25	introduced in Senate to Committee on Committees (S)
02/19/25	to Families & Children (S)