| Bill | Sponsor | Position | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SENATE BILLS | ||||
| SB 1 | K. Winters; D. Williams; D. Kelly | Track | Relates to student assessment; adds an expectation relating to performing arts; restates the purposes and components of a balanced assessment program including both formative and summative assessments; eliminates the open-response questions requirement; requires writing portfolios be maintained for each student in grade 5 to 12 but eliminate from the state assessment; limits rewrites of the writing portfolio. | Signed into law |
| SB 3 | K. Winters; D. Williams; D. Kelly | Relates to early high school graduation; makes an appropriation therefore; establishes the option for early high school graduation beginning in the 2010-2011 school year; defines the curriculum requirements for early graduation and unconditional entry into a Kentucky public two-year community and technical college and the requirements for unconditional entry into a four-year public college. | House Education Committee | |
| SB 6 | K. Stine | Requires the Kentucky Department of Education to promulgate an administrative regulation to require all public preschool to eighth grade programs, no later than the 2009-2010 school year, to implement 30 minutes per day or 150 minutes per week of structured moderate-to-vigorous physical activity in a minimum of 10 minute intervals incorporated into the school day; defines acceptable physical activities. | Senate Education Committee | |
| SB 43 | J. Westwood | Relates to career and technical education; makes an appropriation; declares an emergency; defines career pathway and career pathway program of study; clarifies purposes of career and technical education and legislative beliefs; requires the Kentucky Department of Education to define chronically low performing high school. | Senate Education Committee | |
| SB 44 | J. Westwood | Relates to interscholastic athletics; defines home school; identifies the conditions under which a student enrolled in a home school program may participate in interscholastic athletic teams sponsored by or engaged in by public schools. | Senate Education Committee | |
| SB 50 | R. Jones | Relates to eligibility for a principal internship; allows a person holding an eligibility statement for the principalship who has not completed a principal internship within five years of issue to renew the certificate without additional assessments or taking graduate hours if he or she has been employed in a certified position in a local school district during that time. | Senate Education Committee | |
| SB 59 | D. Kelly | Oppose | Requires out-of-state teachers with less than 1 year experience rather than less than 2 years to take assessments in order to qualify for a temporary teaching certificate; changes the beginning teacher internship for all new teachers and out-of-state teachers with less than 1 year experience rather than with less than 2 to complete an internship; changes the beginning teacher committee to be composed of a minimum of 2 persons. | Senate Education Committee |
| SB 92 | T. Buford | Allows the Kentucky Board of Education to approve exceptions to its administrative regulations related to school calendars under specific conditions; allows a local board of education to request from and be approved by the commissioner of education a waiver from the makeup of up to seven days missed due to the severe weather storm occurring in January and February, 2009. EMERGENCY. | Senate Education Committee | |
| SB 142 | R. Palmer | Prohibits prohibit the Kentucky Board of Education or any agency designated by the board to manage interscholastic athletics from promulgating administrative regulations or adopting rules or bylaws that prohibit a local school district from employing or assigning nonteaching personnel to serve as an assistant coach. | Recommitted to Senate A&R Committee | |
| SB 148 | D. Givens | Requires a criminal records check for parent members of school-based decision making councils; allows members to serve prior to the report being received. | Signed into law | |
| SB 152 | J. Turner | Allows a local board of education to request from the commissioner of education disaster days for up to a maximum of ten days missed due to widespread illness, emergencies, or inclement weather and require the commissioner to approve the request; requires staff to make up any approved disaster days; identifies activities to be used by staff to make up approved disaster days. | Senate Education Committee | |
| SB 153 | P. Clark | Provides that in a school district that has an employer-employee contract an open position will be a district position and not a school specific position after all other procedures have been followed. | Senate Education Committee | |
| SB 165 | D. Thayer | Oppose | Prohibits mandatory membership or financial support of a labor organization as a condition of employment, and to name the Act as the Kentucky Right to Work Act; amend KRS 336.180 to conform; amend KRS 336.990 to make a violation of this Act a Class A misdemeanor, award damages, and provide injunctive relief; create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to exempt existing contracts or agreements. | Senate Economic Development & Labor Committee |
| SB 172 | B. Smith | Defines terms and permits teachers and classified employees to organize and bargain collectively with a board of education for wages, hours, and other work conditions; requires local boards of education to bargain collectively with a bargaining representative that has been chosen by a majority of a bargaining unit of teachers or classified employees. | Senate Education Committee | |
| SB 180 | C. Borders | Oppose | Defines homeschool students as eligible for the state educational excellence scholarships; changes definition of high school to include any homeschool in which high school students are enrolled create a mathematical calculation of grade point average for homeschool students for use in the calculation of the annual earned amount toward the base scholarship award for the 4 year total. | House Education Committee |
| SB 186 | E. Harris | Creates the Students with Special Needs Scholarship Program; defines terminology regarding participation; describes the process for the state Department of Education to receive student applications and to allocate scholarship funding; requires a resident school district to provide annual notice of the scholarship program to parents, transfer school records, provide transportation, to permit a student to participate. | Senate Education Committee | |
| Bill | Sponsor | Position | Description | Status |
| HOUSE BILLS | ||||
| HB 8 | M. Henley, C. B. Embry | Permits students to voluntarily express religious viewpoints in school assignments free from discrimination and organize prayer groups, religious clubs, or other religious gatherings before, during, and after school to the same extent that students are permitted to organize other noncurricular student activities and groups; requires each board of education to adopt and implement a policy regarding voluntary student expression of religious viewpoints. | House Education Committee | |
| HB 11 | A. Wuchner; T. Burch | Requires the Kentucky Department of education to identify and disseminate model resources for integrating physical activity during the school day; encourage schools to utilize certified physical education teachers in the development of physical activity plans; develop a reporting mechanism for schools containing grades K-5 to report on results of physical activity and wellness programs. Not later than the beginning of the 2009-10 school year, requires all schools grades K-5 to implement a wellness policy that provides for 30 minutes per day or the equivalent of physical activity for students, to be included as part of the instructional day. | House Education Committee | |
| HB 12 | J. DeCesare | Relates to writing portfolios; removes writing portfolios from the statewide CATS assessment program for elementary school students; requires elementary schools to use writing portfolios as an instructional tool for continuous assessment of students. | House Education Committee | |
| HB 27 | K. Bratcher | Clarifies that an approved out-of-state institution at which eligible students may use KEES scholarships must be located in a state contiguous to Kentucky or be a participant in the Academic Common Market agreement. | House Education Committee | |
| HB 43 | B. Yonts | Support | Provides that public high school student journalists have right to exercise freedom of speech and press in school-sponsored media; directs that student journalists are responsible for determining content of school-sponsored media; provides limitations for content determined by high school students; provides that school boards are immune from civil and criminal liability; requires local board adoption of student freedom of expression policy. | House Education Committee |
| HB 68 | D. Watkins | Support | Creates an additional cigarette surtax; increases the tax rates for other tobacco products and snuff; imposes a floor stock tax. | House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| HB 76 | K. Hall | Relates to the Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarship Program; permit, beginning with the 2010-2011 academic year, that eligible high school students use a portion of their KEES award to pay for tuition for dual credit courses; requires that the funds they would have received during their postsecondary program be reduced over a four, or in some cases, five year period by an amount equal to that used for dual credit and part-time college courses. | House Education Committee | |
| HB 82 | B. Yonts | Support | Bill requires uniform plan for progressive discipline and due process for classified employees in all school districts statewide. | Senate Education Committee |
| HB 108 | A. Wuchner | Relates to local school district funding adjustments; provides for growth districts to request an adjustment mid-year due to growth in average daily attendance of three percent or more from the prior year; provides how the calculated state portion of the support education excellence in Kentucky is determined. | House Education Committee | |
| HB 117 | M. Cherry | Relates to retirement; establishes a ten year phase-in of the actuarially required employer contributions to the County Employees Retirement System for funding of retiree health benefits; requires the systems' board of trustees to amend employer rates. | Signed into law | |
| HB 118 | S. Lee | Relates to the Special Needs Alternative Education and Welfare Program; requires a resident school district to provide annual notice of the scholarship program to parents, transfers school records, provide transportation, and permit a student to participate in the state assessment; describes parental, student, and local district responsibilities; clarifies the requirements for a proportionate share of federal funds for parentally placed students with disabilities. | House Education Committee | |
| HB 123 | M. Marzian | Support | Relates to cigarette taxes and makes an appropriation thereof; levies a floor stock tax on cigarettes; creates the Commonwealth fund and distributes funds therefrom. | House Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| HB 124 | D. Ford | Relates to excused school absence for children of Armed Forces service members. | Signed into law | |
| HB 141 | T. Couch | Relates to medical and dental insurance coverage of school board members and their families; permits a local board of education which provides medical or dental insurance to district employees to pay all or part of the premiums for board member participation in the plan; permits board members to purchase premiums for participation of dependents in the plan. | Senate Education Committee | |
| HB 143 | G. Stumbo; L. Clark; R. Adkins; et al | Relates to the state/executive branch budget. Declares that the 2009 General Assembly, in an effort to address the projected revenue shortfall, shall modify the current state/executive branch budget. | Signed into law | |
| HB 147 | J. Bell; J. DeCesare | Support | Relates to writing portfolios in statewide standardized tests; provides that writing portfolios consisting of samples of student work may be one of the instructional and continuous assessment strategies utilized by schools. | House Education Committee |
| HB 157 | A. Koenig | Relates to teacher advancement and making an appropriation thereof. Establishes a teacher advancement fund to provide tuition assistance to the public post secondary education institutions for teachers completing a master's degree or the continuing education option for Rank II; Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority under administrative regulations which shall be promulgated by December 1, 2009. | House Education Committee | |
| HB 158 | G. Stumbo | Relates to the State Lottery, video lottery terminals (VLT), unclaimed prize money, age restrictions on VLT's, horse race tracks, gaming fees and licenses, drug, alcohol, and gambling addiction program funding, ad valorem taxes on motor vehicles and motor boats, VLT sales taxes, and an exemption of VLT revenues from license, excise, special, or franchise taxes. | Posting Waived | |
| HB 166 | R. Nelson | Relates to alcoholic beverage wholesale sales tax and making an appropriation thereof; increases the alcoholic beverages wholesale sales tax to 20% from the current rate of 11% and distribute a portion of the proceeds of the tax to the Commonwealth fund; creates the Commonwealth fund and distribute fund moneys; creates the local police department grant program. | House Appropriations and Revenue Committee | |
| HB 179 | B. Montell | Relates to interscholastic extracurricular activity participation of students enrolled in home schools; defines home school and interscholastic extracurricular activity; identifies conditions under which a student enrolled in a home school may participate in interscholastic extracurricular activities; prohibits discrimination against home school student selection or participation in such activities; specifies waiting period for participation when a student transfers from a public school to a home school. | House Education Committee | |
| HB 189 | B. Yonts | Relates to compulsory school; provides that effective July 1, 2010, compulsory school attendance shall be between the ages of six and seventeen; provides that effective July 1, 2011, compulsory school attendance shall be between the ages of six and eighteen. | Recommitted to House Education Committee | |
| HB 197 | J. Richards | Support | Relates to the Kentucky Educator Award and Recognition Fund; makes an appropriation; establishes the Kentucky Educator Award and Recognition Fund to provide matching funds for schools that have state and national award winning educators who received cash awards or an equivalent benefit; requires the Kentucky Department of Education to administer the fund. | Senate Education Committee |
| HB 198 | C. Rollins | Support | Relates to community education; deletes obsolete language; clarifies language regarding the use of funds for a community education director, including professional development; clarifies roles. | Signed into law |
| HB 209 | Webb-Edgington | Permits schools to be closed on the third Monday of February in observance of Presidents' Day. | House Rules Committee | |
| HB 210 | L. Combs | Track | Establishes the Autism Scholarship Program to permit autistic children to receive a scholarship to move from his or her resident public school to a participating school as a public or nonpublic school that meets certain criteria and accepts the student for enrollment; sets the maximum amount of the scholarship at an amount equal to the per-pupil funding based on the average daily attendance. | Senate Rules Committee |
| HB 219 | J. Fischer | Establishes the Autism Scholarship Program to permit autistic children to receive a scholarship to move from his or her resident public school to a participating school as a public or nonpublic school that meets certain criteria and accepts the student for enrollment; sets the maximum amount of the scholarship at an amount equal to the per-pupil funding based on the average daily attendance. | House Education Committee | |
| HB 223 | J. Wayne | Increases the tax rate on income over $75,000 establishes a refundable earned income tax credit at 15 percent of the federal credited couple from the federal estate tax phase-out; includes selected services as subject to sales tax; recognizes changes to income tax credits; makes income tax provisions effective for tax years beginning January 1, 2009, makes estate tax provisions effective for deaths on or after August 1, 2009. | House Appropriations and Revenue Committee | |
| HB 237 | H. Collins; K. Hall; R. Henderson | Imposes sales and use tax on gross receipts from the sale of distilled spirits, wine, and malt beverages not consumed on the premises; increases the distilled spirits excise tax on each wine gallon; increases the malt beverages excise tax on each barrel of 31 gallons; limits the credit of 50 percent to each brewer producing malt beverages in this state to 50 percent of the tax imposed on each barrel of malt beverages sold. | House Appropriations and Revenue Committee | |
| HB 255 | C. Rollins | Support | Declares new goals for reducing the dropout rate by the year 2011; specifies that the statewide annual average dropout rate will be reduced by 70 percent of what it was in the year 2000; specifies that no school will have an annual dropout rate that exceeds four percent; directs the Kentucky Department of Education to give priority for receiving grant funds to districts with the highest annual dropout rates. | House Rules Committee |
| HB 256 | J. Bell | Relates to the minimum school term; defines the single salary schedule based on the minimum school term of 187 days or the equivalent; amend KRS 157.350 to change the employment of teachers to 187 days or the equivalent as set forth in the minimum school term; amend KRS 157.420 to delete references to 185-day term; redefines the required time for earning a full year service credit in the Kentucky Teachers' Retirement System based on an equivalent hour calendar. | House Education Committee | |
| HB 283 | J. Higdon | Permits the arts and humanities components of the assessment program to include a school level program evaluation in addition to or in place of the student assessment items. | House Education Committee | |
| HB 291 | R. Crimm | Relates to school calendars and declaring an emergency. Allows a local board of education to request from the commissioner of education disaster days for any days missed due to widespread illness, emergencies, or inclement weather; require the commissioner to approve the request; requires staff to make up approved disaster days; identifies activities to be used by staff to make up approved disaster days. | House Education Committee | |
| HB 294 | M. Henley; C.B. Embry | Support | Removes the prohibition regarding employees of local school districts taking part in the management or activities of any political campaign for school board. | House Education Committee |
| HB 295 | J. Greer; L. Belcher; R. Crimm, et al | Support | Allows school districts to apply to the commissioner of education to use capital outlay funds to purchase land, modify an existing school or for maintenance or property insurance; allows growth districts to apply to use capital outlay funds for operating expenses for two years after a new school opens allows the levy for school facilities currently dedicated for the Facilities Support Program of Kentucky to be used to purchase land if approved. | Signed into law |
| HB 306 | A. Koenig | Requires each school-based decision making council to develop a process for conferences to be held between a parent, guardian, or custodian and the student's teachers within the first 60 days of each school year; notifies parents in writing of their failure to attend a conference, give a new conference date, and notify the parent, guardian, or custodian of the penalty for failure to comply establishes a penalty of for the first offense. | House Education Committee | |
| HB 307 | J. Hoover; H. Moberly | Permits local school districts to use capital outlay funds for general operating expenses for fiscal year 2008-2009 and fiscal year 2009-2010 if approved by the commissioner of education; permits local school districts that use capital outlay funds for general operating expenses to continue to participate in the School Facilities Construction Commission. | House Appropriations and Revenue Committee | |
| HB 317 | T. McKee | Track | Requires the Kentucky Board of Education or any agency designated by the state board to manage interscholastic athletics to permit an unlimited waiver if the local school district superintendent reports that a certified person is not available to serve in a coaching noncertified person hired in a coaching position to complete a professional development course offered by the state board or its designated agency. | Conference Committee |
| HB 319 | A. Wuchner | Describes how calculated state portion of the support education excellence in Kentucky is determined. | House Education Committee | |
| HB 322 | M. Cherry | Support | Allows a local board of education in a county identified as a federal disaster area because of Tropical Storm Ike and the severe weather storm of January and February of 2009 to request from the commissioner of education up to ten disaster days missed and require the commissioner to approve the request. | Signed into law |
| HB 323 | M. Cherry | Provides that a retiree who has been reemployed in a full-time position within state government on or after September 1, 2008 shall be eligible for life insurance benefits; provides that the retirements systems shall add one more fiscal years to the final compensation calculation for classified school board employees participating in the County Employees Retirement System on or after September 1, 2008, if the five fiscal years prior to retirement do not include sixty months. | Senate Rules Committee | |
| HB 324 | K. Hall; B. Yonts | Creates a new section KRS Chapter 164 to create a two (2) year pilot program beginning with the 2010-2011 academic year to provide grants for eligible high school students who reside in coal producing counties to participate in dual credit courses; permits a student to receive a grant for up to twelve (12) college credit hours; requires the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to promulgate administrative regulations for implementing the program. | Recommitted to House A&R Committee | |
| HB 327 | C. Miller; C. Siler; et al | Support | Permits a local board of education to grant a leave of absence to a teacher or superintendent for reasons it deems necessary. | House Education Committee |
| HB 346 | H. Moberly | Support | Grants authority to the school-based decision making council in each school to determine the teacher work hours required for each day beyond the daily instructional hours. | Senate Education Committee |
| HB 363 | K. Stevens; L. Belcher; et al | Permits schools districts for fiscal years 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 to use capital outlay funds for general operating expenses without forfeiture of the district's participation in the School Facilities Construction Commission program. | Recommitted to Senate A&R Committee | |
| HB 364 | A. Wuchner; J. Hoover | Establishes the option for early high school graduation beginning in the 2010-2011 school year; defines the curriculum requirements for early graduation and unconditional entry into a Kentucky public two-year community and technical college and the requirements for unconditional entry into a four-year public college; establishes the Early Graduation Scholarship Certificate and the processes for awarding it and using it; permits certificate to be used at an independent college or university. | House Education Committee | |
| HB 366 | D. Graham | Confirms Executive Order 2008-515 enacting reorganization of various offices and divisions in the Department of Education. | Senate Rules Committee | |
| HB 367 | J. Jenkins | Relates to administrative hearings; amends the definition of party to include union representative or other designee. | Senate Judiciary Committee | |
| HB 373 | R. Nelson | Support | Defines terms and permits teachers and classified employees to organize and bargain collectively with a board of education for wages, hours, and other work conditions; requires local boards of education to bargain collectively with a bargaining representative that has been chosen by a majority of a bargaining unit of teachers or classified employees; authorizes the Department of Labor to promulgate administrative regulations. | House Labor & Industry Committee |
| HB 380 | M. Cherry | Support | Requires that two of the three Governor appointees to the Kentucky Retirement Systems board of trustees possess ten years of investment experience and to define investment experience, and to prohibit systems' employees from serving as a member of the board, establishes a five member investment committee for the Kentucky Retirement Systems. | Senate Rules Committee |
| HB 383 | J. Jenkins; C. B. Embry; et al | Requires high school coaches to be trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and in the use of automated external defibrillators; requires automated external defibrillators be on-site for every high school practice, athletic activity or sporting event; requires an ice pool to be readily available if the temperature is ninety-four degrees or higher; prohibits the Kentucky Board of Education from adopting policies that are contrary to these provisions. | Governor's Office | |
| HB 408 | J. Greer; A. Wuchner; et al | Permits growth districts to request adjustments in the SEEK funds when average daily attendance in the current year for the 20-day school month with the most days in January exceeds the prior year's adjusted average daily attendance plus growth by at least 1%; prescribes how the state portion of the SEEK program is calculated regarding the value of real estate. | Signed into law | |
| HB 409 | J. Tilley | Requires that by the beginning of the 2010-2011 school year students entering the second year of primary shall be screened for dyslexia according to administrative regulations adopted by the Kentucky Board of Education; requires local school districts to provide professional development for primary and elementary teachers responsible for instructing students with dyslexia expand the definition of specific learning disability to include dyslexia. | Recommitted to House A&R Committee | |
| HB 416 | D. Graham | Track | Relates to retirement; clarifies that the accumulated contributions of a member shall not include funds contributed for retiree health benefits by employees who begin participating on or after September 1, 2008; clarifies that the fiscal year shall be used for determining contribution and benefit limits under the federal tax code; ensures actuarial equivalence of all retirement payment options. | Signed into law |
| HB 420 | T. Edmonds; K. Hall | Support | Deletes writing portfolios from the statewide assessment program; requires the Kentucky Department of Education to provide to schools sample writing programs; requires school councils to adopt a writing program and submit it for Department of Education for approval; requires writing portfolios to be maintained for students beginning with the end of the primary program through grade twelve; requires a local district evaluation of the writing program of each. | House Education Committee |
| HB 423 | R. Rand | Adds definitions for consensus forecast group revenue shortfall and revenue surplus; sets forth requirements for submission of a budget reduction plan by the branches of government; clarifies language and provide that the budget reduction plan or surplus expenditure plan may be implemented only upon the issuance of an official revenue estimate from the consensus forecasting group set forth provisions relating to the planning report and clarify language. | Signed into law | |
| HB 439 | B. Yonts | Oppose | Amends the 2008 Executive Branch budget bill to transfer funding for education of inmates from KCTCS to the Department of Corrections. | Posting Waived |
| HB 443 | M. Denham | Relates to commercial driver's licenses, to require employers of persons possessing a commercial driver's license to report results of positive drug and alcohol screening tests to the Transportation Cabinet within three business days of receiving the results; establishes the same requirements for a medical review officer acting on behalf of a Kentucky motor carrier; requires the Transportation Cabinet to establish a commercial driver drug and alcohol testing database. | House Transportation Committee | |
| HB 467 | L. Belcher | Defines digital citizenship; direct the Kentucky Board of Education to include digital citizenship in its acceptable use policy; expand the definition of technology as it relates to public school personnel professional development; require that digital citizenship be included in a school's behavior code. | Senate Education Committee | |
| HB 480 | B. Yonts | Support | Requires the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to give priority in the use of teacher scholarship program funds to loan forgiveness for teachers who were accepted into the Best in Class program prior to June 30, 2008; creates a New section of KRS 164 to define the Best in Class program and to require the authority, if insufficient funds are available for loan forgiveness, to establish a schedule for loan payment over a ten-year period. | Signed into law |
| HB 502 | K. Bratcher; B. Montell; et al | Support | Permits the use of the Kentucky teacher scholarship program funds for loan forgiveness for teachers with outstanding loan balances on Best in Class loans issued prior to June, 2008. | House Education Committee |
| HB 506 | L. Belcher | Requires the Kentucky Department of Education to develop and disseminate to districts and Schools a suicide prevention training program; requires all middle and high school teachers to participate in a suicide prevention training program. | Senate Education Committee | |
| HB 508 | H. Moberly; C. Rollins; et al | Support | Adds an expectation relating to performing arts; adds definitions; requires the Department of Education to plan and implement a comprehensive process to revise academic content standards and to complete the process in the areas of reading, language arts, mathematics, science, and social studies by December 15, 2010; disseminates the revised academic content standards by December 31, 2010; completes a revision of the academic content standards for arts and humanities, and practical living skills. | Recommitted to House Education Committee |
| HB 525 | D. Graham; J. Jenkins | Creates a New section of KRS 160 to require local school boards to make automatic external defibrillators available in all public Schools; requires local districts to collaborate with local and state organizations to coordinate training for employees on the use of automatic external defibrillators; clarifies immunity for injury during use of automatic external defibrillators; s require the Department of Education to disseminate information on funding sources and to coordinate recognition of funding sources. | House Education Committee | |
| HB 527 | C. Rollins | Creates New sections of KRS Chapter 157 to establish the Strong Start Kentucky Program as a grant program administered by the Early Childhood Development Authority to develop collaborative models of preschool education for unserved children living at or below 200 percent of the federal poverty level; requires collaboration among all community providers; requires administrative regulations to define the eligible applicants; requires the authority to study the long-term need and projected cost of serving all. | House Education Committee | |
| Bill | Sponsor | Position | Description | Status |
| RESOLUTIONS | ||||
| HCR 11 | Linda Belcher | Support | Urges the United States Congress to amend Title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the Government Pension Offset and Windfall Elimination Provisions. | Senate State and Local Government Committee |
| SJR 19 | D. Kelly, K. Winters | Directs the Department of Education to use the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics report recommendations to revise mathematics core content standards and materials in grades prekindergarten through grade 12. SCS directs KDE to consider the NCTM recommendations in its revision of math standards. | House Education Committee | |
| HR 110 | D. Graham | Support | Recognizes and honor Carmen Thompson for being nominated to represent Kentucky in the competition for the 2008-2009 Veterans of Foreign Wars' National Citizenship Teacher Award for Grades 6-8. | Passed by Voice Vote |
| HR 113 | C. Rollins | Honors the 2009 inductees into the Governor Louie B. Nunn Kentucky Teacher Hall of Fame. | Passed by Voice Vote | |
| SR 117 | T. Shaughnessy | Urges the executive director of the Office of Insurance and the Health Insurance Advisory Council to develop a uniform group health insurance application and proposals for implementation and adoption. | Senate State and Local Government Committee | |
| HCR 121 | R. Adams | Urges the Department of Education to consider the introduction of instruction on the humane treatment and protection of animals into public school systems. | Senate Education Committee | |
| HCR 125 | J. Carney; K. Stevens | Support | Directs the staff of the Legislative Research Commission to conduct a study of the STIDistrict and the Infinite Campus information management systems to ascertain the relative merits and costs of implementing each system; require a written report to the Interim Joint Committee on Education by November 1, 2009. | House Education Committee |
| HJR 131 | B. Yonts | Track | Concerns the use of funding provided for the purpose of supplying education services to the Department of Corrections for adult inmate education. | House Education Committee |
| SR 149 | V. McGaha | Declares the Sunday of the second weekend of August each year through the third Sunday of August as Kentucky Educators Week. | Passed by Voice Vote | |
| HCR 158 | J. Richards | Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish a legislative task force to establish a strategy to provide home laptop computers for middle school students; establish task force by July 1, 2009; report findings to appropriate committee or committees no later than December 1, 2009. | Senate Education Committee | |
| HR 179 | C. Rollins | Honors Kentucky's national board certified teachers. | Withdrawn | |
| HR 181 | C. Rollins | Recognizes Kentucky's New National Board Certified Teachers and adjourn the House of Representatives in their honor. | Passed by Voice Vote | |
| HR 187 | R. Nelson | Resolutions urging the KCTCS Board of regents to preserve tenure for New faculty. | Passed by Voice Vote | |
| HR 198 | R. Adkins | Amends House Rules 38 and 40 to change name of Seniors, Military Affairs, and Public Safety Committee to Military Affairs and Public Safety Committee; amends jurisdictions of Military Affairs and Public Safety and Health and Welfare Committees. | Passed by Voice Vote | |