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KEA Tracked Bills
BodyOrder by BodyBillOrder by Bill NumberKEA PositionOrder by KEA's PositionStatusOrder by Bill StatusDate EnteredOrder by Date Entered
SB1 TrackStatus: Signed into law
Relates to student assessment; adds an expectation relating to performing arts; restates the purposes and components of... more
SB3  Status: House Education Committee
Relates to early high school graduation; makes an appropriation therefore; establishes the option for early high school... more
SB6  Status: Senate Education Committee
Requires the Kentucky Department of Education to promulgate an administrative regulation to require all public preschool... more
HB8  Status: House Education Committee
Permits students to voluntarily express religious viewpoints in school assignments free from discrimination and organize... more
HB11  Status: House Education Committee
Requires the Kentucky Department of education to identify and disseminate model resources for integrating physical activ... more
HCR11 SupportStatus: Senate State and Local Government Committee
Urges the United States Congress to amend Title II of the Social Security Act to repeal the Government Pension Offset an... more
HB12  Status: House Education Committee
Relates to writing portfolios; removes writing portfolios from the statewide CATS assessment program for elementary scho... more
SJR19  Status: House Education Committee
Directs the Department of Education to use the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics report recommendations to rev... more
HB27  Status: House Education Committee
Clarifies that an approved out-of-state institution at which eligible students may use KEES scholarships must be located... more
HB43 SupportStatus: House Education Committee
Provides that public high school student journalists have right to exercise freedom of speech and press in school-sponso... more
SB43  Status: Senate Education Committee
Relates to career and technical education; makes an appropriation; declares an emergency; defines career pathway and car... more
SB44  Status: Senate Education Committee
Relates to interscholastic athletics; defines home school; identifies the conditions under which a student enrolled in a... more
SB50  Status: Senate Education Committee
Relates to eligibility for a principal internship; allows a person holding an eligibility statement for the principalshi... more
SB59 OpposeStatus: Senate Education Committee
Requires out-of-state teachers with less than 1 year experience rather than less than 2 years to take assessments in ord... more
HB68 SupportStatus: House Appropriations and Revenue Committee
Creates an additional cigarette surtax; increases the tax rates for other tobacco products and snuff; imposes a floor st... more
HB76  Status: House Education Committee
Relates to the Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarship Program; permit, beginning with the 2010-2011 academic year,... more
HB82 SupportStatus: Senate Education Committee
Bill requires uniform plan for progressive discipline and due process for classified employees in all school districts s... more
SB92  Status: Senate Education Committee
Allows the Kentucky Board of Education to approve exceptions to its administrative regulations related to school calenda... more
HB108  Status: House Education Committee
Relates to local school district funding adjustments; provides for growth districts to request an adjustment mid-year du... more
HR110 SupportStatus: Passed by Voice Vote
Recognizes and honor Carmen Thompson for being nominated to represent Kentucky in the competition for the 2008-2009 Vete... more
HR113  Status: Passed by Voice Vote
Honors the 2009 inductees into the Governor Louie B. Nunn Kentucky Teacher Hall of Fame.... more
SR117  Status: Senate State and Local Government Committee
Urges the executive director of the Office of Insurance and the Health Insurance Advisory Council to develop a uniform g... more
HB117  Status: Signed into law
Relates to retirement; establishes a ten year phase-in of the actuarially required employer contributions to the County... more
HB118  Status: House Education Committee
Relates to the Special Needs Alternative Education and Welfare Program; requires a resident school district to provide a... more
HCR121  Status: Senate Education Committee
Urges the Department of Education to consider the introduction of instruction on the humane treatment and protection of... more
HB123 SupportStatus: House Appropriations and Revenue Committee
Relates to cigarette taxes and makes an appropriation thereof; levies a floor stock tax on cigarettes; creates the Commo... more
HB124  Status: Signed into law
Relates to excused school absence for children of Armed Forces service members.... more
HCR125 SupportStatus: House Education Committee
Directs the staff of the Legislative Research Commission to conduct a study of the STIDistrict and the Infinite Campus i... more
HJR131 TrackStatus: House Education Committee
Concerns the use of funding provided for the purpose of supplying education services to the Department of Corrections fo... more
HB141  Status: Senate Education Committee
Relates to medical and dental insurance coverage of school board members and their families; permits a local board of ed... more
SB142  Status: Recommitted to Senate A&R Committee
Prohibits prohibit the Kentucky Board of Education or any agency designated by the board to manage interscholastic athle... more
HB143  Status: Signed into law
Relates to the state/executive branch budget. Declares that the 2009 General Assembly, in an effort to address the proje... more
HB147 SupportStatus: House Education Committee
Relates to writing portfolios in statewide standardized tests; provides that writing portfolios consisting of samples of... more
SB148  Status: Signed into law
Requires a criminal records check for parent members of school-based decision making councils; allows members to serve p... more
SR149  Status: Passed by Voice Vote
Declares the Sunday of the second weekend of August each year through the third Sunday of August as Kentucky Educators W... more
SB152  Status: Senate Education Committee
Allows a local board of education to request from the commissioner of education disaster days for up to a maximum of ten... more
SB153  Status: Senate Education Committee
Provides that in a school district that has an employer-employee contract an open position will be a district position a... more
HB157  Status: House Education Committee
Relates to teacher advancement and making an appropriation thereof. Establishes a teacher advancement fund to provide tu... more
HB158  Status: Posting Waived
Relates to the State Lottery, video lottery terminals (VLT), unclaimed prize money, age restrictions on VLT's, horse rac... more
HCR158  Status: Senate Education Committee
Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish a legislative task force to establish a strategy to provide home... more
SB165 OpposeStatus: Senate Economic Development & Labor Committee
Prohibits mandatory membership or financial support of a labor organization as a condition of employment, and to name th... more
HB166  Status: House Appropriations and Revenue Committee
Relates to alcoholic beverage wholesale sales tax and making an appropriation thereof; increases the alcoholic beverages... more
SB172  Status: Senate Education Committee
Defines terms and permits teachers and classified employees to organize and bargain collectively with a board of educati... more
HR179  Status: Withdrawn
Honors Kentucky's national board certified teachers.... more
HB179  Status: House Education Committee
Relates to interscholastic extracurricular activity participation of students enrolled in home schools; defines home sch... more
SB180 OpposeStatus: House Education Committee
Defines homeschool students as eligible for the state educational excellence scholarships; changes definition of high sc... more
HR181  Status: Passed by Voice Vote
Recognizes Kentucky's New National Board Certified Teachers and adjourn the House of Representatives in their honor.... more
SB186  Status: Senate Education Committee
Creates the Students with Special Needs Scholarship Program; defines terminology regarding participation; describes the... more
HR187  Status: Passed by Voice Vote
Resolutions urging the KCTCS Board of regents to preserve tenure for New faculty.... more
HB189  Status: Recommitted to House Education Committee
Relates to compulsory school; provides that effective July 1, 2010, compulsory school attendance shall be between the ag... more
HB197 SupportStatus: Senate Education Committee
Relates to the Kentucky Educator Award and Recognition Fund; makes an appropriation; establishes the Kentucky Educator A... more
HB198 SupportStatus: Signed into law
Relates to community education; deletes obsolete language; clarifies language regarding the use of funds for a community... more
HR198  Status: Passed by Voice Vote
Amends House Rules 38 and 40 to change name of Seniors, Military Affairs, and Public Safety Committee to Military Affair... more
HB209  Status: House Rules Committee
Permits schools to be closed on the third Monday of February in observance of Presidents' Day.... more
HB210 TrackStatus: Senate Rules Committee
Establishes the Autism Scholarship Program to permit autistic children to receive a scholarship to move from his or her... more
HB219  Status: House Education Committee
Establishes the Autism Scholarship Program to permit autistic children to receive a scholarship to move from his or her... more
HB223  Status: House Appropriations and Revenue Committee
Increases the tax rate on income over $75,000 establishes a refundable earned income tax credit at 15 percent of the fed... more
HB237  Status: House Appropriations and Revenue Committee
Imposes sales and use tax on gross receipts from the sale of distilled spirits, wine, and malt beverages not consumed on... more
HB255 SupportStatus: House Rules Committee
Declares new goals for reducing the dropout rate by the year 2011; specifies that the statewide annual average dropout r... more
HB256  Status: House Education Committee
Relates to the minimum school term; defines the single salary schedule based on the minimum school term of 187 days or t... more
HB283  Status: House Education Committee
Permits the arts and humanities components of the assessment program to include a school level program evaluation in add... more
HB291  Status: House Education Committee
Relates to school calendars and declaring an emergency. Allows a local board of education to request from the commission... more
HB294 SupportStatus: House Education Committee
Removes the prohibition regarding employees of local school districts taking part in the management or activities of any... more
HB295 SupportStatus: Signed into law
Allows school districts to apply to the commissioner of education to use capital outlay funds to purchase land, modify a... more
HB306  Status: House Education Committee
Requires each school-based decision making council to develop a process for conferences to be held between a parent, gua... more
HB307  Status: House Appropriations and Revenue Committee
Permits local school districts to use capital outlay funds for general operating expenses for fiscal year 2008-2009 and... more
HB317 TrackStatus: Conference Committee
Requires the Kentucky Board of Education or any agency designated by the state board to manage interscholastic athletics... more
HB319  Status: House Education Committee
Describes how calculated state portion of the support education excellence in Kentucky is determined.... more
HB322 SupportStatus: Signed into law
Allows a local board of education in a county identified as a federal disaster area because of Tropical Storm Ike and th... more
HB323  Status: Senate Rules Committee
Provides that a retiree who has been reemployed in a full-time position within state government on or after September 1,... more
HB324  Status: Recommitted to House A&R Committee
Creates a new section KRS Chapter 164 to create a two (2) year pilot program beginning with the 2010-2011 academic year... more
HB327 SupportStatus: House Education Committee
Permits a local board of education to grant a leave of absence to a teacher or superintendent for reasons it deems neces... more
HB346 SupportStatus: Senate Education Committee
Grants authority to the school-based decision making council in each school to determine the teacher work hours required... more
HB363  Status: Recommitted to Senate A&R Committee
Permits schools districts for fiscal years 2008-2009 and 2009-2010 to use capital outlay funds for general operating exp... more
HB364  Status: House Education Committee
Establishes the option for early high school graduation beginning in the 2010-2011 school year; defines the curriculum r... more
HB366  Status: Senate Rules Committee
Confirms Executive Order 2008-515 enacting reorganization of various offices and divisions in the Department of Educatio... more
HB367  Status: Senate Judiciary Committee
Relates to administrative hearings; amends the definition of party to include union representative or other designee.... more
HB373 SupportStatus: House Labor & Industry Committee
Defines terms and permits teachers and classified employees to organize and bargain collectively with a board of educati... more
HB380 SupportStatus: Senate Rules Committee
Requires that two of the three Governor appointees to the Kentucky Retirement Systems board of trustees possess ten year... more
HB383  Status: Governor's Office
Requires high school coaches to be trained in cardiopulmonary resuscitation and in the use of automated external defibri... more
HB408  Status: Signed into law
Permits growth districts to request adjustments in the SEEK funds when average daily attendance in the current year for... more
HB409  Status: Recommitted to House A&R Committee
Requires that by the beginning of the 2010-2011 school year students entering the second year of primary shall be screen... more
HB416 TrackStatus: Signed into law
Relates to retirement; clarifies that the accumulated contributions of a member shall not include funds contributed for... more
HB420 SupportStatus: House Education Committee
Deletes writing portfolios from the statewide assessment program; requires the Kentucky Department of Education to provi... more
HB423  Status: Signed into law
Adds definitions for consensus forecast group revenue shortfall and revenue surplus; sets forth requirements for submiss... more
HB439 OpposeStatus: Posting Waived
Amends the 2008 Executive Branch budget bill to transfer funding for education of inmates from KCTCS to the Department o... more
HB443  Status: House Transportation Committee
Relates to commercial driver's licenses, to require employers of persons possessing a commercial driver's license to rep... more
HB467  Status: Senate Education Committee
Defines digital citizenship; direct the Kentucky Board of Education to include digital citizenship in its acceptable use... more
HB480 SupportStatus: Signed into law
Requires the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to give priority in the use of teacher scholarship program f... more
HB502 SupportStatus: House Education Committee
Permits the use of the Kentucky teacher scholarship program funds for loan forgiveness for teachers with outstanding loa... more
HB506  Status: Senate Education Committee
Requires the Kentucky Department of Education to develop and disseminate to districts and Schools a suicide prevention t... more
HB508 SupportStatus: Recommitted to House Education Committee
Adds an expectation relating to performing arts; adds definitions; requires the Department of Education to plan and impl... more
HB525  Status: House Education Committee
Creates a New section of KRS 160 to require local school boards to make automatic external defibrillators available in a... more
HB527  Status: House Education Committee
Creates New sections of KRS Chapter 157 to establish the Strong Start Kentucky Program as a grant program administered b... more


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