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HB 241 Kentucky House · 2025 Regular Session

AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency.

Summary
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.
Bill status signed all 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
Mar 2025
House Passage
Mar 2025
Senate Passage
Mar 2025
Signed into Law
Mar 2025
Introduced Feb 4, 2025 Signed Mar 27, 2025
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What changed between versions

Introduced → Current/Final · 5 edits
MODERATE
The bill was renamed from HB 241/EN to reflect its broader scope, and the title was changed from 'school district calendars' to 'education' to encompass more comprehensive educational provisions. The bill now includes detailed definitions for key terms like 'average daily attendance' and 'base funding level', and adds specific rules for calculating attendance when schools use nontraditional instruction days or face health/safety closures.
Scope change
The bill's scope expanded from solely addressing school calendar revisions to include broader educational definitions and attendance calculation rules that apply to all public schools in Kentucky.
TITLE

Bill title changed from 'school district calendars' to 'education' to reflect broader content

DEFINITION

New comprehensive definitions section added for terms like average daily attendance, base funding level, and public school fund

REQUIREMENT

New attendance calculation rules added for districts using nontraditional instruction days or waiving days due to health/safety concerns

ELIGIBILITY

Modified rules for how instructional hours can be made up and when attendance days can be waived

TECHNICAL

Added specific provisions for counting suspended and expelled students in attendance calculations

Floor votes · House Feb 21, 2025

How they voted

This bill passed the Senate by voice vote (no roll call recorded).
Full legislative history

Actions timeline

Total actions
56
Key actions
26
Committee
25
Amendments
3
Mar 25, 2025
Introduced
filed without Governor's signature with the Secretary of State
lower
Mar 14, 2025
Upper · Passed
enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
upper
Mar 14, 2025
Lower · Passed
enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
lower
Mar 14, 2025
Lower · Passed
passed 91-0
lower
Mar 14, 2025
Lower · Passed
Free Conference Committee report adopted in House
lower
Mar 14, 2025
Lower · Passed
posted for passage for consideration of Free Conference Free Conference Committee Report (1)
lower
Mar 14, 2025
Committee
to Rules (H)
lower
Mar 13, 2025
Lower · Passed
bill passed 31-6
lower
Mar 13, 2025
Upper · Passed
Free Conference Committee report adopted in Senate
upper
Mar 13, 2025
Lower · Passed
posted for passage for consideration of Free Conference Committee Report (1)
lower
Mar 13, 2025
Upper · Passed
Free Conference Committee report filed in House and Senate
upper
Mar 13, 2025
Upper · Passed
Free Conference Committee appointed in House and Senate
upper
Mar 13, 2025
Upper · Passed
Conference Committee report adopted in Senate
upper
Mar 13, 2025
Upper · Passed
Conference Committee report (1) filed in Senate
upper
Mar 13, 2025
Lower · Passed
Conference Committee report adopted in House
lower
Mar 13, 2025
Lower · Passed
Conference Committee report (1) filed in House
lower
Mar 12, 2025
Upper · Passed
Conference Committee appointed in House and Senate
upper
Mar 12, 2025
Lower · Passed
posted for passage for receding from Senate Committee Substitute (2) and Committee Amendment (1-title)
lower
Mar 11, 2025
Committee
to Rules (S)
upper
Mar 11, 2025
Lower · Passed
posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute (2), and Committee Amendment (1-title)
lower
Mar 7, 2025
Committee
to Rules (H)
lower
Mar 6, 2025
Lower · Passed
passed 23-14 with Committee Substitute (2) and Committee Amendment (1-title)
lower
Mar 6, 2025
Introduced
floor amendments (1), (2), (3-title) and (4) ruled out of order
lower
Mar 6, 2025
Lower · Passed
committee substitute (1) ruled out of order
lower
Mar 6, 2025
Lower · Passed
reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (2) and Committee Amendment (1-title)
lower
Mar 5, 2025
Committee
recommitted to Education (S)
upper
Mar 5, 2025
Lower · Passed
passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day
lower
Mar 4, 2025
Introduced
floor amendments (2) and (4) filed to Committee Substitute , floor amendment (3-title) filed to bill
lower
Mar 4, 2025
Lower · Passed
passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day
lower
Feb 28, 2025
Lower · Passed
passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day
lower
Feb 27, 2025
Introduced
floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute
lower
Feb 27, 2025
Lower · Passed
reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1)
lower
Feb 26, 2025
Committee
to Education (S)
upper
Feb 25, 2025
Committee
to Committee on Committees (S)
upper
Feb 21, 2025
Lower · Passed
3rd reading, passed 82-7 with Committee Substitute (1)
lower
Feb 19, 2025
Lower · Passed
reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1)
lower
Feb 7, 2025
Committee
to Primary and Secondary Education (H)
lower
Feb 4, 2025
Committee
to Committee on Committees (H)
lower
Feb 4, 2025
Introduced
introduced in House
lower
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors

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