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KY HB 635

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AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency.

Kentucky · 2026 Regular Session · lower

Description

Amend KRS 158.070 to permit a local board of education to amend its school calendar by adding time to the school day to reach the required 1,062 hours of instructional time; for the 2025-2026 school year, 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 5 student attendance days if a school district is unable to provide the required 1,062 hours of instruction by June 10, 2026; require a local board 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; provide that districts that used 10 or fewer nontraditional instruction days and choose not to use any waived days shall have the district's average daily attendance calculated by deducting 5 low attendance days in addition to the 5 days deducted under KRS 157.320(2); EFFECTIVE, in part, July 1, 2026; EMERGENCY.

Introduced
2026-02-12
Status date
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Latest action
2026-02-20 — to Primary and Secondary Education (H)
Bill type
bill
Last updated
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Subjects

Sponsors

  • R. Whiteprimary
  • T. Smithprimary
  • D. Lewisprimary
  • C. Fugateprimary
  • J. Blantonprimary
  • C. Aullprimary
  • T. Truettprimary

Committees

Not provided by source.

Action timeline

  1. 2026-02-12

    introduced in House

    introduction

  2. 2026-02-12

    to Committee on Committees (H)

    referral-committee

  3. 2026-02-20

    to Primary and Secondary Education (H)

    referral-committee

Versions

Documents

Votes

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Related bills

No related bills recorded for this bill.

Official source

https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/26RS/hb635.html

Attribution

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