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Legislative Tracker on Education

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HB 10	Supports for Women and Children	Moser	Support Big Bold Future Report Awaiting Senate Health Services Hearing Awaiting Senate Vote
HB162	Research-based Improvements to Mathematics Education	Tipton	Big Bold Future Report Awaiting Concurrence
HB 399	Dual Credit Extension	Tipton	Support Big Bold Future Report Letter to Sponsor Awaiting House AR Hearing
HB 499	CTE Funding	McCool	Big Bold Future Report Letter to Sponsor Awaiting Senate Vote
HB 695	K-Readiness	Jackson	Delivered to the Governor
HCR 60	SEEK Task Force	Truett	Awaiting House Vote
SB 191	Postsecondary Performance Funding Enhancements	Givens	Support Letter to Sponsor Awaiting House Vote
SB 203	The Horizon Act, Early Childhood	Carroll	Big Bold Future Report Letter to Sponsor Support Awaiting Senate AR Hearing
SB 360	AP Courses Incentives	West	Support Big Bold Future Report Building a diverse workforce in Kentucky starts with advanced STEM classes for our students Increasing Access to Advanced Coursework Assigned to Senate Education

HB 2	The General Assembly may provide financial support for the education of students outside the system of common schools.	Miles	School Choice and Education Issues Signed by Secretary of State
HB 6	House Budget Proposal	Petrie	Budget Analysis Delivered to Governor as amended by Free Conference Committee State Budget Nears Completion
HB 9	Ban on Post-Secondary DEI Practices	Decker	Oppose Letter to Sponsor Awaiting Conference
HB 158	Require rather than allow local boards of education to develop policy on dyslexia. Require teacher candidate instruction on dyslexia.	Bojanowski	Awaiting Committee Assignment
HB 257	Abolish the Council on Post Secondary Education (CPE)	Doan	Oppose Awaiting Committee Assignment
HB 279	Make Full Day Kindergarten Mandatory	Truett	Big Bold Future Report Letter to Sponsor Awaiting Committee Assignment
HB 380	Supports for Pregnant Women and Children	Tate	Big Bold Future Report Awaiting Committee Assignment
HB 535	Civic Education	Duvall	Support Letter to Sponsor Delivered to Governor
HB 561	Child Care Ready Community Act	Heavrin	Delivered to Governor
HB 611	School Truancy	Bauman	Sponsor Letter Chairman Letter Proposed Amendments Delivered to Governor
SB 6	Ban on Post-Secondary DEI Practices	Wilson	Oppose Letter to Sponsor Awaiting Conference
SB 8	Partisan, Elected Kentucky Board of Education (KBE)	Wilson	Letter to Sponsor Oppose Awaiting Hearing in House Education
SB 52	AI Guidelines for Schools	Thomas	Awaiting Hearing in Senate Education
SB 93	Ban on K-12 DEI Practices	Meredith	Oppose Awaiting Hearing in Senate Education
SB 170	Changes to Local Boards of Education	Tichenor	Opposed Awaiting Hearing in Senate Education

Coalition Coverage

HB 36	Establish Center for Student Resiliency and Wellbeing	Willner
HB 100	A homeless individual under the age of 25 does not have to pay a fee to get a copy of his or her birth certificate.	Witten
HB 189 (companion to SB 40)	School Meals Reimbursement for “Kentucky Proud” products	C. Aull
SB 40 (companion to HB 189)	School Meals Reimbursement for “Kentucky Proud” products	Armstrong

Following

HB 46 (companion to SB 7)	KEES Scholarships for Home Schooled Students	Rawlings
HB 108	Accountability Practices for English Learning (EL) Students	Jackson
HB 146	Background Checks for Child Care Employees Turing 18 years old	Clines
HB 158	Require rather than allow local boards of education to develop policy on dyslexia. Require teacher candidate instruction on dyslexia.	Bojanowski
HB 191	Public Comments at School Board Meetings	Calloway
HB 208	Constitutional Amendment on School Choice	Calloway
HB 224	College Free Speech Protections	Maddox
HB 228	Provide Performance Reviews for College Professors, Removal Process	Tipton
HB 275	Close Loopholes in Teacher Background Checks	Tipton
HB 424	Full day Preschool	Raymond
HCR 32	Urge the USDOE to amend the federal accountability requirements to truly afford states the flexibility to implement innovative approaches to student assessment and school accountability	Bojanowski
HCR 43	Re-establish the Early Childhood Education Interim Taskforce	Heavrin
SB 34	This is a proposal by Sen. Westerfield to support maternal health and families that contains a wide-ranging set of issues from special health insurance enrollment periods for health insurance to support for the childcare assistance program.	Westerfield
SB 52	Artificial Intelligence Technology in Education	Thomas
SB 98	Additions to the Kentucky Board of Education (KBE)	Thomas
SB 109	Increase KEES Scholarship Amounts	Armstrong
SB 168	SBDM Minority Voices	Tichenor