Summary of Original Version

Amend KRS 161.120 to require the Education Professional Standards Board to promulgate administrative regulations that establish the process and procedures for receiving and processing a complaint against a certificate holder; establish a specific timeline; establish specific action the board may take; require confirmation of receipt of responses or correspondences to the board from a certificate holder; require the board to provide confirmation of receipt to superintendents who submit a report to the board and provide specific notices; establish a specific timeline for a hearing for admonishment, remove the option for a hearing to be conducted by the board or a panel of three members of the board; require that the hearing provide all the due process rights afforded under KRS Chapter 13B; allow an appeal of a final order of the board to be filed in the Circuit Court of the county in which the certificate holder resides; RETROACTIVE to pending complaints filed with the board; EMERGENCY.

Summary of Amendment: House Committee Substitute 1

Summary Retain original provisions, except remove references to administrative regulations; revise complaint review timeline; provide for deferral for certain investigations by state agencies and teacher tribunals; require hearing officers to be provided by the Attorney General's office; allow appeals to be filed in Circuit Court of the county in which the certificate holder was employed when the incident occurred; remove noncodified language and emergency clause.

Summary of Amendment: House Committee Amendment 1 -- J. Tipton

Summary Make title amendment.

Summary of Amendment: Senate Committee Substitute 1

Summary Retain original provisions, except amend to change the number of days required for various provisions, require a timeline to start upon a completed complaint, and provide the Education Professional Standards Board with the options for hearing officers established under KRS 13B.030.

Summary of Amendment: Senate Floor Amendment 1 -- A. Southworth

Summary Amend to delete the provision requiring that a complaint shall be considered dismissed if the Education Professional Standards Board fails to act on a complaint within thirty calendar days,

Statutes affected:
Introduced: 161.120
Acts Chapter 209: 161.120
House Committee Substitute 1: 161.120
Senate Committee Substitute 1: 161.120
Current/Final: 161.120
Current: 161.120