Summary of Original Version

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.

Summary of Amendment: House Committee Substitute 1

Summary Retain original provisions, except provide five disaster relief student attendance days; require the commissioner of education to deny school day waiver requests for school districts that did not make up days by adding time to the student instructional day.

Summary of Amendment: Senate Committee Substitute 1

Summary Retain original provisions; include an incentive for school districts that do not use any of the five disaster relief student attendance days and the five days waivable by the commissioner of education; provide those school districts with five additional low attendance days.

Summary of Amendment: Senate Committee Substitute 2

Summary Retain original provisions; include an incentive for school districts that do not use any of the five disaster relief student attendance days and the five days waivable by the commissioner of education; provide those school districts with five additional low attendance days; amend KRS 157.320 to define "virtual program"; amend KRS 157.360 to include virtual programs in the exclusion for class size loads of 150 pupil hours per day for a teacher; amend KRS 158.120 to establish nonresident pupil enrollment limitations for a district's virtual program; require that no further nonresident pupil enrollments is to occur after June 30, 2028; prohibit the commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Education, the Kentucky Board of Education, and the Kentucky Department of Education from establishing or implementing, or requiring a school district to implement, any cap, limitation, or restriction on enrollment for a virtual program; prohibit the Kentucky Department of Education and the Kentucky Board of Education from reducing or withholding any funds due to a school district from the fund to Support Education Excellence in Kentucky based on the district's operation of a virtual program; sunset prohibitions on June 30, 2028, EMERGENCY.

Summary of Amendment: Senate Committee Amendment 1 -- S. West

Summary Make title amendment.

Summary of Amendment: Senate Floor Amendment 1 -- L. Tichenor

Summary Retain original provisions, except delete subsection (3) in its entirety.

Summary of Amendment: Senate Floor Amendment 2 -- L. Tichenor

Summary Retain original provisions; direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Nontraditional Instruction and Virtual Instruction Models Task Force; outline task force duties; establish membership; require the task force to meet monthly; require the task force to submit any findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2025,

Summary of Amendment: Senate Floor Amendment 3 -- L. Tichenor

Summary Make title amendment.

Summary of Amendment: Senate Floor Amendment 4 -- L. Tichenor

Summary Amend KRS 156.395 to include a definition of "virtual instructional materials"; create a new section of KRS Chapter KRS 156 to require each local board of education to provide a single source of virtual instructional materials.

Summary of Amendment: Conference Committee Report 1

Summary Cannot agree.

Summary of Amendment: Free Conference Committee Report 1

Summary Retain language and require that the maximum class size loads for middle and secondary classroom teachers in virtual programs is not to exceed 300 pupil hours per day; establish the terms and conditions for non-resident pupil enrollment in virtual programs; terminate non-resident enrollment in virtual programs on June 30, 2028; amend KRS 158.100 to require local boards operating a virtual program to adopt a policy to address student failures to complete state-mandated assessments; establish limitations for virtual program enrollment in qualifying districts based on academic performance; make title amendment.

Statutes affected:
Senate Committee Substitute 2: 157.320, 157.360, 158.120
Free Conference Committee Report 1: 157.320, 157.360, 158.120, 158.100