# Kentucky HB 241: AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency. Kentucky HB 241, AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency., is a 2025 Regular Session House bill sponsored by Timmy Truett (Republican); status became law, last action 2025-03-27 (became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 94)); PRIA reads it as touching household money (as of 2026-10-17). - Canonical: https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KY-HB241-2025RS - As of: 2026-10-17 - Plain-text twin of the page above; the HTML and this file carry the same facts. ## Facts - Bill: Kentucky HB 241 - State: Kentucky - Session: 2025 Regular Session - Title: AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency. - Status: became law - Chamber: House - Introduced: 2025-02-04 - Last action: 2025-03-27, became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 94) - Sponsor: Timmy Truett (Republican) - Cosponsors: 8 - Subjects: Education, Elementary and Secondary, Effective Dates, Emergency, State Agencies, Teachers, Children and Minors, Boards and Commissions - Touches household money: yes - Roll calls: 4 (227 yes, 27 no in all) - Economic provisions PRIA read: 7 ## Summary No summary available. ## Bill overview: provisions PRIA read - School employees keep contract-day credit: benefit, low. Under the 2024–2025 calendar rules, classified and certified school-board employees received credit toward completing their employment contracts. Each day made up by lengthening school days counted as one completed contract day. Each attendance day waived under those rules also counted. The law did… - District virtual schools gain state protections: benefit, low. Districts may run virtual programs, and boards must set policies for missed state tests, including kindergarten readiness tests. Through June 30, 2028, state education officials cannot set or require enrollment limits for qualifying fully virtual alternatives to traditional schools. These programs… - Schools can exclude more low-attendance days: benefit, low. For 2024–2025, qualifying districts could exclude five extra low-attendance days when calculating average daily attendance. That was in addition to the five days already excluded. Districts qualified only if they used 10 or fewer nontraditional instruction days and skipped the specified disaster-re… - Nonresident virtual students face enrollment limits: cost, medium. Beginning in 2025–2026, full-time nonresident enrollment in district kindergarten-through-grade-12 virtual programs is capped at 1% of the previous year’s statewide enrollment. Exclusions cover siblings already enrolled in the same program, military dependents, and pupils whose physician documents… - Low-performing districts face virtual enrollment caps: cost, low. These caps apply to independent districts with more than 2,000 virtual students on the law’s effective date. An elementary school in the bottom 5% for 2023–2024 triggers a kindergarten-through-grade-five virtual enrollment cap at the effective-date level. A middle or high school in the bottom 5% fo… - Schools gain temporary calendar flexibility: mixed, low. For 2024–2025, districts could replace the usual 170-day minimum with 1,062 instructional hours under a state-approved plan. Authorized time waivers reduced that total. Days could exceed seven instructional hours only under an approved innovative alternative calendar. The commissioner could grant u… - Virtual schools gain looser staffing rules: mixed, low. In schools without school-based decision making, qualifying virtual teachers may serve up to 300 pupil hours daily. That compares with the 150-pupil-hour classroom-teacher limit; 300 remains the ceiling. Eligible programs offer all courses virtually, have no regular in-person instruction, and repla… ## Sponsors and cosponsors - Sponsor: Timmy Truett (Republican), House - Cosponsor: Anne Gay Donworth (Democrat), House - Cosponsor: Beverly Chester-Burton (Democrat), House - Cosponsor: Chad Aull (Democrat), House - Cosponsor: Derek Lewis (Republican), House - Cosponsor: John Blanton (Republican), House - Cosponsor: Jennifer Decker (Republican), House - Cosponsor: Nick Wilson (Republican), House - Cosponsor: Tom Smith (Republican), House ## Roll call votes | Date | Chamber | Motion | Result | Yes | No | Other | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 2025-03-14 | House | passed | pass | 91 | 0 | | | 2025-03-13 | Senate | bill passed | pass | 31 | 6 | | | 2025-03-06 | Senate | passed | pass | 23 | 14 | | | 2025-02-21 | House | 3rd reading, passed | pass | 82 | 7 | | ## Actions (56) - 2025-03-27: became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 94) - 2025-03-25: filed without Governor's signature with the Secretary of State - 2025-03-14: delivered to Governor - 2025-03-14: enrolled, signed by President of the Senate (House) - 2025-03-14: enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House (House) - 2025-03-14: passed 91-0 (House) - 2025-03-14: Free Conference Committee report adopted in House (House) - 2025-03-14: posted for passage for consideration of Free Conference Free Conference Committee Report (1) (House) - 2025-03-14: to Rules (H) (House) - 2025-03-14: received in House (House) - 2025-03-13: bill passed 31-6 (Senate) - 2025-03-13: Free Conference Committee report adopted in Senate (Senate) - 2025-03-13: posted for passage for consideration of Free Conference Committee Report (1) (House) - 2025-03-13: Free Conference Committee report filed in House and Senate (House) - 2025-03-13: Free Conference Committee appointed in House and Senate (House) - 2025-03-13: Conference Committee report adopted in Senate (Senate) - 2025-03-13: Conference Committee report (1) filed in Senate (Senate) - 2025-03-13: Conference Committee report adopted in House (House) - 2025-03-13: Conference Committee report (1) filed in House (House) - 2025-03-12: Conference Committee appointed in House and Senate (House) - 2025-03-12: Senate refused to recede from Committee Substitute (2) and Committee Amendment (1-title) (Senate) - 2025-03-12: posted for passage for receding from Senate Committee Substitute (2) and Committee Amendment (1-title) (Senate) - 2025-03-11: taken from Rules (Senate) - 2025-03-11: to Rules (S) (Senate) - 2025-03-11: received in Senate (Senate) - 2025-03-11: House refused to concur in Senate Committee Substitute (2) (Senate) - 2025-03-11: posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute (2), and Committee Amendment (1-title) (Senate) - 2025-03-07: to Rules (H) (House) - 2025-03-07: received in House (House) - 2025-03-06: passed 23-14 with Committee Substitute (2) and Committee Amendment (1-title) (Senate) - 2025-03-06: floor amendments (1), (2), (3-title) and (4) ruled out of order (Senate) - 2025-03-06: committee substitute (1) ruled out of order (Senate) - 2025-03-06: 3rd reading (Senate) - 2025-03-06: posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 06, 2025 (Senate) - 2025-03-06: reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (2) and Committee Amendment (1-title) (Senate) - 2025-03-05: recommitted to Education (S) (Senate) - 2025-03-05: passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day (Senate) - 2025-03-04: floor amendments (2) and (4) filed to Committee Substitute , floor amendment (3-title) filed to bill (Senate) - 2025-03-04: passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day (Senate) - 2025-02-28: passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day (Senate) - 2025-02-27: floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute (Senate) - 2025-02-27: posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 28, 2025 (Senate) - 2025-02-27: reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1) (Senate) - 2025-02-26: returned to Education (S) (Senate) - 2025-02-26: 1st reading (Senate) - 2025-02-26: taken from Education (S) (Senate) - 2025-02-26: to Education (S) (Senate) - 2025-02-25: to Committee on Committees (S) (Senate) - 2025-02-25: received in Senate (Senate) - 2025-02-21: 3rd reading, passed 82-7 with Committee Substitute (1) (House) - 2025-02-20: posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 21, 2025 (House) - 2025-02-20: 2nd reading, to Rules (House) - 2025-02-19: reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) (House) - 2025-02-07: to Primary and Secondary Education (H) (House) - 2025-02-04: to Committee on Committees (H) (House) - 2025-02-04: introduced in House (House) ## Bill text - Current, 2025-03-14: [PDF](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/25RS/hb241/bill.pdf) - Introduced, 2025-02-04: [PDF](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/25RS/hb241/orig_bill.pdf) ## Related bills - HB 501: AN ACT relating to pharmaceutical drugs. (became law) - HB 664: AN ACT relating to the operation of a motor vehicle and declaring an emergency. (signed) - HB 606: AN ACT relating to economic development. (signed) - HB 421: AN ACT relating to colorectal cancer screenings. (signed) - HB 555: AN ACT relating to local government financial practices. (signed) - HB 493: AN ACT relating to the towing and storage of motor vehicles. (signed) ## Sources - [Current (PDF)](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/25RS/hb241/bill.pdf) - [Introduced (PDF)](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/25RS/hb241/orig_bill.pdf) ## Related - [HB 501: AN ACT relating to pharmaceutical drugs.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KY-HB501-2025RS) - [HB 664: AN ACT relating to the operation of a motor vehicle and declaring an emergency.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KY-HB664-2025RS) - [HB 606: AN ACT relating to economic development.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KY-HB606-2025RS) - [HB 421: AN ACT relating to colorectal cancer screenings.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KY-HB421-2025RS) - [HB 555: AN ACT relating to local government financial practices.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KY-HB555-2025RS) - [HB 493: AN ACT relating to the towing and storage of motor vehicles.](https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KY-HB493-2025RS) - [Kentucky bills](https://policyrisk.com/states/kentucky/bills) - [Kentucky state hub](https://policyrisk.com/states/kentucky) - [All state legislation](https://policyrisk.com/state-bills) Source: PRIA, https://policyrisk.com/state-bill/KY-HB241-2025RS (as of 2026-10-17).