Kentucky House Bill 103 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 3-0)
Status: Introduced on January 3 2017 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2017-01-06 - to Education (H)
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [PDF]

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 160 to describe the intent of the General Assembly and the purposes of authorizing public charter schools; identify charter school authorizers; define terms; describe the characteristics and the requirements of a charter school; identify student enrollment practices; allow participation by charter school students in extracurricular activities; identify charter school employee rights and retirement information; identify the authorizer application process; identify the requirements and the components of a charter school application; describe charter school renewal and revocation processes; identify a process to convert an existing school to a charter school; create a new section of KRS Chapter 157 to specify the charter school funding process; establish the public charter school facility revolving loan program and identify the use of the program; fund and identify uses of the fund; create a new section of KRS Chapter 162 to allow charter schools first right of refusal to purchase or lease closed or unused school facilities or school facilities for sale or lease; amend KRS 161.220 to include a teacher employed in a charter school in the state-sponsored retirement system; amend KRS 78.510 to include charter schools in the definition of "county" so as to include noncertified employees of public charter schools in the state-sponsored retirement system; amend KRS 156.108 to prohibit the approval of new districts of innovation; define opportunity schools and identify the Kentucky Board of Education's role in authorizing opportunity schools; amend KRS 160.107 to delete references to districts of innovation; identify the requirements for a school applying to become an opportunity school and delete all references to a district of innovation and replace with opportunity school; APPROPRIATION.

AN ACT relating to educational opportunities and making an appropriation therefor.

Rep. Phil Moffett [R]

Rep. Wesley Morgan [R]

Rep. William Wells [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2017-01-06	House	to Education (H)
2017-01-03	House	introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/17RS/HB103.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/HB103/bill.pdf