Kentucky House Bill 37 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Completed Legislative Action
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 5-0)
Status: Passed on April 11 2012 - 100% progression
Action: 2012-04-11 - signed by Governor (Acts ch. 40)
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [MS Word]

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to define "district of innovation" and related terms; authorize the Kentucky Board of Education to approve districts of innovation, not to exceed five (5) districts per year; limit initial approval and subsequent renewals to five year periods; direct the board to promulgate administrative regulations to prescribe the conditions and procedures to be used by a local board of education to be approved as a district of innovation; specify what the administrative regulations shall address; create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to describe the requirements for a district to be an applicant as a district of innovation; prescribe the statutory requirements with which schools of innovation within districts of innovation must comply; require 70% of eligible employees in a school to vote in favor of becoming a school of innovation before the school is eligible to be a participant; describe the conditions under which a school may be exempt from KRS 160.345 or sections thereof; and identify areas in which districts may request approval of practices that are different than current statutory requirements.

AN ACT relating to districts of innovation.

Rep. Linda Belcher [D]	Rep. Tom Riner [D]	Rep. Carl Rollins [D]	Rep. Rita Smart [D]
Rep. Brent Yonts [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-04-11		signed by Governor (Acts ch. 40)
2012-03-30		delivered to Governor
2012-03-30		enrolled, signed by each presiding officer
2012-03-30		received in House
2012-03-30		passed 36-0
2012-03-30		floor amendments (1) and (2-title) withdrawn
2012-03-30		committee amendment (1-title) withdrawn
2012-03-30		Committee Substitute withdrawn
2012-03-30		3rd reading
2012-03-30		floor amendment (3) filed to Committee Substitute, floor amendment (4-title) filed
2012-03-30		passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day
2012-03-30		posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, March 30, 2012
2012-03-29		floor amendments (1) and (2-title) filed
2012-03-27		reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules with Committee Substitute, committee amendment (1-title)
2012-03-26		returned to Education (S)
2012-03-26		1st reading
2012-03-26		taken from Education (S)
2012-02-10		to Education (S)
2012-02-08		received in Senate
2012-02-07		3rd reading, passed 97-0 with Committee Substitute
2012-02-07		taken from the Consent Orders of the Day, placed in the Regular Orders of the Day
2012-02-01		posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 7, 2012
2012-02-01		2nd reading, to Rules
2012-01-31		reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar with Committee Substitute
2012-01-12		posted in committee
2012-01-03		to Education (H)
2012-01-03		introduced in House
2012-10-05		To: Interim Joint Committee on Education

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/HB37.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/HB37/bill.doc