Kentucky House Bill 394 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 10-0)
Status: Introduced on February 8 2011 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-03-03 - recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
Pending: House Appropriations and Revenue Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [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 districts per year; 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 80 percent 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. Leslie Combs [D]	Rep. Kelly Flood [D]	Rep. Jeff Greer [D]
Rep. Sannie Overly [D]	Rep. Ruth Palumbo [D]	Rep. Carl Rollins [D]	Rep. Arnold Simpson [D]
Rep. Wilson Stone [D]	Rep. John Tilley [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-03-03		recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
2011-02-22		floor amendment (5) filed to Committee Substitute, floor amendment (6-title) filed
2011-02-17		floor amendment (4) filed to Committee Substitute
2011-02-16		floor amendments (1) and (3) filed to Committee Substitute, floor amendment (2-title) filed
2011-02-16		posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 17, 2011
2011-02-16		2nd reading, to Rules
2011-02-15		reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute
2011-02-11		posted in committee
2011-02-09		to Education (H)
2011-02-08		introduced in House

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB394.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/HB394/bill.doc