Kentucky Senate Bill 278 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Republican 2-1)
Status: Engrossed on March 15 2016 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2016-03-16 - to Education (H)
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #3) [PDF]

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to require the Kentucky Board of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to establish an elective social studies course on the Hebrew Scriptures, Old Testament of the Bible, the New Testament, or a combination of the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament of the Bible; require that the course provide students knowledge of biblical content, characters, poetry, and narratives that are prerequisites to understanding contemporary society and culture, including literature, art, music, mores, oratory, and public policy; permit students to use various translations of the Bible for the course; amend KRS 158.197 to permit a school council to offer an elective social studies course on the Hebrew Scriptures, Old Testament of the Bible, the New Testament, or a combination of the Hebrew Scriptures and the New Testament of the Bible.

AN ACT relating to Bible literacy courses in the public schools.

Sen. Robin Webb [D]

Sen. Danny Carroll [R]

Sen. C.B. Embry [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-03-16	House	to Education (H)
2016-03-15	House	received in House
2016-03-14	Senate	3rd reading, passed 35-3
2016-03-11	Senate	posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Monday, March 14, 2016
2016-03-10	Senate	reported favorably, to Rules as a Consent Bill
2016-03-09	Senate	returned to Education (S)
2016-03-09	Senate	2nd reading
2016-03-09	Senate	taken from Education (S)
2016-03-07	Senate	to Education (S)
2016-03-07	Senate	returned to Committee on Committees (S)
2016-03-07	Senate	1st reading
2016-03-07	Senate	taken from Committee on Committees (S)
2016-03-03	Senate	to Committee on Committees (S)
2016-03-03	Senate	introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB278.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB278/bill.pdf
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB278/vote_history.pdf