---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to the school calendar. Amend KRS 158.070 to establish a school district calendar committee and determine its membership; allow inclusion of a variable student instructional year in a school calendar; define a variable student instructional year; establish school calendar adoption procedures; require notice to be given to the media for school board meetings regarding the school calendar; provide that districts adopting a school calendar with the first student attendance day no earlier than the Monday closest to August 26 may use a variable student instructional year; make changes throughout to conform."
description: "AN ACT relating to the school calendar. Amend KRS 158.070 to establish a school district calendar committee and determine its membership; allow inclusion of a variable student instructional year in a school calendar; define a variable student instructional year; establish school calendar adoption procedures; require notice to be given to the media for school board meetings regarding the school calendar; provide that districts adopting a school calendar with the first student attendance day no earlier than the Monday closest to August 26 may use a variable student instructional year; make changes throughout to conform."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2017RS"
identifier: "SB 50"
citation: "Kentucky SB 50 (2017RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 23
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2017-01-07"
last_action: "2017-03-21"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/e524eed3-04b1-4e37-9e66-2f1f95862947"
source_url: "http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/17RS/SB50.htm"
source_hash: "af05acfe06858a0a198b5ad8aa485c08e23f488d1850b2bd42bb6901f201a95e"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ky"]
---

# Kentucky SB 50 (2017RS) — AN ACT relating to the school calendar. Amend KRS 158.070 to establish a school district calendar committee and determine its membership; allow inclusion of a variable student instructional year in a school calendar; define a variable student instructional year; establish school calendar adoption procedures; require notice to be given to the media for school board meetings regarding the school calendar; provide that districts adopting a school calendar with the first student attendance day no earlier than the Monday closest to August 26 may use a variable student instructional year; make changes throughout to conform.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **Most Recent Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/17RS/SB50/bill.pdf)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2017-01-07** Introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2017-01-07** To Education (S) `referral-committee`
- **2017-02-07** Taken from Education (S)
- **2017-02-07** 1st reading `reading-1`
- **2017-02-07** Returned to Education (S)
- **2017-02-08** Taken from Education (S)
- **2017-02-08** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2017-02-08** Returned to Education (S)
- **2017-02-09** Reported favorably, to Rules
- **2017-02-09** Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 9, 2017
- **2017-02-09** 3rd reading, passed 33-1 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-02-10** Received in House
- **2017-02-14** To Education (H) `referral-committee`
- **2017-03-01** Posted in committee
- **2017-03-03** Reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar `reading-1`
- **2017-03-06** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2017-03-06** Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 7, 2017
- **2017-03-08** 3rd reading, passed 77-18 `reading-3, passage`
- **2017-03-08** Received in Senate
- **2017-03-08** Enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
- **2017-03-14** Enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
- **2017-03-14** Delivered to Governor
- **2017-03-21** Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 68) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/e524eed3-04b1-4e37-9e66-2f1f95862947`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).