---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to school curriculum. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require, beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, each school to provide an essential skills curriculum to students; amend KRS 158.645 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to create the Council on Essential Skills; amend KRS 158.6453 to require the Council on Essential Skills to serve as a review committee for career studies; require the department to include the essential skills program on the school profile report; amend KRS 158.6457 to include work ethics certification in the definition of nonacademic factors; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 requiring the Kentucky Department of Education to develop an age-appropriate drug awareness and prevention program; require local school boards to ensure that students receive annual instruction in drug awareness and prevention."
description: "AN ACT relating to school curriculum. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require, beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, each school to provide an essential skills curriculum to students; amend KRS 158.645 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to create the Council on Essential Skills; amend KRS 158.6453 to require the Council on Essential Skills to serve as a review committee for career studies; require the department to include the essential skills program on the school profile report; amend KRS 158.6457 to include work ethics certification in the definition of nonacademic factors; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 requiring the Kentucky Department of Education to develop an age-appropriate drug awareness and prevention program; require local school boards to ensure that students receive annual instruction in drug awareness and prevention."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2018RS"
identifier: "HB 3"
citation: "Kentucky HB 3 (2018RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["B. Rowland", "D. Osborne", "D. Schamore", "J. Carney", "J. Greer", "J. Richards", "J. Shell", "J. Sims Jr", "J. Tipton", "M. Hart", "M. Marzian", "P. Pratt", "R. Heath", "S. Santoro"]
version_count: 6
action_count: 29
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-01-31"
last_action: "2018-04-13"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/a27ab279-1c6e-4c3c-921c-76ac9ce412e2"
source_url: "http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB3.htm"
source_hash: "20bb7cff87e91e743a6d1e830ab05c79ecf3e07c0013b882a036bfc1aa7ac6cd"
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 HB 3 (2018RS) — AN ACT relating to school curriculum. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require, beginning with the 2019-2020 school year, each school to provide an essential skills curriculum to students; amend KRS 158.645 to conform; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to create the Council on Essential Skills; amend KRS 158.6453 to require the Council on Essential Skills to serve as a review committee for career studies; require the department to include the essential skills program on the school profile report; amend KRS 158.6457 to include work ethics certification in the definition of nonacademic factors; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 requiring the Kentucky Department of Education to develop an age-appropriate drug awareness and prevention program; require local school boards to ensure that students receive annual instruction in drug awareness and prevention.

## Version chain

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

1. **HB 3 (As Introduced)** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/18RS/HB3/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **HFA1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/18RS/HB3/HFA1.pdf)
3. **HFA2** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/18RS/HB3/HFA2.pdf)
4. **Most Recent Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/18RS/HB3/bill.pdf)
5. **SCA1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/18RS/HB3/SCA1.pdf)
6. **SCS1** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/18RS/HB3/SCS1.pdf)

## Sponsors

- B. Rowland — primary (person)
- D. Osborne — primary (person)
- D. Schamore — primary (person)
- J. Carney — primary (person)
- J. Greer — primary (person)
- J. Richards — primary (person)
- J. Shell — primary (person)
- J. Sims Jr — primary (person)
- J. Tipton — primary (person)
- M. Hart — primary (person)
- M. Marzian — primary (person)
- P. Pratt — primary (person)
- R. Heath — primary (person)
- S. Santoro — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2018-01-31** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-02-02** To Education (H) `referral-committee`
- **2018-02-02** Posted in committee
- **2018-02-06** Reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar `reading-1`
- **2018-02-07** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2018-02-07** Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 8, 2018
- **2018-02-08** Floor amendment (1) and (2) filed `amendment-introduction`
- **2018-02-12** 3rd reading, passed 91-0 with floor amendments (1) and (2) `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-02-13** Received in Senate
- **2018-02-16** To Education (S) `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-20** Taken from Education (S)
- **2018-03-20** 1st reading `reading-1`
- **2018-03-20** Returned to Education (S)
- **2018-03-21** Taken from Education (S)
- **2018-03-21** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2018-03-21** Returned to Education (S)
- **2018-03-22** Reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute and committee amendment (1-title)
- **2018-03-29** Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, April 2, 2018
- **2018-04-02** 3rd reading, passed 35-2 with Committee Substitute and committee amendment (1-title) `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-04-02** Received in House
- **2018-04-02** To Rules (H) `referral-committee`
- **2018-04-02** Taken from Rules
- **2018-04-02** Posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute and committee amendment (1-title)
- **2018-04-02** House concurred in Senate Committee Substitute (1) committee amendment (1-title)
- **2018-04-02** Bill passed 85-2
- **2018-04-02** Enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
- **2018-04-02** Enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
- **2018-04-02** Delivered to Governor
- **2018-04-13** Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 158) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/a27ab279-1c6e-4c3c-921c-76ac9ce412e2`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).