---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to an audit of the Kentucky Department of Education."
description: "Require the Office of the Auditor of Public Accounts to conduct a full fiscal controls and operational performance audit of the Kentucky Department of Education and provide the report to the Interim Joint Committee on Education by July 1, 2025."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2024RS"
identifier: "HB 825"
citation: "Kentucky HB 825 (2024RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Audits and Auditors", "Education", "Elementary and Secondary", "Reports Mandated", "State Agencies"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Tipton", "K. Banta", "K. King", "K. Moser"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 21
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-26T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-09T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/263502eb-0685-4388-8f66-77b51e0feff6"
source_url: "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24RS/hb825.html"
source_hash: "264600c7cb0f373aa4ab35f6e2c99ef890cb3a223e9523997271c2dd8426e73c"
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 825 (2024RS) — AN ACT relating to an audit of the Kentucky Department of Education.

Require the Office of the Auditor of Public Accounts to conduct a full fiscal controls and operational performance audit of the Kentucky Department of Education and provide the report to the Interim Joint Committee on Education by July 1, 2025.

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/hb825/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **Acts Chapter 118** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/24RS/documents/0118.pdf)
3. **Current/Final** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/hb825/bill.pdf)

## Votes

- PASS HB 825 — **pass** (pass) · lower
- Pass — **pass** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- J. Tipton — primary (person)
- K. Banta — primary (person)
- K. King — primary (person)
- K. Moser — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-26T05:00:00+00:00** introduced in House `introduction`
- **2024-02-26T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (H) `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-29T05:00:00+00:00** to Education (H) `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-05T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 07, 2024
- **2024-03-07T05:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 95-0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-08T05:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2024-03-08T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (S) `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-11T04:00:00+00:00** to Education (S) `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-15T04:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules as a consent bill `reading-2`
- **2024-03-25T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 26, 2024
- **2024-03-26T04:00:00+00:00** passed over and retained in the Consent Orders of the Day `passage`
- **2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 37-0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by President of the Senate `passage`
- **2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** delivered to Governor
- **2024-04-05T04:00:00+00:00** filed without Governor's signature with the Secretary of State
- **2024-04-09T04:00:00+00:00** became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 118) `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/263502eb-0685-4388-8f66-77b51e0feff6`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).