---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency."
description: "Allow local school districts to make up days missed by adding instructional time to student attendance days; notwithstand the requirement for the student instructional year to have 170 student attendance days; allow waiver of up to five student attendance days if a school district is unable to provide the required 1,062 hours of instruction by June 4, 2025; require local boards of education seeking to revise its calendar to submit a plan for approval to the Department of Education; allow instructional time made up and days waived to count as employee contracted days; EMERGENCY."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2025RS"
identifier: "HB 241"
citation: "Kentucky HB 241 (2025RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Boards and Commissions", "Children and Minors", "Education", "Elementary and Secondary", "Effective Dates", "Emergency", "State Agencies", "Teachers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 56
vote_count: 4
first_action: "2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1590a9f3-b768-431f-b54f-72f8f1b72e5b"
source_url: "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/25RS/hb241.html"
source_hash: "aa2d2cbece7906b381fb5b87e7efb9fb27ccb022a4e4c0175954873c2da15b38"
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 241 (2025RS) — AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency.

Allow local school districts to make up days missed by adding instructional time to student attendance days; notwithstand the requirement for the student instructional year to have 170 student attendance days; allow waiver of up to five student attendance days if a school district is unable to provide the required 1,062 hours of instruction by June 4, 2025; require local boards of education seeking to revise its calendar to submit a plan for approval to the Department of Education; allow instructional time made up and days waived to count as employee contracted days; EMERGENCY.

## 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/25RS/hb241/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **Acts Chapter 94** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/25RS/documents/0094.pdf)
3. **Current/Final** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/25RS/hb241/bill.pdf)

## Votes

- PASS HB 241 fccr1 — **31–6** (pass) · lower
- Pass — **82–7** (pass) · lower
- PASS HB 241 W/ scs2 scta1 — **23–14** (pass) · lower
- Final Passage — **91–0** (pass) · lower

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (H) `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-07T05:00:00+00:00** to Primary and Secondary Education (H) `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-19T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 21, 2025
- **2025-02-21T05:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 82-7 with Committee Substitute (1) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (S) `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26T05:00:00+00:00** to Education (S) `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-26T05:00:00+00:00** taken from Education (S)
- **2025-02-26T05:00:00+00:00** 1st reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-26T05:00:00+00:00** returned to Education (S)
- **2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1) `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 28, 2025
- **2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00** floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-02-28T05:00:00+00:00** passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day `passage`
- **2025-03-04T05:00:00+00:00** passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day `passage`
- **2025-03-04T05:00:00+00:00** floor amendments (2) and (4) filed to Committee Substitute , floor amendment (3-title) filed to bill `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-03-05T05:00:00+00:00** passed over and retained in the Orders of the Day `passage`
- **2025-03-05T05:00:00+00:00** recommitted to Education (S)
- **2025-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (2) and Committee Amendment (1-title) `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 06, 2025
- **2025-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** committee substitute (1) ruled out of order
- **2025-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** floor amendments (1), (2), (3-title) and (4) ruled out of order
- **2025-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** passed 23-14 with Committee Substitute (2) and Committee Amendment (1-title) `passage`
- **2025-03-07T05:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2025-03-07T05:00:00+00:00** to Rules (H) `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute (2), and Committee Amendment (1-title)
- **2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00** House refused to concur in Senate Committee Substitute (2)
- **2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00** to Rules (S) `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00** taken from Rules
- **2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage for receding from Senate Committee Substitute (2) and Committee Amendment (1-title)
- **2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** Senate refused to recede from Committee Substitute (2) and Committee Amendment (1-title)
- **2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** Conference Committee appointed in House and Senate
- **2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** Conference Committee report (1) filed in House
- **2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** Conference Committee report adopted in House
- **2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** Conference Committee report (1) filed in Senate
- **2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** Conference Committee report adopted in Senate
- **2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** Free Conference Committee appointed in House and Senate
- **2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** Free Conference Committee report filed in House and Senate
- **2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage for consideration of Free Conference Committee Report (1)
- **2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** Free Conference Committee report adopted in Senate
- **2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** bill passed 31-6 `passage`
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** to Rules (H) `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage for consideration of Free Conference Free Conference Committee Report (1)
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** Free Conference Committee report adopted in House
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** passed 91-0 `passage`
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** delivered to Governor
- **2025-03-25T04:00:00+00:00** filed without Governor's signature with the Secretary of State
- **2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** became law without Governor's Signature (Acts Ch. 94) `became-law`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1590a9f3-b768-431f-b54f-72f8f1b72e5b`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).