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| Bill | AN ACT relating to Bible literacy courses in the public schools. 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 to 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. 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 to 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. | us/states/ky | Kentucky General Assembly | 2017RS | HB 128 | Kentucky HB 128 (2017RS) |
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enacted | 4 | 23 | 0 | 2017-01-04 | 2017-04-11 | openstates | ocd-bill/cd4aa3c2-c3c5-45a7-a624-51cd460e9f97 | http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/17RS/HB128.htm | 7e513359e1571ff79d2501fb7ea0599f56b5abdad814b1510d9933a190e8ff3e | 2026-07-01 | https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump | 2026-07-06 | reported |
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Kentucky HB 128 (2017RS) — AN ACT relating to Bible literacy courses in the public schools. 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 to 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.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- HB 128 (As Introduced) (committee substitute) — source
- HFA1 (committee substitute) — source
- HFA2 (committee substitute) — source
- Most Recent Version (committee substitute) — source
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2017-01-04 Introduced in House
introduction - 2017-02-07 To Education (H)
referral-committee - 2017-02-17 Posted in committee
- 2017-02-21 Reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
reading-1 - 2017-02-21 Floor amendment (1) and (2) filed
amendment-introduction - 2017-02-22 2nd reading, to Rules
reading-2 - 2017-02-22 Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 23, 2017
- 2017-02-23 3rd reading
reading-3 - 2017-02-23 Floor amendment (1) defeated
- 2017-02-23 3rd reading, passed 80-14
reading-3, passage - 2017-02-24 Received in Senate
- 2017-02-27 To Education (S)
referral-committee - 2017-03-08 Taken from Education (S)
- 2017-03-08 1st reading
reading-1 - 2017-03-08 Returned to Education (S)
- 2017-03-14 Reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules
reading-2 - 2017-03-29 Posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 29, 2017
- 2017-03-29 3rd reading, passed 34-4
reading-3, passage - 2017-03-30 Received in House
- 2017-03-30 Enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
- 2017-03-30 Enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
- 2017-03-30 Delivered to Governor
- 2017-04-11 Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 187)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/cd4aa3c2-c3c5-45a7-a624-51cd460e9f97. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).