republic-os/legislation/us/states/ky/2022rs/hb-397.md

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Bill	AN ACT relating to disaster days for schools impacted by the western Kentucky tornadoes and declaring an emergency.	Waive up to 15 student attendance days for days school districts were closed due to the western Kentucky tornado disaster; consider days waived under this Act as completed employment contract days for school personnel; EMERGENCY.	us/states/ky	Kentucky General Assembly	2022RS	HB 397	Kentucky HB 397 (2022RS)	bill	Disasters Education Elementary and Secondary Effective Dates Emergency Teachers	enacted	C. Freeland J. Gooch Jr. L. Bechler M. Dossett M. Meredith M. Prunty N. Kirk-McCormick P. Minter R. Heath S. Sheldon W. Thomas	3	20	2	2022-01-28T05:00:00+00:00	2022-03-31T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/a09a1956-2241-48b0-8ec3-6019a53c3073	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb397.html	c5eeee93fa10f6b6d1f1e90f0f3e4ece42be068dd17a27a68c890d969c39bc90	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ky

Kentucky HB 397 (2022RS) — AN ACT relating to disaster days for schools impacted by the western Kentucky tornadoes and declaring an emergency.

Waive up to 15 student attendance days for days school districts were closed due to the western Kentucky tornado disaster; consider days waived under this Act as completed employment contract days for school personnel; EMERGENCY.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Acts Chapter 65 (committee substitute) — source
3. Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Pass — pass (pass) · lower
• PASS HB 397 — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• C. Freeland — primary (person)
• J. Gooch Jr. — primary (person)
• L. Bechler — primary (person)
• M. Dossett — primary (person)
• M. Meredith — primary (person)
• M. Prunty — primary (person)
• N. Kirk-McCormick — primary (person)
• P. Minter — primary (person)
• R. Heath — primary (person)
• S. Sheldon — primary (person)
• W. Thomas — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2022-01-28T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in House introduction
• 2022-01-28T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H) referral-committee
• 2022-02-03T05:00:00+00:00 to Education (H) referral-committee
• 2022-02-08T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar committee-passage
• 2022-02-09T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2022-02-09T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 10, 2022
• 2022-02-16T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 97-0 passage, reading-3
• 2022-02-17T05:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2022-02-17T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S) referral-committee
• 2022-02-22T05:00:00+00:00 to Education (S) referral-committee
• 2022-03-10T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar committee-passage
• 2022-03-11T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules as a consent bill reading-2
• 2022-03-21T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 24, 2022
• 2022-03-24T04:00:00+00:00 passed over and retained in the Consent Orders of the Day passage
• 2022-03-25T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 34-0 passage, reading-3
• 2022-03-29T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2022-03-29T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
• 2022-03-29T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
• 2022-03-29T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Governor
• 2022-03-31T04:00:00+00:00 signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 65) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/a09a1956-2241-48b0-8ec3-6019a53c3073. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).