republic-os/legislation/us/states/ky/2022rs/hb-44.md

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Bill	AN ACT relating to local school districts.	Amend KRS 159.035 to require a local school district's attendance policy to include provisions for a student's mental or behavioral health status.	us/states/ky	Kentucky General Assembly	2022RS	HB 44	Kentucky HB 44 (2022RS)	bill	Children and Minors Education Elementary and Secondary Mental Health	enacted	B. McCool B. Wesley B. Wheatley C. Massey C. Miller J. Gooch Jr. J. Jenkins J. Miller K. Fleming L. Willner N. Kulkarni P. Minter P. Stevenson R. Palumbo R. Roberts S. Sheldon T. Bojanowski	3	41	4	2021-08-04T04:00:00+00:00	2022-04-20T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/40b915c1-fc95-4bd1-a31f-f3e8682560ac	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/22RS/hb44.html	23162cf9c3fb38d852cc1ae08505063679de7cc381e36ba92b7feb0a4416f949	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ky

Kentucky HB 44 (2022RS) — AN ACT relating to local school districts.

Amend KRS 159.035 to require a local school district's attendance policy to include provisions for a student's mental or behavioral health status.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Acts Chapter 228 (committee substitute) — source
3. Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Final Passage — pass (pass) · lower
• PASS HB 44 w/ scs1 — pass (pass) · lower
• Pass — pass (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE HB 44 w/ fccr — pass (pass) · lower

Sponsors

• B. McCool — primary (person)
• B. Wesley — primary (person)
• B. Wheatley — primary (person)
• C. Massey — primary (person)
• C. Miller — primary (person)
• J. Gooch Jr. — primary (person)
• J. Jenkins — primary (person)
• J. Miller — primary (person)
• K. Fleming — primary (person)
• L. Willner — primary (person)
• N. Kulkarni — primary (person)
• P. Minter — primary (person)
• P. Stevenson — primary (person)
• R. Palumbo — primary (person)
• R. Roberts — primary (person)
• S. Sheldon — primary (person)
• T. Bojanowski — primary (person)

Timeline

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

• 2021-08-04T04:00:00+00:00 Prefiled by the sponsor(s).
• 2022-01-04T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in House introduction
• 2022-01-04T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H) referral-committee
• 2022-01-08T05:00:00+00:00 to Education (H) referral-committee
• 2022-01-11T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar committee-passage
• 2022-01-12T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2022-01-13T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, January 18, 2022
• 2022-01-18T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 94-0 passage, reading-3
• 2022-01-18T05:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2022-01-18T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S) referral-committee
• 2022-01-20T05:00:00+00:00 to Education (S) referral-committee
• 2022-03-17T04:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) committee-passage
• 2022-03-18T04:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2022-03-29T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 30, 2022
• 2022-03-30T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 33-3 with Committee Substitute (1) passage, reading-3
• 2022-03-30T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2022-03-30T04:00:00+00:00 to Rules (H) referral-committee
• 2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00 taken from Rules
• 2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute (1)
• 2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00 House refused to concur in Senate Committee Substitute (1)
• 2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00 to Rules (S) referral-committee
• 2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage for receding from Senate Committee Substitute (1)
• 2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00 Senate refused to recede from Committee Substitute (1)
• 2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00 Conference Committee appointed in House and Senate
• 2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00 Conference Committee report (1) filed in House and Senate
• 2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00 Conference Committee report adopted in House and Senate
• 2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00 Free Conference Committee appointed in House and Senate
• 2022-04-13T04:00:00+00:00 Free Conference Committee report (1) filed in House and Senate
• 2022-04-14T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage for consideration of Free Conference Committee Report (1)
• 2022-04-14T04:00:00+00:00 Free Conference Committee report adopted in Senate
• 2022-04-14T04:00:00+00:00 passed 30-3 passage
• 2022-04-14T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2022-04-14T04:00:00+00:00 to Rules (H) referral-committee
• 2022-04-14T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage for consideration of Free Conference Committee Report
• 2022-04-14T04:00:00+00:00 Free Conference Committee report adopted in House
• 2022-04-14T04:00:00+00:00 passed 95-0 passage
• 2022-04-14T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
• 2022-04-14T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
• 2022-04-14T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Governor
• 2022-04-20T04:00:00+00:00 signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 228) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/40b915c1-fc95-4bd1-a31f-f3e8682560ac. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).