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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to the maintenance of teacher certification. Amend KRS 161.095 to require the Education Professional Standards Board to extend the validity period of a certificate of a member of the Armed Forces of the United States of America by one year for each year the member is determined by the board to have been prohibited by military service or training from pursuing an advanced degree or completing professional development required to maintain certification; require the Education Professional Standards Board to promulgate administrative regulations to establish an application process and develop guidelines for the process by which education or professional development is considered to have been prohibited by military service."
description: "AN ACT relating to the maintenance of teacher certification. Amend KRS 161.095 to require the Education Professional Standards Board to extend the validity period of a certificate of a member of the Armed Forces of the United States of America by one year for each year the member is determined by the board to have been prohibited by military service or training from pursuing an advanced degree or completing professional development required to maintain certification; require the Education Professional Standards Board to promulgate administrative regulations to establish an application process and develop guidelines for the process by which education or professional development is considered to have been prohibited by military service."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2018RS"
identifier: "HB 586"
citation: "Kentucky HB 586 (2018RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["J. Richards", "J. Tipton"]
version_count: 1
action_count: 18
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2018-02-27"
last_action: "2018-04-10"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/1faaee1a-ca2f-4970-8439-cfce09ab0ebd"
source_url: "http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/18RS/HB586.htm"
source_hash: "403e5477fe5581b8cd2a7e8247f8d87bd471c8c7cb00d480511770a9fd028482"
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 586 (2018RS) — AN ACT relating to the maintenance of teacher certification. Amend KRS 161.095 to require the Education Professional Standards Board to extend the validity period of a certificate of a member of the Armed Forces of the United States of America by one year for each year the member is determined by the board to have been prohibited by military service or training from pursuing an advanced degree or completing professional development required to maintain certification; require the Education Professional Standards Board to promulgate administrative regulations to establish an application process and develop guidelines for the process by which education or professional development is considered to have been prohibited by military service.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Most Recent Version** (committee substitute) — [source](http://www.lrc.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/18RS/HB586/bill.pdf)
## Sponsors
- J. Richards — primary (person)
- J. Tipton — primary (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2018-02-27** Introduced in House `introduction`
- **2018-03-01** To Education (H) `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-02** Posted in committee
- **2018-03-06** Reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar `reading-1`
- **2018-03-07** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2018-03-08** Posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Friday, March 9, 2018
- **2018-03-09** 3rd reading, passed 84-0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-12** Received in Senate
- **2018-03-13** To Education (S) `referral-committee`
- **2018-03-22** Reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar `reading-1`
- **2018-03-27** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2018-03-27** Posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 29, 2018
- **2018-03-29** 3rd reading, passed 37-0 `reading-3, passage`
- **2018-03-29** Received in House
- **2018-03-29** Enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
- **2018-03-29** Enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
- **2018-03-29** Delivered to Governor
- **2018-04-10** Signed by Governor (Acts, ch. 149) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/1faaee1a-ca2f-4970-8439-cfce09ab0ebd`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).