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Bill	AN ACT relating to First Amendment rights in public schools.	Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to prohibit a school district from punishing an employee for engaging in private religious expression otherwise protected by the First Amendment absent a showing of engaging in actual coercion; provide specific examples of protected activity; establish limits of applicability.	us/states/ky	Kentucky General Assembly	2023RS	HB 547	Kentucky HB 547 (2023RS)	bill	Education Elementary and Secondary Religion Teachers	enacted		3	19	2	2023-02-22T05:00:00+00:00	2023-03-24T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/d4afc986-8edb-4ed3-84a3-f45993e36f05	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/23RS/hb547.html	a6f7f6a07469ff0f22dd9fe39523678a6c9457eb87cb5fcef3014e27bb986cf3	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ky

Kentucky HB 547 (2023RS) — AN ACT relating to First Amendment rights in public schools.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to prohibit a school district from punishing an employee for engaging in private religious expression otherwise protected by the First Amendment absent a showing of engaging in actual coercion; provide specific examples of protected activity; establish limits of applicability.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Acts Chapter 89 (committee substitute) — source
3. Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• Pass — pass (pass) · lower
• FINAL PASSAGE HB 547 — pass (pass) · lower

Timeline

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

• 2023-02-22T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in House introduction
• 2023-02-22T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H) referral-committee
• 2023-03-02T05:00:00+00:00 to Education (H) referral-committee
• 2023-03-07T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar committee-passage
• 2023-03-08T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2023-03-08T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 09, 2023
• 2023-03-09T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 81-12 passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-10T05:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2023-03-10T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S) referral-committee
• 2023-03-10T05:00:00+00:00 to Education (S) referral-committee
• 2023-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar committee-passage
• 2023-03-15T04:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2023-03-15T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 16, 2023
• 2023-03-16T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 32 -5 passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-16T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2023-03-16T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
• 2023-03-16T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
• 2023-03-16T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Governor
• 2023-03-24T04:00:00+00:00 signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 89) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/d4afc986-8edb-4ed3-84a3-f45993e36f05. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).