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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to the educators' liability insurance and making an appropriation therefor."
description: "Create a new section of KRS Chapter 161 to establish the Educators Employment Liability Insurance Program to provide excess liability coverage for certified employees of public schools; require the Department of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the program; amend KRS 160.105 to require the Kentucky Board of Education to require a district to provide each certified employee with primary liability insurance; APPROPRIATION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2023RS"
identifier: "SB 3"
citation: "Kentucky SB 3 (2023RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administrative Regulations and Proceedings", "Appropriations", "Education", "Elementary and Secondary", "Insurance", "Teachers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 25
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2023-02-21T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2023-03-24T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/d4a86974-79df-4b9d-9b6a-07ec0caa2e71"
source_url: "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/23RS/sb3.html"
source_hash: "a813736a731ff9106dcef6fd58d413540526951ffac137dfa74139bdc0a74abd"
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 SB 3 (2023RS) — AN ACT relating to the educators' liability insurance and making an appropriation therefor.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 161 to establish the Educators Employment Liability Insurance Program to provide excess liability coverage for certified employees of public schools; require the Department of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to implement the program; amend KRS 160.105 to require the Kentucky Board of Education to require a district to provide each certified employee with primary liability insurance; APPROPRIATION.
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/23RS/sb3/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **Acts Chapter 99** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/23RS/documents/0099.pdf)
3. **Current/Final** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/23RS/sb3/bill.pdf)
## Votes
- PASS SB 3 — **pass** (pass) · upper
- Pass — **pass** (pass) · upper
- FINAL PASSAGE SB 3 W/ hcs1 — **pass** (pass) · upper
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2023-02-21T05:00:00+00:00** introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2023-02-21T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (S) `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-22T05:00:00+00:00** taken from Committee on Committees (S)
- **2023-02-22T05:00:00+00:00** 1st reading `reading-1`
- **2023-02-22T05:00:00+00:00** returned to Committee on Committees (S)
- **2023-02-22T05:00:00+00:00** to Economic Development, Tourism, & Labor (S) `referral-committee`
- **2023-02-23T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules `committee-passage`
- **2023-02-23T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 24, 2023
- **2023-02-24T05:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 32-0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-02-28T05:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2023-02-28T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (H) `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-02T05:00:00+00:00** to Education (H) `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) `committee-passage`
- **2023-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2023-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 15, 2023
- **2023-03-15T04:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 93-1 with Committee Substitute (1) `passage, reading-3`
- **2023-03-16T04:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2023-03-16T04:00:00+00:00** to Rules (S) `referral-committee`
- **2023-03-16T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage for concurrence in House Committee Substitute (1)
- **2023-03-16T04:00:00+00:00** Senate concurred in House Committee Substitute (1)
- **2023-03-16T04:00:00+00:00** passed 37 -0 `passage`
- **2023-03-16T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by President of the Senate `passage`
- **2023-03-16T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2023-03-16T04:00:00+00:00** delivered to Governor
- **2023-03-24T04:00:00+00:00** signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 99) `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/d4a86974-79df-4b9d-9b6a-07ec0caa2e71`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).