republic-os/legislation/us/states/ky/2025rs/hb-240.md

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Bill	AN ACT relating to primary school.	Amend KRS 158.305 to require kindergarten students to be given a universal screener within the final 10 instructional days of the school year; beginning with the 2025-2026 school year require that a student remain in kindergarten for an additional year if he or she did not make adequate progress in kindergarten; prohibit a school from requiring a student who turns seven by August 1 to remain in kindergarten; require the school to reevaluate the reading improvement plan of any student remaining in kindergarten; allow a student provided an additional year in kindergarten to advance through the primary program when it is determined to be in the student's best interest.	us/states/ky	Kentucky General Assembly	2025RS	HB 240	Kentucky HB 240 (2025RS)	bill	Children and Minors Education Elementary and Secondary	enacted		3	39	5	2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00	2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/e4d28ff3-02d2-4fca-8f06-193cf64e667c	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/25RS/hb240.html	eabc244cd625cb497732d4cdd1f72a5f5ccddf8b0a47b1f978cd9aca2b043141	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ky

Kentucky HB 240 (2025RS) — AN ACT relating to primary school.

Amend KRS 158.305 to require kindergarten students to be given a universal screener within the final 10 instructional days of the school year; beginning with the 2025-2026 school year require that a student remain in kindergarten for an additional year if he or she did not make adequate progress in kindergarten; prohibit a school from requiring a student who turns seven by August 1 to remain in kindergarten; require the school to reevaluate the reading improvement plan of any student remaining in kindergarten; allow a student provided an additional year in kindergarten to advance through the primary program when it is determined to be in the student's best interest.

Version chain

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

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Acts Chapter 103 (committee substitute) — source
3. Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• PASS HB 240 W/ scs1 — 37–0 (pass) · lower
• Final Passage — 90–0 (pass) · lower
• Override Veto Final Passage HB 240 — 36–2 (pass) · lower
• Final Passage — 93–3 (pass) · lower
• Pass — 95–0 (pass) · lower

Timeline

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

• 2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in House introduction
• 2025-02-04T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H) referral-committee
• 2025-02-07T05:00:00+00:00 to Primary and Secondary Education (H) referral-committee
• 2025-02-12T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) committee-passage
• 2025-02-13T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2025-02-18T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 19, 2025
• 2025-02-26T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 95-0 with Committee Substitute (1) passage, reading-3
• 2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S) referral-committee
• 2025-03-04T05:00:00+00:00 to Education (S) referral-committee
• 2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) committee-passage
• 2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 13, 2025
• 2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 37-0 with Committee Substitute (1) passage, reading-3
• 2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 to Rules (H) referral-committee
• 2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 taken from Rules
• 2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 placed in the Orders of the Day
• 2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 House concurred in Senate Committee Substitute (1)
• 2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 passed 90-0 passage
• 2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
• 2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
• 2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Governor
• 2025-03-26T04:00:00+00:00 Vetoed executive-veto
• 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 to Rules (H) referral-committee
• 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 taken from Rules
• 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 posted for consideration of Governor's veto
• 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 veto overridden veto-override-passage
• 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 passed 93-3 passage
• 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 to Rules (S) referral-committee
• 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage for consideration of Governor's veto
• 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 veto overridden veto-override-passage
• 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 passed 36-2 passage
• 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
• 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
• 2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 103) became-law

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/e4d28ff3-02d2-4fca-8f06-193cf64e667c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).