republic-os/legislation/us/states/ky/2025rs/hb-441.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to reemployment after retirement in the Teachers' Retirement System."
description: "Amend KRS 161.605, relating to the Teachers' Retirement System, to remove language requiring superintendents to make every reasonable effort to hire qualified applicants for teaching and nonteaching positions, increase the percentage of retired members that an employer can employ full-time from three percent to 10 percent, increase the number of retired members that a local school district may employ under the critical shortage provision from one percent of total active members employed by the school district or two members to 10 percent or four members, remove Kentucky Virtual High School the list of schools the Department of Education operates, remove the pension waiver program, and make technical changes; amend KRS 156.106 to remove language requiring superintendents to make every reasonable effort to hire qualified applicants for critical shortage areas; direct that current participants in the pension waiver program may continue to participate."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2025RS"
identifier: "HB 441"
citation: "Kentucky HB 441 (2025RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Actuarial Analysis", "Education", "Elementary and Secondary", "Retirement and Pensions", "Teachers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 23
vote_count: 3
first_action: "2025-02-12T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-04-01T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/cba9ff96-71d9-4700-937d-39da34e6c480"
source_url: "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/25RS/hb441.html"
source_hash: "2a2bcb98b9f7990f71053116932cd8e974a001e01141cdb9c54279f97162c6cf"
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 441 (2025RS) — AN ACT relating to reemployment after retirement in the Teachers' Retirement System.

Amend KRS 161.605, relating to the Teachers' Retirement System, to remove language requiring superintendents to make every reasonable effort to hire qualified applicants for teaching and nonteaching positions, increase the percentage of retired members that an employer can employ full-time from three percent to 10 percent, increase the number of retired members that a local school district may employ under the critical shortage provision from one percent of total active members employed by the school district or two members to 10 percent or four members, remove Kentucky Virtual High School the list of schools the Department of Education operates, remove the pension waiver program, and make technical changes; amend KRS 156.106 to remove language requiring superintendents to make every reasonable effort to hire qualified applicants for critical shortage areas; direct that current participants in the pension waiver program may continue to participate.

## 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/25RS/hb441/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **Acts Chapter 144** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/25RS/documents/0144.pdf)
3. **Current/Final** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/25RS/hb441/bill.pdf)

## Votes

- Final Passage — **100–0** (pass) · lower
- PASS HB 441 W/ scs1 — **37–0** (pass) · lower
- Pass — **97–0** (pass) · lower

## Timeline

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

- **2025-02-12T05:00:00+00:00** introduced in House `introduction`
- **2025-02-12T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (H) `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-14T05:00:00+00:00** to State Government (H) `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-21T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2025-02-21T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 25, 2025
- **2025-02-25T05:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 97-0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-02-26T05:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2025-02-26T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (S) `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-28T05:00:00+00:00** to State & Local Government (S) `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-05T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2025-03-07T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 11, 2025
- **2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 37-0 with Committee Substitute (1) `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2025-03-11T04:00:00+00:00** to Rules (H) `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage for concurrence in Senate Committee Substitute (1)
- **2025-03-28T04:00:00+00:00** House concurred in Senate Committee Substitute (1)
- **2025-03-28T04:00:00+00:00** passed 100-0 `passage`
- **2025-03-28T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2025-03-28T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-28T04:00:00+00:00** delivered to Governor
- **2025-04-01T04:00:00+00:00** signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 144) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/cba9ff96-71d9-4700-937d-39da34e6c480`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).