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type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to education."
description: "Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to establish a procedure for a local board of education to submit a waiver request to the Kentucky Board of Education to waive a statute or administrative regulation; set the terms and limitations of a waivers; authorize the identification of schools of innovation and establish parameters for the status; establish procedures for the renewal of approved waivers; provide the conditions and procedure for rescinding waivers by the state board; authorize the promulgation of administrative regulations to adopt necessary forms and procedures to process waiver requests; amend various sections to conform; repeal KRS 156.108 and 160.107; provide that the Act may be cited as the School Innovation Act."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2025RS"
identifier: "SB 207"
citation: "Kentucky SB 207 (2025RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Boards and Commissions", "Education", "Elementary and Secondary", "Education", "Vocational", "Fiscal Note", "Short Titles and Popular Names", "State Agencies", "Teachers"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 3
action_count: 48
vote_count: 6
first_action: "2025-02-18T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/f193d35f-e525-49f4-8c72-52a9d2459ec1"
source_url: "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/25RS/sb207.html"
source_hash: "ab90920d9268a19eeb9a626106292319465bb973d351609937cc3a7795afe5ed"
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 207 (2025RS) — AN ACT relating to education.
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to establish a procedure for a local board of education to submit a waiver request to the Kentucky Board of Education to waive a statute or administrative regulation; set the terms and limitations of a waivers; authorize the identification of schools of innovation and establish parameters for the status; establish procedures for the renewal of approved waivers; provide the conditions and procedure for rescinding waivers by the state board; authorize the promulgation of administrative regulations to adopt necessary forms and procedures to process waiver requests; amend various sections to conform; repeal KRS 156.108 and 160.107; provide that the Act may be cited as the School Innovation Act.
## 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/sb207/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **Acts Chapter 113** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/25RS/documents/0113.pdf)
3. **Current/Final** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/25RS/sb207/bill.pdf)
## Votes
- Override Veto Final Passage SB 207 — **317** (pass) · upper
- PASS SB 207 — **380** (pass) · upper
- Final Passage SB 207 W/ hcs1 hcta1 — **316** (pass) · upper
- Final Passage — **7816** (pass) · upper
- Pass — **7316** (pass) · upper
- Adopt — **2046** (fail) · upper
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2025-02-18T05:00:00+00:00** introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2025-02-18T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (S) `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-20T05:00:00+00:00** to Education (S) `referral-committee`
- **2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00** taken from Education (S)
- **2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00** 1st reading `reading-1`
- **2025-02-27T05:00:00+00:00** returned to Education (S)
- **2025-02-28T05:00:00+00:00** taken from Education (S)
- **2025-02-28T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2025-02-28T05:00:00+00:00** returned to Education (S)
- **2025-03-04T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, to Rules `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-04T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 04, 2025
- **2025-03-04T05:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 38-0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2025-03-05T05:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2025-03-05T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (H) `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-07T05:00:00+00:00** to Primary and Secondary Education (H) `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) `committee-passage`
- **2025-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** floor amendments (1) and (2) filed to Committee Substitute `amendment-introduction`
- **2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2025-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** floor amendment (3) filed to Committee Substitute `amendment-introduction`
- **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** 3rd reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** Floor Amendment (3) defeated
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** passed 73-16 with Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title) `passage`
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** to Rules (S) `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage for concurrence in House Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title)
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** Senate concurred in House Committee Substitute (1) and Committee Amendment (1-title)
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** passed 31-6 `passage`
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-14T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House `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 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 31-7 `passage`
- **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 78-16 `passage`
- **2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by President of the Senate `passage`
- **2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2025-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** delivered to Secretary of State (Acts Ch. 113) `became-law`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/f193d35f-e525-49f4-8c72-52a9d2459ec1`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).