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Read. Follow. Verify.Kentucky House Bill 906 expands school safety emergency plans, cardiac response drills, and state security marshal investigations into student injuries
Last action · March 11, 2026: to Primary and Secondary Education (H)Sponsors: Kim Moser and 1 other
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What This Bill Proposed
Kentucky HB 906 requires local school boards to expand emergency response plans, mandate cardiac emergency response simulations before athletic seasons, and ensure portable s are accessible in schools. The bill also authorizes the to investigate serious student injuries or deaths on school property and mandates post-mortem examinations for deaths occurring at schools.
Schools and local boards face new administrative duties, mandatory annual reporting deadlines, and specific safety compliance rules, while the gains direct authority to investigate critical student incidents and issue public reports.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
local boards of education
Local boards must require schools to adopt expanded emergency plans, conduct mandatory drills, maintain automated external defibrillators, and submit annual compliance reports.
state school security marshal
The marshal gains explicit responsibility for leading investigations into serious student injuries or deaths on school property and reporting findings to district boards.
coroners
Coroners are required to perform post-mortem examinations whenever a death occurs on school property or during a school-sanctioned event.
interscholastic athletic coaches
Coaches must participate in cardiac emergency response simulations before athletic seasons, maintain valid CPR certifications, and complete defibrillator training.
Key Facts
- Defines 'critical incident' as an event where a student incurs severe injury or death, requires ambulance transport, or triggers a cardiac emergency response plan.
- Requires each local board of education to mandate school-level emergency plans that include medical, fire, weather, earthquake, lockdown procedures, cardiac response plans, and critical incident investigation requirements.
- Mandates that cardiac emergency response plans be rehearsed via simulation before each athletic season by athletic trainers, nurses, athletic directors, and coaches.
- Requires every school building to maintain a portable automated external defibrillator in a public, accessible, well-marked location.
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- Requires local districts to submit an annual report to the Kentucky Department of Education by November 1 regarding automated external defibrillators and employee training.
- Requires school districts to conduct emergency response drills, including severe weather, earthquake, and lockdown drills within the first 30 instructional days of the school year and again in January.
- Requires local district superintendents to send compliance verification to the Kentucky Department of Education by November 1 of each school year.
- Grants the state school security marshal responsibility for conducting and coordinating investigations into serious physical injuries or deaths of students on public school property or at school-sanctioned events.
- Requires coroners to perform a post-mortem examination when a human death occurs on public or nonpublic school property or during a school-sanctioned event.
Frequently Asked Questions
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · in House committee.
Procedural history
2 actions- Mar 11, 2026HouseCommitteeto Primary and Secondary Education (H)
- Mar 4, 2026HouseIntroducedintroduced in House to Committee on Committees (H)
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 75)
- Controversy20Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
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