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Read. Follow. Verify.Kentucky House Bill 635 revises school calendar rules, emergency make-up days, and instructional hour requirements
Last action · February 20, 2026: to Primary and Secondary Education (H)Sponsors: Timmy Truett and 6 others
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What This Bill Proposed
House Bill 635 establishes emergency school calendar revision rules for the 2025-2026 school year, allowing districts to add instructional time to make up for used and authorizing the commissioner of education to waive up to five student attendance days under specific conditions. Effective July 1, 2026, the measure also amends permanent school term definitions, calendar committee structures, and employee contract service credit rules.
School districts, certified personnel, classified staff, and families face altered calendar-planning requirements, make-up time rules, and contract fulfillment conditions during weather or state emergencies, with Section 2 taking effect immediately upon passage and approval.
- Kentucky school districts routinely utilize nontraditional instruction days when severe weather or health emergencies force school closures. context
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 appoint calendar committees, provide advance meeting notices to media, and submit calendar revision plans to the Kentucky Department of Education.
Certified school employees
Certified staff fulfill contract and retirement service credit requirements based on meeting adjusted attendance day and emergency make-up provisions.
Classified school employees
Classified employees working at least six hours receive equivalent time credit toward contracts and retirement when job responsibilities and hours are extended for emergency make-up time.
Students
Students must complete minimum instructional hours through adjusted daily schedules or participate in continuing education and alternative instruction plans.
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Frequently Asked Questions
How can a school district make up instructional hours if it used all 10 nontraditional instruction days in 2025-2026?
Under what conditions can the commissioner of education waive student attendance days for 2025-2026?
What happens to employee contracts when emergency make-up days or waivers are utilized?
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This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · in House committee.
Procedural history
2 actions- Feb 20, 2026HouseCommitteeto Primary and Secondary Education (H)
- Feb 12, 2026HouseIntroducedintroduced in House to Committee on Committees (H)
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Emergency 2025-2026 Calendar Flexibility
The bill introduces specific temporary measures for the 2025-2026 school year allowing districts that exhausted nontraditional instruction days to extend daily instructional hours and apply for commissioner waivers by June 10, 2026.
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 75)
- Controversy15Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz40Current news / social attention level
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