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Read. Follow. Verify.Kentucky HB 631 authorizes school districts to revise calendars and grant disaster relief days for the 2025-2026 school year
Last action · February 20, 2026: to Primary and Secondary Education (H)Sponsors: Myron Dossett and 1 other
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What This Bill Proposed
AN ACT relating to school district calendars and declaring an emergency.
School districts gain flexibility to adjust schedules and complete instructional requirements using alternative settings or added daily time without penalizing staff contract days.
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.
school districts
School districts gain authority to revise calendars and utilize alternative instructional hours for the 2025-2026 school year.
classified and certified employees of a local board of education
Employees are credited with completing one day of their employment contract for each makeup day completed.
Key Facts
- For the 2025-2026 school year, school districts may revise school calendars to provide a minimum of 1,062 instructional hours, superseding the requirement for 170 student attendance days.
- The commissioner of education may grant up to the equivalent of ten disaster relief student attendance days for instruction using alternative settings when closed for health or safety reasons.
- School districts may reach required instructional hours by adding time to student attendance days, provided a single day does not exceed seven hours without commissioner approval.
- Local boards of education seeking to revise calendars must submit a plan to the Kentucky Department of Education for approval.
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- Classified and certified school employees are considered to have completed one employment contract day for each makeup day added under the revised calendar provisions.
- An emergency is declared to exist, making the Act effective upon passage and approval.
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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- Feb 20, 2026HouseCommitteeto Primary and Secondary Education (H)
- Feb 12, 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 60)
- Controversy10Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz25Current news / social attention level
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