HB1 INCOME TAX RATE (PETRIE, JASON)
AN ACT relating to the individual income tax rate.
Half percent reduction in the state income tax rate
Reduce the individual income tax rate from 4% to 3.5% for taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2026.
CURRENT STATUS
1/10/2025 – Senate Appropriations & Revenue (S), (Bill Scheduled for Hearing)
HB25 MOMENTS OF SILENCE AND REFLECTION (FISTER, DANIEL)
AN ACT relating to moments of silence and reflection.
Moments of silence in schools, this bill has been filed in previous sessions
• Require moments of silence or reflection at the start of each school day and establish guidelines.
CURRENT STATUS
1/7/2025 – Introduced
HB44 CHOKING PREVENTION IN SCHOOLS (MASSARONI, CANDY)
AN ACT relating to choking prevention in schools.
Permissive legislation for Anti Choking protection and instruction in schools
• Defines “anti-choking suction device”
• Requires schools that acquire such a device to ensure that cafeteria personnel and other expected users of the device are trained in its proper use,
• Provides immunity from civil liability for rendering emergency care or treatment with an anti-choking device or the Heimlich maneuver at a public or private school
• Provide that the Act may be cited as Landon’s Law.
CURRENT STATUS
1/7/2025 – Introduced
HB48 EDUCATION (BAKER, SHANE)
AN ACT relating to education.
Legislation to reduce ‘red tape’ in schools
• Increases the time-period between mandatory summative evaluations for tenured certified school staff from once every three years to once every five years
• Provides that additional summative evaluations may be performed at the discretion of the individual’s immediate supervisor but shall not be imposed as a uniform requirement across the system
• Provides teacher access to their employment contract upon request
• Requires the Department of Education to create and local school districts to implement a four-year recurring professional development training schedule that includes all required professional development training
• Provides that all certified school employees shall complete designated training within 12 months of initial hire and at least once every four years thereafter
• Consolidates state-required certified school personnel training related to the display of designated hotline information and the publication of and school lessons on evidence-based suicide prevention awareness information
• Removes language regarding professional development trainings consolidated elsewhere
• Prohibits the Department of Education from requiring comprehensive school improvement plans and comprehensive district improvement plans not expressly required by federal law
• Removes the mandate for an induction program for new teachers
• Requires a report identifying school districts that do not implement an induction program for new teachers
• Requires the Department of Education to conduct a review of the reporting requirements imposed upon public schools and public-school districts
• Eliminates all reporting requirements not expressly required by state statute or federal law
• Requires submission of a report on the remaining reporting requirements; provide that the Act may be cited as the Red Tape Reduction Act.
CURRENT STATUS
1/7/2025 – Introduced
HB60 AD VALOREM TAX EXEMPTIONS FOR MOTOR VEHICLES (MADDOX, SAVANNAH)
AN ACT relating to an ad valorem tax exemption for motor vehicles.
Property tax exemption, Impact on school district revenues?
• Exempt motor vehicles assessed under KRS 132.485 from state property taxes.
CURRENT STATUS
1/7/2025 – Introduced
HB65 SCHOOLS (CALLOWAY, JOSH)
AN ACT relating to the display of the ten commandments in schools.
An effort to re-litigate the constitutionality of posting the Ten Commandments in schools
• Repeals and re-enacts KRS 158.178, relating to the display of the Ten Commandments in public schools
CURRENT STATUS
1/7/2025 – Introduced