Kentucky legislation · 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky HB649: AN ACT relating to education.
Status: In committee, March 17, 2026
Amend KRS 160.210 to require a county school district having reached an end-of-year enrollment of 25,000 or more students to add 2 board members appointed by the Auditor of Public Accounts; require the appointed members to reside in the district, hold bachelor's degrees, and have at least 5 years of finance experience; specify that appointed members shall not serve more than 2 consecutive terms; amend KRS 156.132 to authorize the commissioner of education to remove an appointed local board member for malfeasance, misfeasance, incompetence, or gross neglect of duty; amend KRS 160.160, 160.170, 160.180, and 160.190 to conform; EFFECTIVE, in part, January 1, 2027
What the bill says
An act relating to education.
From the introduced text:
AN ACT relating to education. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: Section 1. KRS 160.210 is amended to read as follows: (1) In independent school districts, the members of the school board shall be elected from the district at large. In county school districts, members shall be elected from divisions. (2) The board of education of each county school district shall, not later than July 1, 1940, divide its district into five (5) divisions containing integral voting precincts and as equal in population insofar as is practicable. In first dividing the county district into divisions the board shall, if more than one (1) of its members reside in one (1) division, determine by lot which member from that division shall represent that division, and which members shall represent the divisions in which no member resides. The members so determined to represent divisions in which no member resides shall be considered the members from those divisions until their terms expire, and thereafter the members from those divisions shall be nominated and elected as provided in KRS 160.200 and 160.220 to 160.250. (3) Any changes made in division boundary lines shall be to make divisions as equal in population and containing integral voting precincts insofar as is practical. No change may be made in division boundary …
Sponsors
- Scott Lewis (R, HD-014) · primary sponsor
- Timmy Truett (R, HD-089)
Latest actions
- : returned to Primary and Secondary Education (H)
- : 2nd reading
- : taken from Primary and Secondary Education (H)
- : returned to Primary and Secondary Education (H)
- : 1st reading
- : taken from Primary and Secondary Education (H)
- : to Primary and Secondary Education (H)
- : to Committee on Committees (H)
- : introduced in House
Subjects: Education, Elementary And Secondary, Public Works, Boards And Commissions, Effective Dates, Delayed, Public Officers And Employees
Common questions
- What is HB649?
- HB649 is a bill in the Kentucky Legislature (2026 Regular Session): AN ACT relating to education.
- What does HB649 do?
- In its own words: An act relating to education.
- What is the status of HB649?
- In committee as of March 17, 2026. Latest action: returned to Primary and Secondary Education (H) (March 17, 2026).
- Who sponsored HB649?
- Scott Lewis (R, HD-014), with 1 co-sponsor.
- Where is the official record for HB649?
- On the Kentucky Legislature website: https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/26rs/hb649.html
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