HB 759 KY

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Amend KRS 161.048 to modify and reestablish alternative teacher certification options as alternative routes; establish the eligibility requirements of alternative routes; delete Option 2 certification; establish a route for current professional certificate holders to expand certification and the eligibility requirements; require the Education Professional Standards Board to maintain and publish a list of academic majors, academic minors, and graduate degree academic content areas and the corresponding areas for which they shall satisfy certification requirements; make current professional certificate holders eligible to expand certification through any alternative route; require holders of professional certificates under specific routes complete training requirements to be eligible for the first renewal of the certificate; provide that the Education Professional Standards Board may require a passing score on a professional skills assessment; amend KRS 161.032 and 164.757 to conform; repeal KRS 161.049.

• J. Payne Republican · primary

1. Feb 25, 2026 introduced in House · lower
2. Feb 25, 2026 to Committee on Committees (H) · lower
3. Mar 3, 2026 to Primary and Secondary Education (H) · lower
4. Mar 4, 2026 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar · lower
5. Mar 5, 2026 2nd reading, to Rules · lower
6. Mar 6, 2026 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Monday, March 09 2026 · lower
7. Mar 9, 2026 3rd reading, passed 96-0 · lower
8. Mar 10, 2026 received in Senate · upper
9. Mar 10, 2026 to Committee on Committees (S) · upper
10. Mar 24, 2026 to Education (S) · upper
11. Mar 26, 2026 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar · lower
12. Mar 26, 2026 floor amendment (1) filed · lower
13. Mar 27, 2026 2nd reading, to Rules as a consent bill · lower
14. Mar 27, 2026 posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 31 2026 · lower
15. Mar 31, 2026 returned to Rules (S) · upper