HB 829
AN ACT relating to moral instruction.
In Plain Language
This bill requires school boards to let students attend moral instruction classes if the classes meet certain requirements. It allows the Attorney General and individual parents or guardians to sue a school board if it blocks these classes, and lets them recover money damages if the violation was intentional. The bill removes certain legal protections that normally shield school boards from lawsuits over these decisions and bars schools from punishing anyone for participating in these classes.
Official summary
Amend KRS 158.200 to require the board of education of a local school district to allow students to attend moral instruction when the moral instruction offering complies with the requirements enumerated; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to authorize the Attorney General to bring an action for a writ of mandamus to compel a board of education to comply; create a cause of action to permit a qualified individual to file a civil action against a board of education for injunctive relief arising from a violation of this Act; permit recovery of monetary damages for a willful and intentional violation; waive sovereign, governmental, and qualified immunity; prohibit retaliation.
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Latest action
to Primary and Secondary Education (H)
Mar 10, 2026
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