HB621

AN ACT relating to class sizes for exceptional children and youth.

Chamber Passed·3/13/26

Kentucky HB621 sets maximum class sizes for special education classes for various disabilities.

Kentucky HB621 amends the state's education code to establish specific maximum class sizes for special education classes catering to students with various disabilities. These include eight students for autism, ten for developmental delays, eight for emotional-behavioral disabilities, ten for functional mental disabilities, six for hearing impairments, fifteen for mild mental disabilities, ten for multiple disabilities, twenty for orthopedic impairments, twenty for other health impairments, fifteen for specific learning disabilities in grades K-5, twenty for specific learning disabilities in.

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Where it stands

Last
Passed the House · 98–0 · Mar 13
Current
Education Committee
Next
Senate floor vote

Sponsors

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Democratic CaucusRepublican Caucus

Roll Call Votes

House: Veto Override RCS# 242

98 Yea

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0 Nay

2 Absent

RD

Calendar

Feb 25

8:00 AM

House Committee On Primary And Secondary Education

History

Mar 18

Senate

to Education (S)

Mar 13

Senate

received in Senate

Mar 13

Senate

to Committee on Committees (S)