2026 Regular Session - Day 57 - SB 1 | Rep. Jason Nemes

I'd like to ask the clerk to report floor amendment to please. Mr. Clark, please report house floor amendment to the Senate Bill one. Gentleman from Jefferson. Thank you, Mr Speaker. I move adoption of house for amendment to motion made for the adoption of house for amendment to. Is there any discussion? Seeing none, all those in favor, please signify by saying aye. All opposed nay. Motion carries. House form two is adopted. Gentleman from Jefferson. Thank you, Mr Speaker. This bill has been, um, uh, up and down and all around for a few years now. The Kentucky Supreme Court ruled on a similar iteration of this bill last year, and this this bill is very similar to that. However, it makes the following changes. It moves the it includes whereas clauses. One of the things that Kentucky Supreme Court did was it said if you're going to regulate for just J. C. P. S. You need to tell us why. And so the whereas clauses which begin the bill, um, identify all the ways that a number of ways that Jefferson County public schools is very different than the rest. Um, size has a $2.3 billion budget, 93,000 students and a lot of other things. It does make some significant, I think, changes from the bill that was passed before, and that is that it adds the trigger of not just consolidated local government, but also says any area with over 500,000 inhabitants. It removes the cap on the amount of meetings that the J. C. P. S. School board can have. It used to be one per month. We've removed that. It has the strategic plan at five years rather than three years and also caps the amount of money the superintendent can transfer to $250,000 per quarter, and he has to report that to the board. So with that, Mr Speaker, I move passage of Senate Bill one as amended by House for member to