HB5 Summary

• Removes temporary academic school calendar parameters that were set to expire at the end of the 2013-2014 school year under the Flexible School Calendar Act of 2012.

• Allows each local board of education to provide 180 full instructional days based on an hourly equivalent of no less than 1080 instructional hours, with greater flexibility in calendar structure.

• Maintains requirements that instruction begin no earlier than the Monday two weeks before Labor Day (or August 17 if August 31 is a Monday) and end no later than the Friday before Memorial Day.

• Permits local boards to adjust school calendars by extending teaching hours on specified days to replace cancelled instructional days due to natural disasters, health emergencies, or other extenuating circumstances.

• Establishes that this bill requires increased local expenditure but is exempt from constitutional requirements for supermajority legislative approval because it applies only to school board expenditures.