Manchester, Kentucky. Photo by Intricate Explorer on Unsplash.
Kentucky's Senate Bill 240 (PDF) — which would, if enacted, have safeguarded the religious neutrality of public education in a variety of ways, including by establishing that public school students have a right under state law to be free from "any religious instruction as part of a school curriculum, including creationism and intelligent design" — died in committee when the legislature adjourned sine die on April 15, 2026.
Kentucky's Senate Bill 240, like Kansas's House Bill 2431 and Senate Bill 424, Oklahoma's Senate Bill 3488, and Vermont's House Bill 405, was based on a model bill drafted by a national coalition of secular organizations, including American Atheists, the American Humanist Association, and the Freedom from Religion Foundation Action Fund, as NCSE previously reported. None of the bills passed out of committee.
