Kentucky Administrative Regulations › Title 702 - EDUCATION AND WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT CABINET - BOARD OF EDUCATION, DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION - OFFICE OF DISTRICT SUPPORT SERVICES › Chapter 1 - General Administration › Section 702 KAR 1:191 - District employee quarantine leave

Current through Register Vol. 51, No. 1, July 1, 2024
RELATES TO:
				KRS
				156.160,
				160.290,
				160.291,
				161.155
NECESSITY, FUNCTION, AND CONFORMITY:
				KRS
				156.160 requires the Kentucky Board of
				Education to promulgate administrative regulations establishing standards which
				school districts shall meet in student, program, service, and operational
				performance, including regulations for the protection of the physical welfare
				and safety of public school children, as well as the pay of teachers during
				absence because of sickness or quarantine.
				KRS
				156.070 provides the Kentucky Board of
				Education with the management and control of the common schools and all
				programs operated in those schools.
				KRS
				160.291 authorizes fringe benefit payments by
				local boards of education which are deemed to be for services rendered for the
				benefit of the common schools. This administrative regulation establishes paid
				quarantine leave to employees in the event of quarantine due to infectious or
				contagious disease exposure.
Section
			 1. Quarantine Leave.
(1) Each
			 district board of education shall adopt policies providing each eligible full
			 or part-time employee in the school district at least ten (10) days paid leave
			 per school year for quarantine due to exposure to a reportable infectious or
			 contagious disease under
			 902
			 KAR 2:020 or any other infectious or contagious
			 disease designated as reportable to a local health department or the Department
			 for Public Health by a valid order or administrative regulation of the local
			 health department serving the school district or the Department for Public
			 Health. This leave shall be in addition to any other leave provided by statute
			 or board policy.
(2) In order to be
			 eligible for leave under this section, the employee shall:
(a) Be ordered to quarantine by a licensed
			 treating physician, physician assistant, or advanced practice registered nurse,
			 the Department for Public Health, or a local health department due to exposure
			 to a reportable infectious or contagious disease under
			 902
			 KAR 2:020 or any other infectious or contagious
			 disease designated as reportable to a local health department or the Department
			 for Public Health by a valid order or administrative regulation of the local
			 health department serving the school district or the Department for Public
			 Health; and
(b) Have exhausted all
			 accumulated sick leave provided to the employee pursuant to
			 KRS
			 161.155 and local board of education
			 policies, or be ineligible to utilize accumulated sick leave provided to the
			 employee pursuant to
			 KRS
			 161.155 and local board of education
			 policies.
(3) A school
			 district shall require the employee to provide written documentation from the
			 entity ordering the employee to quarantine due to exposure to a reportable
			 infectious or contagious disease under
			 902
			 KAR 2:020 or any other infectious or contagious
			 disease designated as reportable to a local health department or the Department
			 for Public Health by a valid order or administrative regulation of the local
			 health department serving the school district or the Department for Public
			 Health.
(4) A school district, at
			 its discretion, may determine quarantine leave pursuant to this section is
			 unnecessary if an employee can fulfill his or her job duties remotely during
			 the quarantine period.
(5) Leave
			 granted pursuant to this section shall be on a day-by-day basis, as needed, and
			 shall not accumulate or carry over year-to-year, and shall not be transferrable
			 to any other classification of paid leave established by
			 KRS
			 161.155,
			 KRS
			 161.154, or local board of education
			 policy.