♪ >> Good Evening and welcome to Kentucky EDITION on this Friday.

It's February the 21st.

>> I'm Renee Shaw and we thank you for starting off your weekend with us.

We kick off tonight's Legislative update with a bill that could give districts more flexibility for making up missed school days.

Republican State Representative 10 be true.

It who is also a school principal is the sponsor of House Bill 241, it would allow the state education commissioner to grant districts.

5 extra NTI are non-traditional instruction days.

Currently the cap is set at 10.

The bill would also allow for 5 school days to be excused because of severe weather are called calamity days.

Representative true.

It says the events of this week demonstrate why this change is needed and he received support from a number of House Democrats, including a fellow educator.

>> I checked this morning with the commissioner and as of right now at of our 170 districts in the state.

64 of those are already out of their NTI days.

And another 40 of those have one more remaining.

And we have districts, as you all are well aware of.

That may not be able to us to attend school for another week.

Maybe 2 weeks, maybe even months due to the flooding.

So what this bill will do will give these districts a little bit of relief.

>> The most important thing we can do is have children in the building in their seats, in classrooms.

And there is no exception for that.

Nothing virtual, nothing at home.

So I fully support this bill.

>> Under House Bill 241, students would still be required to be or to receive 1062 hours of instruction.

But the 170 day requirement for instruction would be eliminated.

Instead, districts could be allowed to make some school days longer.

The bill passed the full House by a vote of 82 to 7 and now heads to