Universities And Colleges
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to athletics. [HB-247]
Amend KRS 156.070 to designate the NAIA and NJCAA as organizations the Kentucky Board of Education must consider in establishing athletic programs, require the Board of Education or agency designated by the Board of Education to manage interscholastic athletics to promulgate administrative regulations or bylaws requiring schools that participate in interscholastic athletics to designate all athletic teams, activities, and sports based upon the biological sex of the students eligible to participate; prohibit male students from participating in athletic
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Hale
Introduced In House on 01/08/2022
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AN ACT relating to appropriations measures providing funding and establishing conditions for the operations, maintenance, support, and functioning of the government of the Commonwealth of Kentucky and its various officers, cabinets, departments, boards, commissions, institutions, subdivisions, agencies, and other state-supported activities. [HB-1]
The State/Executive Branch Budget: Detail Part I, Operating Budget; appropriate to General Government: 2021-2022: $925,391,000, 2022-2023: $2,450,394,100, 2023-2024: $1,945,550,500; appropriate to the Economic Development Cabinet: 2021-2022: $631,100, 2022-2023: $42,311,100, 2023-2024: $43,841,800; appropriate to the Department of Education: 2021-2022: $4,038,300, 2022-2023: $6,272,487,700, 2023-2024: $6,338,219,700; appropriate to the Education and Workforce Development Cabinet: 2021-2022: $4,302,200, 2022-2023: $226,803,000, 2023-2024: $228,602,800;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph Fischer
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 199) on 04/13/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to compliance with state and federal law. [HB-231]
Amend KRS 65.133 to require local law enforcement agencies and Kentucky State Police to enforce all laws; create a new section of KRS Chapter 65 to define terms, including "sanctuary" and "sanctuary policy"; prohibit local governments from adopting sanctuary policies; establish hearing procedures for determination of sanctuary status; provide for the withholding of state funding from sanctuaries; create new sections of KRS Chapter 164 to prohibit postsecondary educational institutions from enrolling, employing, or contracting with illegal aliens;
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Sponsored by: Rep. William Reed
Introduced In House on 01/06/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to early literacy education, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-226]
Amend KRS 158.791 to specify the Department of Education's role in assisting local school districts with regard to reading instruction, supports, and interventions; require the department to collaborate with designated agencies on reading programming, materials, and activities; amend KRS 158.305 to define new terms; replace references to "response to intervention" systems with "multi-tiered system of supports"; require a local board of education to adopt and implement a reading universal screener and reading diagnostic assessment by January 1, 2023;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Reassigned To Education (s) on 03/03/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to early literacy education, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [SB-9]
Amend KRS 158.791 to specify the Department of Education's role in assisting local school districts with regard to reading instruction, supports, and interventions; require the department to collaborate with designated agencies on reading programming, materials, and activities; amend KRS 158.305 to define new terms; replace references to "response to intervention" systems with "multi-tiered system of supports"; require a local board of education to adopt and implement a reading universal screener and reading diagnostic assessment by January 1, 2023;
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Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Mills
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 40) on 03/29/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to athletics. [HB-23]
Amend KRS 156.070 to require KHSAA to promulgate administrative regulations or bylaws requiring schools to designate all interscholastic athletics based upon the biological sex of the students eligible to participate; prohibit male students from participating in girls' athletics; establish how to designate biological sex; prohibit designated agencies from entertaining complaints or investigations of policies; create a cause of action against a school that violates these provisions; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require a public postsecondary
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Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph Fischer
Recommitted To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 03/29/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to SARS-CoV-2 documentation. [HB-21]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to prohibit a governmental body from requiring persons to provide vaccine passports to enter or obtain service from the governmental body; create a new section of KRS Chapter 160 to prohibit a school from requiring persons to provide vaccine passports to enter or obtain service from the school; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to prohibit a university board from requiring persons to provide vaccine passports to enter or obtain service from the university; create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to prohibit
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Sponsored by: Rep. William Reed
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public education and declaring an emergency. [HB-14]
Amend KRS 158.183 to require a local board of education or board of a public charter school to ensure that no public school or public charter school offers any classroom instruction or discussion that incorporates designated concepts related to race, sex, and religion; provide that a school district employee that violates the prohibition is subject to disciplinary action; authorize the Attorney General to enforce the prohibition; authorize a penalty of $5,000 for each day a violation persists after the Attorney General issues notification that a
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Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph Fischer
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prohibited instruction and declaring an emergency. [HB-18]
Amend KRS 158.183 to require a local board of education or board of a public charter school to ensure that no public school or public charter school offers any classroom instruction or discussion that promotes designated concepts related to race, sex, and religion; provide that a school district employee that violates the prohibition is subject to disciplinary action; amend KRS 164.348 to prohibit classroom instruction or discussion that incorporates designated concepts related to race, sex, and religion at public postsecondary education institutions;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public funds. [HB-161]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 48 to prohibit all federal, state, and local tax dollars from being used for lobbying purposes; define "lobbying," "public agency," and "public agent"; create a new section of KRS 6.601 to 6.849 to permit a person to file a complaint with the Legislative Ethics Commission if a person or entity is using federal, state, or local dollars for lobbying purposes; amend KRS 6.611 to include in the definition of "legislative agent" any public agent who lobbies for a public agency; amend KRS 6.691 to allow the Legislative
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Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph Fischer
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to concealed deadly weapons. [HB-124]
Repeal KRS 237.115, which interprets the application of the license to carry concealed deadly weapon statute as permitting postsecondary facilities, local governments, and units of state governement to limit concealed carry in governmental buildings, to ensure that those entities cannot prohibit the carrying of concealed deadly weapons; amend various sections to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. William Reed
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to paramedic education and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-167]
Create a new section of KRS 164.740 to 164.7891 to establish a coal-county paramedic scholarship to be administered by KHEAA; establish a fund in the State Treasury to be administered by KHEAA for providing coal-county paramedic scholarships; APPROPRIATION.
Sponsored by: Rep. John Blanton
Introduced In House on 01/04/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to freedom of speech at public postsecondary education institutions. [HB-130]
Amend KRS 164.348 to define "institution," "public," and "staff"; require an institution to adopt a policy to not restrict off-campus speech; extend free speech protections to staff and the public; provide that student religious and political organizations shall be afforded equal access to facilities; provide that authority vested with a student organization to distribute student organization funding shall be contingent on viewpoint-neutral distribution of those funds; provide that there shall be no buffer zones to outdoor areas used as traditional
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Sponsored by: Rep. Regina Huff
Taken From Committee On Committees (h) on 03/14/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to dual credit scholarships. [HB-85]
Amend KRS 164.786 to increase the dual credit tuition rate ceiling amount; add eligibility for high school freshmen and sophomores; add career and technical education courses to the Dual Credit Scholarship; amend KRS 164.787 to delete the dual credit provisions from the Work Ready Kentucky Scholarship Program.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
Taken From The Orders Of The Day on 02/07/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to COVID-19 precautions in educational settings and declaring an emergency. [HB-51]
Amend KRS 199.896 to provide that the license or certification of a child-care center shall not be refused or revoked for refusing to require facial coverings; amend KRS 199.898 to provide that parents and guardians of children enrolled in licensed, certified, or publicly funded child care facilities have a right to refuse facial coverings on behalf of their children without any retribution; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to prohibit requiring facial coverings on any public school premises, on school-sponsored transportation, or at a school-sponsored
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Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph Fischer
To Health & Welfare (s) on 03/10/2022
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION recognizing November as College Application Month. [HR-91]
Recognize November as College Application Month.
Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 03/05/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION recognizing November as College Application Month. [SR-146]
Recognize November as College Application Month.
Sponsored by: Sen. David Givens
Adopted By Voice Vote on 03/11/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to property in a development area. [HB-588]
Create new sections in KRS Chapter 65 to state findings and declaration of the General Assembly for the development area; define terms; establish the West End Opportunity Partnership, its powers and duties and purpose; require the West End Opportunity Partnership to comply with open meetings and open records requirements; require the West End Opportunity Partnership to reimburse real property taxes; establish the board and membership requirements; require a local participation agreement and specify provisions of the agreement; establish requirements
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Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Taken From Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 03/15/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to property in a development area. [SB-100]
Create new sections in KRS Chapter 65 to state findings and declaration of the General Assembly for the development area; define terms; establish the West End Opportunity Partnership, its powers and duties and purpose; require the West End Opportunity Partnership to comply with open meetings and open records requirements; require the West End Opportunity Partnership to reimburse real property taxes; establish the board and membership requirements; require a local participation agreement and specify provisions of the agreement; establish requirements
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Sponsored by: Sen. Gerald Neal
Introduced In Senate on 02/23/2021
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Kentucky 2021 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION recognizing November as College Application Month. [HR-65]
Recognize November as College Application Month.
Sponsored by: Rep. Josie Raymond
Introduced In House on 02/22/2021