Universities And Colleges
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to a tax credit for entities participating in the Metropolitan College. [HB-474]
Amend KRS 141.381 to include a historically black college and university in the definition of "educational institution"; extend the sunset date of the income tax credit to April 15, 2037.
Sponsored by: Rep. Joshua Branscum
To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/14/2025
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AN ACT relating to public postsecondary education institutions. [HB-434]
Amend KRS 164.020 to prohibit the Council on Postsecondary Education from raising tuition for a postsecondary education institution more than 5% a year for Kentucky resident students and 7% a year for non-Kentucky resident students; provide a 4-year tuition freeze for an enrolled Kentucky resident student; require an institution to notify a student before expiration of a tuition freeze; require any increase in tuition or fees to be approved before March 1; amend KRS 164.7874 to require a private postsecondary institution to have a voting student
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Banta
To Postsecondary Education (h) on 02/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the calculation of square footage for the purposes of postsecondary funding. [HB-482]
Amend KRS 164.092 to exclude square feet leased for a commercial purpose or otherwise privatized from the square footage calculation contained in the comprehensive funding model for the public postsecondary education.
Sponsored by: Rep. T.J. Roberts
To Postsecondary Education (h) on 02/14/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to initiatives regarding diversity, equity, and inclusion. [HB-4]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; prohibit a public postsecondary education institution from providing differential treatment or benefits on the basis of an individual's religion, race, sex, color, or national origin; from influencing the composition of the student body or scholarship recipients on the basis of religion, race, sex, color, or national origin; from implementing a student housing assignment plan on the basis of religion, race, color, or national origin with designated exceptions; from expending any resources on
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
Passed 32-6 on 03/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A JOINT RESOLUTION directing Kentucky's public postsecondary institutions to combat antisemitism. [SJR-55]
Direct the governing board of public postsecondary education institutions to adopt policies to combat antisemitism and require implementation until June 30, 2028; establish the requirements for the policies; require each institution to report data collected through policies to the Council on Postsecondary Education; and require the Council on Postsecondary Education to compile and report data to the Legislative Research Commission.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Mills
Floor Amendment (1) Filed on 03/11/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to postsecondary education. [HB-484]
Amend KRS 164.321 to conform the size of the University of Louisville and University of Kentucky boards to the size and authority of the governing boards of all other state universities; replace the other state universities' boards of regents with boards of trustees and designate the board of trustees as the successor board; remove language regarding KCTCS; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to create the KCTCS board of regents; amend KRS 164.290 to bring the University of Kentucky and University of Louisville's establishment language into
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Sponsored by: Rep. T.J. Roberts
Withdrawn on 02/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to state government. [HB-491]
Amend KRS 45.750 to redefine "equipment" to include electronic equipment that incorporates advanced computing, including smart medical, scientific, and research equipment; increase the threshold required for a lease of real property to qualify as a capital project from $200,000 annually to $500,000 annually; increase the threshold required for equipment to qualify as a capital project from $200,000 to $500,000; increase the threshold required for a lease of movable equipment to qualify as a capital project from $200,000 annually to $500,000 annually;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Steve Riley
Taken From Rules on 03/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to employment at public postsecondary education institutions. [HB-424]
Amend KRS 164.360, 164.230, and 164.830 to require the boards of each state university and the Kentucky Community and Technical College System to approve a performance and productivity evaluation process for presidents and all faculty members by January 1, 2026; require faculty evaluations to be completed at least once every four years; permit removal of certain employees for failure to meet performance and productivity requirements regardless of status; permit a board to delegate appointment and removal of faculty to the college or university president;
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Sponsored by: Rep. James Tipton
Delivered To Secretary Of State on 03/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to postsecondary education. [HB-427]
Amend KRS 164.2951 to require the Council on Postsecondary Education to create statewide transfer pathways between the public postsecondary institutions in the high-demand baccalaureate programs; require the council to define, identify, and publish on its website a list of the high-demand baccalaureate programs and the available transfer pathways; require the council to maintain transfer pathways once created; require postsecondary institutions to accept transfer credit, earned or accepted at the prior institution within pathways as general education
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Sponsored by: Rep. Vanessa Grossl
To Education (s) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to comprehensive universities. [SB-134]
Amend KRS 164.295 to permit Eastern Kentucky University to offer doctor of osteopathic medicine degrees required for professional practice and licensure in osteopathic medicine; permit Murray State University to offer doctor's degrees required for professional practice and licensure in veterinary medicine; permit Western Kentucky University to offer up to five research doctoral degree programs.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Mills
To Education (s) on 02/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to comprehensive universities. [SB-119]
Amend KRS 164.295 to permit Eastern Kentucky University to offer doctor of osteopathic medicine degrees required for professional practice and licensure in osteopathic medicine.
Sponsored by: Sen. Jared Carpenter
To Education (s) on 02/12/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to a veterinary medicine program at Murray State University. [SB-113]
Amend KRS 164.295 to permit Murray State University to offer doctor's degrees required for professional practice and licensure in veterinary medicine.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Mills
To Education (s) on 02/11/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to immigrants. [HB-352]
Amend KRS 164.020 to provide that no alien illegally present in the United States shall be classified as having Kentucky residency for the purpose of public postsecondary education institution tuition; require the Council on Postsecondary Education to obtain and collect from each public postsecondary education institution immigration data on the institution's students and report the data to the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; prohibit public postsecondary education institutions
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Sponsored by: Rep. Mark Hart
To Postsecondary Education (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to open meetings. [HB-318]
Amend KRS 61.848 to establish that any formal action of a public agency is voidable by a court if there was not substantial compliance with statutes regarding video teleconferencing of meetings, recording of minutes, and conditions for attendance.
Sponsored by: Rep. T.J. Roberts
To State Government (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT amending the 2024-2026 State/Executive Branch biennial budget and declaring an emergency. [SB-107]
Amend 2024 Ky. Acts ch. 175 to remove the immunity provision for postsecondary institutions from the State/Executive Branch biennial budget; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Mills
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Urban Youth Agriculture Initiative. [HB-356]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 247 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Urban Farming Youth Initiative to promote farming to youth in urban counties in at least one urban University of Kentucky Cooperative Extension Service office beginning August 1, 2025, and others by August 1, 2026; set each program term to one year in duration beginning in January; establish guidelines for participant eligibility.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
To Agriculture (s) on 03/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to military healthcare personnel. [HB-303]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to direct the Kentucky Community and Technical College System to develop academic career pathways and integrated academic bridge programs to prepare military healthcare personnel for licensure in various healthcare-related fields.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 46) on 03/19/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to teacher scholarships. [HB-263]
Amend KRS 164.773, relating to the Student Teacher Stipend Program, to specify that an eligible student is a Kentucky resident as determined by the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority (authority) and is student teaching at a Kentucky public school or certified nonpublic school; specify that the authority shall disburse stipend funds to eligible students directly or through the participating institution; allow the authority to establish criteria for an eligible student who is student teaching outside of Kentucky but is otherwise eligible.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 43) on 03/19/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to a Doctor of Philosophy in Integrated Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture program at Kentucky State University. [HB-310]
Amend KRS 164.295 to permit Kentucky State University to offer a Doctor of Philosophy in Integrated Agroecology and Sustainable Agriculture.
Sponsored by: Rep. Daniel Fister
To Postsecondary Education (h) on 02/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION recognizing and expressing support for Kentucky's three accepted preliminary proposals for the National Science Foundation's (NSF) Regional Innovation Engines program. [SR-27]
Recognize and support the Kentucky Science & Technology Corporation, the University of Kentucky, and the University of Louisville for their accepted preliminary proposals for funding from the National Science Foundation's Regional Innovation Engines program.
Sponsored by: Sen. Julie Adams
Introduced In Senate on 02/04/2025