Universities And Colleges
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to a veterinary medicine program at Murray State University. [SB-80]
Amend KRS 164.295 to permit Murray State University to offer doctor's degrees required for professional practice and licensure in veterinary medicine.
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AN ACT relating to postsecondary funding. [HB-238]
Amend KRS 164.092 to remove the definition of "equilibrium" and all references to equilibrium; require that university resources shall be allocated without weighting; require the postsecondary working group to meet every odd year; make technical amendments.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the postsecondary education working group. [HB-276]
Amend KRS 164.092 to change the membership of the postsecondary education working group and require the group to convene every odd-numbered year.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the evaluation of educator preparation programs. [HB-251]
Amend KRS 158.840 to require the Education Professional Standards Board, rather than the Council on Postsecondary Education, to ensure teacher education programs provide highly skilled teachers; require the board to report to the Legislative Research Commission every three years and regularly report program data to an external evaluator.
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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. [HR-13]
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.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sexual extortion. [SB-73]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 531 to establish the crime of sexual extortion as a felony; provide for enhancements to penalties; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a civil cause of action for sexual extortion; amend KRS 17.500 to include sexual extortion in the definition of "sex crime"; create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to require superintendents of local school districts to notify students in grades four and above and parents and guardians of all students of the crime of sexual extortion; create a new section of KRS
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to higher education. [HB-197]
Amend KRS 164.020 to abolish the Council on Postsecondary Education and transfer authorities and duties to the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority; amend KRS 164.746 to add three student members to the board of the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority; amend various sections of KRS Chapters 164, 164A, 165, 165A, 168, 171, 183, 200, 210, 214, 309, 367, 11A, 12, 18A, 42, 56, 61, 63, 64, 138, 151B, 154, 156, 157,158, 160, and 161 to conform; repeal KRS 164.011, which created and established the Council on Postsecondary Education;
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to concealed deadly weapons. [HB-204]
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 government to limit concealed carry in governmental buildings; amend KRS 150.172, 237.110, and 527.020 to conform; amend KRS 237.110 to no longer prohibit the carrying of concealed deadly weapons in schools and specify that the prohibition of carrying concealed deadly weapons in airports is limited to areas controlled by the Transportation Security Administration;
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to government services. [HB-182]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to define "state or local government"; prohibit a state or local government from using the word "free" in a description of a benefit, product, or service financed with public funds.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to dual credit scholarships. [HB-193]
Amend KRS 164.786 to require an "approved dual credit course" to be in the statewide general education core; provide that scholarships shall be awarded in order of application date; delete the requirement for 50 percent return of funds upon unsuccessful course completion; revise scholarship to include career and technical dual credit courses contained in KRS 164.787; amend KRS 164.787 to conform.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to teachers. [HB-168]
Amend KRS 158.060 to require teachers to be compensated for noninstructional planning time within their school day during which they are required to supervise or instruct students; amend KRS 164.787 to expand the program eligibility of the Work Ready Kentucky Scholarship Program to include a program that leads to a bachelor's degree in education in a critical shortage area.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to research doctoral programs at Western Kentucky University. [HB-118]
Amend KRS 164.295 to permit Western Kentucky University to offer up to five research doctoral degree programs.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to a veterinary medicine program at Murray State University. [HB-153]
Amend KRS 164.295 to permit Murray State University to offer doctor's degrees required for professional practice and licensure in veterinary medicine.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to paramedic education. [HB-149]
Create a new section of KRS 164.740 to 164.7891 to establish a coal-county paramedic scholarship to be administered by the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority (KHEAA); define terms; establish a fund in the State Treasury to be administered by KHEAA for providing coal county paramedic scholarships.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Council on Postsecondary Education. [HB-66]
Amend KRS 164.020 to remove the provision requiring the Council on Postsecondary Education to postpone approval of new programs at state postsecondary institutions that have not met equal educational opportunity goals; amend various sections of KRS Chapter 164 to conform and remove outdated language pertaining to staggering of initial terms.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to veterans. [SB-32]
Amend KRS 154.12-330 to give preference to veterans in the issuance of small business loans; create a new section of KRS Chapter 151B to require monthly veteran workforce reports; create new sections of Subchapter 12 of KRS Chapter 154 to require annual job training reports by the Kentucky Commission on Military Affairs; require a report on occupational licenses by the Kentucky Commission on Military Affairs; create a new section of KRS Chapter 311 to require the Kentucky Board of Medical Licensure to review licensing practices for nurses and physicians
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to comprehensive universities. [HB-56]
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.
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to sexual extortion. [HB-47]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 531 to establish the crime of sexual extortion as a felony; provide for enhancements to penalties; create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to establish a civil cause of action for sexual extortion; amend KRS 17.500 to include sexual extortion in the definition of "sex crime"; create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to require superintendents of local school districts to notify students in grades six and above and parents and guardians of all students of the crime of sexual extortion; require local school boards
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION condemning the support of Hamas, Hezbollah, and other terrorist organizations at institutions of higher education. [HR-153]
Condemn the support of Hamas, Hezbollah, and other terrorist organizations at institutions of higher education.
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION honoring and recognizing Dr. Donna Hedgepath. [SR-258]
Honor and recognize Dr. Donna Hedgepath for her career and commitment to furthering education at Campbellsville University and throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky.