Universities And Colleges
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to lobbying. [HB-309]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 48 to prohibit a public agency or any other entity created by an act of the General Assembly from using public funds for lobbying activity or to employ or enter into a contract with a lobbyist; define terms; exempt public agency employees who perform lobbying activities as part of their fiduciary duties; create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 to prohibit a public agency from using public funds for lobbying activity or to employ or contract with a lobbyist; define terms; exempt public agency employees who perform
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Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
Introduced In House on 01/18/2024
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AN ACT relating to concealed deadly weapons. [HB-288]
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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Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
Introduced In House on 01/17/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
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-6]
The State/Executive Branch Budget: Details Part I, Operating Budget; details Part II, Capital Projects Budget; details Part III, General Provisions; details Part IV, State Salary/Compensation, Benefit, and Employment Policy; details Part V, Funds Transfer; details Part VI, General Fund Budget Reduction Plan; details Part VII, General Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan; details Part VIII, Road Fund Budget Reduction Plan; details Part IX, Road Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan; details Part X, Phase I Tobacco Settlement; and details Part XI, Executive Branch
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Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
Delivered To Secretary Of State (acts Ch. 175) on 04/12/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to higher education. [HB-257]
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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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Banta
Introduced In House on 01/16/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to constitutional freedoms at public postsecondary education institutions. [HB-224]
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 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; reduce institution's authority to establish permit requirements; specify how an institution
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Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
Introduced In House on 01/10/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to teachers. [HB-230]
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.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/10/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to postsecondary employment. [HB-228]
Amend various sections of KRS Chapter 164 to require the boards of each state university and the Kentucky Technical and Community College System to approve a performance and productivity evaluation process for all faculty members by January 1, 2025; require faculty evaluations be completed at least once every four years; permit removal of faculty 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; require that each
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Education (h) on 01/17/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public postsecondary education institutions. [HB-231]
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 resident students and 7% a year for nonresident students; provide a four-year tuition freeze for an enrolled 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 164.131 to add two additional full-time student members to the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees,
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Introduced In House on 01/10/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to veterans. [SB-94]
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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Sponsored by: Sen. David Yates
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (s) on 01/10/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to lactating students. [SB-95]
Create new sections of KRS Chapters 158 and 164 to require public schools, public charter schools, and public postsecondary institutions to provide reasonable accommodations to a lactating student; set forth the minimum requirements for those reasonable accommodations; require public schools, public charter schools, and public postsecondary institutions to provide lactating students a reasonable amount of time to express breast milk or breastfeed without incurring an academic penalty.
Sponsored by: Sen. Karen Berg
To Education (s) on 01/10/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to hospitals. [HB-175]
Amend KRS 216B.065 to require the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville, or the medical systems thereof, to obtain approval from the General Assembly before acquiring a hospital that requires a license issued under KRS 216B.042.
Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Flannery
Introduced In House on 01/08/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to paramedic education and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-185]
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; APPROPRIATION.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/08/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to mathematics education and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-162]
Amends KRS 158.791 to specify the role of the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) in assisting local school districts with mathematics instruction, supports, and interventions and to require KDE to collaborate with designated agencies on mathematics programming, materials, and activities; amends KRS 158.840 to require students in kindergarten through grade three needing to make accelerated progress in mathematics to receive interventions and to require that the Council on Postsecondary Education submit an annual report on the compliance of teacher
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Sponsored by: Rep. James Tipton
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 222) on 04/19/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to concealed deadly weapons. [SB-66]
Repeal KRS 237.115, which interprets the application of the license to carry concealed deadly weapon statute as permitting postsecondary facilities and state and local governments to limit concealed carry in governmental buildings; amend KRS 150.172, 237.110, and 527.020 to conform.
Sponsored by: Sen. Adrienne Southworth
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (s) on 01/12/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to service credit for the Teachers' Retirement System and declaring an emergency. [HB-138]
Amend KRS 161.500 to allow members of the Teachers' Retirement System to recover up to 10 unpaid days that were missed to observe religious holidays; include the recovered days in count of days worked for service credit; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
Taken From The Orders Of The Day on 03/27/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
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-114]
The Governor's recommended State/Executive Branch Budget: Detail Part I, Operating Budget; detail Part II, Capital Projects Budget; detail Part III, General Provisions; detail Part IV, State Salary/Compensation, Benefit, and Employment Policy; detail Part V, Funds Transfer; detail Part VI, General Fund Budget Reduction Plan; detail Part VII, General Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan; detail Part VIII, Road Fund Budget Reduction Plan; detail Part IX, Road Fund Surplus Expenditure Plan; detail Part X, Phase I Tobacco Settlement; and detail Part XI, Executive
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Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
Introduced In House on 01/03/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public postsecondary education institutions. [HB-107]
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 resident students and 7% a year for nonresident students; provide a 4-year tuition freeze for an enrolled 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 164.131 to add 2 additional full-time student members to the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees, including
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Banta
Withdrawn on 01/10/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to urban youth agriculture education. [HB-74]
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, 2024, and others by August 1, 2025; set each program term to one year in duration beginning in January; establish guidelines for participant eligibility.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 01/02/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to technology in education and declaring an emergency. [SB-52]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 156 to make legislative findings and declarations and establish the Artificial Intelligence in Kentucky's Schools project, establish requirements for the Kentucky Department of Education to implement the project, require the department to design professional development trainings related to artificial intelligence, establish professional development requirement for teachers, administrators, school council members, and school board members, require the trainings be made available to nonpublic schools, require school
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Sponsored by: Sen. Reginald Thomas
To Education (s) on 01/03/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the promotion of family well-being and making an appropriation therefor. [SB-34]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 205 to require the eligibility periods for all public assistance programs administered by the Cabinet for Health and Family Services be extended to the maximum period of eligibility permitted under federal law; prohibit the Cabinet for Health and Family Services from relying exclusively on automated, artificial-intelligence based, or algorithmic software in the identification of fraud in programs administered by the cabinet; require Cabinet for Health and Family Services personnel to review relevant documentation
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Sponsored by: Sen. Whitney Westerfield
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 01/05/2024