Universities And Colleges
Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to postsecondary institutions. [SB-6]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; provide that a student or employee of a public postsecondary education institution shall not be penalized, discriminated against, or receive any adverse treatment due to the individual's refusal to support or endorse any divisive concept; provide that a student or employee of a public postsecondary education institution shall not be required to endorse a specific ideology or political viewpoint to be eligible for hiring, contract renewal, tenure, promotion, or graduation and prohibit an institution
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Sponsored by: Sen. Damon Thayer
Posted For Passage For Concurrence In House Committee Substitute (1) on 04/12/2024
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Gettr Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION recognizing workforce and training initiatives. [SR-269]
Recognize the University of Louisville for its efforts regarding adoption of cybersecurity systems in Kentucky.
Sponsored by: Sen. Michael Nemes
Introduced In Senate on 03/30/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION recognizing the University of Louisville for its efforts to accelerate adoption of cybersecurity systems in Kentucky by combining assets of higher education, state and federal agencies, and private sector companies. [HR-100]
Recognize the University of Louisville for its efforts regarding adoption of cybersecurity systems in Kentucky.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kevin Bratcher
Introduced In House on 03/30/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
A JOINT RESOLUTION relating to access to and awareness of postsecondary education. [HJR-71]
Direct the Council on Postsecondary Education and public postsecondary education institutions to collaborate to develop a proactive admissions pilot program to establish a statewide universal guaranteed admission program; direct CPE to submit a report on the pilot proactive admissions program to the Interim Joint Committee on Education by November 1, 2024.
Sponsored by: Rep. James Tipton
To Education (h) on 03/02/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION recognizing the Kentucky College of Art and Design. [HCR-59]
Recognize the Kentucky College of Art and Design.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Nemes
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 113) on 03/27/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to service credit for the Teachers' Retirement System and declaring an emergency. [HB-418]
Amend KRS 161.500 to allow members of the Teachers' Retirement System to make up unpaid days; require a maximum of ten makeup days to count for service credit; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. James Tipton
Introduced In House on 02/21/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
A JOINT RESOLUTION relating to state administrative bodies. [SJR-98]
Direct the Council on Postsecondary Education to study placing a new regional, residential, four-year university in southeastern Kentucky and the allocation of responsibility between the Kentucky Community and Technical College System and regional universities.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Stivers
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 49) on 03/22/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to teachers. [HB-435]
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. Tina Bojanowski
Introduced In House on 02/21/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to paycheck protection. [HB-364]
Amend KRS 336.180 to define terms; amend KRS 336.134 to prohibit a public employer from withholding money relating to labor organization dues or funding political activity from a state public employee's wages and require state public employers to submit notice of rights to employees; create new sections of KRS Chapter 336 to prohibit employers from collecting financial information from state public employees for the purpose of providing the financial information to a labor organization to facilitate the collection of dues, fees, assessments, payments,
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Osborne
Taken From Rules on 03/16/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to lifetime employment contracts at public postsecondary educational institutions. [HB-336]
Amend KRS 164.365 to prohibit the governing boards of regional state colleges and universities and KCTCS from entering into contracts for lifetime employment; amend KRS 164.830 to prohibit the Board of Trustees of the University of Louisville from entering into contracts for lifetime employment; amend KRS 164.220 to prohibit the Board of Trustees of the University of Kentucky from entering into contracts for lifetime employment.
Sponsored by: Rep. Patrick Flannery
Introduced In House on 02/16/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to college student criminal history inquiries. [HB-267]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to prohibit a public or private postsecondary institution from inquiring about a student's criminal history on the institution's admissions application.
Sponsored by: Rep. George Brown
Introduced In House on 02/14/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to accreditation requirements for licensure as a professional engineer. [HB-291]
Amend KRS 322.040 to allow a graduate from an engineering program of at least 4 years accredited by the Engineering Technology Accreditation Commission of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology to sit for the Principles and Practice of Engineering Examination.
Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
Introduced In House on 02/14/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Authority for Educational Television and declaring an emergency. [SB-104]
Amend KRS 168.040 to revise the membership requirements of the Kentucky Authority for Educational Television; provide that terms of current members appointed by the Governor and the term of the Council on Postsecondary Education member representing the University of Kentucky shall expire upon the effective date of the Act; amend KRS 168.050 to prescribe the term lengths for newly appointed members; amend KRS 168.060 and KRS 168.070 to conform; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Meredith
Returned To State Government (h) on 03/15/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the healthcare workforce, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [SB-105]
Create new sections of KRS 164 to define terms; establish the Kentucky healthcare workforce investment fund to enable the Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE), healthcare programs, and healthcare providers and facilities to match public and private dollars for the purpose of awarding scholarships to eligible students and healthcare incentives to eligible healthcare programs; provide that the moneys in the fund appropriated by the General Assembly shall lapse after the second year in a biennium budget; direct CPE to promulgate regulations to
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Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Meredith
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 02/14/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the safety and mental health of students. [HB-196]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Kentucky Mental Health Safety Center within the University of Louisville to be known as SafeKY; require SafeKY to create, implement, and maintain a real-time electronic mental health application; require the application be available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, and 365 days a year; require the application to be made available at no cost to all elementary, secondary, and postsecondary students and the parents and teachers of those students; require the University of Louisville to establish
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Sponsored by: Rep. Danny Bentley
Reported Favorably, To Rules on 03/15/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to state-funded data. [SB-66]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 requiring public universities to provide data provided by or paid for by the state to a state agency or eligible non-state entity upon request.
Sponsored by: Sen. Stephen Meredith
Recommitted To Education (s) on 03/03/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the healthcare workforce, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-200]
Create new sections of KRS 164 to define terms; establish the Kentucky healthcare workforce investment fund to enable the CPE, healthcare programs, and healthcare providers and facilities to match public and private dollars for the purpose of awarding scholarships to eligible students and healthcare incentives to eligible healthcare programs; provide that the moneys in the fund appropriated by the General Assembly shall lapse after the second year in a biennium budget; direct CPE to promulgate regulations to administer the Act; require at least
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 65) on 03/22/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Commonwealth Education Continuum. [HB-145]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Commonwealth Education Continuum; specify the membership of the continuum; establish the terms of members; require the Council on Postsecondary Education to act as the administrative body for the continuum; establish reporting requirements to the Interim Joint Committee on Education.
Sponsored by: Rep. James Tipton
Introduced In House on 02/07/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to concealed deadly weapons. [HB-138]
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 various KRS sections 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 TSA; amend KRS 527.070 to add persons with valid licenses
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Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
Introduced In House on 01/06/2023
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Kentucky 2023 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Kentucky educational excellence scholarships. [HB-133]
Amend KRS 164.7884 to allow KEES to be used for a workforce solutions training program offered by the Kentucky Community and Technical College System and approved by the authority; define approved workforce solutions training program.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
Recommitted To Appropriations & Revenue (h) on 02/22/2023