Universities And Colleges
Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the creation of the Commonwealth West Healthcare Workforce Innovation Center, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-751]
Create the Commonwealth West Healthcare Workforce Innovation Center to provide healthcare educational pathways to address the healthcare worker shortage; direct the center to be operated through a partnership of public and private organizations; direct the General Assembly to provide start-up funds to be administered through the Kentucky Community and Technical College System; direct KCTCS to provide reports to LRC; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 03/15/2022
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AN ACT relating to COVID-19 liability and declaring an emergency. [HB-775]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 411 to define terms; provide COVID-19 liability protection to public educational institutions when complying with recommended guidelines; establish four-year limitation of action; apply to actions commenced on or after March 6, 2020; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ed Massey
Introduced In House on 03/01/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to financial disclosures of postsecondary education institutions. [HB-663]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require the president and chair of the governing board of each postsecondary education institution licensed or overseen by the Council on Postsecondary Education to jointly execute a signed, sworn financial disclosure statement by July 1 of each year; designate recipients of the statement; and authorize CPE to investigate if an institution fails to provide a statement to designated recipients.
Sponsored by: Rep. Bobby McCool
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 170) on 04/08/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to teachers. [HB-623]
Amend KRS 158.060 to require teachers 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 02/28/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to governmental agencies, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-604]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Kentucky Center for Cannabis Research at the University of Kentucky; define the role, mission, and responsibilities of the center; establish the university's duties related to the center; APPROPRIATION.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Line Items Vetoed (acts Ch. 239) on 04/26/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Educational Savings Plan Trust. [SB-212]
Repeal and reenact KRS 164A.300 to 164A.380 as new sections of KRS Chapter 41 and amend to provide that the Kentucky Educational Savings Plan Trust is to be administered by the Department of the Treasury; amend various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to conform.
Sponsored by: Sen. Wil Schroder
Recommitted To State & Local Government (s) on 03/23/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to healthcare workers and declaring an emergency. [HB-573]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Healthcare Worker Loan Relief Program for qualifying healthcare workers; establish the guidelines for operating the program; create the healthcare worker loan relief fund; APPROPRIATION.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 226) on 04/20/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to international research. [SB-204]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to permit public postsecondary institutions to agree to choice of law and choice of venue clauses in international research agreements.
Sponsored by: Sen. Julie Adams
To Education (s) on 02/24/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to education and declaring an emergency. [HB-487]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to direct that no school shall offer any classroom instruction, discussion, or instructional materials that promote bigotry, revisionist history, or critical social justice; provide that nothing in the section shall be interpreted to prohibit academic instruction on the historical existence of bigotry or revisionist views of history or to regulate the conduct or speech of students; provide that a teacher who chooses to discuss a current topic shall strive to explore the topic from diverse and contending perspectives;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Joseph Fischer
Introduced In House on 02/11/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to public postsecondary education institutions. [HB-452]
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 students; require an institution to notify a student before expiration of a tuition freeze; require any increase to tuition or fees to be approved before March 1 of the proceeding school year; amend KRS 164.131 to add 2 additional full-time student members to the University of Kentucky
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Introduced In House on 02/03/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to student discipline at public postsecondary education institutions. [SB-129]
Amend KRS 164.370 to define terms; require a governing board of a public postsecondary education institution to adopt a code for student conduct; establish minimum procedural requirements for a nonacademic violation when the violation is punishable by a suspension, expulsion, or termination of student housing, including a presumption of innocence, written notice, maintenance of an administrative file, the right to be present and participate meaningfully, the right to fair and impartial treatment, and the ability to bring a support person; establish
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Sponsored by: Sen. Ralph Alvarado
To Education (s) on 02/07/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the tuition credit. [SB-136]
Amend KRS 141.069 to include educational institutions that participate in the Academic Common Market in accordance with the Regional Compact of Southern States for Regional Educational Services, as established in KRS 164.530 and add reporting requirements; amend KRS 131.190 allowing the Department of Revenue to report on this credit.
Sponsored by: Sen. Wil Schroder
Reassigned To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 03/08/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to college student criminal history inquiries. [HB-411]
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. Attica Scott
Introduced In House on 02/01/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the Work Ready Kentucky Scholarship Program. [SB-94]
Amend KRS 164.787 to add eligibility for the Work Ready Kentucky Scholarship Program to students with intellectual disabilities enrolled in comprehensive transition and postsecondary programs.
Sponsored by: Sen. Danny Carroll
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 42) on 03/29/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to student teacher background checks. [HB-283]
Amend KRS 160.380 to permit a school district to accept a background check completed by an accredited teacher education institution for a student teacher.
Sponsored by: Rep. Steve Riley
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 160) on 04/08/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to appropriations and revenue 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-285]
The State/Executive Branch Budget: Detail Part I, Operating Budget; appropriate to General Government: 2021-2022: $125,187,900, 2022-2023: $2,727,314,100, 2023-2024: $2,018,630,000; appropriate to the Economic Development Cabinet: 2021-2022: $291,800, 2022-2023: $377,258,800, 2023-2024: $32,308,300; appropriate to the Department of Education: 2021-2022: $134,400, 2022-2023: $6,791,287,300, 2023-2024: $6,938,460,600; appropriate to the Education and Labor Cabinet: 2021-2022: $5,749,500, 2022-2023: $861,376,300, 2023-2024: $818,991,800; appropriate
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Sponsored by: Rep. David Osborne
Introduced In House on 01/13/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to student discipline at public postsecondary education institutions. [HB-290]
Amend KRS 164.370 to define terms; require a governing board of a public postsecondary education institution to adopt a code for student conduct, establish minimum procedural requirements for a nonacademic violation when the violation is punishable by a suspension, expulsion, or termination of student housing, including a presumption of innocence, written notice, maintenance of an administrative file, the right to be present and participate meaningfully, the right to fair and impartial treatment, and the ability to bring a support person; establish
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Sponsored by: Rep. Kimberly Moser
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 159) on 04/08/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to school personnel. [HB-302]
Amend KRS 161.155 to make sick leave affidavits for school employees at the superintendent's discretion instead of mandatory; amend KRS 160.380 to permit a school district to accept a background check completed by an accredited teacher education institution within the last 6 months for a student teacher.
Sponsored by: Rep. Ed Massey
Introduced In House on 01/13/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to athletics and declaring an emergency. [SB-6]
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; provide protections for student athletes seeking compensation through name, image, and likeness agreements or seeking an athlete agent; provide similar protections for institutions; establish prohibitions, conditions, and limitations on athletes earning compensation through name, image, and likeness agreements; prohibit name, image, and likeness compensation as an inducement; prohibit institutions, associations, or affiliated organizations from providing compensation for name, image, and likeness
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Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 12) on 03/09/2022
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Kentucky 2022 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Kentucky State University, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [HB-250]
Require the Council on Postsecondary Education to create and oversee a management improvement plan for Kentucky State University; identify plan requirements; require CPE and KSU to make various reports on the plan to LRC; appropriate $23 million to KSU in fiscal year 2021-2022; require CPE to make recommendations for repayment; require CPE to provide annual reports on the status of the KSU loan; create the KSU loan repayment trust fund; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
Sponsored by: Rep. Derrick Graham
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 183) on 04/08/2022