| KY | SJR179 | Pass | Direct the Kentucky Community and Technical College System to report findings and present action steps on improving and advancing the system to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2024.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-19
signed by Governor |
| KY | SJR170 | Pass | Direct the Council on Postsecondary Education to conduct a study on expanding postbaccalaureate program offerings at comprehensive universities; consult with each president of a comprehensive university to consider a regional economic development or ...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
signed by Governor |
| KY | SB191 | Pass | Amend KRS 164.092 to define "nontraditional age students"; include nontraditional age students in the goal of closing achievement gaps; increase the percentage of public university funding based on student success outcomes produced from 35 to 40 perc...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-17
signed by Governor |
| KY | SJR132 | Pass | Direct the Council on Postsecondary Education to conduct a study on transforming the Hazard Community and Technical College into a four-year, residential university; require the results of the study to be submitted to the Legislative Research Commiss...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-16
signed by Governor |
| KY | SR236 | Intro
25% | Confirm the appointment of Candace McGraw to the Kentucky Community and Technical College System Board of Regents for a term expiring July 21, 2029.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted 38-0 |
| KY | SR237 | Intro
25% | Confirm the reappointment of Ashley Flaugher Himes to the Northern Kentucky University Board of Regents for a term expiring June 30, 2029.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted 38-0 |
| KY | SR229 | Intro
25% | Confirm the appointment of Rhonda Jennings Blackburn to the Morehead State University Board of Regents for a term expiring June 30, 2028.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted 38-0 |
| KY | SR282 | Intro
25% | Confirm the appointment of Alex Boone to the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees for a term expiring June 30, 2029.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted 38-0 |
| KY | SR274 | Intro
25% | Confirm the appointment of Janie Greer to the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees for a term expiring June 30, 2029.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted 38-0 |
| KY | SR273 | Pass | Urge the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville to schedule men's and women's basketball games at the arenas of Kentucky's other NCAA Division I schools.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SR276 | Intro
25% | Confirm the appointment of Cynthia Jean Nichols to the Western Kentucky University Board of Regents for a term expiring July 9, 2029.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted 38-0 |
| KY | SR380 | Intro
25% | Confirm the appointment of John L. Holbrook to the Morehead State University Board of Regents for a term expiring July 9, 2029.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted 38-0 |
| KY | SR357 | Intro
25% | Confirm the appointment of Matthew Edwin Price to the Murray State University Board of Regents for a term expiring June 30, 2027.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted 38-0 |
| KY | SR356 | Intro
25% | Confirm the appointment of G.L. Ovey to the Murray State University Board of Regents for a term expiring July 9, 2029.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted 38-0 |
| KY | SR329 | Intro
25% | Confirm the appointment of Elizabeth Griffin McCoy to the University of Kentucky Board of Trustees for a term expiring June 30, 2028.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted 38-0 |
| KY | SR304 | Intro
25% | Confirm the appointment of Andrew Belcher to the Governor's Postsecondary Education Nominating Committee for a term expiring April 14, 2026.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-15
adopted 38-0 |
| KY | SB6 | Engross
50% | 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 refusa...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
posted for passage for concurrence in House Committee Substitute (1) |
| KY | SB198 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority; declare that the mission of the authority is to serve as the nonregulatory, trusted state government agency on nuclear energy issues and to suppor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
delivered to Secretary of State |
| KY | SR258 | Pass | Honor and recognize Dr. Donna Hedgepath for her career and commitment to furthering education at Campbellsville University and throughout the Commonwealth of Kentucky.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-12
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SB127 | Pass | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; establish the Kentucky Aerospace, Aviation, and Defense Investment Fund Advisory Committee; establish the membership of the committee; establish the Kentucky aerospace, aviation, and defense inv...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-05
signed by Governor |
| KY | SB111 | Pass | Create a new section of Subtitle 17A of KRS Chapter 304 to require health insurance coverage for speech therapy as a treatment for stuttering; amend KRS 304.17C-125, 205.522, 205.6485, 164.2871, and 18A.225 to require limited health service benefit p...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor |
| KY | SB1 | Pass | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the endowed research fund to be administered by the Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE) for the purposes of funding research consortiums between two or more public universities; provide that t...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-04-04
signed by Governor |
| KY | SR241 | Pass | Recognize Tori Murden McClure for her exemplary accomplishments as an explorer, author, and the President of Spalding University and congratulate her on her retirement.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-27
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SB295 | Engross
50% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to prohibit a requirement for any individual to receive a COVID-19 vaccine, modified ribonucleic acid (modRNA) vaccine, or messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccine for the purposes of student enrollment, emplo...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-26
To House Committee On Committees |
| KY | SB81 | Pass | Amend KRS 164.746 to modify the membership of the governing board of the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority; amend KRS 164A.050 to modify the membership of the governing board of the Kentucky Higher Education Student Loan Corporation; ame...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-14
signed by Governor |
| KY | SB336 | Intro
25% | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 61 to define "boy," "equal," "female," "girl," "male," "man," "sex," and "woman"; prohibit any state or local law, regulation, ordinance, or policy from treating males or females unfairly from similiarly situated me...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-03-01
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
| KY | SB315 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to direct school districts and public schools to act to protect Jewish students from credible threats of violence or violence motivated by antisemitism; prohibit a school district, public school, or student org...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-29
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
| KY | SB150 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 164.7879 to establish new award grade point average qualifications and amounts for the Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarship beginning with the 2024-2025 school year.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | SB269 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require public postsecondary institutions offering bachelor's degrees to include at least three credit hours related to the study of the government of the United States in any graduation requirements for tho...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-28
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | SB263 | Intro
25% | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 158 to prohibit censorship of history curriculum; permit a school or school district to adopt, implement, and offer equity, diversity, and inclusion curricula, programing, initiatives, and instruction without penalt...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-26
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | SB7 | Engross
50% | Amend KRS 164.7874 to include an equivalent score on the Classic Learning Test as a KEES supplemental amount; define "eligible noncertified school graduate"; amend definitions of "KEES award," "KEES award maximum," and " KEES base amount" for an elig...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-22
To House Education Committee |
| KY | SB189 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 164.295 to permit Murray State University to offer doctor's degrees required for professional practice and licensure in veterinary medicine.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-20
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | SB201 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 164.295 to permit a comprehensive university to offer certain research doctoral degree programs upon fulfilling requirements promulgated by the Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE); permit a comprehensive university to describe itself a...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-14
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | SR98 | Pass | Honor Dr. Marion Simon upon the occasion of her retirement from Kentucky State University and for her service to small farmers across Kentucky.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-12
adopted by voice vote |
| KY | SB181 | Intro
25% | 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...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-08
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
| KY | SB165 | Intro
25% | Amend various sections of the Kentucky Revised Statutes to remove requirements for using a Social Security number as an identifier.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-07
To Senate Judiciary Committee |
| KY | SB166 | Intro
25% | Create new sections of KRS Chapters 156 and 164 to forbid the involvement of government-organized nongovernmental organizations based in the People's Republic of China in education in Kentucky.
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-06
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | SB149 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 304.17A-164 to establish cost-sharing requirements for prescription drugs; require rebates to be passed through; establish confidentiality requirements for the rebate information; create a new section of KRS 365.880 to 365.900 to provide th...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-02-01
To Senate Banking and Insurance Committee |
| KY | SB138 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 165A.370, relating to proprietary schools, to allow a license holder or applicant to seek a single accreditation for all the school locations it operates in the state; amend KRS 161.048 to specify that adjunct instructors may be employed by...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | SB135 | Intro
25% | Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to provide that an independent institution or postsecondary education institution that requires a student to receive an immunization for disease shall allow exemptions; establish a cause of action related to an...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-29
To Senate Health Services Committee |
| KY | SB109 | Intro
25% | Amend KRS 164.7879 to increase the Kentucky educational excellence scholarship base amount for each eligible grade point average; increase the supplemental award amounts; require a supplemental award for eligible Cambridge Advanced International scor...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-18
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB95 | Intro
25% | 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 reasona...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Education Committee |
| KY | SB94 | Intro
25% | 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 ann...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-10
To Senate Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection Committee |
| KY | SB34 | Intro
25% | 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; proh...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-05
To Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee |
| KY | SB52 | Intro
25% | 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, r...
[Detail][Text][Discuss] | 2024-01-03
To Senate Education Committee |
