Universities And Colleges
Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A RESOLUTION urging Kentucky’s colleges and universities to end the use of animals in wasteful government experiments. [SR-164]
Urge Kentucky’s colleges and universities to end the use of animals in wasteful government experiments; encourage institutions to provide data on animal research and testing within 90 days.
Sponsored by: Sen. Lindsey Tichenor
Introduced In Senate on 03/11/2025
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AN ACT relating to postsecondary education. [HB-711]
Amend KRS 164.001 to remove the definition of "committee" and "P-16 council"; amend KRS 164.013 to conform; amend KRS 164.020 to remove the Council on Postsecondary Education's ability to postpone approval of new programs due to an institution's unmet equal educational opportunity goals; amend KRS 164.0211 to attach the Board of Student Body Presidents to the Council on Postsecondary Education for administration and organization purposes; amend KRS 164.321 to require Senate confirmation of gubernatorial appointees to the boards of regents of the
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Sponsored by: Rep. James Tipton
Received In Senate on 03/07/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to benefits for Kentucky National Guard members. [HB-776]
Amend KRS 38.030 to entitle Kentucky National Guard members to receive hazardous duty incentive pay when called to service under Title 32 when an emergency is declared; amend KRS 138.470 to exempt active members of the Armed Forces assigned to Kentucky who are on temporary duty in other locations and current members of the Kentucky National Guard from motor vehicle usage tax on vehicles purchased from Kentucky motor vehicle dealers; amend KRS 164.5161 to allow current National Guard members and their dependents up to 120 total credit hours at a
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Sponsored by: Rep. Chad Aull
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A JOINT RESOLUTION authorizing the release of funds. [HJR-53]
Authorize the Office of State Budget Director to release capital construction funds for the Design Health Services Center project at Kentucky State University; require the university to submit a comprehensive business plan on or before November 1, 2025.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie
Signed By Governor (acts Ch.41) on 03/19/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to communications with elected officials. [HB-715]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 61 prohibiting public entities from requiring, compelling, or incentivizing program participants to communicate with elected officials with a specific political message.
Sponsored by: Rep. Anne Donworth
To State Government (h) on 02/27/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to Kentucky residency in the postsecondary educational system. [SB-258]
Amend KRS 164.020 to define Kentucky residency in the postsecondary education system to require a student to be a citizen, national resident, or permanent resident.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Mills
To Education (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to scholarships. [SB-253]
Amend KRS 164.769 to remove repayment obligations from the teacher scholarship program; amend scholorship terms; provide that the scholarship amount shall not exceed the highest in-state tuition rate for a teacher preparation program at a Kentucky public university; amend KRS 164.786 to add eligibility for high school freshmen and sophomores to the dual credit scholarship program; require an approved dual credit course to be in the statewide general education core; permit up to 20 dual credit courses in a teacher and learning career pathway; provide
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Sponsored by: Sen. Jimmy Higdon
To Appropriations & Revenue (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
A JOINT RESOLUTION relating to contingent appropriations. [HJR-34]
Declare that the contingent appropriation of capital construction funds to improve and advance the existing Kentucky Community and Technical College System remains under condiseration by the General Assembly.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jason Petrie
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 47) on 03/19/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to student-athletes and declaring an emergency. [SB-3]
Amend KRS 164.6941 to define terms; amend KRS 164.6943 to allow the limitation of earning compensation through a NIL agreement through an institutional agreement between the student-athlete and the institution or affiliated organization; permit an institution or association to require compensation be consistent with the prevailing range of compensation; amend KRS 164.6945 to conform and authorize a student-athlete to receive compensation from an institution or its affiliated corporation through a written institutional agreement; authorize an institution
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Sponsored by: Sen. George Wise
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 10) on 03/13/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to immunization policy. [HB-647]
Create a new of section KRS Chapter 164 to allow a student, staff, or faculty member to opt out of a postsecondary school's immunization policy for specified reasons; create a new section of KRS Chapter 214 to prohibit a public entity from creating standardized documentation with the purpose of certifying vaccination status; create a new section of KRS Chapter 336 to require written notice of vaccination exemptions for a sincerely held religious belief or medical contraindication; establish which health care providers can support a medical exemption;
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Sponsored by: Rep. Savannah Maddox
To Health Services (h) on 02/26/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the postsecondary education working group. [SB-208]
Amend KRS 164.092 to require the postsecondary education working group to meet in calendar year 2025 and every odd-numbered year thereafter.
Sponsored by: Sen. Steve West
To Education (s) on 02/20/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to postsecondary education students. [HB-568]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms, require postsecondary education institutions to designate at least one employee in an appropriate department to serve as a liaison between the institution and a homeless student or student in care who is enrolled at the institution; detail responsibilities of the liaison, the Council on Postsecondary Education, and the institution; require an institution to create a position to carry out the responsibilities of a liaison if the number of students experiencing homelessness or students in care
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Sponsored by: Rep. Sarah Stalker
To Postsecondary Education (h) on 02/25/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to opioid antagonists. [HB-547]
Amend KRS 217.186 to require each public postsecondary educational institution to provide access to opioid antagonists on campus; permit access to be provided by emergency opioid antagonist cabinets; permit application for funds from the opioid abatement trust fund and other available sources to coordinate, maintain, and supply the opioid antagonists; amend KRS 15.291 to add providing access to opioid antagonists on the campuses of public postsecondary educational institutions to the list of projects that may be provided with funding from the opioid
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Sponsored by: Rep. Chad Aull
To Health Services (h) on 02/25/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to nuclear energy development, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. [SB-179]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Nuclear Energy Development Grant Program to be administered by the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority; establish the nuclear energy development grant administration subcommittee and provide for its duties; limit individual grant awards from the Nuclear Energy Development Grant Program to $2,000,000 per grant; amend KRS 164.2802 to require the director of the Kentucky Nuclear Energy Development Authority to publicize and encourage application to the Nuclear Energy Development Grant
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Sponsored by: Sen. Danny Carroll
Signed By Governor on 03/24/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to reading and language arts instruction. [HB-528]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; require the Kentucky Department of Education to establish an approved list of reading curriculum that does not use a three-cueing system; prohibit school districts from using any curriculum that employs a three-cueing system; prohibit the use of a three-cueing system in teacher professional development; require the Educational Professional Standards Board to promulgate administrative regulations establishing curriculum for each approved educator preparation program; amend KRS 164.306 to specify
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Sponsored by: Rep. James Tipton
To Primary And Secondary Education (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prohibited uses of state tax dollars. [HB-492]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 48 to define "illegal alien"; prohibit state tax dollars appropriated by the General Assembly from being used to compensate an illegal alien; direct the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security to assist in the implementation and enforcement of the Act.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kim King
To Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to service credit for the Teachers' Retirement System and declaring an emergency. [HB-507]
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
To State Government (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to prohibited uses of state tax dollars. [SB-151]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 48 to define "illegal alien"; prohibit state tax dollars appropriated by the General Assembly from being used to compensate an illegal alien; direct the Kentucky Office of Homeland Security to assist in the implementation and enforcement of the Act.
Sponsored by: Sen. Robert Mills
Received In House on 03/04/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to comprehensive universities. [HB-499]
Amend KRS 164.295 to remove the doctoral program prohibitions for comprehensive universities and expressly permit comprehensive universities to offer research doctoral programs.
Sponsored by: Rep. James Tipton
To Postsecondary Education (h) on 02/21/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the waiver of qualified official immunity. [HB-483]
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to waive qualified official immunity as a defense for employees or agents of public postsecondary education institutions that are not law enforcement officers; amend KRS 164.6949 to conform.
Sponsored by: Rep. T.J. Roberts
To Postsecondary Education (h) on 02/14/2025