Kentucky Senate Bill 127 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 6-0)
Status: Introduced on January 26 2016 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2016-02-01 - recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
Pending: Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [PDF]

Amend KRS 164.7881 to permit high school seniors, beginning with the 2017-2018 academic year, and high school juniors and seniors, beginning with the 2018-2019 academic year, to use their KEES awards to pay for dual credit courses; require that the funds they would have received as eligible postsecondary students be reduced proportionally over a four, or in some cases, five year period by an amount equal to the amount used for dual credit; amend KRS 164.7885 to conform; designate the expenditures as necessary governmental expenses if KEES funds appropriated for fiscal year 2017-2018 is not adequate; APPROPRIATION.

AN ACT relating to the Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarship and making an appropriation therefor.

Sen. George Wise [R]	Sen. Stan Humphries [R]	Sen. Danny Carroll [R]	Sen. C.B. Embry [R]
Sen. David Givens [R]	Sen. Steve West [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2016-02-01	Senate	recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
2016-02-01	Senate	taken from Rules (S)
2016-01-29	Senate	2nd reading, to Rules
2016-01-28	Senate	reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
2016-01-27	Senate	to Education (S)
2016-01-26	Senate	introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB127.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB127/bill.pdf
Supplement	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/16RS/SB127/FN.pdf