Kentucky Senate Bill 69 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 16 2011 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2011-02-17 - to Education (H)
Pending: House Education Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #3) [MS Word]

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to be numbered KRS 158.142 to establish the option for early high school graduation beginning in the 2012-2013 school year; define the curriculum requirements for early graduation and admission into a Kentucky public two-year institution or four-year university; establish the Early Graduation Scholarship Certificate and the processes for awarding it and using it; create a new section of KRS 164 to create the early graduation scholarship fund to be administered by the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority; amend KRS 157.360 to describe how state funds from the SEEK appropriation will be transferred to the scholarship fund to support early high school graduates; amend KRS 158.140 to limit the powers of the Kentucky Board of Education or a local board from imposing graduation requirements that would prohibit a student from pursuing an early graduation program; amend KRS 164.7879 to prescribe how an annual KEES award for an early graduate would be calculated; amend KRS 157.420 to conform; APPROPRIATION.

AN ACT relating to early high school graduation and making an appropriation therefor.

Sen. Kenneth Winters [R]

Date	Chamber	Action
2011-02-17		to Education (H)
2011-02-16		received in House
2011-02-15		3rd reading, passed 35-1 with Committee Substitute
2011-02-15		posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 15, 2011
2011-02-10		reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules with Committee Substitute
2011-02-09		returned to Education (S)
2011-02-09		1st reading
2011-02-09		taken from Education (S)
2011-02-01		to Education (S)
2011-01-07		introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB69.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/11RS/SB69/bill.doc