Kentucky Senate Bill 86 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 1-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 6 2012 - 50% progression, died in committee
Action: 2012-03-30 - recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
Pending: Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #2) [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 2013-2014 school year; define the curriculum requirements for early graduation and conditional admission into a Kentucky public two-year institution or four-year university; specify that students shall obtain a qualifying benchmark score on each of the end-of-course examinations that make up the high school achievement portion of the accountability system under KRS 158.6453 and that students obtain a qualifying benchmark score on a world language proficiency assessment approved by the Kentucky Board of Education; 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
2012-03-30		recommitted to Appropriations & Revenue (S)
2012-03-29		received in Senate
2012-03-28		3rd reading, passed 81-12 with Committee Substitute, committee amendment (1-title)
2012-03-28		posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, March 28, 2012
2012-03-27		reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules with Committee Substitute, committee amendment (1-title)
2012-03-26		returned to Education (H)
2012-03-26		1st reading
2012-03-26		taken from Education (H)
2012-03-13		posted in committee
2012-02-07		to Education (H)
2012-02-06		received in House
2012-02-02		3rd reading, passed 34-4
2012-02-01		posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, February 2, 2012
2012-01-27		2nd reading, to Rules
2012-01-26		reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
2012-01-10		to Education (S)
2012-01-09		introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/SB86.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/SB86/bill.doc