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HCR60 - A CONCURRENT RESOLUTION establishing the Support Education Excellence in Kentucky (SEEK) Task Force.
Timothy Truett, Scott Lewis, Kimberly Banta
Last updated 11 months ago
23 Co-Sponsors
Direct the Legislative Research Commission to establish the Support Education Excellence in Kentucky (SEEK) Task Force to study the various components of the SEEK formula, evaluate whether changes are necessary to the base, tiers, or add-ons to maintain the original goal of SEEK; outline task force membership; require the task force to submit any findings and recommendations to the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2024
STATUS
Introduced
HB36 - AN ACT relating to student resiliency and well-being.
Lisa Willner, Bobby Wayne McCool, George A. Brown
Last updated 12 months ago
6 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to establish the Center for Student Resiliency and Well-Being within the Kentucky Department of Education to gather and compile data, coordinate training, and monitor the numbers and types of mental health professionals in schools; amend KRS 158.4416 to include the definition of "student resiliency and well-being approach"; remove the definition of "trauma-informed approach"; make conforming changes; require the resiliency and well-being team to compile their activities to be used in the creation of the Comprehensive School Improvement Plan and Comprehensive District Improvement Plan and submit the information to the Center for Student Resiliency and Well-Being; amend KRS 158.191 to require a school district to allow a parent to decline their student's participation in well-being questionnaires rather than requiring parental consent for the student to participate; amend KRS 156.095 to require schools to provide an opportunity for any student who missed the suicide prevention awareness lesson to receive the lesson at a later time; make conforming changes; amend KRS 158.443 to conform.
STATUS
Introduced
HB217 - AN ACT relating to hunting and fishing licenses and declaring an emergency.
David Hale, Kim King, John C. Blanton
Last updated 11 months ago
30 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 150.170 to remove the requirement that resident owners of farmlands must own five or more acres of land in order to be exempt from sport hunting and sport fishing license requirements when hunting or fishing on their own farmlands; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB168 - AN ACT relating to the posting of veterans' benefits and services.
Bobby Wayne McCool, Emily Callaway, John C. Blanton
Last updated 12 months ago
12 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 337 to require the Kentucky Department of Veterans' Affairs to create and distribute a veterans' benefits and services document to employers and require employers to keep copies of a veterans' benefits and services document in a conspicuous and accessible place.
STATUS
Introduced
HR45 - A RESOLUTION expressing support for the State of Israel and the Israeli people and condemning the violent events on October 7, 2023.
Daniel Grossberg, Chad Aull, Shane Baker
Last updated 11 months ago
81 Co-Sponsors
Affirm Kentucky's support for the State of Israel and the Israeli people and condemn the October 7, 2023, attack by Hamas.
STATUS
Passed
HB39 - AN ACT relating to the protection of veterans' benefits.
Bobby Wayne McCool, John C. Blanton, Chad Aull
Last updated 10 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 40 to prevent the compensation for advising or assisting with veterans' benefits.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB212 - AN ACT relating to the mental health of first responders.
Billy Wesley, Kimberly Banta, Jared A. Bauman
Last updated 10 months ago
44 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 95A.292 to allow rescue squad members to participate in the Alan "Chip" Terry Professional Development and Wellness Program; and create a new section of KRS Chapter 39F to direct the Division of Emergency Management and the Kentucky Fire Commission to enter into an agreement to ensure that rescue squad members have access to the program.
STATUS
Engrossed
HB345 - AN ACT relating to aerospace infrastructure, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Ken Fleming, Danny R. Bentley, Chad Aull
Last updated 11 months ago
25 Co-Sponsors
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 investment fund to be administered by the Council for Postsecondary Education for the purpose of funding public and private partnerships to provide aviation training scholarships and aviation and aerospace equipment grants; require that the portion of the fund expended towards the council's administrative costs shall not exceed 4% of all gross moneys in the fund or $1,500,000 annually, whichever is less; direct the council to promulgate administrative regulations to carry out this Act; require those administrative regulations to be submitted to the Legislative Research Commission for comment prior to filing; require advisory committee members to abstain from voting on a matter involving a conflict of interest; require that the council shall reserve at least 65% of all net moneys in the fund for partnership proposals between aviation programs and aviation industry partners to provide aviation training scholarships to Kentucky residents enrolled in aviation programs; direct the council to prioritize accepting partnerships to proposals targeted to reduce the workforce demand of a specific eligible aviation credential that is determined by the council to be among the highest in demand in the Commonwealth; direct that a partnership shall require a written partnership contract and establish the minimum contract requirements; direct that disbursements of moneys from the fund to support aviation training scholarships shall be made directly to an aviation program pursuant to the terms of the partnership contract; require that an aviation program that enters a partnership contract shall solicit, accept, and review aviation training scholarship applications submitted by students enrolled in the aviation program; direct that an aviation training scholarship issued by an aviation program pursuant to a partnership contract shall be made directly to a recipient pursuant to a written scholarship contract between the recipient and the aviation program; set minimum contract requirements; direct that a grantor may place restrictions upon a contribution to the fund requiring specific criteria for an aviation training scholarship or scholarships funded by the grantor's dedicated funds; direct that the aviation training scholarship contract shall grant the aviation program, the Commonwealth, or the aviation industry partner the authority to initiate recoupment proceedings for the recovery of the total amount of all aviation training scholarships awarded to an individual that fails to complete the terms of a scholarship contract; direct the council to reserve up to 35% of all net moneys in the fund for aviation equipment partnership contracts between public aviation training programs and aviation industry partners to provide aviation and aviation equipment grants; requrie that an aviation equipment partnership shall require a written partnership contract between a public aviation program, aviation industry partner, and the council; establish minimum contract requirements; direct the council to collaborate with the advisory committee to select proposals for partnership contracts; direct that the council may prioritize designated contracts; provide that the council shall require the public aviation program to submit proof that the entire amount of the aviation equipment grant is invested in the maintenance, acquisition, or lease of aviation or aviation training equipment utilized by students enrolled in a public aviation training program; require the council to submit a report to the Legislative Research Commission and establish minimum report requirements; sunset the bill on June 30, 2030; provide that this Act may be cited as the Aerospace Education Reinvestment Opportunity (A.E.R.O.) Act; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Introduced
HB221 - AN ACT relating to higher education finance and declaring an emergency.
Bobby Wayne McCool
Last updated 12 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
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; amend KRS 164A.055 to authorize the Asset Resolution Corporation to engage in student loan activities; remove references to administration by the Kentucky Higher Education Student Loan Corporation; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Introduced
HJR47 - A JOINT RESOLUTION designating the Pete McCoy Memorial Bridge in Floyd and Pike Counties.
Bobby Wayne McCool
Last updated 11 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate the Pete McCoy Memorial Bridge in Floyd and Pike Counties.
STATUS
Introduced
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Representative from Kentucky district HD-097
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Kentucky House
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