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SB7 - AN ACT relating to KEES scholarships for students attending noncertified schools.
Mike Wilson, Damon Thayer, Gary M. Boswell
Last updated 8 months ago
23 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 164.7874 to include an equivalent score on the Classic Learning Test as a KEES supplemental amount; define "eligible noncertified school graduate"; amend definitions of "KEES award," "KEES award maximum," and " KEES base amount" for an eligible noncertified school graduate; amend KRS 164.7879 to establish an equivalent grade point average for eligible noncertified school graduates based on the graduate's ACT score; amend KRS 164.7884 to conform.
STATUS
Engrossed
SB128 - AN ACT relating to youth employment programs.
David P. Givens, Amanda Mays Bledsoe, Matthew D. Deneen
Last updated 6 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 339 to allow a nonprofit organization to apply to the Department of Workplace Standards to create a work program for minors 12 or 13 years of age, to require that the primary benefit of the work performed provide vocational and educational value to the minors, to establish requirements and prohibitions for participation, to establish minimum wage requirements for youth participants, to require employment to not operate on student attendance days, to provide an exemption to allow a nonprofit that currently operates or has previously operated a program to apply to the department to allow a minor to work on school attendance days but not during regular school hours, to prohibit a minor from working if the nonprofit organization was aware that the minor missed school that day, to require that the nonprofit bear the burden of proof to justify the necessity of a program on school attendance days, to require that the department be the sole decision maker in the approval or denial of any work program under this Act, and to require the department to promulgate administrative regulations; and amends KRS 339.210 to conform.
STATUS
Passed
SR90 - A RESOLUTION adjourning the Senate in honor and loving memory of Brother Joe Adams.
Jimmy Higdon, Robert Stivers, David P. Givens
Last updated 8 months ago
10 Co-Sponsors
Adjourn the Senate in honor and loving memory of Brother Joe Adams.
STATUS
Passed
SB117 - AN ACT proposing an amendment to Section 25 of the Constitution of Kentucky relating to slavery and involuntary servitude as a punishment for crime.
Gerald A. Neal, David P. Givens, Amanda Mays Bledsoe
Last updated 8 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Propose to amend Section 25 of the Constitution of Kentucky to prohibit slavery and involuntary servitude in all circumstances; provide ballot language; submit to voters for ratification or rejection.
STATUS
Introduced
SB129 - AN ACT relating to modified new revenues for income tax.
David P. Givens, Christian McDaniel, Mike Wilson
Last updated 8 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Amend KRS 154.30-010 to allow modified new revenues for income tax to be used for calendar years beginning on or after January 1, 2023.
STATUS
Introduced
SR94 - A RESOLUTION honoring the 20th Black History Celebration and recognizing that Black history is American history.
Gerald A. Neal, Julie Adams, Casey Chambers Armstrong
Last updated 8 months ago
38 Co-Sponsors
Honor the 20th Black History Celebration and recognize that Black history is American history.
STATUS
Introduced
SR123 - A RESOLUTION calling upon Governor Andy Beshear to support Texas Governor Greg Abbott in securing the Texas border.
Johnnie L. Turner, Phillip Wheeler, Gary M. Boswell
Last updated 8 months ago
25 Co-Sponsors
Call upon Governor Andy Beshear to support Texas Governor Greg Abbott in securing the Texas border.
STATUS
Passed
SR136 - A RESOLUTION recognizing the achievements of former Speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives Bobby Richardson, and encouraging the General Assembly in a future session to establish an honorary highway designation in Barren County in his honor.
David P. Givens
Last updated 5 months ago
1 Co-Sponsor
Recognize the achievements of former Speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives Bobby Richardson; encourage the General Assembly, in a future session, to direct the Transportation Cabinet to designate a state highway in Barren County in his honor.
STATUS
Passed
SB192 - AN ACT relating to career and technical education funding, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
David P. Givens, Matthew D. Deneen, Greg Elkins
Last updated 8 months ago
4 Co-Sponsors
Repeal and reenact KRS 157.069 to define terms; require the Office of Career and Technical Education within the Kentucky Department of Education (KDE) to identify career and technical education programs or pathways as high cost or general cost; provide for a funding calculation from general fund appropriations for career and technical education based 60% upon weighted full-time equivalents enrollment and 40% upon specified incentives; provide for state-operated area technology center operating costs to be funded by the general fund appropriation to KDE; allow funds to be used for career and technical education programming for students in grades 5-8; disburse 75% of administrative operating funds previously designated to state-operated facility administrative costs that were converted to locally operated facilities to the locally operated facility and 25% to the career and technical education innovation and support fund for innovation and support of career and technical programs; create the career and technical education support fund; require the Office of Career and Technical Education to provide oversight of fund usage by recipients; require promulgation of necessary administrative regulations by Kentucky Board of Education; EFFECTIVE July 1, 2024; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Introduced
SB191 - AN ACT relating to postsecondary education funding and declaring an emergency.
David P. Givens, Gerald A. Neal, Matthew D. Deneen
Last updated 5 months ago
3 Co-Sponsors
Amends KRS 164.092 to define “nontraditional age students,” to remove all references to “minority,” to require that any formula not include race-based metrics or targets, to increase the percentage of public university funding based on student success outcomes produced from 35 percent to 40 percent, to decrease the percentage of public university funding for student credit hours earned from 35 percent to 30 percent, to include in the Kentucky Community and Technical College System’s student success outcomes weighting for credentials aligned with the economic needs of the state and recognize credentials earned by nontraditional-age students, to require that the Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE) promulgate an emergency or amended administrative regulation to implement the amended funding formula, to require that the Postsecondary Education Working Group convene during the 2024 Interim for the sole purpose of considering how to define “underrepresented students” for the comprehensive funding model for the public postsecondary education system, to require that the recommendations be reported to the Governor and the Legislative Research Commission by December 1, 2024, and to require that CPE distribute allocable resources based on first-generation college students receiving bachelor’s degrees and low-income students; EMERGENCY.
STATUS
Passed
BIOGRAPHY
INCUMBENT
Senator from Kentucky district SD-009
COMMITTEES
Kentucky Senate
BIRTH
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ABOUT
David P. Givens is a Republican member of the Kentucky State Senate, representing District 9. He was first elected to the chamber in 2008. Givens earned his B.A. in Journalism from Western Kentucky University in 1998. His professional experience includes working as a legislative aide for U.S. Representative Ron Lewis, serving as Communications Director and as a District Representative for U.S. Representative Ed Whitfield, serving as a constituent services representative for U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell, and working as Director of Communications for the Kentucky Governor's Office for Local Development.read less
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Kentucky Senate from Kentucky
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