Kentucky Senate Bill 45 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Sponsorship: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1)
Status: Introduced on January 3 2012 - 25% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2012-02-23 - WITHDRAWN
Text: Latest bill text (Draft #1) [MS Word]

Create new sections of KRS Chapter 164 to specify the common governance responsibilities of all boards of trustees and boards of regents of the Commonwealth's public postsecondary institutions; require each public university to submit to the Council on Postsecondary Education a plan to increase the number of students earning a bachelor's degree; require the council to collect specific data on each freshman and transfer student entering each university and thereafter track students until degree completion; report annually to the Legislative Research Commission on the number of students who complete bachelor's degrees and the average time to degree completion for full-time and part-time students; report to the Interim Joint Committee on Education annually on an institutional profile for each university and a composite system profile which provides current and six-year trends on a variety of student and institutional measures; require the board of trustees or regents of each public university to include bachelor's degree completion data trends as part of the annual evaluation of the institutional president; require the University of Kentucky and the University of Louisville to play each other in football and men's basketball each year.

AN ACT relating to governance responsibilities in postsecondary education.

Sen. Tim Shaughnessy [D]

Date	Chamber	Action
2012-02-23		WITHDRAWN
2012-01-03		to Education (S)
2012-01-03		introduced in Senate

Type	Source
Summary	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/SB45.htm
Text	http://www.lrc.ky.gov/record/12RS/SB45/bill.doc