KY SB6 | 2024 | Regular Session

Status

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Republican 12-0)
Status: Engrossed on February 14 2024 - 50% progression, died in chamber
Action: 2024-04-12 - posted for passage for concurrence in House Committee Substitute (1)
Text: Latest bill text (Engrossed) [PDF]

Summary

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to define terms; provide that a student or employee of a public postsecondary education institution shall not be penalized, discriminated against, or receive any adverse treatment due to the individual's refusal to support or endorse any divisive concept; provide that a student or employee of a public postsecondary education institution shall not be required to endorse a specific ideology or political viewpoint to be eligible for hiring, contract renewal, tenure, promotion, or graduation and prohibit an institution from inquiring into the individual's political or social viewpoints; provide that any person aggrieved by a violation of this Act has a cause of action against the institution for damages and costs of no less than $1,000 and no more than $100,000 per violation; waive sovereign, governmental, and qualified immunity; require the job duties of any individual employed in a diversity, equity, and inclusion role to include the promotion of intellectual diversity; provide that nothing in the section shall be interpreted to infringe upon designated rights of an institution's ability to comply with state or federal law or accreditation standards; require each public postsecondary education institution to conduct a survey in 2025 and 2027 of the institution's students and employees to assess the campus climate with regard to diversity of thought and the respondents' comfort level in speaking freely on campus, regardless of political affiliation or ideology.

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Title

AN ACT relating to postsecondary institutions.

Sponsors


Roll Calls

2024-03-15 - House - House: Third Reading RCS# 308 (Y: 68 N: 18 NV: 0 Abs: 12) [PASS]
2024-03-15 - House - House: Adopt HFA 8 RCS# 307 (Y: 17 N: 33 NV: 0 Abs: 48) [FAIL]
2024-03-15 - House - House: Adopt HFA 5 RCS# 306 (Y: 17 N: 44 NV: 0 Abs: 37) [FAIL]
2024-03-15 - House - House: Adopt HFA 7 RCS# 305 (Y: 18 N: 38 NV: 0 Abs: 42) [FAIL]
2024-03-15 - House - House: Adopt HFA 3 RCS# 304 (Y: 18 N: 38 NV: 0 Abs: 42) [FAIL]
2024-03-15 - House - House: Adopt HFA 6 RCS# 303 (Y: 17 N: 43 NV: 0 Abs: 38) [FAIL]
2024-03-15 - House - House: Adopt HFA 4 RCS# 302 (Y: 18 N: 33 NV: 0 Abs: 47) [FAIL]
2024-03-15 - House - House: Adopt HFA 1 RCS# 301 (Y: 18 N: 33 NV: 0 Abs: 47) [FAIL]
2024-03-15 - House - House: Adopt HFA 2 RCS# 300 (Y: 18 N: 39 NV: 0 Abs: 41) [FAIL]
2024-02-13 - Senate - Senate: Third Reading W/scs1 RSN# 2905 (Y: 26 N: 7 NV: 0 Abs: 5) [PASS]

History

DateChamberAction
2024-04-12Senateposted for passage for concurrence in House Committee Substitute (1)
2024-03-15Senateto Rules (S)
2024-03-15Senatereceived in Senate
2024-03-15Housepassed 68-18 with Committee Substitute (1)
2024-03-15Housefloor amendments (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) and (8) defeated
2024-03-15House3rd reading
2024-03-15Housefloor amendment (9) filed to Committee Substitute
2024-03-14Houseplaced in the Orders of the Day
2024-03-14Housetaken from Rules
2024-03-14Housefloor amendments (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7) and (8) filed to Committee Substitute
2024-03-14Housereported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1)
2024-03-13Housereturned to Education (H)
2024-03-13House2nd reading
2024-03-13Housetaken from Education (H)
2024-03-12Housereturned to Education (H)
2024-03-12House1st reading
2024-03-12Housetaken from Education (H)
2024-03-07Houseto Education (H)
2024-02-14Houseto Committee on Committees (H)
2024-02-14Housereceived in House
2024-02-13Senatepassed 26-7 with Committee Substitute (1)
2024-02-13SenateFloor Amendment (1) defeated
2024-02-13Senate3rd reading
2024-02-12Senateposted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 13, 2024
2024-02-09Senatefloor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute
2024-02-09Senate2nd reading, to Rules
2024-02-08Senatereported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1)
2024-01-03Senateto Education (S)
2024-01-02Senateto Committee on Committees (S)
2024-01-02Senateintroduced in Senate

Subjects


Kentucky State Sources

TypeSource
Summaryhttps://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24RS/sb6.html
Texthttps://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/sb6/orig_bill.pdf
Texthttps://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/sb6/bill.pdf
Amendmenthttps://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/SB6/SCS1.pdf
Amendmenthttps://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/SB6/SFA1.pdf
Amendmenthttps://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/SB6/HCS1.pdf
Amendmenthttps://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/SB6/HFA1.pdf
Amendmenthttps://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/SB6/HFA2.pdf
Amendmenthttps://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/SB6/HFA3.pdf
Amendmenthttps://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/SB6/HFA4.pdf
Amendmenthttps://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/SB6/HFA5.pdf
Amendmenthttps://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/SB6/HFA6.pdf
Amendmenthttps://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/SB6/HFA7.pdf
Amendmenthttps://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/SB6/HFA8.pdf
Amendmenthttps://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/SB6/HFA9.pdf
Roll Callhttps://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24RS/sb6/vote_history.pdf

Bill Comments

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