Official record
Measure details
- Jurisdiction
- Kentucky
- Session
- 2026RS
- Chamber
- lower
- Classification
- bill
- Subjects
- Contracts, Education, Higher, Engineers And Surveyors, Legislative Research Commission, Licensing, Occupations And Professions
- Introduced / first action
- 2026-01-07 05:00:00
Source-supplied abstracts
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 322 to establish and grant scholarships through the Kentucky professional engineer and professional land surveyor incentive scholarship fund; declare legislative intent to address engineer and land surveyor development and needs by providing Kentucky residents with postsecondary scholarships; establish the Kentucky professional engineer and professional land surveyor incentive scholarship fund as a trust and agency accounts direct the engineer and land surveyor board to administer the fund and award scholarships to qualified applicants; require a written contract between the board and the recipient where the recipient agrees to obtain engineer or land surveyor licensure within 6 years of graduation and practice in Kentucky for at least 1 year for each year of scholarships granted; acquire moneys for the fund through penalties and fines, assessments from license renewals, and the board's budgeted funds; make the applicant's failure to complete the terms of the contract subject to recovery of the fund assistance, attorney's fees, and 8% annual interest; require the board to annually report its scholarship data to the Legislative Research Commission for referral to the Interim Joint Committee on Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations.
Sponsors
- E. Callaway (primary), primary
- G. Brown Jr. (primary), primary
- R. Duvall (primary), primary
- J. Hodgson (primary), primary
- T. Huff (primary), primary
- M. Koch (primary), primary
- C. Lewis (primary), primary
- M. Lockett (primary), primary
- W. Thomas (primary), primary