Official record
Measure details
- Jurisdiction
- Kentucky
- Session
- 2026RS
- Chamber
- lower
- Classification
- bill
- Subjects
- Appropriations, Budget And Financial Administration, Education, Finance, Education, Higher, Effective Dates, Emergency, Public Officers And Employees, Reports Mandated, State Agencies, State Employees, Workforce
- Introduced / first action
- 2026-03-04 05:00:00
Source-supplied abstracts
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the Kentucky Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness Program fund; require the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to administer the fund; require the authority to disburse funds for student loan repayment to recruit and retain eligible public service employees that live and work in Kentucky; specify terms and process; establish criteria for the program and applicant evaluation for awards; appropriate $30,000,000 from the budget reserve trust fund account for initial implementation of the student loan forgiveness program; appropriate $30,000,000 from the general fund for support of the student loan forgiveness program; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY, EFFECTIVE July 1, 2026.
Sponsors
- J. Watkins (primary), primary
- T. Bojanowski (primary), primary
- G. Brown Jr. (primary), primary
- A. Donworth (primary), primary
- M. Marzian (primary), primary
- L. Willner (primary), primary