AN ACT relating to postsecondary education.
Summary
Amend KRS 164.2951 to require the Council on Postsecondary Education to create statewide transfer pathways between the public postsecondary institutions in the high-demand baccalaureate programs; require the council to define, identify, and publish on its website a list of the high-demand baccalaureate programs and the available transfer pathways; require the council to maintain transfer pathways once created; require postsecondary institutions to accept transfer credit, earned or accepted at the prior institution within pathways as general education or program general education credit before applying credit as elective.
Bill status
passed
3 of 5 stages cleared
Introduction
Feb 2025
Committee Review
Feb 2025
House Passage
Feb 2025
Senate Passage
Governor
Introduced Feb 11, 2025
Last action Feb 26, 2025
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The bill text was reformatted from a 'Jacketed' version to a 'GA' (General Assembly) version, updating the header information and document identifiers. No substantive policy changes, new requirements, funding amounts, or eligibility criteria were introduced in this revision.
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Document headers were updated to reflect the bill number as 'HB 427/GA' instead of 'BR 837', and the version identifier changed from 'Jacketed' to 'GA'.
Floor votes · House Feb 20, 2025
How they voted
97–0
Passed · 7 other
Total votes 104
Feb 20, 2025
D
Democratic21
90% Yea
R
Republican83
93% Yea
Vote distribution
All Yea
All Nay
Mixed
No data
Full legislative history
Actions timeline
Total actions
10
Key actions
2
Committee
5
Feb 26, 2025
Committee
to Education (S)
upper
Feb 21, 2025
Committee
to Committee on Committees (S)
upper
Feb 20, 2025
Lower · Passed
3rd reading, passed 93-0
lower
Feb 18, 2025
Lower · Passed
reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
lower
Feb 14, 2025
Committee
to Postsecondary Education (H)
lower
Feb 11, 2025
Committee
to Committee on Committees (H)
lower
Feb 11, 2025
Introduced
introduced in House
lower
0 primary · 0 co-sponsors
Sponsors
No sponsor information available.
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