AN ACT relating to postsecondary institutions.
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.
2024 Regular Session
| date | time | type | location | description |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024-03-14 | 00:00 | Hearing | Annex Room 154 | House Committee On Education |
| 2024-02-08 | 11:00 | Hearing | Annex Room 131 | Senate Committee On Education |
| 2024-02-08 | 10:00 | Hearing | Annex Room 129 | Senate Committee On Judiciary |
History
| Date | Action |
|---|---|
| 2024-04-12 | posted for passage for concurrence in House Committee Substitute (1) |
| 2024-03-15 | floor amendment (9) filed to Committee Substitute |
| 2024-03-15 | 3rd reading |
| 2024-03-15 | floor amendments (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) and (8) defeated |
| 2024-03-15 | passed 68-18 with Committee Substitute (1) |
| 2024-03-15 | received in Senate |
| 2024-03-15 | to Rules (S) |
| 2024-03-14 | reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1) |
| 2024-03-14 | floor amendments (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7) and (8) filed to Committee Substitute |
| 2024-03-14 | taken from Rules |
| 2024-03-14 | placed in the Orders of the Day |
| 2024-03-13 | taken from Education (H) |
| 2024-03-13 | 2nd reading |
| 2024-03-13 | returned to Education (H) |
| 2024-03-12 | taken from Education (H) |
| 2024-03-12 | 1st reading |
| 2024-03-12 | returned to Education (H) |
| 2024-03-07 | to Education (H) |
| 2024-02-14 | received in House |
| 2024-02-14 | to Committee on Committees (H) |
| 2024-02-13 | 3rd reading |
| 2024-02-13 | Floor Amendment (1) defeated |
| 2024-02-13 | passed 26-7 with Committee Substitute (1) |
| 2024-02-12 | posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 13, 2024 |
| 2024-02-09 | 2nd reading, to Rules |
| 2024-02-09 | floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute |
| 2024-02-08 | reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) |
| 2024-01-03 | to Education (S) |
| 2024-01-02 | introduced in Senate |
| 2024-01-02 | to Committee on Committees (S) |