republic-os/legislation/us/states/ky/2023rs/sb-54.md

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Bill	AN ACT relating to Kentucky educational excellence scholarships.	Amend KRS 164.7884 to define "proprietary school" and "qualified proprietary school program" and allow use of KEES funds for enrollment in a qualified proprietary school program; amend KRS 165.7879 to allow a student who attends an out-of-state high school or Department of Defense school due to a parent's military transfer to earn a KEES award if the student earned a base amount in a previous year at a Kentucky high school.	us/states/ky	Kentucky General Assembly	2023RS	SB 54	Kentucky SB 54 (2023RS)	bill	Education Finance Education Higher Education Vocational Military Affairs and Civil Defense	enacted		3	25	3	2023-01-06T05:00:00+00:00	2023-03-22T04:00:00+00:00	openstates	ocd-bill/c9ab7df9-8c01-4fb0-b7e5-8a154548b52a	https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/23RS/sb54.html	c8c121caa922cea9e536b359c66a9c2daf1f58071c1f3598bc732c401e2bd5f1	2026-07-01	https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump	2026-07-06	reported	legislation bill us-ky

Kentucky SB 54 (2023RS) — AN ACT relating to Kentucky educational excellence scholarships.

Amend KRS 164.7884 to define "proprietary school" and "qualified proprietary school program" and allow use of KEES funds for enrollment in a qualified proprietary school program; amend KRS 165.7879 to allow a student who attends an out-of-state high school or Department of Defense school due to a parent's military transfer to earn a KEES award if the student earned a base amount in a previous year at a Kentucky high school.

Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. Introduced (filed) — source
2. Acts Chapter 67 (committee substitute) — source
3. Current/Final (committee substitute) — source

Votes

• FINAL PASSAGE SB 54 W/ hcs1 — pass (pass) · upper
• Pass — pass (pass) · upper
• PASS SB 54 — pass (pass) · upper

Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

• 2023-01-06T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in Senate introduction
• 2023-01-06T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S) referral-committee
• 2023-02-07T05:00:00+00:00 to Education (S) referral-committee
• 2023-02-22T05:00:00+00:00 taken from Education (S)
• 2023-02-22T05:00:00+00:00 1st reading reading-1
• 2023-02-22T05:00:00+00:00 returned to Education (S)
• 2023-02-23T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 2nd reading, to Rules committee-passage
• 2023-02-23T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Friday, February 24, 2023
• 2023-02-24T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 33-0 passage, reading-3
• 2023-02-28T05:00:00+00:00 received in House
• 2023-02-28T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H) referral-committee
• 2023-03-02T05:00:00+00:00 to Education (H) referral-committee
• 2023-03-07T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) committee-passage
• 2023-03-08T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules reading-2
• 2023-03-08T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Thursday, March 09, 2023
• 2023-03-10T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 93-0 with Committee Substitute (1) passage, reading-3
• 2023-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
• 2023-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 to Rules (S) referral-committee
• 2023-03-14T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage for concurrence in House Committee Substitute (1)
• 2023-03-15T04:00:00+00:00 Senate concurred in House Committee Substitute (1)
• 2023-03-15T04:00:00+00:00 passed 32 -0 ) passage
• 2023-03-16T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate passage
• 2023-03-16T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House passage
• 2023-03-16T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Governor
• 2023-03-22T04:00:00+00:00 signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 67) executive-signature

Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/c9ab7df9-8c01-4fb0-b7e5-8a154548b52a. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).