republic-os/legislation/us/states/ky/2024rs/sb-1.md

---
type: "Bill"
title: "AN ACT relating to the endowed research fund and making an appropriation therefor."
description: "Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the endowed research fund to be administered by the Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE) for the purposes of funding research consortiums between two or more public universities; provide that the endowed research fund shall consist of appropriations, federal funds, and other proceeds made available to the fund; provide that the funds shall not lapse; provide that there shall be five consortium accounts within the endowed research fund that shall each be assigned to a unique research consortium selected by CPE; provide that CPE shall solicit, accept, and review applications from research consortiums between two or more public universities to determine five research consortiums eligible to review seed funding for a term of five years; create a review process to determine future eligibility for funding through the endowed research fund; direct CPE to fill vacancies when a research consortium is no longer eligible to receive funding through the endowed research fund; direct CPE to promulgate administrative regulations to administer this section; direct CPE to select the Kentucky Spinal Cord and Head Injury Research Trust as one of the initial five research consortiums by February 1, 2025; APPROPRIATION."
jurisdiction: "us/states/ky"
legislature: "Kentucky General Assembly"
session: "2024RS"
identifier: "SB 1"
citation: "Kentucky SB 1 (2024RS)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Administrative Regulations and Proceedings", "Appropriations", "Education", "Higher", "State Agencies", "Universities and Colleges"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["R. Stivers", "S. Funke Frommeyer"]
version_count: 3
action_count: 24
vote_count: 2
first_action: "2024-02-08T05:00:00+00:00"
last_action: "2024-04-04T04:00:00+00:00"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/7f01dce8-a34d-4b5a-abd3-54cf98a0fa47"
source_url: "https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/24RS/sb1.html"
source_hash: "e5a314cabb4930070747563498c664dbff18cb9965d616695150abc72a238588"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ky"]
---

# Kentucky SB 1 (2024RS) — AN ACT relating to the endowed research fund and making an appropriation therefor.

Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to establish the endowed research fund to be administered by the Council on Postsecondary Education (CPE) for the purposes of funding research consortiums between two or more public universities; provide that the endowed research fund shall consist of appropriations, federal funds, and other proceeds made available to the fund; provide that the funds shall not lapse; provide that there shall be five consortium accounts within the endowed research fund that shall each be assigned to a unique research consortium selected by CPE; provide that CPE shall solicit, accept, and review applications from research consortiums between two or more public universities to determine five research consortiums eligible to review seed funding for a term of five years; create a review process to determine future eligibility for funding through the endowed research fund; direct CPE to fill vacancies when a research consortium is no longer eligible to receive funding through the endowed research fund; direct CPE to promulgate administrative regulations to administer this section; direct CPE to select the Kentucky Spinal Cord and Head Injury Research Trust as one of the initial five research consortiums by February 1, 2025; APPROPRIATION.

## Version chain

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

1. **Introduced** (filed) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/sb1/orig_bill.pdf)
2. **Acts Chapter 41** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/law/acts/24RS/documents/0041.pdf)
3. **Current/Final** (committee substitute) — [source](https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/recorddocuments/bill/24RS/sb1/bill.pdf)

## Votes

- Final Passage — **pass** (pass) · upper
- PASS SB 1 — **pass** (pass) · upper

## Sponsors

- R. Stivers — primary (person)
- S. Funke Frommeyer — primary (person)

## Timeline

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

- **2024-02-08T05:00:00+00:00** introduced in Senate `introduction`
- **2024-02-08T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (S) `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-12T05:00:00+00:00** to Education (S) `referral-committee`
- **2024-02-22T05:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar `committee-passage`
- **2024-02-23T05:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading, to Rules `reading-2`
- **2024-02-26T05:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Wednesday, February 28, 2024
- **2024-02-28T05:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 36-0-1 `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-02-29T05:00:00+00:00** received in House
- **2024-02-29T05:00:00+00:00** to Committee on Committees (H) `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-06T05:00:00+00:00** to Appropriations & Revenue (H) `referral-committee`
- **2024-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** taken from Appropriations & Revenue (H)
- **2024-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** 1st reading `reading-1`
- **2024-03-12T04:00:00+00:00** returned to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
- **2024-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** taken from Appropriations & Revenue (H)
- **2024-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** 2nd reading `reading-2`
- **2024-03-13T04:00:00+00:00** returned to Appropriations & Revenue (H)
- **2024-03-25T04:00:00+00:00** reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1) `committee-passage`
- **2024-03-25T04:00:00+00:00** posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 26, 2024
- **2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** 3rd reading, passed 86-0 `passage, reading-3`
- **2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** received in Senate
- **2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by President of the Senate `passage`
- **2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House `passage`
- **2024-03-27T04:00:00+00:00** delivered to Governor
- **2024-04-04T04:00:00+00:00** signed by Governor (Acts Ch.41) `executive-signature`

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/7f01dce8-a34d-4b5a-abd3-54cf98a0fa47`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).