Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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| Bill | AN ACT relating to professional engineering and land surveying scholarships. | Create new sections of KRS Chapter 322 to establish and grant scholarships through the Kentucky professional engineer and professional land surveyor incentive scholarship fund; declare legislative intent to address engineer and land surveyor development and needs by providing Kentucky residents with postsecondary scholarships; establish the Kentucky professional engineer and professional land surveyor incentive scholarship fund as a trust and agency accounts direct the engineer and land surveyor board to administer the fund and award scholarships to qualified applicants; require a written contract between the board and the recipient where the recipient agrees to obtain engineer or land surveyor licensure within 6 years of graduation and practice in Kentucky for at least 1 year for each year of scholarships granted; acquire moneys for the fund through penalties and fines, assessments from license renewals, and the board's budgeted funds; make the applicant's failure to complete the terms of the contract subject to recovery of the fund assistance, attorney's fees, and 8% annual interest; require the board to annually report its scholarship data to the Legislative Research Commission for referral to the Interim Joint Committee on Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations. | us/states/ky | Kentucky General Assembly | 2026RS | HB 49 | Kentucky HB 49 (2026RS) |
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Kentucky HB 49 (2026RS) — AN ACT relating to professional engineering and land surveying scholarships.
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 322 to establish and grant scholarships through the Kentucky professional engineer and professional land surveyor incentive scholarship fund; declare legislative intent to address engineer and land surveyor development and needs by providing Kentucky residents with postsecondary scholarships; establish the Kentucky professional engineer and professional land surveyor incentive scholarship fund as a trust and agency accounts direct the engineer and land surveyor board to administer the fund and award scholarships to qualified applicants; require a written contract between the board and the recipient where the recipient agrees to obtain engineer or land surveyor licensure within 6 years of graduation and practice in Kentucky for at least 1 year for each year of scholarships granted; acquire moneys for the fund through penalties and fines, assessments from license renewals, and the board's budgeted funds; make the applicant's failure to complete the terms of the contract subject to recovery of the fund assistance, attorney's fees, and 8% annual interest; require the board to annually report its scholarship data to the Legislative Research Commission for referral to the Interim Joint Committee on Licensing, Occupations, and Administrative Regulations.
Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
- Introduced (filed) — source
- Acts Chapter 22 (committee substitute) — source
- Current/Final (committee substitute) — source
Votes
- Pass — 97–0 (pass) · lower
- CONSENT PASSAGE OF HB 49 — 38–0 (pass) · lower
Sponsors
- C. Lewis — primary (person)
- E. Callaway — primary (person)
- G. Brown Jr. — primary (person)
- J. Hodgson — primary (person)
- M. Koch — primary (person)
- M. Lockett — primary (person)
- R. Duvall — primary (person)
- T. Huff — primary (person)
- W. Thomas — primary (person)
Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- 2026-01-07T05:00:00+00:00 introduced in House
introduction - 2026-01-07T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (H)
referral-committee - 2026-01-14T05:00:00+00:00 to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H)
referral-committee - 2026-02-04T05:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar
committee-passage - 2026-02-05T05:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules
reading-2 - 2026-02-09T05:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 10 2026
- 2026-02-10T05:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 97-0
passage, reading-3 - 2026-02-11T05:00:00+00:00 received in Senate
- 2026-02-11T05:00:00+00:00 to Committee on Committees (S)
referral-committee - 2026-03-13T04:00:00+00:00 to Licensing & Occupations (S)
referral-committee - 2026-03-17T04:00:00+00:00 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar
committee-passage - 2026-03-18T04:00:00+00:00 2nd reading, to Rules as a consent bill
reading-2 - 2026-03-20T04:00:00+00:00 posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 24 2026
- 2026-03-24T04:00:00+00:00 passed over and retained in the Consent Orders of the Day
passage - 2026-03-25T04:00:00+00:00 3rd reading, passed 38-0
passage, reading-3 - 2026-03-26T04:00:00+00:00 received in House
- 2026-03-26T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House
passage - 2026-03-26T04:00:00+00:00 enrolled, signed by President of the Senate
passage - 2026-03-26T04:00:00+00:00 delivered to Governor
- 2026-04-03T04:00:00+00:00 signed by Governor (Acts Ch. 22)
executive-signature
Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot 2026-07-01; origin ocd-bill/64f99105-4ff7-4448-b01b-905a281b3a6c. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Kentucky legislature records).