SB 6 KY

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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.

• M. Wilson Republican · primary
• G. Boswell Republican · primary
• M. Deneen Republican · primary
• D. Douglas Republican · primary
• S. Meredith Republican · primary
• R. Mills Republican · primary
• J. Schickel · primary
• D. Thayer · primary
• L. Tichenor Republican · primary
• P. Wheeler Republican · primary
• G. Williams Republican · primary
• M. Wise Republican · primary

1. Jan 2, 2024 introduced in Senate · upper
2. Jan 2, 2024 to Committee on Committees (S) · upper
3. Jan 3, 2024 to Education (S) · upper
4. Feb 8, 2024 reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar with Committee Substitute (1) · upper
5. Feb 9, 2024 2nd reading, to Rules · upper
6. Feb 9, 2024 floor amendment (1) filed to Committee Substitute · upper
7. Feb 12, 2024 posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 13, 2024 · upper
8. Feb 13, 2024 3rd reading · upper
9. Feb 13, 2024 Floor Amendment (1) defeated · upper
10. Feb 13, 2024 passed 26-7 with Committee Substitute (1) · upper
11. Feb 14, 2024 received in House · lower
12. Feb 14, 2024 to Committee on Committees (H) · lower
13. Mar 7, 2024 to Education (H) · lower
14. Mar 12, 2024 taken from Education (H) · lower
15. Mar 12, 2024 1st reading · upper
16. Mar 12, 2024 returned to Education (H) · lower
17. Mar 13, 2024 taken from Education (H) · lower
18. Mar 13, 2024 2nd reading · upper
19. Mar 13, 2024 returned to Education (H) · lower
20. Mar 14, 2024 reported favorably, to Rules with Committee Substitute (1) · upper
21. Mar 14, 2024 floor amendments (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7) and (8) filed to Committee Substitute · upper
22. Mar 14, 2024 taken from Rules · upper
23. Mar 14, 2024 placed in the Orders of the Day · upper
24. Mar 15, 2024 floor amendment (9) filed to Committee Substitute · upper
25. Mar 15, 2024 3rd reading · upper
26. Mar 15, 2024 floor amendments (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) and (8) defeated · upper
27. Mar 15, 2024 passed 68-18 with Committee Substitute (1) · upper
28. Mar 15, 2024 received in Senate · upper
29. Mar 15, 2024 to Rules (S) · upper
30. Apr 12, 2024 posted for passage for concurrence in House Committee Substitute (1) · upper

The published texts of this bill as it moves through the legislature. Each links to the official document on the state legislature site. Data from OpenStates.

• Current/Final · PDF
• Introduced · PDF