ChangeBridge / Kentucky / HB49 Signed by Governor HB49 House Bill Signed by Governor 2026-04-03

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.

Bill Details

State Kentucky

Session 2026 Regular Session

Chamber House

Official Source apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/26RS/hb49.html

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Sponsors

Emily Callaway (Rep - R) George Brown (Rep - D) Robert Duvall (Rep - R) John Hodgson (Rep - R) Thomas Huff (Rep - R) Matthew Koch (Rep - R) Chris Lewis (Rep - R) Matt Lockett (Rep - R) Walker Thomas (Rep - R)

Action History

2026-04-03 H signed by Governor 2026-03-26 H delivered to Governor 2026-03-26 H enrolled, signed by President of the Senate 2026-03-26 H enrolled, signed by Speaker of the House 2026-03-26 H received in House 2026-03-25 S 3rd reading, passed 38-0 2026-03-24 S passed over and retained in the Consent Orders of the Day 2026-03-20 S posted for passage in the Consent Orders of the Day for Tuesday, March 24 2026 2026-03-18 S 2nd reading, to Rules as a consent bill 2026-03-17 S reported favorably, 1st reading, to Consent Calendar 2026-03-13 S to Licensing & Occupations (S) 2026-02-11 S to Committee on Committees (S) 2026-02-11 S received in Senate 2026-02-10 H 3rd reading, passed 97-0 2026-02-09 H posted for passage in the Regular Orders of the Day for Tuesday, February 10 2026 2026-02-05 H 2nd reading, to Rules 2026-02-04 H reported favorably, 1st reading, to Calendar 2026-01-14 H to Licensing, Occupations, & Administrative Regulations (H) 2026-01-07 H to Committee on Committees (H) 2026-01-07 H introduced in House

Votes

2026-02-10 House: Veto Override RCS# 75 Yea: 97 Nay: 0 2026-03-25 Senate: Third Reading RSN# 3989 Yea: 38 Nay: 0

Committee Referrals

2026-01-07 H Committee On Committees 2026-01-14 H Licensing, Occupations & Administrative Regulations 2026-02-05 H Rules 2026-02-11 S Committee on Committees 2026-03-13 S Licensing and Occupations 2026-03-18 S Rules

Bill Text Versions

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Subjects

Contracts Education, Higher Engineers and Surveyors Legislative Research Commission Licensing Occupations and Professions Legislative data powered by LegiScan (CC BY 4.0)