AN ACT relating to postsecondary education and declaring an emergency.
     Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to transfer the Lexington Community College from the University of Kentucky to the Kentucky Community and Technical College System effective July 1, 2004; amend KRS 164.001 change the definition of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System to mean the public community and technical colleges including those postsecondary institutions operated by the Cabinet for Workforce Development and those community colleges in the University of Kentucky Community College System on May 30, 1997; delete the reference to two branches; amend 164.5807 to direct the University of Kentucky board of trustees to delegate to the board of regents of the Kentucky Community and Technical College System the management responsibilities, including personnel responsibilities of the Lexington Community College; amend KRS 45A.840, 161.220, 164.125, 164.580, and 164.591 to conform; EMERGENCY.

     Mar 1-introduced in House
     Mar 2-to Education (H)