AN ACT relating to the Project Graduate Program and making an appropriation therefor.
     Create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to recruit and provide incentives to legal residents who have a least 90 credit hours in postsecondary education to encourage them to complete their baccalaureate degree; establish the Project Graduate Program for students who need less than 15 credit hours and for students who need more than 15 credit hours to complete a baccalaureate degree; provide that eligible students shall be reimbursed for tuition expenses for the second half of the courses taken to complete the degree; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164 to require the Council on Postsecondary Education, with assistance from the public and private postsecondary education institutions and the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority, to promulgate an administrative regulation to establish the Project Graduate Program; create a new section of KRS Chapter 164A to direct the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to reimburse eligible students for tuition expenses; and create a new section of KRS Chapter 164A to establish the Project Graduate Program restricted fund in the State Treasury for program funds for the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority to use to reimburse eligible students for tuition expenses.

     Jan 17-introduced in Senate
     Jan 22-to Education (S)