Official record
Measure details
- Jurisdiction
- Kentucky
- Session
- 2026RS
- Chamber
- lower
- Classification
- bill
- Subjects
- Administrative Regulations And Proceedings, Appropriations, Boards And Commissions, Education, Elementary And Secondary, Education, Finance, Education, Vocational, Funds, Reports Mandated, Science And Technology, Short Titles And Popular Names, Technology
- Introduced / first action
- 2026-01-07 05:00:00
Source-supplied abstracts
Create a new section of KRS Chapter 158 to define terms; establish the robotics competition fund; establish the Robotics Funding Selection Committee to award grants from the fund to eligible robotics teams competition sponsors; establish committee membership, duties, and set terms; require the Kentucky Department of Education to promulgate administrative regulations to establish procedures for grant applications and distribution of awards by April 1, 2027; set requirements for grant applications; require annual report by August 1 to Legislative Research Commission; provide for initial staggering of appointments; require the committee to hold its first meeting by October 15, 2026; provide that the Act may be cited as the Advanced Manufacturing Through Robotics Education Act.
Sponsors
- C. Lewis (primary), primary
- E. Callaway (primary), primary
- B. Chester-Burton (primary), primary
- S. Doan (primary), primary
- R. Duvall (primary), primary
- K. Fleming (primary), primary
- P. Griffee (primary), primary
- D. Grossberg (primary), primary
- J. Hodgson (primary), primary
- T. Huff (primary), primary
- N. Kulkarni (primary), primary
- J. Nemes (primary), primary
- J. Tipton (primary), primary