HB49
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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…
Introduced: January 7, 2026
Last action: April 3, 2026
In effect since July 15, 2026
Acts from the 2026 Regular Session that don't carry an emergency clause or set their own effective date took effect 90 days after the session adjourned (Ky. Constitution § 55).
Plain-language summary
This bill creates a scholarship program to help Kentucky residents pay for college-level education in professional engineering or land surveying. Recipients must agree to become licensed in their field within six years of graduating and work in Kentucky for at least one year for each year they received a scholarship, or repay the funds with interest. The program will be funded through license renewal fees, fines, and existing board funds, and the board overseeing engineers…
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