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Subcommittee clears dual‑credit cleanup bill to consolidate scholarship statutes
Summary
House Bill 193 consolidates dual‑credit scholarship language into one statute to reduce administrative confusion and removes a repayment requirement for rare unsuccessful course completions; the committee approved the bill.
Representative J.T. Payne presented House Bill 193, describing the measure as a technical cleanup consolidating two existing dual‑credit scholarship statutes. Payne said the bill would move career and technical education (CTE) and work‑ready dual‑credit scholarship language into the same statute that houses general education dual credit; he said the change reflects how the programs are funded and aims to reduce confusion between high schools and postsecondary institutions.
Payne also said the bill would remove a rarely used statutory repayment requirement (a 50% return of funds for unsuccessful course completion) that creates administrative burden. He emphasized the bill does not change eligibility or expand access; it only aligns statutory language with current practice and budget language.
Representative Bogdanowski asked whether the bill limited general‑education dual credits to two courses and Payne and a staff presenter from the Kentucky Higher Education Assistance Authority explained that the statute remains written as two courses over two years but that recent biennial budgets have provided for four courses (two per year) in practice; they reported the bill does not change current practice. Committee members raised no substantive objections and the subcommittee recorded passage with the committee’s expression that the bill should pass.
