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1 AN ACT relating to professional engineering and land surveying scholarships.
2 Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky:
3 SECTION 1. A NEW SECTION OF KRS CHAPTER 322 IS CREATED TO
4 READ AS FOLLOWS:
5 It is the intent of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky to:
6 (1) Ensure the availability of professional engineers and professional land surveyors
7 in the Commonwealth; and
8 (2) Address professional engineer and professional land surveyor workforce
9 development and needs throughout the Commonwealth by providing eligible
10 Kentucky residents with scholarships to:
11 (a) Attend a qualifying program at a postsecondary institution in the
12 Commonwealth; and
13 (b) Become licensed as a professional engineer or professional land surveyor in
14 the Commonwealth.
15 SECTION 2. A NEW SECTION OF KRS CHAPTER 322 IS CREATED TO
16 READ AS FOLLOWS:
17 (1) There is hereby established in the State Treasury a trust and agency account to be
18 known as the Kentucky professional engineer and professional land surveyor
19 incentive scholarship fund. The fund shall consist of moneys received as
20 described in Section 4 of this Act.
21 (2) The fund shall be administered by the board.
22 (3) Amounts deposited in the fund shall be used for the scholarships established in
23 Section 3 of this Act.
24 (4) Notwithstanding KRS 45.229, fund amounts not expended at the close of the
25 fiscal year shall not lapse but shall be carried forward into the next fiscal year.
26 SECTION 3. A NEW SECTION OF KRS CHAPTER 322 IS CREATED TO
27 READ AS FOLLOWS:
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1 (1) The board shall make engineering and land surveying scholarships available to
2 Kentucky residents through the Kentucky professional engineer and professional
3 land surveyor incentive scholarship fund established in Section 2 of this Act in
4 accordance with Sections 1 to 4 of this Act and administrative regulations
5 promulgated pursuant to KRS Chapter 13A.
6 (2) The board shall administer the Kentucky professional engineer and professional
7 land surveyor incentive scholarship fund and may recover reasonable costs for
8 administering the fund. The board shall receive and evaluate all applications for
9 the scholarship made by bona fide Kentucky residents who desire to become
10 professional engineers or professional land surveyors. The board shall evaluate
11 each application to determine if the applicant complies with criteria for the
12 scholarships as set forth in this section and in the administrative regulations of
13 the board.
14 (3) From among the qualified applications, the board shall designate the persons to
15 receive assistance and the amount of the scholarship award. The board's
16 scholarship decisions shall be final. Disbursement of funds shall occur pursuant
17 to a written contract between the board and the applicant.
18 (4) The board shall annually determine the amount and number of individual
19 professional engineering and professional land surveying scholarship awards to
20 be granted by using its best judgment and shall seek to maintain the scholarship
21 funds for future use.
22 (5) Each recipient of a scholarship granted under Sections 1 to 4 of this Act shall
23 agree in the written contract to:
24 (a) Obtain a professional engineer or professional land surveyor license in
25 Kentucky within six (6) years of graduation; and
26 (b) Engage in the licensed practice of professional engineering or professional
27 land surveying in Kentucky for at least one (1) year for each academic year
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1 the recipient received the scholarship funds.
2 SECTION 4. A NEW SECTION OF KRS CHAPTER 322 IS CREATED TO
3 READ AS FOLLOWS:
4 (1) Funding for the Kentucky professional engineer and professional land surveyor
5 incentive scholarship fund:
6 (a) Shall be supplied partly by funds received from penalties and fines assessed
7 by the board pursuant to KRS 322.180;
8 (b) Shall be provided by an assessment of five dollars ($5) from each
9 professional engineer and professional land surveyor licensure renewal
10 application fee payable to the board, the proceeds of which shall be
11 annually allocated to the Kentucky professional engineer and professional
12 land surveyor incentive scholarship fund; and
13 (c) May be provided by the board from its budgeted funds.
14 (2) (a) The board may cancel any contract entered into under Section 3 of this Act
15 if an applicant or recipient fails to meet the requirements of Section 3 of
16 this Act or the administrative regulations of the board.
17 (b) Failure to complete the terms of the contract shall subject the applicant to
18 legal action for the recovery of all assistance provided, along with the
19 attorney's fees and interest at an annual compound rate of eight percent
20 (8%) from the date of disbursement from the Kentucky professional
21 engineer and professional land surveyor incentive scholarship fund.
22 (3) By August 1 of each year, the board shall submit a report to the Legislative
23 Research Commission for referral to the Interim Joint Committee on Licensing,
24 Occupations, and Administrative Regulations relating to the Kentucky
25 professional engineer and professional land surveyor incentive scholarship fund.
26 The report shall contain at a minimum the following information for the previous
27 fiscal year:
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1 (a) The number of scholarships provided;
2 (b) The program of study in which the recipients are enrolled;
3 (c) The total number of applications;
4 (d) The total number of scholarships recipients; and
5 (e) The amount awarded to recipients.
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