Kentucky legislation · 2026 Regular Session
Kentucky HB763: AN ACT relating to workforce development, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
Status: In committee, March 5, 2026
Create new sections of KRS Chapter 336 to define terms; establish the Kentucky FLOW Program and specify eligible participants, activities, and uses of funds; establish the Kentucky FLOW Program fund; appropriate $1,347,500 in each fiscal year from the General Fund to the Kentucky FLOW Program fund; APPROPRIATION; EMERGENCY, effective, July 1, 2026.
What the bill says
An act relating to workforce development, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
From the introduced text:
AN ACT relating to workforce development, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky: SECTION 1. A NEW SECTION OF KRS CHAPTER 336 IS CREATED TO READ AS FOLLOWS: As used in Sections 1 to 3 of this Act: (1) "Apprentice" means a person employed by a public water or wastewater system who is enrolled in a registered apprenticeship program for water systems operations specialists or wastewater systems operations specialists, who has entered into a voluntary written agreement with the registered apprenticeship program sponsor, and that agreement has been submitted to the United States Department of Labor's Office of Apprenticeship and the Kentucky Apprenticeship Council; (2) "Cabinet" means the Education and Labor Cabinet; (3) "Employer" means any person or organization employing an apprentice whether or not the employer is a party to an apprenticeship agreement or on-the-job training agreement with the apprentice; (4) "Kentucky FLOW Program" means the Kentucky Future Leaders of Water Program established in Section 2 of this Act; (5) "Public water or wastewater system" (b) A water association formed as a nonprofit corporation under KRS Chapter 273; (c) A sewer district, sanitation district, or joint sewer agency formed under KRS Chapter 65, 67, 76, or 220; (d) A regional wastewater commission formed under KRS Chapter …
Sponsors
- Bobby McCool (R, HD-097) · primary sponsor
Latest actions
- : to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (H)
- : to Committee on Committees (H)
- : introduced in House
Subjects: State Agencies, Funds, Reports Mandated, Effective Dates, Emergency, Occupations And Professions, Public Utilities, Water Supply, Appropriations
Common questions
- What is HB763?
- HB763 is a bill in the Kentucky Legislature (2026 Regular Session): AN ACT relating to workforce development, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
- What does HB763 do?
- In its own words: An act relating to workforce development, making an appropriation therefor, and declaring an emergency.
- What is the status of HB763?
- In committee as of March 5, 2026. Latest action: to Veterans, Military Affairs, & Public Protection (H) (March 5, 2026).
- Who sponsored HB763?
- Bobby McCool (R, HD-097).
- Where is the official record for HB763?
- On the Kentucky Legislature website: https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/26rs/hb763.html
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