Now turning to developments in Frankfurt today, state lawmakers move toward or forward with a bill to give universities more leeway in firing professors.

Of course, Kentucky professor was in attendance at a legislative committee hearing, had something to say about that.

Our June Lefler has more as we began tonight's legislative update.

Kentucky lawmakers have set their sights on higher education once again, says a University of Louisville sophomore.

I have no idea how education became enemy number one, but as a student, I can tell you that it's so exhausting to constantly have to monitor what is coming out of these chambers.

I urge you all to cut the government, overreach out, and leave higher education to higher education.

Next, one more proposal to tweak Kentucky's colleges and universities is House Bill 424.

The chair of the House Postsecondary Education Committee proposes universities have more power to fire their professors.

I'm familiar for story where university had a program.

Of course they had a professor to teach that program.

It came to a point in time they no longer hating students in that program.

Guess what?

That faculty member, that professor was still on staff.

I've heard of other examples for it is very difficult for a faculty member to be removed.

Universities can remove their professors, but this bill adds another reason for dismissal.

Someone could be removed for incompetency, neglect of or refusal to perform his or her duty.

Immoral conduct in the languages at his or failure to meet college or university performance and productivity requirements as determined in accordance with subsection two of the section is Nobody can be removed without calls.

This adds to the list of causes based on the reviewed performance review set up by the Board of Regents.

Kentucky Professors say they're already held to the highest standards.

And I have been undergoing 13 years of work towards tenure since, you know, undergrad, so many years of doctoral work and then, you know, annual reviews as a faculty member, which my colleagues already talked about, that these processes are already in place.

You know, my productivity is monitored and evaluated by peers.

This is really an unnecessary use of government funds and overreach.

Tenured faculty, including myself, who have been at the university for 25 years, we undergo annual reviews every year already.

We are already evaluated.

What this bill will do is allow is what I see is as a process of eroding tenure.

And it would allow the board and the presidents to terminate faculty for possibly ideological reasons.

The bill's sponsor responds.

424 is not about tenure.

Tenure is alive and well and continue to be alive and well in our public post-secondary institutions.

Even with the passage of House Bill 424.

That is a process set up by the Board of Regents of each of our institutions.

They will continue to have that process.

The committee did advance the bill.

Two Democrats voted no.

It now heads to the House floor for a vote.

For Kentucky Edition, I'm June Leffler.

Thank you, June.

The House postsecondary education panel also advanced House Bill 427.

It deals with transfer credits.

The bill allows more of those credits to go toward certain in-demand degrees.

Right now, much of those credits only count as electives.