Now, in other legislative news, Kentucky senators heard about expanding access to publicly regulated college scholarships.

And while they all agreed expansion is good, they disagreed on some of the details.

Here's more on Senate Bill seven from our Clayton Dalton.

The Kentucky Educational Excellence Scholarship, commonly referred to as Keys money, uses a student's act or SAT score and their GPA to determine a scholarship amount for post-secondary educational expenses.

Senate Bill seven expands the amount of keys money homeschooled students can earn.

The bill also allows students to use their score on the classic learning test, commonly referred to as KLT.

In place of the ACT or SAT.

Some Democrats question the tests level of academic rigor and took issue with its religious elements.

I'm left with the sense that there are still many unresolved questions about this classical learning test.

So many questions, in fact, that based on my research, fewer than 6% of the universities in America accept it as an entrance exam and I was unable to find any public university in the state of Kentucky that allows students to submit it as part of their consideration to be accepted into a body.

25% of their questions have a religious or philosophical basis to them.

And the problem with that is when you're talking about those children that are not of that religion, you are putting them at a tremendous disadvantage by having them take a test that has been written and designed, particularly for Christian home schooled students.

State Senator Lindsey Tickner, a Republican from Oldham County, pushed back, claiming that test material about different religions and philosophies is good for students.

But of those texts that are philosophical and religious on that test, they represent different a variety of texts from Saint Teresa, Gandhi, Aristotle and even Marx.

So when it's in the philosophy and religious category, it covers a broad range.

And I think it's not harmful for our students to be exposed to lots of varieties of information, religious, non-religious and be assessed on their ability to comprehend that information.

Senate Bill seven passed the full Senate by a vote of 33 to 4.

Democratic Senators Reggie Thomas, Robin Webb and David Yates joined the Republican majority, voting in favor of the bill.

For Kentucky Edition.

I'm Clayton Dalton.