veto them.

Legislators return April 14th and 15th for the final two days of the session.

It's being called a quote reset for success.

It's a plan to restructure Kentucky State University that was formed back in 1886 at the height of segregation, plagued in recent years by financial stumbles.

Lawmakers say they had serious discussions about closing the state's only publicly funded HBCU.

Now they believe a House amended Senate Bill 185 provides a path toward a brighter future.

The measure outlines fiscal procedures and expenditure limits, with oversight from the State Council on post-secondary education.

It puts parameters around the degree programs that can be offered in person and online, addresses outstanding student debt above $1,000, and whether students can continue at K state and sets academic admission standards at a grade point average of 2.5 and College Entrance Exam Composite Score of 18.

Louisville.

Democrat Joshua Watkins worked with the Senate's sponsor and others on a revised approach to transition K state to a polytechnic institution that's focused on applied sciences and workforce driven degree programs.

>> This does chart a new path forward for Kentucky State, but I want everyone to be clear that the history of Kentucky State University, its proud legacy, should never be and is not now in question.

The substitute recognizes Kentucky State University as an 1890s land grant university that it is Kentucky's only public historically black college or university affectionately known as HBCU, and it shall be a four year residential polytechnic institution that focuses on highly technical, industry based applied learning and offers liberal studies and polytechnic programs that are aligned with the workforce needs of the Commonwealth and consistent with the historical mission of an HBCU.

>> We also need to be honest about how we got here.

Kentucky State has been underfunded for years, and that has had serious consequences.

There was a serious discussion about closing the university.

Instead, we're looking at a plan that keeps it open and creates a path to strengthen it, with a clear focus on programs that lead to real opportunities and good paying jobs.

It's important for people to know that under this plan, Kentucky State will remain an HBCU.

Students will continue to have the full campus experience.

Athletics band and the traditions that matter on that campus.

>> The House revised Senate Bill 185 allows a minimum of 1000 students at the four year residential university and allows sororities and fraternities in good standing to remain.

A previous version would have had them reapply for their charter.

Some KSU alumni were pleased with the softened approach to dealing with the university, and were emotional about what K-State means to them.

>> I was so worried that we're only going to have.

We're going to limit the amount of students on my.

On the university and you all have taken care of that.

I was just thought that the whole mission of KSU was going to be stripped of its historically black college and university status, that we're going to be demoted to a. A junior college or something like that, and that hasn't happened.

>> KSU has stood for more than a century, a beacon of educational opportunity.

Our alumni are teachers, nurses, engineers, public servants, community leaders.

We live and work in every county in the state.

When you invest in Kentucky State University, you invest in Kentucky itself, in the communities that need it most, and the students who have the most to gain in the future of our Commonwealth is working so hard to build.

>> After unanimous House committee approval this morning, the full House approved the K-State restructure plan on a 90 to 1 vote.

The Senate then voted unanimously to award final passage to Senate Bill