Now a bill that has academia worried about the future of tenure at higher ed institutions in Kentucky, is also on track to become law.

House Bill 424 would require state colleges and universities to evaluate faculty every four years, giving them the opportunity to fire underperforming employees.

Governor Beshear vetoed this bill, but today both the House and Senate voted to override his veto.

Bill sponsor Representative James Tipton says the bill has nothing to do with tenure, but opponents of the bill say it limits academic freedom and will scare away potential talent from our universities.

This bill will greatly restrict University of Kentucky's ability to recruit the best and brightest from across the country.

We want our children to grow up and go to UK to be taught by those who are the best in their field.

House Bill 424 would do the exact opposite.

It would restrict and repel those, in a time of federal overreach into the public education system.

And I fear that we're going to long term hurt UK and our other universities recruitment abilities with this legislation.

We have this talent that comes out of our universities that are already based here.

That is what other businesses are looking for when they decide where they're going to relocate, whether they have the strong workforce that they need.

That is because those students had the best possible faculty.

They learned from the best.

And so by impeding our universities ability to hire and attract the best professors and and educators, we are ultimately shooting ourselves in the foot because we are going to hurt the very workforce that we are dependent on.

The veto override vote in the House passed along party lines 80 to 20.

The Senate agreed in similar Partizan fashion, 29 to 9, with two Republicans siding with Democrats.