As used in KRS § 154.12-2084 to KRS § 154.12-2089, unless the context requires otherwise: (1) “Approved company” means any qualified company seeking to sponsor an
occupational upgrade training program or skills upgrade training program for

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 154.12-2084

  • Authority: means the Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority, consisting of a committee as set forth in KRS §. See Kentucky Statutes 154.1-010
  • Cabinet: means the Cabinet for Economic Development as established under KRS
    12. See Kentucky Statutes 154.1-010
  • Commonwealth: means the Commonwealth of Kentucky. See Kentucky Statutes 154.1-010
  • Company: may extend and be applied to any corporation, company, person, partnership, joint stock company, or association. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Contract: A legal written agreement that becomes binding when signed.
  • Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
  • Corporation: may extend and be applied to any corporation, company, partnership, joint stock company, or association. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Federal: refers to the United States. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Partnership: A voluntary contract between two or more persons to pool some or all of their assets into a business, with the agreement that there will be a proportional sharing of profits and losses.
  • Partnership: includes both general and limited partnerships. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010
  • Person: means an individual, partnership, joint venture, military facility operated by a department or agency of the United States, profit or nonprofit corporation including a public or private college or university, limited liability company, or other entity or association of persons organized for agricultural, commercial, health care, or industrial purposes. See Kentucky Statutes 154.1-010
  • State: means the Commonwealth of Kentucky. See Kentucky Statutes 154.1-010
  • Year: means calendar year. See Kentucky Statutes 446.010

the benefit of one (1) or more of its employees, which is approved by the authority to receive skills training investment credits in accordance with KRS
154.12-2084 to 154.12-2089;
(2) “Approved costs” means:
(a) Fees or salaries required to be paid to instructors who are employees of the approved company, instructors who are full-time, part-time, or adjunct instructors with an educational institution, and instructors who are consultants on contract with an approved company in connection with an occupational upgrade training program or skills upgrade training program sponsored by an approved company;
(b) Administrative fees charged by educational institutions in connection with an occupational upgrade training program or skills upgrade training program sponsored by an approved company and specifically approved by the Bluegrass State Skills Corporation;
(c) The cost of supplies, materials, and equipment used exclusively in an occupational upgrade training program or skills upgrade training program sponsored by an approved company;
(d) The cost of leasing a training facility where space is unavailable at an educational institution or at the premises of an approved company in connection with an occupational upgrade training program or skills upgrade training program sponsored by an approved company;
(e) Employee wages to be paid in connection with an occupational upgrade training program or skills upgrade training program sponsored by an approved company; and
(f) All other costs of a nature comparable to those described in this subsection;
(3) “Bluegrass State Skills Corporation” means the Bluegrass State Skills
Corporation created by KRS § 154.12-205;
(4) “Commonwealth” means the Commonwealth of Kentucky;
(5) “Educational institution” means a public or nonpublic secondary or postsecondary institution or an independent provider within the Commonwealth authorized by law to provide a program of skills training or education beyond the secondary school level or to adult persons without a high school diploma or its equivalent;
(6) “Employee” means any person:
(a) Who is currently a permanent full-time employee of the qualified company;
(b) Who has been employed by the qualified company for the last twelve (12) calendar months immediately preceding the filing of the application for skills training investment credits by the qualified company;
(c) Who is a Kentucky resident, as that term is defined in KRS § 141.010; and
(d) Who receives a base hourly wage which is one hundred fifty percent (150) of the federal minimum wage plus employee benefits equal to at least fifteen percent (15) of the applicable base hourly wage, if the qualified company is located in a county of Kentucky which has had an average countywide rate of unemployment of fifteen percent (15) or greater in the most recent twelve (12) consecutive months for which unemployment figures are available, on the basis of the final unemployment figures calculated by the Department of Workforce Development in the Education and Labor Cabinet.
For purposes of this subsection, a “full-time employee” means an employee who has been employed by the qualified company for a minimum of thirty-five (35) hours per week for more than two hundred fifty (250) work days during the most recently ended calendar year and is subject to the tax imposed by KRS
141.020;
(7) “Occupational upgrade training” means employee training sponsored by a qualified company that is designed to qualify the employee for a promotional opportunity with the qualified company;
(8) “Preliminarily approved company” means a qualified company seeking to sponsor an occupational upgrade training program or skills upgrade training program, which has received preliminarily approval from the authority under KRS § 154.12-2088 to receive a certain maximum amount of skills training investment credits;
(9) “Qualified company” means any person, corporation, limited liability company, partnership, limited partnership, sole proprietorship, firm, enterprise, franchise, association, organization, holding company, joint stock company, professional service corporation, or any other legal entity through which business is conducted that has been actively engaged in any of the following qualified activities within the Commonwealth for not less than three (3) consecutive years: manufacturing, including the processing, assembling, production, or warehousing of any property; processing of agricultural and forestry products; telecommunications; health care; product research and engineering; tool and die and machine technology; mining; tourism and operation of facilities to be used in the entertainment, recreation, and convention industry; and transportation in support of manufacturing. Notwithstanding the provisions of this subsection, any company whose primary purpose is the sale of goods at retail shall not constitute a qualified company;
(10) “Skills upgrade training” means employee training sponsored by a qualified company that is designed to provide the employee with new skills necessary to enhance productivity, improve performance, or retain employment, including but not limited to technical and interpersonal skills training, and training that is designed to enhance the computer skills, communication skills, problem solving, reading, writing, or math skills of employees who are unable to function effectively on the job due to deficiencies in these areas, are unable to advance on the job, or who risk displacement because their skill deficiencies inhibit their training potential for new technology; and
(11) “Skills training investment credit” means the credit against Kentucky income tax imposed by KRS § 141.020 or 141.040, and the limited liability entity tax
imposed by KRS § 141.0401, as provided in KRS § 154.12-2086(1).
Effective:July 1, 2022
History: Amended 2022 Ky. Acts ch. 236, sec. 47, effective July 1, 2022. — Amended 2019 Ky. Acts ch. 146, sec. 16, effective June 27, 2019. — Amended
2009 Ky. Acts ch. 11, sec. 34, effective June 25, 2009. — Amended 2006 (1st
Extra. Sess.) Ky. Acts ch. 2, sec. 40, effective June 28, 2006. — Amended 2006
Ky. Acts ch. 149, sec. 210, effective July 12, 2006; and ch. 211, sec. 66, effective July 12, 2006. — Amended 2002 Ky. Acts ch. 65, sec. 3, effective July
15, 2002. — Amended 2000 Ky. Acts ch. 466, sec. 2, effective April 21, 2000; and ch. 526, sec. 14, effective July 14, 2000. — Created 1998 Ky. Acts ch. 499, sec. 1, effective July 15, 1998.
Legislative Research Commission Note (6/28/2006). 2006 (1st Extra. Sess.) Ky.
Acts ch. 2, sec. 73, provides that “unless a provision of this Act specifically applies to an earlier tax year, the provisions of this Act shall apply to taxable years beginning on or after January 1, 2007.”