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Republican lawmakers have advanced a school choice constitutional amendment that could become the most hotly debated state issue this fallif the proposal reaches Kentucky’s ballot.
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A bill that will undo efforts in Kentucky’s two largest cities to ban landlords from discriminating against renters who use federal housing vouchers was restored Wednesday when Republican lawmakers quickly overrode the Democratic governor’s veto.
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This week on WUKY's Capitol Chat Kentucky Gazette editor and publisher Laura Cullen Glasscock gives us a primer on task forces being bandied about in the General Assembly. They tackle everything from Artificial Intelligence to the potential break-up of Jefferson County Public Schools.
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The Republican-dominated Kentucky House voted Monday to remove any role for the state's Democratic governor in deciding who would occupy a U.S. Senate seat if a vacancy occurred in the home state of 82-year-old Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell.
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Lawmakers in Kentucky have advanced a bill to grant the right to collect child support for unborn children. It reflects a broader effort in Republican-led states to confer a fetus with the same rights as a person.
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After Tuesday there are only 20 days remaining in the 2024 Legislative Session. Laura Cullen Glasscock, editor and publisher of the Frankfort-based Kentucky Gazette shares insights on some bills that still may manage to pass both chambers before the April 15th deadline. One in particular, the so-called source of income bill has already done that and is awaiting conference committee action.
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Bill filed in Kentucky House would ease near-total abortion ban by adding rape and incest exceptionsLegislation aimed at easing Kentucky’s near-total abortion ban by creating limited exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest has been introduced in the GOP-dominated House. Republican state Rep. Ken Fleming filed the measure Monday.
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GOP-led Kentucky House votes to relax child labor rules and toughen food stamp eligibility standardsRepublican-backed measures to relax child labor rules and tighten food stamp eligibility standards have passed the Kentucky House over objections from Democrats. In back-to-back votes Thursday, both bills advanced to the Senate after long House debates.
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Laura Cullen Glasscock, editor and publisher of the Frankfort-based Kentucky Gazette talks about proposed legislation affecting Kentucky's existing Open Records law and the pushback House Bill 509 has already received.
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A Republican lawmaker in Kentucky has unveiled sweeping legislation that’s meant to shore up and expand the network of childcare centers across the Bluegrass State. Sen. Danny Carroll said Tuesday that another objective of his bill is to bolster early childhood education.