Content related to the 2024 session of the Kentucky General Assembly
Aaron and Chris share legislative updates as #KYGA24 gears up for its final two days of law makin’ and veto overridin’. Then, they check in with Erin Marshall, the single mom who has launched an exciting campaign taking on Jamie Comer in Kentucky’s first congressional district.
Legislature budgets money to fund school resource officers
As his 10-day veto period came to a close, Kentucky’s Democratic governor allowed a bill to become law that automatically tries 15-year-olds charged with gun felonies as adults.
Here’s your scorecard for the final two days of the session: Which vetoes get overridden, and which ones are upheld?
Governor Beshear has issued over twenty line-item vetoes in this year’s appropriations bills. Here’s the list.
This week, both Jazmin and Robert are sick, but still managed to do a show about Andy Beshear's vetoes this session so far.
Similar bills have been passed in other states, making such screenings more accessible to more people.
Call HB 7 a “threat to middle-class jobs and public safety.”
HB 509 is STILL a threat to transparency. Gov. Beshear, don’t defend it – VETO it.
The vetoes have begun! Here are the first five, including Governor Beshear’s veto message.
Has the latest attack on open records died? Or will it rise from its grave in the last two days of the session?
The final budget bill outlines $30 billion of state government spending over the next two years, with Republicans lauding it as a historic investment in Kentucky education and Democrats criticizing it as falling too short.
Democrats made their final impassioned pleas against the tough-on-crime legislation as it made final passage through the Kentucky General Assembly, until Republicans moved to limit debate.
KPA’s attorney, Michael Abate, has also testified against the bill.
Child care, vaccines, and autism education are among the bills on the move.
Our rulers in Frankfort are determined to increase the secrecy and thwart any sunlight.
