State government regulates industries like banking, insurance, alcohol, horse racing, gambling and more.

One Republican lawmaker wants to add something to that list.

Adult oriented businesses like stores selling sexually explicit material.

The bill prohibits these businesses from operating within one city block of K through 12 schools, churches and other places where you find children and families.

Senate Bill 147 includes sexually explicit drag shows, but the bill's sponsor made a slight change on the Senate floor.

We have recently seen performances that historically have been in the adult entertainment space, but yet have now moved into the public sector and advertised for all ages, specifically for children.

For this reason, it is important for us to define these performances that include explicitly sexual conduct and include that variation among the definition of adult cabaret in order to distinguish between performances that are intended for adult audiences and those that are not.

Mr. President, Senate Floor Amendment three cleans up language in Section three of the bill, and it removes the word drag from the definition of adult cabaret while maintaining the definition currently in the bill.

We want to make sure that minors are not going into strip clubs and those type of facilities.

We think those are positive.

My issue was that we specifically out performances that would otherwise lay out that in drag.

We took out the word drag, but otherwise lay it out.

And to me, my concern is that there may be a free speech issue there.

There may be constitutional violations, in fact.

Just going through some of the constitutional history, the challenges that have been seen and so many other similar states, whether it's Tennessee, Florida, Montana, Texas is cost their states lots of money and has otherwise been upheld as unconstitutional or been held up in federal court.

Some Kentucky drag performers have testified in Frankfurt, saying the bill is a direct attack and target on them.

Senate Bill 147 received bipartisan support and now moves to the state House.