Well, Governor Andy Beshear has signed what's been dubbed as the mom neighbor's bill, a bill that ensures access to critical prenatal and post-birth care for new moms and babies.

The bill increases health care coverage for expectant mothers and provides increased accessibility to mental health care.

The governor is also defending his decision to sign Senate Bill 191.

It includes the academic outcomes of nontraditional students who are adult learners aged 25 to 64.

Enter the state's funding plan for Kentucky's public colleges.

But it also blocks the Kentucky Council on Postsecondary Education from considering race in its performance based funding model.

The governor says he didn't like removing race as a consideration, but decided vetoing the bill would do more harm than good.

The bill continues to reference underrepresented students and it provides significant additional help to Kentucky State University.

Our Public H and CBU, HBCU as well as as our regional universities that have struggled under the performance funding.

And so, you know, I'm trying there to to decide whether to veto a bill in its entirety because of its removal of that word, which I support being in there.

But at the same time then have less funding coming to KSU, to Morehead and to those other institutions.

And so that was one where to get the money where it needed to go.

I have to sign something into law that I did not fully and entirely agree with.

But I think that was the same decision made by a number of our legislators, including Senator Neal and others.