And other legislative news today, a House committee passed a resolution to create a task force to address the state's housing crisis.

The state is currently short 78,000 rentals and has seen a 16% drop in the number of houses available for sale, according to the sponsor of the resolution.

Republican Representative Randy Bridges of Paducah.

Bridges, who chairs the House Local Government Committee, says the task force would focus on rentals and affordable housing to help solve the housing crisis.

It's like a ladder or a set of steps.

If you can open up one one opening in that ladder, then the step below it can step up and feel that lack with home sales.

If we don't have the inventory, we can't fill the homes that people want to buy.

So they are taking up rental units that could be available for for that market.

And if we could open that up, then each level rises up and we want to look at, you know, ways out of homelessness all the way to retirees moving out of houses that they no longer need.

And in moving in smaller units so that each one of those levels could open up.

So it's a comprehensive approach and that's the intent.

And to identify what roadblocks in every different department or could be preventing us and causing this problem.

One way the task force hopes to increase the housing inventory is by incentivizing developers to build more affordable homes.