Senate.

>> For a vote there.

Well, yesterday we heard from Kentucky House Democrats on the top 15 bills they'd like to see passed this session today.

We're hearing from Democrats in the upper chamber as they outline their caucuses.

Key priorities.

McKenzie spank has more.

Public education, workers rights and the well-being of families are the headlines of Senate Democrats priorities this year.

>> If that sounds familiar, yesterday, House Democrats outlined many of the same issues and their legislative platform announcement.

Some of the caucuses shared priorities include competitive wages for teachers, Pre-K for all four-year-olds in Kentucky, expanding the list of qualifying conditions for medical marijuana and repealing right to work laws raising Kentucky's minimum wage is policy long overdue.

According to both caucuses.

But so far only the Senate Democrats have a bill filed on this issue.

Senate Bill 11 sponsored by Minority Caucus Chair.

Reggie Thomas is a priority Bill for Senate Dems.

This session.

>> There are several 1000 people here in Kentucky today.

That work at a minimum wage, 3 out of 5 of those workers are women.

7 out of 10 of those were kings have children.

This bill does not cost.

The state one died.

That is certainly get money because people worked at a pay taxes into it.

So that's a good thing.

It's a tax revenue raiser for the for the state.

So I just don't understand.

What I hear say that there's no appetite for it.

Individuals in Kentucky if they're not making a livable wage, who is paying the difference?

We have our social programs that we try to put in place.

Those are talks told to come in place.

You have these corporations are making billions of dollars out of Kentucky, but they're not paying livable wage, but they expect the state of the Commonwealth of Kentucky to fit the difference.

>> Senator Yates has once again filed an abortion exception.

Bill saying that exceptions for rape, incest and the non viability of the fetus are common sense measures.

He says the design of the bill leads him to believe it has a good chance of passing this year.

>> I didn't just put a bill together that I thought my caucus wanted or even as I wanted.

What I did is I tried to listen in.

See what I thought would pass based on the majority of members in the House and the majority of the members in the Senate.

So I'm hopeful that by doing that by literally regurgitating what had been promised and put into a bill that those members will vote for.

>> The issue is brought forward are not an exhaustive list of the Bills hopes to be filed by Senate Democrats.

When asked if like the House Democrats, they had a number of bills they hope to pass.

Leaders indicated the sky was the limit.

>> We hope all of our bills pass this session.

We don't put a number on it.

We've got to work through the process and our intention is to pass any and all bills that our members support.

>> For Kentucky edition, I'm McKenzie Spank.

Thank you, McKenzie.

Senate Democrats also said they will continue, quote, their vigorous defense of public education by opposing any privatization and voucher policies that they say would drain resources from