public.

As it stands now, that bill has not yet been assigned to a committee.

Yesterday we told you about Senate Majority Caucus Chair Robbie Mills idea to boost the state's housing supply through Senate Bill nine.

The bill would make more residential development lots available and speed up the building process, which could make homes more affordable.

Mills said there would be plenty more housing legislation to come.

Well, today, two state representatives made good on that promise.

They discussed three new housing bills, which look to reform zoning and planning regulations in an effort to speed up developments.

Our Emily Sisk was in Frankfort today for the discussion and has the latest.

>> We kept hearing all across the state that the American dream, for a lot of people of buying a home was just not possible anymore.

>> In response to that concern, three House bills were filed to cut down on construction and inspection regulations.

Today, Representative Susan Whitten, co-chair of the Kentucky Housing Task Force, and Representative Richard White of Morehead, discussed their legislation.

House Bill 617 looks to reform planning and zoning standards.

Local governments cannot require more than one parking space per housing unit.

The bill also prevents local governments from requiring residential lots to be a certain size, with the goal of building smaller, more affordable homes instead of large, expensive properties.

>> We really need to be able to incentivize these developers to build these smaller houses.

If they can build ten really large houses right now.

But if in that same plot of land, they can build 15 or 20 smaller homes, then that's going to be an incentive for the developers.

And that's really what we're trying to do.

>> The Louisville Republican said this type of legislation has been successful in other states, and she referenced a study on just how many new homes this could bring to the state.

>> This specific provision could add 3600 additional single family homes in Kentucky every single year.

>> Whitten also sponsored House Bill 618, which updates Kentucky's building code so that buildings with up to four units are treated the same as single family homes.

The bill also allows qualified third party inspectors to review construction.

Whitten said this should speed up the development process.

>> This simply provides an alternative to builders, developers and homeowners when local inspection capacity is limited.

>> And Representative White's House Bill 530 creates a 60 day shot clock for governments to issue building permits.

If authorities fail to review the permit application within those 60 days, it's automatically approved.

The Eastern Kentucky Republican said he'd heard stories from rural constituents that inspectors were waiting to review properties until ten or more developments were ready.

White said Kentuckians can't wait that long and his bill should fix the problem.

>> It has to be more prompt in the getting to the people to have it done.

>> Heather LeMire, state director of Americans for Prosperity Kentucky, has worked with the legislators to draft these bills.

She said it would be a huge step in the right direction to get the bills across the finish line.

>> If all three of these bills passed, we would consider this really the gold standard in housing reform.

>> For Kentucky.

Edition I'm Emily Sisk.

>> Thank you, Emily.

Representative Whitten said today she would support using