Good evening and welcome to Kentucky Edition for this Thursday, March the 27th.

I'm Renee Shaw, coming to you from our bureau in the Capitol Annex and Frankfort.

Thank you for joining us.

A lot of news to get to today.

Kentucky lawmakers are back in Frankfort for the next to the last day of this year's legislative session.

We've got a round up of some major actions as we begin tonight's legislative update.

The Republican supermajority spent much of today overriding many of Democratic Governor Andy Beshear vetoes.

That include Senate Bill 89, which scaled back protections for Kentucky's shallow waterways by aligning state regulations with weaker federal ones.

Environmental and medical groups opposed this bill, saying it would impact nearly 1 in 3 Kentuckians who rely on a water system supported by ground water.

Just we should be having conversations during the interim on what this has actually done and what compromise does and does not do, because it does not protect groundwater in the way that we need to do it.

And we can do it in a rational, responsible manner that is not owners to farmers or industry or individuals or municipalities.

So I don't support this measure now, and I hope to continue the discussion, and I'm willing to be part of that.

You know, the the governor and others have has led everyone to believe that we're not that we're completely doing away with anything, any other side of this, Bill.

And we're not.

That's just simply not true.

There's five different terrorist statutes that still governs the water.

The safe drinking water Act is still part of this.

We've not good at this bill at all.

We've just brought it back to align it with federal guidelines.

The Senate overrode the governor's veto, largely around party lines.

If the House does the same, Senate Bill 89 will become law.

Republicans say they did work with a large utility, Louisville Water Company, to add some more protections to the initial bill.