
Legislative Update
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Bills continue to become law as governor Andy Beshear makes final decisions.
Bills continue to become law as governor Andy Beshear makes final decisions.
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Legislative Update
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Bills continue to become law as governor Andy Beshear makes final decisions.
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Andy Beshear makes final decisions.
Just before the last two days of this year's session of the Kentucky General Assembly.
Our Casey Parker-Bell reports on the latest from Frankfort and tonight's legislative update.
As more of the General Assembly's bills become law.
Seven over the last two days have done so without the governor's signature.
Opponents of one of those bills call it a book ban.
Are these the manners and and the matters in the materials that we want to educate our children on?
Senate Bill five establishes a process for parents to contest obscene books in public schools.
This bill's purpose is to guarantee the parents involvement to end their child's access to this material.
Under Senate Bill five, parents will file complaints with the school principal when they'd be able to determine if the materials are suitable for schools.
The governor also allowed House Bill 153 to become law without his signature.
It assures Kentuckians that their tax dollars will not be spent on the enforcement of a federal ban on firearms, ammunition or firearm accessories.
HB 153 would keep Kentucky law enforcement officers from enforcing what the bill calls federal firearms bans.
Officers who enforce federal laws would be subject to termination.
The General Assembly is also likely to take up votes to override some of the governor's vetoes from the past week.
The most notable being Senate Bill 150.
We need to ensure that surgery or drugs that completely alter their life and alter their body is not something we should be allowing until they are adults who could choose it for themselves.
Senate Bill 150 would ban medical care for transitioning youth.
Also likely to receive consideration for overrides are SB seven, which prohibits payroll deductions from state employees for labor organizations like the KIA.
SB 107 requires the appointment of the Kentucky Education Commissioner to receive Senate approval.
And SB 126 that bill allows Kentuckians to move legal challenges about state government to randomly selected court and away from Franklin Circuit Court.
I believe Senate Bill 150 takes away the freedom of parents to make important and difficult medical decisions for their kids.
During those last two days, legislators could also take up a couple of bills.
Governor Beshear has signaled he would sign the Senate approved a bill legalizing medical marijuana before the veto recess.
But with passage, we're moving down the road.
We're moving forward.
We're moving along.
Senate Bill 47 was the first time the upper chamber has passed a bill that would legalize the drug.
Similar medical marijuana bills have passed the House in two of the previous three years, and Kentucky could join six other states with the approval of a sports gambling bill.
This is not a.
Product that's not already happening in the marketplace.
It's just happening in an illegal and unregulated fashion.
And the bill that we have before you just seeks to.
Put it in a regulated legal marketplace so we protect the consumers of the commonwealth.
House Bill 551 would legalize sports betting in Kentucky, placing the Kentucky Horse Racing Commission in charge of the industry for Kentucky Edition.
I'm Casey Parker-Bell.
The Kentucky General Assembly reconvenes for the last two days of the session tomorrow and ending on Thursday.
Any bills passed the last two days of the session that will be vetoed by the governor will not be eligible for veto overrides.
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