It's the last day of the 2024 Kentucky General Assembly and regular session.

State lawmakers are still gathered in Frankfurt, working to push through final legislation before midnight tonight.

More than 1000 bills were filed this year.

Many were passed and others failed to gain enough traction.

One high profile bill that did become law will mean harsher penalties for those who commit violent crimes.

Governor Andy Beshear vetoed House Bill five, called the SAFER Kentucky Act.

But last week, the legislature swiftly overrode that veto.

Today, Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams signed the SAFER Kentucky Act into law alongside Jefferson County, House Republicans and the victims of violent crime.

I've never been in power Senate more than I am today, Sonny.

I live in Jackson County myself, and I feel safer already.

Today offered some closure to families who have lost loved ones to violent crime.

One provision of the SAFER Kentucky Act, which lawmakers had tried to pass in previous years, is named after Madeleine Shrout, whose picture you saw.

She's the Louisville teen who was killed in 2021 when a driver under the influence crashed into her.

The Trump family testified in favor of the SAFER Kentucky Act as it moved through the legislature.

If we say good.

Faith things like when we think we take these things, we get through the tragedy that we did.

It means we've got to stop acting, which makes me that's like a breath of fresh air.

Not only that, we've been trying this for.

Now, three years now, and two years ago it it passed the House and never got to the Senate.

But to finally be able to push this system, what we mean, what.

We can, we apologize for the poor audio there.

The provision of House Bill five named after Madeline Trout would set limits on nonprofits that bail people out of jail.

The driver who crashed into Madeline had recently been bailed out by the Louisville Bail Project.

The Trout family had sued the project for this, but a Jefferson County Circuit judge dismissed that case in 2022.