Wrong and mean.

That's how Governor Andy Beshear describes a bill passed by the Kentucky General Assembly that stops local governments from blocking landlords who want to refuse tenants based on their source of income.

The governor today vetoed House Bill 18.

That story kicks off tonight's legislative update.

Some landlords don't want to rent to tenants paying with federal housing vouchers.

Louisville and Lexington recently passed ordinances requiring landlords to accept those tenants.

House Bill 18 would block those ordinances.

Today, Governor Beshear said the legislature needs to understand who this bill would hurt.

Why should a landlord be able to say, Well, I'll take cash, but I won't take a voucher of the same value?

Now this is how we support our most vulnerable.

What this legislation would say is you don't have to participate.

You don't have to help.

You can discriminate against those that that end up getting this assistance.

That audio was courtesy of Wave three news.

The bill passed in the Kentucky House, 75 to 20 and in the Senate, 25 to 11.

So the votes are there to override the governor's veto.

Here is reaction from House Speaker David Osborne.

In a statement, he said, quote, With today's veto, he, meaning Governor Beshear, strikes out at the right of a property owner to make a decision about how his or her property will be used.

The very idea of forcing a property owner to participate in a program runs contrary to one of the most basic and fundamental rights in, quote.