Well, former NBA and University of Kentucky player Michael Kidd Gilchrist was back in front of state lawmakers today.

Kidd Gilchrist, who has a stuttering condition, has been voicing his support for a bill that would expand insurance coverage for those seeking treatment for the speech impediment.

Last week, he spoke before a state Senate panel.

Today, it was a House committee where some members shared their own experience with stuttering before casting a yes vote on the bill.

I appreciate just being heard, you know, on behalf of 1% of our population, as well as people who stutter.

So, yeah, that's why I'm up here today.

I have a first cousin who recently passed away and he grew up with a terrible, terrible stutter.

And in high school, he had an English teacher who forced him to give oral Booker parts.

And there were no speech pathology or anything like that in his schools at that time.

So he he ended up quitting school over it.

This actually means a lot to me.

This is something that I've grown up with.

When I was in school, I was in speech therapy.

I stuttered pretty badly in school.

Sometimes it still shows up on the House floor.

Sometimes it's it's it's there.

BELL 111 passed unanimously.

The bill is sponsored by Republican State Senator Whitney Westerfield of Fruit Hill, and that's in western Kentucky.