- House gavels in
- Senate gavels in
- Gov. Beshear presser
Kentucky new cases and positivity still big down
Yelloooooow
Senate just gave HB 1 -- 2-year the executive branch budget bill -- its first reading.
House taking up HB 10 to do away with automatic filing of prefiled bills when the session starts. Now there will be a page with working copies of bills in the interim, instead of prefiled bills. Passes 90-1.
House taking up Senate BIll 6, the Name, Image Likeness bill. UK Coach John Calipari and UK athletic director testified for this last month.
SB 6 will go to Beshear's desk if House passes this.
NIL bill SB 6 passes House 89-2, with Belcher and Petrie the only no votes.
Will head to Beshear's desk tonight.
When Senate comes back from recess they are expected to take up SB 164 (Imagination Library), SB 205 (no state funds for companies disinvesting from fossil fuels) and SB 301 ("Zuckerbucks" bill banning private money to help local elections administration costs).
HB 777 up in House.
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House done with orders.
Here's a development: HB 28 of Rep. Savannah Maddox just received its first reading. This would ban all private employers from requiring employees or customers to be vaccinated.
HB 28 hasn’t been assigned to a committee yet and has 24 GOP co-sponsors. Getting a reading suggests it may have majority support in the caucus to advance to committee. We shall see.
Senate passed HB 301 “Zuckerbucks” bills, still has to go back to House for concurrence. Now taking up SB 205 for state to boycott companies that disinvest from fossil fuels (coal).
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KY Senate budget committee going over changes made to HB 1, the House GOP’s 2-year budget plan
Budget passes committee on party-line vote. McGarvey says Democrats still haven’t seen the committee sub and were only briefed on it by McDaniel an hour ago.
According to McDaniel, the Senate version of HB 1 would leave $1.75 billion in the rainy day fund and would leave $1.278 billion unspent after those two years, even accounting for the $1.015 billion of tax rebates in SB 194.
Just In: The Kentucky Senate budget committee will finally take up and vote on HB 1 tomorrow morning, the 2-year executive branch budget bill passed by the House in mid-January.
This will undoubtedly be a committee sub that we learn the contents of shortly before it is voted on in the 9am meeting.
Also Just In: House Education committee will meet tomorrow night after adjournment, taking up SB 83, the bill banning transgender girls from girls athletics, and HB 277, which creates a student loan forgiveness program for teachers.
Kentucky House and Senate have gaveled in for Day 42 of the session.
Kentucky House now taking up HB 51 to ban local school districts from having mask mandates.
Rep. Nemes speaks for the bill, but Rep. Koenig (R) speaks against it, says this should be up to local elected officials and not the state. Says legislature would be hypocritical to pass a bill last year to leave mask decisions to local districts, and now pass a bill reversing it
KY House State Govt committee about to meet. They will take up HB 28, the original version of which would have prohibited governments, colleges & private employers from enacting rules requiring employees/customers of disclosing vaccine status & prohibiting discrimination on that
The committee sub for HB 28 that I've seen completely throws out the prohibition on private employers doing so. This one is sponsored by Rep. Savannah Maddox and has been a big cause of the anti-vax/mask mandate crowd going back to last year.
Committee is also taking up two mystery shell bills that we'll learn the contents of soon: HB 516 related to state government and HB 594 related to economic development.
And there it is, HB 28 to ban private employers from having vaccine rules is scheduled to get a hearing and vote in House State Govt committee tomorrow.
In addition to the economic development mystery shell bill I mentioned earlier, this State Govt committee will also have an additional mystery shell bill in HB 516. I’m also told HB 28 will have a committee sub that isn’t public yet.