Kentucky House and Senate set to gavel in an hour earlier than usual today at 1pm in the Old State Capitol. #kyga22
Senate Judiciary on Thursday is taking up HB 269 to prohibit the death penalty for those with a diagnosis of serious mental illness. Already passed the House with 76 votes.
Also on Senate Judiciary agenda Thursday: HB 256 increasing felony penalty of unauthorized practice of law (potential Eric Deters effect), and HB 222 of @RepNimaKulkarni, which would give Kentucky an anti-SLAPP law against frivolous lawsuits meant to silence people
The House and Senate have gaveled in. We have an old-timey clothes sighting in the House.
Hear ye hear ye 
House taking up HB 659 to increase the eligible size of historic preservation tax credits. Cap for owner-occupied residential properties raised from $60k to $120k and for commercial properties from $400k to $10 million. The overall annual cap for total tax credits remains $100M.
Instead of just voting electronically in the House, they are doing a voice vote for each member.
If they did this last night they would have been there all night.
If they did this last night they would have been there all night.
I don't know why they're not using the old-timey electronic vote board.
HB 659 passed 87-2. As for who those 2 no votes are, I'll have to check tomorrow. I'm guessing the Maddox-Rabourn duo but do not know.
My goodness, the House and Senate are both done with orders of the day. That was... quick.
Appears that a few unfriendly floor amendments got filed to HB 136, Nemes's medical marijuana bill.
Senate A&R is meeting tomorrow morning.
What is not on the agenda: HB 8, the House GOP's big tax cut bill.
What is on the agenda: SB 195, a mystery shell bill dealing with appropriations.
What is not on the agenda: HB 8, the House GOP's big tax cut bill.
What is on the agenda: SB 195, a mystery shell bill dealing with appropriations.
I'm told House Licensing will take up gaming bills at 8am tomorrow, but I don't know which ones yet. This could include bill the make sports betting legal in Kentucky and one prohibiting gray machines. Background: courier-journal.com/story/news/pol…
I'm now told that committee will take up ALL of those gaming bills: Sports wagering, pari-mutuel modernization, gray machine ban, problem gaming trust and the omnibus bill with all of them.
Correction: Scratch the omnibus bill, but HB 606-609 will be on the agenda.
At noon in House Local Govt committee is HB 765, another mystery shell bill related to state government.
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