Week 1: 2025 Regular Session
Sen. Gex Williams (District 20)
Sen. Williams explains the workings of the first week of the 2025 Regular Session, including advancement of HB1, which proposes further reduction in the state income tax. The post always links to ways to watch sessions live.
Proctor Files Measure to Protect Property Rights
Rep. Marianne Proctor (District 60)
Rep. Proctor of Union filed HB 142 to increase protections for property owners against residential and commercial squatting. This measure classifies squatting as criminal mischief in the first degree, a Class D felony and provides law enforcement with tools to immediately address incidents of squatting.
Lawmakers convene 2025 Regular Session on January 7
Rep. Marianne Proctor (District 60)
Learn the who, what, when, where, and how of the General Assembly as members prepare for the 2025 Regular Session beginning January 7.
Boone County to receive $99,164 from the KADF
Announced by Reps. Kim Banta (District 63), Steve Doan (69), Mark Hart (78), Savannah Maddox (61), Marianne Proctor (60), and Steve Rawlings (66): Boone County will receive $99,164 in tobacco settlement funds from the Kentucky Agricultural Development Fund (KADF), according to a report provided to lawmakers at the December meeting of the legislature’s Tobacco Settlement Agreement Fund Oversight Committee.
Governor stands in way of implementation of relative and fictive caregiver foster care reform
Steve Rawlings (District 66)
State Auditor Allison Ball spoke before the Interim Joint Committee on Families and Children to announce an inquiry into the failure of Governor Andy Beshear and the Cabinet of Health and Family Services to act upon legislation-SB 151–passed with bipartisan support during the 2024 Regular Session.
Unilaterally dictating state law, executive order infringes on religious liberty, parental rights
Rep. Marianne Proctor (District 60)
Rep. Proctor speaks against Gov. Andy Beshear’s executive order regarding so-called “conversion therapy” for children struggling with sexual identify.
Ballot Amendment 1: Preserving our elections
Rep. Steve Rawlings (District 66)
Rep. Rawlings explains how the proposed Amendment 1 on this year’s general election ballot will close a loophole that could allow non-citizens to vote. While the amendment language is lengthy, one short, straightforward sentence adds the actual proposed change.
State on track to see next individual income tax cut in 2026
Rep. Marianne Proctor (District 60)
Overriding Gov. Andy Beshear’s veto, in 2022, the Kentucky legislature passed a tax modernization package to eliminate the state’s individual income tax over time. The next cut is projected in 2026.
Statutory Committees and Task Forces
Rep. Marianne Proctor (District 60)
Lawmakers continue to prepare for the 2025 Regular Session as task forces met to discuss the potential uses of artificial intelligence as well as identify which state policies can be changed or adopted to help folks willing to work reach their full potential.
Voters to weigh in on two proposed constitutional amendments
Rep. Steve Rawlings (District 66)
Rep. Rawlings provides the ballot and amendment language of two proposed amendments to the Kentucky state constitution, one regarding who may legally vote and the other regarding school choice.