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The Kentucky Senate has voted to create a layer of legislative oversight for relief funds, like the ones created by Gov. Andy Beshear to help people recover from tornadoes and flooding.
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Kentucky's near-total abortion ban would be relaxed to allow exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest under a bill introduced Wednesday by a prominent lawmaker, who stopped short of predicting how his Republican colleagues will react to his proposal.
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The House Education Committee on Tuesday advanced a measure that was touted as a “good first step” to attract and retain more educators to help overcome Kentucky's chronic teacher shortage. Karyn Czar has details.
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The Kentucky Senate passed a bill Thursday allowing teachers to refuse to refer to transgender students by their preferred pronouns — a proposal that was touted as protecting free-speech rights in classrooms but denounced by a lawmaker whose transgender son died recently.
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Kentucky lawmakers have advanced a bill aimed at giving them oversight of relief funds like the ones the governor created to help people recover from tornadoes and flooding. The measure sailed through a Senate committee Wednesday. A Kentucky lawmaker has introduced a bill to prosecute illegal abortions as homicides. The measure drew pushback from the state’s anti-abortion attorney general. He says it would wrongly subject Kentucky women to charges for terminating pregnancies.
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Kentucky Gazette editor and publisher Laura Cullen Glasscock highlights a number of bills addressing what some Kentucky GOP legislators regard as pressing social and cultural issues in the commonwealth, some long-standing Democrat priorities showing up in this session and a few bills that may have bipartisan support.
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Republican lawmakers in Kentucky have advanced a bill allowing teachers to misgender their transgender students. They plunged into the culturewar issue despite pleas to resist doing so from a colleague whose transgender son died.
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Republicans wrapped up work Wednesday on making a deeper cut in Kentucky's individual income tax rate, sending the bill to the Democratic governor in the midst of an election campaign.
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Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear has renewed his push for higher teacher salaries and state-funded preschool for 4-year-olds. His comments Thursday came in response to statewide test scores showing setbacks among many students, caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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A member of the Kentucky House Democratic leadership team says he has decided not to seek re-election. State Rep. Johnny Bell's decision could complicate…