"Without objection, the Senate shall stand adjourned until the hour of 10 a.m., Tuesday, April 14, Year of Our Lord 2026," Senate President Robert Stiver said, bringing down the gavel.
And that's a wrap — for now.
Wednesday marked the last day lawmakers could pass bills ahead of Gov. Andy Beshear's 10-day veto window.
The chamber delivered its required budget bill just under the wire, with critics warning it does not provide nearly enough money to fill the Medicaid funding gap created by last year's One Big, Beautiful Bill. Republicans set up a $290 million Budget Reserve Trust Fund, which they say can be opened in the second year of the biennial budget if Medicaid cost savings aren't realized.
The legislature also sent a sweeping plan to remake Kentucky State University to the governor. It would transform the school into a four-year polytechnic school in an effort to avoid closing the historically Black university.
Other bills now in the governor's inbox include measures that could allow some schools to circumvent a number of state regulations to operate as "schools of innovation," block school board members from working more than 100 days a year in another district, raise the minimum age for sports betting to 21, and direct the Historic Properties Advisory Commission to reserve a corner of the Capitol Rotunda for a statue of Sen. Mitch McConnell if one were privately funded or donated.
Beshear now has the option of signing, vetoing, or permitting the bills to become law without his signature.
The legislature will return for two more working days in mid-April, during which they typically waste little time reinstating bills rejected by the governor. Lawmakers can also pass new bills during those two days, but they are unable to undo any gubernatorial vetoes past that point.