Kentucky General Assembly

Kentucky Smart on Crime, a criminal justice reform coalition, wants to see legislation this year that will better support people with mental health issues and substance use disorder.

Sen. Karen Berg says her son, Henry Berg-Brousseau, struggled with mental illness, “not because he was trans but born from his difficulty finding acceptance.”

Kentucky House Education Committee Chair Rep. Regina Huff, a Republican, has introduced legislation to require local school boards to hold at least 15…

The session is set to begin the Tuesday after Labor Day. The Republican-led legislature will consider COVID-related policies.

Lawmakers say the bill is aimed at critical race theory, which is a framework for understanding systemic racism.

Amendments proposed by House Republicans would expand use of no-knock warrants, while a House Democrat wants to further curtail their use.

The proposal would preserve some of the policies Kentucky implemented last year to ensure voter access during the coronavirus pandemic.

Beshear delayed his speech by 24 hours in response to a mob that stormed the U.S. Capitol Wednesday.

The news comes after state lawmakers continued to meet despite warnings about the seriousness of the disease.

Like the version passed by the House last month, it scales back some of the programs proposed by Gov. Andy Beshear.