FRANKFORT – With the fall of the chair’s gavel at midnight Tuesday, the 2013 Regular Session of the Kentucky General Assembly entered the history books. Every session goes out with such a gavel’s bang. But few echo across the Commonwealth so resonantly, after such a long and lingering winter’s hard work, as this one. Since…
March 15, 2013
FRANKFORT – With time running out in the 2013 Regular Session, we turned our attention this week to reaching agreements on some of the General Assembly’s top priorities. After years of work by untold lawmakers through many sessions, along with educators and other policymakers, a bipartisan compromise was achieved Monday on a bill aimed at…
March 1, 2013
FRANKFORT – With more than two-thirds of the 2013 Regular Session behind us, lawmakers scrambled this week to move bills closer to the finish line before the Constitutionally imposed 30-working-day limit. An important priority of the Senate, the Uniform Military and Overseas Voter Act, designated as Senate Bill 1, earned our unanimous approval this week….
February 22, 2013
FRANKFORT — The Kentucky General Assembly reached two noteworthy milestones this week: We passed the half-way mark of the legislative session, and on the same day sent the first bill of the year to the governor to be signed into law. That measure, House Bill 7 (passed 36-1), would authorize agency bonds for 11 specific…
February 15, 2013
FRANKFORT — There was no lack of action this week in Frankfort. With an intensity seldom seen this early in a legislative session, committee rooms, hallways and legislative chambers were buzzing with discussion, debate and consideration of important bills from morning to night. A range of bills aimed at improving our State in a variety…
February 8, 2013
Lawmakers returned to Frankfort this week to reconvene the 2013 Regular Session. With the clock ticking on a short, 30 day session, legislators quickly began tackling this year’s top priorities. One of the biggest challenges facing the General Assembly is strengthening the State’s public employee retirement system and addressing the unfunded liability. Recent estimates predict…
January 11, 2013
Lawmakers returned to Frankfort this week to convene the 2013 Regular Session of the Kentucky General Assembly. As at the beginning of any odd-year, 30-day “short” session, organizational matters were handled first. Leadership was selected, committee memberships and chairs named. New and re-elected legislators were sworn in and work began. By week’s end, more than…
April 13, 2012
Senate Week in Review by Senator Denise Harper Angel FRANKFORT – Last night, the 2012 60-day Regular Session of the Kentucky General Assembly came to a close. In the evening hours before sine die, we put a final stamp of approval on a six-year road plan that includes the Louisville bridges project and many other projects…
March 16, 2012
FRANKFORT – Work continued in earnest this week on a budget proposal sent to us by the House, as our days were filled with meetings to discuss various details of the two-year spending plan. While those discussions dominated much of our time, we considered and approved many other important measures, as well. This week, the…
March 12, 2012
House finalizes state budget, process continues in Senate -Submitted by: Senator Denise Harper Angel FRANKFORT – Someone once called writing a budget ‘a mathematical confirmation of your suspicions.’ That Kentucky state government faces continued hard times is a good bit more than a suspicion. But March, with a budget actually emerging from mainly talk to real numbers…
