A RESOLUTION adopting the Rules of Procedure for the 2026 Regular Session of the Senate.
SR2 adopts the Rules of Procedure for the Kentucky Senate for the 2026 Regular Session. The resolution sets out the Senate’s internal operating rules for the session, including meeting times, quorum requirements, motions, debate limits, voting procedures, member decorum, officer duties, committee structure, bill referral and amendment procedures, calendar and consent-calendar processes, enrollment and engrossment, and rules governing resolutions, citations, and executive confirmations. It also establishes the framework for how the Senate will manage floor access, lobbying restrictions, committee meetings, and the handling of legislative materials.
The resolution is largely procedural rather than substantive, but it has significant practical effect because it governs how all Senate legislation will move through the chamber during the 2026 session. It updates and restates committee jurisdictions, the role of the Committee on Committees and Rules Committee, deadlines for introducing bills, fiscal note and fiscal impact statement requirements, and special procedures for redistricting measures and conference reports. It also includes rules for videoconferencing participation in committees under limited medical circumstances and for open committee meetings, while preserving the Senate’s authority to control its own proceedings.
SR2 does not amend the Kentucky Revised Statutes directly; instead, it establishes the Senate’s internal procedural rules for the 2026 Regular Session. Its impact is on legislative process and chamber administration, affecting how bills, resolutions, amendments, committee reports, and confirmations are handled, and how Senate staff, officers, and committees operate. It also affects the public and lobbyists by defining access restrictions and committee openness, and it affects sponsors and members by imposing filing, formatting, debate, and fiscal-note requirements.
The bill appears to have been noncontroversial and routine, as reflected by its adoption by voice vote and the absence of recorded committee testimony or roll-call opposition in the provided context. Because it is a rules resolution, the general sentiment is best characterized as procedural consensus around organizing the Senate’s work for the session rather than debate over policy outcomes. The voice-vote adoption suggests broad agreement among senators.
No specific points of contention are documented in the provided transcripts or vote history. The text itself shows a few areas that could be debated in a rules package, including limits on debate, restrictions on amendments, lobbyist access rules, committee control over bill referral, and the procedures for consent calendar and videoconferencing participation. However, there is no evidence in the supplied context that any of these provisions generated recorded opposition or amendment disputes.