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KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

House Standing Committee on Transportation. (2-3-26)

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • And that's why I have to vote no.
  • I vote... I Representative Hail. Yes. Representative Hein. Yes. Quickly explain my vote. Yes.
  • Quickly explain my vote. >> Yes. Quickly explain my vote.
  • I vote yes in honor of the today.
  • Explain my vote. Being a member of a I'm excited to vote for this twice. I'm a yes.
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

House Standing Committee on Transportation. (1-28-26)

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • May I record a few votes that I missed? You may. Thank you.
  • Um, I'd like to record my yes vote on House Bill 140 and House Bill 144. Representative Elliott.
  • I would like to record my votes on House Bill 140 and House Bill 144. Thank you, Chairman.
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Senate Standing Committee on Transportation (1-14-26)

Transportation

Transcript Highlights:
  • So I vote...
  • </c> &gt;&gt; uh, I'd like to explain my I vote. &gt;&gt; uh, I'd like to explain my I vote.
  • </c> &gt;&gt; explain my yes vote. &gt;&gt; explain my yes vote. &gt;&gt; Go<00:46:41.839><c> ahead.
  • </c> &gt;&gt; explain my yes vote, please. &gt;&gt; explain my yes vote, please.
  • </c> your work on it and I vote it out today. your work on it and I vote it out today.
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Senate Standing Committee on State and Local Government (3-25-26)

State & Local Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • Uh, and when explaining your vote, first cast your vote, then explain. Does anyone have any guests?
  • Senator Elkins voted aye.
  • </c> uh to vote law. uh to vote law.
  • </c> I'm going to vote no.
  • </c> vote, Chair? Yes, please. Thank you. vote, Chair? Yes, please. Thank you.
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Senate Standing Committee on Banking and Insurance. (3-10-26)

Banking & Insurance

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> &gt;&gt; I'll play my yes vote. Yes, please. &gt;&gt; I'll play my yes vote. Yes, please.
  • </c> and vote I for you. and vote I for you.
  • Just made my yes vote. Yes, sir.
  • </c> to vote I. to vote I.
  • </c> &gt;&gt; Just made my yes vote. Yes, sir. Uh Mr. &gt;&gt; Just made my yes vote. Yes, sir.
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

Senate Standing Committee on State and Local Government (2-25-26)

State & Local Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • Senator McDaniel voted yes. Senator Mills voted yes. Senator Rawlings voted yes.
  • Senator Herron voted yes. Senator Bledsoe voted yes. Senator McDaniel voted yes.
  • Senator Rawlings voted yes. Senator Tichenor voted yes. Chair Nemes voted yes.
  • Senator Herron voted yes. Senator Bledsoe voted yes. Senator McDaniel voted yes.
  • Senator Rawlings voted yes. Senator Tichenor voted yes. Chair Nemes voted yes.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • Secretary please none no questions Madam Secretary please call<00:03:00.760><c> the</c> [Roll call vote
  • I explain my vote.
  • I can tell you last year House Bill 315 passed out of the Senate with 38-0 votes, and it's to secure
  • With no further business, Senator Carpenter, I need to record a aye vote on House Bill 24.
  • on House Bill 24 need to record a I vote on House Bill 24 so<00:13:49.639><c> be</c><00:13:50.079><c
Summary: The committee met with a quorum, heard brief announcements, and moved quickly through four House bills. House Bill 24, as amended by a committee substitute, would raise the audit threshold for conservation districts from $750,000 to $1 million and also clarify that temporary roads, highways, and structures may be built on certain easements if they are removed when work is complete. The substitute was adopted, the bill passed on a roll call vote, and a title amendment was also adopted. House Bill 304, presented by Rep. Ryan Bivens with support from the Kentucky Soybean Association, would adjust soybean checkoff language so the state checkoff could rise from one-quarter to one-half percent if the federal checkoff ever ends, keeping funding levels effectively the same and allowing the state board to continue promotion, research, and education work. Members asked about the cost impact on farmers, and sponsors said there would be no added cost because the language is intended as a backup to match the current federal rate. The bill passed unanimously with favorable expression. House Bill 186 would streamline rules for churches and nonprofits providing food to homeless shelters or people displaced by declared natural disasters, reducing regulatory barriers for safe, wholesome food service. The sponsor argued current requirements are too restrictive for simple food distribution. The bill passed. House Bill 315, with a committee substitute, would protect agricultural land from entities tied to designated hostile governments, while also allowing some land to be used or leased for research purposes; the sponsor noted the substitute reflected prior work and concerns from bankers about lien priorities, which he said he would address later on the floor. The committee substitute was adopted and the bill passed unanimously. The committee then adjourned.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • Senator Girdler, let me explain my yes vote, please.
  • Senator Girdler, let me explain my yes vote, please.
  • Senator Girdler, let me explain my yes vote, please.
  • Senator Girdler, let me explain my yes vote, please.
  • Senator Girdler, let me explain my vote, please.
Summary: The committee first considered House Bill 390, which would complete the Department of Transportation’s transition from the old AVIS system to CAVIS for insurance verification. Rep. Michael Meredith explained that the current insurance verification process still runs on the old system, creating a 30- to 45-day reporting delay that allows people to register vehicles by showing only an insurance card. Members voted to give the bill a favorable expression, with Chair Carpenter noting it would support real-time verification and could help reduce uninsured motorists. The committee then heard House Bill 233, a consumer protection measure aimed at post-disaster repair scams. Rep. Wade Williams said the bill expands existing protections to all contractors and tree removal companies, creates a five-day cancellation period after an insurer says some services are not covered, bars mechanic’s liens in certain consumer financial disputes while preserving them for work outside the insurance claim, and adds a $5,000 civil penalty enforced by the Attorney General. After questions about how it differed from Senate Bill 24, the bill also received favorable expression. Finally, the committee took up House Bill 423, with a committee substitute adopted at the outset to allow commercial insurers and the Department for Medicaid Services to provide more specific reasons for prior-authorization denials. Rep. Kim Moore and Cory Meadows of the Kentucky Medical Association described the bill as a long-negotiated prior-authorization reform that would create a gold-carding or exemption program for qualifying providers, reduce red tape, and speed patient care. The committee approved the substitute and then gave the bill favorable expression. At the end, Senator Yates corrected the record to be marked as voting yes on House Bill 390 and House Bill 233.
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

House Standing Committee on Local Government (3-17-26)

Local Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • All those in favor vote I. All those against vote no.
  • Vote yes.
  • Vote everyone for all your hard work. Vote yes. yes. yes.
  • Vote<00:18:44.600><c> I.</c> Vote I. Vote I. All<00:18:46.280><c> right.
  • Vote<00:27:17.080><c> I.</c> Vote I. Vote I.
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

House Standing Committee on Local Government. (1-28-26)

Local Government

Transcript Highlights:
  • Vote yes. We have 13 aye votes and two pass votes.
  • Vote aye.
  • </c> change my vote. change my vote.
  • </c> &gt;&gt; vote I. &gt;&gt; vote I.
  • vote vote<00:20:15.120><c> I.
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

House Standing Committee on Natural Resources and Energy. (3-19-26)

Natural Resources & Energy

Transcript Highlights:
  • Explain my<00:26:22.000><c> vote.</c><00:26:22.680><c> Yes.</c> my vote. Yes. my vote. Yes.
  • </c> Comment on my vote, Mr. Chairman. Comment on my vote, Mr. Chairman. &gt;&gt; Yes.
  • I vote yes. Thank you.
  • I vote yes.
  • I vote yes. Thank you.
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

House Standing Committee on Agriculture. (3-11-26)

Agriculture

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> have to go to a vote. have to go to a vote.
  • So, with that we do need to move to<00:41:22.480><c> a</c><00:41:22.560><c> vote.
  • Uh we have a motion and a to a vote.
  • Chair, may I explain my vote &gt;&gt; Mr. Chair, may I explain my vote briefly? briefly? briefly?
  • >> To a vote. I'd just like to introduce my guest, if I could. >> Please. >> Please.
KY

Kentucky 2026 Regular Session

House Standing Committee on Natural Resources and Energy. (3-5-26)

Natural Resources & Energy

Transcript Highlights:
  • </c> 13<00:04:50.280><c> yes</c><00:04:50.560><c> votes.</c> 13 yes votes. 13 yes votes.
  • Explain my vote.
  • Can I explain my vote? Yes.
  • Can I explain my vote? Yes. Can I explain my vote? Yes.
  • </c> uh one no vote, and three passes. uh one no vote, and three passes. Okay. Okay.
TX
Transcript Highlights:
  • That's Senator Bettencourt's bill about accepting an early voting ballot voted by mail.
  • Eligible to vote.
  • They're not citizens; they can't register to vote, they can't vote.
  • So what's being added is the specific explicit language that the early vote site—the early vote clerk's
  • So that means that anytime ballots are counted, we're going to run a test before the ballots are counted
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • Senator Mills, explain my vote. Yes, Mr. Chairman. I'm going to vote yes.
  • So I vote yes. Senator Richardson, explain my vote.
  • So I vote yes. Senator Richardson, explain my vote.
  • So I vote yes. Senator Richardson, explain my vote.
  • So I vote yes. Senator Richardson, explain my vote.
Summary: The committee heard testimony on Senate Bill 132, which would create conscience protections for health care professionals who object to participating in certain procedures or services on religious, moral, or ethical grounds. Senator Donald Douglas and several supporters argued the bill is a recruitment and retention tool for Kentucky’s health care workforce, emphasizing provider shortages, maldistribution, and the need to protect individual conscience rights. Supporters said the bill would not apply to emergency care, would not permit denial of care based on a patient’s identity, and would mainly protect professionals from being forced to perform procedures they believe are unethical. They also cited similar laws in six other states and said the bill would have a cause of action to give it enforcement teeth. Supportive testimony came from an emergency physician, a registered nurse, and others who described personal experiences or examples involving objections to abortion-related care, opioid prescribing, and pressure to participate in procedures that conflicted with conscience. They said conscience protections would help attract providers, preserve ethical integrity, and allow clinicians to make professional judgments without corporate or institutional coercion. In questioning, senators asked about practical examples, the scope of the bill, whether it would cover hypothetical cases involving patients of particular religions or identities, and which states have similar laws. The sponsor and supporters repeatedly said the bill is about procedures, not patients, and that it should not be read to allow discrimination against individuals. Opponents, including pediatricians and a registered nurse/minister, warned that the bill is overly broad and could allow refusals of care by not only physicians but also pharmacists, clerks, and ambulance drivers. They argued it could delay treatment, increase discrimination, and worsen access problems in rural areas, especially for contraception, Plan B, blood transfusions, and other services. Critics said existing professional ethics already require patient care and that the bill could undermine evidence-based medicine and worsen Kentucky’s provider shortage. The committee took testimony and questions; no final vote or disposition was announced in the portion provided.
KY
Transcript Highlights:
  • , no nay votes, the Being 12 aye votes, no nay votes, the measure<00:02:48.680><c> the</c><00:02:48.760
  • , no nay votes, the Being 12 aye votes, no nay votes, the measure<00:05:17.040><c> passes</c><00:05:17.360
  • . count. count.
  • </c> There remain 12 aye votes, no nay votes. There remain 12 aye votes, no nay votes.
  • </c> There remain 12 aye votes, no nay votes. There remain 12 aye votes, no nay votes.
Summary: The Kentucky Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee met with a quorum and first took up House Bill 503, the legislative branch budget, adopting a committee substitute and reporting it favorably. The chair said the Senate version fully funds defined calculations, provides 2% raises in each fiscal year for legislative employees, removes a paragraph on operating expense reductions, and includes $1 million in the first year for a judicial branch salary study. House Bill 504, the judicial branch budget, was then amended and reported favorably; changes included 2% annual raises for judicial employees, revised operating expense language, $1 million each year for county current services, retention of Boyle County fit-up language, reporting requirements for smaller capital projects, full funding for nine judges added in 2022, and removal of furlough prohibitions and certain budget implementation language. Both bills passed the committee unanimously with favorable expressions to the floor. The committee then considered House Bill 500, the executive branch budget, adopting a committee substitute before hearing a lengthy summary of major spending and policy changes. The chair described statewide 2% annual employee raises, agency base reductions with many exemptions, increased school safety and 911 funding, veterans and military funding, local government and severance-related changes, attorney general and auditor funding, pension and retirement system support, education funding changes including SEEK, postsecondary and scholarship provisions, public safety and corrections funding, and multiple capital projects. The chair also highlighted Medicaid-related provisions, including added waiver slots, increased state-directed payments, a 2.5% reduction in managed care vendor payments for plan years 2027 and 2028 with savings redirected to fee-for-service rates, and additional funding for behavioral health and public health programs. The bill was reported favorably after members explained their votes, with several noting they had only recently received the full 228-page bill and wanted more time for detailed review. Finally, the committee adopted a committee substitute for House Bill 900, an appropriation measure for government agencies, and reported it favorably. The chair said the bill remains a work in progress and that one-time funding requests from across the Commonwealth and across party lines would continue to be addressed as the process moves forward. All measures considered during the meeting passed the committee with unanimous or near-unanimous favorable votes, and the meeting adjourned after no further business.