Representative James Tipton is sponsoring HB 298, which will require local law enforcement to have Police Chase Policy in place or they will lose funding. Representative Tipton Represents Anderson, Spencer and Part of Bullitt counties. In September of 2019 at the just after an Anderson County High School Football game teenager Jill Hurst was struck and killed by someone being pursued by law enforcement in a chase that started in Mercer County. Multiple others were also injur

HB 136 Sponsored by Rep. Nemes as passed the Judiciary Committee with a 17-1 vote. It is not a perfect bill and prevents the ability to smoke marijuana for medical purposes, but it is a start, a foot in the door to getting Kentuckians better natural health alternatives to pain relief and more. For far to long people have had suffer and deal with the addiction and complications of prescription pain killers. Often times people of all ages and other demographics had to put them

More and more we are hearing about the government, related entity, or others acting on the behalf of, in some capacity interfering with the Rights of Parents be it in education, medical, religious, etc. Enough is Enough and Senator Stephen West (R) has introduced a bill to protect parental rights, SB 116. SB 116 is a rather short but straightforward bill and so we are going to include the entire text below. Call the Legislative Hotline at 502-564-8100 or 1-800-372-7181 and t

HB 227 would eliminate straight party voting, and we think this is a good idea. We as voters need to start evaluating candidates based on the person and not the party. Allowing straight party tickets encourages uninformed voting. Being solely dedicated to Party Politics is Collectivism, and Collectivism is a component of Communism. Call the Legislative Hotline at 502-564-8100 or 1-800-372-7181 and let your Representative, All House Leadership, and Members of the House Electio

HB 232 is a simple piece of legislation that would change the MAY to a SHALL when being awarded attorney fees and other costs related to Open Records Requests in which the requester had to take the government agency to court in order to procure those records. Citizens shouldn't be left holding the financial bag when the Government was required to turn over records and they did not comply. Government not paying these fees back to the requestor is a way of punishing them for ex

Representative James Tipton (R) has introduced HB 255 which would basically ban talking on your phone in the car unless you have a hands free device. First off we would like to say, please don't drive distracted, but....c'mon who is gonna follow this law, are the legislators even gonna follow this law? This is utterly pointless feel good legislation that at best will be a revenue generator, as there are penalties for doing so. So let's think about who this could affect. 1) Th

UPDATE: Thankfully this ill advised bill has been withdrawn by the sponsor. Senator Stephen Meredith (R) has introduced SB 89 which would give law enforcement the authority to stop, request your identification, and interrogate you for 2 hours based on his reasonable suspicion you need to be stopped, questioned, and detained. This is the most blatant police state bill we have seen in quite some time. Senator Meredith must not want to get re-elected as this legislation is antit

We are not insensitive to the plight of dairy farmers as two large dairy producers, Dean's and Borden's have filed for Bankruptcy protection recently. It is a sad thing, in a perfect world no one would go out of business, no one would have hard times befall them, and no one would lose there job or their livelihood, but that's life. But redefining the English language to help out private industry to get a completive advantage is not Capitalism, It is not Free Market, and it is

In some employers drug tests for employment, CBD from hemp is turning up as Marijuana. While in the same plant family, you absolutely cannot get high from anything CBD related. Sen Robin Webb (D) has introduced SB 65, legislation to prohibit an employer from requiring an employee from using CBD related products on their off time. However, on the clock if the employer has a policy prohibiting the use of CBD products the employee must comply. We think this is a good bill to cle

Sen Ralph Alvarado (R) sponsored legislation that created Medical Review Panels which would be made up of Doctors that would decide if you had a valid case for medical malpractice and if your case should be allowed to go forward in the courts. This was bad legislation because it limited your right to have your disputes settled in open court. No one should have their access to the judicial system controlled by an entity made up of people who have an interest in keeping legal a

Back in the late 80's early 90's there was an internal Democrat spat between the Governor and the Lt. Governor that resulted in a Constitutional change starting in 1992 to limit those powers. Back then the Lt. Governor (LG) had considerably more to do. The LG was head of the Senate much like the VP is at the Federal level, as well as served on various boards and commissions. There is of course the responsibility of being able to take over the governorship if need be either p

SB 28 was introduced this week by Senator Steve Meredith (R) that would increase terms for state senators from 4 to 6 years terms and for state representatives from 2 years to 4 years. The logic as with every one of these election bills is to save costs, because elections cost money. Again if that is the logic then a dictatorship would be much cheaper. There are plenty of other places to cut costs in state government, cost shouldn't be an excuse to limit our voice at the ball

UPDATE: This has passed the Senate and has moved to the House Election Committee SB 3 was introduced in the Senate this week, it is a Constitutional Amendment to move the election of our Constitutional Officers (Governor, Attorney General, etc) to the Presidential Election year by 2028. We think this is a bad idea for 2 very simple reasons. 1) We like that Kentucky is unique and has off year elections to vote in our state executives, it makes the race more about Kentucky and

Call the Legislative Hotline: 1-800-372-7181 or 502-564-8100 Give the operator your name and address (this helps them find your legislator) Tell the operator who your message is for, if it is someone other than your state representative and state senator. We suggest you leave your message for your state representative and state senator as well as ALL House and Senate Leadership. We also suggest you leave this message for members of the House Judiciary Committe and Senate Judi

Call the Legislative Hotline: 1-800-372-7181 or 502-564-8100 Give the operator your name and address (this helps them find your legislator) Tell the operator who your message is for, if it is someone other than your state representative and state senator. We suggest you leave your message for your state representative and state senator as well as ALL House and Senate Leadership. Currently BR 342 and BR 835 are the only Red Flag Gun Law, but there will probably be others. We s