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Republican Controlled KY Senate Aborts Pro-Life Bill

Apr 25, 2020
5 min

Republican Controlled KY Senate Aborts Pro-Life Bill

Representative Joe Fisher a staunch pro-life advocate in the House filed HB 67 which would create an Amendment to the Kentucky Constitution that precluded abortion from being considered a right. The summary for the bill states the following. Propose to create a new section of the Constitution of Kentucky to state that Kentucky's Constitution does not secure or protect a right to abortion or funding of abortion. HB 67 passed the House easily 71-21, which even under Republican

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Kentucky Liberty Review

Apr 24, 2020
2 min

Blog

Beshear Signs Bill that Never Passed!

HB 570 was signed into law today, even though it never actually passed the Senate. We know what you are thinking and it is a bit confusing but first a little history on what HB 570 is. HB 570 would allow for the expansion of interlocal agreements. Interlocal agreements are where governmental entities like counties and cities can agree to use the same services. Say for instance a county that doesn't have a jail use another county's jail. So in some instances these agreements a

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Governor Andy Beshear Vetoes Born Alive Act

Kentucky Liberty Review

Apr 24, 2020
5 min

Justice

Governor Andy Beshear Vetoes Born Alive Act

Senate Bill 9 was sent to the Governor on the last day of the legislative session for him to either sign into law or veto. The Governor also had the option of not signing the bill and waiting 10 days and it becoming law. In a nut shell the bill would ban allowing babies to die that where born alive. This is a new and creative way the pro-abortion crowd has come up with allowing a mother another avenue to deny her child life after the point an abortion could be performed, ye

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Kentucky Liberty Review

Feb 16, 2020
2 min

Justice

Police Chase Policy

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

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Kentucky Liberty Review

Jan 25, 2020
3 min

Justice

Parental Rights Protection Act

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

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Kentucky Liberty Review

Jan 20, 2020
2 min

Blog

Capitol Blacklist?

On Friday Speaker Osborne and Senate President Stivers said they are considering how to implement the requirement of those testifying in front of committee to take an oath. This would be in an effort to cut down on what they call blatant lies and misinformation. They say the have the authority to do so right now. We have looked through the Kentucky Constitution and have found nothing about requiring and oath for those who testify; however, Section 39 does allow them to set up

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Kentucky Liberty Review

Jan 20, 2020
1 min

Elections

Eliminate the Straight Party Ticket

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

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Kentucky Liberty Review

Jan 20, 2020
1 min

Blog

Good Open Records Bill

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

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Kentucky Liberty Review

Jan 20, 2020
12 min

Elections

Unpacking SB2: Voter ID

Main Highlights Voter ID legislation has been introduced with Senate Bill 2. This Voter ID will be REAL ID compliant. However, it still allows for credit cards or other forms of ID the State Board of Elections currently allows. Senate Bill 2 allows for provisional ballots if a voter does not have preferred ID to cast a vote. The voter can return by the end of the week to the County Clerks office and provide the any ID to have their vote counted. Its unclear in the bill as th

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Kentucky Liberty Review

Jan 18, 2020
3 min

Blog

Bill Pushes Drivers to Hands Free

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

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Kentucky Liberty Review

Jan 18, 2020
2 min

Justice

Papers Please!

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

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Kentucky Liberty Review

Jan 14, 2020
3 min

Blog

Got Milk?

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

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Kentucky Liberty Review

Jan 12, 2020
1 min

Blog

CBD Employment Protection

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

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Kentucky Liberty Review

Jan 11, 2020
2 min

Justice

Another Bad Alvarado "Tort Reform" Bill

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

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Kentucky Liberty Review

Jan 11, 2020
3 min

Elections

A Bill to Remove the Lt. Gov

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

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Kentucky Liberty Review

Jan 11, 2020
2 min

Elections

Increasing Election Terms

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

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Increasing Local Control Over Your Taxes.

Kentucky Liberty Review

Jan 9, 2020
1 min

Taxes, Debt, & Spending

Increasing Local Control Over Your Taxes.

UPDATE: Good News this has passed the Senate and as moved to the House, it has not yet been assigned a committee. We have what we think is a fairly good bill to report to you. SB 5 by Senator Alvarado (R) would set forth a local mandate that would require special purpose government entities to seek local approval before they increase local taxes and fees to pay for whatever the entity was created for to provide to the public. We think this is a positive step in the right dire

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Kentucky Liberty Review

Jan 8, 2020
2 min

Elections

Don't Nationalize Kentucky's Elections

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

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Kentucky Liberty Review

Jan 8, 2020
2 min

Elections

Voter ID (F)Laws?

Today in a press conference Senator Mills (R) and Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams (R) unveiled SB 2, an attempt to further strengthen Kentucky's Voter ID Requirement. We here at KLR are greatly concerned with voter fraud, and we do think something needs to be done. We certainly hope that can happen; however, this process needs to be well thought out and implemented correctly. We have not had a chance to read through this bill entirely but we hope to get an analysis

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Should Law Enforcement Officers have Immunity for Reckless Driving.

Kentucky Liberty Review

Jan 5, 2020
2 min

Justice

Should Law Enforcement Officers have Immunity for Reckless Driving.

Representative Blanton (R), who is a retired Major in the KSP has introduced BR 370 that appears to give law enforcement officers "complete immunity from civil liability for a law enforcement officer's operation of a vehicle when responding to an emergency or pursuing a suspect." This is a relatively short bill so we will post the entire text of it at the end. First and foremost we are not here to bash law enforcement, they provide a valuable service to our communities that o

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