HB 574 is a 145 Page Election Bill that passed the Kentucky House last Friday 93-4. From what we understand this is the brainchild of Michael Adams (McConnell Ally) who acquiesced to Governor Beshear on every election issue (fortunately Kentucky was not a swing state this year). We will be honest we don't know what is in it, but all the Democrats in the House voted for it and two very staunch liberty activists in the House did not, Rep. Rabourn and Rep. Maddox. If they have a

Gambling has been a complicated issue in Kentucky due to a constitutional restriction against it; however, some say that our current interpretations of that may be wrong. Either way the Kentucky Horse Industry had been operating what they call Historical Horse Racing (slot machines). This past year the Kentucky Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional. So, some in the state legislature decided to pass a bill (SB 120) to make the definition of the slot machines legal by changin

Senator Higdon (R) has introduced SB 63 to require that voting machines not be connected to the internet. It was uncovered during the 2020 election that voting machines across the country were connected to the internet in violation of Federal Election law. Having voting machines connected to the internet allow for them to be manipulated or hacked to change the outcome of an election. Call 1-800-372-7181 and tell your Senator and all Senate Leadership to pass SB 63 to protect

Its time to admit there is no more emergency regarding COVID-19. We lived under the premise of 15 days to flatten the curve into almost a year of masks and lockdowns, economic turmoil and rights infringement. Many of us would like to get back to normal, but right now we are dealing with a chronic "new normal." We know what this virus is, it's dangerous to a certain segment of society and we must practice caution with them, but for most of that get it we face a 99% survival ra

Biden is already trying to force us into a "Green" Economy and wrecking the energy industry by nixing the Keystone Pipeline. Biden's initiatives will send gas prices up in the middle of a pandemic, that along with government action has killed our economy. Now a tone deaf Republican Representative Jim DuPlessis has introduced the Gas Tax in HB 508. This guy had the grassroots campaign for him and then promptly did an about face and aligned himself with the Establishment ever s

Currently under KRS 214 the Health Department can mandate vaccines in a pandemic for any reason without exception. Under non-pandemic conditions the only exemptions people have are medical and religious, and during a pandemic those exemptions disappear. With SB 8 those exemptions would be put into place as well as adding conscientious (philosophical) objections to a vaccine except for children enrolled in public schools, they still have only the two existing exemptions of med

Recently there have been two gun related bills filed in the State Senate, both are by Republicans, one is good and one is bad. First the bad news: Senator Paul Hornback has sponsored SB 229 which is a Red Flag Gun Legislation. Essentially what this type of legislation would do is create a process for taking guns away from people deemed mentally unsound. We are not going to reinvent the wheel on explaining this issue, as this concept came up last year as well, so you can revie

Senator Adrienne Southworth (R) has introduced SB 158 ending the statewide mask mandate in Kentucky that Governor Beshear has issued. Did you know that even if the pandemic over COVID-19 was declared over in Kentucky by either Governor Beshear or through legislative action (which they can do as he signed a bill last year allowing them to make that decision if he does not end it himself by the time he came back) the mask mandate could last another 9 months? The reason it could

HB 1 is the bill that allows for the State to Reopen business/schools, and SB 1 added some reforms to the Governor's Emergency Powers. He vetoed both of them on 1/19/2021. The Legislature overturned his vetoes on 2/2/2021. The Governor the filed a temporary injunction against HB 1 in Franklin County Circuit Court with Judge Shepherd, a highly liberal judge that the majority of the time sides with Democrat politicians. This injunction and ruling was filed and granted on 2/3/20

House Bill 1 pertains to reopening the economy in 2021, it is a temporary band-aid on the current situation which the legislature will revisit next session. Here are the basics of what it does. We fully expect the Governor to veto HB 1, and the General Assembly will have to overturn his veto. It allows a business, nonprofit, or school to reopen (including in-person services) as long as it has a plan for doing so per the CDC or Executive Branch (Governor), whichever is least r

Last year the General Assembly waited until the last minute to pass SB 9 and gave the Governor the opportunity to veto the Born Alive Act (same bill number this year). The Born Alive Act requires life saving measures to be given to a baby who survives an abortion. The Kentucky General Assembly has quickly passed it in both chambers at the beginning of the session this year. Now the bill is waiting on the Governor's signature. We believe he will likely veto SB 9 again this ye

The first week and a half of the Session has come to a close as they were in session from January 5th though January 13th. So, now it’s time to take a look at what they have passed. First up is our laymen’s breakdown of Senate Bill 1, the Senate’s version of Emergency Powers Reform. We are not going to hit every single piece of this legislation just the highlights. We agree that most of the bill is good, are there parts we would like to have improved, but this is a start. Ho

Representative Mark Hart has filed BR 234 which would allow small business the ability to seek damages against the state as a result of an executive order related to emergency orders. Here is what the bill description says it would do. Create a new section of KRS Chapter 39A to define "emergency order" and "small business"; to allow a small business owner adversely effected by an emergency order to bring an action against the Commonwealth for lost income, loss of going concer