Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear recently took executive action to prohibit the use of TikTok on executive branch devices. The bill would place the ban into state law. TikTok has become a globally popular domain, known as a platform of choice for catchy videos. But there’s long been bipartisan ...
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The Kentucky state Senate has passed a bill to make possessing a "child sex doll" illegal. The Courier Journal reports Senate Bill 102 would prohibit owning anatomically correct dolls or robots that resemble minors and are mea
Reports on a bill passed by senate, exempting broadband service from state administrative regulation, in Kentucky. Lack of regulation by Public Service Commission (PSC) for cable and wireless companies offering broadband services, but jurisdiction held for telephone companies; Removal of "municipal ...
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Sen. Mitch McConnell secured a victory from his home state legislature on Monday when Republican lawmakers stripped Kentucky's Democratic governor of his independent power to temporarily fill a U.S. Senate seat should a vacancy occ
(AP) — Kentucky lawmakers heard the beating heart of a woman’s unborn baby Thursday as they advanced a bill that would ban most abortions in the state once a fetal heartbeat is detected. The state Senate voted 31-6 to pass the measure, continuing an aggressive push to restrict abortion...
Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., called the appropriations work “a shining example of how things should work in Washington.” Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky has been supportive as well, saying Murray and Collins “have taken u...
The Kentucky Republican, who turned 82 last week, announced his decision on the Senate floor on Wednesday. Feb 28, 2024 Survivors of recent mass shootings revive calls for federal assault weapons ban The Go Safe Act would effectively ban some semi-automatic firearms and large-capacity magazines....
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Kentucky Finally Passes a Pension Reform Bill targeting quasi-governmental agencies gets state Senate OK, and Gov. Matt Bevin, its author, signs shortly after. NewsmakersJanuary 8, 2019 PBGC Director Nominee Gets Kicked Back to Trump Clock runs out on controversial nod for brother-in-law of Mitc...
The Republican-dominated Kentucky House has voted to remove any role for the state’s Democratic governor in deciding who would occupy a U.S.