A sweeping housing bill stalled in the final hours of Kentucky’s legislative session, as disputes over short-term rental regulations derailed efforts to address the state’s growing affordability crisis.
Kentucky lawmakers wrapped up a frenetic late-night session Wednesday by passing the state’s two-year budget, advancing dozens of bills and sending a slate of high-profile measures to Gov. Andy Beshear while leaving some contentious proposals unresolved.
Kentucky lawmakers approved a $31 billion state budget after heated partisan clashes over education, health care and spending priorities, with Republicans defending fiscal restraint and Democrats warning of harmful cuts.
The Pennyrile Regional Energy Agency, headed by former Pennyrile Electric CEO Eston Glover, is trying to build a 53-mile natural gas pipeline stretching across Todd, Christian, Trigg, Caldwell and Lyon counties.
Lawmakers in the Republican supermajority continue negotiations to hammer out their differences and determine which bills will move forward and which will have to wait until next year.
The measure was unveiled in a special-called meeting of the Senate Appropriations and Revenue Committee Wednesday afternoon and attached to a “shell bill” that already had two readings, making it ready for a final reading and a vote by the full Senate.
The impeachment petition against Justice Pamela Goodwine stemmed from a Supreme Court decision in December to overturn a 2022 law aimed at shifting power from the board to the superintendent of Jefferson County Public Schools, the state’s largest district.
