Government

If passed, the legislation would reduce the average monthly food assistance benefit by about $100 for 544,000 Kentuckians.

In an article from our partners at The Conversation, a political communication scholar breaks down Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy address on Wednesday to a joint session of the U.S. Congress.

Among the provisions, the bill would eliminate what’s known as “broad-based categorical eligibility” which is what allows cabinet officials to qualify Kentuckians for SNAP benefits automatically if they qualify for other forms of public assistance, such as Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF). Forty-four states including Kentucky implement broad-based categorical eligibility.

One analyst noted that when Richard Nixon decreed year-round daylight time in 1973, Americans said they liked it the idea, but changed their minds when it took effect.

The Old Capitol building is the third of four buildings that have housed the Kentucky legislature since 1792. Now a museum, it is operated by the Kentucky Historical Society.

Bills moving through the General Assembly include legislation that would ban public entities from asking amployees and applicants about their vaccination status, as well as a proposal to give a religious exemption if an employer requires workers to be immunized against any disease.

The legislation would give county fiscal courts some increased power in library board appointments.

A bill that would allow doctors to prescribe cannabis was approved Thursday by a state House committee — in part because of new support from Sen. Whitney Westerfield of Crofton.

The bill includes no exemptions for complicated pregnancies or cases or rape or incest. It passed out of the Senate Judiciary Committee with a vote of 8-2 and will now be considered by the full Senate.

It codifies into federal law a minimum of six-day delivery for letters and packages, a key element for rural advocates.

A bill prohibiting schools from enforcing masking, testing or vaccination requirements passed the state House on Tuesday.

Both chambers proposed raises for state workers but not for teachers. Republican leaders say those decisions should be left up to local school districts.