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Kentucky Senate proposes conditions for providing funds for the state's Office of Medical Cannabis

Mar. 18, 2024 18:50 PM EDT

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Language put in the main budget bill by the Kentucky Senate would set conditions to unlock funding to oversee the state's medical cannabis program, which is scheduled to take effect at the start of 2025. The two sentences inserted by senators came up for...

Republican senators reveal their version of Kentucky's next two-year budget

Mar. 13, 2024 16:53 PM EDT

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Kentucky Senate Republicans revealed their version of the state's next two-year budget Wednesday, proposing more funding for the main K-12 school funding formula and doubling the amount of performance-based funding that goes to public universities. The...

Kentucky Senate supports constitutional change to restrict end-of-term gubernatorial pardon powers

Feb. 21, 2024 18:21 PM EST

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — The GOP-dominated Kentucky Senate endorsed a proposed constitutional change Wednesday to limit a governor's end-of-term pardon powers, reflecting the outrage still burning over pardons granted by the state's last Republican governor on his way out of office in 2019. ...

US Supreme Court won't hear lawsuit tied to contentious 2014 Senate race in Mississippi

Feb. 20, 2024 17:09 PM EST

JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court said Tuesday that it will not consider a dispute over a lawsuit filed by the family of a Mississippi lawyer who took his own life after he was arrested and accused of providing information to people who snuck into a nursing home and photographed the...

Too many pardons? Kentucky lawmaker wants a limit after former governor gave over 600 on his way out

Feb. 14, 2024 16:13 PM EST

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A Republican lawmaker resumed his push Wednesday to limit a Kentucky governor's pardon powers, a fallout from the flurry of pardons granted by the state's last GOP governor that still spark outrage. The proposed constitutional change won quick approval from...

Effort to end odd-year elections for governor, other state offices wins Kentucky Senate approval

Jan. 17, 2024 19:05 PM EST

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A long-running effort to shift Kentucky's elections for governor and other statewide offices to coincide with presidential elections won approval in the state Senate on Wednesday. Now comes a much bigger test for supporters: whether they can muster enough votes to win House...

Lawmaker resumes push to end odd-year elections for governor and other statewide offices in Kentucky

Jan. 10, 2024 15:07 PM EST

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — A Kentucky lawmaker resumed his long-running effort to shift elections for governor and other statewide offices to coincide with presidential elections, winning approval from a Senate panel on Wednesday. Republican Sen. Chris McDaniel says Kentucky's...