Sylvia Goodman

After the Trump administration gave notice to Kentucky’s health department this week they were cancelling nearly $150 million in grants, Beshear said he would fight to maintain funding.

Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear has vetoed legislation that would overrule his executive order limiting conversion therapy on minors in the state.

As the Trump administration begins hollowing out the U.S. Department of Education, teachers rallied for the agency that distributes hundreds of millions in funds to Kentucky schools.

As midnight and the governor’s veto period approached Friday night, the Kentucky General Assembly pushed through several highly controversial bills, including one that cuts gender-affirming hormone treatments from Medicaid.

Incarcerated Kentuckians would be housed according to their “original biological sex” under a floor amendment attached to an unrelated bill Friday.

Advocates say police would have wide discretion to deny the public access to open investigation records under legislation that barely passed through a Senate committee Thursday.

Kentucky’s worker safety authority would no longer be able to enforce any rules that are more strict than federal minimums under the bill. What supporters call business friendly, one Democrat described as a “race to the bottom.”

A bill to ban diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives at public colleges and universities passed out of the Senate Wednesday. It’s likely to head to the governor’s desk once the House concurs.

Incarcerated transgender people would no longer be able to access hormone therapy under a bill that passed a House committee vote Wednesday.

An opponent of a bill to eliminate DEI in higher education has filed a complaint over a committee hearing they say violated open meetings laws, but Republican leadership says it won’t hamper the bill’s progress.

A bill passed a House committee Tuesday to create a new state emergency fund to aid Kentuckians who suffered in the recent severe storms and flooding in February.

Kentucky’s House Bill 4 would require all diversity, equity and inclusion offices close and programs end by this summer. A full Senate vote is the only thing standing between the bill and the governor’s desk.

Last year, the General Assembly created a task force to study the governance of Jefferson County Public Schools. After it called for another year of study, the legislature is considering expanding the group to study all Kentucky schools.

The age at which Kentuckians would be allowed to conceal carry firearms could drop from 21 to 18-years-old under Senate Bill 75. It passed a committee vote Thursday, but Democrats and a couple Republicans withheld support.

Citing a recent federal Supreme Court ruling, a state House committee passed a bill saying courts should not automatically defer to administrative agencies when interpreting ambiguities in the law.