If you'd rather watch a brief video recap of Week 3, click here. Remember to track my votes each day throughout the session by returning to my Record! After observing Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday, the Legislature went back to work.
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Legislative Updates
The 2014 Regular Session has begun, and I have filed a couple of the more important pieces of legislation I'm focused on. As I've been writing and talking about for several months, juvenile code reform is at/near the top of the list but that bill is rather large and is still undergoing edits with stakeholder input.
This was a busy week in Frankfort! The most high-profile meeting was this month’s Interim Joint Committee on Natural Resources and Environment which even had an over-flow room. The topic was discussion of the Bluegrass Pipeline (pictured below) with representatives from the company itself
Every 10 years after each national census, Kentucky’s Constitution requires the State Legislature to realign our voting districts according to population. The Governor called the Legislature back into Special Session to accomplish just this.
As Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, I am pleased to write to you about a potential partnership between Kentucky and the PEW Charitable Trusts on juvenile justice reform.