Kentucky General Assembly

Government contractors, health-related groups and the medical marijuana industry were among hundreds of organizations that spent $9.1 million lobbying Kentucky’s executive branch agencies on policy in the fiscal year ending this summer.

Dozens of Kentucky laws passed earlier this year will take effect last Friday. Here’s a look at 14 of them.

The advocacy group for Kentucky businesses spent more than $150,000 to lobby the state legislature in the three-month session, paying 14 lobbyists.

Most bills the Kentucky General passed into law this year will go into effect 90 days after the end of the session, but 27 of them have “emergency clauses” attached.

A controversial bill that would significantly roll back Kentucky’s ability to regulate water pollution will become law after the GOP-controlled legislature on Thursday overrode its veto by Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear.

The Kentucky General Assembly passed bills making major changes to Medicaid, pollution regulations and worker safety rules, but Beshear says he cannot implement them without specific appropriations.

Kentucky’s GOP-controlled legislature quickly voted to override nearly all of Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear’s vetoes on 29 bills and resolutions.

Gov. Andy Beshear is letting a bill that would take 67 transgender inmates off hormone therapy and block public funds for inmates’ elective medical treatments become law — without his signature.

The Kentucky General Assembly's Republican supermajority sped more than 100 bills to passage ahead of the governor’s veto period. Some of the most contentious measures were heavily amended before the public could give their input, or even read them.

Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear on Monday vetoed Republican legislation that he said would make workplaces in Kentucky more dangerous and several bills that he said were unconstitutional.