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Voted for House Bill 627. It caps what an auto insurer pays for a crash victim's medical care at the workers' compensation fee schedule and bars providers from billing the patient for the difference or hurting the patient's credit over it. It also raises the weekly payment for lost work and other losses from $200 to $500 and lets the Attorney General prosecute insurance fraud. The Kentucky House voted 75-14, and the bill became law without the Governor's signature.

March 31, 2026Supports Healthcare Affordability

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Voted for House Bill 387. It says a Kentucky veterinarian who prescribes, gives, or dispenses controlled substances to animals does not have to report any of it to the state's drug monitoring system or to any government body except the Board of Veterinary Examiners. It also drops an emergency medicine physician and an acute care nurse from the Controlled Substances Prescribing Council and adds two veterinarians in their place. The Kentucky House voted 83-16, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

April 14, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 77. It creates a state fund and lets Kentucky's Department of Agriculture partner with a drug company to run clinical trials of ibogaine, a plant compound being studied as a treatment for opioid addiction. The company must match the state's money, run the trials in Kentucky, plan for access for uninsured and low-income patients, and share with the state any money the research earns. The Kentucky House voted 77-18, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

April 14, 2026Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 29. It bars a Kentucky county or waste district from charging a fee or requiring a permit from a landfill in another county that handles waste generated in it, unless a franchise agreement says otherwise. It also takes certain industrial waste sites owned by the company that produced the waste, and expansions of them, out of the rules for municipal solid waste facilities. The Kentucky House voted 70-19, and the Governor signed the bill into law.

March 26, 2026Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 202. It puts drinks containing intoxicating hemp cannabinoids under the state alcohol control department, limits them to 5 milligrams per 12-ounce serving, and bars anyone under 21 from buying or drinking them. The drinks may be sold only by licensed package liquor stores, and only in areas where alcohol sales are allowed. The Kentucky House voted 77-17, and the Governor signed the bill into law.

March 12, 2025Supports Environment and Public Health

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Voted for House Bill 137. It says an air pollution enforcement action in Kentucky may rest only on data gathered by a method the federal Environmental Protection Agency has approved or accepts for enforcement. Data collected any other way cannot be used or even considered, including in a case brought by a private citizen. The Kentucky House voted 73-16, and the bill became law without the Governor's signature.

February 19, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for House Bill 398. It bars Kentucky officials from adopting or enforcing any private-sector workplace safety rule that is stricter than the federal rule, or that covers something the federal government has not addressed. The state keeps its power to set safety rules for public employees, whom federal law does not cover. It also gives workers only 30 days to bring a retaliation claim, ends the state's power to put a fired worker back on the job while the case is decided, and pauses an employer's duty to fix a hazard during an appeal. The Kentucky House voted 78-22, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

March 27, 2025Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 251. It lets Kentucky's Department of Corrections set the rules and procedures for carrying out the death penalty by internal policy, instead of through the public regulation process that requires notice, public comment and legislative review. Any such policy must be posted on the department's website. The Kentucky House voted 74-16, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

April 14, 2026Opposes Anti-Corruption

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Voted for House Bill 216. Kentucky's ethics law bars a public servant from holding or bidding on a contract awarded by the agency that employs them. This Act exempts Department of Agriculture employees who work outside the Kentucky Office of Agricultural Policy, so they may apply for and receive farm funds, awards and contracts the department hands out, and it makes the exemption retroactive to March 12, 2021. The Kentucky House voted 79-15, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

March 27, 2025Opposes Anti-Corruption

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Voted for House Bill 520. It lowers the bar Kentucky police and other investigating agencies must clear to refuse a public records request. An agency once had to show that releasing a record would harm it; now it need only show a stated risk of harm to itself or to its investigation, and it may also withhold records to protect witnesses, not just informants. The Kentucky House voted 78-21, and the bill became law without the Governor's signature.

March 4, 2025Opposes Anti-Corruption

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Voted for Senate Bill 65. It cancels several state rules that lawmakers found deficient during the session and bars the agencies from writing the same rules again until June 1, 2027. The rules cover the Medicaid outpatient pharmacy program, tobacco and vapor product licenses, online insurance verification, controlled substance monitoring, and services for relative and kinship caregivers. The Kentucky House voted 79-19, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

April 14, 2026Supports Government Efficiency

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Voted for Senate Bill 173. It requires Kentucky's Medicaid agency to post its Medicaid and children's health plans online and send the legislature every change it asks the federal government to approve, with an estimate of what each change costs. Two legislative panels must review the plans in public each year and may declare a plan deficient, after which the Governor has 30 days to say whether it will be changed. The Kentucky House voted 80-19, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

April 14, 2026Supports Government Efficiency

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Voted for Senate Bill 65. It cancels five proposed changes to Kentucky regulations that legislative committees had found deficient, covering community mental health services under Medicaid, coal mine bonding, and the conduct of credit unions. The agencies may not propose the same or nearly the same changes again until June 1, 2026. The Kentucky House voted 75-18, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

March 27, 2025Supports Government Efficiency

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Voted for House Bill 6. It bars Kentucky state agencies from issuing any new or amended regulation after March 31, 2025, unless the agency certifies that the rule falls into one of six exceptions, such as an emergency, a court order, or a cost under $500,000. For 25 named executive bodies, the Governor must certify the same thing as well, and a regulation filed without the certifications is void. The Kentucky House voted 80-20, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

March 27, 2025Supports Government Efficiency

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Voted for Senate Bill 84. It tells Kentucky courts to decide for themselves what a law or a regulation means when someone challenges a state agency's action, instead of deferring to the agency's own reading. Courts still may not second-guess an agency's findings of fact. The Kentucky House voted 74-18, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

March 27, 2025Supports Government Efficiency

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Voted for Senate Bill 324. It lets any unused part of Kentucky's $75 million yearly film tax credit cap carry forward into the next year for large film and entertainment productions. It also adds video games, music videos, and commercials to the productions that qualify, and raises the minimum a company must spend in Kentucky from $250,000 to $400,000. The Kentucky House voted 80-15, and the Governor signed the bill into law.

April 15, 2026Opposes Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for House Bill 694. Once Kentucky's fund for teacher retiree health insurance is fully funded, the law sends the employer money that had been paying for retiree health into the pension fund instead, to pay down what the pension still owes. It also raises the bar before the retirement board may recommend cutting what workers and employers pay in. The Kentucky House voted 67-27, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

March 27, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for House Bill 136. It requires Kentucky's Department of Corrections to report much more each year about people leaving prison, including how long they actually served for each offense and how people on supervision fare afterward. It also orders the department to buy a new prisoner phone and messaging contract by January 1, 2026. The Kentucky House voted 80-17, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

March 27, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for House Bill 490. It lets the governing board of a Kentucky public college or university remove a faculty member for financial reasons, which include low enrollment in a program or major and a mismatch between revenue and costs in a college, department, or program. Each board must publish its removal process by October 1, 2026, and give the faculty member 30 days' written notice and a hearing before the board. The Kentucky House voted 80-19, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

April 14, 2026Opposes Public Education Quality

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Voted for House Bill 1. It enrolls Kentucky in a new federal tax credit that rewards people who donate to organizations awarding elementary and secondary school scholarships. The Secretary of State identifies the organizations that qualify, reports Kentucky's choice to the United States Treasury each year, and covers the cost with fees on those organizations or private donations. The Kentucky House voted 77-14, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

March 16, 2026Opposes Public Education Quality

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Voted for House Bill 78. It bars most lawsuits in Kentucky against gun makers, gun sellers and their trade groups over harm caused by someone who used a firearm criminally. Narrow exceptions remain, such as a product defect, a broken contract, or a seller who handed a gun to a person likely to misuse it. It also lets a gun maker, seller or trade group sue anyone who brings a barred claim, and that person's lawyer, for damages, costs and legal fees. The Kentucky House voted 80-19, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

April 14, 2026Opposes Gun Control

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Voted for House Bill 312. It orders the Kentucky State Police to issue a new kind of concealed carry license to people aged 18, 19 and 20 who meet the same requirements adults must meet. The license is good statewide until the holder turns 21, and it can then be swapped for a standard license without repeating the firearms training. The Kentucky House voted 81-18, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

April 14, 2026Opposes Gun Control

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Voted for Senate Bill 59. It bars using state or local money, public buildings, public websites and public employees on the job to campaign for or against a question on the ballot. Fines start at $500 and rise to a misdemeanor charge for repeat offenses, though public workers may still speak out on their own time with their own resources. The Kentucky House voted 80-19, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

April 14, 2026Supports Election Integrity

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Voted for House Bill 455. It creates a Unit of Election Investigations and Security inside Kentucky's Attorney General's office to take complaints about election law, run its own investigations, issue subpoenas, and operate the voter fraud hotline. The unit must refer possible crimes to prosecutors and publish a yearly report listing each investigation, the law involved, the county, and where the case stands. The Kentucky House voted 71-17, and the Governor signed the bill into law.

March 14, 2025Supports Election Integrity

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Voted for House Bill 58. It makes using an automated license plate reader unlawful in Kentucky except for listed purposes, caps how long the pictures may be kept at 90 days, bars selling the data, and makes a violation a crime. Police must publish a written policy, audit the system every 90 days, and match the plate by eye before a stop, while insurers and lenders may still use the data in limited cases. The Kentucky House voted 70-19, and the Governor signed the bill into law.

March 31, 2026Supports Data Privacy

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Voted for House Bill 662. It lets a judge, or a member of a judge's immediate family, send a written request to any Kentucky government agency to take their personal details off public view, and the agency must remove them within 72 hours. Protected details include home address, phone numbers, date of birth, Social Security number, and the schools a judge's children attend. The Act also removes the requirement that health insurance denial and appeal letters give patients the name, signature or medical license number of the reviewing doctor, though treating providers still receive it. The Kentucky House voted 77-17, and the Governor signed the bill into law.

March 28, 2025Supports Data Privacy

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Voted for House Bill 495. It bars Kentucky's Medicaid program and its managed care companies from spending Medicaid money on cross-sex hormones above normal levels or on gender reassignment surgery. It also cancels the Governor's Executive Order 2024-632, which dealt with conversion therapy, and blocks any rule or order that is the same or nearly the same until January 1, 2028. The Kentucky House voted 78-20, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

March 27, 2025Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted for House Bill 4. It bars Kentucky's public colleges and universities from treating people differently based on religion, race, sex, color or national origin in hiring, admissions, scholarships, contracts and housing. It also bars them from spending any money, including private gifts and staff time, on a diversity, equity and inclusion office, officer, training or program, and orders existing ones closed. The Kentucky House voted 79-19, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

March 27, 2025Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted for House Bill 399. It creates two new crimes for disrupting the Kentucky General Assembly, running from a lower-level misdemeanor up to a felony for a third offense, and it lets police arrest rather than issue a citation. Legislators, their staff and legislative officers are written out of the definition of who can commit these crimes, and protest in the Capitol rotunda and outdoor grounds stays protected. The Kentucky House voted 69-28, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

March 27, 2025Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted for House Bill 355. It gives a person one year from the day an appraisal report is delivered to sue a licensed real property appraiser or appraisal company for damages, and five years for fraud or knowing misrepresentation. It also replaces the Real Estate Appraisers Board with an independent seven-member board, requires investigators to hold the same credential as the appraiser they investigate, and lets the board hand violations to prosecutors instead of filing its own case. The Kentucky House voted 79-15, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

April 14, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability

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Voted for Senate Bill 183. It sets rules for proxy advisers, the firms that tell investors how to vote the shares they own in public companies. An adviser that recommends voting against a company's board must first write an economic analysis or tell clients its advice is not solely in shareholders' interest, while advice matching the board needs neither step. Skipping the disclosure counts as a deceptive trade practice, and clients, the company, or its shareholders may sue. The Kentucky House voted 76-15, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

March 31, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability

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Voted for Senate Bill 195. Once a government accepts a finished road project, the Act presumes the contractor followed the plans and met its duty, and the contractor and designer cannot be sued for injury or death arising from that work except in narrow cases. It also presumes that a driver who was impaired, driving recklessly, or going at least 25 miles per hour over the limit substantially caused their own injuries. The Kentucky House voted 66-25, and the bill became law without the Governor's signature.

March 26, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability

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Voted for House Bill 398. It bars Kentucky officials from adopting or enforcing any private-sector workplace safety rule that is stricter than the federal rule, or that covers something the federal government has not addressed. The state keeps its power to set safety rules for public employees, whom federal law does not cover. It also gives workers only 30 days to bring a retaliation claim, ends the state's power to put a fired worker back on the job while the case is decided, and pauses an employer's duty to fix a hazard during an appeal. The Kentucky House voted 78-22, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

March 27, 2025Opposes Corporate Accountability

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Voted for Senate Bill 183. It sets rules for the firms Kentucky's public pension funds pay to vote the shares of stock those funds own. On a proposal put forward by shareholders, a firm that votes the way the company's board recommends needs no analysis, while a firm that votes against the board must first write a six-part economic study. The Kentucky House voted 72-17, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

March 27, 2025Opposes Corporate Accountability

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Voted for Senate Bill 66. It adds clonazepam, cyclobenzaprine, and fentanyl to the drugs that make driving illegal when any amount is found in a driver's blood. It also says refusing a blood test still suspends a license but cannot be used in court to prove impaired driving, and if police skip the required warnings, no refusal may be used against the driver or suspend the license at arraignment. The Kentucky House voted 79-15, and the Governor signed the bill into law.

April 15, 2026

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Voted for House Bill 139. It bars Kentucky from buying voting equipment that uses barcodes, QR codes, or other machine-only markings to record or count a vote, while letting counties keep the equipment they already have until they replace it. It also orders the courts to send the State Board of Elections a complete list of people with felony convictions, including those whose appeals are still pending, so ineligible names can be taken off the voter rolls. The Kentucky House voted 80-20, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

April 14, 2026

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Voted for Senate Bill 1. It applies state rules on school board and superintendent duties to any county school district in a county with a consolidated local government or at least 500,000 residents. It caps the superintendent's budget line transfers at $250,000 for all transfers in a quarter, rather than for each transfer, and requires a quarterly report to the board. The Kentucky House voted 79-20, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

April 14, 2026

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Voted for House Bill 10. In the 180 days before a Governor is sworn in, it requires the Attorney General to approve any state agency settlement of a lawsuit worth more than $1 million before the agency may sign it. It also shields a person from criminal charges and ethics penalties for wrongdoing around a change of administration if they give evidence that helps convict or sanction the official who directed it. The Kentucky House voted 79-19, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

April 14, 2026

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Voted for Senate Bill 4. It creates a leadership practicum that Kentucky principals must complete starting in the 2027-2028 school year, run by the Department of Education. It also defines a large school district, bars its board members from holding certain school jobs, and redraws the Jefferson County school board into five elected divisions drawn within 5 percent of equal population. The Kentucky House voted 78-19, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

April 14, 2026

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Voted for Senate Bill 100. It changes how Kentucky's Energy Planning and Inventory Commission, which reviews utility plans to retire power plants, is run: two of the five executive committee seats are now filled by the Attorney General rather than the Governor. Its executive director gains full authority to act with the board only advising, and information a utility marks confidential is closed to open records requests. The Kentucky House voted 79-18, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

April 14, 2026

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Voted for House Bill 677. It sets up Kentucky's permit system for storing carbon dioxide underground, including a state permit, fees, and proof that the operator can pay for the site's long-term care. It also lets the Energy and Environment Cabinet add the underground space of owners who will not agree into a storage project, once the operator has bargained with them in good faith. The Kentucky House voted 61-28, and the bill became law without the Governor's signature.

April 1, 2026

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Voted for Senate Bill 104. It creates the crime of impeding a first responder: after a spoken warning, knowingly coming or staying within 25 feet of one on duty with the intent to interfere, threaten, or harass. The first offense is a low-level misdemeanor, the second and third are higher misdemeanors, and every later offense is a felony. The Kentucky House voted 79-16, and the bill became law without the Governor's signature.

March 25, 2026

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Voted for House Bill 606. It lets two or more local governments in different counties join together to develop a site of at least 300 acres that is expected to create at least 500 jobs. The site can be turned into a taxing district run by an appointed board, which may levy a property tax of up to 10 cents per $100 of value and a wage tax of up to 3 percent, without the voter signatures normally required. The Kentucky House voted 82-17, and the Governor signed the bill into law.

March 28, 2025

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Voted for House Bill 664. It lets a police officer who is present in a highway work zone write a speeding ticket using a camera device when a worker is present and a driver is going more than 10 miles per hour over the limit. It also lowers from 16 to 15 the age at which a child charged with a motor vehicle offense is handled in adult District Court instead of juvenile court. The Kentucky House voted 76-20, and the Governor signed the bill into law.

March 28, 2025

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Voted for House Bill 2. It declares void any state notice saying that sales or use tax is owed on currency or bullion sold on or after August 1, 2024, and lets buyers sue the state, individually or as a class, for a refund. Winners may also collect interest, attorney's fees, and $1,000 for each day a notice stayed in force, paid out of the budget of the Finance Cabinet, the revenue department or the Governor's office. The Kentucky House voted 80-19, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

March 27, 2025

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Voted for House Bill 424. It adds failure to meet a college or university's performance and productivity requirements to the list of reasons a public college may remove a president or a faculty member, including one with tenure, and requires an evaluation at least every four years. It also lengthens the written notice a person must get before removal from 10 days to 30 days, and lets boards hand appointment and removal decisions to the president. The Kentucky House voted 80-20, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

March 27, 2025

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Voted for House Bill 90. It sets up state licensing for freestanding birth centers and lets one with no more than four beds open without the state 'certificate of need' permission, while barring abortions at those centers. It also rewrites Kentucky's abortion law, listing nine procedures a doctor may perform, such as treating an ectopic pregnancy or a miscarriage, while replacing the doctor's own best clinical judgment with a standard measured against what similarly trained doctors would advise. The Kentucky House voted 77-20, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

March 27, 2025

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Voted for House Bill 695. It bars Kentucky's health cabinet from changing who qualifies for Medicaid, or what Medicaid covers, without the legislature's approval first, and it creates a legislative board to oversee the program. It also orders the cabinet to ask the federal government to require work or similar activity of many adults on Medicaid, and to restore the treatment approval rules for behavioral health that existed on January 1, 2020. The Kentucky House voted 80-20, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

March 27, 2025

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Voted against House Bill 7, as the House passed it. It lets school districts put cameras on school bus stop arms and fine the owner of any vehicle that passes a stopped bus, with the money going to the school district. It also requires traffic coming the other way to stop for a school or church bus unless the road is split by a raised barrier or unpaved median. The Kentucky House voted 78-15, and the Governor signed the bill into law.

February 9, 2026

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