Lindsey Tichenor

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 Senate voted 32-6, 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 89. It narrows which waters Kentucky's environmental protection law covers, replacing a list that took in essentially all surface and underground water with four categories: waters covered by federal law, sinkholes with open drains, certain springs, and the protected areas around public water-supply wells. It also makes coal operators post extra money, twenty-five times the yearly cost, when the state finds a mine will need water treatment long after mining ends. The Kentucky Senate voted 29-8, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

March 27, 2025Opposes 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 Senate voted 31-6, and the bill became law without the Governor's signature.

March 12, 2025Opposes Environment and Public Health

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Voted for Senate Bill 219. It raises the most a customer may owe on payday loans at one time from $500 to $600, and has the state adjust that limit every year for inflation up to a ceiling of $850. It also lets a payday lender keep collecting on a loan the state database shows as closed when the customer's payment bounced, even after the usual deadlines have passed. The Kentucky Senate voted 32-6, and the bill became law without the Governor's signature.

March 31, 2026Opposes Reduce Wealth Gap

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Voted for House Bill 398. It bars Kentucky officials from adopting or enforcing any workplace safety rule that is stricter than the federal rule, or that covers something the federal government has not addressed. The cabinet may still set rules for public employees, who are not covered by federal law. It also gives workers only 30 days to bring a retaliation claim, ends the state's power to reinstate a fired worker while the case is decided, and pauses an employer's duty to fix a hazard during an appeal. The Kentucky Senate voted 29-9, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

March 27, 2025Opposes Labor Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 9, as the Senate passed it. It would require every school district to set up a policy giving teachers and school staff who give birth up to 30 days of paid maternity leave. It also shifts the retirement cost of sick leave earned above a set yearly limit from the state to local school districts. The Kentucky Senate voted 31-7, and the Governor signed the bill into law.

March 5, 2025Supports 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 Senate voted 30-7, 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 Senate voted 32-6, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

March 27, 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 Senate voted 32-6, 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. A legislative oversight board reviews the plans each year and may recommend changes. A separate panel, the Interim Joint Committee on Health Services, may declare a plan deficient, after which the Governor has 30 days to say whether it will be changed. The Kentucky Senate voted 32-6, 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 Senate voted 32-6, 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 Senate voted 32-6, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

March 27, 2025Supports Government Efficiency

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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 Senate voted 29-8, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

March 27, 2025Supports Government Spending Reduction

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Voted for Senate Bill 291. It requires every scrap metal recycler in Kentucky to hold a license from the Motor Vehicle Commission for each location, renewed every year. It also requires recyclers to enter every metals transaction into the LeadsOnline database and keep a register, and treats an intentional failure to do so as evidence that the recycler knew the metal was stolen. The Kentucky Senate voted 32-6, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

April 14, 2026Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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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 Senate voted 32-6, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

March 27, 2025Supports Public Safety and Crime Control

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Voted for Senate Bill 9, as the Senate passed it. It would require every school district to set up a policy giving teachers and school staff who give birth up to 30 days of paid maternity leave. It also shifts the retirement cost of sick leave earned above a set yearly limit from the state to local school districts. The Kentucky Senate voted 31-7, and the Governor signed the bill into law.

March 5, 2025Supports Social Programs and Welfare

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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 Senate voted 32-6, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

April 14, 2026Opposes Public Education Quality

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Voted for House Bill 78. It bars most lawsuits in Kentucky against makers and sellers of firearms, ammunition and firearm accessories, and their trade groups, over harm caused by someone who used the product criminally, and it overrides local laws that impose such liability. 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. A company or trade group sued anyway may turn around and sue the person who filed the claim, and that person's lawyer, for damages and legal costs. The Kentucky Senate voted 31-6, 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 Senate voted 28-9, 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 Senate voted 31-7, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

April 14, 2026Supports Election Integrity

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Voted for House Bill 45. It bars foreign nationals from giving money to, or spending money on, campaigns for and against Kentucky ballot questions, and from directing anyone else's spending on them. Committees must certify that donors are not foreign nationals and have not taken more than $100,000 in total from foreign nationals in the past four years, and the state registry may sue to enforce the ban and claw the money back. The Kentucky Senate voted 29-6, and the Governor signed the bill into law.

March 11, 2025Supports Election Integrity

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Voted for House Bill 189. It makes it illegal to sit, kneel, lie down, stand, or stay still anywhere on a state road right-of-way that is not marked for people on foot, including shoulders, medians, ramps, and the grass beside them. Medical and vehicle emergencies, emergency and utility workers, and marked sidewalks, crosswalks, and transit stops are exempt, and a city or county may pass an ordinance allowing limited exceptions. The Kentucky Senate voted 31-6, and the bill became law without the Governor's signature.

March 24, 2026Opposes Civil Rights

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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 Senate voted 31-6, 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 Senate voted 31-7, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

March 27, 2025Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted for House Joint Resolution 15. It orders the state commission in charge of historic properties to return a granite Ten Commandments monument to permanent display on the grounds of the Kentucky Capitol. The Fraternal Order of Eagles gave the monument to the state in 1971. The Kentucky Senate voted 32-6, and the resolution became law without the Governor's signature.

March 13, 2025Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted to pass 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 Senate voted 32-6, and the bill later became law over the Governor's veto.

March 12, 2025Opposes Civil Rights

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Voted for Senate Bill 2. It bars any public money in Kentucky from paying for cosmetic or elective procedures for people held in correctional facilities, and defines those to include cross-sex hormones above normal levels and gender reassignment surgery. A doctor who has already started such treatment may taper it off if stopping at once would harm the person. The Kentucky Senate voted 31-6, and the bill became law without the Governor's signature.

February 18, 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 Senate voted 30-6, 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 warn clients that its advice is not solely in shareholders' interest, while advice matching the board needs neither step. The Kentucky Senate voted 31-6, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

March 31, 2026Opposes Corporate Accountability

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Voted for House Bill 398. It bars Kentucky officials from adopting or enforcing any workplace safety rule that is stricter than the federal rule, or that covers something the federal government has not addressed. The cabinet may still set rules for public employees, who are not covered by federal law. It also gives workers only 30 days to bring a retaliation claim, ends the state's power to reinstate a fired worker while the case is decided, and pauses an employer's duty to fix a hazard during an appeal. The Kentucky Senate voted 29-9, 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. A firm that votes the way a company's own board recommends needs no analysis, while a firm that votes against the board must first write a six-part study. The Kentucky Senate voted 31-7, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

March 27, 2025Opposes Corporate Accountability

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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 Senate voted 32-6, 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 Senate voted 31-7, 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 Senate voted 32-6, 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 Senate voted 30-8, 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 Senate voted 32-6, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

April 14, 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 Senate voted 32-6, and the bill became law without the Governor's signature.

March 31, 2026

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Voted for House Bill 398. It confirms that the Public Service Commission may let a utility start charging customers for a power plant's shutdown, removal, and salvage costs before the commission has approved retiring the plant, spread over the plant's remaining useful life. It also says approving those charges does not count as approving or supporting the plant's retirement. The Kentucky Senate voted 30-6, and the bill became law without the Governor's signature.

March 26, 2026

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Voted for Senate Bill 101. It requires a school board to expel a student in grades 6 through 12 for at least 12 months for intentionally injuring or trying to injure a school employee, or for recklessly injuring one with a weapon or dangerous object. The expelled student is taught in an off-site program with no transportation provided and no school activities, and may ask to return after 26 weeks. The Kentucky Senate voted 32-6, and the Governor signed the bill into law.

March 26, 2026

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Voted against 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 Senate voted 29-7, and the Governor signed the bill into law.

March 28, 2025

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Voted for Senate Bill 28. It creates a new state program in the Department of Agriculture that gives grants, forgivable loans, and low-interest loans to farm and agribusiness projects. A six-member board picked by the elected Commissioner of Agriculture decides the awards, must report each award to lawmakers every year, and can take back money if a company breaks its agreement. The Kentucky Senate voted 32-6, 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 Senate voted 29-9, 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, drops the certificate-of-need permission slip for centers with no more than four beds, and bars abortions in 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 Senate voted 31-7, 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 Senate voted 29-7, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

March 27, 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 Senate voted 30-6, and the bill later became law over the Governor's veto.

March 14, 2025

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Voted for House Bill 241. It lets school districts make up storm days by adding time to school days and lets the state waive up to five missed days. It also caps how many out-of-district students may enroll statewide in public online school programs at one percent of all Kentucky students, and ends new out-of-district enrollment after June 30, 2028. The Kentucky Senate voted 31-6, and the bill became law without the Governor's signature.

March 13, 2025

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Voted against 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 Senate voted 29-9, and the bill became law without the Governor's signature.

March 31, 2026

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Voted against Senate Bill 199. It says a pesticide label approved by the federal Environmental Protection Agency counts as a sufficient warning under Kentucky law. A company that follows that label cannot be sued in state court for failing to warn about the product's health risks, unless the EPA finds the maker hid or misstated health information to get the label approved. The Kentucky Senate voted 24-12, and the bill became law over the Governor's veto.

March 31, 2026

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Voted against 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 Senate voted 24-8, and the bill became law without the Governor's signature.

March 27, 2026

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Voted against Senate Bill 137. It lets a doctor licensed in another country get a provisional Kentucky medical license if an employer in a medically underserved area hires them, they completed a residency, and they worked as a physician there for at least five years. The provisional license becomes a regular license after three years with that employer. The Kentucky Senate voted 30-7, and the Governor signed the bill into law.

March 5, 2026

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Voted against 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 Senate voted 25-12, and the bill became law without the Governor's signature.

March 14, 2025

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Voted against 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 Senate voted 22-13, and the Governor signed the bill into law.

March 13, 2025

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Voted against Senate Bill 100. It requires every Kentucky store that sells tobacco, nicotine or vaping products to hold a state license costing five hundred dollars a year, and lets the state take that license away after a fourth citation for selling to someone under 21. It also bars stores from selling canisters of nitrous oxide, sometimes called laughing gas, with exceptions for medical, dental, industrial, food and automotive uses. The Kentucky Senate voted 32-6, and the bill became law.

March 13, 2025

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