SB 3 redraws Kentucky's Congressional districts for the next ten years in ways that protect incumbents and don't put communities together in a way that allows constituencies of people with similar interests to organize and advance

HB 14 would prohibit classroom discussion of race, sex, or religion and establishes a $5,000 / day fine for violations.

HB 63 would require school boards to install armed gunmen in all Kentucky schools by August 2022.

HB 461 is similar to HB 63, but sets the timeline to July 2025 and allows them to be armed with tasers or guns.

SB 20 would require legal challenges to redistricting to be filed in the district court where the plaintiff lives (rather than in Frankfort where the law was passed).

HB 253 and SB 84 would prevent trans youth from receiving gender affiriming health care and prevent health care professionals from providing gender affirming he

HB 303 would prevent attorneys fees from being rewarded in an action challenging the constitutionality of any legislative district. This would make it more financially challenging for citizens to fight for fair redistricting in the courts.

HB1 is the House's budget. It doesn't spend enough money, especially on things we deserve and need, and the *most important part* is that there are over 2.1 billion dollars unappropriated in this budget that they are planning to use for tax cuts to the rich. What we think we know at this point because of what they've said publicly, is that they'll use this money to begin the "march to zero" income taxes. We expect that in addition to this there will be additional tax cuts for rich folks and sales taxes may be added and/or increased as well. 

HB 313 and SB 313 would outlaw the advocacy practices of nonprofits like The Bail Project which include raising money and paying bail for Kentuckians incarcerated prior to trial.

SB 120 would allow local boards of education to establish police departments for local school districts.

SB 118 pushes the state to take over the process of granting Clean Water Act 404 permits to coal companies from the EPA; and to "streamline" the process.

HB 318 would require a court referral for truancy cases when there is no improvement within 30 days; require a court-designated worker to make a finding if diversion is failed due to lack of parental cooperation; allow a court to refer cases back to the court-designated worker and order parental cooperation; amend KRS 610.265 to require children charged with serious felony offenses to be detained pending a detention hearing; amend KRS 610.340 to provide that confidentiality does not apply to cases in which a child has admitted to or been adjudicated for a violent felony offense; amend KRS 635.060 to require a juvenile's probationary period to remain open until any violations are resolved, if a violation is pending at the time of completion.

HB 3 is a sweeping anti-abortion bill. It adds numerous extreme regulations and restrictions on preganant people, doctors, pharmacies, and other services. It goes furthest in restricting access to abortions for people under the age of 18 and college students. It also bans receiving abortion medication by mail or shipment and places more restrictions on anyone using medication to end a pregnancy - a practice which accounts for half of all abortions in Kentucky.

HB 487 is a sweeping bill criminalizing teaching bigotry, revisionist history, or "critical social justice" in all schools, including universities and colleges, estabilishing fines for violation.

HB 706 is similar to above, but would instead allow school employees to sue on the basis of a hostile work environment.

HB 51 would eliminate the ability for any school or daycare to mandate masking of staff and students.

SB 194 would give individual tax filers from 2020 a $500 rebate and joint filers would receive a $1,000 rebate — unless those individuals paid less than that amount in state taxes. This is a regressive measure that would have little impact on low-income Kentuckians.

HB 379 would establish tax breaks for businesses like Facebook or Google to build data centers in Kentucky.

Read an article about this bill here.

HB 8 begins the process of phasing out Kentucky's income tax and replacing it with a sales tax on a few services. This would devestate our state budget, gutting funding for public education, health care, and other vital state functions. Read an analysis of this bill from our allies at the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy here.

HB 7 implements several harsh measures making it harder to get and keep food assistance through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and medical assistance through Medicaid. Together, these changes would lead to tens of thousands of Kentuckians losing vital assistance with groceries, medicine and doctors’ bills — largely by tripping them up with added paperwork requirements.

You can find a deeper analysis of this bill by our allies at the Kentucky Center for Economic Policy here.