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Gov. Andy Beshear delivered the State of the Commonwealth address inside the State Capitol in Frankfort on Jan. 4, 2023. Beshear's budget proposal is already on the table for the 2024 session.
The 2024 Kentucky General Assembly was a meeting of the Kentucky General Assembly, composed of the Kentucky Senate and the Kentucky House of Representatives. It convened in Frankfort on January 2, 2024, and adjourned sine die on April 15, 2024. [1] It was the fifth regular session of the legislature during the tenure of governor Andy Beshear.
Economic conservatives will be pleased that the budget for the two years beginning July 1 keeps the state on track to reduce and perhaps eliminate its income tax, by maintaining a huge surplus.
The Kentucky General Assembly, also called the Kentucky Legislature, is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Kentucky. It comprises the Kentucky Senate and the Kentucky House of Representatives. The General Assembly meets annually in the state capitol building in Frankfort, convening on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in January ...
The Jefferson County Circuit Court is the largest single unified trial court in Kentucky. [2] [3] Appeals from decisions of the Circuit Courts are made to the Kentucky Court of Appeals, the state intermediate appellate court, which may be further appealed to the Kentucky Supreme Court.
Increase the minimum wage to $12.00 per hour by July 2024. Allow the state legislature to raise the minimum wage above the mandated $12.00 per hour. Eliminate existing annual inflation adjustments to the minimum wage. Removal of the two-tiered system that allows employers to lower their employees' minimum wage by providing certain health benefits.
Kentucky’s average insurance rates are slightly above the national averages, with full coverage costing an average of $2,705 a year, while state-mandated minimum insurance is available for an ...
[227] [228] Kentucky opted for increased managed care, while Arkansas subsidized private insurance. Later Arkansas and Kentucky governors proposed reducing or modifying their programs. From 2013 to 2015, the uninsured rate dropped from 42% to 14% in Arkansas and from 40% to 9% in Kentucky, compared with 39% to 32% in Texas. [227] [229]