HB 21 Would Protect Kentuckians with Preexisting Conditions If ACA Protections Lost
Nearly 1.8 million Kentuckians have a preexisting health condition that, if it were not for specific protections in the Affordable...
Analysis
Bipartisan Interest in Tax Break Accountability
The lack of revenue with which legislators are creating the next biennial budget is an urgent reminder of the need to clean up the tax breaks that limit the amount...
Report Shows Importance of Expungement to Kentuckians’ Health – House Bill 327 Would Be Step Forward
Expanding expungement in Kentucky is good for health, according to new research published by the Louisville Metro Department of Public Health and Wellness. The report details the findings from a...
State Policy Decisions Hinder Kentucky’s Readiness for Coronavirus
As fears rise about coronavirus (COVID-19) in the United States, state policy choices create a context that either limits or enables harm and disruption from its potential spread. In Kentucky,...
House Bill 1 Still Focuses on Punitive Measures that Take Assistance Away
The new version of House Bill 1 introduced in committee today, like the original proposal, contains a number of misguided and punitive measures that create barriers to assistance for Kentuckians...
House Bill 413 Creates Greater Accountability and Transparency for Tax Expenditures
HB 413, sponsored by Representative James Tipton, is a good government bill that establishes a structure for the General Assembly to know more about and better consider the purpose, cost...
Tax Plan Would Fix Kentucky’s Budget Challenges by Addressing Upside Down Tax Code
A new bill would generate substantial new revenue for Kentucky’s budget by asking those at the top and corporations to chip in a portion of the enormous federal and state...
Bill Capping Insulin Prices Would Help Many Thousands of Kentuckians With Diabetes
House Bill 12 is a much-needed bill to help reduce insulin costs for some of the 442,500 Kentuckians with diabetes. Under the bill, cost sharing for insulin could not exceed...
House Bill 1 Proposes Costly and Unworkable Barriers to Well-Being
House Bill 1 (HB 1) would make sweeping changes to the way we provide medical, food and income assistance to Kentuckians with very low incomes. The bill as introduced adds...
Understanding the Quasi Pension Funding Issue
Over the last few days, attention has turned to whether Governor Beshear's budget underfunds the main state worker pension system, the Kentucky Employees Retirement System (KERS) non-hazardous plan, in the...