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The bill would disband the current board for Kentucky Educational Television and require that future gubernatorial appointments to the nine-person board be confirmed by the Republican-controlled state Senate. 

Republicans in the Kentucky Senate, in passing a bill Wednesday to reorganize the board for Kentucky’s public television broadcaster, also used the opportunity to tee up criticism against the state’s Democratic governor.

Republicans in the Kentucky Senate passed a bill to reorganize the board for Kentucky’s public television broadcaster and criticized the Democratic governor. 

The Kentucky Senate has passed a measure giving parents a pathway to challenge school instructional materials they consider unfit for children. The bill aims to ensure the right for parents to respond tobooks and other materials containing sexual content.

FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) — Republican lawmakers advanced a measure Thursday to give Kentucky parents a pathway to challenge school instructional materials they consider unfit for children. The bill takes aim at books and other materials containing sexual content.

The Senate passed Sen. Whitney Westerfield's bill seeks answers to how donated disaster relief funds have been spent so far. 

FRANKFORT — Despite pleas by the few Democrats in the Kentucky Senate to protect “vulnerable, marginalized children,” the supermajority of Republicans passed a controversial bill around parental rights and gender

FRANKFORT - The GOP-controlled Kentucky Senate passed legislation Wednesday afternoon along party lines that would further cut the state’s income tax to 4%, sending the bill to the desk of

Kentucky schools wouldn’t be able to require staff to use the correct pronouns for trans and nonbinary students under a bill that advanced out of a state legislative committee on Thursday.

Tax rate cuts aren't the only hot-button topic. Some say this is the year medical marijuana could make it through the state senate and become legal.