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A bill that would make medical marijuana legal in Kentucky, has passed out of a Senate committee. Senate Bill 47 passed out of a committee in an 8-3 vote.

Kentucky lawmakers have wrapped up work on a bill to require health insurers to cover “biomarker tests,” which can help determine the best cancer treatment plans for patients.

The bipartisan measure won final passage on Monday, and was hailed as a consequential step in a state long plagued by high rates of cancer.

A bill that would legalize medical cannabis passed out of committee by a wide margin today. Lawmakers who have been long skeptical of permitting the substance signaled support for it.

How much more economically competitive and free – including from special interests – might Kentuckians be if government’s priority was sound policy rather than divisive politics?

A Kentucky medical marijuana bill has cleared the latest step on its way to approval.

Arkansas Republicans recently delivered the largest tax cut in state history. This income-tax relief is a huge win for households and small businesses, and Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders is committed to building on this accomplishment by putting the state income tax on the path to zero.

Parental complaint process to challenge materials, programs or events in Kentucky's public schools was approved along party lines by a House committee. Critics continued to criticize the legislation as a slippery slope to banning books

Citing higher education’s potential for spurring economic development where the coal industry has declined, a resolution calling for a comprehensive review of Kentucky’s higher education system received Senate approval Wednesday. 

Five days after it was blocked by a rarely used procedural maneuver, a heavily lobbied bill to ban \