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This week has been a wash for the Kentucky General Assembly but with just 15 days left in the short 2021 session, the pace is expected to pick up when lawmakers reconvene on Monday.
House Speaker David Osborne and Senate President Robert Stivers decided last Tuesday to call off the planned three days of meetings due to concerns about travel conditions following two successive ice storms. A third snow storm passed through Kentucky Wednesday and Thursday. Days missed will be made up as the legislature meets all 10 weekdays over the next two weeks.
Lawmakers are now scheduled to reconvene next Monday, which will be the halfway point of the 30-day session that s set to end in late March. The deadline for lawmakers to file new bills, which would have been last Thursday, is now set for this coming Tuesday.
A top Republican in the Kentucky Senate proposed a bill to strip Governor Beshear of his powers to autonomously fill any vacancies in the state’s U.S. Senate seats.
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) Kentucky lawmakers won't reconvene until next week because of the harsh winter weather hitting the state. House Speaker David Osborne and Senate President Robert.