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Beshear vetoes bill on assigning lawsuits against state
By BRUCE SCHREINERJanuary 21, 2021 GMT
FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2020, file photo, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear speaks at the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort, Ky. Gov. Andy Beshear proposed an infusion of aid into Kentucky s coronavirus-battered economy on Thursday evening, Jan. 7, 2021, announcing an ambitious budget plan that includes down-payments on his long-running goals of raising salaries for teachers and boosting public education funding.(AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File)
FILE - In this Sept. 23, 2020, file photo, Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear speaks at the Kentucky State Capitol in Frankfort, Ky. Gov. Andy Beshear proposed an infusion of aid into Kentucky s coronavirus-battered economy on Thursday evening, Jan. 7, 2021, announcing an ambitious budget plan that includes down-payments on his long-running goals of raising salaries for teachers and boosting public education funding.(AP Photo/Timothy D. Easley, File)
Kentucky's General Assembly will reconvene in February for the second part of the legislative session. When they do, they'll have seven fewer bills to deal with because they passed them in the first eight days of the session.
FRANKFORT, Ky. — Kentucky lawmakers gave final passage Wednesday to a bill that would curtail the statewide influence of a circuit court traditionally assigned high-profile cases involving state government.
Lawmakers vote to move cases out of Franklin Circuit Court
By BRUCE SCHREINERJanuary 14, 2021 GMT
FRANKFORT, Ky. (AP) Kentucky lawmakers gave final passage Wednesday to a bill that would curtail the statewide influence of a circuit court traditionally assigned high-profile cases involving state government.
The measure sent to Democratic Gov. Andy Beshear reflects a long-running goal of many Republican lawmakers to steer cases away from Franklin County Circuit Court. By bypassing that circuit, the bill would dramatically change the way lawsuits involving state government are handled.
Under the bill, cases dealing with the constitutionality of state law, executive orders or administrative regulations would be heard in the plaintiff’s home county. Those cases now are traditionally tried in Franklin Circuit Court, in the state capital of Frankfort.