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KY legislature halts efforts to remove Supreme Court judge, Fayette school board chair Original
House Majority Whip Jason Nemes, R-Middletown, presents articles of impeachment for Fayette Circuit Judge Julie Goodman on the House floor Friday, March 20, 2026. Attempts in the Kentucky General Assembly to impeach state Supreme Court Judge Pamela Goodwine and remove from office Fayette school board chair Tyler Murphy have ended. The chairman of the House Impeachment Committee told the Herald-Leader Tuesday night that the work of the committee for the 2026 General Assembly has concluded.
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Paid surrogacy in KY banned under bill proposed by anti-abortion lawmaker
Rep. Marianne Proctor, R-Union, confers with Rep. Nancy Tate, R-Brandenburg, on the House floor on Feb. 12, 2026. A Republican state lawmaker wants to make commercial surrogacy in Kentucky a felony offense. Rep. Nancy Tate, R-Brandenburg, filed House Bill 697 Monday afternoon, which would ban any person or agency from entering into, soliciting, or enforcing a commercial surrogacy agreement. It would be a Class D felony on the first offense and a Class C felony for any subsequent offenses.
Providing meds for abortion, assisted suicide further penalized under KY bill
Rep. Marianne Proctor, R-Union, confers with Rep. Nancy Tate, R-Brandenburg, on the House floor on Feb. 12, 2026. A bill in the Kentucky House would expand and create new penalties related to “abortion-inducing drugs” and assisted suicide. Friday morning, Rep. Nancy Tate, R-Brandenburg, filed House Bill 646, which would criminalize importing “abortion-inducing drugs” to Kentucky with “the intent to sell or distribute,” punishable by a Class D felony.
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With Grossberg case in mind, lawmaker seeks to add sex harassment to ethics code
Senate Minority Whip Cassie Chambers Armstrong, D-Louisville, answers questions during a press conference before the start of the 2026 legislative session. Days before a public hearing into state representative Daniel Grossberg’s alleged ethics violations, one Kentucky lawmaker is proposing to make clear that sexual harassment is a violation of the Kentucky Code of Legislative Ethics. Senate Bill 143 from Sen.
KY legislator files bill to ban immigrant citizens from holding local office
FRANKFORT, Feb. 18 – Rep. Shane Baker, R-Somerset,, presents House Joint Resolution 15 A Joint Resolution to return for permanent display on the New State Capitol grounds the granite Ten Commandments monument given to the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1971 A Kentucky Republican legislator wants to limit eligibility for local offices to only natural-born U.S. citizens. Rep.
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Kentucky lawmaker shares false claim of ISIS terrorists injecting people with HIV
George A. Brown Jr. Bud Kraft Bud Kraft A Kentucky lawmaker shared a hoax on Facebook Tuesday, passing on a chain message that falsely claims terrorists are knocking on doors to inject people with HIV. State Rep. George Brown, D-Lexington, shared the chain message, which started by listing a phone number with a Maryland area code. When dialed, a recording said the number could not accept calls. “Attention ....” Brown’s post said.
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