Ninth District State Representative Myron Dossett of Pembroke says while a large amount of legislation hasn’t moved forward during the second week of the 2023 General Assembly session, discussions on several matters have picked up.
The House Education Committee held a lengthy meeting on Kentucky’s teacher shortage and while Dossett doesn’t believe the budget will be reopened in this short session, he says lawmakers will have to continue to look for ways to help the commonwealth grow its own teachers and keep them.
He says language from his legislation protecting counties that enact ordinances restricting solar farms and protecting land owners that lease their property to those developers has been incorporated into another bill that he will support.
Lawmakers will likely do something with so-called gray machines that are similar to slot machines and that can often be found in bars, veterans halls and truck stops. Much of the debate is over whether they are games of skill and Dossett says the legislature could tax, regulate or ban those machines.
You can hear local legislators discuss these issues and others Sunday morning at 9 on 98.7 Lite FM and online at lite987whop.com.