With the 2026 session of the Kentucky General Assembly firmly in the rear view mirror, legislators across the Commonwealth are already setting their sights on next year’s session.
That includes locally, with Senator Craig Richardson says he will devote a lot of his time in the interim to working towards addressing housing issues in western Kentucky.
Representative Walker Thomas says they did have to did a bit a ‘clean up’ bill for House Bill 900, which is the one-time spending bill, but that didn’t happen until after they returned from the veto recess. That means if the governor decided to veto anything in it, that veto would not be overridden by the General Assembly—so Thomas hopes there’s nothing he disagrees with in it.
Representative Myron Dossett is setting his sights a little closer to home—in fact, from his shop on Pembroke Road, he can look directly at the Ascend Elements Apex 1 facility location, and the representative is not happy with how the project seems to be shaking out.
He says he and the other local legislators had to hustle hard to get money put into House Bill 900 to cover some of the costs that are building up the longer ascend elements isn’t open, and he thinks its time for some changes in leadership.
Work will be happening in the interim, but for now, legislators will return to their regular day jobs and hopefully get some rest before comittee meetings get back underway.