Flurry of bills filed in the Kentucky General Assembly as budget process continues

The second week of session for the Kentucky General Assembly is a wrap, and it brought with a flurry of bill filings as a budget is still in the drafting process.

Hundreds of bills were filed between the House and the Senate, and a couple of those had to do with vaping and vaping products, particularly on trying to keep them out of the hands of children. Senator Craig Richardson has filed a bill that will start the process of allocating funds from the Juul Settlement Agreement, which came about following a lawsuit against the vaping company for targeting youth in advertising.

Richardson says those funds will head out across the state, earmarked for education and vaping prevention programs.

Meanwhile in the House, Representative Myron Dossett has filed a bill that would require a signature from someone of legal age of any vaping products, if they are delivered to a residence.

As for a budget, the process continues, and it starts in the House, where Representative Dossett says he wouldn’t be surprised to see a version of it as soon as next week.

Once it does come to the House, legislators will get a chance to look over the lengthy document, propose any changes and then take it up for a vote. Once it passes, it will head over to the Senate, where it gets to go through that process all over again.