Kentucky’s legislature will take a weeklong break because of the coronavirus outbreak, top Republican lawmakers said Thursday.
The main priority is to pass a new state budget. The Senate was debating its version of the two-year spending plan Thursday afternoon as lawmakers continued picking up the pace of their work.
The adjusted schedule would have lawmakers adjourn until returning to the Capitol for a one-day session on March 26, Senate President Robert Stivers and House Speaker David Osborne said.
They said lawmakers would meet again April 1 with the goal of passing the budget and would return later that month to take up any vetoes by Governor Andy Beshear.
Lawmakers were ramping up work on a coronavirus-related bill dealing with schools and unemployed workers.
The legislature has to wrap up its business by April 15.
Source: AP
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