Democratic Kentucky Attorney General Andy Beshear called the latest Republican-led effort to overhaul the pension system through an amended wastewater bill “government at its worst.”
A 291-page bill to reform the public pension system appeared suddenly on Thursday and prompted a fierce debate in the legislature. Senate Bill 151 originally appeared as an 11-page bill regarding wastewater.
Beshear on Facebook wrote that lawmakers are being forced to vote on a bill without any time to read it, without public testimony and without actuarial analysis.
Bill sponsor Republican Representative John ‘Bam’ Carney claimed the new bill would save the state about $300 million over 30 years.
Kentucky has one of the worst-funded public pension systems in the country.
