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This week in KY's General Assembly with KPR's Jonathan Meador

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The 2014 session of the Kentucky General Assembly continues in Frankfort, and Todd Hatton speaks with Kentucky Public Radio Capitol Bureau Reporter Jonathan Meador about what lawmakers have been working on this week.

Hear about Governor Beshear's plan for tax reform and whyRepublican House Floor Leader Jeff Hoover wants tax reform negotiations held behind closed doors.

 
The House passed Speaker Stumbo's minimum wage bill this week  to gradually increase minimum wage from $7.25 to $10.10.  Hear about the bill's chances in the senate. 
 
 
 
The Senate passed a controversial bill to require a constitutional amendment to strip the Governor of powers to implement regulations.
 
The Senate is also considering a bill to allow people under domestic violence protections emergency access to carry a concealed weapon. 
 
 
 

Todd Hatton hails from Paducah, Kentucky, where he got into radio under the auspices of the late, great John Stewart of WKYX while a student at Paducah Community College. He also worked at WKMS in the reel-to-reel tape days of the early 1990s before running off first to San Francisco, then Orlando in search of something to do when he grew up. He received his MFA in Creative Writing at Murray State University. He vigorously resists adulthood and watches his wife, Angela Hatton, save the world one plastic bottle at a time.
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