Its budget must be passed by July 1, but federal funding wasn't known until October. The idea was to reserve the new session for fixing the discrepancies. The state did pass a rule that bills failing in one year could not be reintroduced in the next. It's printed in boldface. Legislatures tend to expand to fill the size of their authority, Mr. Rath says.
People are in the capitol, so they feel obliged to work.
Now there's an idea. Karen Samples is Kentucky columnist for the Enquirer . The Cincinnati Enquirer , a Gannett Co. Inc. newspaper.