Straight from the Legislative Calendar, here’s some of the topics that the legislative leaders thought were important enough to bring everyone back to Frankfort:

Appropriations and budget items

  • Branch budget bills
  • Appropriations for the Transportation Cabinet
  • Road projects
  • Appropriations for the Judicial Branch

Other stuff

  • A KCTCS parking lot
  • School district debt in six systems
  • Loans to water systems
  • Revenue notes for an apartment complex
  • Appointing someone to the Kentucky Lottery board
  • Rest periods
  • Adoption leave
  • Robocalls
  • Prescriptions for insulin
  • Credit for reinsurance

Are some of these things important? Absolutely. Could most of them wait till a special session later? Probably.

And, more importantly, are they urgent enough to put legislators and their staff at risk?

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