Kentucky Budget Official Gives Update on Broadband Expansion
With $300 million to spend on expanding broadband service across the state, the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority plans to solicit Internet businesses on how to best proceed in anticipation of awarding bids on projects.
June 03, 2021 • (TNS) With $300 million to spend on expanding broadband internet service across rural Kentucky, the Kentucky Infrastructure Authority plans to solicit the opinions of internet businesses on how to best proceed this summer in anticipation of awarding bids on projects.
Members of the Interim Joint Committee on Appropriations and Revenue discussed the upcoming broadband expansion project during a Wednesday afternoon meeting in Frankfort.
A Senate bill to ban solitary confinement for pregnant prison and jail inmates, and expand access to services to inmates in the first six weeks after delivery was approved by a House committee on judicial issues Wednesday.
Senate Bill 84, which bans solitary confinement, restricted housing and segregation of pregnant inmates, was one of a number of consequential bills the House Judiciary Committee approved Wednesday.
The committee also approved a bill to require the Parole Board to notify victims of class D felony sexual offenses that the perpetrator is eligible for parole, a bill to allow juvenile victims of sex offense more time to file charges, and a bill that would give judges discretion when deciding whether a juvenile criminal case should be transferred to adult court.