Post by Logan on May 12, 2016 0:56:12 GMT -6
FRANKFORT, Ky. - Kentucky House Speaker Greg Stumbo filed suit Wednesday challenging the validity of Gov. Matt Bevin's vetoes of budget bill items and other House bills.
Stumbo contends Bevin and his staff did not follow the process outlined in the Kentucky Constitution for filing vetoes - delivering the vetoes improperly to the House clerk rather than the Secretary of State's Office as well as other procedural mistakes that make the vetoes void.
If Kentucky courts ultimately rule for Stumbo, the ruling would restore state funding for the many vetoed items large and small including the House's priority scholarship program for community college students, $420,000 per year for the Louisville Waterfront Development Corp., $7.5 million for indigent health care in Jefferson County and expanded preschool eligibility statewide.
Stumbo, a Prestonsburg Democrat, said he is not raising mere technicalities and is not engaging in a political attack against the Republican governor. He said that as House speaker he has a constitutional duty to have these matters addressed by the court.
Read more: www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2016/05/11/ky-house-speaker-discuss-new-lawsuit/84233606/
Stumbo contends Bevin and his staff did not follow the process outlined in the Kentucky Constitution for filing vetoes - delivering the vetoes improperly to the House clerk rather than the Secretary of State's Office as well as other procedural mistakes that make the vetoes void.
If Kentucky courts ultimately rule for Stumbo, the ruling would restore state funding for the many vetoed items large and small including the House's priority scholarship program for community college students, $420,000 per year for the Louisville Waterfront Development Corp., $7.5 million for indigent health care in Jefferson County and expanded preschool eligibility statewide.
Stumbo, a Prestonsburg Democrat, said he is not raising mere technicalities and is not engaging in a political attack against the Republican governor. He said that as House speaker he has a constitutional duty to have these matters addressed by the court.
Read more: www.courier-journal.com/story/news/politics/2016/05/11/ky-house-speaker-discuss-new-lawsuit/84233606/