Tagged: Senate President Robert Stivers

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5:37 pm
Tue January 8, 2013

Stumbo, Stivers: Kentucky Pension Funding Will Likely Wait. Again.

Credit Legislative Research Commission
Robert Stivers and Greg Stumbo

FRANKFORT—Kentucky legislative leaders say solutions on how to pay for Kentucky’s underfunded pensions won’t likely be addressed in the 2013 legislative session, which began Tuesday.

Both House Speaker Greg Stumbo and Senate President Robert Stivers say there will likely be a bill to introduce changes to the pension systems. But they also agree that such a bill is unlikely to deal how to fund the changes.

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2:53 pm
Mon January 7, 2013

Kentucky Senate Designates Electronic Military Voting as Chief Priority

Credit U.S. Army/Public Domain
Soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division on patrol in Iraq in 2006.

Giving Kentucky service members and their spouses the ability to cast absentee ballots electronically is the priority of the Kentucky State Senate heading into the 2013 legislative session, Senate President-elect Robert Stivers said on Monday.

Stivers says he’s taking recommendations from Kentucky Secretary of State Alison Lundergan Grimes to allow electronic voting for overseas military personnel.

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