URGENT: A crazy effort to expand gambling at the very last minute (April 11, 2018)

SB 228 is an education bill regulating professional agents of high school and college athletes. Now someone has attached part of a gambling bill to it that had already died . . . and it’s the worst part of the gambling bill – it just legalizes the gambling! NO regulation. NO accountability, oversight, revenue or transparency.

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PRESS RELEASE: Revised Marriage Bill Passes with The Family Foundation’s Support (March 6, 2018)

A new version of Senate Bill 48 with changes suggested by The Family Foundation passed out of a Senate committee this morning  with the full support of the committee. The bill would raise the minimum marriage age in the state to 17 and would establish a judicial procedure that includes parents for 17 year-olds wanting to marry. 

“The original version of the bill would have allowed a judge to consent to a marriage, not only without the consent of the parents,” said Martin Cothran, spokesman for the group, “but potentially without even the knowledge of the parents. Several of the committee members had concerns about the original version of the bill, but the revised bill had the support of all members.”
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After the Courier-Journal‘s misleading story, articles clarify the real facts and position of The Family Foundation:
After weekend of national shaming, Kentucky’s ‘child bride’ bill to move forward
Herald-Leader (March 5, 2018)

Why Conservatives Objected to that Kentucky Child Marriage Bill
Patheos (March 5, 2018)

PRESS RELEASE: TFF Asks C-J to Retract Story (March 5, 2018)

TFF today asked the Courier-Journal to publicly retract a story it ran asserting that The Foundation was working in the Kentucky General Assembly to defend the marriages of children under the age of 16… The Foundation’s concern was limited to one part of the original language of SB 48 and involved only the issue of who should be able to approve or deny the marriages of 17-year-olds… “The original version of this bill would have allowed a judge to approve a marriage, giving parents no way to contest it… We have always been in full support of a full prohibition of the kind of marriages the story said we were defending.”
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Kentucky New Era‘s Article Gets It Right:
Bill to outlaw child marriage in Kentucky still moving forward (March 4, 2018) 

House Bill 269: Divorce Reform

Rep. Larry Brown: Twenty one states now require divorce/co-parenting classes. With this bill, Kentucky will join those states… READ MORE