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Louisville Law Alumni Serving in General ne of my favorite parts of my job as Dean of the Assembly Relect OSchool of Law is interacting with our alumni. Our graduates are using their law degrees in many different ways, including on Recent as elected oficials. I am grateful to these lawmakers for their public service.

In relecting on the 2019 Regular Session Session of the Kentucky General Assembly, I reached out to our Louisville Law alumni who are BY: DEAN COLIN CRAWFORD serving in the Kentucky House and Senate to get their relections on this most recent session and its impact on the Commonwealth.

I asked them each what they saw as the most signiicant piece of legislation passed. Their REPRESENTATIVE answers are below. McKenzie Cantrell 38TH DISTRICT

Representative Cantrell points to the REPRESENTATIVE Kentucky Pregnant Workers Act. Jason Nemes RD “he pregnant worker new law gives 33 DISTRICT guidance to employers on short-term, “I think the major legislative success reasonable accommodations that is the school safety bill. employers can make to accommodate their pregnant workforce,” she says, “After the school shooting in Mar- adding that typical accommodations would be things like more shall County in 2018, the House frequent rest breaks, use of a footstool and more access to water. In and Senate put together a bipar- addition to pregnancy, the law also provides for accommodations tisan group of legislators to travel related to childbirth or related medical conditions. the Commonwealth and meet with interested groups and citizens. hose meetings led to a bill that is “We really want to discourage litigation in this area because no one designed to make our schools safer. in society beneits from a woman who is pregnant or has just given birth to a child and is without a job, especially for something that “his coming session is a budget session and I look forward to could have been pretty reasonably handled for the short term that ensuring that the new positions the bill called for are funded, which a woman is pregnant,” says Representative Cantrell. include more counselors to help identify and address students with mental and emotional needs, among other things.

“I am proud of the substantive result of the bill, but I am also proud of the way our citizens and government came together to thoughtfully address this very important issue.”

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Senator Neal highlights the passage SENATE PRESIDENT of Senate Bill 57, which expands the number of Kentuckians eligible TH to have low-level felonies expunged 25 DISTRICT from their criminal records. President Stivers also points to the passage of Senate Bill 1, the School he new law, which went into efect Safety and Resiliency Act, which was July 15, expands previous criteria for introduced after the January 2018 expungement, reduces the application fee from $500 to $250 and shootings at Marshall County High allows for 18 months after a deposit of $50 to pay the balance of School that killed two students and the application fee. injured others.

“It helps restore the rights, generally speaking, of those who have “We took very a measured approach to bringing forth a piece of paid their debt to society. I think this is a step in the right direction,” legislation, and it mirrored legislation in the house that was House says Senator Neal, who adds that he doesn’t think the new law has Bill 1,” President Stivers says. “his was an efort by both House and gone far enough. Senate, Republican and Democrat, to really sit down and look and see what would be an efective way to better protect our schools, Senator Neal also points to several other bills whose passage he which ultimately means our teachers, staf and children.” sees as signiicant: • Senate Bill 1, the school safety bill Representative In the year after the shootings, members of a specially created Nemes highlights above; School Safety Working Group traveled across Kentucky to meet with school system and county oicials to gather their perspectives • Senate Bill 6, which requires the disclosure of fees and recommendations. he group came away with a strong frame- paid to executive branch lobbyists and prohibits ex- work that included items such as hardening targets and increasing ecutive branch lobbyist compensation contingent access to mental health care, says President Stivers. on awarding of a government contract or based on a percentage of a government contract awarded; With the passage of the bill, lawmakers have a year to inventory the needs of each school system in anticipation of next year’s budget Senate Bill 97, which requires the Kentucky State • session. Police to create an online tracking system for sexual assault forensic evi- dence kits; and • House Bill 11, which bans all tobacco, alternative nicotine and vapor prod- ucts from schools America’s Premier Civil-Trial Mediators & Arbitrators Online

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