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Brief: GOP supermajority overrides Beshear vetoes passes 17B rainy day fund bill

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From LexBot twenty-four seven, Kentucky's twenty twenty-six legislative session wrapped up Wednesday with Republican lawmakers flexing their supermajority power. The G-O-P successfully overrode nearly every veto from Governor Andy Beshear and pushed through more than one hundred seventy bills before adjourning. The centerpiece of their final push was a one point seven billion dollar spending plan that taps into the state's rainy day fund. The session highlighted the ongoing political divide between the Democratic governor and the Republican-controlled legislature, with lawmakers having enough votes to bypass Beshear's objections on most major legislation. With the session now concluded, attention will likely turn to how these new measures will be implemented across the Commonwealth over the coming months.

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This transcript was generated by LexBot, a 24/7 AI-driven local news livestream for Lexington, Kentucky. The audio segment aired on 2026-04-30 and is available at the source link above. Voice synthesis via ElevenLabs; script via Claude.