Kentucky Supreme Court strikes down bill passed by swapping text with another - Polidicks

https://www.bizjournals.com/louisville/news/2018/12/13/supreme-court-strikes-down-kentucky-pension-bill.html Kentucky's new pension law will not stand. The Kentucky Supreme Court issued an opinion today affirming a Franklin Circuit Court decision that the bill was not passed constitutionally. This law, championed by Gov. Matt Bevin and many in the Republican-controlled Kentucky General Assembly, made several major modifications to various state government employee pension plans — including those for teachers, state police and county employees. Bevin has called the reform necessary to head off an unfunded pension liability of around $60 billion. But the way it was passed was far from traditional. The pension changes were written into an 11-page sewer services bill, called SB 151, in the closing days of the 2018 General Assembly session. The original 11 pages concerning wastewater were tossed out. Then 291 pages of pension reforms were swapped in. The bill passed, and Attorney General Andy Beshear filed a lawsuit to block the legislation. Kentucky's constitution says each bill must be printed and "read at length on three different days in each house." This pension legislation received only one reading in the Kentucky House of Representatives and no reading in the Kentucky Senate in its final form. It did get readings in its sewer bill form, and the legal question became whether those counted. Earlier in the 2018 session, the General Assembly had another bill, called SB 1, to address pension reform. But it was met with widespread protest because it reduced annual cost-of- living adjustments for retired public employees, put newly hired employees into a hybrid-cash balance plan (similar to a 401(k) plan) and limited the use of unused sick-leave credit. The legitimate bill died in committee, and much of the language was included in SB 151.

the continued existence of a political party that has a genuine disdain for average people is fascinating and tragic at the same time. In Arkansas they've kicked 16,000 people off medicaid just because they can't work 80 hours a week based on some flawed belief that if you flip a man out of a wheel chair he's gonna walk.

Glad that states are finally declaring this process of sham bills unconstitutional.

Democrats generally don't hate their constituents and the Republicans have to be the opposite of them.

Republican voters tend to believe that pretty much everyone on Medicaid / disability / ACA / etc. are lazy welfare queens gaming the system to take their hard earned tax dollars rather than pulling themselves out of poverty / disability / illness by their bootstraps. Except for themselves, of course. THEY legitimately need Medicaid / disability/ ACA. THEY have an excuse. EVERYONE ELSE using the same system they are, though, are degenerate subhumans. Fun fact, same thing happens with pro-lifers, too, iirc. They'll say they're pro-life, but then get an abortion, because THEY have an EXCUSE for an abortion. Everyone ELSE is just making excuses though, of course.

"Everyone is a liar but me!!!"

"liberty for me not thee."

Why would liberty, safety, and justice for all benefit them?

Kentucky has a hilariously under funded pension plan. Anyone in it: don't count on a payout, have a backup plan.

Or, you know, find a way out, because Kentucky is a terrible place to live. Or so say some of the Kentuckians I've spoken to, anyway.

Like people can afford to move in 2019

A common Dutch joke is of stupid right wing people being mad about the left wing giving away "free money" to foreigners that the stupid people have to pay it out of their welfare benefits.