Kentucky
Most new laws in Kentucky will become effective July 15
Kentucky’s Governor has till the end of the week
(Story Courtesy of Kentucky Today)
FRANKFORT, Ky. (KT) – Gov. Andy Beshear still has until the end of the week to decide if he will sign, veto or allow to become law without his signature, legislation passed during the last two days of the General Assembly, but we now know the date most new laws will take effect.
Each year, the Reviser of Statutes for the Legislative Research Commission requests an Attorney General’s Opinion on the official effective date. This year it will be July 15.
The Attorney General’s Opinion states: “Under Section 55 of the Kentucky Constitution, the General Assembly having adjourned on April 15, 2024, sine die, it is the opinion of this Office that the first day of the 90-day period after the session is Tuesday, April 16, 2024, and the 90th day of that period is Sunday, July 14, 2024. When that 90th day has expired, ninety full days will have passed after the adjournment sine die of the 2024 Regular Session of the Kentucky General Assembly. Thus, legislation (except for general appropriation measures and those containing emergency or delayed effective date provisions) passed during the 2024 Regular Session of the Kentucky General Assembly will be effective on Monday, July 15, 2024.”
The opinion was written by James M. Herrick, Assistant Attorney General, Office of Civil and Environmental Law.
According to the Kentucky Constitution, “No act, except general appropriation bills, shall become a law until ninety days after the adjournment of the session at which it was passed, except in cases of emergency, when, by the concurrence of a majority of the members elected to each House of the General Assembly, by a yea and nay vote entered upon their journals, an act may become a law when approved by the Governor, but the reasons for the emergency that justifies this action must be set out at length in the journal of each House.”
Other legislation may have an earlier or delayed enactment date. An example of a later date is the medical cannabis bill passed by the 2023 General Assembly, which doesn’t allow its sale in Kentucky until Jan. 1, 2025. Budget bills have an effective date of July 1, which is the first day of the state’s fiscal year.
The majority of the 2024-25 Kentucky Basketball is finished, but there are still four open scholarship spots. For that reason, we’re going to see Kentucky kicking the tires on just about every available option that emerges over the next month to fill those final spots.
We’ve got a new one to monitor in the form of UCLA Bruins forward Berke Buyuktuncel, who entered the transfer portal on Tuesday.
Per Jon Rothstein, Kentucky is among a host of schools that’ve contacted Berke, including Virginia, Ohio State, Louisville, Washington, and Iowa.
Sources: UCLA transfer Berke Buyuktuncel is receiving interest from several schools which includes the following programs.
Nebraska
Virginia
Cincinnati
Washington
Butler
Ohio State
Oklahoma State
Kentucky
BYU
Iowa
Louisville— Jon Rothstein (@JonRothstein) May 3, 2024
A class of 2023 signee out of Turkey, Berke was ranked 36th overall and seventh among power forwards in his class, according to 247 Sports. He’s represented his home country in international basketball competitions, including the summer of 2023 when he helped Turkey finish in third place at the FIBA U19 Basketball World Cup.
The 6-foot-9, 245-pounder played in 26 games (eight starts) last season, averaging 4.5 points on 38.5% shooting (29.7% from 3-point range) and 2.5 rebounds per game. He attempted 37 3s on the season, connecting on 11, so he’s capable of stretching the floor, something Mark Pope has put a strong emphasis on with frontcourt transfers he’s contacted.
Kentucky’s frontcourt is going to rely heavily on Amari Williams, Andrew Carr, and Brandon Garrison to hold down the fort next season, so Berke could be a nice option as a fourth big man who would be competing for an 8th/9th man-type of role.
Whether Berke is open to that type of role or wants heavy playing minutes at a smaller program remains to be seen, but we know Kentucky has some level of interest in his services.
Check out some highlights of Berke in action!
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Former Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin lost access to a home he co-owns with his estranged wife after she complained to the court about his “aggressive and unsettling behavior.” The Lexington Herald-Leader reports that Glenna Bevin accused the 57-year-old Republican politician of following her around in the home where she lives with their two children, peppering her with questions about their pending divorce, and staying until she went to bed. She also wanted Bevin, who lives in a different home the couple co-owns, held in contempt. Jefferson Circuit Judge Angela Johnson gave the ex-governor—who served from 2015 to 2019—a week to get any belongings from the home before he is barred from the property unless the court or his wife allows it. But she declined to hold him in contempt, and suggested that he is living in denial that his marriage is over. “While [Matt Bevin] admitted that he did not want the divorce, [he] seems to be trying to keep the parties’ relationship and maintain a ‘business as usual’ environment,” the judge wrote. “However, the truth of the matter is that the parties are getting a divorce. Normalcy and the ‘business as usual’ environment are gone.”
Read it at Lexington Herald-Leader
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