Kentucky House of Representatives

Kentucky House of Representatives
Kentucky House of Representatives
	Kentucky General Assembly
Type
Type	Lower house
Term limits	None
History
New session started	January 7, 2020
Leadership
Speaker of the House	David Osborne (R) ; since November 5, 2017
Speaker pro Tempore	David Meade (R) ; since January 8, 2019
Majority Leader	John "Bam" Carney (R) ; since January 5, 2019
Minority Leader	Joni Jenkins (D) ; since December 20, 2019
Structure
Seats	100
Political groups	Majority Republican (61); Minority Democratic (39);
Length of term	2 years
Authority	The Legislative Department, Section 29, Kentucky Constitution
Salary	$186.73/day + per diem
Elections
Last election	November 6, 2018
Next election	November 3, 2020; (100 seats)
Redistricting	Legislative Control
Meeting place
	House of Representatives Chamber; Kentucky State Capitol; Frankfort, Kentucky
Website
	Kentucky Legislative Research Commission

The Kentucky House of Representatives is the lower house of the Kentucky General Assembly. It is composed of 100 Representatives elected from single-member districts throughout the Commonwealth. Not more than two counties can be joined to form a House district, except when necessary to preserve the principle of equal representation.^[1] Representatives are elected to two-year terms with no term limits. The Kentucky House of Representatives convenes at the State Capitol in Frankfort.

History[edit]

The first meeting of the Kentucky House of Representatives was in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1792, shortly after statehood. During the first legislative session, legislators chose Frankfort, Kentucky to be the permanent state capital.

After women gained suffrage in Kentucky, Mary Elliott Flanery was elected as the first female member of the Kentucky House of Representative. She took her seat January 1922 and was the first female legislator elected south of the Mason–Dixon line.^[2]

In 2017, the Republican party became the majority party in the House.^[3]^[4]

Powers and legislative process[edit]

Section 47 of the Kentucky Constitution stipulates that all bills for raising revenue must originate in the House of Representatives.

Membership[edit]

Current composition[edit]

Affiliation	Party (Shading indicates majority caucus)		Total

	Republican	Democratic		Vacant
End of previous legislature	61	39	100	0

Begin 2017	64	36	100	0
End 2018	63	37	100	0

Begin 2019	61	39	100	0
Latest voting share	61%	39%

Terms and qualifications[edit]

According to Section 32 of the Kentucky Constitution, a state representative must: be a citizen of Kentucky, be at least 24 years old at the time of election, have resided in the state at least 2 years and the district at least 1 year prior to election. Per section 30 of the Kentucky Constitution, representatives are elected every two years in the November following a regular session of the General Assembly.

Leadership[edit]

The Speaker of the Kentucky House of Representatives is the chief presiding officer of the Kentucky House. The Speaker's official duties include maintaining order in the House, recognizing members during debate, appointing committee chairs and determining the composition of committees, and determining which committee has jurisdiction over which bill. Traditionally, the Speaker has also served as Chair of the Rules Committee and the Committee on Committees.

When the Speaker is absent from the floor or otherwise unavailable, the Speaker pro tempore fills in as the chief presiding officer of the House.

In addition to the Speaker and Speaker pro tem, each party caucus elects a floor leader, a whip, and caucus chair.

Leaders^[5][edit]

Position	Name	Party	Residence	District
Speaker of the House	David Osborne	Republican	Prospect	59
Speaker Pro Tempore	David Meade	Republican	Stanford	80
Majority Floor Leader	John "Bam" Carney	Republican	Campbellsville	51
Majority Whip	Chad McCoy	Republican	Bardstown	50
Majority Caucus Chair	Suzanne Miles	Republican	Owensboro	7
Minority Floor Leader	Joni Jenkins	Democratic	Shively	44
Minority Whip	Vacant	Democratic
Minority Caucus Chair	Derrick Graham	Democratic	Frankfort	57

Current membership[edit]

District	Representative	Party	Hometown	County(ies)	Since	Committee Chairship	Vice Chairship
1	Steven Rudy	Rep	West Paducah	Ballard, Carlisle, Hickman, Fulton, McCracken	2005	Appropriations & Revenue^[6]
2	Richard Heath	Rep	Mayfield	Graves, McCracken	2012	Agriculture
3	Randy Bridges	Rep	Paducah	McCracken	2019
4	Lynn Bechler	Rep	Marion	Caldwell, Crittenden, Livingston, McCracken	2013
5	Larry Elkins	Rep	Murray	Calloway, Trigg	2019
6	Chris Freeland	Rep	Benton	Lyon, Marshall, McCracken	2019
7	Suzanne Miles†	Rep	Owensboro	Daviess, Henderson, Union	2014
8	Walker Thomas	Rep	Hopkinsville	Christian, Trigg	2017		Transportation
9	Myron Dossett	Rep	Pembroke	Christian	2007
10	Dean Schamore	Dem	Hardinsburg	Breckinridge	2015
11	Rob Wiederstein	Dem	Henderson	Henderson	2019
12	Jim Gooch	Rep	Providence	Daviess, Hopkins, McLean, Webster	1995	Natural Resources & Energy
13	Jim Glenn	Dem	Owensboro	Daviess	2019
14	Scott Lewis	Rep	Maceo	Daviess, Ohio	2019		Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs
15	Melinda Gibbons Prunty	Rep	Belton	Christian, Hopkins, Muhlenberg	2017		Health and Family Services
16	Jason Petrie	Rep	Elkton	Logan, Todd	2017	Judiciary
17	Steve Sheldon	Rep	Bowling Green	Warren, Butler	2019		State Government
18	Tim Moore	Rep	Hardinsburg	Breckinridge, Hancock, Hardin	2007	Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection
19	Michael Meredith	Rep	Brownsville	Edmonson, Hart, LaRue	2011	Local Government
20	Patti Minter	Dem	Bowling Green	Warren	2019
21	Bart Rowland	Rep	Tompkinsville	Hardin (Part), Hart, Metcalfe, Monroe	2012	Banking & Insurance
22	Wilson Stone	Dem	Scottsville	Allen, Simpson, Warren	2009
23	Steve Riley	Rep	Glasgow	Barren, Warren	2017		Education
24	Brandon Reed	Rep	Hodgenville	Larue, Marion, Pulaski	2017
25	Jim DuPlessis	Rep	Elizabethtown	Hardin	2015
26	Russell Webber	Rep	Elizabethtown	Hardin	2013	Economic Development & Workforce Investment
27	Nancy Tate	Rep	Brandenburg	Bullitt, Meade, Hardin	2019
28	Charles Miller	Dem	Louisville	Jefferson	1998
29	Kevin Bratcher	Rep	Louisville	Jefferson	1997	Elections, Const. Amendments & Intergovernmental Affairs	State Government
30	Tom Burch	Dem	Louisville	Jefferson	1978 (1972–75)
31	Josie Raymond	Dem	Louisville	Jefferson	2019
32	Tina Bojanowski	Dem	Louisville	Jefferson	2019
33	Jason Nemes	Rep	Louisville	Jefferson	2017
34	Mary Lou Marzian	Dem	Louisville	Jefferson	1994
35	Lisa Willner	Dem	Louisville	Jefferson	2019
36	Jerry T. Miller	Rep	Louisville	Garrard, Madison	2015	State Government
37	Jeffery Donohue	Dem	Fairdale	Jefferson	2013
38	McKenzie Cantrell	Dem	Louisville	Jefferson	2017
39	Russell A. Meyer	Dem	Nicholasville	Jessamine, Fayette	2015
40	Nima Kulkarni	Dem	Shively	Jefferson	2019
41	Attica Scott	Dem	Louisville	Jefferson	2017
42	Reginald Meeks	Dem	Louisville	Jefferson	2001
43	Charles Booker	Dem	Louisville	Jefferson	2019
44	Joni Jenkins	Dem	Shively	Jefferson	1995
45	Stan Lee	Rep	Lexington	Fayette	2001
46	Al Gentry	Dem	Louisville	Jefferson	2017
47	Rick Rand	Dem	Bedford	Carroll, Henry, Oldham, Trimble	2003 (1991-94)
48	Maria Sorolis	Dem	Louisville	Jefferson, Oldham	2019
49	Thomas Huff	Rep	Shepherdsville	Bullitt	2019
50	Chad McCoy	Rep	Bardstown	Nelson	2017
51	John "Bam" Carney	Rep	Campbellsville	Adair, Taylor	2009		Rules; Enrollment
52	Ken Upchurch†	Rep	Monticello	McCreary, Pulaski, Wayne	2013	Transportation
53	James Tipton	Rep	Tompkinsville	Anderson, Bullitt, Spencer	2015
54	Daniel Elliott†	Rep	Gravel Switch	Boyle, Casey	2016		Economic Development & Workforce Investment
55	Kim King	Rep	Harrodsburg	Anderson, Mercer, Spencer	2011
56	Joe Graviss	Dem	Versailles	Fayette, Franklin, Woodford	2019
57	Derrick Graham	Dem	Frankfort	Franklin	2003
58	Rob Rothenburger	Rep	Shelbyville	Shelby	2017		Local Government
59	David Osborne	Rep	Prospect	Jefferson, Oldham	2005	Rules; Committee on Committees
60	Sal Santoro	Rep	Florence	Boone	2007
61	Savannah Maddox	Rep	Dry Ridge	Gallatin, Grant, Owen	2019
62	Philip Pratt	Rep	Georgetown	Fayette, Owen, Scott	2017		Appropriations & Revenue
63	Diane St. Onge	Rep	Lakeside Park	Kenton	2013	Small Business & Information Technology
64	Kimberly Poore Moser	Rep	Taylor Mill	Campbell, Kenton	2017	Health and Family Services
65	Buddy Wheatley	Dem	Covington	Kenton	2019
66	C. Ed Massey	Rep	Burlington	Boone	2019		Judiciary
67	Vacant			Campbell
68	Joseph Fischer	Rep	Ft. Thomas	Campbell	1999		Banking & Insurance
69	Adam Koenig	Rep	Erlanger	Boone, Campbell, Kenton	2007	Licensing, Occupations, and Admin Regs
70	John Sims Jr.	Dem	Maysville	Bracken, Fleming, Mason, Robertson	2017
71	R. Travis Brenda	Rep	West Liberty	Menifee, Morgan, Rowan, Wolfe	2019
72	Matthew Koch	Rep	Paris	Bath, Bourbon, Fayette, Nicholas	2019		Licensing, Occupations, & Admin Regs
73	Les Yates	Rep	Winchester	Clark, Madison	2019		Small Business & Information Technology; Veterans, Military Affairs, and Public Protection
74	David Hale	Rep	Jeffersonville	Menifee, Montgomery, Powell	2015	Enrollment
75	Kelly Flood	Dem	Lexington	Fayette	2009
76	Ruth Ann Palumbo	Dem	Lexington	Fayette	1991
77	George Brown Jr.	Dem	Lexington	Fayette	2015
78	Mark Hart	Rep	Cynthiana	Harrison, Pendleton, Scott	2017		Agriculture
79	Susan Westrom	Dem	Lexington	Fayette	1999
80	David Meade	Rep	Stanford	Lincoln, Pulaski, Rockcastle	2013		Committee on Committees
81	Deanna Frazier	Rep	Richmond	Madison	2019
82	Regina Huff	Rep	Williamsburg	Laurel, Whitley	2012	Education
83	Jeff Hoover	Rep	Jamestown	Clinton, Pulaski, Russell	1997
84	Chris Fugate	Rep	Chavies	Harlan, Perry	2017		Tourism & Outdoor Recreation
85	Tommy Turner	Rep	Somerset	Laurel, Pulaski	1997	Tourism & Outdoor Recreation
86	Jim Stewart	Rep	Flat Lick	Knox, Laurel	1997
87	Adam Bowling	Rep	Middlesboro	Bell, Harlan	2019		Natural Resources & Energy
88	Cherlynn Stevenson	Dem	Lexington	Fayette	2019
89	Robert Goforth†	Rep			2018
90	Derek Lewis	Rep	Hyden	Clay, Harlan, Leslie	2019
91	Cluster Howard	Dem	Beattyville	Breathitt, Estill, Lee	2019 (2015-16)
92	John Blanton	Rep	Hindman	Knott, Magoffin, Pike	2017
93	Chris Harris	Dem	Belfry	Pike, Martin	2015
94	Angie Hatton	Dem	Whitesburg	Letcher, Pike	2017
95	Ashley Tackett Laferty	Dem	Prestonsburg	Floyd	2019
96	Kathy Hinkle	Dem	Grayson	Carter, Lewis	2019
97	Bobby McCool	Rep	Wittensville	Floyd, Johnson, Morgan, Wolfe	2019
98	Danny Bentley	Rep	Russell	Boyd, Greenup	2017
99	Richard White	Rep		Elliott, Lawrence, Rowan	2020
100	Terri Branham Clark	Dem	Ashland	Boyd	2019

† Winner of a special election

Past composition of the House of Representatives[edit]

References[edit]

^ Ireland, Robert M. (2011). The Kentucky State Constitution. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 63–64. ISBN 978-0-19-987781-2. OCLC 871172867.
^ Powers, James C. (1992). John E. Kleber (ed.). The Kentucky Encyclopedia. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky. pp. 323–324. ISBN 0-8131-1772-0. Retrieved March 11, 2010.
^ Gerth, Joseph (November 8, 2015). "Ky. Dems guard against efforts to flip House". Courier-Journal. Retrieved January 6, 2016.
^ Warren, Michael (November 30, 2016). "Democrats Lose a Southern Holdout". The Weekly Standard. Retrieved December 14, 2016.
^ https://legislature.ky.gov/Legislators/Pages/default.aspx
^ "Committee Details - Legislative Research Commission". legislature.ky.gov. Retrieved February 23, 2020.

External links[edit]

Legislative Research Commission

Coordinates: 38°11′12.1″N 84°52′29.4″W / 38.186694°N 84.874833°W / 38.186694; -84.874833

[1] Ireland, Robert M. (2011). The Kentucky State Constitution. New York: Oxford University Press. pp. 63–64. ISBN 978-0-19-987781-2. OCLC 871172867.

[kyencyclopedia-2] Powers, James C. (1992). John E. Kleber (ed.). The Kentucky Encyclopedia. Lexington, Kentucky: The University Press of Kentucky. pp. 323–324. ISBN 0-8131-1772-0. Retrieved March 11, 2010.

[3] Gerth, Joseph (November 8, 2015). "Ky. Dems guard against efforts to flip House". Courier-Journal. Retrieved January 6, 2016.

[4] Warren, Michael (November 30, 2016). "Democrats Lose a Southern Holdout". The Weekly Standard. Retrieved December 14, 2016.

[5] ttps://legislature.ky.gov/Legislators/Pages/default.aspx

[6] "Committee Details - Legislative Research Commission". legislature.ky.gov. Retrieved February 23, 2020.

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v t e Members of the Kentucky House of Representatives
Speaker of the House: David Osborne (R) Speaker pro Tempore: David Meade (R) Majority Leader: John "Bam" Carney (R) Minority Leader: Joni Jenkins (D)
Steven Rudy (R) Richard Heath (R) Randy Bridges (R) Lynn Bechler (R) Larry Elkins (R) Chris Freeland (R) Suzanne Miles (R) Walker Thomas (R) Myron Dossett (R) Dean Schamore (D) Rob Wiederstein (D) Jim Gooch (R) Jim Glenn (D) Scott Lewis (R) Melinda Gibbons Prunty (R) Jason Petrie (R) Steve Sheldon (R) Samara Heavrin (R) Michael Meredith (R) Patti Minter (D) Bart Rowland (R) Wilson Stone (D) Steve Riley (R) Brandon Reed (R) Jim DuPlessis (R) Russell Webber (R) Nancy Tate (R) Charles Miller (D) Kevin Bratcher (R) Thomas Burch (D) Josie Raymond (D) Tina Bojanowski (D) Jason Nemes (R) Mary Lou Marzian (D) Lisa Willner (D) Jerry T. Miller (R) Jeffery Donohue (D) McKenzie Cantrell (D) Russ A. Meyer (D) Nima Kulkarni (D) Attica Scott (D) Reginald Meeks (D) Charles Booker (D) Joni Jenkins (D) Stan Lee (R) Al Gentry (D) Rick Rand (D) Maria Sorolis (D) Thomas Huff (R) D. Chad McCoy (R) John Carney (R) Ken Upchurch (R) James Tipton (R) Daniel Elliott (R) Kim King (R) Joe Graviss (D) Derrick Graham (D) Rob Rothenburger (R) David Osborne (R) Sal Santoro (R) Savannah Maddox (R) Phillip Pratt (R) Kim Banta (R) Kimberly Poore Moser (R) Buddy Wheatley (D) Ed Massey (R) Dennis Keene (D) Joseph Fischer (R) Adam Koenig (R) John Sims Jr. (D) Travis Brenda (R) Matthew Koch (R) Les Yates (R) David Hale (R) Kelly Flood (D) Ruth Ann Palumbo (D) George A. Brown Jr. (D) Mark Hart (R) Susan Westrom (D) David Meade (R) Deanna Frazier (R) Regina Bunch (R) Jeff Hoover (R) Chris Fugate (R) Tommy Turner (R) Jim Stewart (R) Adam Bowling (R) Cherlynn Stevenson (D) Robert Goforth (R) Derek Lewis (R) Cluster Howard (D) John Blanton (R) Chris Harris (D) Angie Hatton (D) Ashley Tackett Laferty (D) Kathy Hinkle (D) Bobby McCool (R) Danny Bentley (R) Rocky Adkins (D) Terri Branham Clark (D)
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Kentucky House of Representatives

Contents

History[edit]

Powers and legislative process[edit]

Membership[edit]

Current composition[edit]

Terms and qualifications[edit]

Leadership[edit]

Leaders^[5][edit]

Current membership[edit]

Past composition of the House of Representatives[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

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Kentucky House of Representatives

History[edit]

Powers and legislative process[edit]

Membership[edit]

Current composition[edit]

Terms and qualifications[edit]

Leadership[edit]

Leaders[5][edit]

Current membership[edit]

Past composition of the House of Representatives[edit]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

External links[edit]

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