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Committee gives favorable consideration to House Concurrent Resolution 67 to form voting-rights restoration task force
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The Kentucky House committee voted to give favorable consideration to House Concurrent Resolution 67, which would create a task force to study restoration of voting rights for people with prior convictions and report back in 2026.
The Constitutional Amendments and Intergovernmental Affairs Committee gave favorable consideration Wednesday to House Concurrent Resolution 67, which would create a Kentucky Restoration of Voting Rights Act task force to study whether and how people with prior convictions should regain the right to vote.
Sponsor Representative Emily Callaway, R-30th, told the committee the task force would focus “that individuals who have spent time, have served their time, have, exhibited evidence of rehabilitation ready to reenter society” and consider whether they should have voting rights restored. She said the measure is intended to ensure the topic “gets the attention that it deserves.”
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