Still awaiting word on Governor Beshear's veto of SB 48, "An act relating to personal information."

https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/21rs/sb48.html

If he elects to veto the bill, his veto cannot be overridden.

As amended by House Floor Amendment 3, SB 48 creates a new exception to the open records law for "address and location" of certain named public officers.

The amendment creates a separate section that more broadly defines "personally identifiable information" but applies to a more narrowly defined group of public officers.

Both require the public officer to submit a written request to any agency or agencies that maintain the information, asking that the information not be "made public" by the agency or that the agency treat the information "as confidential" and "not post, re- post, publish, or otherwise make known the personally identifiable information."

SB 48 requires the agencies to "redact and remove the personally identifiable information within three (3) business days of receipt of the request from any public posting or publication existing at the time the request is received to the extent practicable."

SB 48 was delivered to the Governor on March 30.

Under Section 88 of the Kentucky Constitution:

"Every bill which shall have passed the two Houses shall be presented to the Governor. If he approve, he shall sign it; but if not, he shall return it, with his objections, to the House in which it originated, which shall enter the objections in full upon its journal, and proceed to reconsider it. If, after such reconsideration, a majority of all the members elected to that House shall agree to pass the bill, it shall be sent, with the objections, to the other House, by which it shall likewise be considered, and if approved by a majority of all the members elected to that House, it shall be a law; but in such case the votes of both Houses shall be determined by yeas and nays, and the names of the members voting for and against the bill shall be entered upon the journal of each House respectively. If any bill shall not be returned by the Governor within ten days (Sundays excepted) after it shall have been presented to him, it shall be a law in like manner as if he had signed it, *unless the General Assembly, by their adjournment, prevent its return, in which case it shall be a law, unless disapproved by him within ten days after the adjournment, in which case his veto message shall be spread upon the register kept by the Secretary of State*. The Governor shall have the power to disapprove any part or parts of appropriation bills embracing distinct items, and the part or parts disapproved shall not become a law unless reconsidered and passed, as in case of a bill."

The clock is ticking. Will the Governor sign SB 48 into law, veto SB 48, or allow SB 48 to become law at the conclusion of ten days without his signature?