Beshear vetoes bill remaking leadership overseeing broadband network

By: Liam Niemeyer

Outlets: Kentucky Lantern

Published: March 9, 2026

Words: 816

Last Updated: 12 hours, 54 minutes ago

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Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshear’s first veto during this year’s legislative session rejects an effort to remake leadership of the state’s broadband network KentuckyWired.

The Democratic governor called the bill “yet another unconstitutional partisan power grab” by a legislature controlled by a Republican supermajority.

House Bill 314, primarily sponsored by Rep. Matt Lockett, R-Nicholasville, would remove the current executive director of the Kentucky Communications Network Authority, or KCNA, which has been been ensnarled in litigation …

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