Senator Paul visits Glasgow and comments on new legislation Acts

GLASGOW, Ky.- Senator Rand Paul traveled across the Commonwealth Friday, and made a stop in South Central Kentucky.

Senator Paul stopped in Glasgow hoping to learn what concerns community leaders have. Many of the concerns had to do with funding. We also spoke to Senator Paul about the recent Broadcast Media Preservation Act that he re-introduced this week. This act would allow local news and media companies to compete and negotiate with national tech companies. He tells us how he thinks re-introducing this act would help media companies.

He says, “A newspaper association would be able to organize to try to have leverage. And so I really liked the idea. And so we introduced the bill a few years ago. and hopefully will allow, you know, newspapers and TV to thrive because they’re threatened by these big tech companies. ”

Not only did Senator Rand Paul speak on this act and its impact on smaller businesses and organizations. He also talks about house bill five “The Safer Kentucky act” that effects homeless people and businesses. With this proposed legislation it would promote rehabilitation over arrests.

“By saying that it would be against the law means you have to go somewhere else. If you if you refuse to go somewhere else, then you will be taken somewhere else. But many people actually might be able to interact with mental health if they’re taken to a shelter and sort of thing, but just talking about sending them to the gulag or putting them in prison or punishing them, they want to take them to somewhere where there’s some help. ”

As more acts and bills continue to move forward, News 40 will bring you the latest information.