FRANKFORT, Ky. — With just a few weeks left in the legislative session, Kentucky lawmakers have several remaining bills to vote up or down, including election reform and police procedures. 

House Bill 21 from Rep. Attica Scott (D, Louisville) could be heard in a House committee this week. The bill, filed in response to the police killing of Breonna Taylor nearly a year ago, bans "no-knock" warrants. 

“It will honor her legacy, her memory, and it will instill, in law, police accountability,” Scott said last week. 

Another bill on the warrants has passed the Senate and is making its way through the House. 

Lawmakers are also considering Senate Bill 211. It says disorderly conduct would include insulting or taunting police with offensive words “that would have a direct tendency to provoke a violent response from the perspective of a reasonable and prudent person.”

“There is a distinction, a clear distinction between a lawful protest and a riot,” said the bill's sponsor, Sen. Danny Carroll (R, Benton), in a committee meeting on Feb. 25. 

The legislation, which the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) of Kentucky says would be used to intimidate protestors and limit free speech, has not yet made it to the House.

House Bill 574, which would allow three days of early voting for any reason, has passed the House and is now in a Senate committee. 

Kentucky Secretary of State Michael Adams called it the most significant election reform legislation in nearly 30 years.

"The number one thing is this bill makes it easier to vote and harder to cheat," he said last month. "It enhances voter access and election security at the same time.” 

A measure related to the COVID-19 pandemic, House Bill 191, remains in a House committee. It would set aside $220 million in direct relief payments through a grant application to small businesses with another $20 million for nonprofits.