The Kentucky House and Senate are each considering bills to limit diversity, equity and inclusion programs often called DEI at colleges and universities.

Today, a reporter asked Governor Beshear about the idea behind DEI.

And what it tries to do is to provide a little extra help to to those that that have had to go through more than most people have to go through.

What most people don't see is that the definition of DTI, the federal definition, is used everywhere.

Yes, it includes people from different races, but it also includes people who live in areas of high poverty, which is a lot of our great state.

It includes veterans who deserve that extra help.

It includes individuals with disabilities who also deserve that extra opportunity.

Passing these bills will not only harm our institutions of higher education, they will make us less attractive for business and they'll make us appear less welcoming.

US in Kentucky is on a roll.

We are on the biggest, best economic development win streak of our lifetime.

And we ought to say to the rest of the world, Come on in.

This is our chance to be something special, to be something bigger and better than than maybe we even ever dreamed of.

But to do that, we have to be a type of welcoming state.

My hope is that the General Assembly doesn't pass either of them.

If they get to me, I'll veto them.

And even if that veto is overridden, I hope those businesses, I hope those college students and others know they've got somebody here in Frankfort that believes diversity is a good thing.

The governor has already vetoed one bill, a bill blocking local ordinances that require landlords to accept tenants who pay with federal housing vouchers.

The Kentucky General Assembly overrode that veto yesterday, so it will become law.