Kentucky Executive Orders

[Juneteenth](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Juneteenth "Juneteenth")

protections in state hiring and employment by banning discrimination based on hairstyles.[\[106\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Beshear#cite_note-107)

waive co-pays, deductibles, cost-sharing, and diagnostic testing fees for private insurance and state employees.[\[118\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andy_Beshear#cite_note-119)

most people to wear masks in public settings where social distancing was not possible, making Kentucky one of several states to adopt a mask mandate. Additional measures included travel advisories, quarantine recommendations for out-of-state visitors, and targeted restrictions on high-risk settings

inmates from overcrowded prisons and jails in an effort to slow the virus's spread. The Kentucky Department of Information and Technology Services Research and Statistics found that over 48% of the 1,704 inmates released committed a crime within a year of their release and that a third of those wer

restoring the voting rights, and right to hold public office, of 180,315 Kentuckians who had been convicted of nonviolent [felonies](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felonies "Felonies")

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NIL Compensation"](https://www.si.com/college/2021/06/24/kentucky-governor-signs-executive-order-nil-compensation)