The list of alternate IDs that you can bring to the polls may be getting shorter, thanks to a sweeping election bill that's almost to the finish line, and some lawmakers look to streamline the death penalty in Kentucky.

Our Mackenzie Spink continues our legislative update.

House Bill 139 came back to its chamber of origin today, but with some changes from the Senate addressing voter identification.

Under current law, if you don't have a state ID to verify your identity at the polls, you can use your Social Security card or a public benefits card like EBT or Snap.

If House Bill 139 becomes law, that could change.

Yes, Mr.

Speaker, there were certain documents stricken from use and that CBT cards and Social Security cards.

The bill requires photo I.D.. The bill also increases the limit for campaign contributions to the federal limit of $3,500.

One Lexington Democrat argues this measure encourages a pay to play system.

I personally believe that less money in politics would be good.

I don't think that a pay to play system that benefits wealthy people and corporations is what's good for Kentucky.

And I believe that when we raise the campaign contribution limit, that's exactly what we're doing.

Senate Bill 251 heard opposition from both sides of the aisle today.

Currently, execution protocols for prisoners on death row are established through an administrative regulation process that supporters say unnecessarily prolongs justice from being served.

Justice delayed is justice denied.

And right now in Kentucky, justice is being delayed again and again while families of murdered loved ones are left waiting, often for decades.

Several lawmakers were against speeding up the execution process, and cited the recent impact of modern DNA testing in exonerating potentially innocent inmates.

Hundreds, if not thousands, of death row inmates have been exonerated by.

But the new technology of DNA, where they have spent years and decades in prison, often on death row for crimes they did not commit.

Several Republicans, including the head of the Pro-Life caucus for the House, spoke out against the bill, saying it doesn't align with pro-life values.

You know, we've had the opportunity to continue to be the most pro-life state, one of the most pro-life states in the Commonwealth, in the nation, one of the most pro-life states in the nation.

And yet here we are doing a pro-death bill.

And this pains me tremendously.

Representative Jason Nemeth says that even though he is pro-life, his position as a legislator requires him to vote in favor of the bill.

I am pro-life, like many of you.

I'm adamantly opposed to the death penalty.

One day I hope I get to vote against it.

But all this does is follow the law that exists and allow the death penalty to be enforced.

And so while I don't like that, I am not the law.

Both House Bill 139 and Senate Bill 251 passed on the House floor, but only House Bill 139 will head to the governor's desk next.

Representative James Tipton successfully added a House floor amendment to Senate Bill 251.

And so the Senate will have to agree to that before it's finally approved.

For Kentucky edition, I'm McKenzie Spink.

Thank you so much, Mackenzie.

Representative Tipton's floor amendment requires that all execution protocol policies be posted online for the public to see.