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This is the state legislative branch imposing something on the executive branch. Maybe there's a difference in perspective on remote work, and the representatives don't like how the agencies are handling remote work and want to impose their requirements rather than make it a matter of agency or executive policy.

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The Kentucky version of this sort of bill - restricting state employees from working remotely (they used the term "telework") - was done solely to prevent any future COVID response. Our legislators absolutely hated the governor's actions during the pandemic and tried multiple ways (including shoving a constitutional amendment onto the ballot - which voters rejected) to prevent any sort of shutdown from ever happening again.

0 - https://apps.legislature.ky.gov/record/23rs/sb148.html (died)

1 - https://ballotpedia.org/Kentucky_Constitutional_Amendment_1,...

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