Though the 2025 session of the Kentucky General Assembly ended in late March, hundreds of organizations have continued spending millions of dollars lobbying state legislators in the following five months.

From April through August, businesses and advocacy groups have spent nearly $10 million lobbying state lawmakers, according to filings submitted to the Kentucky Legislative Ethics Commission this week.

That total is slightly higher than the $8.7 million spent lobbying the Kentucky General Assembly during the three-month session at the beginning of this year, when legislators could pass bills into law.

Each of the nearly 1,000 groups registered to lobby Kentucky lawmakers must file a monthly report in each of the first four months of the year, identifying the lobbyists they hired, their

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