Senator Julie Raque Adams was presented with the Kentucky Chamber MVP Award in January by Kentucky Chamber President and CEO Ashli Watts and Senior Vice President of Public Affairs Kate Shanks on the first day of the 2025 legislative session of the General Assembly.
Sen. Adams was among a select group of legislators who “went to bat” for Kentucky business during the 2024 Kentucky General Assembly by displaying conspicuous actions to strengthen business, improve competitiveness, and ensure growth.
Recipients of the Kentucky Chamber MVP Award show strong leadership for the business community by sponsoring or carrying Chamber priority legislation to final passage, showing leadership on passage of critical legislation to improve Kentucky, or by taking hard votes in defense of business.
Sen. Adams played a key leadership role throughout the 2024 session, leading meetings and influencing major bills to pass the Senate. Sen. Adams, who also served as vice chair of the Senate Families and Children Committee, was a major advocate for child care funding that passed in Kentucky’s biennial budget last year.
The 2024 General Assembly advanced many top priorities of the Kentucky business community, and the pro-growth policies that passed saved Kentucky businesses an estimated $1.006 billion, or $589 for each employer in the Commonwealth.
While monitoring the progress of bills that create a better business climate and advance the Commonwealth, the Chamber tracks how each legislator votes on these bills. The Chamber’s MVP Award recipients displayed more than just a business-friendly voting record, but also went out of their way, and at times across party lines, to support or oppose an issue critical to the business climate in Kentucky.
Learn more about business issues during the 2024 Kentucky General Assembly in the Kentucky Chamber’s “Results for Business” publication.
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